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5.5 hours of reading so far today and it‘s time to start “Cold Case Squad” to continue #Readathon madness 🧟‍♀️📖📚

#Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #ColdCaseSquad #Spookoween #Pointsathon #Fallreadathon #Readlikeahellathon #OutstandingOctober #Wordsearching

Next book to tackle for Scarathlon Readathons: “Tokyo.”

Also completed but forgot to check off my third bucket 🪣 🗒 goal: Finished reading both Team Books. Stabtacular 🔪🔪🔪

#Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #Readathons #Pointathon ##Spookoween #Fallreadathon #Readlikeahellathon #Wordsearching

Thanks for the tag @jenniferw88

No pumpkin carving this year. This year I might just paint on pumpkins.

I like both, white and orange.

The tagged book gave me goosebumps and a few nightmares.

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

Tagging @robinb @khooliha @Aimeesue @Weaponxgirl

This will haunt me for years. It's not for the faint of heart. While not overly graphic, the horror is worse because of what is left to the imagination. And even what is described is all the worse because of the sparse language used. The most disturbing parts are the decisions made by characters. This book is beautifully written. I didn't expect that. Two story lines seamlessly joined at the end; two protagonists I loved despite what they did.

Finished this one up late last night. It was my pick for our family Bookclub. It pulled me right in and kept my attention the whole time. There were parts that were a bit gruesome but I have read a lot worse! I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole 🕳 looking up the history of the raping of Nanking - it was a historical event I had never heard of until this book. My brother and I both gave it 4⭐️ and Mom gave it 3 ⭐️

Change of plan.
Really couldn't care for The Good Wife, so l'm starting this. Mystery novella set in Tokyo in the 1930s.
Couldn't find it in Litsy database.

#TheDevilOfNanking #MoHayder

1937 - Nanking Massacre takes place and Grey, a young Englishwoman, comes to Tokyo seeking film footage but Tokyo claims the massacre never took place. Grey finds a survivor of the massacre who is a visiting professor at the university of Tokyo. Grey now needs to gain his trust. Mo Hayder gives us a gritty and harrowing read about a time in history that was very brutal! I also enjoyed a peek at Tokyo. Recommended!

I will probably be a litte less on Litsy during the next month - as tomorrow evening I‘m going to Japan for four (hopefully) amazing weeks!😍 We‘ll be visiting Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Okinawa - if anyone has any (bookish) recommendations for those places, please let me know😊 during our stay at Okinawa I‘m expecting some reading time at the beach, other than that my books will probably have to wait a bit😊

Not sure how #BigInJapan this book is, but I quite enjoyed this gory thriller.

#WanderingJune

@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

These clever bookend dioramas are made to look like Tokyo‘s back alleys, and light up also. They‘re the size of a paperback.

https://mymodernmet.com/monde-back-alley-bookshelf-diorama/

I think it‘s time for a re read of my favorite book of all time.
💙📖❤️

Yesterday's prompt was #DevilSide.

The tagged book was published under two names, Tokyo and The Devil of Nanking.

When I got this book a lot of years ago, I knew the person who gave it to me got me, even though we'd only met a few weeks earlier.
It's a dark, bloody, sinister, but very good thriller.

#OctoberXFiles @Robothugs @Cinfhen

If you #wantsomethrill, or rather a lot, read one of Mo Hayder's books.

#happinessresistance @writerlibrarian

1. commercials only
2. 35 degrees
3. tagged book
4. another riverboat cruise through Europe
5. @tpixie @Avanders @BrainyHeroine @sammisho

#FriYayIntro

This book was so compelling! It was indeed a mistake to start it at 1:30 in the morning, because I ended up staying up until almost 5 to finish it. It was deeply disturbing, but not so graphic that I found it difficult to read. Good thing I don‘t have work, because I will be sleeping late to make up for this one!

This book looks so good that I‘m a little scared to start it at one in the morning!

Heartbreaking

My favorite book of all time is on sale for the Kindle today!! Woot!!! #recommensday

My favorite book, and the obvious choice for #eyesoncovers. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

My favorite read of 2016, is now my favorite book of all time. This story has never left my mind in well over a year. #THISISTHEEND @Liberty

Some of my favorite #crazycovers. I still contend that the cover of The Devil of Nanking (my all time favorite book btw) is creepy as hell. Those eyes in the mask....follow me everywhere. LOL #marchintoreading @RealLifeReading

I have 2 copies of my favorite book.
I still want the original version, with the original title (Tokyo).
#booklove #alltimefavorite

I surpassed my goal of reading 100 books. Not too shabby.

Day 9 of #seasonsreadings2016 is #FictionNonfictionPairings

Both of these books are from my tbr. I have read quite a bit nonfiction and historical fiction dealing with WWII in the last year or so, and those led me to the Iris Chang book to learn more. The Hayder novel is suspense set in more recent times, touching on a period of the Nanking massacre in the late 1930s.

Remember that life is short. Always turn your face to the sun when you have the chance.

Nearly ran out of tiny post it's because I marked so many sections. This. Book. Was. Life. Changing.

This book has taken over my life. So unique and fascinating.

I've tried several of Hayder's subsequent work and found it disappointing, but The Devil of Nanking is brilliant and fascinating. Worth a read and a re-read.