by Cindy | Feb 2, 2013 | Fiction
Rating: Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn. Crown (2012), 419 pages. Flynn is a writer in the mystery and crime genres—two categories I almost never read. Her latest book, however, was described as a psychological portrait of a marriage—a plot I almost always want...
by Cindy | Sep 26, 2009 | Bad Books, Fiction
Rating: A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick. Algonquin (2009), 291 pages. Goolrick’s novel is set in rural Wisconsin in the early 1900s—a time period and location I am most definitely interested in. And the plot involves St. Louis opium dens, sex,...