The Guest by Emma Cline
I only picked this book up because Quinta Brunson is adapting it. I hope she does. At any rate, I’m glad I did. Until the end, it was very good. I remember liking the story Emma Cline told in The Girls but not the way she did it. It was a compelling tale but painfully overwritten. I didn’t think I’d find myself coming back to her work and, even with its interesting premise, I avoided it last year despite its popularity. But once I started, I […]
Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
Gangland by Chuck Hogan
Death and the Good Life by Richard Hugo
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexa Coe
Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backman
Occupied City by David Peace
Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman
Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
Run Time by Cathy Ryan Howard
Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline
None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
Not in Bronxville by Rita K. Farrelly
Unquestionably the worst month in the calendar. Red Cat*** It’s not the writer’s fault that I just finished Robert Kolker’s excellent Lost Girls in light of the apprehension of the man they think is the Gilgo Beach murderer. But my threshold for murdered sex workers was low going into this. I only finished it because it filled a specific square for my library summer reading game. It’s not bad; the mystery is done well but it doesn’t stand out as far as the rest of […]
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
Read as part of CBR15Bingo: on air. This true crime story is rocking the news right now because the police believe they have apprehended the killer of the girls written about in this book, among others. When it comes to the evils of non-consensual sexual abuse by men, I tend to avoid stories that are mainstream. The vast majority of abusers are your next door neighbor who have opportunity and privilege to get away with it. Needless to say, I haven’t read a ton on […]
