Kate’s 2¢: “The Breakdown” by B. A. Paris
“The Breakdown” by B. A. Paris
I think the term gas lighting applies to this story. Georgia Maguire did a good job of narrating this story and I love the ending.
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B.A. Paris (Bernadette MacDougall)[1] is a Franco-British writer of fiction, mainly in the psychological thriller subgenre. Her debut novel, Behind Closed Doors (2016), was a New York Times[2] and Sunday Times bestseller. It has been translated into 40 languages and has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Her other books include The Breakdown (2017),[3] Bring Me Back (2018), The Dilemma (2019)[1][4] and The Therapist (2021).
Background[edit]
B.A. Paris was born in Surrey, England, in 1958 to a French mother and Irish father. She is the third of 6 children, including 4 brothers and a sister. After completing her education, she moved to France, where she worked as a trader in an international bank in Paris for several years. During this time, she met her husband, with whom she now has 5 daughters. They eventually left the world of finance to set up a language school together.
It was only after turning 50 that B.A. Paris began writing, when one of her daughters suggested she enter a writing competition advertised in a magazine. While she didn’t win, this led her to write her first novels, including her internationally bestselling debut Behind Closed Doors. She is published by HarperCollins Publishers in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US.
Today, B.A. Paris lives in Hampshire with her husband and continues to write psychological thrillers. They have 5 children together.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The breakdown DB89117
Paris, B. A. Reading time: 9 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by Georgia Maguire.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside–the woman who was killed. What could she have done, really? But now someone is watching her. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017.
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Whitaker Kayla Rae The animators a novel
“The animators: a novel” by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Alex McKenna did a good job of reading this story, with all its innuendos of same sex relationships, complex artistic woes, and over-coming a trimitic stroke.
A few take-aways:
–Irrefutable love is us us making a place where redemption exists.
–We start small
–The best part about having a stroke is other people assume you can’t talk at all.
–Your life is the people who fill it.
–I was lucky. From age 18 on, I had a partner, a kindred spirit
–The old impulses are not dead. The voodoo did not die.
From the WEB:
Excerpt: During a trip to Sharon’s home state of Kentucky, the only other partner she has ever truly known—her troubled, charismatic childhood best friend, Teddy—reenters her life, and long-buried resentments rise to the surface, hastening a reckoning no one sees coming.
Kayla Rae Whitaker lives in Louisville, Kentucky. THE ANIMATORS is her first novel.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The animators: a novel DB86765
Whitaker, Kayla Rae. Reading time: 15 hours, 26 minutes.
Read by Alex McKenna.
Human Relations
Psychological Fiction
Mel and Sharon have been best friends since their first class in college. After ten years, they are still artistic partners, but their fortunes are on the verge of changing. This forces them to reevaluate not only their own relationship, but their relationships with family and friends. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook. 2017.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Age of innocence” by Edith Wharten
“The Age of innocence” by Edith Wharten
A few take-outs:
–Portrail of the New York society in the 1870’s.
–To defy the social ethic was to disturb the foundation of society…adherence to moral commitment.
From: www.sparknotes.com/author/edith-wharton/
Wharton’s protagonists challenge social taboos, but are unable to overcome the barriers of social convention. Wharton’s personal experiences, opinions, and passions influenced her writing. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones.
In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer, an interior designer, and a taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first major published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored by Ogden Codman.
Wharton wrote numerous novels the more famous being ‘The House of Mirth’ (1905), ‘The Reef’ (1912), ‘The Custom of the Country’ (1913) and ‘Summer’ (1917). She won a Pulitzer Prize for a novel she published in 1920 called ‘The Age of Innocence’. This made her the first woman to receive this award
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The age of innocence DB28162
Wharton, Edith. Reading time: 10 hours, 53 minutes.
Read by J. P Linton.
Literature
Psychological Fiction
Romance
A novel of manners set in New York society in the 1870s, an age of convention, propriety, and tribal solidarity. Newland Archer is torn between his attraction to a woman separated from her husband, and his security in a bland but proper marriage. Pulitzer Prize 1920.
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Kate’s 2¢: “David Raker. Books 9-10” BY Tim Weaver
“David Raker. Books 9-10” BY Tim Weaver
I really enjoyed these two stories. I’ll be looking for the other books. Both plots are chock full of twists, turns, and surprises. Awesome.
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Tim Weaver (born 1977) is an English writer primarily known for his crime thrillers featuring missing persons investigator David Raker.
Career[edit]
Journalism[edit]
Prior to publication of his first book, Weaver was a videogames journalist. He was editor of N64 Magazine and spent six years as editor of Xbox World, leaving the magazine in 2011.[1] He also appeared as co-host of YouTube show GTA V O’Clock.[2] In his wider career as a journalist, he has written about the long struggle he and his wife had to start a family.[3]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
David Raker. Books 9-10 DB96329
Weaver, Tim. Reading time: 34 hours, 58 minutes.
Read by Jon Huffman.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Two novels, written in 2018-19, feature London missing-persons investigator David Raker. In You Were Gone, Raker is informed that his long-dead wife has just walked into a police station looking for him. In No One Home, four households disappear from a tiny village on Halloween. Violence and strong language. 2019.
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