Cheryl Drury
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Like Lincoln Highway.
I think Lincoln Highway made my best book of 2024.
I try to keep a record of what were the best books, but I haven't been doing that very long.
I read Dead Wake by Eric Larson.
I thought it might be for me because I think I had read, didn't he write Devil in the White City?
And I liked it.
So Dead Wake is about the sinking of the Lusitania.
It's a very sad story.
It doesn't need heightened suspense to make it sadder because it's already a huge tragedy.
And what he did when he wrote this book is he had you follow closely along with several sets of characters
And then partway through the book, half of them die.
And I felt so emotionally manipulated by that.
I never do this.
I threw the book across the room.
I know the room I was in.
It was next to a fireplace.
I thought I might throw it in the fireplace.
I was so mad that he would do this and make me abuse my feelings like that.
That was not respectful.
And I just thought it was manipulative.