2018: #10 – This is Not My Beautiful Life (Victoria Fedden)

This book is touted as a hilarious, wacky story, but mostly I found it sad. Frankly, Victoria is surrounded by terrible people, with maybe the exception of her sister. And I don’t think they’re terrible because they are committing crimes, they are terrible all on their own. The best parts of the book are when she is talking about motherhood and her daughter, and my

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2018: #9 – The Ice Princess (Camilla Läckberg)

This is the first of Läckberg’s books that I’ve read, but I’ve been a fan of other “nordic noir” authors. Biographer Erika Falck has found herself back in her childhood home in a small Swedish town after the unexpected death of both her parents. One morning, just up the road, Erika finds the body of Alex Wijkner in her bathtub. Alex had been Erika’s best

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