The house itself becomes a character in the novel because of the obsession Maeve and Danny have with it. The Dutch House is the story of the Conroy family and specifically Maeve and Danny the children of Cyril Conroy who purchased the 1922 mansion known as the Dutch house as a surprise for his wife. The book did in some ways resemble Pride & Prejudice, but I found it reassuring rather than annoying to find these similarities. The audiobook provided wonderful narration that was a pleasure to listen to, and reading was a breeze as the story was written in an easily digestible way. I very much enjoyed this story and it gave me some final closure on the Bennet Family. This book does a wonderful job of mimicking the style of an Austen novel, but the modern touches throughout allow this story to be more receptive to today’s reader. We also learn about how the continued comparisons made by her mother to her sisters forced Mary into a place of depression and sadness. This story shows readers how Mary’s intelligence and need to learn new things was a burden to her in a time where educated women were not admired. It tells the story of Mary, the Other Bennet Sister, and her struggles. This is a must read for lovers of Jane Austen. Her body and other parties by Carmen Maria Machado However, this book does redeem the underestimated housewives, and without their husband’s blindness they would not have been able to pull this off. Hendrix uses the 90’s setting in the deep south as an excuse to use the awful treatment of women/wives and people of color as a plot device, I wish these were not features of this book. ![]() You will laugh while reading this, but you will also lock all your doors and windows too. This book is hilarious with a lot of dark humor and a healthy dose of creepiness. Patricia begins her own investigations and while the hard truth she uncovers ruins her life, Patricia works to make sure no one else will get hurt. But when a handsome man moves in next door these Southern Housewives start focusing on his arrival and the strange things that begin to occur after the first sighting of his white van. Patricia’s book club develops a taste for True Crime Novels, and mystery fiction. It follows the lives of Patricia Campbell and her exaggerated and quirky book club as they navigate parenting, marriage, and oh yeah a blood sucking vampire. This supernatural-thriller is set in the South Carolina during the 1990s. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires One thing's for certain: Someone will go to any lengths to prevent Ally from recovering her memory. However, there are still too many loose ends: Why were there bloody tissues in the pocket of her coat? What happened to her cellphone? And could any of this be related to a murder investigation from her childhood? Not sure whom she can trust, Ally hires a private detective who then ends up murdered. There's been tension in her marriage because her husband is pressuring her to have children, so when Ally finds out they had a fight the night before she "disappeared," the root of her memory loss seems clear. Alarmed, she seeks out her therapist, her friends, her husband, trying to put the pieces together. Somehow, she's suffered a dissociative episode, and while the memories of the past eventually come flooding back, she still cannot remember anything that happened over the previous two days. ![]() When Ally Linden arrives at work one morning, she's shocked to find out that she hasn't actually worked at this office for years. Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming." After blood drips from the eyes of the president, mid-speech, and the vice president is infected, the ill-prepared government is driven into an underground facility in Virginia. The Russian leader, of course, blames America, where cities and institutions begin crumbling. In light of the relatively few disease-related deaths in Russia, suspicions arise that the virus was bioengineered by Putin. When attempts at quarantines in Mecca fail and the infected pilgrims return home, they carry the disease all over the globe. The easily transmitted disease, which literally turns its victims blue, is first detected in a refugee camp in Indonesia, "hothouse of diseases." Sent there by the World Health Organization, Parsons quickly recognizes the dangers at hand but not quickly enough to prevent his infected local driver from leaving the camp to join some 3 million worshipers on the annual hajj. The book description says, "As a lethal virus of unknown origin ravages huge swaths of the planet, legendary American disease fighter Henry Parsons heads up increasingly hopeless attempts to control it.
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