Genre: Suspense
Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground
This year’s Halloween Bingo buddy read — thanks again to Christine, BrokenTune and Lillelara for the fun of reading this book together! Somehow, that seems to be the way Patricia Highsmith’s books are enjoyed best … Though I have to say, while I struggled with Strangers on a Train, I’m getting a complete and total […]
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Halloween Bingo 2020: The Rest of the Game and Wrap-Up
Sooo, that’s another bingo game behind us already! Many thanks to our game hosts for successfully moving the game from BookLikes to a new venue and organizing one heck of a game despite that venue’s built-in limitations. I had a great time and would only have wished I could have participated more throughout the game […]
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Bingo Call: 10/31/19 – Genre: Suspense
Reblogged from: Moonlight Murder Last Call! Bingo is officially over. Genre: Suspense: anything that fits into the suspense genre. Book list linked here. Original post: http://moonlightreader.booklikes.com/post/1942289/bingo-call-10-31-19
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Blackout! (And bingos Nos. 12 and 13.)
Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! Witih today’s call, I’ve blacked out my card, in addition to collecting my final bingos (nos. 12 and 13). Somewhat to my surprise, after completing my books for my […]
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Sayers Fans Alert – Tony Medawar (ed.): Bodies from the Library 2
This collection concludes with a previously and otherwise unpublished, privately owned Lord Peter Wimsey story!! And it’s a good one, too. (Pre-Harriet, but with, inter alia, a spirited exchange between Peter and another young lady on the prevailing clichés about women.) Woohoo! On a largely unrelated note, I’m going to use this book for Genre: […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Fifteenth Extra Square – Genre: Suspense
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1969185/halloween-bingo-2019-fifteenth-extra-square
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All 61 squares revealed: 19 through 38 (Mystery / Suspense & Supernatural)
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader The Mystery & Supernatural squares! The Mystery Squares: 19. Genre: Mystery: anything that fits into the mystery genre. Book list linked here. 20. Amateur Sleuth: this mystery will have a main character who is not a member of law enforcement. This can include retired police officers and private detectives. Book […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/08 (Day 8): Favorite Past Halloween Bingo Squares?
Being more of a mystery than a horror reader, of course I like all of the mystery squares — as well as the squares adding diversity to the game (“Diverse Authors”, “Terrifying Women”, and the new “International Women of Mystery”) and the squares that allow me to sneak in a Terry Pratchett book or three […]
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M.P. Shiel: Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk – 162 of 219 Pages
What an odd mixture of mystery and gothic horror. Clearly in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe … with elements of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G.B. Shaw mixed in for good measure. Thank you, Tigus, for a second contribution to my Halloween Bingo reads! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1794805/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-162-out-of-219-pages
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