Sunday, December 27, 2009

2009 book 272

Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects
This was one of my favorite books of 2006--it totally blew my mind, in part b/c I was expecting something frothy from Flynn, formerly a tv reviewer at EW, and it was so completely dark and unexpected, about a very troubled woman who returns to her hometown to try and write an article about a serial killer attacking young girls. Anyway, it definitely holds up to rereading, though was even darker and crazier than I remembered.

2 comments:

ahartsell said...

Glad to know someone else liked this book! Have you read Dark Places too?

Alicia K. said...

YES--it was one of my 2009 favorites. :)