On to a lighter topic, we had a major, record breaking rain and flood here in town last weekend. It started off with just rain and then it just kept coming. So that made the ground soft and when I came into to work one day my tree in the parking lot had fallen over almost hitting my Post Office. I will post pictures. Then like I said it never stopped, it got to be where we had a river running through our yard, which soon turned into coming in through our door and flooding our house. We had to take the carpet out and thankfully we live in an Old Methodist Church, its walls are cement so it didn't bother that. We did have to move the TV stand which is VERY heavy and I had popped my pelvis and back out the week before so it was a bitch to move. Finally while it was raining so much out bridge had a flood stage of 13ft and we made it to 30ft. It was up to the side of the bridge running over the road, it made it to the bottom of the train bridge that we have. It also washed out the train tracks and they had to work through the night to get gravel up here from Texas to get the trains running again. It has been a hectic few weeks to say the least.
I just finished reading The Dry by Jane Harper, and OMG is all I have to say. This was the authors first book and man she came out to win. Her writing style kept me from tuned in from the beginning. The way she introduced the characters made you want to know more about them right then but she kept you in suspense until the time came to give you more. I love small towns I mean I grew up in one and still live in the same town, so I know all to well how they are. You can tell one person something and by the time you make it to the end of the street everyone knows. Secrets are the same way, either everyone knows or nobody tells a soul and they take it to the grave. Unless you cant keep it in any longer.
After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead.
Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there’s more to Luke’s death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets.
This book took me two days to read and I would recommend it to anyone. I really liked that even though it was dealing with a murder set in the present time, it went back through the past and answered questions. I wasn't left with questions when I closed the book like I was when I finished In The Woods by Tana French.
I also finished reading Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. I can say that this book took me longer to read than I wanted it too, I really liked it. On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.
I really liked how the author went back and forth with the present time and during the time she was kidnapped. I also like the main character a lot, she went through so much and I wont lie I may have cried at a point to two. She is a strong character and I wish things would have worked better for her in the end, if you read or have read the book you know what I am talking about, I wont spoil it for you. I didn't really see the end coming until I was about 3/4 through the book and I knew there was a reason I didn't care for that character at all. if I say anymore I will spoil it, I can say though that I will be checking out more of her books!
I am getting ready to start The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain. This will be the first book that I have read by this author too so I am excited. *update* I completely finished this book in one day! OMG this book was amazing. I loved it so much. In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound information.
I started this book at work and I finished it about 10:30 last night. I couldn't put it down. When I started it I was pulled in by the author's writing and way with her words. She painted the picture so well, I felt like I was there. I loved Riley from the beginning and even felt a little sorry for her brother Danny. I loved how she didn't just throw everything at you and the fact that the other characters kept letting little things slip. I liked how it went back and forth telling the story between Riley and Lisa, I kind of figured out some of it but not all of it. I can see why she was getting mad at the real estate agents, I mean they were just rushing her and I think it was because they didn't want her to start asking questions that they had tried to hide for nearly 20 years. A lot of people in the book was trying to hide stuff from her and she worked hard to discover what was going on. I think it made me think that we never really know the whole story nor do we every really know someone like we like to think that we do. I would recommend this book to anyone, it was absolutely one of my favorites. I will be looking for more of her books for sure!
I finally used my Barns and Noble gift card from Christmas and my books came in today: I got The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda, Into the Water by Paula Hawkins, and Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen. I can not wait to read them!!
I am working on two "Off To College" baskets for two very special girls that are graduating next week. I will post a picture of them when I am done and what all I put in it. I wish someone had done this for me, I know it would have been very helpful to start out with stuff and not have to buy everything by yourself. I know that they will go far!
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