Has anyone read I’m Thinking of Ending Things? It starts as a rather basic story of a girl meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time but then it kind of turns psychological thriller partway through. I don’t really want to say too much to risk giving too much away but I’m not quite sure what to make of it. A movie is being made of it and I’m having trouble imagining how some of it will even work.
I read another Taylor Jenkins Reid book, Forever, Interrupted, while I am waiting for some other ones to come in from the library. It was only OK. The premise is a man dies two weeks after eloping and his widow deals with losing the husband she barely had. I just had a lot of trouble relating to the whirlwind romance. So unless that’s your thing, you can probably skip it.
On the non-fiction front, I’ve been taking a very long time to read Margaret McMillan’s The War That Ended Peace, about the causes of WWI, but it’s generally very good (it’s been taking a long time because it’s long and I’m busy, not because I don’t want to read it). If anyone read Robert Massie’s Dreadnought, it does cover similar ground, with some things better and some not as well. The one area it does better is cover how the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans played into everything. So I’m glad I read it for that if nothing else.