Category: Thrillers

I have no idea when or where I acquired this book but it's been in my bookcase for some time.

After sitting in my bookcase for years this book surprised me!

June 23, 2024 /

Last week I was headed to the pool so I wanted to grab a paperback I owned – the iPad gets too heated, and I didn’t want to ruin a library book.

So I headed to my bookcases and pulled out

The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

I had no idea what this book was about (somehow I also missed the movie!!) and was expecting some sort of slow family drama…but the recommendation on the front cover promised a “page turner” so I decided to give it a try.

The book ended up blowing me away.

"Escape" to a murder mystery in the French Alps

‘ONE BY ONE’

November 21, 2020 /

Like many of you, I use literature for an escape but I only recently realized it can be comforting to “escape” to somewhere more terrifying that my/our current situation of COVID and politics.

Thrillers aren’t my primary genre but I do read them regularly including this recent favorite, and I have enjoyed Ruth Ware’s books before so decided to add this one to the top of my fall reading list.

One by One by Ruth Ware

‘LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND’

October 27, 2020 /

I’ve been branching out with my reading in the last week! After posting about some amazing fantastical fiction just the other day, today I am back to tell you about a reading experience that kept me in constant suspense and was one of the most exciting/stressful/disturbing books I’ve read for some time:

Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam

‘YOU ARE NOT ALONE’

April 11, 2020 /

I get a lot of the books I read from the library (love my library!!) so with our local library being closed for COVID-19, I’ve had to change up my reading routine.

First, I re-read a favorite book and then a couple of other older books I had sitting on my shelf at home, including this WWII novel set in Korea: White Chrysanthemum. And I’ve started a couple of books that will take me longer to read. See my post on reading more than one book at a time.

I do prefer ” real” books because I spend so much time on screens anyway, but eventually I was driven to my ipad and kindle account to see what I had available there. Luckily I have a couple waiting for me including this new thriller:

You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

‘THE ONE’ – A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SOON TO BE ON NETFLIX

April 22, 2019 /

I am writing today about another book that I managed to read in a little more than 24 hours:

The One by John Marrs

The book’s premise: A DNA test has been developed to match you with your perfect romantic partner. A reader follows five separate stories as characters meet and fall for their “matches” received from the test.

I READ ‘BIRD BOX’

January 7, 2019 /

I had been hearing so much about ‘Bird Box’ (a movie on Netflix) that I was ready to give in and watch it too, but then I happened across a copy of the book at a used book store. I honestly didn’t realize this movie was based on a book until I saw it for sale:

Bird Box: A Novel

Category: Thrillers

After sitting in my bookcase for years this book surprised me!

The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

‘ONE BY ONE’

One by One by Ruth Ware

‘LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND’

Leave the World Behind: A Novel by Rumaan Alam

‘YOU ARE NOT ALONE’

You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

‘THE ONE’ – A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER SOON TO BE ON NETFLIX

I READ ‘BIRD BOX’

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