Welcome back! I’ll be on vacation in about a week and it doesn’t feel real. Like I know it’s on the calendar, but I have so many things to get down between now and then that it hasn’t hit me yet. You know what I mean? What are your holiday plans looking like? Content warning for the discussion of cancer and death below. … Author Sophie Kinsella has died at age 55. In 2022, she was diagnosed … Continue reading Links: Excel, Sophie Kinsella, & More
On the surface You Were Here is all of the Elyse-bait. It’s a psychological thriller set in present and past, a story about infidelity and family lies. It also features a heroine who dreams of some tragic event long-ago, nightmares that are so vivid they disrupt her life. All of those elements are there, but they fail to gel together to make a story that’s cohesive. You Were Here opens with Abby Walter’s having one of … Continue reading You Were Here by Gian Sardar
I bought The Lost Girls on impulse because it was sitting on a Barnes and Noble table looking all psychological thriller-y and because I have zero self control. I found the book to be well-written and immersive, but a psychological thriller it is not, and I felt like the jacket copy lied to me. Also anyone considering reading it should be warned that there is a scene involving sexual abuse of a child. It’s not … Continue reading The Lost Girls by Heather Young
