Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Broken River” by J. Robert Lennon
Kate’s 2¢: “Broken River” by J. Robert Lennon
“Broken River” by J. Robert Lennon
It was interesting how the omniscient observer was omnipresent to explain what the humans were doing and add philosophical comments about existence and purpose.
Hillary Huber did a good job of narrating this story for us.
A few take-outs:
–The layers of regrets are piling up.
- — The observer’s identity is connected to the self-awareness of the humans and to their awareness of the world around them.
–The observer is struck by how liberating it is for the humans to accept blame for their own misfortunes; to forgive those who have hurt them.
- I like the phrase “…now that the vectors of these lives have converged”. It could also be said that the threads of all the various characters have finally woven together and we know why the were introduced in the first place.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
jrobertlennon.com
John Robert Lennon (born 1970[1]) is an American novelist, short story writer, musician and composer.
Early life[edit]
Lennon was raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.[2] He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and an M.F.A. (1995) from the University of Montana.[3] He is, as of 2011, an associate professor, and director of the Creative Writing Program, at Cornell University[3][4][5] and resides in upstate New York.[6]
Fiction[edit]
Lennon’s first novel, The Light of Falling Stars (1997), about the aftermath of a plane crash, was the winner of Barnes & Noble’s 1997 Discover Great New Writers Award. His fourth novel, Mailman, was released to critical success in 2003[7] and concerns a mail-carrying protagonist named Albert Lippincott who is clearly losing his mind. The book won praise for its humorous portrayal of the sadness of everyday life.[8]
His other books include The Funnies (1999), a comedy about a would-be cartoonist; On the Night Plain (2001), a noir western set in the 1940s; and Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (2005), a collection of 100 very short stories. His novel Happyland is roughly based around the American Girl doll company creator Pleasant Rowland. It was dropped by publisher W. W. Norton and subsequently published in serial by Harper’s Magazine.[7] In 2009, Graywolf Press published a new novel, Castle, and reissued Pieces For The Left Hand, which was appearing for the first time in the U.S. His 2008 short story “The Rememberer” is the basis of the CBS television drama Unforgettable.[9] His work has also appeared in The New Yorker. In April 2021, he published both a novel Subdivision and a new collection of short stories, Let Me Think,[10] which was a finalist for The Story Prize.
Music[edit]
Lennon is also a musician and composer. As a solo artist, recording as Inverse Room, he has released three full-length CDs, Simulacrum (2002), Pieces for the Left Hand (2005) (a companion to the book of the same title), and American Recluse (2007). He is also one half, along with musician Jim Spitznagel, of The Bemus Point, which has released one CD, Infra Dig (2005). In the early 1990s he fronted the band Wicked Bison, playing the Philadelphia bar and fraternity scene.[3]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Broken river DB89808
Lennon, J. Robert. Reading time: 11 hours, 31 minutes.
Read by Hillary Huber.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Upstate New York. Karl, Eleanor, and their daughter, Irina, arrive from New York City in the wake of Karl’s infidelity to start anew. While Karl tries to stabilize his flailing art career, twelve-year-old Irina becomes obsessed with the brutal murders that occurred in the house years earlier. And, secretly, so does her novelist mother. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017
Downloaded: October 5, 2023
Download Broken river
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Firefly Lane” by Christian Hannah
Kate’s 2¢: “Firefly Lane” by Christian Hannah
“Firefly Lane” by Christian Hannah
I found the ending of this story very difficult to read. It hit close to home in a very personal way. It has started me thinking that maybe I, too, should detail some of the escapades my bff and I had.
I downloaded this story from BookShare. The synthesized voice read page numbers, some punctuation, dashes, and some other distracting composition features, but the well crafted narrative was understandable.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Website www.kristinhannah.com Kristin Hannah was born in California. After graduating with a degree in communication from the University of Washington, Hannah worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published.[2]
Hannah’s best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages.[3][4]
Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington,[5] with her husband and their son.
From BookShare:
Synopsis
In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social
food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.
Copyright:
2008
Book Details
Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
472 Pages
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
07/07/08
Copyrighted By:
Kristin Hannah
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Romance, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
solstice singer
Proofread By:
Pam Quinn
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Kate’s 2¢: “Cul-de-sac” by Joy Fielding
With five homes around the deadend street, there are many characters to be introduced and, eventually, their dark, little secrets emerge. This is the second book I’ve read recently that places the story in a cul-de-sac, “The New Neighbor” by Karen Prevland.
Take away:
–To an outsider, the street looks essentially the same. A tree lined horseshoe shaped cul-de-sac containing five identical two story homes in a variety of pastel shades, each with a double car attached garage on the left. But, of course, what lurks behind closed doors is terrifying.
–the problem with lying, is that you had to be ready with a quick follow-up.
–I can’t let that fear define my life any longer.
–It appears to be such a peaceful street.
Lauren Fortgang did a good job of reading this story for the NLS.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Cul-de-sac DB104565
Fielding, Joy. Reading time: 10 hours, 44 minutes.
Read by Lauren Fortgang.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
The residents of a cul-de-sac in Palm Beach Gardens hide secrets. Maggie and husband Craig left their California home for a new life in Florida. The troubled grandson of elderly widow Julia has just moved in. Even more secrets are hidden–and someone will die. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
Downloaded: October 14, 2023
Download Cul-de-sac
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Dahlia’s gone: a novel” by Katie Estill
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.
Downloaded: October 14, 2023
Download Dahlia’s gone: a novel
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “The Dark House” by John Sedgwick
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.
Downloaded: October 14, 2023
Download Dark house: a novel
Kate’s 2¢: “Bone deep” by David Wiltse
“Bone deep” by David Wiltse
Chuck Benson did a good job of reading this story.
I’m still thinking about this story. The author planted some clever red herrings. I’m not sure I like any of these characters.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Wiltse is an American novelist and playwright known for his versatility of form. He is the author of 12 novels, 14 plays and numerous screenplays and teleplays, including the CBS series “Ladies Man”.
Mr. Wiltse was Playwright in Residence at the Westport Country Playhouse from 2007 to 2009. His comedy, “Doubles”, ran on Broadway from 1985 to 1986. His recent works for the stage include The Good German, A Marriage Minuet”, “Sedition, and Hatchetman.
As a novelist he created the character John Becker who was featured in a six-book series consisting of the titles Prayer For The Dead, Close To The Bone, The Edge Of Sleep, Into The Fire, Bone Deep, and Blown Away.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Bone deep DB42821
Wiltse, David. Reading time: 10 hours, 57 minutes.
Read by Chuck Benson.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Bestsellers
Psychological Fiction
As agent John Becker and his friend, Clamden police chief Tee Terhune, search for a serial murderer, they each wrestle with problems in their marriages. Meanwhile the killer is making his future victims fall in love with him. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller.
Downloaded: October 5, 2023
Download Bone deep
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Angels Burning” by Tawni O’Dell
Kate’s 2¢: “Angels Burning” by Tawni O’Dell
“Angels Burning” by Tawni O’Dell
Erin Jones did a good job of reading this story for us.
You’ve got to love young Derk. He is the hope of the future and isn’t going to be put down by his circumstances.
Neither Dove’s nor Derck’s families are good role models, yet their environments didn’t keep them from achieving success. This is a tough story to fathom.
www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/299/tawni-odell
Tawni O’Dell Biography Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Sister Mine, Coal Run, Fragile Beasts, and Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Back Roads has been made into a movie in 2014, staring Andrew Garfield and Jennifer Garner.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tawni O’Dell (born 1964) is an American novelist. Her first published novel, Back Roads, was selected by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah’s Book Club in March 2000.[1][2][3][4]
Formative years[edit]
Born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania in the United States, O’Dell grew up in the same town where movie actor Jimmy Stewart was born. The first in her family to attend college, she graduated from Indiana High School and then from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism.[5][6][7][8]
She lived for many years in the Chicago area before moving back to Pennsylvania, where she now lives with her two children.[9][10][11][12]
Career[edit]
O’Dell disliked journalism and preferred writing fiction.[13][14]
Her literary career, however, began with uncertainty. During a thirteen-year period, she wrote six unpublished novels and collected more than three hundred rejection slips before her first novel, Back Roads. It was widely praised.[15][16][17][18]
The July 24, 2000 issue of People magazine featured her in a story and mentioned that Oprah Winfrey described her not only as “an author but a writer.”[19]
Works[edit]
• Back Roads, novel (New York: Viking, 2000)
• Coal Run, novel (New York: Viking, 2004)
• Sister Mine, novel (New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2007)
• Fragile Beasts, novel (New York: Shaye Areheart Books, 2010)
• One of Us, novel (New York: Gallery Books, 2014)
• Angels Burning, novel (Gallery Books (5 Jan. 2016))
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Angels burning DB87109
, Tawni. Reading time: 9 hours, 25 minutes.
Read by Erin Jones.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Fifty-year-old Dove Carnahan has been police chief of Buchanan, Pennsylvania, for a decade when she is rocked by the discovery of the charred remains of a teenage girl. While investigating the victim’s troubled family, Dove must also deal with her own history. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2016.
Downloaded: September 27, 2023
Download Angels burning
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Acting Out” by Benilde Little
Kate’s 2¢: “Acting Out” by Benilde Little
“Acting Out” by Benilde Little
I think the take-away from this story is that, if doesn’t matter your ethnicity, age, or race, Human frailties abound.
Gail Nelson did a good job of reading this story for us.
www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Benilde-Little/9450
Benilde Little is the bestselling author of the novels Good Hair (selected as one of the ten best books of 1996 by the Los Angeles Times), The Itch, Acting Out, and Who Does She Think She Is? A former reporter for People and senior editor at Essence, she lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband.
Benilde Little, a former journalist, achieved success as a novelist with her sharp observations of class distinctions among African Americans. When her first novel, Good Hair , was published in 1996, critics described her as part of a literary wave of black female novelists forsaking tales of slavery and poverty to write about the black middle class and upper class. When that same wave of writers began to be pigeonholed as “black chick lit” in the 2000s, Little, in her mid-40s, expanded her range, combining the usual “chick lit” preoccupation with men and dating with a portrayal of generational differences in African-American families.
Little was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Her parents were an auto worker and a nurse’s aide, placing the family on the cusp between the working class and the middle class, but her parents tried hard to elevate their children into middle-class life through education and a stable home. In one interview, Little described watching her Newark neighborhood change as white families left and poorer black families moved in. The new kids at her school, less well-off than her, disdained her middle-class wardrobe and home.
That made Little conscious from an early age of how class differences can divide African Americans, an idea that was cemented in her mind when she attended the historically black Howard University, which has long educated much of America’s black elite. Fellow students would ask her what her father and grandfather did for a living or what car her father drove. “I don’t come from a really rich background or anything, ” she told Etelka Lehoczky of the Chicago Tribune. “I went to college and saw people who had a lot of stuff, and was kind of like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I thought we were privileged, and then I got to college and it was like, ‘No, we’re not.'”
Little attended graduate school at Northwestern University and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Newark Star-Ledger.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Acting out: a novel DB64289
Little, Benilde. Reading time: 7 hours, 14 minutes.
Read by Gail Nelson.
Family
Psychological Fiction
When African American Ina Robinson’s wealthy husband leaves her and their three kids for another woman, Ina tries to reconnect with her past self. Ina looks up her college boyfriend, returns to taking photographs, and begins to make her own decisions. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003.
Downloaded: September 9, 2023
Download Acting out: a novel
Kate’s 2¢: “Alter Ego” by Brian Freeman
“Alter Ego” by Brian Freeman
I enjoyed this story. I didn’t figure out the perp until the author wanted me to know who did the dasterly deeds.
–A lot of us have bad childhoods. At some point, you have to decide for yourself who you really are. If you let it make you evil, that’s on you.
–It takes a while to recognize special; especially, in yourself.
–Every journey has its failures and set-backs…all you can do is to try harder and do better at whatever comes next.
Joe Barrett did a good job of narrating this story for us.
Brian Freeman (born March 28, 1963) is an author of psychological suspense novels featuring Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial, and series featuring Cab Bolton and Frost Easton. He has also written novels in the Jason Bourne series after Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader. Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Carleton College where he graduated in 1984 with magna cum laude in English. Before becoming an author, Brian Freeman was a director of marketing and public relations.
New York Times Bestselling Author
Brian Freeman writes psychological thrillers that have been sold in 46 countries and 22 languages. His novel SPILLED BLOOD won the award for Best Hardcover Novel in the annual Thriller Awards, and his novel THE BURYING PLACE was a finalist for the same award. His novel THE DEEP, DEEP SNOW was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
He has also been named by Putnam and the Robert Ludlum estate as the official author to continue Ludlum’s famous Jason Bourne franchise. Brian’s first Bourne novel THE BOURNE EVOLUTION was named one of the Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2020 by Kirkus.
“My goal is to write books with haunting characters and a lightning-fast pace,” Brian says. “My stories are about the hidden intimate motives that draw people across some dark lines. The twists and turns keep you turning the pages, and each piece in the puzzle gives you new insight into the heroes, victims, and villains.”
“I don’t like books where the characters are all good or all bad,” he adds. “I want them to live in the real world, where morality means tough choices and a lot of shades of gray. I hope that’s why readers relate so intensely to the people in my books.”
He is particularly known for the “you are there” sense of place in his novels, from dead-of-winter Minnesota to the tropical storms of Florida. He scouts real-life locales for all of his books and brings to life dramatic settings such as Duluth, San Francisco, Tampa, Las Vegas, and Door County, Wisconsin. “Nobody writes weather like Brian Freeman,” says one reviewer.
Brian has lived in Minnesota for more than 35 years with his wife, Marcia, who is his partner in life and in the book business. They both stay closely connected to Brian’s readers.
“This guy can tell a story.”
Michael Connelly
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
©2022 Brian Freeman. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Notice.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Alter ego DB92174
Freeman, Brian. Reading time: 10 hours, 27 minutes.
Read by Joe Barrett.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
When a freak accident kills a driver on a remote road outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride discovers the victim has a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What’s worse, the man has a recently fired gun in the trunk. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Downloaded: September 27, 2023
Download Alter ego
Uncategorized
by kate
Comments Off on Kate’s 2¢: “Almost Missed You” Jessica Strawser
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.
Downloaded: September 27, 2023
Download Almost missed you