The Fly Catcher, Kendra’s Flip House, & What I’m Reading

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It’s pretty hard to sleep in the morning when you have a cat jumping back and forth on either side of your head. Ivy apparently had cornered a fly and possibly wounded it. It was above my headboard, and she couldn’t figure out how to reach it.

Finally, I just got up. It was probably just a matter of time before she ended up on my face.

Right now, Ivy is rolling around in the kitty crack I just gave her on the top level of her castle tower, where she looks out on her world from above.

Kendra was with various contractors in the flip house’s yard yesterday afternoon when a neighbor walked into the backyard where they were working.

She told Kendra she lived in the neighborhood, and a friend from out of town wanted to move nearby. The neighbor wanted to know the asking price of the house.

The Flip House:

Kendra said she looked around her at the yard, all dug up, and told her that if she’d come the day before, it would have been about $150,000 cheaper.

What you see in that square will be a new bedroom and bathroom.

She’s also knocking down a wall to make the little kitchen more spacious. She always uses one wall for her “statement wall,” where she does something a bit different.

I am reading The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn.

It is a psychological thriller about a woman, a psychologist, who has agoraphobia and has become a recluse in her home in New York City. She spends her time watching old movies, drinking wine, and spying on her neighbors with her Nikon camera zoom lens.

Her life has been upended. The plot teases the reader about a traumatic event that culminates in Anna’s downfall. This led to the temporary closure of her practice and to her and her family being separated when her husband and young daughter moved out.

Then, gazing out her window one night, Anna sees a neighbor she’s just recently met being stabbed. She calls the police. They bring the couple living in the house over to talk to Anna.

A Different Woman:

But this isn’t the woman Anna met. Jane had sat right here with her a few days ago, getting to know one another and playing a game of chess.

These people act like she’s lost her mind. But she knows she saw Jane getting stabbed. Not this Jane, but the Jane she met previously.

She isn’t imagining this, is she? Is she now in danger as well?

This one is a nail-biter, keeping you guessing from beginning to end. I’m about halfway through the book, and I learned that it’s being made into a movie.