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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.

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

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.

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

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

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…

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 !!

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

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

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