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Genuine Fraud | E. Lockhart

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Genuine Fraud | E. Lockhart

I love laundromats - it‘s dedicated reading time!

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KatieRose23

I Killed Zoe Spanos (Export) | Kit Frick

“Anna? We‘re recording.”
The camera pans up from a long crack in the linoleum floor to rest on the hunched-over frame of a girl.
#FirstLineFriday
@ShyBookOwl

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andrew61

The Accident | C. L. Taylor

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@BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae
I picked this psychological thriller from my tbr pile for an easy post Xmas read + it was a roller coaster read + starts my #booked2023 with a #twist.
Sue is a mother whose 15yr old dtr is in a coma after what appears to be an apparent suicide, when sue finds Charlotte's diary she suspects something is wrong which triggers memories of her life 20 yrs earlier.

Cathythoughts Sounds like a good one 👍🏻 2y

Cinfhen This does sound twisty!!! 2y

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OutsmartYourShelf

All Eyes on Her | L.E. Flynn

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Tabby is dating Mark & one day they decide to climb to the highest part of a local hike called The Split. Hours later, Tabby re-emerges & reports Mark missing presumed dead. He apparently fell from the top & Tabby became lost in the woods trying to get out & call for help as her phone had died. A search soon finds Mark's body in the water below & it seems that he drowned. The rumours soon begin that maybe it wasn't an accident. (Continued)

OutsmartYourShelf The story is told from several POV, Bridget, Tabby's BFF Elle, Tabby's ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend Lou, & Keegan, Mark's friend. The chapters are very short & some of them are in the style of blog posts, online news stories, & diary entries. It was an intriguing read that kept my attention well, but the reader doesn't hear from Tabby until the end & I'm still not entirely sure what actually happened or who was responsible. 2y

OutsmartYourShelf I guess that the ending was deliberately vague but I found it a little disappointing. 3.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3383137355

#WinterReadathon @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader 2y

Andrew65 Well done 🥳🥳🥳 2y

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2y

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batsy

Basic Black with Pearls | Helen Weinzweig

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This book, published in 1980 when the author was 65, astonished me. It won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, but the book or the author are not well-known. Weinman in her afterword calls it an "interior feminist espionage novel", & because the protagonist Shirley, alias Lola, travels from city to city to meet her mysterious lover who works for an international organisation called The Agency, I thought this would be Graham Greene-esque territory.

batsy It was not. Instead, it was reminiscent of domestic gothic, & it was existentialist & absurdist. A kind of feminine Waiting for Godot, but with the conversation largely being between a woman & herself; the plot a sequence of events that is a fever dream of memory & imagination. Perhaps reality is always just that. It's a slim book at 146 pages but its scope feels large. I admire how Weinzweig played with the form of the novel to produce this work. 2y

batsy There is also a deliciously discreet but ironic sense of subversive humour running through it all, best summed up for me in this line: "I was about to expatiate on the phenomenon of paradox, when I remembered that my philosophizing causes Coenraad to lose his erection." Truly a gem that I'm glad I read with the #NYRBBookClub @vivastory 2y

TrishB Wow 😯 what a review! Brilliant as always. 2y

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batsy @TrishB Thank you! ❤️ 2y

Graywacke Terrific review! 2y

Cathythoughts Great review 💫 2y

The_Penniless_Author This book sounds like something I would love. Stacking immediately 😀 2y

batsy @Graywacke @Cathythoughts Thank you! 💜💜 2y

batsy @The_Penniless_Author If you give it a try, I hope you like it! It's definitely a unique read 🙂 2y

MicheleinPhilly That is a line indeed! 😂 2y

LeahBergen Fantastic review … but I still didn‘t like the book at all. 😆😆 I think I was in a cranky headspace when I was reading it and the absurdist element got on my nerves. 😆😆 2y

charl08 Intriguing! 2y

Billypar I really like the description "fever dream of memory and imagination" - that sums it up so nicely. Great review! 2y

CarolynM Your quote made me laugh out loud🤣 Not sure if I could stomach a whole book of it, though🤔😆 2y

batsy @MicheleinPhilly 😆 2y

batsy @LeahBergen Thank you! 💜 I understand completely! I do wonder if I wasn't in the right mood if I would have struggled with it, too. 2y

batsy @charl08 Yes! 2y

batsy @Billypar Thank you! I love that it was such an interior novel played out entirely on the "outside" spaces, the streets, cafés, galleries. 2y

batsy @CarolynM It's a good one, I couldn't resist 😆 But no, it's not a novel full of lines and quips like that. The humour is a lot more subtle 🙂 2y

Hamlet Fantastic, nuanced review! This looks like quite a break from your Greek tragedy line up. You grabbed my interest; thanks for all you do here on Litsy! 2y

batsy @Hamlet Thank you so much for your kind words 💜 I'm so glad to have read this with the #NYRBBookClub, I've discovered a lot of great titles that way. And yes, I'm doing all of the Greek plays this year based on an idea I saw on a blog I frequent, so it's one play a week 😅 I'm enjoying it! 2y

Suet624 I‘m with @hamlet. Thank you. 💕 2y

batsy @Suet624 And thanks to you, as well; I derive great pleasure from your posts 💕 2y

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Basic Black with Pearls | Helen Weinzweig

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Thanks #NYRBBookClub for another really good read! This is definitely not a book I would have picked up on my own. While it's hard to say that this story is “enjoyable“ I did enjoy the feverish paranoid quality of the characters stories and imaginings. I started out trying to sort out what was true and what wasn't and then realized it would be better just to go with the flow. A truly unique and mesmerizing read.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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