My 15-year-old grandson recommended the Manga Uzumaki by Junji Ito. It is a creepy story of how the image of a spiral slowly drives an entire town into horrible, horrible behavior. So sinister. That said, the images were arresting. Junji Ito is a talented storyteller and artist. He explores various types of spirals, including staircases, snail shells, whirlwinds, and more. If you like Manga and horror, have I got a book for you!
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I have been reading Abby Jimenez this summer and enjoying it. Life's Too Short (The Friend Zone #3) became available this week. This book is both a standalone and also contains characters from other books. That made it a fun scavenger hunt of looking for past characters. Jimenez gives her character steep growth curves of troubles in the form of family, health, and toxic coping methods. The meet-cute is a famous YouTuber, Vanessa Price, and her baby niece is keeping her hot attorney neighbor up. Adrian Copeland comes to complain and ends up holding the baby so she can take a shower. Vanessa opens the eyes of this workaholic to the idea that there's more to life, and he challenges her live-in-the-moment philosophy. As always, there is a dog.
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I fell down an Emily Wilde's rabbit hole and read both book 2, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, and book 3, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales. I like the first book, but I really like the second book better. The third and final book of the series provided a satisfactory ending. I was surprised that both books were available on Libby, as I thought I would be on a waiting list. Heather Fawcett has created a delightfully academic (nerdy) heroine. There is a romance that compels the book, but what stands out is Emily. She is usually the one doing the rescuing due to her extensive studies, a strong moral compass, and her compassion for the underdog, as well as her bravery. The book doesn't describe her as wearing glasses, but in my mind, she does. This is a solid, likable fantasy series.
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I have been reading Martha Grimes for over thirty years, so we are both mature. The Red Queen is the most recent in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Because I have known the two main characters, Richard Jury, a Scotland Yard Detective, and his good friend, Melrose Plant, the talented amateur who can get into places Jury can't. Grimes has a knack for quirky, memorable characters that recur. In many ways, she reminds me of Louis Penny. The Red Queen's plot wasn't as tight as that of previous books, but it featured interesting backstories for two essential side characters. I wonder if this will be the last mystery in the series.
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