MC Roberts (Disappear In Ink) > Recent Status Updates

I feel like this book is moving too fast. She jumped from “I have a good husband whom I’m not sure I love, but I do love in a non-cliché way” to “Maybe he’s a serial killer.” She’s put two and two together and jumped to conclusions entirely too fast. It seems unrealistic.

I feel like Rachel is indeed not very impartial. It’s a sticky situation, but she does seem to be siding with K more when I’d rather it be more impartial reporting. It would make for a more intense scenario.

I do think I like Goldin’s writing style though.

I’m getting things pieced together, and I’m wondering if some of the things are indeed connected. I don’t know this author’s style well enough to know if it’s intentional.

Man, the police really mucked up all the investigations. How did they not see the significance and how everything had a pattern?

A bit triggering, but I’m also on the edge of my seat (figuratively).

For the entirety of the book, I haven’t liked that it’s set in 2001, and now we’re getting closer to 9/11.

This book definitely involves a lot of sleeping with each other, which I’m not sure I’m comfortable with given how Jonathan seems a bit pushy.

“Brad’s planning to sleep on the couch in his office. I guess he’s the winner.”
“What will he win?”
“Oh, no, nothing actually. I just meant he wants to make sure we all know how much harder he’s working.”

I laughed so hard because I was thinking, “Why is he a winner for sleeping on the couch?”

I relate to Annika in so many ways. My goodness, the similarities are wild.

They act like this info is new and profound (at the beginning of the book, they list a plethora of well-researched ways to support the mind/body/soul, but tell you that you’ve probably tried all of them to no avail). However, everything in this book is a thinly-veiled combination of pranayama, EMDR, and bilateral stimulation. Nothing new, repackaged for the low, low price of whatever they’re trying to sell.

I feel this book on an emotional level.

I can’t wait for this book to be done.

Ok, now it’s just weird stuff. “Let me talk to my inner child in my mind’s eye.”

I’ve learned some, but it’s mostly, “We guided her into her BASE-B - you may not even remember the meaning since that was at the beginning of the book - and she started crying! Magically, we had a breakthrough on the same day! See? Our method works!” The client swears they don’t have a problem, then finds a problem that may not have been the main issue - countertransference? Munchausens? People-pleasing?