#the guest list

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Reading with a view

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Your words, so divine

THE GUEST LIST Loose Tongue — dir. Ewan Ogden

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A very VERY desperate attempt to get noticed by the bookblr community with the books I have read and would cry happy tears if I get to yap about

(I ammma follow you back toooo Cuz no one I know irl is In the same boat as me and the kdrama community on tumblr literally brings me so much joy I really wanna find more people for books too)

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➳ My 2023 reads ⋆˚

ˏˋ The Guest List by Lucy Foley ˊˎ "boys will be boys"

[perksofbeingpoet]

guys you don't know how much adoration i have for 161 by The Guest List and Ruby Fields by Sarah and the Sundays-

soo if anyone wants to listen to the music Neil Perry (and me) listen to, go ahead and put those ones on. it's canon that Neil listens to them.

[safirefire]

The Guest List by Lucy Foley [X]

I really enjoyed this audiobook. A picture perfect high-achieving couple is getting married on a remote Irish island. The bride’s side has complicated family dynamics and everyone is harboring a secret it seems. The groom’s side is comprised of his friends from an intense boarding school they attended as children. Everyone seems happy for the couple, but then something horrifying happens at the wedding. The audiobook was well narrated and I’d love similar recommendations if you have any.

[paperbaacks]

review:

“But it’s all about the moment, a wedding. All about the day. It’s not really about the marriage at all, in spite of what everyone says.”

what the fuck did i just read??? this was so much false advertising?? the blurb made me think that this would be something like and then there were none or glass onion but this was just... a complete snoozefest.

none of the plot twists hit the way the author thought they would. in fact, stephen's is the only plot twist i didn't see coming. everything else, and i mean everything else was insanely predictable. god what a waste.

i was rooting for this book so hard because i desperately wanted to read a fun little mystery. alas...

do me a favour, just read a heavy spoiler-y goodreads review or something instead of reading the actual book. you'll save yourself so much time.

[theblackestofsuns]

"The Guest List"

Perla La Loca (2007)

Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

[samduqs]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (novellas)

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 💫

Héroes Mitológicos by M. R. Padilla

Lord of Swans by Amberlyn Holland

King of Beasts by Amberlyn Holland

The Forgotten Room by Licoln Child

Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne 💫

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July 2023 Wrap Up

July was a great month. We had a wonderful weeklong vacation in Gloucester, MA with my in-laws, celebrated the two year anniversary of adopting our cats, and got to spend plenty of time with friends. I certainly can't complain about my summer so far!

Books Read: 15

Look at me go! My favorite new read was The Travelling Cat Chronicles, which is now my favorite book of the year. I also learned upon rereading Mansfield Park that I actually really like it. And of course I had a great time rereading my ultimate comfort books: the All for the Game series. My least favorite was Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, which I found completely disappointing. I like Rich's prose works a lot, but her poetry doesn't agree with me. Books marked with ® are rereads.

The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant by Margaret Oliphant - 3.5 stars

Under Two Flags by Ouida - 3.5

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen - 4 stars

Blush: Faces of Shame by Elspeth Probyn - 3 stars

Thief Liar Lady by D. L. Soria - 5 stars

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962 by Adrienne Rich - 2 stars

Cujo by Stephen King - 5 stars

The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood - 4 stars

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 5 stars ®

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 5 stars

A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh, edited by Kathryn Sutherland - 4 stars

The Guest List by Lucy Foley - 4 stars

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The Raven King by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

The King's Men by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars ®

On Tumblr:

Look, I have things here! I've started posting book photos again, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. There are also some lovely pictures of the cats taken at the kennel where they boarded during our vacation. I highly recommend checking them out because my boys are adorable (and clearly I'm not biased at all).

June Wrap Up

Tagged: Mid-Year Book Freak Out

Book Photography: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Book Photography: Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

Book Photography: Vacation Book Haul!

Book Photography: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Book Quotes: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

Book Quotes: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Cat Photography: Butters and Pippin at the Kennel

aliteraryprincess' 40 Classics to Read Before 40

On YouTube:

Not as much here as usual because I took a week off from filming during the vacation. But to make up for it I have an almost hour long video ranting about Twilight, so 🤷‍♀️

Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2023

June Wrap Up - 13 books!!!

Currently Reading 7/16/23

Rereading the Twilight Saga as an Adult

August TBR

Fairy Tale Friday: The Shadow in the Glass by JJA Harwood

[good-books-to-read]

Travel Destination: Ireland Part 2

The Surface Breaks by Louise O’Neill

Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice?

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue

After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette's Catholic school. But when Maeve's ex-best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn't at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.

Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues, even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself.

Rock Paper Killers by Alexia Mason

The ROCK she fell from . . .

The PAPER she clutched . . .

The KILLERS she thought were friends . . .

When five Dublin teenagers arrive at a rural coastal college to cram for their final exams, their most pressing concern is the prospect of a month with no partying. Little do they know that one of them will never make it back home.

In the Woods by Tana French

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox, his partner and closest friend, find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: a rising television star. The bride: magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.

The the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn't wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

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The Guest List - Loose Tongue

[kenz1frenz1]

I thought I couldn't read anymore but it turns out I will get through a book in two days if the gossip is good enough

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The Midnight Feast Review

I am already a dedicated Lucy Foley fan so I am so happy to have received The Midnight Feast from Netgalley. I have enjoyed all of Foley’s books thus far, but her previous release The Paris Apartment was not my fave. Foley has bounced back spectacularly in The Midnight Feast. As usual, her characters are complex and compelling, especially the unlikeable ones.

For the full review of this title, see my Medium page and my website.

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