My Square Markers and "Virgin" Bingo Card: "Virgin" card posted for ease of tracking and comparison, as called and read squares will, bit by bit, vanish behind my markers and everybody's cards are different. Black Kitty:Read but not called Black Vignette:Called but not read Black Kitty in Black ...
I finished this book and then was gone for a couple of days, so I haven't had the chance to write up my review. I can't post reviews on my phone - I get too irritated at having to use those on-screen keyboards! I absolutely loved this book. Woolrich's writing is extremely sparse, and is perfect fo...
A man with a broken leg notices a neighbor's wife seems to have gone missing. Is she in the hospital, out of town, or dead?When a man ain’t got nothing to do but just sit all day, he sure can think up the blamest things—Most of us know the basic plot of Rear Window (aka It Had to be Murder), even i...
bookshelves: published-1943, noir, pulp, mystery-thriller, autumn-2015, film-only, north-americas, us-los-angeles, under-500-ratings Read from October 25 to 26, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAord...Description: A novel as hypnotic as it is suspenseful, its atmosphere haunting, its shado...
Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, noir, mystery-thriller, published-1946 Recommended for: Laura, Wanda et al Read from January 10 to 23, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9T0m...Description: Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearf...
Not as good as some of Cornell Woolrich's other novels but still well above the herd. Typically outrageous plot that we actually don't care much about as long as it carries the suspense. Woolrich supplies the usual twist and doesn't telegraph it too early. Full of metaphor and simile like all good n...
A book that grew on me as I read it. At first I didn't know what to think. The plot was too unbelievable for even Woolrich, too many turns of fate, the Deus ex machina on every other page. I finally realized it was all allegory. Fantasy isn't believable either but we somehow still believe that wizar...
Bizarre and outrageously plotted little mysteries that are hard to describe - a guy's girlfriend disappears while they are walking to dinner and nobody will believe she was ever real, a guy stuffs a corpse in his luggage so he can dump it at sea only to have the cop he shares a cabin with suspect th...
The story starts with a woman on a mission of an unknown revenge. As the story unfolds, we come to see how she plays out her revenge, though the motives are not revealed. The atmosphere I’m reading this tense and unnerving, with just the right amount of sinister mix in. I like it so much though I ca...
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