It just struck me...

...that for as many times as we think Moxie is doing something crazy (her newest thing is biting and chewing the air), her poor doggy brain thinks the same about us.

For instance, when I started cracking up about something on the internet for a good minute or so, she actually came over and started sniffing me to make sure that I was okay. I love that.

Gone Girl

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

I've hit my inevitable blogging slump. I get tired of writing about every single book I read, don't feel comfortable telling the internet the same client stories I tell D, and am (as you've no doubt discerned) really, really bad at remembering to post pictures of Moxie. (Seriously. Really bad.) She got spayed today, poor thing, poor thing.

I say this to emphasize that this book is so good that I actually want to blog about it. Amy and Nick don't have a very happy marriage, so things get pretty dicey for him when she disappears under mysterious circumstances on their fifth wedding anniversary. (You might read that description and think "That sounds like another trashy murder mystery book in the style of Patterson and Grafton." I know! After I finished bombarding him with plot updates, David made sure to tell me that - just to hurt my feelings, probably). I don't usually read mysteries, but I kept hearing about this book this summer and wanted to know if it was really That Good. 

The consensus is - I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it for several hours after David went to bed. I enjoyed it every time he left, even if it was just to walk Moxie for five minutes. I let out a mental cheer every time David said he was going to go play Minecraft (very unusual - the cheer, not his nerdiness) because it afforded me more time to devour this book. Gone Girl was different from others of its kind because my theory about what happened was not only incorrect, all of my subsequent theories were also way off the mark. I would love a character, then start to doubt her, then loathe her - or hate her, then feel a little sympathetic, and then root for her. I loved how much this book played with my emotions. I can't wait to check out Flynn's other novels to try and get a little hint of that book obsession back.