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Leftcoastzen
The King Is Dead | Ellery Queen
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#AboutABook #SetOnIsland still on my TBR , I love this cover ! King Bendigo is so rich , he has his own island, named , of course, Bendigo island. 🙄😁

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover! 2mo
Eggs ❤️🖤❤️ 2mo
LeahBergen What a cover! 2mo
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rabbitprincess
Rim of the Pit | Hake Talbot
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I don‘t generally get along with impossible crime mysteries, and this was unfortunately no exception. I preferred the supernatural explanation. Also the “romance” between Rogan and Sherry made my skin crawl (which is why this is a Pan raher than a So-so).

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Kristy_K
She Started It | Sian Gilbert
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Pickpick

Started out slow, ended with a bang. Hated most of the characters, but they made great antagonists.

3.25⭐️

#botm #lockedroommystery #52bookclub24

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mesquite
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I started this a few weeks ago but it was a bit frustrating so I dropped it for a couple other books. I had a couple hours left on it and figured “what the heck, let‘s bash it out for the finished total.” Honestly, this book is a very HARD pass. It‘s advertisement of “cozy mystery” is anything but that. With lots of abbreviated triggers (SA, R, DV, to name a few) this really fell short of coziness. A modern spin on Orient Express. 2 ⭐️

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Yuki_Onna
The Noh Mask Murder | Akimitsu Takagi
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An old seaside mansion. Dark gothic atmosphere. An exotic setting. Sinister locked-room mystery. Depraved and broken characters. A public prosecutor in search of the truth. Unreliable narrators.
Japan, unsettled nation during the aftermath of WWII. Multiple elaborate murders. Elegant, refined prose. An outstanding translation.
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Yuki_Onna Continued:
Eerieness creeps through the pages like the seaside mist underlying the story.
Historical murder mystery, social commentary, character study, domestic thriller, gothic literature.
Maybe the perfect book for the perfect time exists. The Noh Mask Murder has it all.
5/5⭐
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Yuki_Onna Thank you, NetGalley and Pushkin Press, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review! All viewpoints are entirely my own.
#Netgalley #PushkinPress #TheNohMaskMurder #Japan #classics #mystery #lockedroommystery #gothic #WWII #seaside #murder
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Yuki_Onna Perrserker - set during a war (flashbacks) #Gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Read partly during #MarvellousMarch #readathon @Andrew65 , in which I'm participating. Keeping it simple again and just attempting to read as much as possible 😊
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 7mo
PuddleJumper 🙌 🙌 7mo
TheSpineView Awesome! 7mo
Bookwormjillk Nice! 7mo
StaceGhost This sounds like such a perfect beach read— at least it does for creepy ol‘ me lol (edited) 7mo
Yuki_Onna @StaceGhost - Well, there's gotta be beach reads for us weird emotional souls, too, right? 😎 It's the perfect beach read for foggy early autumn beach visits 🤔😁 7mo
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charl08
The Tattoo Murder Case | Akimitsu Takagi
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Two months passed. It was well into autumn. The air was crisp and cool, and the leaves of the Japanese maples had turned the brilliant crimson of a geisha's painted lips. On the grounds of Tokyo University Medical School, in the neighborhood of the pond made famous by Natsume Soseki's novel Sanshiro, a tall, remarkably good-looking youth was loitering about gazing at the scenery.

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charl08
The Tattoo Murder Case | Akimitsu Takagi

"Really, it is. But tell me, who is the murderer?"

"I can't talk about that right now." Tsunetaro sounded nervous, as if someone might be listening in.

"Why is that? Oh, I see, now that you mention it, this really isn't the sort of thing you can discuss on the telephone. Where are you now, at Peony? I'll come to meet you right away."
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What will happen now? ?

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charl08
The Tattoo Murder Case | Akimitsu Takagi
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What do they mean "and adapted "?!

Bookwomble Changed to provide broader appeal to a Western audience? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Which would be condescending, if it is. 9mo
batsy Hmmm! 9mo
peanutnine I was intrigued and found this article explaining fairly well: https://acculing.com/difference-between-translation-and-adaptation/hickleberrypu.... 9mo
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peanutnine It's odd though that they specified that. I feel like most translated books are also adapted in that sense 9mo
charl08 @Bookwomble @batsy @peanutnine I feel like a translator's note would help me here.🤔 9mo
Bookwomble Thanks for the link @peanutnine @batsy I guess I can understand it if, say, the use of egregiously prejudicial language is more acceptable in one country than another, but if it's "Oh, those crazy foreigners and their funny ways," then that's reprehensible. I see it was originally written in 1948, so perhaps it is about discriminatory attitudes ??‍♂️ As you say, a translator's note as to what they had changed would be useful. 9mo
batsy Thanks for that @peanutnine but I feel like that just raises more questions when something is both translated and adapted. Not quite onboard with it even if it's meant to erase bigotry or prejudicial language; it's for adults and we know those views existed (and still do). A detailed intro and translator's note to provide context would be the way to go, I agree @charl08 @Bookwomble 9mo
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