#emma stonex

[itacoisa]

19 de julho de 2023. Quarta-feira.

O Farol de Emma Stonex conta a história de três homens que desapareceram em um farol situado em uma formação rochosa de difícil acesso e sob condições bem suspeitas, já que os relógios do local estavam parados no mesmo horário, a mesa estava posta para apenas duas pessoas e a entrada estava trancada por dentro...

Por isso, após 20 anos, um escritor decide que seu próximo livro será sobre esses desaparecimentos.

Essa deve ser a quarta leitura para o >em busca do suspense do ano< e, por enquanto, está sendo a mais promissora.

O livro reveza entre os pontos de vistas dos faroleiros e das esposas de cada um deles lidando com o escritor (que para elas é um enxerido) e revisitando o passado. Além disso, há alguns capítulos que se tratam de cartas ou partes de diários.

Basicamente é isso, eu estou bem intrigado com a história, apesar de que tudo que foi revelado até agora está escondido nas entrelinhas, não tendo nada surpreendente.

Estou em 37% do livro e agora aquele dúvida, que quase todo suspense tem, se o que aconteceu foi algo sobrenatural ou não, já se dissipou, por isso a história urge por um grande acontecimento.

A escrita da autora consegue ser bonita quando quer e as esposas são bem intrigantes, já os maridos ainda não vi muito deles. Inclusive, os capítulos em que as esposas são entrevistas pelo escritor é basicamente só as respostas delas (e eu amei isso) — até porque, o escritor não possui nenhum fala, haha, pelo menos até agora.

E é isso.

O começo intrigante a autora entregou, agora quero respostas para o caos começar a acontecer.

[midnights-wish]

“Helen's never been one to think she was put here to look after me, it's against her nature to think a woman's in the least bit responsible for that, but all the same I'm not sure she likes it - that I don't need her in any practical way. I wish she knew the other ways I needed her. Invisible ways. Important ways.” 

Emma Stonex, 'The Lamplighters'.

[midnights-wish]

This makes me think about 'The Lamplighters' by Emma Stonex. <3

𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 & 𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥

[anolis3]

"The Lamplighters", by Emma Stonex.

"We stood a moment, still tongue-tied : And each with black foreboding eyed The door, ere we should fling it wide, To leave the sunlight for the gloom.", from Flannan Isle, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.

"A morning so beautiful you wonder that heaven isn't already here if only we took the time to look up and see.", from The Lamplighters.

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Listening to this, this evening.

[lizardgimpking]

Book Review: The Lamplighters (Emma Stonex).

Sometimes, you just buy a book because the cover is cool, y’know? This one immediately grabbed my attention last year because of its distinct looking cover-art, and that, paired with its promise of a lighthouse based mystery thriller meant when I saw it for sale in a charity shop a month or so ago, I just knew I had to give it a go. And...well...uhh...it’s okay? Hm.

Told from multiple perspectives across two periods of time, ‘The Lamplighters’ chronicles the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in the early 70s, and then follows the wives/lovers they left behind as they’re interviewed by an author about it in the 90s. The way the book sets itself up, you feel like it’s going to be a investigation based thriller where the author tries to piece together the truth behind the seemingly impossible nature of the men’s disappearance. Ultimately though, the direction it take is far slower and unfocused than that, for better in small parts and for worse in others. It’s better in the sense that it really captures the mood and atmosphere of living in the isolating and sea-swept environment of a lighthouse, and indeed living in the isolating and melancholy aftermath of a great loss. If there’s one thing this book does really well, it’s that it really soaks every page with the vibes of its central location, and all the romantic imagery and inner-darkness that comes with it. If you’re a fan of that often quite brutal but all the same still alluring nautical atmosphere, this is gonna be a book that really hooks you in with its strong imagery. I did find myself less enamoured with a lot of the rest of the book, mind. The way in which it tells its story, jumping back and forth between two timelines, with multiple character perspectives in both, but only really giving you some sense of a revelation right at the very end? It can prove a little tedious. Rather than being an intriguing mystery or a slowburn thriller, this is mostly just a mood-piece that dangles an opening intrigue at you and then proceeds to do very little with it, beyond explore the emotional ramifications in increasingly unoriginal ways. Maybe it’s to do with expectations, but given a quote on the back of the book calls it ‘Thrilling’, maybe it’s more that it was mis-sold.

This is more of a pet peeve (And maybe a spoiler as to the direction the book takes so maybe skip this paragraph if you intend to read it), but mystery novels that tease larger, possibly even supernatural concepts at play and then take a long time to reveal something far less interesting fob me off quite a bit. I’ve read a few books of this nature, which tease ghosts and entities at work, only to then ignore that in favour of a more mundane conclusion, and whilst this particular one delivers a little of what could be considered a wider scope, it ultimately chose to underwhelm in its main revelation. At least in my opinion. Also, there’s a narrative thread which teases a lot of potentials and then the book’s conclusion ultimately completely ignores it...and I really don’t like that kinda SHIT. Misdirection perhaps, but it doesn’t work in a book that’s so slow and so lacking in interesting revelations throughout.

I didn’t hate ‘The Lamplighters’, but it did disappoint me. There’s some great atmosphere and imagery to be had throughout its reasonably short read, but it over-promises and under-delivers, and along the way tells a rather straight forward story in a protracted and convoluted nature. If you go into this just looking for a moody slowburn mystery, with melancholy romance and darkness to spare? You’ll probably enjoy it quite a bit. I was looking for something more intriguing, especially given that striking cover and promises of thrills, and ultimately...whilst not dreadful by any means, I didn’t come out of it fully satisfied. Ah well!   

Read it or Leave it : Unsure. Reading Next (Ender’s Game by Some Twat *Won’t be Reviewed*)

[withsomejam]

The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex

The Lamplighters is a fictional tale based and inspired by a real mystery. Stonex was intrigued by the mystery of three lighthouse keepers who inexplicably disappeared from their lighthouse off the coast of the island of Eileen Mòr in the Outer Hebrides. The discovery was made in December 1900 and was made famous by its extraordinary circumstances that surrounded it; which perplexed all. The door…

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Last song you listened to - Closer by Tegan and Sara

Currently watching - reruns of The Twilight Zone, the last season of The Blacklist, and the current season of Law and Order: SVU

Currently reading - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

Current obsession - nothing, tbh

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[poibynt]

Now that change your mind/Harbinger has come to a close, which is a crazy thought, I’m going to name a couple inspirations and recommendations I have.

IF YOU LIKED THIS TRY THIS:

I took a lot of inspiration for this fic from a lot of different places. Here’s some of them.

If you liked the late night driving, magic and ruminations on the US interstate system (as well as my chapter titles, which are all quotes from this game strung together into a poem): Kentucky Route Zero. KRZ is a point and click adventure game about a delivery man stumbling into a secret underground highway system named route zero. Seriously if you even remotely like the vibes of this fic consider this game it was a HUGE inspiration and also a great piece of storytelling.

If you liked the setting, the spirits and me waking poetic about rivers/water: The Silt Verses. Silt Verses is a dark fantasy/religious/folk horror fiction podcast about two followers of an illegal god named the Trawler Man travelling down their sacred river in search of revelations. Really compelling urban fantasy in this one.

If you liked the lighthouses, vague supernatural things happening in lighthouses, ruminations on family and me waking poetic about water: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (I actually read this after this fic was written but shhh). It’s a supernatural thriller/mystery. A writer sets out to uncover the truth behind the odd disappearance of 4 lighthouse keepers in the 70s decades later by interviewing their wives. It’s also a much better depiction of how lighthouses work.

If you liked Boba’s post Jango childhood: Wild Pork and Watercress/Hunt for the Wilderpeople. After the death of his foster mother a Māori boy named Ricky flees into the bush with his “uncle” Hector to evade returning to the foster system which sets off a nationwide manhunt. I haven’t read the book but the movie is excellent & surprisingly wholesome.

If you’re interested in US interstate horror, road trips and Americana: Alice isn’t Dead. A supernatural horror podcast about a woman who becomes a trucker to find her missing wife Alice. There is a hole in the center of America and something rotten is seeping out type beat.

If you liked the characters, quiet everyday magic, the concept of naturally occurring magical disasters & questionable parents: the raven cycle by Maggie Steivater. A book series about 5 fucked up teenagers in small town Virginia looking to wake a dead welsh king so he may grant them a favour.

If you liked Jango and his many children, the short story Mayday by Maria Dahvana Headley from the anthology collection Sword, Stone, Table. The life and fall of Arthur Pendragon as told through descriptions of items, letters and news articles found in an abandoned Lake Erie lighthouse being auctioned off in the 1970s.

[itacoisa]

8 de agosto de 2023. Terça-feira.

No dia 6 de agosto (domingo), eu conclui FINALMENTE a leitura de O Farol da Emma Stonex.

Em suma, o livro conta a história de 3 homens que desapareceram em um isolado farol em que trabalhavam. Acontece que há alguns detalhes estranhos: os relógios do farol estavam parados no mesmo horário e a mesa estava posta para dois...

O livro se passa em duas linhas do tempo: em 1972, o ano do desaparecimento, com os relatos dos faroleiros e em 1992, com o ponto de vista das esposas dos desaparecidos.

Apesar do mistério intrigante, o que achei mais interessante na história foi o drama, principalmente relacionado ao passado de alguns personagens e como as esposas lidaram com a tragédia. No entanto, eu queria era saber do farol e do mistério.

Talvez por isso, eu não tenha achado que seja um suspense avassalador e dado as 3 estrelas.

A conclusão do mistério é boa até, mas nada de extraordinária.

Acho que, se você for pegar esse livro com a expectativa de um thriller, você vai sair um pouco decepcionado... Acredito que tendo ideia de que vai ter um draminha no meio é melhor.

No momento em que escrevo esse post, estou morrendo de sono, por isso, mesmo sentindo que tenho muito para comentar, não faço ideia do que.

Mas de qualquer forma, eu recomendo muito a leitura, já que querendo ou não, tem algumas reviravoltas interessantes e uns personagens intrigantes. Inclusive, ela é bem boa para ler com alguém.

O livro é quase um suspense incrível ou um livro de drama surpreendente, bem como, poderia ser bem bonito e introspectivo ou ser aquela leitura para viciante para ler em 1 dia, mas não é... E ta tudo bem, foi quaaaase tudo isso.

/// #embuscadosuspensedoano2023

Obviamente, apesar do início promissor, O Farol não se tornou um grande candidato para o suspense do ano (mesmo assim, acho que ele vai envelhecer bem). Vamos à disputa parcial:

Um pressentimento funesto

Death Note #1

O Farol

M ou N

Acerto de contas

Por hora, vou dar uma pausa nesses livros de suspense e dar início a leitura mais diferente que tiver aqui, haha. Depois, como estou um pouco preocupado em não achar o livro que faça jus ao título do suspense do ano, pretendo ler os dois livros que são as minhas apostas, só que não vou dizer quais são, rs.

[midnights-wish]

“Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore.” 

Emma Stonex, 'The Lamplighters'.

[tagesmosaik]

23 books for 2023

Thanks to @booksnpictures <3 I came up with my list of 23 books I plan to read in 2023. To be fair, I am more of a mood reader and I prefer to pick my next read according to that. So let’s see if I’ll get through it. Maybe it would be more appropriate to call the list something like 23 (or more) books that have been sitting on my shelf, patiently waiting for their time.

Anyway, here they are:

1. Deutsch – Karl-Heinz Göttert

2. Schnee – Orhan Pamuk (orig. Kar)

3. Die Überlebenden – Axel Schulman (orig. Överleverna) ✔️

4. In deinen Händen – Inês Pedrosa (orig. Nas Tuas Mãos)

5. Die Einsamkeit der Seevögel – Gøhril Gabrielsen (orig. Ankomst) ✔️

6. Ein kleines Buch vom Leben auf dem Land – Agnes Ravatn (orig. Verda er en skandale. Ei lita bok om livet på landet) ✔️

7. Die Kinder hören Pink Floyd – Alexander Gorkow

8. Goethe ruft an – John von Düffel

9. North of here – Laurel Saville

10.* Maya (orig. Maya) or Slottet i Pyrenæerne (orig. Slottet i Pyreneerne) or Der Geschichtenverkäufer (orig. Sirkusdirektørens datter) or Das Leben ist kurz (orig. Vita brevis) or Durch einen Spiegel, in einem dunklen Wort (orig. I et speil, i et gåte) or Das Kartengeheimnis (orig. Kabalmysteriet) – Jostein Gaarder

11. Hans Christian Andersen Kopenhagen – Ulrich Sonnenberg ✔️

12. The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood

13. Der Meister und Margarita – Michail Bulgakow (orig. Master i Margarita)

14. Drachenläufer – Khaled Hosseini (orig. The Kite Runner)

15. Die rote Antilope – Henning Mankell (orig. Vindens son)

16. Das geheime Leben der Bäume – Peter Wohlleben

17. Zurück zur Realität – Werner Große

18.* Homo Deus. A Brief History of Tomorrow or 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert (orig. 21 Lessons for the 21. Century) or Sapiens. Et kort historie om menneskeheden (orig. A Short History of Humankind) – Yuval Noah Harari

19. Kurze Antworten auf große Fragen – Stephen Hawking (orig. Brief Answers to the Big Questions)

20. Wie ich eines schönen Morgens im April das 100%ige Mädchen sah – Haruki Murakami

21. Das Leuchten der Rentiere – Ann-Helén Laestadius (orig. Stöld) ✔️

22. In Every Mirror She’s Black – Lola Akinmade Åkerström ✔️

23. Schloss aus Glas – Jeanette Walls (orig. The Glass Castle) ✔️

* I couldn’t decide which one to put on the list. All I know is that somehow I happened to accumulate this stack of books and that I really want to read more by those authors.

Not on✨the list✨:

- Hannahs Lied - Maren Uthaug (orig. Hvor der er fugle) ✔️

- Blackout Island - Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir (orig. Eyland) ✔️

- Alte Sorten - Ewald Arenz ✔️

- Der Traum von einem Baum - Maja Lunde (orig. Drømmen om et tre) ✔️

- Kirmes im Kopf. Wie ich als Erwachsene herausfand, dass ich AD(H)S habe - Angelina Boerger ✔️

- Lektionen - Ian McEwan (orig. Lessons) ✔️

- Charlotte - David Foenkinos ✔️

- Piccola Sicilia - Daniel Speck ✔️

- Der Papierpalast - Miranda Cowley Heller (orig. The Paper Palace) ✔️

- Offene See - Benjamin Myers (orig. Open Sea) ✔️

- Fünf Viertel einer Orange - Joanne Harris (orig. Five-Quarters of the Orange) ✔️

- Hope Street - Campino ✔️

- Und so kam es - Maren Uthaug (orig. Og sådan blev det) ✔️

- Die Leuchtturmwärter - Emma Stonex (orig. The Lamplighters) ✔️

- Was man von hier aus sehen kann - Mariana Leky ✔️

- Die Birken wissen's noch - Lars Mytting (orig. Svøm med dem som drukner) ✔️

- Wintering. The power of rest and retreat in difficult times - Katherine May ✔️

- Während die Welt schlief - Susan Abulhawa (orig. Mornings in Jenin) ✔️

[no-i-will-not-shut-up]

the lamplighters by emma stonex ending in looney toons level antics was not what i expected

[alexmotamots]

Les gardiens du phare - Emma STONEX

1972, un jour de fin décembre, au phare de Maiden Rock en Cornouailles, la relève ne trouve aucune des 3 personnes devant s’occuper du phare. 1992, un auteur à succès tente d’éclaircir le mystère et contact les 3 veuves. J’ai aimé l’alternance entre 1972 dans le phare et 1992, le point de vue des femmes. J’ai aimé découvrir peu à peu les pensées des maris et les sentiments de leur femme. J’ai…

[qocsuing]

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex review – a superb debut

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex review – a superb debut

On New Year’s Eve 1972, a boat arrives at the Maiden Rock lighthouse, 15 nautical miles southwest of Land’s End, to relieve assistant keeper and family man Bill Walker from a two-month tour of duty. But Walker, principal keeper Arthur Black and their junior Vincent Bourne have all disappeared without trace, leaving the door barred, the table laid and the clocks stopped at a quarter to nine. Twenty years later, in an attempt to solve the stubborn mystery, a young writer of maritime adventure stories comes to interview the women the lighthousemen left behind – and thus is launched Emma Stonex’s superbly accomplished debut novel The Lamplighters.To get more news about stonex review, you can visit wikifx.com official website.

As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity, in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible. It brushes against us as we sleep, more real than home, more dangerous than the gun in the drawer. I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I was hoping you would consider taking the step of supporting the Guardian’s journalism.

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[borkthemork]

[I love that you’re reading the Book Thief, that’s my favorite!] Last Comic/Manga: Whale Fall by Mara Ramirez

Last Novel: The Obsidian Gate by N.K. Jemisin. Excellent book, you should read it.

Currently Reading: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Long Live Freedom by Peter Norman Waage. 

Next: Way too many to talk about, but Icelandic Folktales by Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson and an Irish mythology anthology edited by W.B. Yeats.

@calamity-unlocked​ @bloop-arts​ @cute-as-buttons​ and @followerofmercy​ for the game!

i was tagged by @satans-poptarts in a reading tag game!! yay! thank you, tj, and i hope this will motivate me to start the books in my tbr once i'm finished with the things i'm currently reading T_T

last book

comics/manga: blue period, volume 13, by tsubasa yamaguchi

novel: queen kong, by hélène vignal

currently reading

novels: le bord du monde est vertical, by simon parcot ; gideon la neuvième, by tamsyn muir

next

comics/manga: the rest of blue period ; ranma ½, by rumiko takahashi ; jujutsu kaisen, by gege akutami ; blue box, by kouji miura ; darwin's incident by shun umezawa ; my broken mariko, by waka hirako ; reigen by one, lightfall by tim probert

novels: harrow la neuvième, by tamsyn muir ; an oresteia by anne carson ; le prieuré de l'oranger and un jour de nuit tombée by samantha shannon ; red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston ; l'orage qui vient by louise mey ; odyssées arméniennes by jean-claude parcot ; une chambre à soi by virginia woolf ; le carnet d'or by doris lessing, and many, many other books i will not be listing because it would be way too long--i've had them for years and still haven't read them. ough. <- guy who is suffering and frustrated and wants to read more

(also, yes, i'm putting the french titles of the books i'm reading translated editions of. along the french titles of french books ofc)

tagging @reloaderror @wolfsnape @punchable-panda @eliounora @spoopy-sloth @clemjolichose @gods-nico @rynnaaurelius @inkypines @niimuue @astromanced @aanau @homogranates and anyone who wants to do it 📚🎐🎏📫💓