Just a girl and her books
Read: The Night Visitor by Lucy Atkins Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (audiobook) The Banker’s Wife by Cristina Alger Somebody’s Daughter by David Bell In the Vines by Shannon Kirk Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage Block 46 by Johana Gustawsson Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (audiobook/reading combo) This … Continue reading July Wrap Up
PENPAL | Dathan Auerbach 07.11.2012 | 1000Vultures Rating: 5/5 stars A man is haunted by the events of his childhood and trying to understand a past he hasn’t been able to fully grasp until now. He decides to look back into his past and investigate a series of memories about strange, tragic, and downright horrifying … Continue reading Book Review: Penpal
DOLORES CLAIBORNE | Stephen King 01.01.1993 (first published November 1992) | Viking Rating: 5/5 stars Little Tall Island is a small island off the coast of Maine. One of its wealthiest and most disgruntled residents, Vera Donovan, has suddenly died in her home. Residents of the town knew that Vera was ill, but her death … Continue reading Book Review: Dolores Claiborne
I can't believe July is almost over. Where has the summer gone? Actually, can it move faster? I'm so ready for sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, and cozy blankets. I had a really successful reading weekend thanks to taking Friday off. I'm far too old to be going to a concert on a Thursday and not … Continue reading Weekly Reads: July 30th
SILENT CHILD | Sarah A. Denzil 01.26.2017 | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Rating: 3/5 stars In 2006 a devastating storm hit Emma Price’s town and she watched as her son’s red coat was fished out of the river. Her son, Aiden, was at school during the storm and at some point in the middle of … Continue reading Book Review: Silent Child
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST | Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11) 08.25.2015 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Nine-year-old Laurent Lapage is known around Three Pines for his overactive imagination and frequent tendency to cry wolf. Laurent has claimed the woods to be full of aliens and dinosaurs and giant beasts! His tales … Continue reading Book Review: The Nature of the Beast
THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US | Edgar Cantero 07.31.2018 | Doubleday Rating: 4/5 stars Fisherman’s Wharf is home to private eyes A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. The door to their rundown office shows both names, but when you look inside there is only one desk, one chair, and one androgynous P.I. … Continue reading Book Review: This Body’s Not Big Enough for Both of Us
I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK | Michelle McNamara 02.27.2018 | Harper Rating: 5/5 stars For more than ten years Northern California was haunted by an unknown, violent predator who committed fifty sexual assaults in the area. He then moved south in California and his reign of terror expanded to murder. This man became known … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
I feel like July is flying by! I've read so many good books this month. I definitely need to declare two of my reads from last week, BLOCK 46 and KIN, as new favorites that I will be recommending to everyone! This week I'm planning to read... In an effort to overdo it in typical … Continue reading Weekly Reads: July 23rd
KIN | Kealan Patrick Burke 10.25.2011 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Rating: 5/5 stars Claire Lambert has escaped from a nightmare situation. She is the sole survivor from her group of friends that were abducted by a backwoods, cannibalistic family, known as the Merrill's, in Elkwood, Alabama. Now, naked and covered in blood, she is … Continue reading Book Review: Kin
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