Meredith Monday Schwartz

And I,

From the POV of people who were unreliable narrators or unreliable, the lens that you were seeing them through, I just started to get this ick feeling.

Like I didn't have any, at first I was thinking lightness.

I was like, I need some sweetness.

But then I was like, no, no, it's not sweetness that I need.

Although sweetness is fine.

I need some sanity.

I need some saneness.

That's what I need.

And I was reading a bunch of things that were books that were really good, but were made to feel you make you feel a little off base.

The ground, a little unsure of the ground underneath you.

And too many made this reader unhappy.

So I went to see Elizabeth last week and or just a couple days ago, and she handed me an ARC.

that when she first handed it to me, I didn't think twice about it.

But then I got to this ick feeling and I was like, I'm going to read The Reimagining of Thornwood House by J. Lee Johnson.

And if you go look at the cover of that book, Katie,

you are going to say, I can totally see why this felt like the right thing at the right time.

This is about, and I'm going to, I don't, you know, we'll see how it goes.

I'm early days, but it's about this woman who is what's called a land witch.

But for various reasons, including the fact that she has recently adopted a new, a daughter, she decides that she wants to go to this