Book Club: In the Woods by Tana French
Hosted by Rebecca @ Love at First Book and Allison @ The Book Wheel
For the upcoming month of March, we will be reading In the Woods by Tana French.
Goodreads says:
“As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.”
Below is the goal (GOAL, not what you MUST do!) for what you should be reading each week to stay on track with us. You still have time to get a copy of the book if you’d like to read with us!
Week 1: March 3-9 – Prologue-Ch 6
Week 3: March 17-23 – Ch 13-19
Week 4: March 24-30 – Ch 20-End & Final Thoughts
As you finish each week’s reading, go to the blog post and start or continue the conversation! Remember to come back to see if people respond, and help keep the discussion going!
The book is a little over 400 pages, so it’s about 100 pages per week. If you’re late, early, need to skip a week, whatever, no big deal! It’s all about having a good conversation about a book.
Sign up below by posting a comment! If you have a blog or a website you are affiliated with, please feel free to post the link to your website as well!
So excited to begin!
Thanks for reading,
I’m in!
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Woo hoo!!!!
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Yay!
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I’m gonna try to do this! Will we discuss it on this blog?
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Yes! I will post at the beginning of each week a “discussion” page, and then we’ll chat in the comments section.
I’m so glad you are joining!
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Cool!!! I’m glad to be a part of it too!
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I would like to join in as well. Since its set in Dublin it will be my Ireland read for the Around the World Reading Challenge I am doing as well as joining in a discussion with 2 of my favorite book bloggers. Thanks!
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Fabulous!!!! Welcome! 🙂
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Awesome!
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I want to join, Rebecca!!
But I think I will read the book in Spanish, because in English I’m really slow and I have more books to read in English, but this is not a problem for the book club, righ??
The public library of my hometown has the book (it is the only book they have of this author).
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I’m so glad they have it in Spanish!
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You can read it in French if you want! We just discuss it in English! But you can read it in whatever language you want!!!!!
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Obviously, I am joining in and I am SUPER excited! I already know from the people who have signed up that there is going to be great conversation 🙂
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Definitely!!! 🙂
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I’m in, dear sister Allison.
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YAY!!!!
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Woo hoo to Allison’s sister! 🙂
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😀
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I’m in! 🙂
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Yay!!!!!!!
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Welcome!
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I’m excited!
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Yay!!!! Welcome!
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Woohoo! And Rebecca, you should meet up with Blair in DC 😉 She’s my other BFF
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Will do!!! You should get us hooked up through a FB message or something since I’ll be there in 2 weeks!
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I am in and looking forward to it.
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Welcome!
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Haha! I wrote “Welcome” too before I read that you did as well, Allison!!!
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We’re both so polite 😉
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Welcome!
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I’m in! I have this on my TBR so what am I waiting for?
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I think you’ve been waiting for this!
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You were waiting for us to host it! 😛
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Account me in! Just a little, very little, accounting humor.
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Haha. . . kind of . . . .
But you’re counted in!
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funny! and not kind of either, rebecca!!
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We don’t need to give my mom a break! Unless it’s a tax break! (Trying out my own accounting humor, how was it?) 😛
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Pretty good one, Rebecca! I can see where you get your humor from. 8) Like mother, like daughter!
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LOL. That 8) was supposed to be a smiley face with glasses on! You know, because I said I could “see”…Oh well. I’m on my nook so maybe it doesn’t work on this keyboard. It was worth the try. =D
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We do both have glasses, so that works! 😉 Although I mainly wear my contacts. We got waaaay off topic here! 😛
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What a smiley show off! First a wink and then a wide smile. And yes, we are waaaay off topic. It’s been fun, reeeeal fun, but now I promise to get back to reading and getting ready for more serious discussion.
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Do we have to???
I want to get back to reading but I like veering off topic at times!
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Looking forward to it!
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Yay!
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I’m in 😉
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Woo hoo! 😛
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got my book today and ready to get crankin! Excited to read this one, I think it’s gonna be good!
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Woo hoo!!! 🙂
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I just put it on hold and requested to have it sent to my local library. I hope it arrives soon!
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Woo hoo!!!!
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Even if you’re “late,” you can still join in when you do get it! It’s about good book discussion, not doing everything by a certain date!
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I just borrowed it on my nook and am ready to start reading! This is the first official book I’ve borrowed electronically from a public library. (Technically, I borrowed a children’s book as a trial run while I was waiting for this one to become available.) I will also pick up a copy when it arrives though because I love the feel of a “real” book. 🙂
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I love the ease of borrowing e-books from the library. I think that e-readers are great supplemental reads, and you can read books both ways, e and physical!
But I’m so glad you are joining us! You have all week (and to be honest, you can take longer if you need to because it’s all about discussing the book, no matter how long it takes you)!
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I’m in!
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Sounds great!!!!
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I am going to pick it up from the library today and get started! I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up with everything else going on, but I’m going to try!! 🙂
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Steph, it’s totally okay if you don’t stay up to date with us! You can fall behind or catch up or whatever! It’s just about talking about the book, and both Allison and I will be happy to keep discussing it even if you fall waaaaaay behind! 🙂
BTW I’m going to make Allison come back to FL at some point so you can meet her b/c you will love her! And we can totally talk In the Woods when I come visit you soon!!!
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I didn’t realize I had not signed up, but meant to participate all along! It is kind of cool that I didn’t read the first posts when I started the book a little late – I could really get into it without any preconceived notions. 🙂
I love the confusion that Adam/Rob is feeling, wonder more and more as I go along what really happened – 20 years ago and now. I feel like there are hints being dropped, but I am not able to string them together yet to come up with whodunit. That’s a good thing – I don’t want to know! Looking forward to reading everybody’s take.
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It’s okay that you didn’t “sign up” earlier! We will still let you participate. . . I guess. . . 😉
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