Coromoron Strike: The Running Grave

Book seven of the Cormoran Strike series arrived yesterday (the release day)! I started it and it's already intense! 

I should humorously add that the thickness of this book is roughly half an inch less that its predecessor. 

Previous Books:

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Silkworm

Career of Evil

Lethal White

Troubled Blood

The Ink Black Heart

 

A Fool For Good - A Study on Peregrin "Pippin" Took

If we are completely honest The Lord of The Rings is about the Hobbits. The story starts and ends with them and most of the story is from their POVs. Even though they are regarded as simple creatures, there is a great deal of depth and understanding that the four (five counting Bilbo) possess. There's Bilbo's character arc from a country bumpkin to a famed adventurer, Frodo's sacrifice, Sam's bravery and Merry's cleverness. 

And then there's Pippin, the youngest of the group (still a child by Hobbit standards), the clumsy, awkward one, who lives in everyone's shadow, who's always saying the wrong thing, doing the wrong thing, never really knowing his place; and certainly getting into enough trouble to earn him him his nickname, "Fool of a Took," by Gandalf. What does this confused and often misunderstood character bring to the story?

A Tolkien Blog Party 2023 - Kick off Tag and Giveaway

 

A Tolkien Blog Party has officially arrived!!!

Musical Aesthetics Answer - September

The answer to September's Musical Aesthetic is...

Guess the Musical Aesthetics - September

🍁🍂This was a difficult one! 

And possibly the prettiest one I've made so far.

Answer reveal on Saturday!

Happy guessing🍂🍁

Goodreads Review: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

   

 

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If Agatha Christie and Steven Moffat decided to have a literary baby together this novel would be the product. That's about the best description I can give. This book was both extremely creative and original; at the same time you feel that you're running a mental marathon in the dark. With a title like The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle it's hard not to be curious as to what the content might be. How does one die 7 1/2 times?

Aiden Bishop wakes up one morning to find himself at Blackheath House with little to no memory of anything else. Even crazier is that Aiden is not in his own body and he will never be able to return to his former life until he uncovers the identity of the murderer of Evelyn Hardcastle. It is predicted that Evelyn will be killed every night for eight nights. Everyday is a race against the clock to track down Evelyn's murderer who is one of the many residents at Blackheath. All of them Aiden must inhabit to know their true intentions. Even if it means having to discover the absolute worse.

Think of The Murder on The Orient Express only Poirot has the POV of all of the suspects. I was intrigued from the very first page, but there was a great deal of back and forth going on as well. Just as you were getting somewhere with one person's story, time ran out and you were back to someone else. As the week progresses more of Aiden's past life is revealed and it only gets stranger and more unreal with each passing day.

As a whole I enjoyed the book. It definitely merits a re-read! It was unique in its telling and certainly had a wide variety of characters and personal stories. And if life inside of Blackheath was bizarre nothing can prepare you for the life outside of it.

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

 

 

Even with the popularity of Bridgerton and the anticipation for season 3, I don't think anyone could have expected the absolute success of the prequel series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story which centers on the young Queen Charlotte and her early marriage to King George III. When the show premiered on Netflix in early May it literally took the world by the storm. After viewing a few clips from the show, my mind was made up and I finally sat down and binge watched season one and season two of Bridgerton in one week!