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Currently re-reading Silent Voices by Anne Cleeves

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The plot of the book keeps you on the edge from the very first pages. Lee Child knows how to create such a sense of tension that it's almost impossible to tear yourself away from reading.

chagrin, can you not, after all it's not exactly....

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explanation for this unfortunate behavior? We don't usually tolerate any bullying of our staff? We have rules and regulations, you know? We expect to be ...' 'Let me put you in the picture,' I interrupted, before she could ask any more questions. 'Ms Snoezelem and I once went on a date. To cut a long story short... it didn't work out, she started stalking me, I moved counties, she's now found me again and is referring to me as her winky dinky super slinky Johnny. You can understand my wife's ...

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I haven’t read it but I have heard good things about it!

The 'bomb' that the author included in the plot didn't surprise me. I had predicted that plot twist way ahead of time. I'd even venture to say that even an inexperienced reader could figure out who the psychopath is in this story by the first few chapters.

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The King in Yellow (1895) Robert W. Chambers A collection of short stories written in 1895 and having a very distinct Poe influence. There is a vague thread throughout the book relating to a drama called The King in Yellow which has been banned and will apparently send its readers insane. The first few stories give some background to this and are connected by a shared universe where this book exists. But other stories are simply stand-alone pieces with a supernatural element. In truth, it's not very good. The first story is probably the best (madness, jealousy, the king in yellow book as a main feature of the plot) but the others are fairly forgettable. Chambers can certainly write, in a manner that has a literary touch, an educated quality, but he simply doesn't know how to tell a story. He will really drag you through the mill for the sake of a twist ending that feels enormously anticlimactic, providing inane details that offer nothing of value regarding the story or worse, meandering plots that become swamped in uninteresting (and hugely underdeveloped) characters. The book is also dated in the sense that a number of cliches are present. For example, the story 'The Demoiselle d'Ys' is about an American man lost on the Breton moors where he meets a lady falconer who takes him back to her home. They fall in love (very quickly) and in the morning he is bitten by a snake and as he dies he turns around and sees that her home is actually a collection of ruins. Then he falls on a gravestone that reveals her name: DEMOISELLE D'YS WHO DIED FOR THE LOVE OF A STRANGER A.D 1573. All I could think, as I laughed at this, was about that episode of Friends where Joey thinks he's gonna hit the bigtime because he's been cast as the lead in a movie called 'Shutterspeed' about a man who meets a woman and they fall in love. Then when he goes to her house to find her, the old woman there says: 'Betsy's been dead for ten years.' Anyway, I found this highly average to say the least. If you're a fan of short (spooky) stories or the writing of Poe, then you might find this worthy of a look. I found it somewhat dull. 4/10

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propose..oh Johnny you're so ...mysterious..mildly contrary..oh Johnny..' A difficult silence was avoided by the insistent trrreinnnng of the landline. 'Hi . I am Miriam Coveryourback, manager at Wash em and Leave em nursing of Haringey?', she said, the unnecessary upward inflection producing a ludicrous, unanswerable question. 'OK...' 'Yeah hi..errr my head nurse Ms Deborah Snoezelem is in tears right now because of an assault by a ..Mrs... Horrible I think..Rose Horrible..? Any...

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I have not been to church in months, but that is because I have been in Tbilisi, waiting for a passport for my son to arrive. Most the churches around here are Georgian Orthodox. Occasionally I hear singing. They don't have stain glass windows, they have religious paintings and metallic images. I am not sure whether the images are actually in silver and gold, but it looks so. There are no pews, everyone stands up. People appear more religious here than in the UK. Many people cross themselves when they pass a church, even young people. My son was born through surrogacy, which the Georgian Orthodox church is very much against. I saw a clip on YouTube of a priest being interviewed. He was worried the Antichrist would be born via surrogacy. I doubt my son is the Antichrist. If he is then he hides it very well. I am glad you posted Anna, because it reminds me the monthly Unitarian meeting in Reading is this afternoon (I think). I will try to zoom in.

'So she can be near her 'winky dinky super slinky Johnny'? I DON'T THINK SO! OUT ... NOW!' And there was no brooking Rosie in her present mood. All for the best really, I didn't fancy having food snorted all over me again. I never did get the curry stains out of my favourite dicky. 'Darling, you called me your husband. When are you going to ... (Bernadette is wonderful,(love how she can shout just like Howard's mother 😂) as are all the characters. Such a well written and hilarious series. We've been watching it right from the start again. Hope to watch Young Sheldon again soon, it is just as good.)

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"Lord of the Flies" I was a bit disappointed after reading this book. My expectations were different, and as often happens, they weren't met.