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Post by lainey on May 9, 2023 20:18:49 GMT
Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah Set in the UK, on a busy morning, Leila is asked to drop off her nephew at daycare. On the way, she is distracted by an emergency call at work and forgets about Max, left asleep in the back seat. Three hours later she gets a call asking where Max is and realizes she left him in her car parked in the sun. What happens next ifs the impact his death and her trial have on the entire family. I knew what was going to happen, and I kept checking to see if Iād read this book before, then it came to me ā this exact story was an episode of a TV crime show (maybe an old Law & Order? or SVU?) anyway I was right, so it did spoil the book for me a little. 3 stars
That sounds very similar to two books Ive read, Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf and Am I Guilty by Jackie Kabler.
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Post by maryland on May 9, 2023 20:23:09 GMT
Loved Never Lie! She is becoming one of my favorite authors! Freida McFaddenās new book, Ward D, came out yesterday, 5/8. Canāt wait to read this one. Hopefully by this weekend. Hereās the description ā¦.. Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospitalās inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. I bought it for my kindle yesterday! Can't wait to read it.
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 9, 2023 20:23:11 GMT
Next of Kin by Kia AbdullahSet in the UK, on a busy morning, Leila is asked to drop off her nephew at daycare. On the way, she is distracted by an emergency call at work and forgets about Max, left asleep in the back seat. Three hours later she gets a call asking where Max is and realizes she left him in her car parked in the sun. What happens next ifs the impact his death and her trial have on the entire family. I knew what was going to happen, and I kept checking to see if Iād read this book before, then it came to me ā this exact story was an episode of a TV crime show (maybe an old Law & Order? or SVU?) anyway I was right, so it did spoil the book for me a little. 3 stars That sounds very similar to two books Ive read, Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf and Am I Guilty by Jackie Kabler. That has happened in my community, and every time I see it happen, anywhere, on the news, it just guts me.
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Post by pjaye on May 9, 2023 23:42:55 GMT
I started this...but it didn't grab me, not sure if it was just my mood at the time or if it's not for me...I'll be interested to see what you think and if I give it another try. This was my review about the book: 2.5 Stars for Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Like so much surrounding the sea itself, this book leaves the reader with sad, unanswered emotions. This book centers around Miri and Leah and how they cope when Leah leaves to go for a 3 week submarine mission, which turns into a 6 month voyage. Miri has no answers. Leah moves from room to room like a ghost, essentially sequestering herself in the bathroom, seeming to get only comfort from the running tap and salt water. This book leaves Miri (and us readers) wanting to know WHAT HAPPENED when the sub sunk and the crew was trapped for 6 months? did the Centre do this on purpose? were they part of an experiment they weren't aware of? but like Miri, we are left with a new reality, realizing that even when people are returned from the sea, they are often changed and inexplicably, no longer the people we recognize. Hmmm, OK if we don't find out what happened and why the people are different then that's a problem - people doing weird stuff with no explanation is going to annoy me. Thanks, I think I'll skip this one.
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Post by ~summer~ on May 9, 2023 23:49:46 GMT
Iām currently reading āHello Beautifulā
And Iām reading āStay True:A Memoirā which also just won the Pulitzer Prizeā¦
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Post by 5peanutsnana on May 9, 2023 23:58:55 GMT
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
After Tova Sullivanās husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which sheās been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldnāt dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captorsāuntil he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tovaās son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before itās too late.
Shelby Van Peltās debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
Very different from what I usually read, but quite good! 4
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Post by mimima on May 10, 2023 0:19:06 GMT
Cilkaās Journey by Heather Morris. There's an element to the controversies that surround Morris that indicate that there should be a debate of who gets to tell their story. This story is, while one that I've read before, told just fine, though not amazingly, but there are indications that Cilka's family has argued that Morris isn't the one that should tell it. That's troubling to me. I will say, however, that her writing has improved between the Tattooist and this one, so there's that. 3/5 stars. I am in the minority and did not care for The Tattooist at all, mostly because I found the writing horribly juvenile. So I have decided not to pick up any more of Morris's books Well, I'm in the minority with you because the writing of The Tattooist was baaaad.Ā This was read for a Book Club, otherwise I'd not have chosen to read itĀ
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Post by refugeepea on May 10, 2023 1:33:11 GMT
My most recent audiobook was Funny Girl by Nick Hornby. "Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself to London, and overnight she becomes the lead in a new BBC comedy."
This was such a fun read! At times it was a bit sad, but very enjoyable. I loved learning about television and London in 1960's UK.
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. It was a LONG listen and moved at a slow, but not boring pace. It is a WWII historical fiction book set mostly in Hungary. For that reason, I found it more interesting than the more common settings of England, France, or Germany. I think this one will stay with me for a long time. I give it four stars
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Post by pjaye on May 10, 2023 2:03:23 GMT
That sounds very similar to two books Ive read, Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf and Am I Guilty by Jackie Kabler. I just checked my GR...I haven't read either of these books. I'm sure I saw a TV show or it was a real life story, but I knew everything that was going to happen in the book - and it did. Made it a strange Deja vu read!
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Post by pjaye on May 10, 2023 2:08:25 GMT
Up next, The Last Word by Taylor Adams. Lisa Just suspend your disbelief and enjoy the crazy ride of this book!
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Post by pjaye on May 10, 2023 2:22:47 GMT
Iāll be the lone person so far who is a Riley Sager fan. I LOVED Survive the Night (ā21) and gave it 5 stars. My issue with this author is that he tried to rebrand himself and pretend he was female (or at least tried to make his gender ambiguous) He was an unsuccessful author under his real name of Todd Ritter so he changed it to Riley Sagar and started writing from a female POV. I read Final Girls assuming the author was female, then I got to the part where in the story where the female character wakes up and thinks her period has started, so she puts her hand into her underpants and checks if her fingers are bloody...yeah, no woman does that! So then I was convinced the writer couldn't be a woman...and I started googling eventually found out the truth, he was definitely trying to keep his male author identity a secret at first, but then he got found out. Now he's more open about it and he has his real photo up on GR but I don't like being lied to about an author's identity! from WIKI:
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Post by gottapeanow on May 10, 2023 5:22:26 GMT
I am in the minority and did not care for The Tattooist at all, mostly because I found the writing horribly juvenile. So I have decided not to pick up any more of Morris's books Well, I'm in the minority with you because the writing of The Tattooist was baaaad, I thought. This was read for a Book Club, otherwise I'd not have chosen to read it Thank you for agreeing with me. There are so many a-MAY-zing WW2 books, and I could *not* understand why this one got so much love. Lisa
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Post by peasapie on May 10, 2023 12:04:30 GMT
I started Demon Copperhead this week by Barbara Kingsolver this week, based on recommendations from several friends. And just today I read that this book just won the Pulitzer fiction prize, along with Hernan Diaz's book, Trust. So far so good. Same here! My book club is reading it for May, and the library wait list was long, so I actually bought this one. I'm about 120 pages in. I bought it as well. Too many people waiting at the digital library!
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 10, 2023 12:12:42 GMT
This was my review about the book: 2.5 Stars for Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Like so much surrounding the sea itself, this book leaves the reader with sad, unanswered emotions. This book centers around Miri and Leah and how they cope when Leah leaves to go for a 3 week submarine mission, which turns into a 6 month voyage. Miri has no answers. Leah moves from room to room like a ghost, essentially sequestering herself in the bathroom, seeming to get only comfort from the running tap and salt water. This book leaves Miri (and us readers) wanting to know WHAT HAPPENED when the sub sunk and the crew was trapped for 6 months? did the Centre do this on purpose? were they part of an experiment they weren't aware of? but like Miri, we are left with a new reality, realizing that even when people are returned from the sea, they are often changed and inexplicably, no longer the people we recognize. Hmmm, OK if we don't find out what happened and why the people are different then that's a problem - people doing weird stuff with no explanation is going to annoy me. Thanks, I think I'll skip this one. Ya, it was supposed to be some sort of psychological suspense, and I guess it kind of was, I just needed more closure!
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