Ashley Cornelius

And that is a very Kristen Hanna thing that I noticed with her also.

Like, so there is a level of like, I want to feel like the really sad events are critical to the story, a natural result of like a character being real rather than just a,

And now they're going to get killed so that you will feel very sad.

So I recently read Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughey.

And that one has a lot of drama and mystery when the woman is washed up on shore on this very remote island.

And yeah, there's a lot of mystery about why she's there and what

has happened with this family of caretakers on the island.

Again, great nature scenes that I just loved.

And at the end, there's this very dramatic moment that I would just want to talk to everybody about, but I did feel like in the end that it made the book better to have that type of ending.

And then I'm also a very big fan of Rainbow Rowell.

So I just recently read Cherry Baby, and that was a very fun reading experience.

And then I also read What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, which the first part of it takes place.

It's a character who is...

150, 200 years in the future.

And he's researching this event that happens with what would be our modern day.

And he's trying to figure out what happened.

And he's using all of their social media and text messages, all the digital imprints that the people involved have left.

And then the second part is...

that person that he's been researching their perspective of what happened for this mysterious event.

And it was super intriguing.