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J.H. Moncrieff
Goodreads Author
Born
May 23
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Influences
Stephen King, Elizabeth Berg, early Mary Higgins Clark
Member Since
March 2015
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Return to Dyatlov Pass
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2018
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5 editions
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Those Who Came Before
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2019
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6 editions
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City of Ghosts
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Dragonfly Summer
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Shadow of the Sasquatch
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The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave
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2015
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6 editions
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Monsters in Our Wake
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2017
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4 editions
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The Restoration
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2021
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5 editions
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The Girl Who Talks to Ghosts
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2017
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Temple of Ghosts
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IWSG: Should Ghostwriters Be Less Ghostly? 👻
It’s Spooky Season at last! I’m so excited (can you tell?). Even though we don’t get fall here on the Mexican coast, we do get Día de Muertos, which has to be one of the most awesome traditions ever. I’ll be putting out my ghosts and fake pumpkins and pretending I feel a crisp breeze. I’ll also […]
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Still one of my favorite books, along with anything else by John Douglas. The book is so much better than the TV series, so if you're at all interested in true crime, criminal psychology, serial killers, or profiling, you can't do better than this bo
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Most awesome book I've read in a long, long time. I found it difficult to put down...except when the suspense was so unbearable, it made me uncomfortable. Which happened. Except when it thoroughly creeped me out, so I needed a breather. I've never had ...more |
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I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight:
"Definitely mixed feelings about this. The facts of the author’s father and what he did to their family and others is nightmarish, and the victims are allowed to have whatever feelings they have about it. The most valuable takeaway for me was the real"
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A Hymn to Life:
"Like many people I followed the trial of Gisèle Pelicot's rapist husband and the men he put to rape her. And although I did not doubt that she was raped, there was always that niggling question in my mind, 'How could she not have known?' I had taken "
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A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides:
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Everyone needs to see the faces of the fifty-one rapists. They should be the ones to hang their heads in shame, not me. This was very difficult to read, as it should be. It is not just the story of a woman who suffered one of the most horrendous c" Read more of this review » |
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| I literally could not put this book down once I started reading it, not even to eat dinner. It's horrifying, astounding, and hopeful, all at the same time. I've read tons of memoirs, but never one as honest as Pelicot's--she's unflinchingly vulnerabl ...more | |
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I'm guessing at when I started this book, but I know it took me months to get through it. It wasn't terrible, by any means--just very easy to put down. Some of it I loved. I smiled and laughed and felt seen during those sections, due to my own experim ...more |
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Burn the Haystack: Decode Dating, Torch the Duds, and Make Room for Men Who Matter ― A Guide to Modern Dating
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Totally agree! You pointed out a lot of the same issues I had with it. The hypocrisy was off the charts.
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| While the author has some interesting tips and theories, I found her self-aggrandizing throughout the book insufferable. Yes, we know, you're the smartest person who ever lived. Yes, we know, you're an expert in rhetoric. Yes, we know, everyone loves ...more | |
“Or maybe they enjoy it now, like the lions of Tsavo,” Steven added. “The lions started out killing people for food, but ended up doing it for sport. For fun.”
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
“She screamed. She was still screaming when her tongue was torn out, along with the inside of her mouth.”
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
“I can’t speak to UFOs, although I do think it’s incredibly self-centered of us to think we’re the only planet with intelligent life—using ‘intelligent’ very loosely in regard to our species.”
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
― Return to Dyatlov Pass
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“Yet, every day, I miss the feeling of flying. I will never experience it again. Sometimes, if I run far enough, past my limits, I can beat my legs into numbness, almost replicating the feeling of being a young gymnast on a good day. I can make myself feel numb but heavy. Never light. And I always feel the pain later. I pay the price with sore shins, aching ankles, and "hip pointers" jabbing into my pelvis.
Still, I have a love affair with gymnastics, with that period in my life. Often, I dream dreams of weightlessness. When I feel most disheartened, heavy with the burdens of everyday life, I imagine myself buoyant, floatable. I waft, on my own accord, propelled by my own volition, in effortless control. Completely powerful, resilient, substantial, agile.
I miss it every day.”
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Still, I have a love affair with gymnastics, with that period in my life. Often, I dream dreams of weightlessness. When I feel most disheartened, heavy with the burdens of everyday life, I imagine myself buoyant, floatable. I waft, on my own accord, propelled by my own volition, in effortless control. Completely powerful, resilient, substantial, agile.
I miss it every day.”
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