"Yeah, that's how to do it, Duffy," I said to myself. Maybe my last case, like Poirot's would be the one where the bloody detective did it.
"What are you thinking, Sean?" Crabbie asked.
"Heat death of the universe, entropy, decay, the utter pointlessness of police work."
"The usual then?"
"Aye."
Oh my! If you‘ve read this book, you‘re going to want to see the film that‘s coming out soon. I got chills watching it.
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In September, I read a lot of ecru-colored books with waves on the cover. It‘s a vibe.
My favorites this month were Night Swimmers and Sleep (and Tuck, of course, but that‘s old news). I continued my HMRC (Her Majesty‘s Royal Coven) obsession and saw it through to the bitter (or sweet? No spoilers here!) end.
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pickA man grieving the death of his infant daughter & the dissolution of his marriage rents a seaside cottage in Northern Ireland — just for a week, to give his wife some space until she can stand to look at him again. Then, COVID hits. A week becomes much longer. He goes nowhere, which turns out to be exactly what he needs.
Eventually, his 8 year-old son joins him. And nowhere is exactly what Luca — deaf, misunderstood, & lonely — needs, too.👇🏻
I have a new seagull friend. It‘s been hanging out with me for the better part of an hour, just a step away from the edge of my blanket. It slowly circled me and has now snuggled down and gotten cozy. Bud‘s got two different colored eyes.
Do you think it‘s a spirit bird with a message for me or is it sizing me up and I‘m actually in trouble?
…Only time will tell!
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I think fiction set during The Troubles is fascinating, &I learned a lot in this book, but it is a hard one to rate and review - it never really takes its foot off the gas. By that I don‘t mean that it‘s plot heavy, because it really isn‘t, but there just is not a lot of rest or relief for our characters. You do get a bittersweet, mildly hopeful ending, so you can picture Maeve building a wonderful life, but it was pretty bleak overall.
pickCushla is tying to juggle so much from her alcoholic mother,to assisting the family of a student when his father is severely beaten while living near Belfast during the Troubles. Adding an affair with an older, married man creates even more stress. The affair is more icky than romantic and I‘d have preferred it have less of a focus but I felt such a sense of dread wondering which of the balls she was juggling would drop first. #14books14weeks 10
