Finished: Dark Places (Flynn) My third Gillian Flynn book. Not quite as good as the other two, but still a nice page-turner. And, it was really a story that made me sad at the poverty and tragedy of the Day family. Libby Day, the only surviving member of a family who is slaughtered one night, apparently by her 15 year old big brother, Ben, is living a meager existence physically and emotionally 25 years later when a group who believes her imprisoned brother to be innocent, wants her to recant the testimony she gave as a 7 year old which helped put Ben behind bars. The book goes back and forth between the viewpoints of current day Libby, 15 year old Ben, and their bedraggled mother. Every scenario you can come up with as a reader just leaves you sad at the poor circumstances of the divorced, single mother of four children, trying to keep the farm from being foreclosed on, trying to keep any kind of food in her children's bellies, trying to make ends meet....and really, as we see her personality unfold, realizing she's just not that great of a mom. Libby, the super-screwed up adult, does get to the bottom of things eventually. I spent the whole book thinking Ben actually DID do it, after reading all his chapters. He was also a messed up kid due to his familial circumstances...messed up with a wild older girl who was into devil-worship and was pregnant with his child. Yeah, a "dark" book as the title suggests. Off to read something lighter I think. :-)