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The Next Time You See Me - September 5, 2014
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Couple of thoughts:
15% in "At last his steps became shorter and faster, and then he was walking his back legs forward and hiking up his bottom end, watching Wyatt over his should again suspiciously - the look had always struck Wyatt as suspicious, anyway, and made him laugh, but not lately, not since last week - and then the dog was finished ... "
This sentence just stuck out for me, are we being
I'm also struggling with the kids storylines a bit, they are supposed to be 13 right? Reading older to me.
Despite that, I'm intrigued and wanting to read more.
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I had something similar happen to me at school (on the school bus rather than the cafeteria) and it hit hard with me.
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I just downloaded it. Am I too late?
Whats the ending date? Its been a long time since I did buddy read with you guys
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Okay. I'm going to start reading. Hello everyone!
Kristie wrote: "There is no end date. You are both welcome to join. Lynn is a much faster reader than I am, so you have plenty of time. :)"Okay then :)
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I'll start it tomorrow :)
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Me me :) Just started it. I am finding it slow to read but its gripping and interesting too.
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I do have this book on my TBR but can't see myself getting to it until at least October - look forward to hearing what others think about it though.
Kristie wrote: "I am! I just started the new job Monday, so I have had no reading time, but I'm trying...slowly. Hopefully, I'll make some progress tonight."Good luck Krisitie, my life is changing too so I can understand what you are going through.
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I just started this last night. Only one chapter in. I feel so sad for Emily and I remember how horrible it was to be 13 and unpopular.
Yeah me too. And I felt like she was a bit disturbed character? Not some one you'll like to idealize
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I also feel bad for poor Emily. She seems to have no one to really fit in with. It's difficult enough to be a 13 year old girl, but being the unpopular, picked on kid is just horrible.
I found it interesting how the author linked the characters. So far, I like the way it is woven together and the characters seem fairly interesting. I'm looking forward to reading more, quickly I hope!
Yes, I find it interesting too. I don't read synopsis off the book and I thought it would be a teenage love story but its more than that. And I am dying to know what does this title implies to
I'm 1/2-way through, and I don't really see it as a mystery or even a thriller. It's more of a domestic tale.I do like the way it is structured, too. I like Emily. She reminds me of me in a lot of ways. A great reminder of just how bad middle school could be.
The band director made me laugh. I was in marching band in high school and I'd hate to think he was destroying his family life just to make our lives miserable.
Every one in this town seems to interact with every one else.
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I have to totally agree with there.
Kristie wrote: "So, I fell a bit behind on my reading, but I'm hoping to catch up soon. Starting reading this one again and I'm only on page 73, but I can't believe that [spoilers removed] I'm curious how this is ..."I am having the same suspicion. He doesn't seem to be related in the story otherwise. I am almost halfway through this book. Its hard to read fast with Quantum physics bubbling in your head. I hate interviews :/
Hope to finish this up today.
I have just started really getting into it about 50 pages in. It reminds me a little of Jane Eyre, except I don't see Emily as a heroine. I keep wondering where they are going with this.
Yeah, I am half way through it. I can't see how its gonna end
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I have to totally agree with there."
Thinking about this more I have to say that the book has been compared to Gone Girl, I think because of the missing person and horrible characters but I think it's more like The Casual Vacancy
It's nowhere like GONE GIRL. For one thing, I'm enjoying it. For another, the characters are likable.
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I agree, @Kristie. I'm really enjoying the book. But it seems to be more about the characters and life in a small, insular town. I don't know if I'd be friends with these charactets, @Lynn. But they all seem very sympathetic to me. Though I disagree with many of their actions, but they all seem to have some redeemable characteristics.
Emily, the schoolteacher, the band director, the nurse, Wyatt, even Christopher are sympathetic. Of course, I'm not done yet. Hope to get more read today.
I'm not seeing the Gone Girl connection either. I didn't read Casual Vacancy. I'm not finding the characters all that likeable either, but I have to say they are believable. Small town mentality. I like the writing style and everything. I'm not sure why I seem to be dragging myself through this. Does anybody else feel that way? I'm only about 150 pages in.
I'm not sure I like them. But I do find them sympathetic. I didn't find the characters in Gone Girl sympathetic. Or believable, for that matter. I could feel for these characters. Who doesn't know someone like Sam Austen? Who doesn't know that school faculty operate that way? Who didn't know children like that in middle school? It wasn't the best read of the year. But, I did find the book satisfying in that I sympathized with the majority of the characters.
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I haven't read Gone Girl. I'll read it next month so I can't say if both books are same or not. But I liked this book and like everyone says the characters weren't likeable. I liked Ronnie among all, I don't know why but I found her better. And I felt really sorry for Dale.
Dale? I didn't. He brought it on himself. If anyone, I felt sorry for Emily and then Wyatt.
Wyatt just grossed me out at the end. I couldn't get what he was like. Did he have a pshycological issue?
I haven't read this one yet, but will add it to my list of "To Read". I just started reading "Gone Girl". I was curious after seeing the trailer on TV. So far, it's kept me interested, and guessing. No spoilers here!
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Rida wrote: "Wyatt just grossed me out at the end. I couldn't get what he was like. Did he have a pshycological issue?"I'm sure he did. But he was so sympathetic. I felt so sorry for him. But Sam Austen, I so wanted him to be guilty. He was such an ass.
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Book Synopsis
A debut novel by award-winning author Holly Goddard Jones, about the people surprisingly connected to the discovery of a dead woman’s body in a small town.
Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn’t have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery—a choice that begins to haunt her.
Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise, Susanna kept a neat house, a respectable job, a young daughter. But when Ronnie goes missing, and Susanna realizes that she’s the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sister’s fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value.
The Next Time You See Me is the story of how one woman’s disappearance exposes the ambitions, prejudices, and anxieties of a small southern town and its residents, who are all connected, sometimes in unexpected ways. Emily; Susannah; Tony, a failed baseball star-turned-detective, aspiring to be the county’s first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he can’t change and by a love he doesn’t think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves.