My October stats. The holidays are coming which means Christmas reads so I'm expecting vastly different numbers in a month lol.
My average time to finish is skewed because it took me so long to finish the newest Robert Galbraith novel, a #chunkster at over 900 pages. #chunksterchallenge2024
pickThis is my favorite book of the series thus far. The author must have done a deep dive on how cults operate because it really felt accurate. Reminded me of so many cult stories I‘ve heard but was even more intriguing with having Robin inside, investigating the cult. Well done!
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The latest in the Cormoran Strike series. Still working my way through this behemoth and it came out last fall.
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pick1st book of May is finished! I started this one a few months ago and lost interest about 1/3 in, but my daughter persuaded me to give it another go as it gets better after Part3. Well, she was right! Robin is sent undercover to a cult accused of brainwashing people but finds a much darker story. Reminded me a lot of both Scientology & David Koresh at Waco. Recommend. #SeriesLove2024
pick34 hours, 960 pages in print. This definitely qualifies as a chunkster for #chunksterchallenge2024. Book 7 in the Cormoran Strike series—my favorite to date. Disturbing book with Robyn going undercover in a cult ?? stressful! But absolutely loved the pacing. Great character development in this one too: Strike and his ½ siblings, Pat and her fam, Robyn and her fam. The tension btwn Robyn and Strike. Love it! Where‘s the next one! #serieslove2024
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This was, I think, the best yet in this series. And as at least two others in the series have been Top 6 books of the year for me, that is saying something.
945 pages, 34-hour audiobook, and I just wanted more.
The audio narrator, Robert Glenister, is so good, and obviously the writing, character development, and story telling are superb.
I wouldn‘t be surprised if this ends up being my best book of 2024. Cannot wait for the next!
“Will, we were appalled to learn from your personal tutor yesterday that you‘ve dropped out of university and joined some kind of religious movement.”
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Off to a solid start!
My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads:
- The Running Grave
- Romney, A Reckoning
- Migrations
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pickI loved this 7th book in the Strike and Robin series
A client has a son that has joined a religious cult and want him out. The agency decides to send Robin in undercover. The tension while Robin was in there was insane. I kept expecting the worst to happen all the time. On the outside Strike and the others continue work on that case and their other cases.
The next installment can‘t come soon enough for me
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pickIt is seriously cold and snowy here today... But not quite bad enough for a snow day....so stuck in school looking out at the ice ❄️ The Running Grave was super- I found some parts of it hard to read, in terms of the tension and subject matter, but it is worth it for that ending .... Iykyk 💯
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Galbraith / Rowling had me believing the Universal Humanitarian Church was so real I was tempted to look for a documentary. That‘s how phenomenal the story building, and telling, is! Strike and Robin are tasked with removing a client‘s young adult son from what they believe is a cult. Both a page-turner and a slow burn. The seventh #CormoranStrike, and IMO, the best.
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My favorite book of November was The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. While I choose Fourth Wing as my favorite of the year. I have to say that it was more like a tie with The Running Grave. Both were so good.
Starting the year off with this #chunkster for #chunksterchallenge2024 The latest in the Cormoran Strike series.
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Happy new year 🎊 Here's to lots of good reads and 5 star picks in 2024 🥰
A Cormoran Strike Novel, book 7.
I‘m enjoying this private eye/mystery series. ♥️
pickThese books always feel like a guilty pleasure, and the detective stories sometimes drag - but I love Robin and Strike and how they each experience the world they live in. The author really captured how cults use and twist tenets of various world religions to draw people in to things that feel familiar and have supporters and detractors to make the control and abuse seem normal. It was ínstense in this one.
Christmas trees down, house clean and I'm starting a new book! I don't have a book of the year, but I do have a series of the year- this Cormoran Strike series has been my fave this year and I can't wait to get stuck into this one. Happy New Year everyone!
Got the audiobook from the library and my time ran out on chapter 76 at a crucial time in the story 😝, it is 34 hours long 🤯, then had to put another hold on it, currently i am #2 on the wait list. Love listening to the C.B. Strike books and this one is really good.
Finally got the audiobook back with 13 hours left to go.
pickStrike, Robin, and gang have to delve into the *supernatural* mega cult that has its chokehold on the overly wealthy and semi-famous… while they sift through rumors about magic, smoke and mirrors, conspiracy theories and murder, mayhem ensues. This is my favorite book in the series so far, even though I dislike the Robin/Ryan storyline 😂🫣 and love the new softer side of Strike presented throughout this installment.
pickCormoran Strike - Book 7!
960 pages of good old fashioned gumshoe fun!
If you liked the previous 6 books you‘ll love this one too! This is an easy read, time flies as the pages flip by! I‘m not sure why you‘re looking for & reading reviews when you could be reading the book. I envy you if you haven‘t read the first 6!!
Can‘t wait for book 8.
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Monthly Wrap Up -,November 2023 - 35 books … it felt like a mid month … normally I cherry pick my books. Last month I finished a lot of subscription box books! A number of 2.5 - 3.5 star reads. But the books I enjoyed, I REALLY enjoyed! I‘m now 3 months behind in writing up my monthly stats. Anyone else looking forward to new goals in 2024?
November TBR - complete
I have sooo many books to still review!
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My favorite book of November was The Running Grave. Kind of hard to see it. Looking forward to what December brings.
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My answers:
📘 The Running Grave (tagged)
📘 I am most excited about reading System Collapse and Iron Wing.
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pickGosh, this book is phenomenal! A great continuation of the series. I've certainly been in my smut era this year, but when my library hold came through I couldn't pass it up. It's a chunkster, but the story is so we'll fleshed out and executed that it never lost my attention. Religious cults fascinate me and I was HOOKED. But holy moly does JK know how to reallyyyy takes "slow burn romance" to another level (IYKYK) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI really didn‘t think the library‘s 21 days would be enough time for me to read this chonker…they do realize some people have to work, right?? But, I did it! With 2 days to spare! It was another really good one in the series. However, this time, I was left on a cliffhanger, and I haaaaate thaaaaat😭.
pickI do enjoy the Strike series, mainly because of the characters of Strike and Robin, and the storylines are always good, but I feel Rowling does need some self-restraint. The middle section of this book is overly long, and throughout, there are sentences that could have had the same impact with fewer words.
Of course, I will read the next in the series, but please, JK, I beg you, tighten up your prose a tad
My current read is the last piece of Octobers #BookMail. I thought I posted it when it came but apparently not. Strike & Robin are asked to look into a cult by the father of a member. Robin volunteers to go undercover in the Norfolk commune to rescue him, but ends up in the greatest danger she‘s had to face. With connections to Strikes youth with Leda, it takes its toll on the both of them. Reminds me a bit of Scientology so far, to be honest.
pickI put this chunkster off a few weeks since it is 960 pages. Just finished it today and wished I had read it sooner. I thought Rawlings couldn't top The Ink Black Heart, but I was so wrong. This book was more focused on the case and less on the relationship between Cormoran and Robin than past novels. Also, it has more tension because I was so worried about Robin. And the ending... is just WOW. I was not expecting that. I had to read it twice. ⬇️
pickThe Running Grave may be my favorite book of the series so far!!!! Can‘t wait for Risingshadow due out 2024!!!!
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pickI've spent the last 4 days completely engrossed in Strike's latest investigation. Great plot, characters, tension, and pace. Very good read.
pickI just love reading about these two. Book 5 remains my favorite, but i couldn‘t put this one. Robin goes undercover in a cult while Cormoran call down the fort and all their other cases. There‘s a lot of growth as they each come to terms with their unhealthy habits from the past, so they can move forward to a better future. At this point most people reading this series either love it or don‘t, this one stays in the same vein. It didn‘t disappoint.
This behemoth is due back at the library in 2 days, and I'm only 10% done 😭😭. It's been an insanely busy October, that I just haven't had time to sit down with it. Trying to decide if I read as much as I can today (I'm not going to have much time during the workweek)or just keep it where I am till I can get ahold of a copy again...
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Lots of time for R & R this weekend, totting up those #TEAMBooklover points 😊
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I love the Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacot series. Just downloaded the latest and it‘s already great 3 chapters in. To borrow from Kingsley in the Harry Potter series, Say what you will about JK Rowling‘s personal views. You‘ve got to admit she creates great characters and stories.
pickA creepy cult. Robin undercover again. Treachery within the agency. Kidnapping attempts. Suicide. This was an intense read but one I absolutely tore through to get to the resolution. Can't wait to see what's next for Strike and Robin (and maybe to reread this one at a less breakneck pace once I've had a breather...)
Ordered this book and it made it to me today. Love book mail! Looking forward to digging into this tomb. Another for the #ChunksterChallenge2023 @Amiable This one comes in at 960 pages. I love big books!
It came in!! I hadn't received a pick up notification from the library, but was there when I checked out two others. So excited to start this!
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