The Liars' Club by Mary Karr - I'm not sure why I picked up this 1995 memoir at a Friends of the Library book sale some years back. Maybe it was the award sticker on the cover. The Liars' Club has been sitting on my TBR shelf for a long time, read only because I'm trying to clear that shelf off. It's yet another dysfunctional family memoir, too wordy (320 pages) and boring. I only read as much as I did (the first part, "Texas, 1961," 171 pages, and the third and last part, "Texas Again, 1980," 45 pages) because I also grew up in southeast Texas in the same era, albeit Houston and not "Leechfield," an oil refinery town near Port Arthur which is really Groves, where author Mary Karr was born in 1955 and lived much of her childhood. Not enough references to anything I remember, though, as well as not interesting and not funny. Not recommended.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides - read for local book club - reference in story to Alcestis - did not like
The Raven's Tale by Kat Winters - see also Mrs. Poe - read for local library book club - discussion slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_Ru7zGQZqTLj1oyxyIgCeDShYJf_G9isHDE5rwiTio0/edit#slide=id.ga563108500_0_12
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper - read for local book club - loved this book!
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