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“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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BETTY'S OUTFIT IM DYING
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Will Trent’s whumps’ list
[referred to main male character: Will Trent, portrayed by Ramón Rodríguez:
*bonus: Michael Ormewood, portrayed by Jake McLaughlin.]
Season 1
.01: argued, disappointed for his car being vandalized, ostracized and despised by practically all his colleagues, painful memories seeing and old acquaintance from the orphanage, argued, slapped in the face and brief scuffle, telling about being badly bullied in his childhood, upset witnessing a suicide, torturing a handkerchief whenever he is under emotional distress, telling about his childhood to his partner, feeling uncomfortable getting undressed because of the various nasty scars on his body, frustrated about his dyslexia and calling himself names.
.02: oppositional discussion with a suspect twice, upset and frustated, argued, under gunpoint, scuffle, under gunpoint and shot at without being hit.
.03: chained ankle, under gunpoint, worried for his partner, difficult conversation with his girlfriend.
.04: difficult conversation with his girlfriend from previous episode, worried for his partner, nightmare, difficulties to concentrate ruminating and frustrated, confessed his partner he’s dyslexic; bonus Ormewood: angry, badly fallen and injured ankle, angry, tazed and kidnapped, bloody face, villain pushing over his injured ankle and making him scream in pain, fought, chased and limping, heavily panting, rescued.
.05: worried for his dog and badly argued with his girlfriend, dyslexic difficulties, argued, annoyed, grabbed a hot pan from the oven overthinking and screaming in pain, annoyed and frustrated, speechless and upset.
.06: disappointed, argued, followed by a car, witnessed a murder and splashed with blood on his sweater, into a gunfight, called names by a policeman.
.07: fast forward: laying barely conscious and passed out; scars all over his naked torso, receiving upsetting news and a bit shaken, pensive, painful memories and sighed, argued and emotionally hurt, hit at his arm by a crowbar losing his gun, attacked by multiple opponents and fought back, slammed against a car then hit at his back by a bat, chased, bleeding from his forehead and neck, passed out, recovering consciousness and bloody wound on his forehead, blood on his hands and handkerchief, feeling hopeless and sighing, rescued and heavily breathing, patch on his forehead and ice pack, sighing, disappointed.
.08: painful memories, brief scuffle, falsely accused and outraged, pensive and sad, told about his past when he shoplifted for food and arrested by police, on the edge of cry and trembling voice, sad.
.09: worried for his kidnapped partner, argued with his boss' boss, argued twice, heavily breathing after a physical effort, worried.
.10: under gunfire, upset and told about a child abuse he suffered, sad and painful memories, grabbed by his jacket, under gunfire, under gunpoint, getting emotional.
.11: brief scuffle, undercover into a drug crew, scuffle in the past, painful past and present memories, upsetting discover and argued with his girlfriend, ambushed and under heavy gunfire, bleeding scratch on his upper thigh and treated on the field, arrested and handcuffed, hooded and taken, roughed up a bit, grunting and heavily breathing, punched in the flank again, old scars on his back, moaning touching the sore spot, under gunpoint and almost cover blown, brief fight, under gunfire and fought, sad break-up.
.12: sad, received upsetting news, argued with his (ex) girlfriend, badly argued with his boss then his partner, angry for being taken off the case, received very upsetting news about his mother, argued and very upset, tense and worried.
.13: worried sick from previous episode for his (ex) girlfriend’s fate, tense relationship with his boss and getting emotional over his dead mother’s case, almost run over by a car, nasty confrontation, under gunfire, angry and worried, frustrated about his dyslexia and calling himself names, tense and fought, heavely panting and angry, upset, worried and bruised face and nuckles, received upsetting news and getting emotional.
Season 2
.01: uneasy speaking in public, hallucinations and painful memories of the past, tackled a man without consequences, under gunfire and tackled a man again, uncomfortable conversation, various nasty scars on his body, argued, hit by explosion blast and mild scratches at his face, grunting and heavily breathing, in shock and flashbacks, bruised face and unable to accept other people’s trying to take care of him; bonus Ormewood: suspicious, upset and argued with his son, sick worried, hit by some debris by the explosion.
.02: upset and bruised face from previous episod, unpleasant conversation with his supposed father, disappointed, provocked and upset, flashbacks, chain around his neck and rough fight, flashbacks.
.03: avoiding conversation about what happened in the first episode, tense, flashbacks and sighing, uneasy conversation, intense situation and touched, voice cracked and on the verge of tears, pensive.
.04: painful memories and hallucination, skeptical and annoyed, uneasy conversation with his partner and grimacing for emotional pain, remembering his past talking to a witness, grunting in frustration for his dyslexia, uneasy and sighing repeatedly.
.05: annoyed and uneasy, argued with collegues twice, nasty conversation and upset, unpleasant conversation, scared and argued, T-boned and car accident, bloodiy face and unconscious, cut on his forehead.
.06:
.07: airing next week.
In the original books (by Karin Slaughter):
1. "Triptych": uncomfortable, argued, reported scars from his past, angry, worried sick for his girlfriend, angry.
2. "Fractured": scuffle and punched on the nose, black eyes, fought and gun pointed at his head, gun failed to shoot twice, remembering past abuses during an interrogation, tackled and panting, upset witnessing a suicide, frustrated, trembling hand.
3. "Undone": worried for his partner, under gunpoint and argued, scratched by rats on his arm, overwhelmed and claustrophobic, itchy scratched arm, uneasy, remembering when he was hit by a tazer, upset and sweating after hearing his wife after she left him, worried and angry, lost temper and manhandled, scolded by his boss and feeling guilty, upset, hand and arm medicated and patched, badly argued with his wife and scuffle, new sctraches on his hands, bad memories and tired, very sore back after a long journey, panting after a chasing, stabbed at his shoulder from behind and passed out, regaining consciousness laying and bleeding on the floor with the knife still stuck in him, sweating and in much pain, almost stabbed again and rescued at the last moment, passed out, in hospital and surgery only briefly mentioned, arm secured to the chest by a tight bandage and in pain.
4. "Broken": scars on his body, uneasy, feeling inadequate and uncomfortable because of his dyslexia, remembered he broke his hand in the past and sore at his fingers when it's cold outside, irritated, remembered his girlfriend gave him syphilis years ago and he had to take pills, blister on the heel and limping, feeling stupid and mortified asking for help, remembering his difficul past, worried.
5. "Fallen": uncomfortable, worried for his partner, his wife told about when he slashed his arm, confused, feeling nausea for high speed, shot at and cut at his ear, into a gunfight, worried sick, furious, headache and sweating, roughly grabbed, lost balance and fallen to the floor, sad and shaken, badly argued with his wife, emotionally hurt and scared, cried, slapped repeatedly and scuffle with his wife, trembling hands, embarassed, shaken and worried, hidden into a trunk and very uncomfortable, furious, sore at his shoulders, called names, told about when and why he slashed his arm in the past, heart broken, embarassed.
5.5. "Snatched": bored, conflicted and feeling guilty, worried.
6. "Criminal": confused, told about his past in the orphanage, angry and sweating, argued, kneed himself on the nose and skinned his ankle by accident, bleeding wounds, receciving upsetting news, treated in hospital for his cut ankle and sewn wound, extremely upset and uncommunicative, furious, muscle contraction in his biceps, hand lacerations and splinter of wood in the palm of his hand, screaming in pain and frustration, exhausted, hurting remembering his past and his mother's murder, remembered beign slapped hard in the past, teased a cuticle on his hand until it bled, difficult conversation with his wife, no sleep and looking awful, bruised hands and bloodshot eyes, upset, staggered with exhaustion and pain both physical and emotional, besieged at home and frustrated, argued with his partner and angry, told about his past when he shoplifted for food and arrested by police, when he was on the streets and had been beaten, broken his nose and fingers, nervous and sad, shocked and buckled knees, violent reaction in the face of his father's corpse and subdued by the police, difficult conversation with his boss then his uncle, emotional and on the edge of tears.
6.5. "Busted": undercover and stuck during a robbery, fought and broken nose, almost shot, motorbike accident during a chasing, treated on ambulance and sore at his shoulder.
7. "Unseen": shocked, uneasy and sketchy, uncomfortable situation and feeling guilty, sore after riding a motorbike, threatened, punched in the face and provocked, worried, scared, feeling uneasy, shocked, into a dangerous situation and surrounded, punched in the face and almost threw up, grabbed and restrained, terrified, cut with a knife under his eye and into his ear, terrified, shook his head and bloody cuts, stripped and naked, old scars all over his body, brief scuffle, shocked witnessing a brutal murder, badly argued with his girlfriend and desperate, slapped repeatedly and scratched on his neck and back, rough sex and heavily panting, distraught and unstable on his legs, on his knees to throw up, badly kicked in the head and almost knocked out, punched and almost strangled to death, rescued at the last moment, badly coughing and sore, threw up, handcuffed and arrested (for fake), helped sitting up and stumbling repeatedly, head between your knees to keep from throwing up again, badly confused and treated on the field by his partner, terribly painful to swallow, heartbroken, painful to talk and heavily bruised face with broken nose, shocked, badly coughing, feeling guilty then vulnerable, coughing, shocked and agitated, brief scuffle, tased and collapsed, regaining consciousness wobbly and headache, blurred vision, hands and feet tied up, gun pointed at his head twice, almost shot to death, threatened to be killed with a knife, feeling weak, heavily bruised face.
8. "The Kept Woman": worried for his dog, uncertain, umconfortable position, frustrated and clenched jaw, receiving shocking news and seeking for support against a wall, frantic and worried sick, argued with his girlfriend, agitated, reported scars from his past, fallen into a hole and deep laceration at his calf, blood dripping from his leg into the shoe, angry and punched a collegue, bruised and bloody hand after the punch, frantic, very painful emotional memories, argued, heavily sweating and panting, brief dizziness and seeking for support against a wall, feeling sick, dressed his wound at home but blood stained his jeans, nervous and tense, trembling hands, bad memories, emotional chat, shocked, reported scars from his past, rubbing his chest in pain, red an awful letter from his wife and pale, confused, coughing and shaken, wound attended at home without any anesthesia and very painful procedure, pain at his chest and arm, chest pain and gasping for air, angry and tense, on his knees, chest pain for a panic attack, feeling calmer after taking (part of) Xanax, feeling the grief, (previously) under gunpoint and trigger pulled but no bullets fired, upset and angry, phone altercation with his wife and receiving upsetting news, shaking so hard he had to sit up, unable to speak, receiving upsetting news, sleepless and agitated night, violent reaction in front of his wife, pushed away twice, receiving upsetting news, shocked and covered in blood (not his), unable to see and helped, painful conversation about his past, difficult conversation with his girlfriend.
8.5. "Cleaning the Gold": brief scuffle, into a gunfight, punched in the ear and elbowed in the kidneys, bruised hands after the altercation, shocked, uncertain.
9. "The Last Widow": painful memories about his childhood, feeling inadequate, pensive, shocked, into a dangerous situation and under gunpoint, fear for his girlfriend, tackled down and hit his againt the concrete, attacked and viciously hit at his torso many times, fought and bruised knuckles, rechting and in pain, almost kicked and fought, worried sick for his girlfriend’s fate, emotional pain for his almost-mother-in-law’s words, feeling sick and light sensitivity, spinning world and seeking support, in pain and vomiting, passed out, regaining consciousness in hospital, almost fallen from the hospital gurney, light sensitivity, coughing and slumped, torso full of bruises, probbed and tested, helped walking and in pain, almost slipped and spike of pain at his ribs, felt a metallic stitch at his neck, helped for the TAC exam, seeing double, reported a microlaceration in the periosteum of the rib, made him smell the ammonium salts, dismayed and very difficult emotional conversation with his girlfriend’s parents, in pain and moaning, heavily bruised knuckles, still very sore and headache, grimacing and suppressing his pain, going undercover, emotional distress, into a furious gunfight, under gunpoint, on the edge thinking his girlfriend was murdered, feeling guilty.
10. "The Silent Wife": uncertain and uneasy, got a scare, IN PROGRESS
11. "After That Night"
Isolation by NatK
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It had rained all night, a hard, heavy rain that had tapped on their window like a witch trying to get in.
Karin Slaughter, from 'Skin Privilege'
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: KARIN SLAUGHTER
Why am I choosing Karin Slaughter for this week’s author spotlight?
Compelling, Original Characters – The lead detective in her Will Trent series is functionally dyslexic.
Perfect Pacing – When you pick one of her books up you simply can’t put it down.
Unique/Relevant Cases – Each book has a different case and is told in such a way it is almost impossible to guess the end until you’re there.
Well Researched – The author has taken the time to research her novels and it shows in the level of detail that she provides. This also adds to the realism in the books, making them even more enthralling.
Recommended Reading:
Triptych – First book in the Will Trent Series - When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated.
Cop Town - Atlanta, 1974. As a brutal killing and a furious manhunt rock the city, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the police force will also be her last. For life is anything but easy in the male-dominated world of the Atlanta Police Department, where even the other female cops have little mercy for the new girl.
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Here’s everything you need to know about Will Trent, ABC's upcoming crime drama starring Ramón Rodríguez which is based on bestselling novels by Karin Slaughter.
#will trent#Ramon Rodriguez#ABC drama#new series#new show#what are you doin' here#will trent on ABC#Will Trent ABC#ABC Will Trent#karin slaughter
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Trailer just dropped for the TV adaptation of my favourite book series of all time (the Will Trent books by Karin Slaughter) and I think it looks maybe not good? Like I'm gonna watch it bc I'm interested how they're going to do it (ie from the trailer the first ep at least seems to based on the second book with Will in (I suppose arguably he's not a main character in the first book he's in, Triptych, but then one of the characters in the show is someone that's only in Triptych so I have no idea what we're doing timeline wise???) And I dunno Wills characterisation doesn't feel right, he feels like generic cop show man whereas in the books pretty much everyone he meets comments on how he doesnt act/look like a Fed.
IDK it's impossible for me to be objective about this because Karin Slaughter is my favourite author and Will is one of my favourite written characters, I've read all her books so many times it's never going to live up to what's in my head, but I'm gonna give it a chance.
#i hope its good! i hope its just the trailer being as generic as possible#but im not optimistic that an ABC cop show is going to be anything like i want it to be#im genuinely interested how its being paced. bc one book per ep is way too fast but i think one book per season is... optimistic#i wonder if the pilot is gonna be just Fractured then theyll spread the other books out between original cases?#cos if theyre just sticking to the books they'll have to introduce Sara soon which i cant see happening#obviously i have a lot of thoughts about this. please be good im begging#will trent#karin slaughter
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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE
'I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.'
'Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.'
'The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.'
'First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.'
'Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.'
Author Extraordinaire Karin Slaughter
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Books on the docket!
‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov
‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jefrey Eugenides
‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath
‘Triptych: A Will Trent Novel’ by Karin Slaughter
The first book I’m reading and currently on is ‘Lolita’ because it is known as one of the most controversial and misunderstood books to have ever be published. I’m currently on page 20 and I’m already so deeply disturbed, but very very intrigued. As to not spoil anything too much, you can tell Nabokov has an extreme talent for characterization and descriptive storytelling. He writes an acceptable unreliable narrator and he makes it obvious his intention of the book in the first 3 pages of the story. Maybe I’ll make a post about the book to explain more of what I mean later on.
‘The Virgin Suicides’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ are also well known classics that I’m excited to read because it seems that these books are most book lovers stepping stones to becoming better readers.
I have read works by Karin Slaughter before like her book ‘Pretty Girls’ and The Grant County Series, and I was interested in reading the Will Trent series since there was a TV show out now about it. The Grant County Series was definitely a personal favorite of mine and I’m wondering how differently the Will Trent series is gonna be.
Let me know your thoughts and what you’re reading now too!
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So I saw an ad for "Will Trent" when I was watching a different show, an went "oh yeah, ok i'll watch an episode of a detective show. my fave." So I did. And I liked it enough to watch the second episode. And went "based on a book series huh? bet." And now I have a pile of books on my coffee table.
The thing is. The thing is see, I'm aromantic (among other things). I have historically *hated* crime/detective series that have to have a romantic subplot thread throughout them as an overarching story (my favorites in this genre are "Columbo" and the original Sherlock Holmes stories so uh. yeah.). I have stopped watching/lost interest in more than one series when the romance started taking center stage.
But.
I got to "Fallen". And. CW for self-harm but, well.....:
"You know, one of the things Angie said to me the other night was that I would never do that for you - never cut myself like that - and I think she's right." There was a sadness in his smile. "Not because I don't care about you, but because you would never put me in that kind of situation. You would never ask me to make that choice."
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"Sara felt her mouth open in surprise. She was just as guilty as the rest of them. She had been so desperate for Will to fight for her that it had never occurred to her that Will was waiting for Sara to fight for him."
..............
And like. Listen y'all. I'm gonna be, SO NORMAL about this just SO ABSOLUTELY NORMAL it's fine I'm totally fine.
#will trent#karin slaughter#sara linton#i was shaking like betty as i was reading that it was BAD yall#woof#tw self harm#me: i hate romance in crime dramas#karin slaughter: 'pushes will/sara across the table'#me: 'shaking and crying' thank you ma'am
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Will Trent show is okay (it will never be perfect for people that read the books)
BUT
Will raises his voice to often. Like Book Will is quite and rarely let his temper slip. When Will pops off in the books it’s a big deal.
Don’t like that they are making me like Angie and Orewood. Like please don’t
Betty is prefect and I love her.
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Will Trent Season 1 Title Cards
Will Trent Season 2 Title Cards here
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“Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.”― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls
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I'm trying to get back into reading at the moment. I've always been such a prolific reader (averaging over 100 books a year at some points) but I sort of lost it last year. I couldn't finish anything or engage with reading.
Anyway I started doing this thing where I watch an ep of something and then read a chapter of a book, rinse and repeat.
The book I'm currently reading is Karin Slaughter 'Triptych' - it's the first in the Will Trent series. All I can say is, she is blowing my fucking mind with all the twists she is putting in there.
Honestly OMFG!!! Usually I can see a plot twist coming a mile away but this is masterful, like I have serious writer envy here.
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September 19, 2022 | Monday
I have been taking advantage of the school library and have been reading physical books which I value much more than reading them electronically. I completed so far this month, Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter.
Which book(s) have you read this month so far?
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