Tom Lake by Ann Patchett was released in August of 2023, and in addition to being a Reese’s Book Club pick, it also has the distinction of having an audiobook that’s narrated by Meryl Streep. I wasn’t sure at first if it was going to make the cut onto my already lengthy reading list, but …
Chapter 1 (The book opens with Laura “Lara” Kenisonrecounting a story to her three 20-something daughters, Maisie, 22, Nell , 24, and Emily, 26.) As Lara’s story opens, the community theater is holding auditions for a production of the play Our Town in the local high school gymnasium. Lara is a junior in high school, …
The book opens with a passage about how easily someone can vanish in Appalachia. It’s followed by a news article about the disappearance of a 3-year-old girl, Ruby Anne McTavish, on Sunday, September 12, 1943. Ruby was the daughter of Mason McTavish of Tavistock, North Carolina, and his wife, Mrs. Anna McTavish (née Miss Anna …
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins was published in January of this year. I read Hawkin’s mystery-thriller The Wife Upstairs a few years back, so this release caught my eye though I was on the fence about whether the premise interested me. In The Heiress, Camden is the adopted son of a very wealthy heiress who …
What happens at the end of The Fury? There are a bunch of twists in this story since each act of the book reveals new information shedding light on the parts before it. In the initial story, Lana is found dead on the second night of their Greek island getaway. In Act II, we learn …
