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GILLIAN FLYNN'S GONE GIRL
CHOSEN BY KATRINA MONROE
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When did you first read Gone Girl?
I'd already read and fallen in love with Flynn's other novels, Sharp Objects and Dark Places. They are part of the group of a few novels I enjoy reading over and over. So, I was looking forward to Gone Girl's release. I read it the day after it came to my door (pre-ordered on Amazon, best thing ever).
Why is it your favourite book?
Gone Girl is one of those thrillers that really leaves you guessing. Unlikable, unreliable narrators, a murder (or is there?), and a surprise at every turn of the page. What's not to like? I watch crime dramas almost obsessively and try to predict the outcome. I do the same with thrillers. While reading Gone Girl, I was wrong at every guess. It made me think. Question everything I read. It was fabulous.
Do you have any memories associated with it?
I feel like if I answered this question, I'd be incriminating myself.
Share your favourite quotation from the text.
"I am a thornbush, bristling from the over attention from my parents and he is a man of a million fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them."
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Katrina Monroe's short stories have been featured in Open Book Toronto, Shadowbox Magazine, and the YA anthology, Unlocked. She is a contributor and editor for the fiction writers' community and e-zine, On Fiction Writing. She lives in St. Paul, MN (dangerously close to Prince, crazed Mall of America shoppers, and the occasional moose) where she slaves over a hot laptop on writing-related articles, book reviews, and her WIP, REAPER. Follow her on twitter at @authorkatm.
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