I recently finished the book All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s compared to the well-known novel The Girl on The Train.This book is actually a book chosen by the book club I’m a part of, but I’m really glad someone recommended it. The novel is a mystery about the extent a family will go to protect one another. A pair of siblings grew up relatively close in age and shared the same friends in high school. In high school, a tragic accident happened that resulted in the sister’s best friend being missing. Years later, the siblings are grown with their own families but come back together as their Dad is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the hospital. At the same time, another girl went missing. It is told backwards. It starts with present time, then goes back and starts at “15 days before”. When the big event takes place, it then goes to “15 days after” with each chapter getting closer and closer to the day of the big event. There is, of course, love involved and rekindling of relationships but overall, a very good read.
While navigating the text, I noticed that I am the type of reader that loses oneself in the text. I find myself completely consumed by it and forgetting the outside world. I also noticed I am the type of reader that likes to foreshadow future events. After I finished reading, I couldn’t help but talk about the book with my two roommates. At first, I wasn’t a fan of reading the events backwards (since the novel is wrote in this sequence) but by the end of the novel, I decided I would love to read more books in this format. Since I do like to know what happens at the end and foreshadow a lot of events, it was really interesting to have the ending first and work my way backwards to find out what initially happened. Recently, I’ve been reading educational books that help with classroom management so a book that was strictly for pleasure was a nice refresher.
Cognition, Comprehension, and Content 