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''Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.''

Thinking back on those 83 cocktails I had in December 🤣

I'm enjoying this so much I created a reading 'soundtrack' consisting of water-themed movie scores - August In The Water (suits it to a TEE), The Big Blue, Mermaid Legend, White Squall, Point Break, and of course, the score from the book's anime adaptation (Hisaishi 🙌).

A peaceful at-home read...

One of John Connolly's ''Twenty mysteries you must read before you die''...

All you need is love...and dogs 🐕

The Secret History…★★★★／５

Nostalgia calls ☎️

Book Two...🍿🍿🍿/5

Book One…🍿🍿🍿🍿/５

「Leatherface became adorable. He seemed like an action kind of guy. Knew what he wanted and went after it. He ate good, too.」😂

Great book to kick off October 🍿

The Memoirs...☆☆☆½/⑤

♠️♠️♠️♠️♠️/5 for The Postman…Quintessential noir 🍷

The Adventures...★★★★½/5

The Boy Who Followed Ripley...★★★½

The Valley of Fear...🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

The Hound of the Baskervilles…🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕/5

The Sign of Four...🌟🌟🌟💫/5

A Study In Scarlet...🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

Ripley's Game...★★★★★/5

「The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository」is the most delightful thing I've read by Connolly so far 💘

Ripley Under Ground…🌟🌟🌟💫/５

The Talented Mr. Ripley…🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5

'I Call Upon Thee' ⭐️⭐️/5....the big reveal is recycled from an Asian horror movie and anyone who has seen it will catch on quickly. Entertaining but overly familiar. I had pretty much the same response to 'Brother'.

''My mother sat me down and gave me a speech about how Santa may not be real but lived in the hearts of those who believed in him. I didn't want a Santa in my heart. I wanted a fat, bearded man in a red suit that brought presents on Christmas and could squeeze through a chimney or a keyhole....''🎅

Merry Christmas 🎄

The Long Goodbye ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/⑤
Along with The Little Sister, this is Chandler at the top. Reading these novels in order has been fascinating in terms of Chandler's evolving tonal and stylistic tendencies.

Murakami could've slipped in a cameo from the Sheep Man in his translation of The Long Goodbye and it would not have been out of place.

The Little Sister 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/５
The world-weary bitterness is kicked up a notch. Chapter 25 finds Marlowe 'muy sympatico' (as one of the female characters might put it) with many a Haruki Murakami protagonist.

And the reader collapses with a loud PHEW!

The final 100 pages, AKA the most exciting part of any Tim Powers book - after pushing your brain completely out of shape, watching Powers pull the various threads together is always a pleasure.

It seems I will be in the minority of people who enjoy this as much as Last Call 👻🚬

Love the title story, one of Otsuichi's most popular. The title comes from the (Oscar-nominated) theme song from Bagdad Cafe, a cult film among Japanese cinephiles, and the plot is like a Makoto Shinkai anime by way of the Korean romance flick Il Mare.