Good Girls Lie
Adult Mystery
"The girl's body dangles from the tall iron gates guarding the
school's entrance. A closer examination shows the ends of a red silk
tie peeking out like a cardinal on a winter branch, forcing her neck
into a brutal angle...The last tendrils of dawn's fog laze about her
legs, which are five feet from the ground."
The above excerpt from the very beginning of J. T. Ellison's
Good Girls Lie shows that it is not a book for people who scare
easily. Reading it is like riding the world's biggest roller coaster,
only blindfolded. You never know when the ground is going to drop out
from under you. Any predictions you make may be shattered pages later.
Ash Carlisle, a new student, has just lost her parents to a drug
overdose on her father's part and suicide on her mother's. Still
grieving and trying to move on, she is hiding the tragedy from her new
schoolmates, not wanting to be defined by it...
...Or could she have more sinister motives?
The Goode School, nestled in a small Virginia town, is all about
maintaining traditions and elite status while guiding the daughters of
the rich and powerful toward elite universities and glittering
futures...
...But what about its secret societies and the lengths they'll
go to to keep their practices covert?
Camille, Ash's pregnant roommate, jumps from the bell tower to
her death...
...Or could she have been pushed?
Rumi, who works on campus, is the innocent son of the man who
murdered a Goode student ten years earlier...
...or could he be following in Daddy Dearest's footsteps?
Not to mention how many secrets could Goode's reluctant dean,
Ford Julianne Westover, be hiding from those she is in charge of?
If you desire thrillers of the highest quality you're going to
find Good Girls Lie to be a must read.
On a purrrsonal note, it was quite a weekend.
The weather asserted itself. Saturday's wind and rain storm segued
over into a snow event in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Eugene had
to plow.
We have our tree. Eugene brought it in and put on the lights. I have
started the process of decorating it. One of my favorite yearly tasks.
And now I know it for sure. I have a solid A in statistics. That
class has been a bright shining star in the pandemic darkness. (Jules)
The tree is getting pretty pretty. I haz discovered fruitcake. It is
divine. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to Eugene and to my stats professor,
Craig.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway
Sent from my iPod
Monday, December 7, 2020
Friday, December 4, 2020
23, 2019 to be exact. Anna gave me a ride to Waterville Humane
Society and waited patiently while my new little friend chose me. In
addition to it being two days before Christmas it was Tobago's third
birthday. I think we both got what we wanted the most.
I'll Meet You There
I'll Meet You There
YA fiction
"...I imagine him sitting at home by himself and seeing shit
that isn't really there and just wondering what the point of things
is. I can picture him trying to mow the lawn or fill his gas tank
because the milk in the fridge is expired and him thinking, Why the
hell am I doing this? He's tired and the nightmares won't stop and
nobody understands, they just want him to be like he was before he
left but he can't be, he can't ever go back because you can't unsee
what you saw..."
Josh, quoted above, is contemplating the suicide of his boss'
son, a veteran who had seen too much on a tour of duty. He has
returned from overseas minus a leg, plus a serious case of PTSD, and
carrying a major guilt secret. He's unsure what kind of life he can
have and exhausted from the pressure to morph back into his popular
high self.
"Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in
beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the
fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe
throws us?..."
When Skylar was very young her father died. She's had to take
on a lot of the adult responsibilities of her grief stricken mother.
Fear of mom being unable to manage without her has shadowed her
passionate desire to go away to college. The summer before her escape
things go from bad to worse. Mom loses her job and, instead of
looking for another, starts drinking way too much and cultivating a
relationship with a guy who is bad news.
Josh and Skylar, protagonists of Heather Demetrios' I'll Meet
You There, are working at the same run down motel. Could this
unlikely pair somehow provide salvation for one another?
Read the book and see.
A key topic of this book, returning, traumatized soldiers, is a
very personal one for Demetrios. She comes from a military family.
When she was a child her father served in the Persian Gulf and came
home. "...He was only thirty-one, but he'd lost most of his hair, his
teeth, his weight, and his hearing. He drank too much. Started doing
drugs. He was sad..."
Demetrios wrote I'll Meet You There for her father and other
wounded warriors and for the kids like Skylar who are pushed by life
circumstances into growing up much too fast.
On a purrrsonal note, I hope you had a good week. I did. Actually it
was an eventful week. Eugene went to camp Wednesday morning. He just
got back and went on an errand. Tobago and I partied while he was
out. Statistics was good. I'm gonna miss it over break. I got a
visit from my manager and super cool friend, Anna. (Recall she was
the kind person who brought Tobago and me together last year?) It was
wonderful to have a chance to talk to her. Taking precautions of
course. Then yesterday I got lost in the forest. After awhile it got
scary when I recalled that Eugene wasn't due home for one more night.
Recent bear sightings among other things. To a fattening up for
hibernation bear I might look mmm mmm good. I was so happy to
rediscover the path. A usually 1 hour walk stretched out to nearly
3. I hope you have a great weekend. I know I will Emily just
brought me over a full dozen awesome looking books from Orono Public
Library. Mmm mmm good. (Jules)
My boy hooman is home!!! Finally!!! I missed him. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to Eugene, Anna, Emily, and the
wonderful Orono Public Library staff.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway
Sent from my iPod
YA fiction
"...I imagine him sitting at home by himself and seeing shit
that isn't really there and just wondering what the point of things
is. I can picture him trying to mow the lawn or fill his gas tank
because the milk in the fridge is expired and him thinking, Why the
hell am I doing this? He's tired and the nightmares won't stop and
nobody understands, they just want him to be like he was before he
left but he can't be, he can't ever go back because you can't unsee
what you saw..."
Josh, quoted above, is contemplating the suicide of his boss'
son, a veteran who had seen too much on a tour of duty. He has
returned from overseas minus a leg, plus a serious case of PTSD, and
carrying a major guilt secret. He's unsure what kind of life he can
have and exhausted from the pressure to morph back into his popular
high self.
"Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in
beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the
fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe
throws us?..."
When Skylar was very young her father died. She's had to take
on a lot of the adult responsibilities of her grief stricken mother.
Fear of mom being unable to manage without her has shadowed her
passionate desire to go away to college. The summer before her escape
things go from bad to worse. Mom loses her job and, instead of
looking for another, starts drinking way too much and cultivating a
relationship with a guy who is bad news.
Josh and Skylar, protagonists of Heather Demetrios' I'll Meet
You There, are working at the same run down motel. Could this
unlikely pair somehow provide salvation for one another?
Read the book and see.
A key topic of this book, returning, traumatized soldiers, is a
very personal one for Demetrios. She comes from a military family.
When she was a child her father served in the Persian Gulf and came
home. "...He was only thirty-one, but he'd lost most of his hair, his
teeth, his weight, and his hearing. He drank too much. Started doing
drugs. He was sad..."
Demetrios wrote I'll Meet You There for her father and other
wounded warriors and for the kids like Skylar who are pushed by life
circumstances into growing up much too fast.
On a purrrsonal note, I hope you had a good week. I did. Actually it
was an eventful week. Eugene went to camp Wednesday morning. He just
got back and went on an errand. Tobago and I partied while he was
out. Statistics was good. I'm gonna miss it over break. I got a
visit from my manager and super cool friend, Anna. (Recall she was
the kind person who brought Tobago and me together last year?) It was
wonderful to have a chance to talk to her. Taking precautions of
course. Then yesterday I got lost in the forest. After awhile it got
scary when I recalled that Eugene wasn't due home for one more night.
Recent bear sightings among other things. To a fattening up for
hibernation bear I might look mmm mmm good. I was so happy to
rediscover the path. A usually 1 hour walk stretched out to nearly
3. I hope you have a great weekend. I know I will Emily just
brought me over a full dozen awesome looking books from Orono Public
Library. Mmm mmm good. (Jules)
My boy hooman is home!!! Finally!!! I missed him. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to Eugene, Anna, Emily, and the
wonderful Orono Public Library staff.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway
Sent from my iPod
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