Showing posts with label small towns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label small towns. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Listening for the Crack of Dawn - Donald Davis

Mike found this for me last summer and I finally got to it this year.  It's a group of childhood memories written as short stories by the author.  He tells about growing up in Appalachia in a small town with all his friends.  Delightful read.


Published: 1990 Read: May 2019  Genre: Short Story

Monday, July 24, 2017

Into the Water - Paula Hawkins

I really enjoyed this author's previoius book, "The Girl on the Train".  This one disappoints.  A woman writing stories about the drownings of multiple women in a small town is herself found drowned.  A young girl who is the best friend of her daughter drowned only a short time before.  Are they suicides or murders?

The author tells the story in repeated first-person chapters from each characters point of view, the big picture not revealed until the end, like peeling an onion.  There was no satisfying resolution delivered.  Not recommended.

Published: 2017  Read: July 2017  Genre: Mystery