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I haven’t read a Sophie Kinsella book in probably over a decade and after her passing in December, it checked out some of her books I hadn’t read yet. As much as I like her Shopaholic series, I always enjoyed her stand alone novels too.

The protagonist often writes authors about books she’s read of theirs or shares what she’s reading with her friend. (I wonder if she had Goodreads, heh.) she wrote to Diana Gabaldon and told her she read “Outlander” in two days. There’s no way! It took me a month (probably more) to read that!

I’m really enjoying this book. I’m not done with it, but I’m already recommending it.

I do find it interesting that the protagonist writes “post script” instead of just writing P.S. like most people do. It seems very formal which I guess fits her character.

So this whole book is a bunch of letters and e-mails (hence the title). I think the last time I read a book that was like this was “Bridget Jone’s Diary” (but those were all diary entries, duh) and that was a looooooooooong time ago.

One of the main characters put her mother in a retirement home called Shady Oaks. Tell me you watch “The Golden Girls” without telling me you watch “The Golden Girls”.

I’ve never heard of the saying “Promises are like pie crusts, made to be broken” (maybe it’s a regional thing?), but I like it.

A couple are about to go on a road trip halfway across the country. The husband says he’ll drive the first shift and the wife is all, “okay, but I’m picking the music.” The hell? I always thought the music was the drivers choice! Since they’re driving!

Mom just started this book today for her book club. (I’m at my parents’ for Christmas.) I think this is the first time we’ve read the same book at the same time.

I hate the character of Charles Bruno so much, but I guess we’re supposed to. He literally says to the other guy’s (whose name is Guy, heh) wife, “Not that I’m a suspicious character, by any means!” Dude, the fact that you said that makes you 1000% suspicious!

One of the main characters is 29 and he’s described as “hardly 30”…wouldn’t they mean almost 30?

Also, i feel like this book could easily be 100 pages less. There’s a lot of rambling inner monologue that just goes on and on

Even though I know this is a classic murder mystery and even though the plot is intriguing, man is this book a slog to get through! I guess there’s a reason why I hardly read books that are over 50 years old!

There’s a mention of “The Talented Mr Ripley” which is amusing because when I got this book from the library, I also checked out a Patricia Highsmith book (“Strangers on a Train”….which was mentioned in another Peter Swanson book I’ve read (“Eight Perfect Murders”), so he must be a fan).

Okay, I understand now. The first part of this book had a moment that reminded me of something similar that happens in “The Kind Worth Killing”.

A woman thinks her (newish) husband might be a serial killer so she asks a friend to take investigate for her. The book summary says what she uncovers is “ more perplexing and wicked than they ever could have expected” and I’m thinking, what’s worse than your spouse being a serial killer??

Omg… I wish I remembered if the British woman Featherleigh was in the Netflix show… I don’t think she was… she was the one who was supposed to die, not Meriritt, but in the show Merritt was very much targeted for a reason by a certain someone. Her death in the book is accidental? I’m not sure why they changed it?

I feel like Abby (the Dakota Fanniny character) is barely in the book. She’s been mentioned a few times, but the last time I remember her being in a scene was near the beginning.