A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched Ready or Not. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10. If you like this movie you also might like Abigail and vice versa.
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonists come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched Alien: Romulus. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.
In the evening Esme and I watched 17 Again. The movie was OK and I give it a 6 out of 10.
The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal. Tragedy strikes close to home. And Scarpetta must match Grethen’s every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her. . . .
In the evening I started in Point of Origin, Scarpetta book 9 by Patricia Cornwell.
In the evening I finished The Waiting, a Ballard and Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. I liked the story a lot: very good.
After Garfield's unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
In the early evening Alice, Esme, and I watched The Garfield Movie. The movie was OK and I give it a 6 out of 10.
A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight and hide before her body shuts down.
In the late evening I watched Don't Move. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
In the afternoon I finished Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø. I liked the story a lot: very good!
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.
Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.
Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch.
At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch’s daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of lost souls—a case that may be the most iconic in the city’s history.
In the evening I started in The Waiting, a Ballard and Bosch novel by Michael Connelly.
After Jaiden had unpacked his brand new laptop Lina decided to take over the now empty box the computer had arrived in.
Sheryl Bradshaw, a single woman looking for a suitor on a hit 1970s TV show, chooses charming bachelor Rodney Alcala, unaware that, behind the man's gentle facade, he hides a deadly secret.
In the evening Esme and I watched Woman of the Hour. The movie was a bit slow for me so I give it a 6 out of 10.
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched American Made. I liked the movie a lot and give it an 8 out of 10.
By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they’re doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area’s swanky and successful spa and hotel, while Roy runs a nearby gas station and harbors grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park, complete with a roller coaster. But when news breaks about a new highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cutoff and isolated, it’s clear that something has to be done . . . even if the methods are bound to be dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work.
Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a slate of unsolved murders from years past—including that of his own father. And just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. It’s like Roy says about his roller coaster: “Once it’s rolling, it’s too late to get off.”
In the evening I started in Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø. The book is the sequel to The Kingdom which I finished reading the 26th of January, 2021 and rated very good.
A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
In the evening I finished Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell. I liked the book: good!
Today the four of us took a bus to Rijswijk in order to pay a visit to The International Mineral Fair. It would be the third time for Alice and I, and the second time for Esme.
Alice bought a bracelet, a flat piece of a mineral she liked a lot, and a necklace with amethyst. Jaiden bought a ring and the skull of a Pitta bird from Indonesia. Esme bought several bracelets.
Below follows an impression. If you want to see more photos see the first visit Alice and I made to the mineral fair.
