That Bookish Girl

07/05/2025

So excited for this!

Meet DCI Carl Morck, your new favourite detective. Dept. Q, starring Matthew Goode, arrives on Netflix May 29.

23/04/2025

13/01/2025

“I am convinced that if I made a map of my daily micro-movements, it would reveal that my husband is the sun around which the majority of my movements gravitate.”

The story is told from the wife's point of view. She's 40 years old, beautiful, successful, and utterly obsessed with her husband of 15 years.

Everything he says or does is recorded in her color-coded notebooks, painstakingly reviewed and analyzed. Every moment spent with him is orchestrated so she gets to spend more time with him, not the kids. Even picking out a lamp is thoroughly mulled over, so the light flatters her face when she sits on the sofa.

But after 15 years, she wonders how long she can keep doing it. What happens if she slips? What if she forgets to color her hair or put away the notebooks or her little box of secrets?

One day, she does something completely out of character and realizes she may have gone too far.

I like beautiful, interesting, and unhinged female characters. So, of course, this book caught my attention right away. While the writing is not bad, and the book is quite short (272 pages), the overthinking, wild imaginings, and dark musings became too repetitive.

I really just wanted to get a better understanding of the narrator. I wanted more plot. Instead, we get that hastily written epilogue that was supposed to shock readers and explain why they are the way they are.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5

19/12/2024

19/12/2024

04/12/2024

We can't wait to sink our teeth into this.

21/11/2024

Anne Hathaway will play Verity Crawford in the upcoming on-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel .

17/09/2024

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy stars in and produces “Small Things Like These” based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.

Watch the trailer: https://trib.al/7gjo2U8

10/09/2024

Wow!

10/09/2024

Just finished the book and I think it’s amazing. One of my best reads this year. Also so excited to learn it has been picked up to be adapted into a TV series!

UCP is teaming with Side Naegle, Jenna Bush Hager and Ali Krug to develop a series off of Chris Whitaker's new novel All the Colors of the Dark.

09/08/2024

Happy Book Lovers Day!

20/02/2024

Based on the Liane Moriarty book

Apples Never Fall is streaming March 14 on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3SUwRI4 Synopsis: Based on Liane Moriarty’s New York Times bestselling novel, Apples Never...