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Original story that kept me mostly entertained. Dragged a bit in the middle and I deeply disliked the ending.

Apologies, time has totally lost all meaning to me this past month. 😅 So here‘s my #WondrousWednesday answers on a Saturday.

1. Bill Bryson has always come across as someone I could definitely hang out with.
2. All of the above, although it‘s been a minute since I was able to just browse in a physical bookstore.
3. The tagged definitely came out of left field for me.

A few months ago I saw a blurb on Bookriot about an upcoming Gone Girl cruise. Sounds…interesting?

Last week they republished a piece from Slate by someone who went on the cruise.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/gone-girl-cruise-review-diary-gillian-f...

Flynn blew me away with this reveal! Amy is truly devious and I believe would have succeeded in playing the ultimate trick on her husband had things gone a little differently. #scarathlondailyprompts #trick #teamslaughter

#ScarathlonDailyPrompt @StayCurious #Scarathlon2022
#TeamMonsterMash

Day 21 #Missing

First book I thought of for #missing #scarathlondailyprompts @Clwojick

#ManicMonday #LetterG

Books: Tagged, The Great Alone, Gideon the Ninth (TBR), The Girl With All the Gifts (TBR)
Author: Gillian Flynn and Grady Hendrix
Movie/TV Show: 🎥 Get Out, Good Will Hunting, Guardians of the Galaxy. 📺 The Good Doctor, Game of Thrones.
Band: Gojira, Good Tiger.
Song: Get Out Alive (Three Days Grace), Ghost (Lauren Babic), The Gift of Guilt (Gojira), Grip Shoes (Good Tiger)

Good heavens... I don't know how to feel about this book. It truly was addictive, but it left me feeling dark and swirly. Absolutely awful, unhinged, unlikeable characters - yet I was hooked until I finished the book. Such a deeply unsatisfactory ending, but I can tell it is going to stay with me. Its a difficult pick, but a pick nonetheless.

#AlphabetGame
#LetterG

My favorite of Flynn‘s books so far!

So it was somewhat spoiled for me as it‘s been hugely popular for 10+ years and had a hugely popular movie adaptation 🤣
I was really expecting to be blown out of the water, like this was the gold standard… but it kinda fizzles out IMO.

Oh, no. It‘s me.
🙋🏻‍♀️ Type A “cool girl” just losing her mind all the time 🙋🏻‍♀️

1. I like a surprise if it doesn‘t come from out of left field.
2. Tagged. If you know, you know.
3. Louise Penny can tell a story that seems headed for a place, then she goes in a different direction.
#sundayfunday

I read this for the first time a few months ago. Who knew I could dislike two main characters so equally!

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 300.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

#Lies #BookMoods
@Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#BookMoods #Lies
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#bookmoods #lies!! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Just remembered this plot twisting book!

This was one of the best books because you got to see the WHOLE story. I also love when I read a book that I cannot predict. I hate knowing what will happen next, not being able to say their line and me quoting it even though I‘ve never seen read it. This kept me going!!!!!

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Part 1: Started interesting, then quickly became exhausting and remained that way.

Part 2: Big twist out of nowhere, reminiscent of BBC Sherlock in that no indication is made beforehand in an effort to make the book look clever when it isn't. Shenanigans ensue.

Part 3: I honestly just waited for it to be over. I was listening to the audiobook, so at least the narration by Julia Whelan and Kirby Heyborne was consistently great.

For me, this is a book celebrating writing and the way we manipulate our words and storytelling. Two narratives, two interpretations, two utterly disgusting characters. “Catastrophically romantic.” It‘s a fun story until it‘s not anymore. Not quite sure why it was so praised. Time to see the movie.

I don't think Nick & Amy Dunne would have made good #parents

#200pnpcovers @CrowCAH @mabell

#weareneverevergettingbacktogether #FearlessFebruary

Absolutely stellar it‘s literally the two most unhinged characters you can think of playing spy-vs-spy the whole time. The word “r*pe” comes up a few times so if youre sensitive to that, the word is present but there‘s no scenes like that. Mostly its all psychological chess between a married couple in which both are equal parts emotionally unstable and brilliantly sharp and trying to outfox the other in a game of small town —> national politics

Slow to draw me in. I was expecting to be instantly hooked. Half way through I couldn't put it down. Great twist!

Cunning and brilliant. A perfect take on expect the unexpected.

A story full of twists and turns that kept me enthralled right up until the terribly unsatisfying ending.

Loved it like everyone else did.

One of the best suspense novels ever!

Because isn‘t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn‘t that the simple magic phrase?

All of a sudden you see reading in bed, and waffles on Sunday, and his mouth on yours. And it‘s so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It‘s finally arrived.

And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: don‘t land me in one of those relationships where we‘re always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and “playfully” scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument.

A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum around him, fussing and fixing. I have become a strange thing. I have become a wife. I find myself steering the ship of conversations— bulkily, unnaturally— just so I can say his name aloud.

With Nick, I realize it actually, truly doesn‘t matter if the electricity bill is a few days late. It doesn‘t matter what color I paint our room, or how late traffic makes me, or whether our recycling really, truly does get recycled. It doesn‘t matter, because I have found my match.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. What a crazy book this was ! I loved it & I definitely would reread it . I love Gillian Flynn writing

My choice for the #LittensDressedInBlood prompt today: A book with a jaw dropping twist.

This book was an insane ride the whole time, but whew that ending! 😲😵

Online schooling ✔
Lunch ✔
Doctors app ✔
Shopping ✔

Now for a bit of reading before dinner....

I'm almost 2/3 of the way into Gone Girl. I'm a bit weirded out by one of the main characters atm.
Enjoying the story so far. This kind of genre is definitely helping to confirm my favorite genre. And it's not this.
I've just finished Verity, & this has a similar feel. I enjoy them but stories which are set further back in history interest me more.

#conflictedworlds #abusivespouse
When they both are abusive? That is drama!
I found this to be a fun guilty pleasure read when it first came out.

@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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I know I‘m late to the party on this one and I was worried I wouldn‘t enjoy it due to having watched the movie first but I loved it! I totally got sucked in. I really enjoy Gillian Flynn‘s writing, I want more books from her

Currently reading 📖. Yesterday morning my dog had a seizure for the first time and it was terrifying. I had no idea what was happening. He spent the night at the vet for observation and its the first time I‘ve ever been away from him. It‘s been a very long and stressful 24 hours.
My heart goes out to people who care for loved ones/pets with epilepsy, what a freaking scary experience