Good Neighbors: A Novel | 
so-soI liked the weirdness of this one but it dragged on and I struggled a bit trying to keep up with who is in what family. #Booked2023 ~Featuring neighbors
Score! I thought I wouldn‘t find any good stuff on the second last day of the AAUW book sale. But I was wrong! (I usually go the first day but I was out of town) I found THREE Brookners I didn‘t own!! Plus the Julia Child autobiography that I‘ve been looking for. And a bunch of other great books that were on my radar. Also pictured: 4 library holds that came in while I was gone. #BookHaul #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime
pickThis was disturbing and kind of weird, but I mostly liked it. It was a bit too long. I don't know if I would have stuck with it in print, but the audiobook was compelling and the narrator was excellent.
so-soToo disturbed to type 😭 my thoughts on this one
pick3.5⭐️ Thought the book was good; there were some aspects that I liked more than others. It definitely was a strange read and reminded me of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. It definitely was an unnerving read. #2022 #literaryfiction #fiction #bookreview #bookstagram #mystery #thriller
pickThis one makes me more thankful for my awful neighbors. Really gets to the core of how words can hurt and rumors can turn into mob mentality. I loved to hate most of the characters and the ending got wild! Loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickWooooow. Would not want to move into this neighborhood.
pick#140 of 2021. Day 3 book 2 of #SuperSeptember. When a accident happens in a Long Island neighborhood, the accusations start. At the center of the accusations is the family in the neighborhood that doesn‘t fit in. Wow! This was so messed up! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#readathon
#Littensdressesinblood #Disturbia
@MidnightBookGirl 🌚
THIS BOOK! Man, it had me stressed out while reading it.
pickOverall Rating 4¼⭐ | Narration😕=Should‘ve had more narrators
Good Neighbors is Disturbia at its finest...a classic example of what might happen when people stop being nice and start being real. Is it the sinkhole that has opened up, is it emitting gasses that are messing with their minds? Or...is it the days on end temperatures of 120°? Maybe, it‘s both. Something is making the neighbors in this Long Island suburb lose their ever-loving minds. ⬇⬇
Love a map in a book especially when it has places I‘ve actually been too. We have good friends who live in the town this takes place in and have been to the town pool. It‘s only about 5 miles from where I live! Can‘t wait to start this one!
panYikes! Definitely not for me. A dark, dark novel. Good narration on #audiobook and if u like a dark book, you‘ll love this, but it was way too much for me.
pickI could NOT put this book down. I got serious “Lord of the Flies” vibes the deeper I got into this story. And that sinkhole? Let‘s talk about symbolism after you‘ve finished the story. This book is deeply disturbing yet completely engrossing. I have to get up at 3:25 AM for work, and it‘s after 10:00 PM now. I HAD to finish.
panSince Gillian Flyn hasn't released a book in eons & Megan Abbott's isn't due until this summer, Langan's Good Neighbors is apparently a thing. An intriguing premise: two families in a Long Island suburb turn on one another & one family ends up dead with public opinion still divided years later as to who is to blame. Yet, Langan clearly lays out who is to blame at the end. Baffling narrative choices, little character development, incredibly lazy 👇
bailedIf you have read this, spoil it for me in the comments so I don‘t have to finish it. Please and thank you. Don‘t forget the spoiler tags!
Ugh. This is a hot mess.
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This isn‘t just another suburban drama. An original and biting social commentary, it absolutely exudes darkness and murk like the sinkhole that opens in the neighborhood. I wish I could say it wasn‘t believable, but it was all the more terrifying because of its plausibility. Such a brilliant and unsettling look at human behavior. I couldn‘t put it down and I can‘t get it out of my mind! #authenticbooks
so-soSaturday morning reading.
In the midst of a heatwave, a sinkhole opens in the suburbs of Long Island. What ensues is an examination of how individuals can form a mob to mistreat others and perpetuate falsehoods even in the face of contradicting evidence. A perfect fable for our times where fake news and conspiracy theories abound. I enjoyed the novelty, but I wasn't completely sucked in and felt like I needed to finish rather than wanting to.
My February #authenticbooks box came today!! I think I‘m going to dive into this book next! I‘ve heard it‘s really good, and I also can‘t wait to start using all of these fun things! 😍 #bookmailisthebestmail
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I'm 100 pages in and not quite sure what I'm reading. I like the use of news stories and archival information to help set the plot but at times I feel like I don't quite know what is going on. The author share key information in a subtle way so I've had to reread a few parts ... Did anyone else read this? Were your experiences similar?
pickSimmering tensions in a wealthy Long Island neighborhood explode when a sinkhole opens and tragedy strikes. This is a story of the dangers of convincing yourself of what you want to believe and allowing your echo chamber to reflect that “truth.” I did struggle a little to keep some of these characters straight in my head, but enjoyed this quite a bit overall.
so-soThis is a definitely slow build domestic thriller situation here. I liked a lot of elements of it, but I didn‘t understand why it had to be said in the future and that kept throwing me off. Not sure if that was enough of a distraction for other people to get annoyed with parts of this, but otherwise I thought it was a pretty good book
pickHoly smokes! This book left me so anxious the whole time. I think I was obsessed about reading it all week because I just needed to finish it. It made me so nervous, but it was still so enjoyable. I could just feel the tension in Sarah Langan‘s writing, she did such an amazing job of giving you the toxic vibe in the neighborhood in the story. It is such a great book, but could not be for everyone, it‘s dark friends. Giving it four stars. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Hugging my neighbors... even THAT one!
Shortest Summary Ever: There‘s a group of neighbors on Long Island. A queen bee named Rhea. A giant sink hole. A child falls in. And the neighbors lose their minds. This book is the big WHAT IF. what if you were with THE world‘s worst neighbors, in a neighborhood that‘s literally and figuratively being swallowed by blackness and depravity. The book isn‘t for Ev1 but full review ScrappyMags.com
PSA: Target has buy 2 get 1 free on a lot of their books right now. Deal is valid online also. I just bought the pictured. Two should be ready for in-store pickup & The Project is being shipped for free.
January Round Up 2: Good Neighbors is going to stick with me for awhile. Most of this was good, and weirdly enough the biggest disappointment for me was the new Gardner thriller.
Five stars
~Good Neighbors
~Bunnicula
~Hold Back the Tide
~Whisper Down the Lane
~Glimmers of Grace
Four stars
~Finlay Donovan is Killing It
~Furiously Happy
~Growing Things and Other Stories 🎧 (I do have a physical copy so I can reread some of the stories)
~Somewhere in the Dark 🎧
Three stars
~Bear Necessity 🎧
~Pretty Little Wife
What did you read in January? Any new favorites for you?
Who wants to join me in February #bookishfirst bingo?
pickIs it too early to say that this is going to be one of the best books I‘ll read in 2021? This domestic thriller was so tense it made me squirm the whole way through.
Comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Celeste Ng? Yes please!
pickThis book had me raging against adult responsibility and arguing with my need for sleep. I did not want to put it down. The propulsive narrative was terrifying and thought-provoking. I will not be surprised if Good Neighbors ends up on my top five favorites list for the year when 2021 comes to a close!
My full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3529301893
pickThis built -- but the end – I didn‘t see coming! Holy crap – that mob mentality! I was angry at so many of those people! I feel like this is a slightly different take on the current thriller fad. It did remind me a bit of “Big Little Lies” with the articles and interviews (from 2042) that were interspersed, but it was still quite different from others out there (in my opinion).
“People in your life can just go away and you never had the chance to say goodbye. I‘m sad now but I won‘t be forever. I‘ll forget her. That‘s the worst thing. We all just move on, until we‘re dead, and then everyone moves on.”
“There are certain prisons from which other people can provide no solace.”
“Directed at the wrong person, violence assumes a will of its own. It wants to continue to hurt that person, as if to right the wrong, as if, in some way, to provoke violence in kind, thereby coercing its own legitimacy.”
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@Annie1215
Because knowing that this book comes out in February 2021 and is from the author who wrote one of my new all time favorite horror books, The Missing, the most Stephen Kingsian book that Stephen King did not write, that is all it takes to bring the enthusiasm of the reader that I am to an all time high! Thanks for the tag, @vivastory and @Annie1215 !Anybody who wants to play please do! #litfortunecookie
