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Stranger Upstairs, The

"Endings are Loud" Author: Lisa M. Matlin Waning social media star and self-help book blitz Sarah Slade is looking to revitalize her fading fame and marriage with a little fixer-up project. She’s bought and plans to renovate an infamous murder/suicide house (Black Wood House) with the help of her hubby and inflexibly angry cat (Reaper), all while keeping up her façade as a good therapist. Of course, Sarah is doing more than trying to keep her perfect career going. She’s keeping her careful façade in place. Sarah has a past. Sarah has a lot of things to hide. And what better [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-06T15:40:20-07:00January 6th, 2025|Tags: book review, botm, horror, read, reading, thriller|

Malorie

“But a madman at ease is safer than a sane woman unsettled.” Author: Josh Malerman It’s been 12 years since the events in Bird Box when Malorie and her two children traveled, blind folded, up a treacherous river towards hope. Since then, the flame of optimism has been extinguished. Malorie and her children, girl (Olympia) and boy (Tom), now live in complete isolation. Malorie is paranoid. She will do whatever it takes to keep her children alive, even if that means killing her son’s dreams, his experiments, his hopes for a world of site, of people. This all changes when a [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-05T19:47:55-07:00January 5th, 2025|Tags: Bird Box, book review, horror, NetFlix, read, reading|

Small House at Allington, The

Affairs of the Heart Author: Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington starts with a whirlwind spring courtship. Poor but pretty Lily Dale has found the man of her dreams. Crosbie, her happy suitor, thinks that Lily’s rich uncle, who has benevolently given her impoverished family a place to live, will gift her with a large dowry. When he finds out that he is mistaken, however, he grows distant. He thinks about other opportunities, wasted chances, an old love he was close to wooing, and he begins to plan his way out. He may be a cad, but it is better [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-04T19:11:50-07:00January 4th, 2025|Tags: Barsetshire, book review, Chronicles of Barsetshire, classic, read, reading, trollope|