Notes from an Open Book

a collection of notes from the Maine Humanities Council

Mar 12 2010

Book Recommendation: Shutter Island

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane was a heart-racing, breath-taking psychological thriller, that I could not put down (truly). Forego the new movie, of the same name, and read this thriller about an asylum for the the criminally insane. It’s 1954, and U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule have arrived on Shutter Island where a patient has gone missing. Teddy and Chuck must navigate the terrain of the island and the maddening tone of the asylum community to identify sanity and make it out alive. This book kept me guessing to the very end.

(Recommended by Annie Medeiros)