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#TemptingTitles Day 21: #WithAMonth - another Big Bad Wolf book haul. 💕
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 2y
Cathythoughts Stacking 👍🏻 2y
Eggs Looks good!! 2y
#TemptingTitles Day 21: #WithAMonth - another Big Bad Wolf book haul. 💕
11-14-21: My 114th finished book of 2021! Chester and Colette, Chester‘s wife, are Americans traveling in Athens. When a stranger, Rydal Keener, spots Chester and is reminded of his father, he decides to follow him to see who he is. What follows is a bizarre series of events and much traveling that only one will survive. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣1️⃣4️⃣
pick#Booked2019 #Summer #BookToMovie
*If you‘ve ever read Highsmith, in particular the “Ripliad,” you probably know what kind of book you‘re getting into—not always—but certainly her best known books are of a Hitchcockian persuasion. And that‘s a pretty on-the-money adjective, considering he made her famous by making a movie out of more than one of her short stories. This book has all of her usual trademarks: a con artist on the run, a young, ⬇️
Reading this for #moviebookclub. I'm not sure if I like it yet or not. It feels a little noir.
pickHighsmith does noir so stylishly in her Ripley novels; this one is as bleak and depressing as they come. High stakes, tension and unremitting psychological pressure as Rydal,Chester, and his wife Collette are caught up in murder in Athens and Marseille.
pickI love Highsmith's plots and rounded, visceral characters but her spare and scarce style means it takes me an amazingly long time to get through her fairly slim novels. I was so happy when Virago released this edition as I so wanted to read the book but I'm a little averse to movie tie-in editions
#american #greece #crime #highsmith #thriller
Another month is passing us by and soon it will be a brand new year! What will 2017 bring us? Lots of new releases to look forward to! More books to stack! The start of reading challenges? All this and more I hope. If you're up for a new month of book photo posts, here is the list for #readjanuary - tag me so I can see what you're up to! Happy 2017!
