I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, mostly because I just wanted to go sit in my car and finish Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, beginning but not sticking with a few books in the last week. The Good Girl finally hooked me from beginning to end. It’s not Gone Girl but it has a certain level of suspense to keep most readers interested. “I didn’t set out to be a bad mother, however. It just happened. As it was, being a bad mother […]
Rubin’s Vase
I normally have my review half-written in my head before I start writing it, but I just don’t even know what to say about this book. Let’s start with a necessary disclaimer: I picked this up as a married woman with one daughter, recently off an “I can’t have any more kids” health crisis (in my case it wound up resolved, but I felt the feels), and I had recently taken in a homeless woman with a baby and it was causing a lot of […]
How well can you ever really know another person?
I really liked Kubica’s The Good Girl, so I downloaded the audiobook of Pretty Baby from my library. I think this thriller might even be better than The Good Girl — it certainly kept me on my toes! “Momma used to say, “We don’t have much, but at least we have each other.” And then one day, we didn’t even have that much.” Pretty Baby is told from three viewpoints: Heidi, a married woman working for a nonprofit in Chicago; her businessman husband, Chris; and Willow, a homeless […]
Beware the Sea Anemone
Pretty Baby is a dark, suspenseful drama featuring a do-gooder, her career-obsessed spouse and a runaway teen with a baby. Kubica keeps the reader guessing not only about her characters’ motives, but also about the crime that seems to have been committed, and whether or not any of our three narrators are telling the whole truth. The novel starts from Heidi’s point of view. It’s a rainy, dreary early spring day in Chicago and Heidi is on her way to work where she runs a […]