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#Two4Tuesday

1. Two authors (I‘m sorry I couldn‘t choose just one!) I‘ve discovered recently—and whose books I‘ve been reading about as quickly as I can get my hands on them—are Keigo Higashino and William Kent Krueger. Both write mysteries, albeit very different ones, and I can‘t get enough.

2. Tagged book is fantastic. Took me way too long to get around to reading it.

@TheSpineView

So good—the blurbs on the cover are 100% correct. This book is ingenious, excellent, & elegant. I might also add well-crafted, tense, & compelling. There is also more than one surprise which upends everything & leaves you guessing. Great characters, emotional depth, & an intricate plot easily make this one of the best mysteries I‘ve read recently. The translation is excellent, very fluid, and this was a very enjoyable, engaging read.

This was recommended to me by an independent bookseller. It was crazy twisty. And I was generally hooked.
Not your regular mystery thriller.

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This is pretty twisty. You go in thinking you know what's going on. But you definitely do not.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I heard a lot about this writer and book since I live in Japan. I didn't expect much. Not only did it surpass my expectation but I have to admin that it might be one of the most compelling detective stories I have ever read. It's great when the “classic“ lives up to it's reputation. Highly recommended, check out our discussion the podcast: https://bit.ly/45f499C

#devotion #suspect #x #keigo #higashino #crime #mystery #detective #galileo #japan

I started reading this one on my kindle,
but I was not jelling with reading it this way,
I decided to listen to the audiobook instead,
the story was ok, but not really for me.

Read for reading challenges.

3.5/5

What a mess. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be swept up in tension or tragedy but the general vibe was 'poorly-paced and vaguely off-putting'. The 'devotion' as described feels sociopathic rather than romantic. 1/?

The Humanities student only visited the university library a few times, during the whole of his degree?!
Trying to figure out if this is supposed to be a statement on his qualities as a student, or the amount that records can be accessed digitally, remotely, these days. 🤔

Happy Fall! @LiteraryinLawrence I have mailed you Broken Girls and @MeganAnn I have mailed you the Devotion of Suspect X , they should arrive Tuesday

Completely cheating for Letter X...

“Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.”

#alphabetgame #letterX @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I may have taken an extra long lunch today to finish this one up 🤫
A soft pick for me. I figured out the major twist about halfway in, but still wanted to see how it all came together. It gave me some Christie/Poirot vibes with the heavy focus on motive, personalities, and assumptions. I wanted it to be twistier! Might read more Higashino in the future since I liked his style more than I didn‘t. #diversecozy #foodandlit

So this was an interesting book. Not sure how I feel about it. There are parts that I really enjoyed and then there was some character development (not even sure if it was development) that I didn‘t like. Definitely outside my normal reads…. I am intrigued enough to try book 2 in the series.

The narrator did an excellent job!

#diversecozy My first finish for #AwesomeAugust

You know everything. Who‘s dead, who did it, how, why, and when. And yet you‘ll still be as confused as the detectives in charge of figuring out who killed Shinji Togashi.

I liked the first bit, but the fire burned out pretty quickly. For a murder story, this felt very passionless. But once I got to the 1/2 mark, I started to get invested again as I realized just how little I actually knew. Although I do feel conflicted about the end. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

My #bookspin was a fantastic translated detective novel from Japan. If you love twisty mysteries, pick up a Higashino for the plot but also the characters. And the poignancy, in this case. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#LMPBC members, I received these books from @phantomx today, I'll be starting with the tagged book, marking them up and getting them back to you 🥰. I also received my own book back and enjoyed reading all of your comments! @MeganAnn @MaleficentBookDragon

My latest #librarystack! 😍 Prepping for my August reads and finishing up Winter in the Blood this weekend

The #diversecozy buddy read for August is The Devotion of Suspect X, chosen to correspond with #foodandlit‘s August country, Japan 🇯🇵. I‘ve seen some great reviews for this one, so 🤞

Let me know if you‘d like to join in for this casual, read at your own pace buddy read! @ozma.of.oz @Mollyanna @mhillis

Vacation reading on a cruise ship. Perfect time for me to read mysteries and thrillers. This one came recommended by The Currently Reading podcast. Quite an interesting read. I liked all the characters and found the plot compelling. I read on kindle and it had a sample chapter of another book at the end so my percent read was misleading which affected the pacing of the ending for me. Lesson learned. 4/5 ⭐️

Whoa! What a clever and satisfying mystery. Flew through this one. @EvieBee you were right. Great ending!

For sure need more Higashino in my life. I‘ve read Malice and now this. Any suggestions for which one I should try next? Newcomer? Salvation of a Saint? Under the Midnight Sun? Silent Parade? I can‘t decide!

📚 Really enjoyed Malice so wanted to try more Higashino, tagged.
📚 Physical, paperback
📚 Only a quarter through and good so far, 3-4 ⭐️
📚 No, but I will jot down thoughts on a notepad

#ThoughtfulThursday
@MoonWitch94

Hades is enjoying my March #doublespin and #LMPBC #ROUND14 #GROUPW selection.

This is how I woke up this morning. 😆
He‘s so talented he can read upside down.

The weather is hitting 65 today! So, after some parking lot reading I may go read in the park. Yes I just did that. 😝. I just started this #LMPBC #ROUND14 #GROUPW pick. I‘m trying to be early with mailings this round. 🤞

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I think we have some great selections for #LMPBC #ROUND14 #GROUPW
I think I‘m most looking forward to The Memory Police.

Hello #LMPBC #GroupW #Round14!!!
I‘m excited to discover some new authors with you.
Here are a few books from my shelves that are by Japanese authors as well as an introduction to Haiku. Do any of them tickle your fancy? I am leaning towards the tagged book (which has been on my shelf for YEARS, or There‘s No Such Thing As An Easy Job (which is new), OR Before The Coffee Gets Cold (which I just finished but would go through again and make notes).

Fantastic! Well written and intriguing. A fabulous novel!

#Japan #JulyJourneys

A Murder takes place in Japan, you've got a beautiful single mother, her neighbor a brilliant mathematician, and his physicist college friend. A few detectives who can't seem to uncover the alibi of the suspect without the help of the physicist who straddles the friendship of the mathematician and his work with the police department.
See full review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4103557703

A very enjoyable murder investigation, not mystery because we know what happened up front. Seen from the eyes of the killer and accomplice we are also following the investigative side of things. Having read a good amount of murder mysteries in the past I felt like this was a good chance of pace and I would gladly pick up another in the Detective Galileo series.

I loved this. Enjoyed the twists near the end. Quite a quick read, well it would have been had I not had a slump for a few days!

Yasuko is a single mom, living with her daughter, Misato. One day her abusive ex-husband shows trying to extort money. The situation escalates and Togashi is killed by mother and daughter. Ishigami, a brilliant mathematician lives next door and overhears the commotion. Because he is secretly enamored with Yasuko, he offers his help disposing of the body. Enter “Detective Galileo”, an equally brilliant physicist, and the battle of wits begins.

Branching out to read more books from around the world. Venturing to Japan this time round 🇯🇵

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz
1.I find this book is my go-to recommendation,great story, memorable characters but also a fast paced read
2. Nothing particularly niche!
3. Ma Jian,Chimamanda Adichie, Susannah Clarke, and books in the Precious Ramotswe series!
I hope you have a good week!

Bought the top 2, stacked the rest! #integrateyourshelf #womenintranslationmonth @ChasingOm @Emilymdxn

Started this one yesterday. It‘s been translated from the original Japanese. The dialogue between the detectives is very manly. #asianreadathon

What do you think of a mystery thriller novel that begins by showing you not only the crime but also the criminal? How does the rest of the story go? Is it a simple cat and mouse story? or is there more? Check out my review on a book that has achieved a cult classic status in that genre - The devotion of suspect x

https://rrkreads.com/the-devotion-of-suspect-x-book-review/

#bookreview #bookishview #mysterythriller #japaneselit #keigohigashino

Woah!!!! What a mind wrangling book!!! This was a gripping, thrilling, confusing, awesome story. What seemed idiotic in the beginning seemed logical in the end. What seemed unbelievable seemed the only believable thing in the end. I probably have to read this again to soak in the nuances but 👌 crime thriller.

This one is VERY good so far ...

I hated the narrator‘s voice, but I held on for the bizarre story that I enjoyed. I didn‘t see the twist coming. 🗡

I loved this one ! Detective Galileo ♥️thankyou Jessie ! I just finished on the beach here ... hubby has already started & after less than 100 pages he thinks he knows the twist ( and he does 😳🙄 😂) I‘m not half as quick , I never guessed it - I didn‘t know it was a series , Yay to that. Great start to the Holliday reading X

#MayMovieMagic #RedRightHand packing my suitcase .. for holls in Spain - flying in the morning 🥳🥳💃🏾. I have kindle ready to go too. I hope the apartment is nice 🤞🏻weather looks to be good

What I‘m currently reading.

This was such a fascinating mystery. I have never read one quite like this before. I was on the edge of my feet the entire time and I never saw that ending coming. I already own the second book and just ordered the third book in the series and will be reading these very quickly.

It's going to the printer!
When would be the right time to add my book to Litsy?
Any thoughts?

This book was selected by Book Riots #TBR. I happened to have this on my shelf. So really looking forward to it.

#LetterH for #LitsyAtoZ (in translation). This is my second book by this author and I always enjoy them. I had a big chunk of this one figured out before the ending, but it was still fun! I‘m also including my February reading summary in this one - not a great month for me, but still solid!

This book was perfection!! A brilliant thriller that I'd recommend to anyone! There was a steady pace throughout and i was like this is a 4 star read and then boom!!! That climax! The climax earned the extra star! Yet to watch the movie, but the book is amazing! 5/5 . Keigo Higashino is going to be my autobuy author!

Wow! Finally a thriller again that I really, really liked, from the first to the last page. It‘s Japanese, thus unusual. And it‘s not so much (we know who did it!) about the murder but about the investigation.

Last but not least it #RemindsMeOfMyHappyPlace, which is Japan, where I had the most wonderful time some years ago and where I really want to return to some day. #Booked2019