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Rated Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 1 10/10

Finished reading 地縛少年 花子くん 2

Finished reading The Art of Southern Charm

Wants to read The Beautiful Ones

Wants to read Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

Wants to read The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Finished reading Otherside Picnic, Vol. 1

Wants to read News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Reviewed The Heiress: A Novel

I read this for a local book club. I like the occasional foray into whodunits and murders. This one really was full of murders everywhere. The interspersed confessional kept things going in between what to me was less interesting bits of the present with the repetitively angry adoptive son and his out-of-his-league wife.<br/><br/>Really, it turned out everyone was terrible here, even the golden boy prodigal adoptive son. The pile up of twists in the back quarter of the book went maybe 1 or 2 too many. On the other hand, I appreciated that the adoptive son wasn't so dumb. Although in thinking about it just now it is kind of a betrayal to his portrayal throughout the entire book up until that moment.<br/><br/>The final-final twist was really what I was expecting, just not how exactly we got there with her. That part made me roll my eyes at the implausibility. What can you do, it's fiction. And entertaining enough at that. Recommended if you want a light and fast read of soapy murder full of rich sociopaths.

Finished reading 地縛少年 花子くん 0 [Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun 0]

Finished reading Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 1

Finished reading 地縛少年 花子くん 3

Wants to read Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam

Wants to read الحب والصمت

Wants to read Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Wants to read Elizabeth Finch

Wants to read What to Listen for in Music

Rated Moby-Dick or, The Whale 10/10

Wants to read The Confidence-Man

Wants to read Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future

Wants to read Thinking, Fast and Slow

Wants to read Don Quixote

Rated Quatre filles et un jean 8/10

Rated Le troisième été 8/10

Wants to read Lonesome Dove