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ShyBookOwl
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I'm in such a slump! Looking for something contemporary with a little humour and a few good twists... murder is fine, but not too much grief 😂 Any suggestions?

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shortsarahrose This one was fun 18h
ShyBookOwl @CogsOfEncouragement Thx!! Reading List sounds especially good! 18h
ShyBookOwl @shortsarahrose Thank you!! 18h
bookish_wookish This one isn‘t a murder mystery or anything but it was a great read! 17h
Ruthiella Oooh! I co-sign @Susanita ! Such a fun book. 17h
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Anything by Janice Hallett 17h
nanuska_153 Just finished this one, it has funny comments, a mystery and short chapters, which always help to read faster. I flew through it 12h
CarolynM I liked this one recently 7h
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lil1inblue
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🤣😭 My best score remains in the 1700s. But this is the best I've scored in a bit.

🩵 The Summer Book is an all-time fave. I'm starting a re-read at a Midsummer Festival this weekend.
🩵 In Watermelon Sugar is probably the most obscure book I've read from these lists so far.
🩵 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the only book that I was supposed to read for school, but didn't. 🤭🤫
#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe

dabbe Your 1st two I've never heard of! 😱 And my best score was in the 1700s, too! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
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Blueberry
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OMG, who makes these lists!!!

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@Dabbe

dabbe IKR? And then he says we MUST read them? As Biden would say, “C'mon, man!“ Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
Blueberry @Dabbe 😆❤️ 9h
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dabbe
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#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 7, STILL from the 1900s! I'm getting worse, not better! 😅
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-list7
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.

EVERYONE is tagged; ALL are welcome. 🤗 ⬇️

dabbe I've debated as to whether or not I should ditch this list because it is so DEPRESSING for quite a few of us; on the other hand, I'm not a quitter. I think we have about 3 lists to go, so I'll see 'er through to the end. I'm not tagging anyone because I don't want to torture anybody intentionally, and I don't want anyone to feel bad! To make everyone feel better, my score this week was the LOWEST ever, a whopping 5. 🤣😭🤣 #playatyourownrisk 1d
CogsOfEncouragement I came in at 6 because I counted The Summer Book by Tove Jansson which I am currently reading. Also: Hitchhiker‘s Guide, Slaughterhouse-Five, Play It as It Lays, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and The Bluest Eye. (edited) 1d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼👀 I'm still hiding 🥸👍🏼😂📚💝...thank you 🤫. 1d
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Bookwormjillk Well the good news is if these are books I have to read before I die I‘m going to live forever- my score was 6. 1d
shortsarahrose Only read 2, but I‘ve seen the movie version of three of them, though! 😂 23h
peaKnit 2 for me!🙋🏼‍♀️ 22h
Crazeedi Im going to look at this list, there have to be some good ones I've not read 22h
Crazeedi Just the first page , I read 5 22h
RaeLovesToRead Ahhh my weekly nemesis.... cmon list DO YOUR WORST 21h
RaeLovesToRead 7!!!! 😊😇 And I started Invisible cities but it was boring so 7.15?? 21h
melissajayne Got 0 on this list 21h
lil1inblue @RaeLovesToRead “Weekly nemesis“ - excellent way to look at it. 😂 20h
RaeLovesToRead @lil1inblue I have this book too lol 😆 20h
Eggs Tough challenge 🤪 Recognized 20, Read 8 19h
dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement HITCHHIKER'S has been on my TBR forever. Time to move it up! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @AnnCrystal 🤣😍🤩 18h
dabbe @Bookwormjillk I hear ya! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @shortsarahrose I'd have counted them, too! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @peaKnit #woohooyou! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @Crazeedi I looked at the list and went 😳. 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @RaeLovesToRead I say 7.5 and round up to 8! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @Eggs You kicked my butt! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @melissajayne I'd wear that like a badge of honor! 😍 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 18h
dabbe @lil1inblue 🎯🩵🎯! 18h
BkClubCare Only 8 for me. 16h
Amor4Libros 0! I just get better every week! 😂 16h
kspenmoll I only read 9 books. Favorites: Quartet in Autumn, I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings, Lives of Girls & Women 15h
dabbe @BkClubCare Way better than me! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 15h
dabbe @Amor4Libros I think you and I like other genres! 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 15h
dabbe @kspenmoll Never heard of nor read your 1 and 2--on the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 💚📚💙 15h
rwmg 13. As we move through the 20th century the books seem to be getting more and more obscure 5h
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dabbe
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#haikuaday
#haikuhive

Covers ripped away––
voices silenced on the shelf.
Fear fears the turned page.
#Freadom

JenlovesJT47 🩵💙🩵💙🩵🤓📚📚📚 2d
lil1inblue Wow! So powerful. ✊🏻🤩✊🏻 2d
Itchyfeetreader This is highly impactful 2d
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CBee Love this ♥️ 2d
AnnCrystal Oh wow, that gave me shivers! “Fear Fears The Turned Page“ BRILLIANT 👏🏼🐝👍🏼✊🏼📚🐝💝. 2d
AnnCrystal Just researched #Freadom, how absolutely intriguing ✊🏼🐻📚💝. 2d
Eggs 🖤🖤🐝🐝💛💛 2d
Jari-chan So, so good 📚🖤🐝💛 2d
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 💙📚💚 2d
dabbe @lil1inblue TY! 💙📚💚 2d
dabbe @Itchyfeetreader TY! 💙📚💚 2d
dabbe @AnnCrystal TY! 💙📚💚 2d
dabbe @AnnCrystal ✊🏻💙✊🏻 2d
dabbe @Eggs 🖤🐝🖤 2d
dabbe @Jari-chan TY! 💙📚💚 2d
dabbe @CBee 💙📚💚 2d
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shanaqui
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This was mostly surprisingly fun, explaining the whole thing via two parallel timelines that converged: first, the story of Wise's early entry into forgeries, and then on the other hand the stories of Pollard and Carter. There's a fair bit of creative reimagining, to attempt to bring it all to life.

Aside from the boo-boo about Sayers I wrote about earlier, I don't know of any other errors of fact, and it was pretty engaging.

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shanaqui

Oof! Badly misattributes stuff in Dorothy L. Sayers, and of course I noticed. Claims that “an analytical chemist“ (Sir James Lubbock) finds “arsenic on the victim's shoe“ during The Unpleasantness of the Bellona Club. It's nothing of the kind: Wimsey goes to see him, Lubbock is finishing a previous job, and then says the bit Hone quotes about arsenic about *that*.

The sample from the shoe is paint, not arsenic.

Immediate eyebrow raising here.

shanaqui Like, this book isn't about Sayers at all, so it'd be rather harsh to consider it a huge error, but at the same time, either it shows a cavalier attitude to facts I *can* verify easily -- what about the rest? -- or someone struggling very much with interpretation (the scene I describe is really very clear in Sayers' book), in which case unsuitable to write *this* book analysing the career and debunking of Thomas J. Wise's forgeries. 5d
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Itchyfeetreader
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Pickpick

A book about books and an authors memoirs in one. So to know Susan Hill is very set in her views (doesn‘t like to travel, doesn‘t get Australian novels!) and this can be frustrating. So too is some of the quite chronic name dropping of the good and great of late 20th century literature. BUT she has a wonderful turn of phrase and clearly loves deep and round reading. I wrote down multiple recommendations and respected her perspective for that !

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Cheryl_Russell
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Picked up my order at River City Books in Soldotna, Alaska. Got “trapped” inside the bookstore by a mama moose and her twins munching on the plants right outside the door. (Is it really “trapped” when it‘s a bookstore? 🤣). I hope to start it tonight.

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