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After months of some sort of reading slump, I finally put togheter a TBR list for October.. 🍂🎃🍁📚🧡
Very simple: just 10 books, and doubling up for #bookspin and #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

The story is,interestingly, told backwards. It gives you some twists at the end/beginning. A young woman‘s daughter is kidnapped in order to force her to find an incriminating document and pay a large sum of money....but the police are following her to track down her runaway boss.

I'm going to start with the obvious highlight of the book - the reverse chronology of events.The narration cruises through short chapters, each jumping back an hour or two in time.The book starts with the kidnapper getting to the mother & builds back to the days before where the premise is set.In the world of thriller-writing,this has to be one of the most difficult themes to both convincingly write and read. Deaver has pulled it off successfully!

I read 10 books in October!

*Five Dark Fates - 4🌟
*Dry - 5🌟
*Poison Study - 5🌟
*Caraval - 5🌟
*Grave Mercy - 4🌟
*Eighth Grade Bites - 4🌟
*The Ask and the Answer - 5🌟
*Vampire Academy - 4🌟(reread)
*Frostbite - 4🌟
*Echoes Between Us (ARC/ebook) - 5🌟

Gives me a total of 3,992 pages read. Not too bad! My favorites were The Ask and the Answer and Echoes Between Us. Way too hard to pick between the two!

Now on to November!

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#ChillingPhotoChallenge Day 11 October

Here is my goal for the month of October. Noir and Slay are book club books. I am really looking forward to Leigh Bardugo's new book. I have just started the top three books. I tried to pick some with a good Halloween theme. 👻

This book was an enjoyable read. It may have been like one-too-many twists for my liking.. basically every single chapter was “everything you‘ve thought is wrong” but it was pretty well done. It‘s not my normal type of read but a coworker recommended it and I decided to give it a go. It was fun.

I didn‘t think this could happen – but I bailed. The book began to bore me almost right away. All is too constructed. After 50 pages the characters were still flat and cliché. Each chapter had a breadcrumb to keep me a reading. It didn‘t, so I turned the pages forward until the last chapter to just scan what the denouement and the motives were. Well, they were okay. But for me they were not properly made into a book.

#BookishGoal 48

Das Leben lässt sich nur rückwärts verstehen, doch es muss vorwärts gelebt werden

Søren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood in reverse but it has to be lived forward

Søren Kierkegaard

My last Jeffry Deaver is really long ago,So I thought it might be the right time for another office pro loss.

I think, I remember that I put this one on my online library is Wish List because of the fact that of the story is told in reverse. The first time I encountered this was in „Der Augensammler“, I think. I can remember, to have found this trick okay. Let‘s see, how Deaver employs it.

And there goes another month...lots of aliens, ghosts, witches, wizards, knights, mummies, some coffins, elves, death a few times, and some murder rounded out my month. How was yours?

#October2018
#OctoberWrapup

#OctoberStats October was SO much better than September. I finished three print books started in previous months, read another 9 print/eBooks, and listened to 7 audiobooks for 19 total completed books, over 3000 pages, and more than 53 hours. Top row has my favorites from this month and the two in the bottom right corner are my #currentlyreading that will carry over into November.

I had another weekend of driving and picked this one to listen to - partly because I love Jeffrey Deaver and partly because the time of the audiobook almost matched my estimated drive time. It drew me in from the very first chapter - loved the reverse narrative. Got home with less than 10 minutes remaining. Also had to re-listen to the first/last chapter to know the “real” ending!

So first off this book is told backwards. It starts off at the last chapter. Once you can wrap your mind around that you are good. I did get confused once or twice but was able to recover quickly. This was actually a pretty good book. I liked the story and by the time you are getting to the end(beginning) you get the wow, wait, what factor. I also liked the audio narrator. I do recommend everyone give it a try.

I had my mom pick a random number and this is the number (book) she picked for me. Has anyone read it yet?

Although it still pales in comparison to my reading habits in the summer, October was definitely a better reading month than September. #octoberreads

My #OctoberTBR as compiled for #FrightFall
Several of them will also work for #RIPXII and #Screamathon
(Books with stars have been started and page count shows remaining pages.)
I'll add a bit to this list for Dewey's 24h #readathon 😆 Wish me luck, fortitude, and plenty of reading time. 😁

Hard to believe September is nearly over and we're talking all things October. Here's a cheat sheet for some upcoming challenges I found. Feel free to repost and/or play along! #uncannyoctober #halloweenreads #rocktober #spookyoctober

I finished it this morning. I really enjoyed it. Not too violent at all. Clever twist. He has written it backwards! Unlike some of his books it's not too long either. For something a little different , give it a go . Great book for a plane trip or in my case a plane trip and jet lag. I woke at 3am! 😊

Didn't get to read much of this on the long haul as I slept most of it. So on next short leg I'll get stuck in I'm not a big fan of his books but this looked interesting. We saw him in Scotland in 2004 when he was just becoming popular. He gave a talk. Hardly anyone there. We will see him again this time but he is just signing. He is a very gentle man with beautiful hands. I find his books a bit too violent. We have his latest to get signed.