Whoa! This was so so good, my mind was blown almost the entire time!
pickThis might require a second read to really GET all of it. A fever dream that starts a little slow as the main character—who wakes up to find his mother dead in a pool of blood—tries to make sense of his surroundings. So many questions to answer & not enough time as he tries to figure out what happened before people start asking questions. This is a tension filled read, dark & full of mystery with twists which keep you guessing until the very end.
Sunday morning reading and coffee while the family sleeps. Love this quiet time!
pickI really enjoyed this book. Jen can‘t believe her son killed someone. Why? When she wakes up the next day, it‘s actually the day BEFORE the killing..and then she wakes up TWO days earlier, and so on until she goes back 20 years to find out why her son killed that man. Incredible storyline. I highly recommend this book.
“New York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family.
Can you stop a murder after it‘s already happened?”
so-soI built up this book up so much in my head. Then I read it. It was okay. I liked no one, which was the point. The writing was halfway decent. The story was okay. I think I just built it up too much.
I made japchae while listening to The Good Son. I had a lot of the ingredients on hand, since Korean dishes and Chinese dishes (which I cook a lot) have many ingredients in common, but this was my first time cooking sweet-potato noodles.
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pickThis psychological thriller set in South Korea is a low pick for me. On the one hand, the story was extremely disturbing and the narrator both unreliable and unlikeable. On the other hand, I couldn't stop reading once I started!
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#52bookclub24 (prompt 9, A character-driven novel)
pickThis is a heart warming book that‘s about several things. One woman and how she touched the lives of everyone around her, the difference she made in the world, always striving to be of service to others. The relationship she had with her son, her love of books and how she took what she learned from them and applied it to her being. And finally, how she chose to face death and did the things she loved until her final moments. Recommended.
She never wavered in her conviction that books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn‘t for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.Mom taught me that you can make a difference in the world and that books really do matter: they‘re how we know what we need to do in life⬇️
