psychological thriller – Cannonball Read 17

Do All Podcasts Transform to True Crime? Or Does That Only Happen In the Books I Read?

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

July 2, 2024 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

Call me basic, but I love me a good psychological thriller. Trying to guess what’s going to happen, the truth behind the misdirection, the twists, figuring out whether a narrator is reliable or not… They’re just fun. Lisa Jewell is a prolific writer, with over 20 published works. I’ve read a few of her books and enjoyed every one, including this latest. None of This Is True is fun, a gripping story about a podcaster who finds herself in the middle of her own true-crime […]

Foe: a domestic science fiction thriller

Foe by Iain Reid

January 11, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 2 Comments

mood music: big jet plane – Angus and Julia Stone This was my second read of 2024, again I picked up this book becuase it’s been adapted into a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. It was much better than my first read of the year, Eileen, although I was left with questions once I was done with it. Foe follows Junior and Hen, a married couple living on an isolated farm in the near future (the film has the story set in 2065). Modern […]

Eileen: when being unlikeable is your personality

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

January 11, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea Leave a Comment

mood music: twilight – Bôa My first read of 2024…a disappointment. I had high hopes as it was adapted into a film starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie, but it was tough even at a short 197 pages on ebook. Eileen is narrated by the aforementioned woman, now in her seventies, as she recounts her last week in her hometown, a small snowy city in New England she calls X-ville. Raised by two alcoholic parents, twenty-four-year-old Eileen is a very miserable person with a love […]

December 2023 Leftovers

Mandarin Plaid by SJ Rozan

Lady Killer, Volume 1 by Joëlle Jones

Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend by Alys Arden

Batman, Vol. 6: Graveyard Shift by Scott Snyder

The Confession by Domenic Stansberry

A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle

Joe Dogs: The Life and Crimes of a Mobster by Joseph Iannuzzi

Robert B. Parker's Cheap Shot by Ace Atkins

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

December 29, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Merry Christmas. We may need to dispense with the cold/snow songs. They’re about as realistic as Santa at this point. Mandarin Plaid **** SJ Rozan continues to improve with each book in this series. This one has layers and moves well to its conclusion. I’m not gonna be totally sold on a white person writing from the perspective of an AAPI one but I think Rozan does a better job with it than she did in the first one. May have to go long with […]

Unreliable Narration Abound

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

December 16, 2023 by donttrustthe_bea Leave a Comment

So…I don’t 100% know how I feel about this book. Not because it’s poorly written, its mainly a personal preference of the use of unreliable narration. Lisa Jewell has crafted an excellent story here that was deeply enthralling, the only issue I had was with the ending, and it goes back to the unreliable narration. The story is set in England and follows two women, Alix Summers and Josie Fair, who meet at a pub while out celebrating their birthdays and discover that they are […]

August 2023 Leftovers

Red Cat by Peter Spiegelman

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy

Gangland by Chuck Hogan

Death and the Good Life by Richard Hugo

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexa Coe

Britt-Marie Was Here by Frederik Backman

Occupied City by David Peace

Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman

Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum

Run Time by Cathy Ryan Howard

Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline

None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

The Club by Ellery Lloyd

Not in Bronxville by Rita K. Farrelly

September 1, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Unquestionably the worst month in the calendar. Red Cat*** It’s not the writer’s fault that I just finished Robert Kolker’s excellent Lost Girls in light of the apprehension of the man they think is the Gilgo Beach murderer. But my threshold for murdered sex workers was low going into this. I only finished it because it filled a specific square for my library summer reading game. It’s not bad; the mystery is done well but it doesn’t stand out as far as the rest of […]

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