Book #65 of 2024: Dream Girl by Laura Lippman This 2021 thriller feels like a take on Stephen King’s Misery for the #metoo era, in which a bedridden white male writer is held accountable and ultimately held captive by an overbearing nurse figure for the sins of his past, oblivious to most of them though …
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Book Review: Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
Book #179 of 2021: Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman I’m getting big Midge Maisel vibes from this novel about a 1960s Jewish housewife who leaves her husband and ends up pursuing a new career as a newspaper crime reporter. I love her brashness as a person finding her own path through a tough …
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