Monthly ArchiveMay 2009
Uncategorized 03 May 2009 08:35 am
Twitter!
So are you on Twitter?
I am!
@gracefulshrimp
(www.twitter.com/gracefulshrimp)
and Joost is too! I have blogged on Joost in the past (head over to www.joost.com to see all their new gadgetry) and they have their own twitter account! @joost_com
anyways, that is all for now! Catch you on the flip side.
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Book 01 May 2009 06:49 am
Promise Not to Tell
Jennifer McMahon wrote a DOOZY.
Seriously, I finished this novel and said aloud (to an empty room barring two dogs), “WOW.”
Promise Not To Tell was amazing. Here is the book description from the HC website.
Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who’s afflicted with Alzheimer’s. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate’s childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as “Potato Girl”—was brutally slain. Del’s killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten.
The book alternates between the 2002 current storyline and Kate’s memories from the 1970′s of her childhood with Del. You could have a year-long monthly meeting book group on just this one book, because you can just talk about so many things; dealing with an elderly parent, alternative lifestyles, child abuse, child sexual abuse, teasing, bullying, and childhood fears.
A very VERY compelling read.
Here is the Publisher’s weekly review:
From Publishers Weekly
Part mystery-thriller and part ghost story, McMahon’s well-paced debut alternates smoothly between past and present. In the fall of 2002, 41-year-old Kate Cypher, a divorced Seattle school nurse, returns to New Hope, the decaying Vermont hippie commune where she grew up, to visit her elderly mother, Jean, who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. Kate has avoided New Hope since the grizzly, unsolved murder of her fifth-grade friend, Del Griswold, 31 years earlier. Kate fears she betrayed Del, a free-spirited farm girl. Did her betrayal cause Del’s death? Who killed Del? Another local girl is murdered in a similar manner at the time of Kate’s return. Could the killer be loose again? Meanwhile, Jean appears to be possessed with Del’s spirit and may have the answers to these questions. As Kate investigates, she learns stunning truths about many events and people from her youth. McMahon does a particularly good job of portraying the cruelty of school children.
Also head over to Jennifer’s website for more info on her and her other novels! I have Dismantled in my stack to read next, and I’m PSYCHED.
I am also very excited (even more so now that I have read and LOVED her book) to be able to say that Jennifer will be coming to my bookstore for a signing in June.
CANNOT WAIT!
*GIDDY*
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