Booklist Thursday - It Was an Accident 🚗 ✈️

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:05]Hey everybody, welcome back to Lindsay's Little Library. So, we're here today because it is book list Thursday.

[00:00:10]Bookless Thursday is something I do with Sarah over at Sarah's Nightstand. We come to you every Thursday with some sort of thoughts, ideas, recommendations, something bookish related. And apparently Skyler's around deciding to play while I film. Oh well.

[00:00:23]Um, so this week a little different if you didn't notice between my video and Sarah's video last week and this week.

[00:00:31]Um, totally my fault. Uh, first to admit that I read the schedule wrong. So, I did our um, bookless Thursday um, roll your next read um, game board last week. I was supposed to do it this week. So, we're just going to flip-flop. So, the subject Sarah talked about last week is what I'll talk about this week. If you go to her channel, she'll talk about the Roll Your Next Read game board. What do you want?

[00:01:01]Um, so you get a little variety this time. You know what? We're just going to roll with it. It is what it is. So, my books that I want to talk about, um, all center around some sort of an accident.

[00:01:14]Um, so we'll kind of get going. I had a lot of books in mind when I first started going through what to talk about and I kind of had to whittle it down to these these few.

[00:01:28]Not knock my camera over. First one I want to talk about and this is kind of what inspired this prompt is The Crash by Freda McFaden. Um this one follows Tegan. She's eight months pregnant alone, desperately wants to put her kind of crumbling life behind her. Um, so she hits the road to go visit her brother, not realizing that she's basically driving into a blizzard. Um, Tegan is stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and a broken ankle. Um, she's worried she made a mistake and a miracle occurs and she's rescued by a couple and they bring her in and they're going to wait out the blizzard and everything's going to be fine, but something's not right. Um, her trusting them might might be a really bad thing. So, it was good. I finished this so quickly. It was a typical Freedom McFadden book. I just ate it up like popcorn. Were there plot holes?

[00:02:19]Sure. Was it perfect? No. Did I really enjoy it? Yes. So, I would I would uh tell you to read it.

[00:02:27]Again, don't expect something amazing, but it was good. It kept my attention.

[00:02:33]It was good. Um, next one I want to talk about is Night Road. This is by Kristen Hannah. This is one of the first Kristen Hannah books I read. Um, one of the first ones that we read as, so the book club I run today when we started 10 years ago, probably.

[00:02:52]This was one of the first books we read together. So, we follow our main character, Jude. She has um two kids.

[00:02:58]They're twins, Mia and Zach. Um, and as they're growing up, they become friends with Lexi, who is a foster kid and kind of a little down on her luck. and Jude connects with her like pretty close and um really is enjoying this friendship that they have. Senior year of high school, Mia, Maya, Mia, I don't know, Zach and Lexi, the three of them get into a a car accident. This accident tears the family and the community apart.

[00:03:31]It's horrible. It's tragic. It's not good at all. And the blame is solely put on Lexi.

[00:03:39]So you go through that and then you we go years in the future or years later.

[00:03:44]Lexi now is returning to the town to confront the past, to confront the truth of what happened that night and to confront Jude. It was such a great book.

[00:03:54]Such a great book. I still think of this book.

[00:03:58]Oh, it was it talks about grief and and love and trust and oh gosh, it's just it is the gamut of emotions and fantastic.

[00:04:09]So, highly recommend that one. Then the next one I have is Lone Wolf by Jodie Pico. This is um actually when she was doing this tour for this book is the first time that I went and saw her in person. I should see when was when was this published?

[00:04:25]2012. Wow.

[00:04:28]feel old. Um, and I got it signed. So, anyways, um, really enjoyed this one, too. I know it's not one of her one of her most popular books, um, but I found it really, really interesting. Um, Jodie has this way of fixating on a subject in the book that isn't necessarily what the whole book is about. So, this one is about wolves. You learn a lot about wolves in here. Um, Leaving Time, you learned about elephants. storyteller. You learned about baking. So, she she has these like subjects she kind of fixates on. So, I really enjoyed learning about the wolves and the rest of the story, but it was good. So, we have Luke Warren. Um, he spent his life, let me, this is just a long thing, spent his life researching wolves. Um, he has written about them, studied them, even lived with them for extended period of time. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. His wife, Georgie, has left him. Um, his son Edward fled six years ago. Um, and doesn't have a great relationship with his dad.

[00:05:39]Um, one night there comes a frantic phone call. Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with um, Edward's younger sister, Cara. And he now Edward has to return home, face the father. he walked out on. He and Cara have to decide their father's fate together. Um, and let's just say there's no no easy no easy answers. So, definitely faced with some really really hard decisions and some really hard situations and secrets that were kept.

[00:06:07]Um, and it was really great. Again, the stuff I learned about wolves in here and how it resonates and kind of is in parallel to how human families can sometimes act was really, really great.

[00:06:20]So, really enjoyed that one as well. All right. And then I would be a complete bookish recommendation or bookish influencer of failure if I did not recommend anything by TJ Newman when I'm talking about accidents. So, she has three books out. All of them have an accident component to it. The one that is my favorite is Drowning. This one um takes place in an airplane. all have to do with an airplane cuz TJ Newman's a stewardist and so she kind of pulls and writes on what she what she knows. Um so 6 minutes after the takeoff of flight 1421 this huge airplane crashes into the Pacific Ocean on the short basically right from or they were taking off from Hawaii. So it crashes in the ocean. As the passengers are evacuating one of the engines explodes and the plane starts to flood. The only thing they can do is to close the doors because they can't get out fast enough and they need to stop the flooding. So, they close the doors and the plane sinks with people in, there's some people out. It's a whole thing. This book, I sped through this book. So suspenseful, so like addicting. Purely addicting. I cried. Oh my gosh, it was fantastic. It was, if you're looking for a very quick, fast-paced, suspenseful, oh my goodness, what's going to happen next book, it's Drowning for sure. For sure. It was so good.

[00:07:51]All right. So, then the last book I want to talk about is one I haven't read yet, but again, I have to have it in this video because it has the word accident in it. This is The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig. Um, this is a junker. Um, so long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn't have and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry walked in the tunnels in the mountains and the coal mines of rural Pennsylvania. Now Nate and Maddie Graves are married and they have moved back to their hometown with their son Oliver.

[00:08:36]And now what happened long ago is happening again and it's happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend. A boy with secrets of his own and a t and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them in the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family and per perhaps all the world. But the greatest family has a secret weapon in this battle. Their love for one another.

[00:08:59]I've heard good things when I went through kind of my shelf reorganization, which I need to get back to. Um, a number of people put something in the comment about enjoying this book. So, there's the there's the other one.

[00:09:11]Another just a different take on accidents. So, lots of good books.

[00:09:16]Recommend them all except the last one I haven't read yet, but it seems good. Um, if you have a good book that features some sort of an accident or has that part of the story, leave um that below.

[00:09:27]I'd love to learn more about them. There are quite a few and I'll have a little different take on things. I really enjoyed them. Um otherwise head over to Sarah's channel. She'll talk about the Roll Your Next Read Readathon um that we are hosting this summer um and learn more about that one. Otherwise, go back to last week and see what she said about accidents, which I'm sure you already already watched it. So, anyways, like and subscribe, comment below, say hi. Um and I will see you next time. Bye.