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Kate’s 2¢: “Dahlia’s gone: a novel” by Katie Estill
“Dahlia’s gone: a novel” by Katie Estill
The thread of water runs throughout this story as Nora and her neighbor, Sand, learn to live with a truce after the brutal murder of the stepdaughter by her mentally challenged son. The sub-plot follows the female investigator and how she gains acceptance and a new love.
I enjoyed this book, which was read by Grace Rogers.
Take aways:
–You don’t show fear. Stand still. Talk to them in a commanding, even voice. Don’t ever run or they’ll attack. If that doesn’t work, lie on the ground and roll into a ball to protect yourself.
–Touch is the most important thing between two people.
— The fetal curl: When the father betrays, the body rolls over to unconsciously protect the remended birth, attaching it to the mother.
–What does a promise involve? Your word was your power, your integrality. If your word meant nothing, then you meant nothing.
–The world is always evolving beneath the surface of things.
–What she hates about Nora are all the pieces of herself she thought she’d cast out.
Author. Has worked as an English tutor in Greece and taught at the collegiate level in the United States.
Author’s works have been translated into Norwegian and Swedish.
Also, author of short stories.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Dahlia’s gone: a novel DBC01432.
Estill, Katie. Reading time: 8 hours, 29 minutes.
Read by Grace Rogers.
Psychological Fiction
Horrified when the daughter of fundamentalist neighbors is brutally murdered while in her care, Sand Williams forges a tenacious but healing relationship with the girl’s mother and a woman sheriff who investigates the case. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Dark House” by John Sedgwick
Kate’s 2¢: “The Dark House” by John Sedgwick
What sordid lives some people live and the ripple effects that cause such havoc.
–So much of life is just getting started.
–Objectively, things may not have changed a great deal, but he had adjusted to them so much better.
Joshua Seeger did a good job of narrating this story and I love the ending: …He kissed her forehead and her lips and her big hat flew right off her head.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
johnsedgwick.biz
Sedgwick was born in 1954, the youngest child of Boston investment advisor R. Minturn Sedgwick, and his wife, Emily Ames Sedgwick (née Lincoln). He grew up in the Boston suburb of Dedham, MA, and earned his high school diploma from Groton School. In 1977, Sedgwick graduated Harvard University with an A.B. in English.[1] While at Harvard, Sedgwick wrote for the Harvard Crimson.[2]
John Sedgwick is a member of the prominent Sedgwick family. His forebears first landed on America’s shores in 1636, and contain in their multitude such historical figures as House Speaker Theodore Sedgwick, novelist Catherine Maria Sedgwick, and sixties cultural icon Edie Sedgwick, among others.[3]
Career[edit]
Sedgwick began his writing career as a senior at Harvard University, when he published two articles: one in Harvard Magazine about Minoan archaeology, and another in Esquire co-written with Anne Fadiman about graffiti in Harvard bathroom stalls. Since then Sedgwick has served as an editor at Newsweek and at Self Care, and has frequently published essays and stories in numerous magazines, including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, and many others. Sedgwick’s forthcoming work of literary nonfiction, From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West tells the story of competition between the Rio Grande and Santa Fe railroads as they charted paths across largely undeveloped lands of the Old American West.[4]
Sedgwick is best known for his family memoir, In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family and his co-biography, War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, which won the Society of Cincinnati Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize.[5][6][7] Sedgwick is also known for his biography of two rival Cherokee Chiefs, Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation.[8]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Dark house: a novel DBC04323
Sedgwick, John. Reading time: 12 hours, 54 minutes.
Read by Joshua Seeger.
Psychological Fiction
Edward Rollins, scion of a notable Boston family, has an obsessive fascination in strangers’ habits. This leads him to a mystery involving a vanishing heiress. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language, violence.
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