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Book review! Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams.

It’s been several months since Lena’s twin sister Cambry allegedly leapt to her death from Hairpin Bridge and Lena has her suspicions that the story she was told was not the truth. Determined to find out the real reason for her sister’s death, Lena goes out to the bridge with the last man who saw her alive.

Sooo I loved No Exit by this author and recommended it to everyone I knew who wanted an engrossing thriller. I read that book in two sittings. Hairpin Bridge was also really compelling but I read it slower, over a few days. I loved the action, but it wasn’t as suspenseful as his previous work. No matter! I loved the way this story reconstructed Cambry’s last hours and had us guessing with all the twists and turns. I would definitely recommend this one for people who want to get engrossed in a not-spooky thriller!

I can’t get you out of my head… Who says boo

I can’t get you out of my head…

Who says book promo has to end when the book is (checks calendar) one year and two weeks old? Truthfully, I just got this Kylie Minogue song stuck in my head and then *had* to redo the cover for her 2001 album, Fever.

But instead of a microphone, I’m holding a copy of my book, THE UNRAVELING OF CASSIDY HOLMES 😂

Stay tuned for a making-of reel that I’ll post soon!

It’s #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and I couldn’t

It’s #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and I couldn’t let it pass without saying something. My debut novel, THE UNRAVELING OF CASSIDY HOLMES, deals with the titular character’s depression and suicide. I was depressed when I wrote it. I constantly asked myself WHY. I had a good life. I was surrounded by loved ones, I had a business that was doing well, I worked out and took my vitamins. But I was still inexplicably down all the time. It didn’t seem possible to exist like that for so long. I couldn’t see a future; my life was reduced to tunnel vision where all I could do was try to get through a day and hope the next was better.

I talk about this a lot, but maybe not enough. Therapy and medication has helped me so much. I admit I held off on it until I finished writing CASSIDY, because I felt I needed to be where she was mentally in order to write an authentic book. But once that draft was done, I was immediately googling therapists in my area. I knew I needed to talk to someone about how I felt. Life could not go on the way it had.

I know I am lucky. I caught and corrected the course — that had been long overdue — and I had the means to take control of my mental health (I know I’m privileged that my therapist was out of network but I was able to pay her anyway). I hope for a better world where mental health access is free and easy. If you’re struggling, I know it’s not easy to hear, but stay. Please stay. Things can get better.

[ID: a photo I took of the northern lights in Iceland with a tree in the foreground. The second slide is of Elissa, a 30-something year old Asian American woman, with a tear-stained face, taken in 2018.]

Same dress pattern, done 2 ways. First is @riflepa

Same dress pattern, done 2 ways. First is @riflepaperco fabric, the second is a bedsheet that I ice-dyed with @dharmatradingco procion dyes in navy blue and shiitake mushroom. I love how they both came out!

[id: Elissa, an Asian American woman, is wearing a dress with a boatneck and pleats. The first two images are of her in a rose garden pattern dress and the second two images are of her in a tie dyed looking dress. She is standing in front of a bookshelf wall.]

Anyone else’s nightstand look like this? I start

Anyone else’s nightstand look like this? I start a book, realize my attention is wandering, start another, etc, until I finish one. Then I go back and finish the others. Currently I’m in the middle of:
📕 Loveless by Alice Oseman
📗 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
📘 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (reread) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
📙 The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta

Don’t even get me started on all the books on my ereader that I’ve gotten 2% into..!

But Ace of Spades is due back to the library tomorrow so I need to finish it today! How about you?

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