I downloaded this pretty much the moment I finished ‘What Alice Forgot.’ And thanks to Ms. Moriarty I didn’t get nearly as much sleep as I planned to on this trip home because I couldn’t put THIS book down, either. The book is told from the perspectives of three different women, all parents of kindergartners at a school that has much economic diversity. At the end (and sometimes beginning) of each chapter, there are quotes from what turn out to be statements to the police, […]
I Think 25-Year-Old Lollygagger Would Approve
Yes. More please. Seriously, I loved this book. I know some folks have reviewed it on here, but I can’t recall if they liked it or not. I hope they did. I was in the midst of reading an exceedingly boring book on Camus (shocking, I know) when I got to the airport Thursday night. I saw this at Hudson News and bought it. I started reading at the gate, put it down when I got off the plane, stayed up way too late reading […]
This just…wasn’t very good
I was pretty psyched to read Liane Moriarty’s new novel, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, because I loved the last two books I read by her (Big Little Lies and What Alice Forgot). Both had twisty plot lines full of mysteries and last minute reveals. I could not put either one of them down because I felt so desperate to find out how they ended! In contrast, if The Hypnotist’s Love Story hadn’t been a Moriarty book, I would have dropped it about 100 pages in. My belief in her […]
Another winner from Liane Moriarty
While What Alice Forgot was not quite as compelling as the first book I read by Liane Moriarty — Big Little Lies — but the writing was excellent and Moriarty does a good job of teasing the reader, up until the end, with the mystery of “Gina”, and what caused the falling out between Alice and Nick. “Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It’s light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you’ve hurt each other and […]
This book almost turned me into a rabid frothmonster.
I’m not usually one for books about mommies and gossip and the plight of the suburban housewife, but I am highly susceptible to books everyone seems to love. So I gave in (like I always do). Actually, let’s not even play around and call it “giving in.” I’m a curious bastard. If you get me curious, I’m gonna follow through. And I’m so glad I was curious about this book, because I really ended up loving it. Here is where I would normally give you […]
Present day memory loss
So without meaning to, I read two books back to back with the main character suffering memory loss. What Alice Forgot is set in the modern day (well, 2008) but our protagonist suffers a concussion at the gym and awakens believing it is 1998. In her mind she is a newly wed, pregnant with her first child; in reality she is recently separated from her husband and the mother of three children. Needless to say, she is a bit shocked at how the last ten […]