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I don't think I'll be recommending this one to anyone. It's not like the first two in the series.

“No, Danièle, I’m…I’m wedged in here like Winnie the Pooh in his fucking honey hole. I can’t move. At all.” 🤣

"A second scream tore through the night." [Screams]

"Then we started away unaware that this would be a one-way trip from which none of us would be returning." [Screams]

Halloween Reading 😬 "Really, with Mel now safe, I felt more proud than anything of our accomplishment. Suicide Forest zero; Team Tokyo one."

Speed reading this sh*t. Do not recommend. It was free.

I'm drawing my way through the flowers in the book and having the best time

Kindle recommended this title, but I didn't remember I didn't care for books 1 and 2

I don't want it to end!!!

This is so good already!

My phone charger isn't working so I ordered a new one and I'm reading a book *in PRINT* that I found in the house

There's a body! And they put it in the pub. I wonder if someone will steal it. Or maybe they'll resurrect the person from the death slumber with magic. I bet the mystery man's brother is in town after all, but he's spellbound and hidden in nature (or living with the face of a villager).

I'm picking this back up and it's an exciting read! Prince Harry will have to wait another day

Picking this one back up at the beginning

I love Elly Griffiths series starring Ruth Galloway, but this one has a different tone. The 1950s detective inspector isn't what I'm feeling right now so this will fall on the back burner

"I don’t know what it was, but he scared the everfucking shit out of me. He blocked the door, so I went out the window. I was hanging off a window AC, trying to drop to the awning underneath. I missed and hit the windowsill and got tangled up in this shit here. I roll down the awning and hit the ground running. Fucking like going to the gym in hell. Ran all the way back.”

This feels eerily similar "...says it’s autoimmune. Almost wish I hadn’t asked, he looked so scared when he said it. Think that was more because he doesn’t know. No antibiotic. No interferon. No anti-inflammatory, no sedative, no emetic, nothing. Nothing touches this once it starts. We’re all wrapped in plastic, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Marianne went down with it two days ago. Shirley’s looking like shit, so.."

"What. The. Fuck. Whole hospital under quarantine, but what good is that?" Maybe reading about a pandemic during a pandemic isn't wise, but we'll see...

I'm skipping around a bit to browse the recipes, but the low number of reviews and ratings makes me wonder if I should skip to the next one...

This feels too much like a mom book. A mom angry and resentful of her ex husband. Even though she's a librarian, I can't get into the story. At all. Like John, I am running, running away...

"I finish my comments and likes and then pause a moment and think, How did I get here? How is it that I was in Los Angeles planning a full-glamour Rocky Mountains wedding two days ago, and now I’m standing on my mom’s rural route staring at a giant chicken made of old garden implements? Does my life really need to be quite this whimsical?"

"I think of a million awful things to say. I think of every curse word I have ever heard, of telling her that no one likes her because she’s a conceited bitch and that redheads don’t have souls."

"what I wanted.’ ‘What did you want?’ ‘More clichés, I’m afraid. A home of my own. Children.’ She smiled to show she knew she was pathetic, that she was laughing at herself. ‘I told you I wasn’t very interesting.’" I *HATE* when lead female characters put themselves down. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

"‘I don’t know about this,’ Jamie said. ‘I’ve got way too much to do today.’ ‘If you say you are “too busy”, it’s a sign that your life is not well organised and that you have lost sight of your main priorities.’ Stella knew he was having a bad day and that she shouldn’t enjoy quoting his book at him, but she couldn’t help herself."

"‘Genetics are important. The more we understand about our health, the more we discover is encoded from birth. Passed down through the generations.’ ‘Makes it difficult to fight against, though,’ Stella said, thinking of Jamie’s book. It’s All Genetic So You’re Fucked didn’t seem like a very motivational title." HAHAHA

"...fermata. It’s a symbol, a parenthesis turned on its side overtop of a dot. When it’s placed above a rest in a piece of music, it makes the rest last longer; it’s called a grand pause. Composers often put it right before a really beautiful section. Like everything in music, it’s always intentional. Fermata emphasizes the beauty of what’s going to happen next."

"And then Valencia did another very brave thing. This is how brave things work, after all—they lead to more brave things and more brave things."

"She might need to ask some of these questions out loud in case he didn’t catch the subtleties. Men, she knew from extensive television viewing, often didn’t."

"Shaking, she tipped her head to the side, gesturing slightly to the bench a few feet away. “Do you want to sit?” Do you want to sit? The scariest thing she’d ever done. A loaded question. A question that asked more questions. Do you want to sit? With me? And talk? Will you be my plus-one to Grace’s wedding? Will you be my plus-one to our wedding? How many children should we have?"