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We Live Here Now

"We all present an illusion to someone who we want to love us." Author: Sarah Pinborough One moment, they were hiking and arguing together, an idyllic weekend with friends ruined. The next moment she was gone, over the edge. And now everyone wonders – did he push her? Sometimes, he even wonders himself. Healing from broken bones and a near-fatal sepsis Emily is convalescing in what Freddy, her husband, thinks is her dream house. She’d been looking at this traditionally creepy, isolated mansion just before her accident. While she was in the hospital, Freddy sold the city flat and purchased this [...]

2026-04-21T19:34:01-07:00April 21st, 2026|Tags: , , , , |

Oasis

"The desert . . . . it’ll devour you whole if you display any sign of weakness." Author: Katya De Becerra While I was reading Oasis, Trav and I were housebound by the Snowcrete, so a book set in a lovely hot desert with supernatural overtones sounded like the perfect way to break the ice and free me to adventure, if only in my mind. It starts, as these things inevitably do, with a band of young friends, freshly graduated from high school and looking for their last hurrah before going off to separate colleges. Alif is our main character. Her [...]

2026-04-09T17:50:16-07:00April 9th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Nature of the Beast, The

"Maybe that’s what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can.” Author: Louise Penny We’re back in cozy, unmapped, hard-to-find, isolated Three Pines where murder, shenanigans, intrigue, complicated pasts, and really bad poetry are brewing into another storm of misadventure, fake identities, and ulterior motives. This time, evil from the outer world is once again puncturing the peace and sanctity of this little town, revealing dark pasts and sinister motives. It starts when an imaginative nine-year-old boy, Laurent Lepage, claims he found a giant monster gun in the woods. The next day, he is discovered, murdered. Clearly, [...]

2026-04-08T18:09:39-07:00April 8th, 2026|Tags: , , , , , , |
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