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In the Woods by Tana French – Review but mostly random thoughts

“A queen in a fairy tale, left alone in her tower to mourn her lost, witch-stolen princess.”

Tana French, In the Woods

Three children go out to play one summer day and hours later, one is found with his sneakers filled with blood and memory loss of the last few hours. Twenty years later, Rob Ryan is a detective on the murder squad and tells no one of his past. But a murder that he is assigned with his partner is eerily similar to the disappearance of his friends when he was a child.

This book was so good for me! I started this in August and took a break for my brain, I just wasn’t into it as much around page 100. But I put it off for a bit and then just picked it back up and fell right back into step with it. I don’t think I was really into mystery before this, but now I’m definitely going to check out French’s next book in this series, The Likeness.

“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a wonderful, unrepentant laziness, the kind most people never know after childhood.”

Tana French, In the Woods

This might be me trying not to be lazy at all, but I think doing things like this make people so creative – even if that’s not the point of this quote in this story. Just the boredom that can lead to amazing creations. I think it’s better to have less plans and boredom on the horizon, because that’s where so many things can begin. I feel myself more willing to clean for longer when I haven’t planned to clean, I grab a book for longer, I’ve doodled or written poetry when the inspiration sparked. And all of that was unplanned, out of boredom. 

Read on.