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Reading journal: the overnight guest

(Lightly spoilery discussion.)

I loved the mystery and didn’t care for the climax. So much running and fighting… the suspense was much more compelling! But I have had this issue with most of the mystery-thrillers I’ve read so maybe that’s just a problem I have with this genre.

I definitely got attached to the main characters. The law enforcement characters were not as complex and seemed mostly to serve as exposition & to move the plot along. Only Levi had much of a character arc.

The reveal of the killer kept me guessing but left some clues unanswered. Some of these things may actually have been explained but I missed it because I was reading too fast...

What happened to Roscoe? The missing dog seemed like it was going to be a clue of some sort, but then was basically forgotten...

Did Brock Cutter die? Levi's last POV section indicated that he died in the wreck, but one of the present-day scenes referred to Randy as still having a living son or did I misunderstand something?

Was it one of the Cutter men who was harassing Ethan’s girlfriend? It would make sense if Randy was doing it to build suspicion against Ethan, but I don't think this was explained.

I don't need every little thing spelled out for me, but I would prefer a conversation that ties up loose ends to an extended sequence of our heroes being chased around by an angry murdery man.

book details

published 2022; 336 pages

Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Mystery/Thriller

read August 21, 2023 on the Libby app

a true crime writer trapped in a remote farmhouse during a snowstorm finds a runaway child linked to a twenty-year-old murder case

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Reading journal: the cruel prince

Yeah I finally read the thing everyone I know was talking about five years agoooooo

light spoilers throughout post

idk how I feel about how obvious to me it was what Locke was doing. I guess a lot of twists in the story were not terribly surprising to me, but that's fine, because I was invested in Jude and her family and wanted to see how it would turn out. I was about ready to start the second book immediately but I decided to take a little break so I could properly digest the first one. promptly forgot the titular character's name. I have a memo saved somewhere that refers to the ship "carton x mc"

he is terrible and they should kiss more.

infographic data transcribed under the cut :)

published 2018

370 pages

The Folk of the Air, book 1

read on August 15, 2023

award nom

Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee

Best YA Fantasy & Science Fiction

(winner was Kingdom of Ash)

dark fantasy

mortal teen seeks power in faerie court while being bullied by hot dude who secretly likes her. 8 dead 300 wounded

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ya lit, elementary school readers, classic novels, comic books, creative nonfiction ✨

we’re getting into BOOKS again, kids. we’re out here reading BOOKS. it doesn’t matter if it’s YA lit or elementary school readers or “”great classic”” novels or comic books or even creative non-fiction. we’re reading BOOKS and we’re having FUN with it. 

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo