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2025 Theme: my favorite movies!

Now who is ready to figure out August‘s #WickedWords Movie?
- Band
- Record
- 60‘s / Sixties
- Suits
- Stare Fair

Feel free to guess, I will reveal at the end of the month!

Crime story set in Portugal, but it‘s not the usual holiday-read. A great set of inspectors (one autistic) and a good and clever storyline.

Fremlin is a delight as always! It‘s really surprising she isn‘t more widely read. She deserves a renaissance!

This one is a perfect mystery for summer reading. I didn‘t see the twist coming and character development hooks you from the beginning. The second husband?! 😳 That‘s what makes Fremlin special - keen observation of human nature, especially our fears & foibles.

These Japanese detective series are real comfort reads to me. So different from American or English ones; lots of dialogue and scenery and culture, little violence etc. This book too was very clever and I really enjoyed it.

📸 Winery in the Rheingau, Germany

I have an appointment with Fremlin in this spot for reading while husband & son fish this afternoon. I‘m in my favorite place in the world. 😊😌 Our backyard for three short days.

Federal lands should not be sold (as proposed) and hence locked up by the ultra wealthy. Little people like us would never have access to it or if so, only for a hefty price.

The second murder mystery solved by sheep is as good as the first one. Definitely an unconventional idea and for sure a funny one. It seems to me that the abrupt solution of the first case was used on purpose because in Big Bad Wool it just happens the same - I had to turn back a page and reread it otherwise it would have slipped my attention.

Reading with a view 😍

When the Dramatis Personae are a minority 🤣🤣🤣

This one had me a little tiny bit teary—Higashino does an excellent job of getting you invested in the lives, emotions, motivations (you name it) of his characters & because he does, as the story unfolds & secrets are revealed, it‘s impossible not to care. The truth in the is one hits hard…in the best way. Pacing is deliberate, it‘s a character study more than a murder mystery. If you want lots of action, this isn‘t the book but it‘s a great read.