I loved Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, and hated her follow up, The Ape House. At the Water’s Edge fell somewhere in between for me, leaning a bit more towards liking it (I think?). “I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.” Set in the 1940s, At the Water’s Edge stars slightly bratty Maddie Hyde, her extremely bratty husband (Ellis) and his equally bratty best friend (Hank). They flit around from party […]
Dr. Mütter would have loved this guy
Sometimes I’ll sort my Goodreads to-be-read list by oldest first (whatever I added longest ago), and order the first five books from my library, just to clear them off my never-ending list. Oftentimes these books have been on there for a while, which leads to me borrowing books that I added ages ago (November 2013 in this case), with no recollection of how I even originally heard about them. This week, my random borrowing led to one of the weirdest books I’ve read — The Resurrectionist: The […]
“The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.”
I was a little nervous to read this, despite my love for Aziz Ansari (and I do love him — I am the biggest Parks & Rec fan and he’s the greatest on there), because while I’m (fairly) young, I’ve been married for almost 11 years and never really had to deal with dating in a modern age. I met my husband when I was in high school (we worked together) and got married a year after I graduated. I know I remember texting being around then, […]
Holly Seddon even autographed it — so nice!
I received a copy of Try Not to Breathe through a CBR giveaway. The blurb on Goodreads compared Try Not to Breathe to other thrillers, like those of Lianne Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Tana French (all of whom I LOVE). I can kind of see Paula Hawkins — mostly for the main character — but this novel was not quite as well-plotted as your average Moriarty or French. Shockingly, they didn’t choose to reference Gillian Flynn (like everyone else does when discussing mystery books written by a woman & starring […]