Welcome to #checkin for Saturday, September 27, 2025!
Good evening/afternoon/morning, everyone, and welcome to today's #checkin. It seems like I forgot to put the list with people yesterday evening! Sorry! Just finished a nice Scandinavian crime thriller about the fate of a missing teacher in a small Swedish village/town. It was really well written and really thrilling. I don't want to spoil it here, but the ending was definitely not what I expected, at least not in that way. Besides reading, I also just finished watching the first season of NCIS Origins. I've been a huge fan of the whole NCIS universe, and I really like this new and different approach, especially as its focus is on the characters and their problems/dark sides.
So did you read anything, or are you planning to read something this autumn? Or also maybe looking forward to a movie or TV series?
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in reply to Christoph S • • •So I am reading them.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •so I'm awaiting the Fall shows, so far a mystery
I don't read books anymore, due to my eyes' rebellion -- weird since I grew up in books and spent the much greater portion of my life reading. I read articles online, but very little fiction.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •I'm looking forward to new Charlie Stross and the third volume of The Book of Dust. There are other authors I always await: Laurie R. King's Mary Russel series, Louise Penney's Gamache. Seems all the authors I discovered in the early naughties are getting old and writing less, and I haven't yet really bonded with any of the newer ones.
As far as streaming goes, I just signed up for a 3-month starter subscription to amazon prime, and wouldn't you know it, I've already gotten about 50 dollars worth of shipping for my 24 dollar eventual expense. I've got plans to get another 50 to 100 dollars worth. I sure hope this doesn't harm Amazon in any way. I probably shouldn't behave this way. Probably nobody should behave this way.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •One Battle After Another (2025) ⭐ 8.5 | Action, Crime, Drama
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in reply to Christoph S • • •I am re-reading Sinclair Lewis' "Arrowsmith" - Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1925.
(Other Sinclair Lewis books are due for a re-read: Elmer Gantry, Main Street, It Can't Happen Here [although the play is much better than the book.])
As for NCIS - for a while we considered doing a pop-up version: We'll come to your town and do "NCIS - "
Thinking of crime and places - One would be wise to avoid Cabot Cove - from the TV series (Murder She Wrote) it seems that a life insurance policy there would be very, very expensive.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •I'm currently reading Stories Are Weapons by Annalee Newitz. Newitz presents a lot of information on how corporates have been using psyops techniques to manipulate US people and influence electoral outcomes, particularly in the sphere of social media but not only. They are also a fan of the Fediverse!
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- "This Delicate Murder" by Henrietta Penelope "Penny" Mercer (pen name of Jack Vahey) Originally published 1933. Finished on 9/24 (Wed). 4 Stars out of 5. A good book of the period, though more in the end a procedural rather than a cozy murder mystery or an action tale. The final solution of the method comes down to a property of period firearms and how an English "weekend shooting party" carries out a fall bird hunt on a country estate.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •Side note:
I often see things like Rod's "Reading now:" blurb above, but with no image, although it looks like there should be one. Is this some kind of Diaspora situation, or perhaps some kind of timeout that gives me text but not images? Or something?
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