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This Year’s Girl

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Early on in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I was getting frustrated. I wanted to know why Taylor Jenkins Reid was using the journalist framing device to extract such detail around the curiosity of a multiple married woman. Don’t get me wrong; I know celebrity relationships are a constant source of fascination with folks. But I just didn’t feel like it made for an interesting story. I wanted to read about this fictional Evelyn Hugo staring in fictional movies, getting into fictional Hollywood feuds, etc. And […]

The Secret History Meets Never Let Me Go…

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

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I still remember the emotional gut punch of reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go for the first time, and likewise the fascination I had with Donna Tartt and The Secret History – way back when that was her only novel and Lit students thought she was cool because she was friends with Bret Easton Ellis. Oh the late Nineties/early Aughts. I found Catherine House to be an atmospheric hybrid of both. Told from the point of view of Ines, a young woman running away from some tough experiences […]

In Which I Catch Up On My New Year’s Backlog of Reviews Pt. 3

To Tell You the Truth by Gilly MacMillan

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This is another one of my popcorn domestic thrillers. This time, the so-called perfect couple is a best selling murder fiction author and her not-so-bestselling, oh-so-slightly-resentful husband/manager. She is haunted by her little brother’s disappearance when she was a child (that she may or may not be at fault for) and the voice of her main character in her book series, who likes to pop up and chat with her at inconvenient times. This sounds more whimsical then the book actually is. There’s a lot […]

It Runs in the Family

Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman

Can You Feel This? by Julie Orringer

The Lion's Den by Anthony Marra

Zenith Man by Jennifer Haigh

The Weddings by Alexander Chee

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Another year, another onslaught of bits and bobs to keep me from sitting down and giving my undivided attention to a hefty book! Everything My Mother Taught Me 3/5 Dang it Alice Hoffman, misadventures at lighthouses are my catnip! Lighthouse Keeper was my dream job when I was younger- big thanks to Ahab’s Wife- it’s a  lonesome and perilous career but also pretty cool! I was a huge Hoffman fan in high school, but I drifted away over the last 15 years or so. I dipped […]

Tawdry domestic thrillers are my popcorn

When I Was You by Amber Garza

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I have a weakness for domestic thrillers. You know the type- they’re all called The Lie, or the Perfect Husband, or well, When I Was You. It’s always about a so-called perfect family with dark secrets, unreliable narrators and incredibly implausible plots. For some reason, the vast majority of ones I stumble across are written by British women. These are the books I read when I want to shut off my brain, so I go through them pretty fast. This is my latest find- When […]



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