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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: , , , , |

Big Little Lies

“When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.” Author: Liane Moriarty In Big Little Lies three women are drawn together by the school their children attend. On the surface, each woman has a good life, but under their carefully curated images are broken marriages, past traumas, doubts about themselves and their children, domestic violence, and so much more. Eventually, all the secrets burst out at the school’s trivia night, leaving one person dead and the police suspecting murder. Liane Moriarty has a magical way of taking the everyday and looking beneath the surface to unveil human [...]

2026-04-19T15:12:45-07:00April 19th, 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: , , , , , , , |
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