A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
In the evening Esme and I watched Nocturnal Animals. I liked the movie a lot and give it an 8 out of 10.
A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
In the evening Esme and I watched Secret in Their Eyes. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
In the evening Esme and I watched Don't Tell a Soul. I somewhat liked the movie and give it a 6 out of 10.
In the afternoon I pushed an update of tumblelog to GitHub. The days
before I had made some minor changes and a major rewrite of the README
today. The most important changes are:
meta name="generator" set to tumblelog plus version number
to example HTML files.OPT_UNSAFE constant is missing.enumerate() in tumblelog.py (4x)The latest version is available as always on GitHub.
After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched the director's cut of Alien. Jaiden had requested the movie but somehow quit watching it halfway and went upstairs to her room. I liked the movie a lot and give it an 8 out of 10.
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched The Killer. Soon after the movie had started I realised I had seen it before (actually the 25th of December 2023 according to my notes). Especially because The Smiths was playing, a band I somewhat like. I liked the movie, despite the very slow beginning, and give it a 7 out of 10.
A couple stops at a gas station, where their 6 y.o. daughter's arm is fractured. They hurry to a hospital. Something strange is going on there. The wife and daughter go missing.
In the evening Esme and I watched Fractured. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
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.
