Nachtfilm | 
so-soThat was a crazy ride that got bogged down at the end. A journalist fixated on an avante garde film director goes in search for evidence to support his belief that said director is evil. Is the occult involved? Is our perception of reality actually real? At the end, I‘m not sure I had any concrete answers, but maybe that was the point? #50in50
pickI got this in my #jolabokaflodswap a few weeks ago and instantly started to read it! While a bit slow in places for my taste, I did really enjoy the mystery and the characters. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There were many tough calls but ultimately the tagged book won out.
#2022readingbracket
Thank you so much @mcipher for the amazing #jolaboksflodswap!!! I‘m SO EXCITED to read this book I will be starting it immediately. And of course, thank you to @MaleficentBookDragon for organizing this swap! I‘ve loved it every year!
This one might take me awhile 🎧
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Normally one in each format, so one kindle, one audio and one paper but I don‘t always stick to just three I‘m a bit chaotic
2. Night film from way back in January is a clear standout! I‘ve listened to some pretty awful audiobooks just cause they were free on audible plus, which was cost effective at least but the books weren‘t good lol
I've made a deal with myself that I am going to finish my in-progress books before the year is out. How many do I have unfinished? I lost track. There's...a lot of them 😳
Am I going to stop starting new books? Since I started a new one today I'm gonna go with NO.
I'm going to give it a good try though! Been halfway through this one for a bit so it gets priority tonight.
#BookishProblems #BigAmbitionNoFollowThrough
#ClearTheShelves
pickAn investigative reporter is in search of the truth about a filmmakers (Cordova) life and Cordova's daughters death and life. The story is so well written that I started to believe that the filmmaker and his films were real! Each time I thought I knew where the story was headed it turned a different way. perfect ending - great read from start to finish.
#story #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash
Make a great day everyone🎃
#FearfulFall @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen
The lake at the farm last weekend - perfect fall day!
Make a great day everyone -🎃🍂
#orange #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash
On my TBR list -
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This book is the scariest book I've read (read it twice so far) -
#scared #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash
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Thanks for the tags @TheSpineView @JessClark78 and @Ann_Reads
#thisorthat
Want to play @WJCintron ?
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#wondrouswednesday @Eggs Thanks for the tags @TheSpineView and @PageShifter
1. It is end of summer, beginning of fall, and school year, and all things Halloween!
2. No special plans - get together with my brothers family for yearly watching of Great Pumpkin and Toy Story Halloween
Make a great day everyone 🍂
#Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious - 5,880 points for the week 🎃
#ScarathlonWordSearch was good for quite a few points!
#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #crime (I think a crime has occurred in this novel) -
#witchathon #31by31 #pointsathon #Spookoween2022 #20in4
@mdm139 @Catsandbooks @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @TheSpineView @Andrew65 (I think those are all of my readathons for week 1 🙂)
Make a great day everyone - 🧛♀️
There's something to be said for a book that goes all out to really immerse you in the experience 😍😍
I've started this before on audio and ebook but have never made it to the halfway point. I think I was missing out. Even these first couple chapters are pulling me in more than before. Here's hoping third time's the charm! I REALLY want to finish this book!
#Scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter #TrappedOnAnIsland
@Clwojick @aperfectmjk @PuddleJumper
This was a great mystery with a lot of suspense, and some creepiness.
#AlphabetGame #LetterN
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
A book you‘d recommend whose title starts with the featured letter.
pick7-12-22: My 67th finished book of 2022! Scott McGrath, an investigative journalist disgraced by a famous director, Stanislas Cordova, is haunted by the death of the director‘s daughter, Ashley. Deemed a suicide, Scott and his unlikely team, Nora and Hopper, must find out how she died and why. It took me longer than usual but I really enjoyed following these characters to the brink of madness and back again. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🤷🏼♀️#️⃣6️⃣7️⃣
pickA beautiful young woman has been found dead, her father a famous film director who hasn‘t been seen in over 30 years, a detective determined to find out the mystery behind it all…no matter the cost. Written in online articles, police files, & notes, this book will take you on a ride. I loved every minute of the story & it kept me guessing until the end what had actually happened to the beautiful young girl whose demise began the story.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI‘m all ready for book club‘s discussion in two weeks. I was very intrigued by this plot…I don‘t want to spoil the ending for anyone but will say that the ending left me wanting more but was also exactly what I should have expected.
Sunday funday outside loving this warm weather, reading this engaging #suspense! And maybe partaking in a drink 😉
What am I reading? Well isn't that the question of the day 🤔
I'm working on Night Film and enjoying it but I'm not sure I'm in the mood right now. Might pop in the audiobook for The Drowning Kind later. I need to reorganize my bookshelves at some point this weekend so I might even find something there that grabs me.
It's an indecisive reading weekend I think!!
#weekendreading @Andrew65
pickI can‘t remember the last time I loved a book this much. Very odd and probably not for everyone, with its lack of answers particularly at the end, but this was everything I‘ve ever wanted horror to be. Clever but not pretentious, entertaining, eerie, desperately mysterious. I‘ll be rereading this a lot of times I think.
pickWow. This book has a hold on me like I haven‘t experienced for awhile. This is more than a novel. It feels like a transcendent cinematic experience - just like Cordova‘s films in the story. I was completely mesmerized reading this and as invested in the mystery as the ragtag investigative team. I find myself wondering about Hopper, McGrath, and Nora as if they are real friends I met in another life. That is the power of Pessl‘s storytelling. 5⭐️
#FestivePhotoChallenge Day 4: Book & Chill. What better way to start the new year than by relaxing with the book. As a fun coincidence, my PJs match the red and black coat featured prominently in Night Film. #wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs #selfiescavengerhunt #outfitmatchesbook
pick3.75 🌟
“Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?”
Dark. Intense. Gripping. I could go on. Although there were times it felt extremely drawn out. I highly recommend. Beautifully done multimedia with a mysterious mind bending investigation for the truth behind a famous film directors daughter.
@TheAromaofBooks #bookspin #9 #bookspinbingo
Doing my best to get through this chunkster. Interesting story with lots of film and pop culture references. The multi media is done very well.
panI wanted to like this book more, but the casual racism and transphobia were hard to get past. I found the story to be dragging quite a bit (and almost abandoned this read) but the story was solid by the end enough I suppose. I had high expectations based on other reviews, but ultimately, I found this book largely tedious.
The remnants of my snack dinner and three favorite creepy books I ordered to replace lost/loaned copies. I had a minor surgery today so will be snuggled up in bed reading my heart out all weekend 🥰
pickThe quote speaks itself.
#NightFilm is a mistery thriller that really intrigued the reader.
The border between reality and superstition is so thin that I had to really think about the entire story to recognize what was true or not.
It's a deeply trip through madness at a certain point.
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1. I can‘t choose! It depends on my mood.
2. Imaginary Friend 🤮🤮 I think the one before that tho was Night Film and I liked it.
#twofortuesday
@TheSpineView
Itadakimasu!
Working day in good company 🤣
#nightfilm #MarishaPessl #japanese
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
Thanks for the tag @The_Penniless_Author 🧡
1. A vet 🤣
2. The snooze button 😔 It's quite hard to me to wake up in the early morning 😴
3. Live and let live 🤟🏻
4. Green/Blue 💚💙
I'm in love with the layout of this book 🤩
It's just so realistic 🤩
#nightfilm #MarishaPessl #working #reading #ebook #layout #thriller #Aprilreadings
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Astaroth Arslan is a characters of #TrinityBlood manga and it's my online nickname since 2006 🤣
2. Inside my bed 🛌
3. Troubled Blood ❣
4. Three human beings and one dog
Come on and play along!
Just started this during work.
I didn't have much time to read this evening, but I'm not complaing! I missed the busy working evenings ❤
#NightFilm #ebook #MarishaPessl
pickOne of the very best books I have come across! I love the storyline and the characters! I felt as if I was in a David Lynch film. I could not put this book down!
The super cool multimedia excepts should be influencing how I picture the characters, but every time they mention *Ashley‘s red coat* (in all italics), my mind oscillates between Carmen Sandiego stealing a priceless artifact I‘ve never heard of, and Jane Fonda getting arrested for protesting. 😆
Image credits:
https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72setkmnE1r9dbpwo1_500.jpg
https://www.marieclaire.com.au/jane-fonda-fire-drill-fridays-explained
pickNot at all bad, but seven-hundred pages of “not bad” leaves...something to be desired.
Still, a lot of good takeaways and insights, and it does get genuinely riveting for some time toward the end. It‘s exceptional the way Pessl makes it feel like the narrator is in a film of the director he‘s investigating‘s. I love cinema too, so this novel was practically a sure thing for me.
Just finished my last day of work before holidays...time for my fav seltzer (with a splash of spiced rum) and this gem of a book that just came in from the library!!!
“ A bold, dark, complex universe of fear and art and obsession. “
#nightfilm #marishapessl
pickBook Nr 21 off my #BookSpinBingo board
This book drew me in from the very first sentence. It works on so many levels, it doesn't just play with Scott, but also with the reader. It's mysterious, fascinating and dark. I was always looking forward to continue reading, it stayed in my mind and just caught me. And this from the very first page until the end.
#24b4Monday time: 12.49 hours
@TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65
pickI was sucked pretty quickly into this bookIt was a good horror book and it actually gave me the creeps finally (yay). It has a slight supernatural vibe to it and it was fun to read in the dark. I loved the Cordova character-The way he was written made me wanna run out and find his banned films! The author did a good job of writing him so that like the other characters in the book you also became obsessed. The ending was a surprise but fitting
“Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love.” @ShyBookOwl #FirstLineFridays
I‘m really getting into this now. I love these moments when your face looks like this because you connected a dot in the book.
