My friend, who almost exclusively reads best-selling thrillers, has been on my ass for the past year to try and get me to read The Girl On The Train. I’ve finally taken the plunge and, while it was a good read, I must say I think it’s been ever so slightly over-hyped. Rachel takes the same train every day, and most days spots the same couple along her journey into and out of London. Living close to her former home, which is now inhabited by […]
A Crazy Good Ride
I’m a little late to this thrilling first novel by Paula Hawkins. I purchased The Girl on the Train last month on the “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” table at my local Barnes & Noble. I had wanted to read it when it was first published in 2015, and everyone was raving about it, but I had too many books on the “need to read” pile. (Don’t tell my husband… I always have too many books I haven’t read.) Oddly, after the book was made into […]
Let’s figure out why everyone keeps drowning themselves
I have to admit that I really love my title. It’s so conversational, and at the same time kinda shocking. Anyway, now that I’ve complimented myself, on to the book. I think it might be more like 3.5 stars, but that’s not an option unfortunately. This book took me a while to read. Sometimes books take longer for me to read than others through no fault of their own, but due to my reading circumstances. A Kindle book is always going to go faster than […]
“Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.”
I have a well documented problem with books that have too many characters, particularly when the too many characters each have chapters from their point of views, so I don’t think I was every going to love Into the Water… That being said, even if the novel only focused on two or three of the characters I still don’t think I would have been into it, definitely not like I was with Hawkins’ previous novel Girl on the Train or any of the other recent strings of female focused […]