#Mindy Mejia

[gardenofbookworms]

week #35 recommendation: bee

Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia

▪︎ thriller novel ▪︎

ten years ago two women died and the last blackthorns disappeared. two years later, maya stark returned to her mother’s cabin and met dr. mehta. eight years after, lucas emerges from the woods and nearly chokes maya to death.

why? because he’s been locked up in congdon, a psychiatric facility, and he needs to get out—like, now. he needs to get back to the boundary waters immediately, and not just because of the hatred of ceilings his father passed down to him. they hold a part of him, something he left behind, something he can’t afford to lose. and maya, as his speech therapist, is going to help him. all he has to do is behave, play his part, and cool it with the assault and escaping tricks. but it quickly becomes clear that that isn’t enough. it’s not fast enough, and the only thing that is is to break out of congdon. maya is possibly the only person who could understand. but is that enough to let him go?

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i saw that coming from a mile away. whenever it’s a doctor-patient scenario you kinda just…know. but i’ll admit, it was built up (for the first half, anyway) really well. not too obvious, just subtle enough so that you can guess what’s coming next. other than that, i liked how the protesters and the media kept coming up throughout the story, albeit being really annoying for our main characters. i do feel like with a situation as controversial as this, it’s impossible to avoid any sort of celebrity status. and as frustrating that may be, it adds a realistic layer to the book. the breakout scene was pretty fun, too. the spray paint was a good idea…hm…

[2headed-disaster]

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tagged by @rimouskis and @yabagofmalk

It's late, but it's happening, yay!

Last Song: So glad you asked, it's GODDAMNITALL by the Wonder Years. I've been going on what I guess you'd call a midwest emo binge lately, and there's something very fun about screaming "MEET ME ON THE FIRE ESCAPE IF YOU'RE COMING TO SAAAAAAVE ME" in my car alone.

Currently Watching: I'm making my way through the TV show "From" but I take frequent breaks because 1) I get emotionally invested in characters and these poor characters are in distress all the time and SO AM I when I watch 2) my job has been kicking my absolute ass lately so when I do have time for tv my thoughts go in the general direction of "what can I watch that's guaranteed to make me happy." As much as I love "From," it is not the right choice for this headspace lol.

Currently Reading: Haven't been reading a ton (see work comment above) but I did recently finish Leave No Trace by Mindy Mejia which was good! It didn't knock my socks off, but it was a quick, entertaining read with a couple of fun twists in there. I think most of my enjoyment was derived from the fact that it took place in Duluth which Duluth! Hey I've been there! The writing will not blow you away, but it's fast-paced and never really boring.

Current Obsession: Trying new things! Specifically, food and drinks! I'm trying to break out of my cooking habits which has been very rewarding! There's been a few recipes that were duds, but I don't let it discourage me the way I did in the past. I also have my standbys for alcoholic drinks, but I've been branching out and trying some local brews and wines and almost all have been great!

I feel a little embarrassed tagging anyone else since I'm so late to even do this, so I'm going to take the cop-out route and say anyone who sees this and who wants to do it should!

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En eaux troubles de Mindy Mejia

Il existe un endroit dans le Minnesota où une centaine de lacs gelés côtoient la forêt vierge. On appelle cette région sauvage les Boundary Waters. Seuls les plus expérimentés osent s’y aventurer. Tout le monde n’en ressort pas.  Après une adolescence troublée, Maya a enfin trouvé sa voie : elle est orthophoniste dans le centre psychiatrique pour détenus de Congdon dans le Minnesota. Grâce au Dr…

[queen-quotatious]

They think I'm brave. The truth is I'm not comfortable unless something's on fire or someone's having a meltdown. I don't know what to do with things that aren't broken. The quiet times . . . it's like I'm just waiting for things to go bad.

Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace

[eandthezs-blog]

No one knows who she really is… Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. It soon comes to light that Hattie was engaged in a highly compromising and potentially explosive secret online relationship. The question is: Did anyone else know? And to what lengths might they have gone to end it? Hattie’s boyfriend seems distraught over her death, but had he fallen so deeply in love with her that she had become an obsession? Or did Hattie’s impulsive, daredevil nature simply put her in the wrong place at the wrong time, leading her to a violent death at the hands of a stranger? Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront…and she inches closer and closer to death.

[emoherauoy]

Go to New York... Although it was my handwriting, the words were hers, whispered in the air all around me, breathing in the land rushing past, and they filled my chest with a buoyant kind of pain, a lover's keepsake that I would carry for the rest of my life, guiding me toward an impossible atonement. ...know that I loved you.

Mindy Mejia, Everything you want me to be

[tragedies-and-dreams]

The Dragon Keeper: A novel by Mindy Mejia — book review The Dragon Keeper tells a very specific type of story. This the third novel I've read by Mindy Mejia and it certainly has a unique premise.

[danielintheyard]

Summer Reading List 2017

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mindy mejia | everything you want me to be

[prairielights]

MINDY MEJIA

February 26, 2017 - 4:00pm Prairie Lights

Mindy Mejia will read from her razor-sharp literary thriller, Everything You Want Me to Be.

[alinefromabook]

Hattie is 17 and has always felt like an outsider in her small hometown in Minnesota. She dreams of the day she graduates from high school and can run off to New York City. Her senior year begins and the school has a new English teacher, a young, married man, who will change her life forever. Peter and his wife have moved back to his wife’s hometown to care for his ailing mother-in-law, a woman who seems to hate him. As his wife becomes more and more involved with her mother’s care, Peter starts to feel like the odd man out, and he misses the vibrancy of their life in Minneapolis. Just a few weeks before graduation Hattie is found dead in an abandoned barn and suddenly the whole town suspects Peter. Will the local police chief be able to unravel the secrets of Hattie’s life and catch a murderer?

I found the mystery in this book to be a fascinating one with plenty of twists to keep you guessing. There is a lot of angst being worked out in this story. Both the teenage variety, as Hattie is straining against her small town life, and Peter’s more adult variety, as he struggles with a troubled marriage and a life that is not fulfilling to him. The author has done a great job in crafting her main characters in a way that makes them appealing to the reader and also draws the reader in to the story. “Everything You Want Me to Be” is a great story and should appeal to a broad range of readers. I highly recommend it!

Find it on Amazon!

[launer2014]

Todos Mienten

Hola Launer@s!!! La entrada del blog de hoy va sobre "Todos Mienten" una novela negra que narra el asesinato de Hattie una adolescente cuya meta es viajar a la ciudad de los sueños Nueva York para ser actriz. ¿Que secretos escondía? ¿Saldrá ahora todo a la luz?

Esperamos que tod@s estéis lo mejor posible en estos momentos.

🎭 Era la actriz perfecta 🎭

[queen-quotatious]

What happens, in the daylight hours, is a bubble forms between you and everyone else, invisible and impenetrable. Everyone on the outside is all the same. They work and they hustle and they complain about what they don't have and then they go home and crawl into their beds and drift away. And you can never be part of them, because something is awake in you that doesn't know how to sleep.

Mindy Mejia, Leave No Trace