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OutsmartYourShelf
The Empty Chair | Jeffery Deaver
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Mehso-so

The third case for criminologist Lincoln Rhyme & partner Amelia Sachs sees them heading to North Carolina for Rhyme's upcoming pioneering surgery. Before the surgery takes place, the two are asked to consult on a case where two young women have been abducted by a 16-year-old local boy, Garrett Hanlon, known as the Insect Boy for his fascination with bugs. (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf After a manhunt when the boy is apprehended, one of the women is still missing & Garrett refuses to give up her whereabouts saying he is protecting her. Sachs believes that the locals think the worst of Garrett & that his life could be in danger so she absconds with him from the county jail. Now the student is working against the master, has she learned enough to outfox him?

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OutsmartYourShelf This one is firmly in the middle of the first two books when it comes to ratings - in my opinion the first book is better but the second book is worse than this one. There were some good twists & turns in the storyline but it did seem to be drawn out a bit too long. 100 pages shorter & it would have been great. 3.25⭐

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4846524624
Read 10th-14th May 2025

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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1d
TheSpineView Kudos for finishing a lackluster one! #Next 1d
Andrew65 Well done 🎉🎉🎉 23h
Tove_Reads 🥳💪🏽 16h
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Bookwormjillk
Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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#ShelfSweeper Day 16

We were lucky to keep our power during an intense storm earlier, but our internet has been out for hours. That made for some great reading and napping. I was about to head to bed but the cat sat in my lap so better read a bit more.

AnnCrystal 🙏🏼📚🐈💝. 2d
Andrew65 Internet is the biggest thief of our time! 23h
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TheSpineView
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Pickpick

This is the latest book, #20, in the Jack Logan crime thriller series. It says something about the quality of the writing, plots and characters that have kept me interested this long. In fact, this is one of the few books series I have stuck with from the beginning. Loved this book as much as the first. Lots of twists and tension to keep you interested. Then the various backstreet to fill in any gaps and make it more interesting. Hoon even makes..

TheSpineView ... an appearance in this one. If for nothing else as to give some comic relief. 5🌟 #SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 Andrew, one element mentioned in book 19 will be important in this book. I know you will enjoy when you reach this point. 2d
Andrew65 Great to hear they are keeping up the standard. My June is going to be focusing on this series. Thanks for the nine, and well done 🎉🎉🎉 2d
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1d
MallenNC I hadn‘t heard of this series! I love a crime novel series. I just downloaded the first one. 28m
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Read4life
The Shut-In | James Patterson
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Pickpick

I‘ve had this ebook for so long. I added it to my #readyourebooks list & have finally read it. Super quick but still a good read with a twist.

#ShelfSweeper #4Elisabeth

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d
Andrew65 Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉 2d
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TheSpineView
Unknown Book 7535597 | Unknown Unknown
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Pickpick

This is a taboo, age gap romance story with a lot of steam. I liked the characters a lot and wished there had been more development. The plot was good but it too could have used a bit more development. Especially the ending, which I thought wrapped up a bit on the quick side. Overall liked but wanted more. But after good fluff read. 3.5 🌟 #Read2025 @DieAReader #ShelfSweeper readathon @andrew65 @Tove_Reads

DieAReader Excellent🎉🥳 3d
Andrew65 Brilliant 🎉🎉🎉 3d
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Bookwormjillk
Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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These days just blur together, but I have been making progress on my reads. I should finish Kitty Karr and Our Lady of the Nile tomorrow. Time for bed! #ShelfSweeper

Andrew65 Excellent! Can‘t believe we are halfway through May already! 3d
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CSeydel
All Fours | Miranda July
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Mehso-so

I had a lot of issues with this book but as you can see I also marked a LOT of sentences/passages for future reference. I ran out of book darts and had to start using Post-it flags! I‘m still not completely sure this wasn‘t satire - the MC was so comically pretentious and self-absorbed that I think she may have been intended as a sly parody of a certain type of artsy hipster grappling with middle age. In that light it almost worked.
#shelfsweeper

CSeydel I just couldn‘t relate a woman feeling the way she did with a child as young as hers - 7 years old. It‘s one thing when your kids are grown and you turn 50 and suddenly realize that not only are you no longer “mom” but it‘s also too late to go back to the sexual image you had of yourself before becoming mom/wife. But she has her child‘s whole life ahead of her and she‘s not at all interested - she‘s solely fixated on her sexual identity. 4d
CSeydel I also found it off-putting the way she milked the drama of her child‘s traumatic birth. She has this whole thing about not knowing whether the baby would live or die, and in that moment reality split and she had two babies, one alive and one dead, and she “refused to play favorites” between them. But her child didn‘t die. She doesn‘t seem to care about the actual child, just the attendant trauma as a formative thing that happened to *her*. 4d
CSeydel In other words - she‘s shockingly ungrateful for all the blessings and privileges she has had in her life. This is common of course, we all take so much for granted, but someone as navel-gazing as this unnamed protag should at least recognize all these good things, even if she can‘t emotionally connect with gratitude. 4d
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RaeLovesToRead It's difficult to tell with autofiction how much of the writing is a caricature and an outlet for the unpalatable aspects of their character, how much is self-aware satire, and how much is in earnest. This one felt like all the awful crap that society tells women (voiced concisely and depressingly in Susan Sontag's On Women, for example) came to life in an explosion of awfulness. Which I found mesmerising and despair-inducing. 4d
TrishB Well done on finishing for all the reasons outlined. 4d
RaeLovesToRead If you want to torture yourself further with a narcissistic, sex-obsessed MC whose antics make you feel grotty, I recommend The Pisces by Melissa Broder. You won't thank me 🤣🤣 4d
CSeydel @RaeLovesToRead Oh, I like how you put that! It is rather hard to pin down and that‘s an interesting lens through which to view it. I‘ll be pondering it, certainly, even though I can‘t say I enjoyed it. It was at least well-written. And I‘ll keep The Pisces in my back pocket for now - I‘m in need of a palate cleanser next, but who knows? Maybe I‘ll read it later, just to see 👀 4d
CSeydel Thanks @TrishB ! I couldn‘t help myself - I had to find out where it was going 4d
TrishB I can‘t remember at what point I bailed- I just knew wherever it was going I wasn‘t going! 4d
charl08 I'm about two chapters in and got distracted by other shiny new books. Nor sure if I'll pick it up again before it's due back at the library... 4d
BarbaraBB Kudos for finishing it and all the notes taken. Great review. I totally agree on the mc being selfish and unlikable yet I was also strangely intrigued by her. I think Miranda July has been able to write a book that affects everyone who read it in one way or another and I admire her for that 4d
RaeLovesToRead Hahaha I was joking... do NOT read the Pisces haha. It will make you feel even WORSE than All Fours. NO PALATES WILL BE CLEANSED! 4d
CSeydel @BarbaraBB Absolutely! It was certainly well-written, and thought-provoking. (edited) 4d
Lesliereadsalot I really liked this one, crazy as the story was. Great review! 4d
CSeydel @Lesliereadsalot Certainly a lot to think about! 4d
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EadieB
The Devil's Cut | Andrew James Greig
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Pickpick

#TheDevilsCut #AndrewJamesGreig #ShelfSweeper #4Elizabeth #SeriesLove2025

When a distillery owner‘s body is discovered on top of a remote Scottish mountain, forensics confirm that he died of natural causes. DI Corstophine‘s concerns are raised, however when the dead man‘s eccentric sister receives a message, apparently from beyond the grave. The police are dismissive until it appears the devil himself is intent on attacking other family members.

EadieB Why is his daughter kept locked and sedated in her room in the baronial mansion? Who or what is stalking his son as he scatters his father‘s ashes on lonely summits? And what insanity is behind the horrific attacks in their small Highland town?
DI Corstophine and his team don‘t know what they‘re really facing until it‘s too late.
The Devil‘s Cut is an exploration of what constitutes sanity and how delicate that state really is;
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EadieB how such a perfect emotion as love can completely destroy a man.
This is the 2nd book in the series and I enjoyed it very much. The characters were well drawn and kept me engrossed and I look forward to the next book in the series. Highly recommended!
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TheSpineView Well done! ❤️📖📚 5d
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Bookwormjillk
Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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I hate to say it but this reading instead of scrolling thing is helpful. My screen time was down 12% last week and I slept better. Reading on the go today thanks to kindle and audiobooks. #ShelfSweeper

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kspenmoll
North Woods | Daniel Mason
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Started this tonight. Only 40 pages in but I totally understand why the book received so many accolades. #Naturalitsy #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth

Lesliereadsalot Loved this one! 5d
Andrew65 Not even heard of this one! I look forward to your review. 2d
Tove_Reads Haven‘t read it. Hope it‘s good til the end! 2d
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