Fairest of All
The villain origin story of the wicked Queen in Snow White.
One Woman’s War
“Deceiving the Nazis was one thing, deceiving her husband was quite another.”
Broken Bread
“God cares much more about how we eat than he cares about what we eat.”
Sparkly Green Earrings
“Every mother knows the reason Robert Frost took the road less traveled is because he wasn’t traveling with children who needed to go to the bathroom every thirty minutes.”
A Killer’s Code
“If you’re watching this, I’m dead. And others will be soon if you don’t act fast.”
Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full
“God made me a mother because he jealously and rightly desires praise for his own name, and this is how he saw fit to do it. God aims to glorify himself through my family, and we all get carried along by his grace.”
Like Mother, Like Daughter
“I did what I do best: I made the problem go away.”
The Vanishing Half
“You can escape town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
This was a rare ‘did not finish’ book for me.
2024 in Review
All the 79 books I read this year!
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
“A woman covered in blood who doesn’t remember how it got on her. And a man decapitated… by a piece of paper.”
Recursion
“What do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change? What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
Crying in H Mart
“Within 5 years, I lost both my aunt and my mother to cancer. When I go to H Mart I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
Tactics
“If we disqualify legitimate discussion, we compromise our ability to know the truth, and error can thrive without restraint.”
Thieves’ Gambit
“Know your exits, pick the best one. That was my thing, wasn’t it? Always knowing the best way out.”
The Anxious Generation
“It is very difficult to construct a meaningful life on one’s own, drifting through multiple disembodied networks.”
The Fury
7 friends on an isolated Greek island and one of them ends up dead! The narrator tells us this is a whydunit, not a whodunit…
Moonflower Murders
A classic whodunnit with the same book within a book style of Horowitz’s previous book, Magpie Murders.
When You Pray
“Prayer isn’t about saying what we think the Lord wants to hear from us. Prayer is an honest, intimate, and intentional reaching for the Lord in truth, in reality, in the actuality of our lives as they are.”
A Flicker in the Dark
“Monsters don’t hide in the woods; they aren’t shadows in the trees or invisible things lurking in darkened corners. No, the real monsters move in plain sight. They lived among us.”