Almost half way through and enjoying the descriptive prose and use of ocean/water/marine life imagery when describing colors, textures, and smell. Beautifully written. Plot is getting more intriguing now.

Thank you Jas16 for the beautiful edition of the Count of Monte Cristo and for helping me build my Penguin Classic collection. I love it. Can‘t wait to dive in. ❤️😀⚔️

The only thing Inspector Montalbano enjoys (other than savoring local cuisine), is escaping the world by swimming in the Aegean Sea steps from his house in Sicily. This time he accidentally bumps onto some body, a dead body. Another nice escape into Montalbano‘s world of crime, food and life in small town Sicily. This one touches the refugee crisis across the Aegean and the children fleeing from one nightmare to another.

Felix, a struggling travel writer, is determined to write the most in-depth haunted house journal by staying in the notoriously haunted Rotter House for 2 weeks. What unfolds over the 12 nights is a homage to the most famous haunted house novels and movies out there. His downward spiral keeps us guessing to the very end. Who and what is haunting and being haunted? Loved it.

I wanted to love it but found it a little long in the tooth. Found myself skimming forward over descriptions of how the main character was feeling to the conversations to push the plot along. I would recommend it though to anyone who likes police procedurals. The interviews were very well done.

Continuing with my addiction to Preston & Child. Loving Lincoln Child‘s Deep Sea. Any book where the location or atmosphere is a main character I‘m hooked. Keeps me guessing.

Like taking a literary ecstasy pill. A whirlpooling world of stories in stories, books within books, characters reading about themselves in someone else‘s novels. I didn‘t want it to stop, while needing it to end if just to see how it could.

Totally absorbing and easy reading. One of the only gay romance novels that got me a little teary.

A few of my Christmas pressies for 2020. Thanks @Jas16 for In The Woods. U know I love a good mystery!!

Starting my morning and the 1st book of my Christmas haul.