Miranda Cowley Heller: The Paper Palace

I picked up Miranda Cowley Heller's The Paper Palace (affiliate link) from the library's free book section with the idea of ​​giving it to my mother to read. Luckily, I immediately went to Goodreads to read the reviews for this book. They said that The Paper Palace is full of child rape and incest.

Elle has a handsome British husband, Peter, and three children. Yet she yearns for her childhood sweetheart, Jonas. Which one will she choose? Definitely the wrong one.

Elle really started to make me sick because of her hatred of cats. White cats in particular make her sick. Well, Elle, you make me sick. Because of that hatred of cats, I hoped that something bad would happen to Elle. It was a vain hope, of course.

How many similar books have I read recently? One where a cheating woman draws lots between two men? What if the gender roles were reversed? Would the book get as much praise?

 

 

Book review: Stephen King's Holly

"The Best of King" - New York Times

"The Worst of King" - some random person online

I had already removed Holly (affiliate link) from my reading list, but I still borrowed it from the library in a panic. The supporting character Holly was first seen in King's Mr Mercedes-trilogy.

After Bill Hodges' death, Holly Gibney works as a private investigator. The mother of a missing young woman hires her to find her daughter. But there are more missing people. Is there a serial killer on the loose?

Holly is full of vomit-inducing propaganda. Of course, a Trump supporter and an opponent of covid vaccines must die, because that person is an evil and stupid person in every way. I hate it when covid is stuffed into fictional works anyway. Hey, hello, fiction is supposed to be an escape from reality.

The book is also literally vomit-inducing. If you can't stand cannibalism, don't read Holly.

I should like Holly as a character because I am a so-called different person myself. But I don't.

Does King write about old people as serial killers because he himself is old?

A completely disgusting work.

 

 

Dan Simmons: Song of Kali

I wanted to read Dan Simmons' book Song of Kali (affiliate link) only because one of my cats was named Kali.

In the book an author goes to India to retrieve a manuscript of a poet who has been presumed dead. Easier said than done. Of course, the family has to be dragged along to get some nice plot twists.

The evil Kali has her own, deadly cult. Kali demands, and Kali takes.

A rather racist book, even in my opinion. India is a dirty and disgusting place, the next step from hell.

This book accompanied me on a train ride. I skipped a lot of the text. I don't recommend Song of Kali to anyone.

 

 

Lisa Jewell: Invisible Girl

I hadn't read anything by Lisa Jewell before. Invisible Girl (affiliate link) is about 17-year-old Saffyre, who had a terrible experience as a child. When her long-time therapist ends the relationship, she feels left with nothing. Then Saffyre disappears. Who is to blame?

The book started off pretty slow, but it kept me in its grip after that.

 

 

Beware of spoilers!!

 

There are surprisinglt many men who mistreat women in the same neighborhood.

The ending of the incel man is unbelievable. Yes, he now realizes what he has done and thought wrong, and everything is forgiven.