Tag: Thriller
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Body Lies by Jo Baker
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Body Lies by Jo Baker (2019) From its opening, when a young woman is sexually assaulted by a stranger on the street, this story has a subtle but growing sense of menace and dread. That one event starts a chain…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Foe by Iain Reid
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Foe by Iain Reid (2018) Foe has a claustrophobic setting, an old farmhouse out in the middle of unending canola fields, and it has only three primary characters: Junior, the narrator; his wife, Hen; and a visitor, Terrance. Terrance shows up…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (2017) When Marina’s husband, Charles, checks out of the mental hospital after having a breakdown and disappears with only his clothes left behind at the shore of a lake, she retraces his footsteps in…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Ill Will by Dan Chaon
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Ill Will by Dan Chaon (2017) My first impressions of this book were not great. It seemed like a hot mess, to be honest. Jumping around in time and in point of view, from third person to first, and sometimes even…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (2017) If you are of a certain age, you likely remember the video store as a regular stop on the errands run. And if you grew up in a small American town, you may remember the…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott (2016) Sixteen-year-old Devon is an elite gymnast with a shot at the Olympics, and everyone and everything in her life revolves around that goal. When someone she knows is killed by a hit-and-run driver,…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015) Eileen is a most unpleasant character, a twenty-four-year-old girl working as a secretary in a juvenile delinquent facility for boys, enabling her verbally abusive father’s alcoholism, doing everything she can to make herself disappear. This is…
Shannon Turlington 