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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 18h

For @letterboxd.social I wrote a starter pack of films directed by women to watch this #Noirvember!

Films Fatale: a starter pack of twenty noir features directed by women • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

Noirvember founder Marya E. Gates rings in the month of moral ambiguities and mysteries with a starter pack of twenty women-directed noir features—cigarettes and stilettos not included.

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 5h

Happy publication day to The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery - a fun and fresh take on the locked room mystery 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️

The cover of The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery (a Stockingham & Pike mystery), which is dark blue with a large house in the middle and waves at the bottom, all in dark brown.

Believing that Halley's Comet will bring about the end of the world, the Viscount of Tithe Hall gives orders for it to be sealed from top to bottom. When the servants and guests wake the next morning, it is to find the world still standing but the Viscount dead...

I love a locked-room mystery, and The Murder at World's End has both a remote setting with a small pool of suspects (which is what the term usually refers to) and a dead body found inside an actual locked room. Tithe Hall is also located on a remote tidal island. I loved the different possibilities investigated by the characters, as well as the final solution which manages to be both surprising and satisfying. The Murder at World's End also adds a fresh twist to the locked-room trope with its apocalyptic setting, which really adds to the tension and atmosphere in the first part of the book.

The Murder at World's End is mostly narrated by Stephen Pike, Tithe's Hall newest under-butler, who immediately finds himself under suspicion but discovers an unlikely ally in Miss Decima Stockingham, the fearless and forthright matriarch he is ordered to wait upon. Their characters both have a touch of the cliché about them, but I loved the way Ross Montgomery uses them to tackle the class issues that pervade his book's setting.

I found The Murder at World's End an absorbing and humorous read, especially in its depiction of the hapless Inspector Jarvis, and I would definitely be happy to read more books in the series.

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📚 MoominReadsaLot 📚 @moominreadsalot.bsky.social · 29d

I thought as it's #Spooktober I'd share my A-Z* of Stephen King books.

Feel free to comment with your own favourites for each letter 😀

*I might need to get a bit creative with some of the letters!

🩸📚💙 #BookSky #Books #Readers #A-Z #StephenKing #Horror #SpookySeason

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Two shelves containing a selection of Stephen King books

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England

Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception. Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 1d

I, a hip and with-it young person, explain the "Six Seven" trend for old people www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

What is ‘Six Seven’ and why is the world currently obsessed with this latest online trend?

The viral phrase from a 2024 rap track has children shouting in unison — and leaving adults utterly lost

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d

Just finished the book and really enjoyed it! I felt like I never quite knew what would happen next, and I was disappointed when I realised I’d reached the end. I’m really intrigued to see how the characters are interpreted in the film.

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2d

The premise of two fed-up housewives convincing themselves they have earned a holiday has become a familiar one, but The Enchanted April continually surprises.

I can see why people are always recommending this one (4⭐️) 💙📚

The cover of The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, Collins Classics edition.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 6d

I delivered this back in July, after which it got postponed. I gave plenty of notice of the dates I was going to be away in October & thus unavailable for rewrites, and of course they needed rewrites during those exact same dates, so someone else had to chip in. So it goes. Hope it reads ok.

Shock therapy: why scary movies keep evolving – and making money

With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the process

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 5d

“A gray Plymouth sedan tailed me away from the City Hall. I gave it a chance to catch up with me on a quiet street. It refused the offer, so I shook it off and went about my business.”

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 💙📚

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 6d

My current #FridayReads is Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. 💙📚

Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 6d

This week’s #FridayReads is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, which is a reread for me 💙📚

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 6d

This week’s #FridayReads is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, which is a reread for me 💙📚

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I get that - I feel the same way about celebrity authors. But this is Hannah’s sixth Poirot book (!) so you might be in a minority

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, I suppose it is a kind of “reboot” - I prefer to judge them on their own terms, but I can understand why you might avoid them altogether

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 7d

The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah, her latest Hercule Poirot mystery, is out today 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️

The cover of The Last Death of the Year (a Hercule Poirot mystery) by Sophie Hannah, which is white and features a lit match burning down.

It's New Year's Eve in 1932, and Inspector Catchpool of Scotland Yard is looking forward to a well-earned holiday on the idyllic Greek island of Lamperos. But he soon begins to suspect that Hercule Poirot had another reason for inviting him, one that requires them to catch a murderer before the clock strikes twelve...

The Last Death of the Year is the sixth book written by Sophie Hannah to feature Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot, but it can easily be read as a standalone. This is quite a slow mystery, in keeping with the gentle tone of the originals, but tension simmers from the very first page as Catchpool is recounting events that have already taken place.
Catchpool makes for a relatable and humorous narrator, who guides the reader through the story, and reassures us that he is always a step behind Poirot too.

In classic Christie fashion, The Last Death of the Year features a suspicious cast of characters in an isolated location, and Sophie Hannah (who has written a book about holding grudges) seems to have added her own twist by making the suspects a religious community centred around forgiveness. I greatly enjoyed the descriptions of Lamperos, and I loved the distinctive characters Hannah has created. I was also impressed by the mystery itself, which kept me guessing to the end without resorting to implausible reveals.

This wasn't quite a five-star read for me, but I loved getting to spend more time with Poirot, and I continue to enjoy Hannah's take on Agatha Christie. Fans of cosy crime, locked room mysteries, and unlikable characters won't be disappointed.

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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social · 8d

Today i'm on the @annerandomthings.bsky.social for #TheWinterJob the latest hilarious comedy crime caper from Antti Tuomainen. It's translated by David Hackston and is published tomorrow by @orendabooks.bsky.social how difficult is it to deliver a sofa
peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/t...

The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen #BookReview #TheWinterJob #AnttiTuomainen #RoadTrip #CrimeCaper

A simple task, to deliver a sofa, what could possibly go wrong?

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Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @barbnatividad.bsky.social · 8d

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚

Last read: House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama

Current read: Anna Katerina by Tolstoy
Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier (book club)

Next read: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon (book club)

Last book added to my TBR: The Riders by Tim Winton

Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 8d

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚

Last read: A Mountain to the North… by László Krasznahorkai (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)

Current read: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Next read: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Last book added to my TBR: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 8d

I will!

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 8d

I did not know this. Along with 99.999% of the rest of the country I suspect.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond

Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 8d

As good a reason as any! It looks like the film is on YouTube so I might have to give it a watch once I’ve read it

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 8d

Bookish checkpoint 💙📚

Last read: A Mountain to the North… by László Krasznahorkai (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)

Current read: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Next read: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Last book added to my TBR: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim