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limada
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This took a while to get into. There's a lot of description of new ideas, concepts and explanations. And a lot of telling instead of showing. But it was sort of worth it in the end. I'll read the next book to see if that stays true. #22-2025

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AnnCrystal
To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Moniquill Blackgoose
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Thank you @Cupcake12 for creating #WhereAreYouMonday.

I am on the Island of Masquapaug in a reimagined world based on a what-if history 🌍🥚🌎🐉🌏.

Love it when fantasy books include maps 🆒🗺️🤩💝.

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bekakins
Different Class | Joanne Harris
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#roll100 another thriller set at St Oswalds… Straitley reminds me of some of my old classics professors 😆 enjoyed it! Looking forward to finishing off the series

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 4d
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HeyT
To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Moniquill Blackgoose
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Pickpick

I really enjoyed this and I'm sad the next installment isn't out yet. Very girl goes to magic school with dragons but done in an interesting way. Excellent take on fighting colonialism.

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Doppoetry
Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay
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Pickpick

Normally, I would say that the story dragged, but I think in this case, the way the story meanders adds a lot ot the atmosphere of the novel. To me, this wasn't so much a “whodunnit“ novel as a “What even happened here?“ Some scenes in this book border on the supernatural.

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rwmg
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After a pre-Christmas trip to London, staying with her sister, and Christmas itself, Sophronia and friends return to the school for the New Year Tea only to find that it has been infiltrated by Picklemen.

A satisfactory wrap-up to the series with quite a few surprises on the way.

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rwmg
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Pickpick

Siddheag receives distressing news about her pack and Sophronia and the other girls put their training into practice to help her and incidentally foil the latest plot of the Picklemen.

It's been 3 years or more since I read the previous installments so I was a bit hazy on the details of what had happened. Fortunately there is fan wiki to remind me who was who. Great fun.

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rwmg
Waistcoats & Weaponry | Gail Carriger
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If anyone saw Monique, a well-dressed woman of quality, dangling from the doorway, they apparently assumed everyone had difficulties in life and moved on.

IriDas Is that the first line? Because that‘s certainly an attention grabber. 😮 2w
rwmg @IriDas No, I posted the first line earlier. I just thought I'd share this line because I thought it was funny. 2w
rwmg @IriDas No, I posted the first line earlier. I just thought I'd share this line because I thought it was funny. 2w
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rwmg
Waistcoats & Weaponry | Gail Carriger
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"Funambulist,” said Sophronia Temminnick, quite suddenly.

#FirstLineFridays
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LeahBergen
The Getting of Wisdom | Henry Richardson
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My current read, and one I‘ve been meaning to get to for years, is this 1910 Australian classic about a country girl who is sent to a Melbourne boarding school.

Have any of my Australian friends on Litsy read it? 😀

Liz_M I'm not Australian, but I read this years ago. 2w
Ruthiella Gosh, why haven‘t I read this? I‘ve probably always mixed it up with 2w
CarolynM I haven‘t read it, but I have seen the film😉 2w
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LeahBergen @Liz_M Did you remember liking it? I‘m only a few chapters in but so far, so good! 2w
LeahBergen @Ruthiella I think I may have confused it with that title, too 😆 2w
LeahBergen @CarolynM Haha! I only noticed that there was a film when I was looking at the different covers here on Litsy! Is it a popular Australian novel? Like Anne of Green Gables here in Canada? 2w
Teresereading Yes - Year 11 English Lit 2w
CarolynM It‘s thought of as a “literary” novel so I‘d guess most people who‘ve read it would have read it at school, like @Teresereading 🙂 I think Seven Little Australians would be closer to the Anne equivalent, in spite of the ending😭 2w
LeahBergen @Teresereading Oh! That‘s interesting! 2w
LeahBergen @CarolynM I have Seven Little Australians waiting on my shelf! 2w
CarolynM Oops! I thought you‘d read it. Sorry for the spoiler🫢😬 2w
LeahBergen @CarolynM Oh, no worries. I‘d already heard it has a sad ending! 😆 2w
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