A killer reading challenge! 🔪📚 🤘

Together with Olly from ‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ we are going to read every book that Patricia Highsmith has written.
We are reading these books in 2023:
Strangers On a Train (1950)
The Price of Salt/Carol (1952)
The Blunderer (1954)
Deep Water (1957)
A Game for the Living (1958)
This Sweet Sickness (1960)
The Cry of the Owl (1962)
The Two Faces of January (1964)
The Glass Cell (1964)
A Suspension of Mercy (1965)
Those Who Walk Away (1967)
The Tremor of Forgery (1969)
A Dog's Ransom (1972)
Edith's Diary (1977)
People Who Knock On the Door (1983)
Found in the Street (1986)
Small G (1995)
And the Ripley's:
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
2. Ripley Under Ground (1970)
3. Ripley's Game (1974)
4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980)
5. Ripley Under Water (1991)

[@eiketske]

I can’t remember ever having read one of her books. But maybe I did before I started to write down the books I’ve read. I do remember watching Strangers on a train 🙂

[@AnnNovella]

Loved that movie!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I’m really looking forward to this! Thanks again for inviting me to do it with you

[@AnnNovella]

It’ll be a blast!

[@roz_bibli]

Bonsoir Ann ! I didn't know Patricia Highsmith's notes and diaries were published ! Sure I will buy it soon....I love so much reading diaries 🙏. I read a fiew Patricia Highsmith' s novels a long long time ago, in the 90's I think. Now I'm absolutely motivate to read her again soon🙏. Merci pour cette vidéo ! À bientôt !⭐️

[@AnnNovella]

C’est vraiment magnifique!

[@phoenixjones660]

Oooooh, the Queen of Tension and Suspense, what a glorious chunk of reading you guys have planned! Only read Ripley, 👀 that and Strangers on a Train movies , so this is a nudge to read some more. Possibly her journals? 🤔 My challenge is to read ( a very short!) novel in Dutch 🤞

[@AnnNovella]

Try Bart Moeyaert. Beautiful simple language and always worth reading!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I think I've read more books by Patricia Highsmith than any other female author. Her character Ripley was amazing.

[@AnnNovella]

It was!

[@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf]

I’ve only read the first Ripley, but have wanted to read more for ages, especially Strangers on a Train.

[@AnnNovella]

What. A. Story! 🙌🏻

[@CestKevvie]

Oh this will be fun!!

[@AnnNovella]

Ow yeah baby!

[@SpringboardThought]

I recently got the other two Ripley novels (3?) the Everyman edition and the audiobook of Carol and price of salt I think. After the first Ripley I knew I wanted to read more of her! What a fun project!

[@AnnNovella]

There are 5 Ripley’s in total. Feel free to join us.

[@worldwildwildwild]

@@AnnNovellaAwesome call out of PH’s fans! Also, PH wrote her first crime story as a kid about stealing a thick bk in school! Fascinating author even as kid! Joan Schenkar’s biography of PH, anyone read?!!

[@hanscurd]

I adore PH short'stories more than the novels.😅

[@AnnNovella]

They are on my tbr, I want to read everything by auntie Patty 🤭

[@lydiajoy1823]

I mentioned that I was reading a biography about her a month or so ago, well, I confess I never finished it! Maybe I will do better with her own writing!

[@AnnNovella]

there are many boring biographies about super fascinating people.

[@lydiajoy1823]

@@AnnNovella I agree!

[@anneworks]

sounds great, Ann! I am wondering, what do you think about reading about a writer before reading the work of a writer? I've enjoyed two books by Barbara Pym. I own a biography about her, but although I am curious, I'm putting it off because I feel I should read more of her books first. Wht do you think?

[@AnnNovella]

That’s what I did with P Highsmith! It made me curious about her work.

[@bestill670]

I’ve read all of hers books minus the short stories because I don’t care for short stories. I’ve read the novels two to three times each!

[@AnnNovella]

@@bestill670 what’s your ultimate Highsmith book?

[@bestill670]

@@AnnNovella it’s hard to pinpoint because the characters to me are friends. Sometimes, I’ll read a Ripley novel, saying “let’s see what Tom is up to today.” The one I’ve read the most over and over is Cry of the Owl. The least favorite is “Game for the Living” but I think I’m warming up to it. “Those who knock on the door” is a true masterpiece of our misguided dogma around religion. I absolutely love “ A Dog’s Ransom” and the “Blunderer” . Somehow to me being the lightest but I need to include the Ripley one where the neighbors drown in the pond in their yard! The first one I read of Highsmith was “The Boy Who Followed Ripley” and I fell in love immediately with her writing style and characterization. I really appreciate detail and minutiae. My favorite line in her books is “Those Italians and their ubiquitous tomato sauce.” Thanks for asking!

[@AnnNovella]

@@bestill670 Cry of of the Owl, A dogs ransom, Blunderer and Deep Water are my favs.

[@bestill670]

@@AnnNovella cool, similar tastes! Deep water is the one where the new neighbors drown?

[@bestill670]

I also have a book of her drawings, very rare in the US, it’s a German publication

[@debsteinman1506]

Sign me up!

[@AnnNovella]

whoohhooo!

[@foxedfolios]

Ooo, the collected notebooks and diaries of PH - straight onto the TBP (to be purchased) list!!!!….after I’ve read 25 of my own books. 🙄🙄🙄 Stupid @criminolly and his stupid ideas. 😑😑🤣🤣🤣

[@AnnNovella]

He’s such an idiot!🤣