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Format: Audiobook
I think audiobooks may not be the best way for me to consume poetry, as I had to move the speed of the audio up to 1.25x in able to stay in gaged.
I think that this would much better be consumed as a print book and I did enjoy each part of the collection.
Format: Audiobook
I think audiobooks may not be the best way for me to consume poetry, as I had to move the speed of the audio up to 1.25x in able to stay in gaged.
I think that this would much better be consumed as a print book and I did enjoy each part of the collection.
Ohhhh man...I definitely enjoyed this one more than their newest book, “You Are Not Alone”. There’s just something about a well developed plot point with medical professionals and life long lies to drive home a good psychological mystery/thriller.
If I hadn’t had any errands to disrupt my reading, I could have easily read this in a day.
If I hadn’t had any errands to disrupt my reading, I could have easily read this in a day.
Thank you NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for an eGalley in exchange for a review.
Escape Room got me hooked on Goldin’s writing and The Night Swim just confirmed that she’s now one of my favorite thriller/mystery authors.
The Night Swim was fast paced and drew me in from the start. If I didn’t have to work or sleep, I would have finished it in a day.
Rachel, the podcast host, reminded me of Sarah Koenig from Serial, which coincidentally was the podcast that got me hooked on true crime podcasts. Rachel Krall is a podcast host in town for a rape trial hoping to information for the third season of her podcast when she finds a note on her windshield asking her to look into a case from 25 years ago. The Night Swim follows Rachel as she juggles sitting in court to take notes each day of the trail for her podcast with trying to dig up details on what exactly happened to Jenny Stills 25 years ago. Was she murdered or were the cops right in saying she accidentally drowned?
TW: rape, sexual assault, drowning
Escape Room got me hooked on Goldin’s writing and The Night Swim just confirmed that she’s now one of my favorite thriller/mystery authors.
The Night Swim was fast paced and drew me in from the start. If I didn’t have to work or sleep, I would have finished it in a day.
Rachel, the podcast host, reminded me of Sarah Koenig from Serial, which coincidentally was the podcast that got me hooked on true crime podcasts. Rachel Krall is a podcast host in town for a rape trial hoping to information for the third season of her podcast when she finds a note on her windshield asking her to look into a case from 25 years ago. The Night Swim follows Rachel as she juggles sitting in court to take notes each day of the trail for her podcast with trying to dig up details on what exactly happened to Jenny Stills 25 years ago. Was she murdered or were the cops right in saying she accidentally drowned?
TW: rape, sexual assault, drowning
First and foremost: An American Marriage is very deserving of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. So well constructed and full of character development.
An American Marriage follows husband and wife from Atlanta, Roy and Celestial after Roy is arrested while visiting his family in Louisiana.
I absolutely loved Celestial’s character and enjoyed following along as she went from being happily married to being the wife of a man wrongly incarcerated and what comes after. The inclusion of her family dynamics and relationship with her childhood friend, Andre, helped me become more interested her as a person. Plus I love any book that makes a woman an artist and entrepreneur. That still doesn’t happen much.
Enter Roy: wrongfully incarcerated in a different state from his wife. Leading to a tense and broken relationship. He meets his birth father while in prison and that changes his view on life (just a little bit). Once he’s released, he doesn’t know just what all he’s missed.
So why 4.5 stars and not 5? My only minor complaint, and it’s very much a personal opinion, is that I felt like the final chapter and the epilogue were just a little disjointed.
An American Marriage follows husband and wife from Atlanta, Roy and Celestial after Roy is arrested while visiting his family in Louisiana.
I absolutely loved Celestial’s character and enjoyed following along as she went from being happily married to being the wife of a man wrongly incarcerated and what comes after. The inclusion of her family dynamics and relationship with her childhood friend, Andre, helped me become more interested her as a person. Plus I love any book that makes a woman an artist and entrepreneur. That still doesn’t happen much.
Enter Roy: wrongfully incarcerated in a different state from his wife. Leading to a tense and broken relationship. He meets his birth father while in prison and that changes his view on life (just a little bit). Once he’s released, he doesn’t know just what all he’s missed.
So why 4.5 stars and not 5? My only minor complaint, and it’s very much a personal opinion, is that I felt like the final chapter and the epilogue were just a little disjointed.