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The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins

Start date: March 1, 2016

Finish date: March 31, 2016

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: Genre Group Read (Mystery) - Mar 2016
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Apr 25, 2016 Tess Mertens-Johnson rated it really liked it

Rachel is a divorced, unemployed alcoholic. She rides the train to look like she is going to work, and has a fantasy about a couple she sees on her way. They are attractive and seem to be in love. She even gives them names.
We learned not long afterwards they live just down the railway from the home she shared with her husband, which he now shares with the woman he cheated on during their marriage and their baby girl. Rachel was infertile.
The women goes missing. The night she disappears Rachel is ...more

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Dec 27, 2015 Debbie Maskus rated it liked it

Paula Hawkins begins the story slowly like a train leaving the station, but the momentum increases as the story progresses; until the reader completes the story and reaches the home station. The story contains many twists and turns, and Hawkins does an incredible job of hiding the killer and the reason. I listened to the audiobook version and was enthralled with the reading. The story alternates between the many characters, but centers on Rachel, the drunk. The reader's feelings toward Rachel cl ...more

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Oct 20, 2017 Wendy rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobooks, mystery-suspense, 2017

I needed a somewhat creepy (but not terrifying) October read, and on a whim picked up the audiobook on my library Overdrive app. I'm glad I did--the high-quality narration and constant tension held my interest, and I got a lot more leaves raked this week than expected because I had difficulty putting it down. Even though I guessed the solution about half-way in, I appreciated the clever use of the alcoholic narrator's blackouts as a plot mechanic, and for the most part the plot twists based on w ...more

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Dec 17, 2015 Debbie rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-challenge

It took my 2nd attempt to read this book. The first third of it is slow moving and I found Rachel to be pretty irritating. After that it became a read in one sitting story. Great mystery with lots of net resting suspects.

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Oct 28, 2019 Christine rated it liked it

I started off really focused on the story line. Then it became very slow. Once I realized it was a movie, it did help having the visual of Emily Blunt as Rachel.

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