Sooooo! It finally happened! We had our very first book club meeting. It was a great success! It was so fun (and nerve wracking for me personally) to get to meet new people and all talk about a book we read together. It was so nice to hear what everyone took out of the book, and to hear everyone's opinions and feedback. One of my close friends started the club and one of her good friends hosted it at her house. There was yummy food, wine, and lots of laughter. If you are a book nerd and have a few friends who enjoy reading as well, I totally recommend starting a book club. If interested, please feel free to inbox me and I can always share how we go about choosing books as well as our "rules/guidelines".
Girl on a Train
Synopsis:
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
According to the New York Times:
“The Girl on the Train” has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since “Gone Girl,” the book still entrenched on best-seller lists two and a half years after publication because nothing better has come along. “The Girl on the Train” has “Gone Girl”-type fun with unreliable spouses, too. Its author, Paula Hawkins, isn’t as clever or swift as Gillian Flynn, the author of “Gone Girl,” but she’s no slouch when it comes to trickery or malice. So “The Girl on the Train” is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership too.
My General Review (no spoilers:):
Girl on a Train was a great read. Paula Hawkins did a great job keeping you guessing as well as intertwining all the characters. Paula was descriptive enough that a particular scene of the book actually startled me (which I do not think has ever happened to me before). I like to call it "The Window Scene". The only draw back to the book was the jumping around in the timeline. Totally through me for a loop and I found myself going back trying to figure out if I missed something. Over all, I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a good physiological thriller/murder mystery.
"Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis"- Paula Hawkins, A Girl on a Train
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