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Holiday read! And #doublespin for June.. really not my cup of tea… not necessarily bad but I was hoping for more insights into the real Black Dahlia case and less Boxing / racism / homophobia 🤷🏻‍♀️

I really liked the characters in this reimagined grisly version of the Black Dahlia case. I need to read more Elroy.

#NSR22 @Nessavamusic Noir Mystery. This was a good novel, lots of twists that I never saw coming. The murder was brutal. The Police at the time (as it happened in the 1940's) were horrible in their methods and really prejudiced and racists. I would shake my head at the brutality of the police of the day.

#AprilReadingChallenge #ThingsInCommon This is my starter book, Let's see where this takes me, it was next on my list of TBR @Clwojick

#BeginsWith @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Black

🎄🎄🎄 Look what arrived!!! 🎄🎄🎄
@kaysworld1 @MaleficentBookDragon

The missing #jolabokaflod package! I started an enquiry at the German Post.
It looks like they delivered it already on December 17 - but to someone different under another address who only now found the time to put it in my mailbox, where I found it yesterday evening...😀

Walking away from my October #doublespin with a #dnf - a rarity for me. I‘m not enjoying it and am just trying to power through. Time to just walk away at (just under) the halfway mark.

My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/npYyD0HN6II

Enjoy!

Not knowing much about the actual murder, I was not well prepared for the gruesome details and violence of it all. It made for a tough audio, and nothing I could listen to at night. It was also difficult to hear the glorified police brutality/racism by and witnessed by the main character, a detective. The obsession with the case was very interesting though, even if the ending a bit disappointing. #booked2020 #bottomoftbr #readmyowndamnbooks

I listened to a podcast about George Hodel (his son claims he is the murderer of Elizabeth Short, ‘the Black Dahlia‘) and that triggered me to finally read the book. Where I hoped for a book like In Cold Blood, this turned out to be a fast paced crime novel which mixes facts and fiction. I didn‘t end up much wiser but it‘s an okay read.

#JennyIs30 #Booked2020 #TartanNoir #1001books

(Pic: The swimming pool is open again!)

#WeeklyForecast 22/20

I am in the midst of Our Kind of Cruelty which is completely fucked up but keeps me triggered.
After this distraction it‘s back to the challenges!
For #ATY2020 I am going to read Dark Matter (I loved Recursion), for #Booked2020 The Black Dahlia and for #ReadingEurope2020 a Dutch book about Montenegro.

Snuggling on the couch with cats. Everything is closed in N.Y. other than essential businesses. My copy of the new Animal Crossing game is looking like it won‘t be here today. And it‘s hella gross outside. Looks like I‘m just bunkering down and reading all day again. #coronavirusreadathon #covid19readathon #quarantinereadathon #lockdown #day4 #teachersoflitsy #readalldayeveryday

My library doesn‘t have this available as an ebook, but I found it on archive.org! This has been on my list for a while, & now seems perfect as the only winter prompt I have left is set in Hollywood.👌🏼 #booked2020 #setinhollywood #winterprompts #coronavirusreadathon #covid19readathon #quarantinereadathon #teachersoflitsy

Going into this novel, I knew next to nothing about the real-life events that inspired it. After finishing it, I think I might have to do a bit more research about the case as it's the kind of case I'm interested in. 5 ⭐

Book 5 for #murder2020 @Tove_Reads
#SetinHollywood #booked2020 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Oh, and it's also my #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

TW: Child abuse

Maynard is accused of sodomy with young boys, and Captain Jack is one of the top police officials.

However my mind went to this Captain Jack - and thought he'd probably flirt with him! 🤣🤣🤣

This is not at all my normal reading fare, and a few times, especially towards the end, I stopped for a while just to take a break and read/think about something cheerier. Yet, I really enjoyed the style and I was continually surprised by turns that the story took.

#audiobook #1001books #Reading1001

Watched the movie after I finished the book. It is a good adaptation of the book. I enjoyed Scarlett Johansson as Kay Lake, Aaron Eckhart as Lee Blanchard, Hilary Swank as Madeleine and Josh Hartnett as Bucky Bleichert. Special features included an interview with the author which I liked. If you are looking for a period piece I would recommend this movie.

My first book by this author. What I liked about the book; the writing style, fictionalized account of true crime, all the L.A. Landmarks. What I didn't like; the story was gruesome at times especially the end regarding the murder. Overall, a great crime thriller. #1001books

#7days7covers Day 7

Review is up for Ellroy's fictionalized account of Elizabeth Short's murder featuring a seedy and hardened set of characters in the equally shady backdrop of a 1947 Los Angeles that I ended up enjoying. 4 ⭐ from me!

Well, that was intense. 😳

This meeting couldn't come soon enough! #TrueCrimeMeeting

Next month is the Black Daliah murder! And as I just found out, Holly Dunn is coming to the library on the 25th of July! Yeeeeees! I can't wait, I'm freaking out!

1️⃣ -40 with the wind chill
2️⃣ 80F/27C
3️⃣ 75F/24C
4️⃣ Summer Sunday‘s: reading outside after breakfast
5️⃣ No change from my usual interests

@wanderinglynn #HelloThursday

Lucky to be at home today. Warm vibes to anyone who has to be outside in the Midwest. -40 here
#polarvortex

What are you reading today?

Cold weather prep complete. Fridge stocked & plenty of hot tea. Hunkering down for a movie with hubby. Thanks to everyone involved with @24in48 #24in48 #readathon

I was about to start reading the tagged book when my hubby suggested going out to breakfast. Did someone say food....🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️
Hour six challenge #24in48
@24in48

Didn't really do anything for me. Slow start, then got interesting enough to keep me hooked, some twists at the end.

Bedtime reading. #theblackdahlia #murder #cozy

A wild ride. Have any of you seen the movie?

Ellroy mines the underbelly of #tinseltown and the greater LA area in his novel about who might have murdered Elizabeth Short and why. This book is baroque and dense and oozes with testosterone as Det. ”Bucky” Blanchard wades through sex, lies and corruption to solve the case...even if it destroys him and those he cares about.

#SeasonsReadings

#BlackCatChallenge @clwojick

Prompt: Black

#ReadingResolutions #black @Jess7

#Ihaveadream that when I die I get to find out the truth behind every unsolved murder and disappearance. #yeahithinkadnanisinnocent 🖕🏻 jk, but for real I wanna know. #ABBAinAugust

It took a long time for the story to really get going, I thought. I really wasn‘t interested in the detective‘s personal life – at all. Once Elizabeth‘s body was found, it got more interesting, but even still, only to a point. I listened to the audio, so it may have had some effect on my rating, but I‘m not sure it would have brought it up all that much if I‘d read it, either. I have to admit, the narrator did accents very well.

Going to Powell‘s is on my bucket list. More so now...
https://twitter.com/powells/status/969710553475239937?s=12

@shanebeth @2BR02B #Murderino

Gif https://instagram.com/p/Bfi3vCtHL-p/

Currently reading. #truecrime #novel #jamesellroy #crime

1) I‘m looking forward to The Black Dahlia. True crime about a cold case from 1947.
2) Twix
3) Generation X
4) Aquaphor Lip Repair
5) Birthday dinner at Hob Nob with hubby & my parents. Hob Nob is featured in Wisconsin Supper Clubs.

@MinDea #HumpDayPost

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"Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that."
This book is a fictionalization of the unsolved Black Dahlia/Elizabeth Short murder. The narrator is a detective who's life slowly, continually spirals out of control due to his (and his partner's) obsession with the case. As far as noir goes, it's aces. The movie is decent too. ? side note: while reading, keep in mind that this takes place in the '40s... 114/1,001 #1001Books

I'm like 6 pages in when I start wondering, "What the hell is a pachuco?" I headed to Google and I was not disappointed.

#spookyoctober

Some chilling true crime that #takesplacenearme I was just a kid during the summer that The Nightstalker terrorized Southern California.

#MelodiousMusicals #SunsetBoulevard This book tells a fictionalised account of a young Hollywood hopeful, Elizabeth Short, who was murdered in 1947 and her body left in the Leimert Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles. To the best of my knowledge this grisly case has never been solved and was made into a film in 2006. The streets of Hollywood aren't always paved in Gold, but no one deserves this ending. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia

#ColorInTheTitle #SplashIntoSummerReads

#splashintosummerreads #colorinthetitle

Hollywood noir at his best. #maybookflowers #hollywood. These have been in my #TBR list so long.