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Fates and Furies

December 31, 2020March 6, 2021 ~ bookthrasher ~ 3 Comments

Add one more book to my 2020 tally: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. I started it earlier this month and then promptly set it down and didn’t pick it up again until yesterday. Finished it this afternoon on a gloomy moody day here in Gainesville. Perfect weather for reading this novel. It’s hard to … Continue reading Fates and Furies

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October 20, 2020October 26, 2020 ~ bookthrasher ~ Leave a comment

I'm in the middle of Karin Slaughter's latest, The Silent Wife. It's a Will Trent novel. If you read In the Woods by Tana French, and if you loved Rob Ryan you will love Will Trent. I think this is probably her best work: it's seamless, funny, brutally graphic, wise. She writes / creates dialog … Continue reading shhhhh…

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