Eggs Absolutely 💯 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! 😱 3w
#ItTakesAllKinds @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#InsaneProtag
Gone Girl | 
pickI don‘t know what I was expecting before I read this but this book is AMAZING. I read it basically in one train trip and boy did it keep me engaged. The first and second parts of the book were clearly the best and the third was a honestly a little disappointing but overall it was such girlboss entertainment. Also I must confer that the cool girl speech is crazy epic, but the book version is 10000% better than the movie
Next audible.
My amazing, beautiful niece.
Any time I take a leave of absence from Litsy, it's distressing to think of what I may have missed. I've managed to follow some extremely entertaining, insightful people whose reviews and blurbs I always look forward to reading, and I hate thinking about all the gems I might uncover if I just made time to scroll through a week's worth of content!
pickThis book was an exceptional read! Amy is absolutely terrifying, and cleverly written. I wish it ended differently though; I wish something else happened to Amy. I‘m not sure what else, just something else.
#ThemedThursday
"Love taken to extremes can become dangerous"
I couldn't think of a more fitting book (and film, for that matter) than GONE GIRL.
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Just about to start this THOUGHTS litsy ppl 🙃 is it a good read
1) Hated the tagged book with a purple passion and read one miserable half of Fates and Furies. Thankfully, Lauren Groff redeemed herself with Matrix.
2) I will never read another Kristin Hannah after reading The Four Winds which I know is a huge unpopular opinion. I also will never read Emily Giffin due to racist comments made on social media and I have no interest in Colleen Hoover.
#Ihavequestions
Apologies, time has totally lost all meaning to me this past month. 😅 So here‘s my #WondrousWednesday answers on a Saturday.
1. Bill Bryson has always come across as someone I could definitely hang out with.
2. All of the above, although it‘s been a minute since I was able to just browse in a physical bookstore.
3. The tagged definitely came out of left field for me.
A few months ago I saw a blurb on Bookriot about an upcoming Gone Girl cruise. Sounds…interesting?
Last week they republished a piece from Slate by someone who went on the cruise.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/gone-girl-cruise-review-diary-gillian-f...
pickHoly, was this book ever a trip. I constantly felt suspense at the twists that this book presents at you in the first act. The second act turns into a police thriller, where you feel a constant sense of dread and frustration, knowing Nick is right, but is he morally right?? And the third act, although ending the book well, makes you feel so helpless. Really glad I picked this up with my Audible credit.
Flynn blew me away with this reveal! Amy is truly devious and I believe would have succeeded in playing the ultimate trick on her husband had things gone a little differently. #scarathlondailyprompts #trick #teamslaughter
First book I thought of for #missing #scarathlondailyprompts @Clwojick
#ManicMonday #LetterG
Books: Tagged, The Great Alone, Gideon the Ninth (TBR), The Girl With All the Gifts (TBR)
Author: Gillian Flynn and Grady Hendrix
Movie/TV Show: 🎥 Get Out, Good Will Hunting, Guardians of the Galaxy. 📺 The Good Doctor, Game of Thrones.
Band: Gojira, Good Tiger.
Song: Get Out Alive (Three Days Grace), Ghost (Lauren Babic), The Gift of Guilt (Gojira), Grip Shoes (Good Tiger)
pickGood heavens... I don't know how to feel about this book. It truly was addictive, but it left me feeling dark and swirly. Absolutely awful, unhinged, unlikeable characters - yet I was hooked until I finished the book. Such a deeply unsatisfactory ending, but I can tell it is going to stay with me. Its a difficult pick, but a pick nonetheless.
so-soSo it was somewhat spoiled for me as it‘s been hugely popular for 10+ years and had a hugely popular movie adaptation 🤣
I was really expecting to be blown out of the water, like this was the gold standard… but it kinda fizzles out IMO.
Oh, no. It‘s me.
🙋🏻♀️ Type A “cool girl” just losing her mind all the time 🙋🏻♀️
1. I like a surprise if it doesn‘t come from out of left field.
2. Tagged. If you know, you know.
3. Louise Penny can tell a story that seems headed for a place, then she goes in a different direction.
#sundayfunday
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 300.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
pickThis was one of the best books because you got to see the WHOLE story. I also love when I read a book that I cannot predict. I hate knowing what will happen next, not being able to say their line and me quoting it even though I‘ve never seen read it. This kept me going!!!!!
panPart 1: Started interesting, then quickly became exhausting and remained that way.
Part 2: Big twist out of nowhere, reminiscent of BBC Sherlock in that no indication is made beforehand in an effort to make the book look clever when it isn't. Shenanigans ensue.
Part 3: I honestly just waited for it to be over. I was listening to the audiobook, so at least the narration by Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne was consistently great.
so-soFor me, this is a book celebrating writing and the way we manipulate our words and storytelling. Two narratives, two interpretations, two utterly disgusting characters. “Catastrophically romantic.” It‘s a fun story until it‘s not anymore. Not quite sure why it was so praised. Time to see the movie.
Well, I'm a fair bit into part 2 now, and I honestly hate it quite a lot. The sudden reveal of Amy being the mastermind halfway into the book, after the hours of slogging through baiting Nick as the abductor/killer, was just ridiculous, and indicates that there's at least one more twist toward the end that I can't be bothered to give a damn about.
But I've already sunk about 12 hours into this that I'll never get back; what's 7 more?
I'm about halfway through, and this book is leaning SO hard into the “Nick did it“ angle that it's frankly exhausting--and let's be clear, Nick is a manipulative, abusive train-wreck of a POV character.
I figure there are two reasons for me not to bail now: 1) the actors narrating the audiobook are doing some of the best narration I've heard in a while, and 2) I wonder how much gymnastics Flynn is going to do to make the ending work somehow.
I don't think Nick & Amy Dunne would have made good #parents
#200pnpcovers @CrowCAH @mabell
pickAbsolutely stellar it‘s literally the two most unhinged characters you can think of playing spy-vs-spy the whole time. The word “r*pe” comes up a few times so if youre sensitive to that, the word is present but there‘s no scenes like that. Mostly its all psychological chess between a married couple in which both are equal parts emotionally unstable and brilliantly sharp and trying to outfox the other in a game of small town —> national politics
pickSlow to draw me in. I was expecting to be instantly hooked. Half way through I couldn't put it down. Great twist!
