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I was lukewarm on this book at first. The prologue kinda lost me, and then it started out a little slow. But once things start happening, I was eager to jump on the train. Andrea (Andy) is a little bit lost. She moved home after an unsuccessful stint in New York to help her mother, Laura, who had been diagnosed with cancer. But now Laura
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The Hunting Party is about an ill-fated annual New Year’s trip taken by a group of 9 friends – four couples and a singleton. Since Miranda is the queen bee of the group, it might be easiest to explain who everyone is related to her: Miranda and Julien (her husband)Mark (used to be obsessed with Miranda) and his girlfriend, Emma (the trip organizer)Samira (Miranda’s “fun”
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Joshilyn Jackson has long been on my “to read” list, but this is the first book of hers that I’ve actually gotten around to picking up. And I loved it. There was so much in the book that spoke to me… from a woman experiencing a pregnancy at an “advanced” age, to the trickiness of navigating life in a small town, to having a grandparent
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Book #40 was All the Flowers are Dying , the 16th(!) book in Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series. Yet another instance of me jumping into a series at some indeterminable point. I’ll likely be putting the rest of this series on my list. This was enjoyable, though sometimes I got tired of reading in the killer’s point of view. Book count: 40 Pages in book:
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