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Mission Thaw
Mission Thaw | Kay Sparling
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xicanti
The Secret History | Donna Tartt
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Did the baguette sandwich & audiobook thing tonight. Alas, every Canadian baguette I‘ve tried since I got back is a slap in the face to France. This one had an okay crust but tasted like DUST. 😭

My reread of THE SECRET HISTORY is going great, though! It‘s got me thinking about the interesting/admirable divide, the Apollonian vs the Dionysian, and the ways we shape ourselves through performative behaviour, especially at university age.

TheBookHippie ♥️ 7h
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kspenmoll
Aftermath | Peter Robinson
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Aftermath: The “House of Payne” a typical upper class,luxurious suburban home in a lovely neighborhood,harbors a nightmare of unimaginable horrors.In the murky depths of its outbuildings basements‘, ghastly,monstrous,horrific evil has been released into the area.impossible to guess the outcome.
The Summer That never Was: While DCI Banks is recuperating from the previous books descent into evil‘s murky depths in Greece,he sees a news article⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ about a friend of his who went missing when they were 12.He goes back in time in his mind & heart revisiting his childhood home. It is not his case, but he assist the DCI in charge in the process of their investigation, they uncovered corruption at the highest levels in both the police department and government. #serieslove2025 #DCIBanksMystery #literarypoliceprocederal (edited) 9h
TheSpineView Fantastic! Sounds good 8h
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ReadingOver50
First Lie Wins: A Novel | Ashley Elston
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An interesting thriller book. Evie works for the mysterious Mr. Smith, going wherever he sends her and doing what he asks of her. As we discover what her current assignment is, we also get glimpses into her past assignments and aliases. Towards the middle of the book, things start to get crazy and the twists and turns happen rapidly. Evie is in trouble, and she needs to use all her abilities to make it out alive.

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SheReadsAndWrites
Villa | Rachel Hawkins
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Bailedbailed

I LOVED the Heiress so I was bummed I didn't click with this one, but the narcissistic friend was too close to past experiences for me and the storyline got a tad too scattered. I love her writing though, and she is stellar at suspense.

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mcctrish
Killers of a Certain Age | Deanna Raybourn
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How did we live without audiobooks ?! This book features 4 60 year olds who are retired from being assassins and while on a cruise treated like doddering old fools while I, a 60 year old, shovelled all this dirt 🤬

Bookwormjillk Wow, I‘m impressed! And yes how did we live without audiobooks indeed. 12h
Hooked_on_books I loved this book! And there‘s a follow up! 6h
mcctrish @Hooked_on_books I saw that, I should put it on hold now 🤔 so I don‘t have to wait 100 years for it 6h
mcctrish @Bookwormjillk I‘ve tarped up the the mulch, it will have to wait until the weekend since it‘s supposed to rain until then and I have to teach for the next three days 6h
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OriginalCyn620
The Heiress: A Novel | Rachel Hawkins
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Enjoyed this one! Got pretty twisty for about the last 1/4 of the book.

#bookspinbingo - free space
#read2025

DieAReader 💖💖💖 14h
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Susanita
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1. I went down a linguistic rabbit hole and settled on Cornish as the ancient (extinct) language I would like to learn.
2. I‘ve read a handful of books translated from Japanese, and they‘re all interesting. There‘s a whole subset of Japanese mysteries, and I‘d like to read more of them.
#two4tuesday

TheSpineView Cornish would be interesting. Thanks for playing 13h
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
The Birds | Daphne Dunaurier
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I have a mild bird phobia AND YET the movie (which I saw first) and the short story (which I decided to read to see how it differed from the movie) both live absolutely RENT FREE in my mind which is why I immediately bought tickets to Malthouse Theatre‘s The Birds - because what‘s a little more bird related trauma?!

Absolutely phenomenal one woman show. It‘s a lightly modernised version of the short story & 😍 but also 😩 & 🥺 & tbh also 😱

thegirlwiththelibrarybag If you are in Melbourne - I recommend! Loved how sound (delivered via headphones) and light were used to make it feel like you were surrounded by birds. https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/season-2025/the-birds 17h
RaeLovesToRead 🤣🤣🤣 oh my days! I can't imagine going to any shows full of things I'm scared of. Nope nope nope nope nope. 15h
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @RaeLovesToRead, I couldn‘t see any birds so in some ways, less traumatic than I was expecting 🤣 but yeah, I‘m never moving on from the question, what would happen if birds suddenly turned on us? 15h
RaeLovesToRead I only watched the first bit of the film. Didn't get far enough for any avian insurrection. (I'm not scared of birds.) The scariest bird in films I've seen is Feathers McGraw hahaha 14h
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @RaeLovesToRead, it‘s a great film - I started it thinking that it was full of over acting but then the story gets going and I was transfixed. One the best and most sinister villains, Feathers McGraw!! 8h
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5feet.of.fury
No One Can Know: A Novel | Kate Alice Marshall
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Very enjoyable. The set up at first seemed pretty generic but the characterization of the 3 estranged sisters & their trauma responses to their abusive upbringing & subsequent murder of their parents kept it interesting. Nice & twisty.