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Kristy spent her childhood as a Navy "brat" and her adult years first as a service member and then as a Coast Guard wife. A lifelong wanderer and now emptynester, she's set permanent anchor in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband and that most rascally of rascals- her cat Percy. When not plucking away at her keyboard or eagerly devouring every book she can get her hands on; she enjoys theater, beach combing, hiking, wine tasting, and obsessively planning the next journey. ...more

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Kristy McGinnis Once upon a time a woman walked nervously down a long, dark hallway. Passing closed door after closed door, she suddenly came upon an open one- and re…moreOnce upon a time a woman walked nervously down a long, dark hallway. Passing closed door after closed door, she suddenly came upon an open one- and realized it was her teenage sons room and it was full of dirty forks. The end.(less)
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Published on August 03, 2023 08:28
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Kristy McGinnis and 103 other people liked Nikki Lee's review of The Night I Died:
The Night I Died by Anne Frasier
"Alright, I’m going in. It’s NOT going to be pretty. The premise was so promising…. It sounds good right? Is it? Wrong! Absolutely NOT. It appears many others read a completely different book. I’m baffled really.

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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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Brilliant and beautiful.

I did the audiobook version, of which I am so grateful because Meryl Streep was perfection.

As has been mentioned a gazillion times, the play Our Town is woven firmly into this story. this isn't happenstance. While it's the obv
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Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Reminders of Him
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I think that sometimes people are good story tellers, and sometimes people are good writers. Occasionally they're great at both things. Colleen Hoover is a good story-teller. As a fan of redemption arcs, I really liked the premise of this story. I th ...more
" Some comparable reads- Crawdads, We Are All The Same In The Dark, Reminders of Him. So, psychological fiction melded with literary fiction.

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Rabbit Hole
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Fight by Betsy Ross
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An intimate glimpse into the war many veterans face in their own heads if they make it home- PTSD. 22 a day is an oft repeated fact, in this story we see some of those stories broken down intimately. This short, easy read is the first in a series.

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The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne
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" I found this book in my grandparents attic in the 1970s, but it looked very old even then- so I'm guessing maybe 1940s-50s. Boy somehow ends up maroon ...more "
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Summer of '85 by Richard Fellinger
Summer of '85
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A blend of coming of age and literary fiction, this easily-read story pulls the reader into the not-a-distant past. The narrative is told through two timelines, and boy did the '85 parts resonate. I happened to live in eastern PA in the 80s and the p ...more
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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“So bitter is the taste in my mouth, when I remember making that choice.”
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“At what point was it morally reprehensible to bring a life into a chaotic, toxic world?”
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“There is the sanity you feel, and there is the sanity you display. Most people don’t really care about the first one; they just wanted permission to avoid your crisis.”
Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“The words he couldn’t quite say out loud, would spill out in amber, copper, and red from the mouth of his brush. His paintings said I love you. I love you and I won’t leave you.”
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“As humans, our sense of doom is grossly overstated in literature and movies.”
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“The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a guard up at all.”
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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
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