Hello 👋 I finished the year with 420 books total, about 60% were audio. My top favorites: Will Trent Series, Jane Eyre, The Coworker, Binding 13 series, Little Stranger, I Will Break You, Belladonna series, Romeo & Juliette, Under Your Scars, Graves, The Silent Patient. 🦄 Happy Reading! 📖💗
pickAfter reading the English original of The Seven Dials Mystery as an ebook I realized that I own the German one alreeady. 🙈 So I read the translation as well. It is not as funny as the original but still good. I didn‘t get why they translated the title to The Last Joker, doesn‘t fit it all.
A reread of one of the greatest mysteries ever written was an easy pick for September! #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
#Celebrate #SetInLrgCity Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago but Los Angeles and the Southern California area amongst the rich , famous, and amoral was where his books were set .
#FridayHappyReadingHour arrived! Drinking wine that my Mom got me (it‘s called ‘Readers‘ 👓) in the glass she gifted me. I‘m snacking on crab rangoon from our Chinese takeout dinner cuz 1. We needed spicy food and 2. I had zero desire to cook 😆
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so-soYou couldn't get away with writing a character like Rebus these days. Readers are a lot less tolerant of his flavour of morally grey. I had to put my brain in neutral to read it.
Here we have a character-driven slice of Tartan Noir, that manages to be engaging and atmospheric. It is the story of a serial killer of pre-teens, and we aren't given a lot to go off suspect-wise.
Readable and gritty, but of its time.
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pickI enjoyed this one very much. I was laughing a lot in the scenes with Lord Caterham and liked Bundles unconventional way of tackling things. And of course I did not see the end coming. 🙈
#FictionalTraveler @julieclair 🤍❄️🩶
Looks like beyond hanging with the #haikuhive, I'll be hanging with some bees and Sherlock Holmes in this pastiched with #TLI #TheLitsyIrregulars. Looking forward to it!
#foreversherlocked
#noplacelikeholmes
so-soI‘m not sure what led me to this murder mystery. NYT? Chicago Tribune book review? It wasn‘t Litsy! Anyway kind of a meh story about two women who are murdered in extremely grisly ways, really icky. There‘s no connection between them as a detective rushes to find the murderer before the next woman meets her doom. Only read to the end to see who done it.
pickHenry Dresden is the only out wizard in Chicago, and while that brings lots of skepticism, it also pulls him into bizarre cases for Chicago PD. The latest is where a sex worker and a man with mob connections are found with their hearts magically ripped from their chests.
Think PI noir meets magic, demons, monsters, and misbehaving technology.
