#Paula Hawkins 2024

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"L'ora blu. Non è il momento di stare da soli" di Paula Hawkins. Recensione di Alessandria today

Benvenuti a Eris: un'isola con una sola casa, un solo abitante e una sola via d'uscita.

Benvenuti a Eris: un’isola con una sola casa, un solo abitante e una sola via d’uscita. TramaPaula Hawkins, l’autrice di bestseller come “La ragazza del treno”, ritorna con un thriller che intreccia suspense e introspezione. Eris, una remota isola scozzese, diventa il fulcro di un mistero profondo. Qui vive Grace, una donna che ha scelto la solitudine come rifugio dalla vita. Un tempo, questa…

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10 Exciting October 2024 Book Releases

We’re deep into fall now, and that means we’re starting to see Christmas books hit the shelves. I love the warmth of the holiday season, and so this list includes quite a few romances on it. Since I know a lot of you are cynics at heart, I’ve also mixed in some nonfiction and thrillers, so there’s something for everyone. Happy Autumn! Make the Season Bright Author: Ashley Herring…

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books read in 2024 📚

💖 > 👍 > ✅ > 👎

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett ✅

The Guest List by Lucy Foley 👎

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 💖

Pageboy by Elliot Page 👍

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 💖

Don't You Dare by C.E. Ricci 👎

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford ✅

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (1/3) 👍

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 💖

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar ✅

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 👍

The Lemon by S.E. Boyd ✅

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears ✅

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 👍

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson (.5/3) ✅

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 💖

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann ✅

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 💖

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson (2/3) 👍

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett 👍

The Girls by Emma Cline 👍

Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix 👍

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 💖

As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson (3/3) 👍

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ✅

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ✅

The Diviners by Libba Bray (1/4) 👍

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 💖

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer ✅

Educated by Tara Westover 👍

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart 👍

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins 👍

The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones 👍

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell 💖

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray (2/4) 💖

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 👍

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera ✅

The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden ✅

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood 💖

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 👍

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham 👍

The Only One Left by Riley Sager 👍

The Fury by Alex Michaelides 💖

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 💖

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn ✅

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner 👍

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters 👍

The Debutantes by Olivia Worley 💖

Weyward by Emilia Hart 💖

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 👍

Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton 👍

[aaronstveit]

read in 2024!

it's that time again! i loved doing reading threads in 2022 and 2023 so i will definitely be carrying on the tradition this year. as always, you can find me on goodreads and storygraph, and you're always welcome to message me about books!

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks and Stones by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Chirpbook by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (★★★★★)

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert** (★★★★☆)

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (★★★★★)

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (★★★☆☆)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (★★★☆☆)

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

Dream Work by Mary Oliver (★★★★☆)

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

Cain’s Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

You’ve Been Summoned by Lindsey Lamar** (★★☆☆☆)

The Seven Ages by Louise Glück (★★★★☆)

The Last Girl Left by A.M. Strong & Sonya Sargent** (★★★☆☆)

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Normal People by Sally Rooney (★★★★★)

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin** (★★★☆☆)

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (★★☆☆☆)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (★★★☆☆)

The Drowning Faith by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (★★★★★)

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

King Lear by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

All These Sunken Souls by assorted authors, edited by Circe Moskowitz (★★★★☆)

The Big Four by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton (★★☆☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

Jurassic Park by Michael (★★★☆☆)

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (★★★★★)

Violeta by Isabel Allende (★★★☆☆)

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (★★★★☆)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (★★★★☆)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (★★★★☆)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (★★★★★)

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (★★★★★)

Third Girl by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (★★★★★)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (★★★★★)

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz (★★★★★)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (★★★★★)

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd (★★★★☆)

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall (★★★☆☆)

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie* (★★★★★)

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (★★★★☆)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin* (★★★★★)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (★★★★☆)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (★★★★☆)

An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson (★★★☆☆)

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard (★★★★☆)

You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose (★☆☆☆☆)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (★★★★☆)

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (★★★★☆)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (★★★★☆)

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien* (★★★★★)

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (★★★★★)

4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (★★★★☆)

From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx (★★★★★)

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (★★★★★)

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

An asterisk (*) indicates a reread. A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.

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Books ive read in 2024

The Secret History - Donna Tratt(4/5)

People we meet on vacation - Emily Henry (3.5/5)

Lie with me - Phillippe Besson (5/5)

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan (3/5)(re-read)

Love is a dog from hell - Charles Bukowski (2/5)

My year of rest and relaxation - Ottesa Moshfegh(3.5/5)

The girl on the train -Paula Hawkins(3/5)

The death of Ivan Ilyich -Leo Tolstoy (4.5/5)

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"Sinine tund" - Paula Hawkins

Kirjastus: Helios Lehekülgi: 344 Ilmumisaasta: 2024 Ilma igasugusegi naljata võtsin antud raamatu puht juhuslikult riiulist kätte, mõttes paar-kümme minutit lugeda, kuniks uni tuleb. Kell oli niigi juba kõvasti üle südaöö, kuid oodatud Unemati polnud endiselt saabunud. Ent juba peale paari esimest lehekülge oli isegi see mikroskoopiline uneliivatolm näolt pühitud ja lugesin kuni varaste…

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Early November 2024 Reads

My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker White - I can’t remember where I stumbled upon this one. It had the makings to be good for a lot of the way through. But the ending was just ridiculous.

In the beginning of the book, teenager Eden nearly drowns. When she recovers, she believes she is her twin brother, Eli, who died in the womb. Eli died early in the pregnancy and was absorbed by Eden. Her current doctor believes this will pass, but as time goes on, it does not. And her mother begins to wonder if she truly is Eli. 

Don’t waste your time on this one. 2 stars. 

The Marvels by Brian Selznick  - This is an older Selznick release. It actually made me wonder when he’s coming out with another. Soon is what I discovered!

The first half of this one is told only in pictures. It’s the story of generations of an acting family tracing back to 1766. This part of the story stops suddenly in 1900. Then the writing starts. In the 1990s, we meet Joseph. He’s run away from his boarding school to find his uncle whom he’s never met in hopes that he takes him in. Obviously the two stories intertwine, but it was not done so in the way I thought. It was just a tad bit disappointing, but overall, a good story. Good characters. Well written. 4 stars. 

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune - The sequel to The House on the Cerulean Sea! I read the first one in one sitting in the car on the way to Kansas City two summers ago. So engrossed, I noticed nothing on that part of the ride. If I hadn’t started this later last Saturday night, it’d have been a one-sitting read. But it was a three-sitting-in-24-hours read. 

If you’ve not read The House on the Cerulean Sea, read it. Then read this. They will be amazing back-to-back. 

I know too many of you have read the first, and I hope that, like me, you go into the second blind. You’ll love it. 4 stars. 

The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin - I ordered this one long ago and didn’t realize Ruta Sepetys co-wrote it. I thought it was just her.  My guess is that each author wrote one of the characters: brother and sister Jakob and Lizzie Novis. The reader follows them at the title spot. I was unaware, but this is home to codebreakers in WWII London. We meet them in the summer of 1940 when Lizzie is supposed to be going to America to live with their grandmother. Instead, she outsmarts some adults to find Jakob. She is more interested in one specific part of the war. The part that killed their mother. So others believe. Lizzie is holding out hope that she is still alive and starts to believe that some messages she and her brother are receiving are from her mother. 

This one just didn’t grab me. The characters weren’t all that likable. The end was unsatisfying. 2 stars.

Looking forward to the next book Ruta Sepetys writes solo. 

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins - I was the first one in line for this at the library on its release day! It’s no Girl on the Train, but I liked it more than its two predecessors. 

The book is set on Eris: an island off the coast of Scotland. Only one person lives in the one house that stands there: unreachable only 12 hours a day due to the tides. Years ago it was home to a famous artist. Now it is home to Grace. 

A piece of art by said artist is on loan to a gallery in London when an expert discovers that the bone used to make it, believed to have been an animal bone, is actually a human bone. That’s when the secrets start to unravel. 

This is a psychological thriller through and through. The back-in-forth in time worked for me. The diary entries by Vanessa, the artist, were the highlight. Grace is a memorable character whose interesting backstory creeps slowly into present-day as the plot moves forward. 

I’m still not sure how I feel about the end. But it was quick, and I’m glad I read it.  3.5 stars (rounded to 4 on Goodreads)

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Paula Hawkins | THE BLUE HOUR Spoilers

The Book:  The Blue Hour by Paula HawkinsPublished October 29, 2024 by Mariner BooksDate read: October 22, 2024 Find more October 2024 releases here. The Blue Hour spoilers can be found below, but they’re hidden under a spoiler tag so you’re safe to keep scrolling if you’d just like to read my review. The Characters:  Becker – art dealerSebastian – Becker’s bossHelena – Becker’s wifeVanessa…

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The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday (10 Oct. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529938066ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529938067 Book Blurb WELCOME TO ERIS – A SCOTTISH TIDAL ISLAND WITH ONLY ONE HOUSE, ONE INHABITANT, ONE WAY OUT. . . A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose notoriously…

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JULY 2024

electric, courage, gold, divine purpose, destiny’s child - survivor, juicy couture, new leaf, bench, Fez, the girl on the train - Paula Hawkins, cheat code, childlike faith, zebra print, adrenaline, cause i love u still, bling, risk, subliminal signs, wordsearch, teal green, damn i gotta chill, to forgive or forget?, is it worth it for a check?, sunscreen, trust ur intuition, savings, routine, DNA, magenta pink, wisdom, only cause i know its real, pedicure, gata, idc to flex, funk, figuring it out, clear baby blue, digital camera, misunderstood, in the morning, revival, hibiscus, 21, new door, psalms

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First ever time I released to Tumblr… we’ll see how it goes..

New HD/DVD Video: The Prom - Stars Theatre - March 23, 2024 - California

Cast: Oliver Love as Emma Nolan, Josh Hefner as Barry Glickman, Elizabeth Heckathron as Dee Dee Allen, Danielle Chase as Angie Dickinson, Callie Stein-Wayne as Alyssa Greene, Amanda Locke O’Hearn as Mrs. Greene, Troy Fidis as Principal Hawkins, Angel Jessie Martinez as Trent Oliver, Jordan Espiritu as Sheldon Saperstein, Jenny Rejon as Kaylee, Faith Limbengco as Shelby, Brandon Antongiovanni as Nick, Brayden Robinson as Kevin, Kieron Oba as Ensemble, Kevin Valdez as Ensemble, Tirza Valdez as Ensemble, Jordan Perry as Ensemble, Payton Jones as Ensemble, Landon Antongiovanni as Ensemble, Reyna Abdool as Ensemble, Aurora Locke as Ensemble, Ruth Stein as Ensemble, Paula Einstein as Ensemble

Notes: Great HD Capture of the Closing Night of this production. There are a couple of heads that block any action at the bottom but, other than that, all the action is captured from there. This cast was incredible, how they aren’t the touring cast is my question, they’re very talented. A

Screencaps: https://www.flickr.com/gp/141838001@N03/q4dTobJC41

**Attention all, I’ve decided to not only do trades for this video but, also selling for the first time as well. Any payment that is made will be and always through PayPal at the moment**

Here is how it will work:

**To trade for this video, it will be a 2:1 trading ratio!**

**To buy the video, it will be $12**

Once receiving this video, it is **NFT until August 31, 2024** and **it can’t be shared on any online streaming/sharing site**

To inquire the video, please contact me either at thebootlegnerd@gmail.com or through the DM here on Discord!

[aaronstveit]

🗣️🐨🦩 for the ask game !!!!!!

hiiiii milo, tysm for asking 🫶🏻

🗣️ most-read author: according to storygraph, it's CS Lewis! i have been making my way through the chronicles of narnia this year so that checks out

🐨 an overhyped book: the girl on the train by paula hawkins. kinda the most overrated book of all time if we're being honest with ourselves.

🦩 a book you dnfed: hidden pictures by jason rekulak! my library loan expired and i was just. not interested in finishing.

2024 reading wrapped!

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Read More 2024 A Million Goodreads Readers Can't Be Wrong

A book with over a million Goodreads reviews.

Classics Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Brave New World by Aldous Huxley To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Fiction Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mystery And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

Thriller The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Romance It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Science Fiction and Fantasy The Midnight Library by Hatt Haig A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Martian by Andy Weir

Biography The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Educated by Tara Westover

Non-Fiction The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert The Odyssey by Homer

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what i‘ve read

(links to my own posts abt the respective books)

2024

frankenstein(mary shelley, reread)

the demon and miss prym (paulo coelho)

satyricon (petronius)

the word for world is forest (ursula k le guin)

2023

crime and punishment (dostoyevski)

life ceremony (sayaka murata)

rule of wolves (leigh bardugo)

in the penal colony (franz kafka)

undine (de la motte fouqué)

earthlings (sayaka murata)

dark matter (blake crouch)

the old man and the sea (ernest hemmingway)

the secret history (again.) (donna tartt)

annihilation (jeff vandermeer)

king of scars (leigh bardugo)

the little friend (donna tartt)

reeling (lola lafon)

fleisch mit weißer soße (christian schmacht)

tschick (why we took the car) (wolfgang herrndorf)

a little life (hanya yanagihara)

the left hand of darkness (ursula k. le guin)

2022

what i've read in 2022 (blogpost) 2022 reading recap (tag)

in my dreams i hold a knife (ashley winstead)

the gambler (dostoyevsky)

maurice (e. m. forster)

ninth house (leigh bardugo)

ordinary thunderstorms (william boyd)

tausend zeilen lüge (juan moreno)

the war of the worlds (h. g. wells)

entschuldigen sie meine störung (jan-uwe fitz)

dark side of the moon (martin suter)

the reader (bernhard schlink)

house of leaves (mark z danielewski)

the alchemist (paulo coelho)

versteckt (simon beckett)

letters to a young poet (rainer maria rilke)

the vampire diaries the return: nightfall (book 5, lisa j. smith, reread)

the vampire diaries 3+4 (lisa j. smith, reread)

ari and dante dive into the waters of the world (benjamin alire sáenz)

ari and dante discover the secrets of the universe (benjamin alire sáenz, reread)

moby dick (herman melville, abridged)

tender is the flesh (agustina bazterrica)

arsene lupin, gentleman burglar (maurice leblanc)

convenience store woman (sayaka murata)

the vampire diaries 1+2 (lisa j. smith, reread)

2021

what i‘ve read in 2021 (blogpost) 2021 reading recap (tag)

verity (colleen hoover)

the trial (franz kafka)

the stranger (albert camus)

six of crows and crooked kingdom (leigh bardugo)

shadow and bone (trilogy) (leigh bardugo)

one flew over the cuckoo’s nest (ken kesey)

the witcher (blood of elves) (andrzej sapkowski)

something in the water (catherine steadman)

marianengraben (jasmin schreiber)

do androids dream of electric sheep? (blade runner) (p. k. dick)

reykjavík noir (snare, trap, cage) (lilja sigurdadottir)

red white royal blue (casey mcquiston)

2020

what i‘ve read in 2020 (blogpost)

thirteen storeys (jonathan sims)

charley’s web (joy fielding)

stone butch blues (leslie feinberg)

the death of iwan ilyitsch (leo tolstoy)

the wicked cometh (laura carlin)

nach uns die pinguine (hans stein)

the tiger in the smoke (margery allingham)

the great gatsby (f. scott fitzgerald)

american gods (neil gaiman)

töchter (lucy fricke)

2019

the goldfinch (donna tartt)

macbeth (jo nesbo)

moriarty (anthony horowitz)

der pfau (isabel bogdan)

the girl on the train (paula hawkins)

lord of the flies (william golding)

if we were villains (m. l. rio)

fahrenheit 451 (ray bradbury)

2018 and earlier

trainspotting (irvene welsh)

the secret history (donna tartt)

a clockwork orange (anthony burgess)

the hound of the d'urbervilles (kim newman)

the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)

1984 (george orwell)

animal farm (george orwell)

frankenstein (mary shelley)

the vampire diaries (lisa j. smith)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (benjamin alire saenz)

love, simon. (becky albertally)

a long way down (nick hornby)

fight club (chuck palahniuk)

wonder (raquel j. palacio)

island of the blue dolphins (scott o’dell)

the girl with glass feet (ali shaw)

fever (karen marie moning)

insel der dämonen (torsten fink)

lots of sherlock holmes stories (arthur conan doyle)

lights on the sea (miquel reina)

schattensturm (andreas d. hesse)

rabenmond (jenny-mai nuyen)

tschick: why we took the car (wolfgang herrendorf)

to kill a mockingbird (harper lee)