https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/07/episode-1-18-sad-pathetic-little-bastards/ Wherein I Review: 64. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 65. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (St. Mary’s Chronicles #6) by Jodi Taylor 66. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher In which I happen up on a multitude of not “Nice Guys” but entitled men and boys throughout some solid books. Guys who feel like they are owed the affections of a girl. Noah Hawley unpacks the baggage of his mystery in fascinating and infuriating ways. Jodi Taylor keeps the hits coming with St. […]
Everyone Has Their Path (or why I need to work on my astronavigation skills!)
I love when I read a mystery or thriller that is so tightly structured and interestingly written that it stays with me for days and sometimes weeks after I finish it. Noah Hawley’s novel, Before The Fall, was that kind of book for me. The novel pulled me in both because of the swimming angle and the idea of chance and paths crossing. A private plane going from Martha’s Vineyard to New York City crashes into the ocean. Twelve people get on the plane (including […]
Crash into you
Scott Burroughs, a painter living in Martha’s Vineyard, takes a last minute seat on a private plane, only to have it crash into the sea 16 minutes after take off. He emerges from the depths to hear a child’s cry. Calling on all his strength (and experience as a swimmer) he manages to get the child and himself through miles of churning water to land. They are the only survivors. The little boy, JJ, is the son of a wealthy media mogul, David Bateman. His […]
Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles
When reading this book, I could not help but think about torture techniques that use water in drastically different ways. There’s the act of waterboarding, where you place a towel over a person’s face and then pour water on top of them. This mimics the sensation of drowning. Then there’s the Chinese water torture, where someone is strapped to a chair and a solitary drip of water falls upon a person’s forehead taking nearly hours between each drop. The drops become a stab into the […]