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I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 285 out of 351 pages.

Murder in the Crooked House (御手洗潔 #2) - Soji Shimada, Louise Heal Kawai

"Challenge to the reader: The clues are all there. Can you solve this case?"

 

Shimada did this exact same thing in The Tokyo Zodiac Murders. It was just as aggravating then. I did end up reading Tigus's hints, and I'm still stumped. My current theory is something something,

tilted floors, some sort of shift happens somehow that causes the victims to unconsciously overbalance and...fall on knives? That are somehow there, with freaking pieces of string I haven't figured out? But tilted floors becoming level would require some kind of mechanism, and there isn't one. I keep thinking back to the flowerbed, though. If I'm right about that one, it doesn't need a mechanism to straighten out, just proper placement and a building that's basically a mirror, so maybe something is temporarily messing with victims' perceptions of the floors.

(show spoiler)

::siiigh::

 

I have to go to work in a bit, so I get the whole workday to think about this, and then I'll finish the book up and find out the truth.