🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 What a treat! A twisted tale like no other this reader has encountered, so compulsively readable you will struggle to put it down. As the title implies, this book features a diabolical author who somewhat cheekily (and exceedingly disturbingly) runs through a list of tips and techniques to show…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 An expertly paced psychological thriller, this book builds to a nail-biter of an ending that absolutely does not disappoint. A compelling read, with a bevy of interesting characters, the story enters on an only-gradually illuminating plot that will keep you guessing, from start to finish. Told in alternating timelines,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ A cornucopia of all things Dog, I read this gem with a warm doggie on my lap, straight through on a rainy afternoon. And what a delight that was! Crisscrossing time (past and future), and covering myths, historical happenings, re-interpreted poetry, philosophy, Buddhism, science fiction — and all of…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Both a searingly intimate memoir and a true-crime story, this book was so hard to put down that I read it in practically one sitting. A heart-rending look at a traumatic crime,and the family involved, written from the vantage point of the author, a sixteen year old teenager at…
A memoir and a somewhat complicated review — for a story beginning with horrific child abuse and leading to what will become a life-long adult search for healing — that could not help but raise all sorts of emotions in this reader. Empathy, pain and compassion. Curiosity and hope. Wonder,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “There was no longer any solid foundation to the world. It was all just stories.“ A beautifully rendered, challenging and often dark collection of eight short stories that somehow manage to balance the many avenues of man’s terrible brutality with the boundless tenderness of love — be it that…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “A moment arrives when the usefulness of a secret expires. Keeping it becomes the thing that hurts us. We have to tell. “ This heartfelt memoir takes us to the darkest place, and back again, as we meet Amy, and her “perfect life” in Amarillo, Texas, and then are…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Part memoir, and part historically accurate re-telling of a fatal and horrific bear attack on two campers in 1991, this is a difficult book to read, both for its emotional content and its blood-curdling recounting of the most nightmarish encounter with wildlife this reader could ever imagine. Made all…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Perhaps the strangest collection of short stories this reader has encountered, this is a hard book to categorize, but an easy book to love. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, often sardonic, absurd and always wildly inventive, these short stories contain some repeating characters and straddle situations, including those involving: inane…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 For anyone who has ever considered their body, and judged it not “good”, without really stopping to wonder — Not good for what? Or whom? — this memoir, written by a woman who has explored that question, painfully and from birth, will definitely set your head spinning. Diagnosed with…