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Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay

If You Could Write Your Own Happy Ending, Would You? Authors: Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman Just as Thea’s life is becoming picture-perfect – new book reaching bestselling status, handsome husband, baby on the way – tragedy strikes. And the thing is, she made it happen. Thea has a certain way with words – a way she has never told anyone about. The first time she wrote something into being, she told no one. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. But with her husband dying the same way her main character does in her novel, Thea becomes convinced that there is [...]

Frances Carden2026-05-31T12:29:28-07:00May 31st, 2026|Tags: book review, chick lit, drama, read, reading, romance|

Hunt: The True Story of Alaska’s Most Notorious Serial Killer, Robert Hansen

The Story of the Man Who Hunted Women Author: Ryan Green The story starts in the mind of a victim in the middle of chase that will end in murder. But at the moment, she is still alive, barely clothed, abandoned in the wilderness, surrounded by snow and cold. She’s trying to figure out how to survive, how to navigate this barren terrain and find the town again. That’s when she sees him, gun cocked, emerging from the snow. The hunt has begun. Robert Hansen began his reign of terror with rape. Then he escalated to murder, to silence his victims. [...]

Frances Carden2026-05-25T16:21:16-07:00May 25th, 2026|Tags: book review, read, reading, Robert Hansen, true crime|

Overgrowth

"To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow" Author: Mira Grant Anastasia Miller (Stasia) hasn’t been herself since she was three years old. That was because she was eaten by an alien plant and the original, human Stasia is dead. In her place is a plant person with an unrelenting desire to tell the world that she is the vanguard of an invading species. Let’s just say, this gives plant Stasia some unique social problems. Now an adult, in her 20s, Stasia continues introducing herself as a space invader, explaining that eventually, the armada will come and the invasion will [...]

Frances Carden2026-05-07T16:08:02-07:00May 7th, 2026|Tags: alien invasion, book review, horror, read, reading, science fiction|