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A Stranger Like You
A Stranger Like You: A Novel | Elizabeth Brundage
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A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths to which we'll go to make our dreams come true Hedda Chase is a top-flight executive producer at Gladiator Films, fast-tracked in the business since she graduated from Yale. An aggressive businesswoman, she recently pulled the plug on a film project initiated by one of her predecessors. The screenwriter on the project was Hugh Waters, a wannabe with a dead-end marriage and a day job at an insurance company. This script was his ticket out-until Hedda tampered with his plans, claiming his violence was over the top, his premise not credible, and his ending implausible. Hugh decides to prove otherwise by staging his script's ending and casting Hedda Chase as the victim. He flies to Los Angeles and finds Hedda, kidnaps her, and locks her in the trunk of her vintage BMW in the parking lot at LAX. He leaves the keys in the ignition, the parking ticket on the dash, and lets "destiny" take its course. This is the set-up for a troubling, smart, deadly look at women and images of women, at media as a high-stakes game and the selling of a war as theatre. (One key character is an Iraq veteran, and one of Hedda's projects is a film about women in Iraq). Brundage's Los Angeles is a casual battleground that trades carelessly in lives and dreams. As always, her characters are complicated, surprising, and intense in this high velocity, provocative novel. Watch a Video
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BarbaraBB
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WeeklyFavorites

This week favorites is the Elizabeth Brundage, a super surprising read filled with fun twists and very well written.

November hasn‘t been my best month but these four books absolutely made up for some meh 🫤 reads!

Read4life Excellent!!! Some good looking books on this post. 💙💙💙 3w
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BarbaraBB
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Ever since reading All Things Cease to Appear I've wanted to read more Brundage. This one is completely different yet just as good.
Set in Hollywood a man who's script has been denied by a famous producer, is looking for ways to make her change her mind. That's just the start, which leads to a whirlwind of actions, just like in a movie. A hard boiled thriller on the one hand but also a very thoughtful novel about war veterans. Highly recommended!

Liz_M Sounds like a variation of the plot for the movie “The Player“. 3w
Cathythoughts Great review ! I really enjoyed it too. I hope she‘ll have a new book out soon 🤞🏻 3w
BarbaraBB @Liz_M I don‘t know that movie. I have to look it up! 3w
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BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts That would be great. I do have another one by her that I haven‘t read yet. Did you? 3w
Cathythoughts I did read The Vanishing Point. I thought it was excellent. Although very hard to read , in terms of addiction and she really dosnt hold back. But it‘s very good. 3w
Chelsea.Poole I really enjoyed ATCtA…We‘re on the same wavelength—I just finished a Brundage I‘ve been sitting on for years (review pending!) 3w
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts @Chelsea.Poole That‘s so good to know! And what a coincidence you just read it Chelsea! 3w
Megabooks How have I not read this??? I need to!!! 2w
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BarbaraBB
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#WeeklyForecast 48/24

I remember @Cathythoughts writing about the tagged book so when I found a copy in a free library I had to pick it up of course. I am going to read it after finishing Yr Dead from the #ToB25 longlist.
I want to read so many of the longlisted books and have a couple of them on my shelves. I‘ll read one each week. Except for this week lol because I also want to read Colored Television!

Ruthiella I love Free Little Library finds like that! It‘s magical somehow. 3w
Bookwormjillk Yay! Love free libraries. 3w
squirrelbrain How are you finding Yr Dead? 3w
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BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain It‘s short and weird. It‘s a typical #ToB book and I like it but it won‘t be a favorite. Did you order it? 3w
sarahbarnes So fun that you have some of the long list on your shelves! There are so many I want to read, too. We will see how many I can get to! 3w
Cathythoughts Oh I think I love her writing.. she is quite dark and sometimes hard to read , but brilliant. I‘m waiting for a new one to come out. I look forward to your thoughts 👍🏻❤️ 3w
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts I have meant to read her other books ever since I read and loved the tagged book and am super glad I stumbled upon this one! 3w
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes Way too many 😀. I am so excited about the list that I forget to actually read 😂 3w
squirrelbrain I‘m just the same @BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes - I spend far too long making exciting spreadsheets for lists that I forget to actually read the books. 🤪 I just finished Real Americans though. 3w
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain That doesn‘t surprise me at all 😉. Is Real Americans good? 3w
sarahbarnes Yes @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB I‘m doing the same thing! 😆 3w
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Cathythoughts
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My second book by Brundage , a lot of the same themes in this one too : psychopathology, houses with haunted histories, loss of parents early in life , war & it‘s devastation, the weather … sexual behavior which borders on abusive /is abusive.
Set in LA another excellent psychological thriller. I looked her up on Instagram, she takes good pictures which seem to reflect her writing.
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Megabooks Glad I stacked this based on your last post! 3y
Cathythoughts @Megabooks I look forward to your thoughts whenever you may get there 3y
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Cathythoughts
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Friday night thriller & 🍷 .. It‘s not on the same level as All Things … this one set in LA , more slick & sophisticated , we have another psycho. Still a good thriller, she has written another 3 or 4 books .. I think I‘ll get them as stand-bys .. I imagine this is an author that could get me out of any reading slump

Megabooks Adding this to my TBR! Thanks for the tag. 💜 3y
Cathythoughts @Megabooks Thanks for All Things Cease 👍🏻❤️ 3y
BarbaraBB Wow you‘ve read that fast! Stacking of course! 🤍🤍 3y
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Cathythoughts @BarbaraBB oh I havnt finished… half way now ! But I will finish… it‘s good 3y
erzascarletbookgasm You should totally create a hashtag #FridayNightThriller 😁👍 3y
Cathythoughts @erzascarletbookgasm Stop 😂😂😄 3y
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Melli
A Stranger Like You: A Novel | Elizabeth Brundage

My new bookish friend I met at the dollar tree recommended this one.