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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|

Still Life With Crows

"Truth is the safest lie." Authors: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Agent Pendergast is supposedly on vacation, recovering from his discovery of a vicious killer whose diabolical history intertwines with his only family past and heritage. But Pendergast does nothing for the sake of ease, and this strange vacation to a sweltering corn field in Kansas is no lark, but another journey into darkness. This time, he is following a different killer. It could be a person. It could be a monster. Whoever or whatever it is, stalks the residents and leaves increasingly distressing tableaus of carnage amongst the corn. This [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-28T15:22:32-07:00December 28th, 2024|Tags: Agent Pendergast, book review, horror, Pendergast, read, reading, thriller|