Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

Just the kind of book I needed to read this week.  Not heavy, not political, not depressing. Just a fast read, a little suspense, some romance, some interesting characters. I actually got the audio book out of the library AND the digital version. Mostly I listened to it as I walked. The narrator and narration were good. Here's the Kirkus review:

In Walsh’s American debut, a woman desperately tries to find out why the man she spent a whirlwind week with never called.
Sarah has just separated from her American husband and is visiting her hometown in England when she meets Eddie. He’s kind and charming, and although they only spend one week together, she falls in love. When he has to leave for a trip, she knows they’ll keep in touch—they’re already making plans for the rest of their lives. But then Eddie never calls, and Sarah’s increasingly frantic efforts to contact him are fruitless. Is he hurt? Is he dead? As her friends tell her, there’s a far greater likelihood that he’s just blowing her off—she’s been ghosted. After trying to track Eddie down at a football game, Sarah starts to become ashamed of herself—after all, she’s almost 40 years old and she’s essentially stalking a man who never called her. But as Sarah slowly learns, she and Eddie didn’t actually meet randomly—they both have a connection to an accident that happened years ago, and it may have something to do with why he disappeared. The tension quickly amps up as the secrets of Eddie’s and Sarah’s pasts are revealed, and the truth behind their connection is genuinely surprising and heartbreaking. The barriers between Sarah and Eddie seem insurmountable at times, and although their issues are resolved in a tidy manner, the emotions behind their actions are always believable. Walsh has created a deeply moving romance with an intriguing mystery and a touching portrait of grief at its heart.
A romantic, sad, and ultimately hopeful book that’s perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes.

Interesting that Jojo Moyes is mentioned. I have never read any of her books, but one of my friends has highly recommended Me Before You. Maybe I'll try it. The kind of read that is warranted right now.

Dare Me by Megan Abbott

This is the 3rd book I've read by this author and I really like her style. This one deals with cheer leading....a topic I don't really relate to at all, but Abbot captures the grit of it so well.
From the NYTimes:

At its core, “Dare Me” reveals something very true about the consuming, sometimes ugly, nature of female friendships. But Abbott is also on to something bigger. Addy describes a girl making out with a boy in the hall, “practicing the telling of the moment even as the moment slips from her.” It is this moment of adolescence that “Dare Me” captures so beautifully, the in-­betweenness, “like a thing arrested between coming and going. Like the second before a crouch becomes a bound.” The story of girls old enough for sex but young enough that time still goes by at a crawl. “That was a long time ago,” Addy says about an event at camp. “That was last summer.”

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

A Pulitzer Prize winner....this was my second try at reading it. It's for one of my book clubs. I did enjoy it and really appreciated the writing but in the end, not really my cup of tea. Not enough story or plot for me.  But I certainly got into his writing, characterization, etc.