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As I ended up choosing three mysteries, I think this is a good time to ask what's your top 5 favorite mysteries you've read this year? ✨️

Thanks for asking, and happy new year! Sorry it took a little while, it's hard to choose!

I've narrowed it down to 5, with 2 additional honorable mentions. (Maybe this is cheating, but oh well!) In no particular order:

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke - I enjoyed this contemporary mystery set on a Louisiana plantation with a Black protagonist; aside from being a good mystery, it dove into the protagonist's complicated feelings about her family's historical relationship with the plantation.

The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave by Bill Pronzini - Not sure exactly why I liked this so much, maybe I just enjoyed the main character's narration! A western-set mystery with, as it suggests, several crimes to solve, some more serious than others.

Death Comes to the Village by Catherine Lloyd - I guess this whole series kind of counts as cozy historical? Set in Regency England. I enjoyed that the series doesn't go on forever, and I also enjoyed the romance (across the books) between the practical rector's daughter and the wounded (recovering) soldier with PTSD. He's a lord of some sort, but he's all for abolishing the aristocracy.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones - I'm putting this on the list mainly because it's different, and it kept me thinking for a while. The narrator is charismatic and fascinating.

Nemesis by Agatha Christie - Of course I need to include something by Christie! This was a reread but I still think it's a favorite. It's Miss Marple, and I usually like the books with her, and also it's about a mystery that's several years old, and I enjoy those kinds of gradual uncoverings.

And then my two honorable mentions:

I started several contemporary cozy mystery series and liked some more than others: Plantation Shudders by Ellen Byron is the first in a series that did manage to hold my attention for a while!

Death and Hard Cider by Barbara Hambly is book 19 in a series I love, so it's not necessarily the best mystery I read on it's own merit, but it has a cast of characters I adore.

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Review: Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder

Synopsis: The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady’s companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Just as Caroline is getting accustomed to her new…

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let me be a friend in need, let me be a friend indeed

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Addams family through out the years

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Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 4.12: The Stolen Earth

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Decades after he had left it, Jack Harkness slipped through time and found himself once more back in 1941 where he encountered the REAL Captain Jack Harkness whose identity “Jack Harkness” had stolen after the real Jack Harkness’ death in World War 2. ("Captain Jack Harkness", Torchwood, TV)

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Sunset Boulevard

Dir. Jamie Lloyd

Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond

(Photos by Marc Brenner)

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Why do I feel like Lloyd or Zane would be a super swing? It's probably just me lol

If not I think Lloyd could be Parr

And

Zane could be Jane

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‘The Tudors by Numbers: The Stories and Statistics Behind England’s Most Infamous Royal Dynasty’ by Carol Ann Lloyd

I absolutely loved this fresh new look on the Tudors. So much has been written about them as a dynasty and this is a new look through the numbers, like the fact that only 1 Tudor monarch left a diary, there were 7 Tudor coronations, and 42% of the Tudor dynasty was ruled by a Queen. These facts and many others are explored by Carol Ann Lloyd in this new book. It’s well-written and researched,…

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Book(s) of the month: April 2022

Plus: April Library Readathon wrap-up!

OK, the wrap-up is: thanks to a slightly ridiculous binge of one series in the middle of the month + the library’s ebooks system, I finished 29 books in April, 28 of which were library books (!). (A couple of those are technically novellas/short stories, but they still count on StoryGraph, so they get included.)  I didn’t actually finish all of the physical books I checked out during April (or even some of the ones I’ve had since March!) but this is pretty normal for me, just more noticeable with the end-of-month deadline.  I’ll get to them at some point!  For now, here’s my books of the month for April (all library books, which I guess was pretty statistically likely):

- Loot (Jude Watson): This middle grade heist book (and it’s sequel) are so readable. It’s like the adrenaline rush of an adult thriller, except you can be very sure the kids won’t die, so instead of seriously worrying about that, you’re wondering how the heck they’re going to work this issue out.  (The main character’s father does die in front of him right at the beginning of this book, which I was a little startled by just in terms of this being a children’s book, but it wasn’t incredibly graphic.)  There’s some sweet moments (and some drama) drawn from the found family relationships between the kids, but also there’s ridiculous, skillful hijinks.  Not a super deep book, but a very fun read.

- The Witness for the Dead (Katherine Addison): I wrote in an earlier librareadathon post that this reminded me a little of a Tamora Pierce book, in the way the worldbuilding is detailed and intense, but also revealed in ways that are directly relevant to the plot.  Also (like, it seems, everyone who’s read this) I want to shake Celehar and say “People care about you!” and then give him soup.  I look forward to the sequel!

- Death Comes to the Village (Catherine Lloyd): OK, bear with me here: I actually read 4 of the 8 books in this Kurland St. Mary Mystery series this month, and I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m liking them so much.  The mysteries are guessable but not too simple, twisty but light.  The regency romance between the two main characters that plays out in the background of the series is fun.  But there’s also something about the dynamic between those two that I really like; I think that in some way, despite some of the generalizations all the characters make (in a fairly period-typical way) about gender and gender roles, the two are way more equal than a lot of regency hetero couples.  This is, in a way, forced onto them by main guy’s permanent injury and PTSD from the Napoleonic Wars, and it took all 4 books for me to really decide, but I think it holds up so far.

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MORE FEMALE FILMMAKERS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: (4/?)

Catherine Called Birdy (2022)

Directed by Lena Dunham

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Directed by Audrey Wells

Mamma Mia (2008) / Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (2018)

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd

Bird Box (2018)

Directed by Susanne Bier

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Mamma Mia

İnsan doğa ile iç içedir. Anılarınıza saklı Abba şarkılarını çıkartın içinizden yeşili ,mavisi ve güneşi selamlıyoruz. Gün batımı ve doğumu ile Yunan adalarındayız.

Aşk hiç bu kadar içten samimi anlatılmamıştı .

Sophie Sheridan evlenme aşamasında rol modeli annesine ait olan bir kızdır. Evlenme hazırlıkları sürerken kendi içinde dolu dizgin aşkın üzüm hasadından geçerken bir günlükle 20 yıl öncesine gitmesi cabası olur .Annesinin gözünden bakıp aynı adaya demir atmış bu üç erkek .Annesinin hayatını nasıl değiştirdiğini okuyarak kendi hayatına babasını bulabilmek için yol bulacak.Bunu izleyicilerin yüzünde tatlı bir tebessüm ettirerek başarıyor . Hazır olun dansın adasında bir evlenme törenine davetlisiniz . Şarap hazır pasta hazır gelin ve damat hazır . Şimdi bu muhteşem kadro ile aşkı , aileyi ve mutluluğu bir arada izleme vakti . Popüler bir müzikal yeniden beyazperde de boy gösteriyorken .Kadının kendi gücünü bulabilmesi için bir erkeğe gereksinim olmadığı gözler önüne seriyor . Bir gelin yıllarca babasının kim olduğunu öğrenebilmek için bu üç adamdan yardım alacak . Şimdi sırada bu muhteşem kadro ile sizi başbaşa bırakma vakti. İyi seyirler

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CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2016

20 MAY 2016 || The Duchess of Cambridge set said on board a Land Rover BAR team training catamaran during a training circuit on the Solent during her day out in Portsmouth.

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