Monthly Book Review: December 2017

I read 35 books this year. My top 5 of 2017 are:
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Man Called Ove
Breakfast with Buddha
Where’d You Go Bernadette
The Secret Life of Violet Grant

This month’s reads:
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena - this is another variation on the theme that you can’t judge a book by its cover ... things aren’t always as they seem and our secrets and biases keep us from seeing what’s right in front of us. I give it a B-.

The Dry by Jane Harper - a murder mystery set in a drought-stricken Australia town. A man goes to his boyhood hometown for the funeral of his childhood best friend, his wife and son - an apparent murder suicide no one could have ever imagined. But He and the local policeman have a feeling that there’s something else. I give it a B.

Up next:
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
The Map of Heaven by Eben Alexander
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney