Good Summer Read

For another can’t-put-it-down book, try Gone Girl by GillianFlynn. It’s the story of a wife gone missing and is told in alternating chapters. We get the husband’s perspective as each day of the disappearance ticks by and he, of course, is the prime suspect. We also get to read entries from the wife’s diary starting from five years prior to her disappearance. There are a number of twists and turns – enough to make you want to stay up late reading. In the end (perhaps the last 10%), however, it felt a little like a horror film where the character you thought was dead just keeps lunging out of closets. But, that last little bit doesn’t preclude me from recommending it as a fast, fun, summer read.

Read the NY Times review of this book

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