Prologue The book opens with a news clipping about Hollywood “It” Girl, Evelyn Hugo (born Evelyn Elena Herrera). She’s auctioning off some of her gowns, expected to fetch around $2 million to be donated to the breast cancer foundation. The article discusses her seven husbands and her daughter, Connor Cameron, who passed away last year …
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin came out earlier this month, and it is part courtroom thriller and part mystery (and part podcast! well, sort of). It’s also a suspenseful and tense story, that happens to be perfect for mystery fans looking for an audiobook to listen to. The Night Swim is a courtroom thriller …
Chapters 1 – 6 A police officer comes by to report a death of a 15-year-old girl, Jenny Stills, to her mother. He then escorts her 9-year-old sister, Hannah, to the hospital to treat her wounds. 25 years later, Hannah wants to talk about it. Elsewhere, Rachel Krall, a very popular investigative true crime podcast …
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee has been on my reading list and sitting on my bookself, looking lovely and forlorn, for some time. With the wildfires, lightning storms and heat wave in Northern California, I decided to head to the coast for a spell and found some time to read it while chilling out in …
Book I: Gohyang/Hometown (1910–1933) Chapter 1 An old fisherman and his wife turn their small home into a boarding house in the fishing village of Yeongdo. They have three sons, but only Hoonie survives. Hoonie is the neighborhood cripple, but he is literate, strong and thoughtful. In 1910, when Hoonie is 27, Japan annexes Korea. …
