The Book Bag: Dear Child

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Monday, October 5, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? October 5, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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How can it be October already? The days are getting cooler, which is going to put a damper on our socializing at a distance outside. I'm not sure what we are going to do this winter when we can't get together with family and friends. We are being very careful during this COVID crap so we may just have to hibernate until Spring. How are you going to handle the cold weather and visiting?

Take care. Stay safe and healthy everyone.

And remember to wash those hands!!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week.

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Any Luck at All
(Asheville Brewing #1)
by A.R. Casella & Denise Grover Swank

The Unfinished Garden
by Barbara Claypole White
Narrated by Ana Clements and Paul Heitsch

What I recently finished

Blue String
(Blue Mountain #4)
by Tess Thompson

This is my first book by this author. I need more!

Dear Child

by Romy Hausmann

Pub date 10/6

You can read my thoughts here.

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What I am going to read next

Evening in the Yellow Wood

by Laura Kemp

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Friday, October 2, 2020

Dear Child by Romy Hausmann ~ My Thoughts #DearChild #NetGalley

Dear Child

Dear Child by Romy Hausmann

Print and e-book, 352 pages

Expected publication: October 6th 2020 by Flatiron Books

Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning thriller from one of Germany's hottest new talents.

In a windowless shack in the woods, Lena and her two children live a life that follows the rules set by their captor, the father: Meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. He says he is protecting them from the dangers lurking in the outside world.

One day Lena manages to flee, but the nightmare continues. There is the question of whether she really is the woman named "Lena," who disappeared without a trace fourteen years ago?—she has the distinctive scar, but the family swears she isn’t the girl they lost. The police and Lena's family are all desperately trying to piece together a puzzle that doesn't quite seem to fit. And it feels to Lena as if the tormentor she fled still somehow wants to get her back.

Dear Child is told from three points-of-view: the woman who escaped and is coming to terms with life outside the shack; the missing Lena’s father, who would do anything to get her back and is becoming more and more unhinged; and the daughter raised entirely in that isolated world, a little girl with Asperger’s and a photographic memory who may know more than she’s letting on.

Twisty, suspenseful, and psychologically clever, this captivating thriller, which starts where others end, has all the ingredients of a breakout hit.

My thoughts about Dear Child ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First lines—"Student, 23, missing in Munich. Munich (LR) - The Munich police are searching for clues relating to the whereabouts of Lena Beck, 23, from Munich-Haidhausen."

This book drew me in from the very first sentence and had me racing through the pages. I was taken on a rollercoaster ride all the way to the amazing ending.

The story, told in three different points of view, had me confused as to what was really going on. Who was the 'bad guy' and what was the truth? As the author weaves and then unravels the story of Lena, I found the answers to my questions. Honestly, they were not at all what I expected them to be. I love that in a story—when the author takes the story to a place that I had not seen coming.

Dear Child is the debut novel for this author and she hit it out of the park. This is one that you just have to read! I can't wait to see what Romy writes next!

I received a copy of Dear Child from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.

About the author

Romy Hausmann was born in the former GDR in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son Romy has been working as a freelancer in TV. Dear Child is her thriller debut. Romy lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart. ~ Amazon

Connect with Romy

Goodreads | Amazon

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Monday, September 28, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 28, 2020

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This is two week's worth of reading. I was on vacation in The Black Hills last week and didn't get a chance to get a post ready for last Monday. I didn't get in as much reading as I had hoped to but what I did read were books that have been on my TBR pile for quite awhile and ones that I've really been wanting to read. I threw them in my bag and ignored all those other books that I 'should have' been reading. Sometimes ya just gotta do that, right?

I have to share a couple or pictures from our vaca. We drove through the Wildlife Loop in Custer State Park and saw masses of buffalo. It took us about 2 hours to get past all of them but it was such a great experience, seeing them so close. They are such majestic, beautiful creatures.