Just a girl and her books
STILLHOSUE LAKE (Stillhouse Lake #1) | Rachel Caine 07.01.2017 | Thomas & Mercer Rating: 4/5 stars Gina Royal is your average Midwestern mother living with her husband and two children in a quiet town until one day her world is turned upside down. Gina comes home with her children to find that a drunk driver … Continue reading Book Review: Stillhouse Lake
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov 04.07.2011 (originally 1955) | Penguin Rating: 4/5 stars Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged college professor looking to make a change in his life after losing who he believes is the love of his life. He makes a decision to move to a new town, however, his plans are thwarted because of … Continue reading Book Review: Lolita
The Chalk Man | C.J. Tudor 01.09.2018 | Crown Publishing Rating: 5/5 stars In 1986, Eddie Adams is trying to live life like any other adolescent boy. Eddie and his friends are filling their summer vacation days with adventures and activities. The gang of friends decide to create a secret code for where to meet … Continue reading Book Review: The Chalk Man
NOS4A2 | Joe Hill 10.15.2013 | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars Victoria "Vic" McQueen has a secret she's been hiding for most of her life. She has a secret gift for finding missing things. It all started the day her mother's bracelet went missing and she desperately needed to find it to keep her parents … Continue reading Book Review: NOS4A2
EENY MEENY (Helen Grace #1) | M.J. Arlidge 06.02.2015 | Penguin Books Rating: 5/5 stars Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Two people are abducted, trapped in an inescapable location, and left with a gun containing one bullet. The only way to survive is for one person to take the life of the other. Days of starvation … Continue reading Book Review: Eeny Meeny
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST | Ken Kesey 06.26.2008 (first published 1962) | Penguin Classics Rating: 4/5 stars Chief Bromden is a patient living on a mental ward run by the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched. Bromden has been here for years and most would categorize him as the mute, half-Indian found mopping random areas … Continue reading Book Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A RULE AGAINST MURDER | Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #4) 03.15.2011 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars The Manoir Bellachase is unlike any other hotel in Quebec. This hidden gem was hand built many years ago, log by log, and famous for hosting the dangerous Robber Barons as a location where murder was … Continue reading Book Review: A Rule Against Murder
CROOKED HOUSE | Agatha Christie 02.01.2011 (first published 1949) | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars The Leonides are a wealthy family, living in a sprawling mansion in England known as "Three Gables" or the Crooked House. The Second World War has brought all of the family members to live under one roof. Despite the hardships … Continue reading Book Review: Crooked House
Read: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie The Grip of It by Jac Jemc The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny The Dry by Jane Harper Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Exquisite by Sarah Stovell The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks … Continue reading November Wrap Up
CLOSE TO ME | Amanda Reynolds 12.05.2017 | Quercus USA Rating: 4/5 stars Jo Harding wakes up on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. Everyone around her is telling her she fell down the stairs. The last thing Jo can remember is taking her son, Fin, to university with her husband, Rob. The … Continue reading Book Review: Close to Me
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