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Kate’s 2¢: “Almost Missed You” Jessica Strawser
“Almost Missed You” Jessica Strawser
Thérèse Plummer read this story with various emotions, so it was interesting to listen to.
It is amazing how keeping secrets can come back to bite you. I like this ending, though.
Jessica Strawser is a Pittsburgh native (as the granddaughter of a steel mill worker, she has fond summertime memories of Kennywood Park and thinks the world would be a better place if all salads were topped with french fries) who spent much of her childhood reading books, rereading books, and writing in a journal—often while perched in a cherry willow tree (fortunately her own limbs are still intact) or when she was supposed to be sleeping.
At Moon Area High School (her name was Jessica Yerega then) she was co-editor of the student newspaper, The Moonbeams, and completed a senior project with The Allegheny Times that landed her first “real” front-page byline.
She went on to Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, where she took on the courts beat for The Post award-winning student newspaper, served as editor of Southeast Ohio magazine, and graduated as the outstanding senior in the magazine sequence for 2001, by which point she’d accepted an offer to relocate to Cincinnati and join Writer’s Digest as an editorial assistant.
Jessica Strawser is the editor-at-large and columnist at Writer’s Digest, where she served as editorial director for nearly a decade and became known for her in-depth cover interviews with such luminaries as David Sedaris and Alice Walker. She’s the author of the book club favorites Almost Missed You, a Barnes & Noble Best New Fiction pick; Not That I Could Tell, a Book of the Month bestseller; Forget You Know Me, awarded a starred review by Publishers Weekly, and A Million Reasons Why, called “a standout” in a starred Booklist review and named to Most Anticipated lists from Goodreads, SheReads, Frolic, E! News & others. Her latest, The Next Thing You Know, is a People Magazine Pick for Best New Novel (new in paperback March 2023). Her sixth novel, The Last Caretaker, is forthcoming December 1, 2023.
Honored as the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Strawser has written for The New York Times Modern Love, Publishers Weekly and other fine venues, and lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two children. A contributing editor for Career Authors and an active Tall Poppy Writer, she keynotes frequently for writing conferences, book fairs and festivals, book clubs, libraries, and other events that are kind enough to invite her. She tweets @jessicastrawser and enjoys connecting on Facebook and Instagram.
Almost missed you DB97956
Strawser, Jessica. Reading time: 9 hours, 44 minutes.
Read by Thérèse Plummer.
Friendship Fiction
Suspense Fiction
Family
Psychological Fiction
Three years into their marriage, Violet and Finn have a wonderful little boy. While vacationing, Finn leaves Violet at the beach–packs up the hotel room and disappears with their son. Then Finn shows up on his best friend Caitlin’s doorstep, demanding that she hide them from the authorities. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook. 2017.
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Kate’s 2¢: “All the Wrong Places” by Joy Fielding
“All the Wrong Places” by Joy Fielding
I’m not going to spoil the story for you, but the astute reader will heed the foreshadows throughout the whole story. Well done.
I especially like the “soft” ending that packs so much import that you can’t stop thinking about the just desserts.
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Joy Fielding (née Tepperman; born March 18, 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Biography[edit]
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. As Joy Tepperman, she had a brief acting career, appearing in the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) and in an episode of Gunsmoke. She later changed her last name to Fielding (after Henry Fielding) and began writing novels.
Fielding is also the screenwriter of the television film Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story.
In the 1980s, she was also a regular contributor of book reviews to Jack Farr’s CBC Radio program The Radio Show.
Personal[edit]
At the age of 8, Tepperman wrote her first story and sent it into a local magazine, and at age 12 sent in her first TV script, however both were rejected. She had a brief acting career, eventually giving it up to write full-time in 1972.[1] She has published 30 novels and 1 Novella (as of September 2022), two of which were converted into film. Fielding’s process of having an idea to the point the novel is finished generally takes a year, the writing itself taking four to eight months.[2]
Fielding sets most of her novels in American cities such as Boston and Chicago. She has said that she prefers to set her novels in “big American cities, [as the] landscape seems best for [her] themes of urban alienation and loss of identity.”[2]
Fielding is a Canadian citizen. Her husband is noted Toronto attorney, Warren Seyffert.[3][4] They have two daughters, Annie and Shannon,[5] and own property in Toronto, Ontario, as well as Palm Beach, Florida.[2]
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All the wrong places: a novel DB94449
Fielding, Joy. Reading time: 10 hours, 54 minutes.
Read by Saskia Maarleveld.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
The man calling himself Mr. Right Now in his online dating profile knows that his looks and charming banter put women at ease about going back to his apartment. There, he has a special evening planned: steaks, wine, candlelight, and a slow, agonizing death. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.
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