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ICantImReading
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Pickpick

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3.75 stars. Like the other books in the series, this Christmas special was deliberately meta and pays homage to Agatha Christie in a fresh way. It was fun to try to play along with solving the mystery, but I‘m nowhere near as shrewd as Ern! The advent calendar was a nice, festive touch.

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Butterfinger
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Pickpick

Contrariness is a value I embrace when it is to help another human being. I may have to purchase as gifts.

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Graywacke
Chasing Homer | Lszl Krasznahorkai
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Pickpick

I dipped my toe into our latest Nobel winner. Yeah, long sentences with no clear purpose until later. This is a short playful one on the anxiety of fleeing. Just fleeing. No cause, no identity other than Croatian ports. No explanation until the very end. I struggled a little. I was entertained. I‘m a little intimidated about reading more by him. This one is a collaboration with illustrator and a musician.

sarahbarnes I really enjoy his writing, even though it can be work to read it at times. You‘re always rewarded by wit and dark humor when the end of one of those sentences lands. 1d
Graywacke @sarahbarnes that‘s encouraging and nice to know. What have you read? 1d
sarahbarnes I‘ve read a few - I liked Satantango and Melancholy of Resistance. And I‘m hoping to finish this one before the end of the year: 1d
Graywacke @sarahbarnes thanks! ❤️ 1d
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janeycanuck
Snowed In | Sarah Title
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Great news, @PuddleJumper you‘re #SnowedIn! But you‘ve got books!!
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai
The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton
Like Real People Do - E.L. Massey
The Eye of the North - Sinéad O‘Hart
The Snows of Weston Moor - Benedict Brown
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
The First Yule - T.J. Green
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - S.A. Chakraborty
The Murder Next Door - Sarah Bell
Vicious - V.E. Schwab

PuddleJumper 🩵💙🩵 Oooo fun, thank you! 1d
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KathyWheeler
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Today I started The Body — the second novella in this collection to be made into an excellent movie, Stand By Me. (The Apt Pupil movie was just okay.) There‘s one of adult Gordie‘s short stories inserted into the story so far, and I didn‘t remember that at all. Not sure of the necessity of it. #audiowalk

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intothehallofbooks
Train Dreams: A Novella | Denis Johnson
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Pickpick

A perfect novella, just over 2 hours, taking place in Idaho in the first half of the 1900‘s. Robert Grainier suffers an immense tragedy in the early part of the story and the rest of the book tells of his quiet life in the aftermath. It reminded me of Claire Keegan‘s novella Small Things Like These in that it‘s character-driven with a male protagonist that is a good man with a simple life. The fire and the part with the wolf shredded my heart…

intothehallofbooks …but even so, this was a triumph to read. Will Patton perfectly narrates the audiobook, so it was a must-listen for me because I am such a big fan of his. So good, so good, so good. 3d
Kimzey Ahhh! A good two- hour audiobook will help me hit my reading goals for the end of the year! 😊 Thanks for the recommendation. 👍🏼 3d
intothehallofbooks @Kimzey You‘re so welcome! If you need another 2-hour audio, the one I tagged in these comments, Small Things Like These, is excellent and very doable in a short amount of time! 3d
Kimzey @intothehallofbooks Thanks! I already own Small Things Like These as a physical book, so great reminder to add that one to my December reading list! 3d
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Bookbuyingaddict
The Victorian Chaise Longue | Marghanita Laski
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Ever finished a book 📖 and wanted to throw it across the room ? What was the point In that ending !! Would have been a 4 star rating if not for such a terrible ending !!

Kitta I was so angry at this book I threw it across the room. Just the whole thing was terrible lol. 3d
Suet624 Yup! It was about 25 years ago and I still remember that feeling 3d
Sparklemn Hated it 24h
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kelli7990
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Mehso-so

Here‘s my review for this book.

I‘m counting this book for the #greekmythologychallenge:

📚 Morpheus - God of Dreams | A book featuring a utopia - a dream world

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KathyWheeler
Apt Pupil | Stephen King
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There are some things I noticed this time around that I didn‘t on the first read. I always hate gross sex or rape scenes as a shortcut to denote evil, and there‘s some of that. The ending is also rushed. I still found Apt Pupil to be one of King‘s most chilling stories as the evil is entirely human. #audiowalk

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GatheringBooks
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#ARichLife Day 26: #Frost and Starlight. Any ACOTAR fans here? Haven‘t tackled this one yet.

Captivatedbybooks I dont usually like to eat the “media hyped” books but i liked these. I dont think it had to be dragged out as much but quite enjoyed the series 3d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m in the minority and didn‘t care for it 😂 2d
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I also own these (based on my sister‘s recommendation) but haven‘t read them yet 🤷‍♀️ 2d
Eggs Have not read these and may not ever… 2d
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