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Quite a page-turner. The book is interesting in that the reader always knows far more than all of the characters, and this is part of the beauty of it. I read it in a few hours, and it's a great book for a rainy winter day.
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Fairly good book, the story meanered along for a while then ended rather abruptly. A sequel would be interesting, too see where the author takes her characters. I've added her other books to my to read list.
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How to be Lost was done well and quite readable (<3 hours; amazing after just finishing JS&MN to read something in one sitting!). I am just a wee bit tired of reading books about missing children, though. Let's see, there's
The Truth About Celia
The Little Friend
How to be Lost
The Lovely Bones
Case Histories
What the Dead Know
The Stolen Child
Okay, not quite as many as I thought. It seems like every other book these days is about missing children. I guess because that's the worst thing you can imagin ...more
The Truth About Celia
The Little Friend
How to be Lost
The Lovely Bones
Case Histories
What the Dead Know
The Stolen Child
Okay, not quite as many as I thought. It seems like every other book these days is about missing children. I guess because that's the worst thing you can imagin ...more
I just read this for the second time, since we were discussing it for our book group. I liked it a lot. It was a mixture of suspense and character studies and searching. Searching for a lost sister, and searching for your true self.
Amanda Eyre Ward participated in the book discussion by speakerphone. It was wonderful to have her there to ask questions, and I hope that she appreciated the mostly very positive feedback she got from our group.
The story is about a little girl who went missing when s ...more
Amanda Eyre Ward participated in the book discussion by speakerphone. It was wonderful to have her there to ask questions, and I hope that she appreciated the mostly very positive feedback she got from our group.
The story is about a little girl who went missing when s ...more
Above average book group fare about a woman who is obsessed with finding the little sister who went missing years before. I engaged with the narrator and the storyline but had a problem with the secondary characters - I never felt like I knew them. My first impressions of them were almost always quickly proved wrong and I found myself wishing the author had introduced them with something more telling. I also felt like the plotting was little too tidy - a book about how to be lost should not assu
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Oct 29, 2007
Elizabeth
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Dec 20, 2007
CLM
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Eh.
Jun 26, 2008
Rachael
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Sep 23, 2008
Ginny Messina
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Mar 27, 2009
Cindy
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Sep 23, 2009
Angela
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Jan 31, 2014
Meg
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Apr 20, 2016
karen
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Nov 12, 2018
Anna Gaffey
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