Best for: Someone who wants a quick read with some interesting explorations of loss. In a nutshell: Ellen (they hypnotist) has just started a relationship with Patrick. Patrick’s wife died seven years ago, when their son was only a year old. Saskia was Patrick’s first relationship after his wife died, and after they broke up, Saskia began to stalk Patrick. It continues. Line that sticks with me: “You weren’t meant to admit, even to yourself, how badly you wanted love. The man was meant to […]

I lost this book on the airplane about halfway through reading it and couldn’t be bothered to retrieve it. See, I had put it down to get water or arrange something in my carryon bag and it slipped down between the wall of the plane and my seat in such a way that I couldn’t easily get to it*. I just didn’t care enough to stay on the plane in order to get it back. It’s fine, I guess, but it’s hardly Moriarty’s best work, […]

What Alice Forgot is a very claustrophobic novel, in that it feels like a tight enclosed space with very little air to breathe. I was never quite sure if I wanted Alice to regain her memory, and thus return to the rather horrible woman we learn she has become from her family and friends but also never really knowing her children and why she became who she became. It is an interesting look at memories and how they shape us, while also being a novel […]