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the e-mails and web comments on the mother angelica story keep rolling in. the following is a quite interesting follow-up:
"found your hot dog message fun. Are you planning to use the message in a mystery book sometime. Actually I knew her when I was in high school. Her mother and my mother were good friends. In fact my mother used to direct the lawn parties which provided them with seed money. At about that time I remember they developed fishing lures. After leaving for college I never saw her again. I read that she had started a monastery in Alabama. then there is the Television network." j./s/. canton oh
and another one from s.h. also canton (or north canton?) "Ah, divine coincidence keeps me a believer. Very enjoyable story! Thank you for sharing, Audrey!"
BOOK
Gone Girl by gillian flynn is the read-by-the-pool book everyone is talking about this summer. and with good reason. told in alternate chapters by two unstable narrators, this he-said/she-said novel will give any reader a few happy hours. and what more can we ask from any escape literature?
flynn asks her readers for a serious lapse in logic, which i think most readers are willing to grant her until the absurd ending. but i have been trying to think of a different way to end the novel, and it's not easy. to be completely logical would be to take all of the fun and madness out of the story.
without giving anything away because i think any discriminating reader has figured the story out after a chapter or two (except for that darn ending again), the story takes place in carthage missouri, where two manhattanites have retreated due to financial problems. the wife amy disappears, leaving clue after clue that points to her husband nick's guilt as her murderer. we all know he didn't do it, but the police are sure he did. toward the end, there is an improbable sort-of kidnapping of amy and an impossible (who get into bed with a known murderer?) end.
most people though will be willing to trade logical thinking for a mainly enjoyable plot.
the book was published by crown publishers. hard cover on amazon is $33.99. get a paper back. better still, borrow the novel from your local library. it is 415 pages.
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