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@TheSpineView ... thanks for the tag! 😘
1. It depends on how serious the infraction is. Cold-blooded murder? I don't know. Yet I certainly don't want to be the judge or jury.
2. Tagged.
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I found this disappointing after the first book. A lot of time spent in very unpleasant POVs, a lot of nasty fat-shaming, and -- as with the first -- Gamache seems far too willing to let his suspects be involved in the case. (Has he never heard of the concept of tampering with evidence?) Still, I like the characters enough, and am curious enough about the dangling threads, to read on.
Absolute best thing about reading a very popular book is browsing the foreign language editions. What is even happening?!
I could live without all the fat-shaming. 🙄
Holy guacamole, Batman! When I first opened this, I thought it was a ton of yummy crackers. I was about to send Matt on a run to our favorite grocery store for a bunch of different cheeses, and then I actually opened the box and saw all these yummy Canadian treats! Yum, yum, yum! And I've never participated in #FoodAndLit ... no time like the present with Inspector Gamache! Thank you so much, @mcctrish. My heart and stomach are full! 🧡🍁🤎
pickI definitely enjoyed this 1 more than the 1st one! It was a great listen! I know there are a lot of characters & the switching POVs still confuse me at times. I feel I don‘t have a good grasp of all of the detectives featured. I‘d assume I‘d keep listening & it would be easier but I‘m unsure. I‘m going to keep listening to them though!
pickExcellent on audio. The characters are so well fleshed out.
Next audible
1. Tag a favorite mystery you‘ve read
Louise Penny is fan-freaking-tastic. I still think about this one.
2.What‘s your favorite way to prepare eggs?
Scramble them & add to sautéed scallions in the pan, then don‘t touch them When they‘re halfway cooked throw a buttered tortilla on top, then flip the whole thing over til the eggs are cooked & the tortilla‘s toasted. Roll it up and eat. Mmmmmmmm.
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pickAn enjoyable mystery with likable cast of characters, especially our favorite homicide detective CHIEF Inspector Gamache. However, I went too long between this and the prior book. I don‘t recall enough of what happened. Not quite a standalone book. But… PIE! Great scene with lemon meringue pie 😋
#iLovePie #WiaN2024 category: NFL Team #PlaneRead
Starting this as my expendable travel read - I intend on leaving it on the plane or in the hotel. 🤷🏻♀️ Found on my shelves, unknown when originally acquired, it fits a reading challenge I do every year: #WiaN #WhatsinaName #WiaN2024 category NFL Team (the subtitle features CHIEF Inspector Gamache! 🏈
pickChief Inspector Gamache, Agents Beauvoir and LaCoste, Clara, Peter, Ruth, Myrna, Gabri, and Olivier - I feel attached to the characters and Three Pines. In this one CC dePoitiers is murdered, and no one seemed to like her. Gamache is also working on a side case - to solve the murder of a homeless woman named Elle. Overall, very good read. ⬇️
2/19 #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
Make a great day everyone 🙂
Just started this as my nighttime book. For Pete‘s sake! The fat jokes and nasty remarks about larger people are just out of hand here! I don‘t remember that from the first book. There‘s no call for this at all.
#12BooksOf2023
December: A FATAL GRACE by Louise Penny. This will not be my last read by her!
Overall favorite of 2023: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy.
Thanks, @Andrew65 for hosting this; it was fun to revisit the entire year! 🤩😍😃
pickBecause of the Canadian Litten friends I've made, I have wanted to learn more about Canada, and this book series is one way to do it. I adored the quaint Quebec setting of Three Pines and the phenomenal detective, Inspector Gamache. A much more humane and likable detective than my beloved Sherlock, he still is formidable when solving the brutal electrocution of a hated woman in the town. I'll be revisiting Penny's Gamache in this riveting series.
My March pick for #12Booksof2023 - Three Pines is such a great setting.
@Karisa #jolabokaflodswap
Thank you so much, Karisa, for the lovely Jolabokaflod package! Now I get to be cozy tonight with a holiday mystery (I've been dying to read Louise Penny for AGES) and yummy pecan clusters--from See's Candies no less! I am in reading-chocolate-hog heaven! Happiest of holidays to you and your family. ❤️🎄❤️
Many thanks to @MaleficentBookDragon for your hard work in putting this lovely event together! Happy Holidays! 💙❄️
#naturallitsy #midwintersolace Week 2 solstice/equinox I have had a few books banging around in my brain for this prompt but I keep coming back to the Inspector Gamache series. Three Pines, where the series is primarily set, is the IDEAL winter solstice setting. I ADORE this series and the only reason I haven‘t devoured it is because I need to have it be part of my reading life forever. In this story, murder happens on Boxing Day 🫢
pickAdorable characters stole my heart. I really love this little village with it's peculiar residents.
This was really atmospheric book and I loved it's coziness. Reading this made me feel good and comfortable.
I was a bit disappointed that it was too easy to guess the killer almost from the beginning. Some other things - that were revealed quite late - were something I had guessed already.
Reading this was really pleasurable.
#SeriesLove23
#20in4 #readathon
I finished Cross Her Heart, a mystery, & A Fatal Grace, a reread. The other two books I continue with- read maybe 20 pages of Googleplex & listened to two chapters of the Sherlockian.
pickThe second book in the Three Pines series. CC de Poitiers has purchased the old Hadley house, and is a thoroughly unlikable individual. Gamache is called in to determine who killed CC.
I love how Penny describes things, from the snow to the cold to a singing voice, her writing is mesmerizing. It was nice to visit with the inhabitants of Three Pines again.
My third finish for #20in4 and another #SeriesLove2023
pickI can not stop with this series! Love it! Love the atmospheric Canadiana 🇨🇦 back drop, the individual mysteries, the overarching story lines coming out, and even love all those #unlikeablecharacters (I think I‘m becoming a sucker for those unlikeables!)
Yes, there are a few questionable/cringy descriptions but over all I‘m just loving the series.
Now I feel like I can finally dive into the show on Amazon video 😊
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pickCan‘t read these fast enough! Am I the only one who sees Bea Arthur in the role of Ruth Zardo? 🤣
pickRevisiting this book for my December book club selection. It was good…and I may continue with book 4 in the new year. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Produced by the company who does The Crown, now on Amazon Prime! Here's a link to the Vanity Fair magazine interview with Louise Penny on the show based on her second book in the Three Pines series- Fatal Grace.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/louise-penny-three-pines-show-gamac...
I‘m pretending it‘s a Friday night by making popcorn and was going to put on a Christmas movie when I remembered this came out! Apparently the first two episodes start with the tagged in the series.
pickI'm officially hooked. These books are beautifully atmospheric, and this one set up some upcoming plot points that have me wanting to dive right in to the next in the series.
pickPick for the book, pan for my ear buds running out of batteries three minutes from the end 😂
Penny hadn‘t hit her stride yet when she wrote this book, but it was still a decent read. I love this series so much, and I can‘t wait for the new one in November!
#SuperSeptember book 1/6
pickI am in LOVE with this series
Holding onto summer with both hands
pickI enjoyed this 2nd book in the Three Pines/Armand Gamache series which drew me farther into the village life & characters. The progression of all the regulars‘ stories was a plus. Though this was a troubling murder for me - when I hate the victim SO much and am glad they have been silenced (The Worst Human EVER) and regret Gamache finding the killer 🤦🏼♀️
But it is best he does his job honorably, as he does.
I get it😉
#gamache #threepines
pick24/22I finished this one on a audio walk tonight. My second Louise Penny book in a week complete. I didn‘t enjoy the mystery as much this time but I still enjoyed catching up with the characters I got to know in the first book and look forward to the next book. We are in beautiful Dorset this week and I haven‘t fitted much reading in but sneaked lots of audio in at bedtime to make up for it! 3.5 ⭐️
When you‘re packing and the book you are listening mentions hot chocolate so many times that in the end you give up and go make one!
pickSecond in the Gamache series, and it counts for #setinacanadianprovince for #booked2022. Kind of an obvious choice for that one 😂 I did enjoy it, but it‘s a bit more “cozy” and I usually prefer my murder mysteries to be a bit more on the edge of the seat. I‘d still like to finish the series, as Armand Gamache is one of my favorite book characters ♥️
Currently reading and enjoying A Fatal Grace. This is my second book by Louise Penny. She is fast becoming one on my favorite authors.
1. I normally don‘t mind - keeps you guessing
2. My library card ❤️
2. Love the Inspector Gamache books!
#thoughtfulthursday
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Tagging @Coleen_Nieto @TheAromaofBooks @AmyK1 if you want to play!
so-soThanks to Louise Penny and this audiobook coming in on Libby today, I have two newly crocheted dish rags, and I'm going to be pretty sleepy tomorrow. This one isn't as good as Still Life, but I still plan to keep going with the series. There are a couple of characters I'm curious about. I do worry a little about this little town hosting enough murders to support so many books, though.
so-soPretty dated...I still like the characters and the setting and everything, of course, but this just felt very old. And not in the charming Agatha Christie way. I couldn't get past the technology.
Finished my reread of this second in the Gamache series, and I feel like I enjoyed it so much more this time, even though I loved it the first time. Penny has the ability to craft so many layers into such an amazing story. So fun to revisit Three Pines!
pickSecond in Penny's Three Pines series. In this one, Inspector Ganache investigates the death of a hateful self-help guru, electrocuted during a curling match. I read the first a few years ago, and liked it pretty well but wasn't in a hurry to continue. With this one, I get it -- loved the community's dynamics and Gamache's extreme humaneness. I won't let it go so long till vol. 3.
pickI don‘t think I‘ve ever cried while reading a mystery before. ... several times... I tip my hat to you, my fine lady Penny. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Also thank you @Chrissyreadit for this super fun, super yummy, super thoughtful welcome to Spring!!! ♥️🌺♥️🌺♥️
pickI had the second of this series on hand from the library, but I waited to read it and I‘m so glad I did. This is a series I don‘t want to read out of order. It was like sinking in to spend a slice of winter with old friends. What lyrical mysteries. I even read a book “out of season!” Rare for me.
I have the third book arriving soon, & then a whole passel of Penny holds to pick up at the library.
Sunset! Caught Mark & Murray at the end of a walk.
panI can't speak to whether the mystery in this book is any good because I'm at 16% and there's still not a dead body. Why am I bailing then? Because of the completely unecessary and persistent fat shaming in this book. An abused child with an eating disorder is described as grotesque by the narrator. That's 100% the author speaking, not the characters. I googled and it's a persistent issue with this author. Lazy hurtful writing. Nope. 😡😞👎🖕
