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Here‘s my review. I really enjoyed participating in #noplacelikeholmes hosted by @dabbe and @Cuilin.

I just finished reading this week‘s short story. I‘m not done with the audiobook yet. It just went to the end credits after the story but I stopped it because I still have the last short story to read.

#noplacelikeholmes

I just looked at the #noplacelikeholmes reading schedule and I can‘t believe we‘re almost done with the buddy read. We only have 2 short stories left to read in August and then we‘re done.

I finished reading the short story from last week. It was only 30 minutes. After I finished listening to it, I thought to myself,”That‘s it?” because normally, I‘m used to listening to the stories and having them take an hour to read. I like the 1 hour stories over the 30 minute stories because I feel like there‘s more to the 1 hour stories. The 30 minute stories get good and then they just end.

#noplacelikeholmes

I‘m behind on the #noplacelikeholmes and #christiescapers buddy reads again but I will catch up. I haven‘t read The Veiled Lodger yet. I couldn‘t participate in Saturday‘s discussion for it because I went out to lunch on Saturday with my family to celebrate our July birthdays. After I read The Adventure Of The Veiled Lodger then I‘ll start The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd but I‘m not going to be finished with it today.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

I finished this week‘s short story “The Creeping Man” for #noplacelikeholmes. My birthday was on Wednesday. I went to the museum on Friday to celebrate my birthday and then went out to lunch and I was tired when I got home and then I didn‘t read at all on Saturday because I was watching Facebook Reels but tonight, I decided to do some reading so I can catch up with the buddy read and make progress in another book I‘m reading.

Since I started participating in the #noplacelikeholmes and #christiescapers buddy reads, I realized that I like classic murder mysteries. They don‘t have any sex or blood or bad language. The characters are just solving a murder. I find it very refreshing from other mysteries and thrillers I‘ve read before. I read 1 Nancy Drew book a long time ago called “The Hidden Staircase” and I enjoyed it.

I just finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

This month is almost over and I just looked at the reading schedules for #christiescapers and #noplacelikeholmes and I saw that I need to start reading the short stories for both buddy reads while trying to finish the ARC I‘m reading for The Smuthood PR. I have to post my ARC review by July 1 so I only have 4 days left to finish reading my ARC and 3 hrs left in the book. I can probably finish my ARC tonight because I usually stay up late.

I just finished this week‘s short story. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion.

#noplacelikeholmes

I just finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m ready for Saturday‘s discussion.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion. I noticed that the short stories in this section of the audiobook don‘t have the correct titles. When I clicked on the story about the retired colour man, it didn‘t say that. It said “The Adventure Of The Blanched Soldier”. I don‘t know why the stories in this last collection are not titled correctly. I can deal with it but it‘s annoying.

I just finished reading this week‘s short story “The Illustrious Client” for #noplacelikeholmes. Stephen Fry is going to be reading this collection of short stories for the last time. I‘m glad.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. Now, I‘m ready for Saturday‘s discussion.

📚Sherlock Holmes - murder mysteries set in Europe
📚Assassin‘s Apprentice - Google says Realm Of The Elderlings is set in a world resembling the panhandle of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
📚My Healthy Noggin - It‘s nonfiction so it‘s not set anywhere.
📚Replay - I don‘t know what state this book is set in. All I know is that the characters are in college.

#whereareyoumonday #currentlyreading

I finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes and I‘m ready for the discussion tomorrow.

It‘s 3:30 AM and I just finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m caught up on the buddy read and I‘m ready for the discussion on Saturday.

Here‘s my progress on my #currentlyreading list.

#noplacelikeholmes - I‘m caught up on the buddy read but I‘m hoping to start the next story before our discussion.

#realmofelderlings - I‘m not caught up with the buddy read yet. It‘s a long book but I want to get back to it.

My Healthy Noggin - This is a #roll100 book from February but I‘m not going to finish it this month.

#christiescapers - I just finished The Secret Adversary.

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

I haven‘t started the short story this week for #noplacelikeholmes yet. I‘m hoping to start it tomorrow.

Sherlock Holmes (#noplacelikeholmes), I‘m caught up on this buddy read.

Assassin‘s Apprentice (#realmofelderlings), I need to catch up on the buddy read.

My Healthy Noggin (#roll100), I probably won‘t finish it this month.

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (#christiescapers), I just started it last night but I‘ll be able to finish it. This book mentioned Sherlock Holmes in the first chapter. I thought that was interesting.

#currentlyreading

I just finished this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m glad to hear Stephen Fry narrating again because he didn‘t read the one about the cardboard box. I don‘t know if there‘s any other stories in the canon that he didn‘t narrate. I guess I‘ll find out which other stories are not included in this as I‘m reading the canon.

I finished the short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

I didn‘t realize that it was already time to read the next short story for #noplacelikeholmes but I just looked at the reading schedule that I took a screenshot of and saved to my photos in my phone and it is time. I‘m glad I saved the schedule. I don‘t know how long it‘ll take for me to read this short story. I can‘t believe we‘re almost done reading the canon but I‘m glad we‘re doing it together and that I‘m not doing it by myself.

I just finished the short story that I was supposed to read for #noplacelikeholmes.

I started the short story I didn‘t read last week for #noplacelikeholmes. I started it last night before bed. I‘m almost done. I have chapters 6 and 7 and the epilogue to read now. While listening to the short story, I finished a Cross stitch picture I started and then colored these pictures on some color by number apps I have.

I need to read this week‘s short story from Sherlock Holmes for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I haven‘t read it yet because I was busy downloading my Kindle books from Amazon but I‘m done doing that. I started on Wednesday and I finished downloading at 4 AM on Saturday. I have 3,000+ books so it took forever and I didn‘t feel like dealing with it but I didn‘t want to lose my ebooks. I got finished before February 26.

I finally read Part 1 of this week‘s short story. I didn‘t realize that it was already time to start on it. I enjoyed the first part of this story but it took me longer to get through it because there were 7 chapters to listen to and they‘re not short chapters either. I think the chapters are about 20 or 30 minutes long. I started this first part yesterday and only had the last chapter to listen to today. Now, I‘m caught up.

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I finally finished this week‘s short story “The Second Stain”.

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I read this week‘s short story “The Abbey Grange” for #noplacelikeholmes. I‘m ready for Saturday‘s discussion.

I read this week‘s short story “The Missing Three-Quarter”.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #bookspinbingo, #noplacelikeholmes

☑️ 1 hr of reading (This short story only took 1 hr to read.)

☑️ TBR Read (The short stories from Sherlock Holmes are on my TBR for this month.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I finished this week‘s short story “The Golden Pince Nez”.

This counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#bookspinbingo, #wintergames & #noplacelikeholmes)

☑️ 1 hour of reading (The short stories in this collection are usually 1 hour.)

☑️TBR Read (I have to read it anyway because I‘m participating in a readalong of Sherlock Holmes.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I finished this week‘s short story “The Adventure Of The Three Students”.

This counts for:

☑️3 readathons - #noplacelikeholmes, #bookspinbingo & #wintergames

☑️TBR Read

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

For #weeklyfavorites, I finished this week‘s short story “The Six Napoleons” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong but I haven‘t finished any other books. I DNF‘d 2 books this week. I‘m reading another book right now but I‘m not liking it that much.

I finished listening to this week‘s short story “The Six Napoleons” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion.

I finished this week‘s short story “Charles Augustus Milverton” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong.

I finished this week‘s short story “Black Peter” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I‘m ready for tomorrow‘s discussion.

Even though my dog just passed away, I still want to keep participating in #noplacelikeholmes and #whimsicalreadsbookclub because these books don‘t require any brain power. Right now, I feel like I only want to read books that don‘t require a lot of brain power so all of my nonfiction books from Netgalley will not be read until I‘m in a better headspace so basically, I just want to mood read.

I finished this week‘s short story “The Priory School”.

I‘m counting this short story for:

☑️Autumn or spooky read
☑️1 hr of reading
☑️4 readathons (#spookoween, #noplacelikeholmes, #bookspinbingo & #hauntedshelf)

#skeletoncrew

I read this week‘s short story “The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong and I found these words for the #wordsearch.

#skeletoncrew #hauntedshelf

For #hauntedshelf, I read this week‘s short story “The Adventure Of The Solitary Cyclist” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I‘m also going to do the #wordsearch on this one and see what words I find.

This book counts for:

☑️1 hour of reading
☑️Spooky/Autumn read (Not scary. These stories are murder mysteries set in England.)

#skeletoncrew

I‘ve gotten a lot of points this week just from doing the #wordsearch for #hauntedshelf, counting the 1 hour of reading for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong and counting the spooky or autumn reads. It‘s a lot to track and keep up with and I‘m also reading Netgalley ARCs. During #scarathlon last year, using the Autofill feature saved me a lot of time when I was filling in my spreadsheet all month so I‘m definitely using Autofill again.

For this week‘s short story “The Adventure Of The Dancing Men”, I found these words.

This book counts for:

☑️Spooky or Autumn read
☑️a readathon
☑️1 hour of reading (the short stories from Sherlock Holmes are 58 minutes long)

#hauntedshelf #noplacelikeholmes #skeletoncrew

For last week‘s short story “The Adventure Of The Norwood Builder”, I found these words. I didn‘t think about doing the word search for these short stories. I‘m counting the Sherlock Holmes short stories as spooky or autumn reads because they‘re cozy murder mysteries set in England but they‘re not scary and I‘m counting the #noplacelikeholmes readalong as a readathon.

☑️1 hour of reading done

#wordsearch #hauntedshelf #skeletoncrew

I just finished listening to this week‘s short story. I‘m ready for the discussion tomorrow. I‘m going to count this readalong towards the #hauntedshelf readathon. I forgot to add it to my spreadsheet so I‘m going to do that and I didn‘t realize that I could do the word search for the short stories too.

#noplacelikeholmes

I just finished this week‘s short story.

#noplacelikeholmes

I finished reading this week‘s short story for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong.