Cover of the book ‘The Last Match’ by David Dodge. Title in yellow over a faded photo of a city overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Finished this last night. Glad I did, because it’s not very good. It’s about the adventures of a con man in 1950s Europe. I guess he’s supposed to be charming, but he’s just a jerk. He treats women like shit, as does the writer. Too bad. I was hoping to like it. #books #reading #lastbookread
Cover of the book Murder On Their Minds, A Kent Murdock Mystery, by George Harmon Coxe. Photo shows a man’s hand, palm upward, lying on a floor. In the background you can just make out a blurry face.
Just finished this murder mystery. It gets a B grade from me. Coxe wrote novels that were pretty standard, neither innovative or experimental in nature. His books would have made solid B-movies. This one is from 1957.
#lastbookread #reading #novels #mysteries
Back so soon? (Reading Journal, 010226) jhohadli.com/2026/02/02/b... #lastbookread Paradise Once by Olive Senior and #whatimreading
Last book read
Dark Harvest
By Norman Partridge
If someone had summarized this book for me before I started it,I would probably not have read it. Glad I went in cold, because it blew me away.
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Last book read
Little Sister Death
By William Gay
Tis the season for a good horror story and this is a good one. Based on the Bell Witch. Well written and not too scary.
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The cover of "Virginia Woolf's Nose" by Hermione Lee, Princeton University Press, 2005, with photographs of the faces of Woolf, Jane Austen and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
From Chapter 4 ("How to End It All") of this marvellous book about literary biography:
"It matters to us, as Chekhov's readers, whether his last words really were (as we would like them to be), 'It's a long time since I drank champagne.' "
#lastbookread 📚 #HermioneLee #Chekhov
Cover for the book Intruder In The Dark by George Bellairs. Title is over a dark gloomy photo of a cellar staircase with an alcove to the left. Author’s name below it.
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I didn’t like it much. One of those mysteries where people go into great detail about people and events they couldn’t possibly know about, in order to advance the story. At the end everything gets rehashed to explain how it all went down.
#books #mystery #reading
A flatlay photo of Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. With some Christmas baubles and ribbon decorations.
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I’ve just finished reading Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie and I really enjoyed it! I’ve watched the 1978 adaptation with Peter Ustinov many, many times 😂 and I’ve always wanted to read the book. So it was lovely to finally get around to reading it.
Cover of Tony Santorella's novel Bored gay werewolf showing a wolf head
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It's been a while, but I didn't stop reading 🤓. I just reduced my social media time. Plus I forgot to take a new book with me today.
A lovely coming-of-age story about finding your people and what really counts in life.
Key points of interest are movies, books, art, my dog, & traveling. I write & I paint. Did a pandemic pivot into tech for the day job (previously worked in non-profit theatre). Most posts from the other place were #lastbookread. My website is in the bio.
Cover of the mystery-sex-and-crime novel "The dry spell" by Ryan Loup-Glissant aka Slip-Wolf, published by Furplanet, showing an anthropomorphic wolf inspector and a deer in a red evening dress and a big bottle of a high percent spirit and two glasses
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Chicago during Prohibition was already a powder keg for criminals and law enforcers, but forces of which nobody has any idea are also heavily involved in @slip-wolf.bsky.social 's mystery sex-and-crime novel "The dry spell".
Ideal for cold autumn days!
