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This Story Might Save Your Life: A Novel
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The Knight and the Moth
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    This Story Might Save Your Life: A Novel

    This Story Might Save Your Life: A Novel

    Tiffany Crum

    A breathless thriller with the soul of a sweeping love story. For fans of Listen for the Lie and The Love of My Life. Best friends Benny and Joy like to say they’ve been saving each other’s lives since the moment they met. Until the day Joy disappears and Benny is suspected of murder . . . Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners with a different “against all odds” survival story, gleefully finding the weird, life-affirming humor in near-death experiences. Since their first episode on Joy’s experience with severe narcolepsy, they’ve been the best friends everyone wants to befriend—and thanks to the meticulous management of Joy’s husband, Xander, they’ve built a lucrative empire. The problem is, their next survival story may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy and Xander’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the couple’s disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of Joy’s memoir. Benny is desperate to find them, even when the police soon zero in on him as their prime suspect. Millions of devoted listeners think they know the “real” Benny and Joy. But as the hours tick by, and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets their favorite famous BFFs have hidden from the world—and from each other. "Both a riveting mystery and a love story, This Story Might Save Your Life is one of the best thrillers I’ve read this year." —Amy Tintera, bestselling author of Listen for the Lie “A heart-pounding thriller and a heart-melting romance, this is the most compelling novel I’ve read in years.” —Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author of It’s a Love Story “I truly loved reading This Story Might Save Your Life. The pace was terrific, and it was so smart and engrossing. The pages practically turn themselves in this nuanced thriller. I couldn't put it down!” —Nina Simon, bestselling author of Mother-Daughter Murder Night

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  • Yesteryear

    Yesteryear

    Caro Claire Burke

    Thoughts from 33% (page 130) - patriarchy boomerang
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    Amen to “the reader should understand how unreliable Natalie is as a narrator” - so many people are taking her literally 😭

  • Yesteryear
    Sep 04, 2026
    YesteryearCaro Claire Burke
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 5.0
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    Okay, okay. I'm going to admit I was suffering for the middle of the book. But the last quarter was so good, and the hook was there, the construction of all and everything.

    This is not Kindred. Comparing anyone but Toni Morrison to Octavia Butler is crazy work. If you follow someone like that in booktok, that person doesn't read. They are like Natalie.

    There's a little tiny bit too much of Ruby Franke and the eight passenger controversy in some parts, but art imitates reality. The result has enough tact, so that didn't bother me. However, this book relay a lot in the idea that the reader should understand how unreliable Natalie is as a narrator. If you don't get that, you are going to take everything at face value and lose a lot of the greatness of the craft process. I'm satisfied. I wish I didn't knew anything about the book before reading. I'll probably re-read it in the future.

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    Is it not in the bottom section that says “other books in reading that day”? If not, do your read dates start before yesterday?

  • Help logging audiobook

    I’ve been listening to Morning Star and I forgot to log progress yesterday. When I updated progress I updated today instead of yesterday’s progress. Now when I try to update my reading progress for yesterday it won’t show Morning Star, which is the only book I’m tracking as an audiobook, but shows all other books I’m reading as page count updates. Has anyone experienced this or know how to get around this so I can update yesterday’s audiobook listening?

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    I read this when it first came out and there were less than 10 posts in the forum, now I have to go back and read them all!!