Welcome to Litsy!

I talked myself into doing a photo reading challenge thing - and obviously we start with the TBR...

I lowkey don‘t particularly believe in setting them because I hardly ever follow through but these ones are also on my #BookSpin list... so maybe some will get read?! TBD!

The first book in middle-grade girl detective series, and it was fun. I loved the deadpan narration throughout and the blink and you'll miss it humour. Very understated but will appeal to the sarcastic oddball tween (or adult). Friday's personality doesn't quite come through as vividly as, say, Flavia's in the Flavia de Luce series, but I'm looking forward to reading the rest and getting to know her better.

This was a fun read, although a bit old for my daughter (subject, not ability).

Friday is an unusual child in an unusual family. She takes up solving crime, which earns her reward money, which finances boarding school, which turns out to be full of mystery. Looking forward to the next one (darn cliffhanger).

Well this is potentially something that I could be very excited about because I loved the Friday Barnes series 😂 I‘m nowhere near the target age demographic but sometimes that doesn‘t matter ☺️😂 no one makes me laugh like R.A. Spratt!

I love this series so much that I‘m actually in deep denial about the last book being the last book... maybe I could just reread and tell myself there is an endless supply?!

This we're among the book haul my daughters received and Friday Barnes is a fabulous #peculiarcharacter.
#reindeerreads
@Jess7

I also picked up from Costco, a boxed set of the first five Friday Barnes novels for $23. Not bad at all. The box is a bit squished, which I didn't notice until I got home, but the books themselves are fine. I'd never heard of her before Litsy, she sounds right up my alley though. Wish they were around when I was younger. Can't wait to read them with my granddaughter! #thecostcoexperience

Really enjoying Friday as a character and detective.

This was a treat! Smart and funny. The writing is sharp. Friday is a terrific, quirky character - a little Sherlockian in her crime solving. Several mysteries in this one story. Can't wait to read book 2!

#bookssetinaschool, I love R.A. Spratt books - I can never get myself to a bookstore quick enough on a release day 😍 Anyway, Friday Barnes, youngest daughter of some world renowned scientists whose work consumes them (they're not great as parents), solves a baffling bank robbery and uses the rewards money to send herself to an exclusive boarding school. Let the crime capers commence! #booktober

'When her father walked past her bedroom at 1 o'clock in the morning on a school night and noticed that her light was still on, he would, like a normal parent, say, 'Shouldn't you be in bed?'
But unlike a normal parent, when Friday said 'No, Father, it's only 8pm,' he would just nod, take her word for it and go back to thinking about quasars.

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