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Introductory Statistics | Barbara Illowsk

My March Storygraph stats - though they don't seem to have the same definitions of genres as I do.

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LitsyEvents

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | Arthur Conan Doyle

Via @dabbe

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents
#LadyFrancesCarfax
Sherlockians~
We're getting closer and closer to the end of the canon! All 4 novels read, and this is story 42/56!
Next up: “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.“ Discussion will be this coming Saturday, 4/5, and will be led by @dabbe.
Have a lovely week.
Link to summary/analysis (spoiler alert):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kmgu_t6jJMdILHLLSaGsumT8hELSxOuQ/view

dabbe TY! 🤩🤩🤩 4d

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dabbe

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents
#LadyFrancesCarfax

Sherlockians~
We're getting closer and closer to the end of the canon! All 4 novels read, and this is story 42/56! Next up: “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.“ Discussion will be this coming Saturday, 4/5, and will be led by @dabbe.
Have a lovely week. 💙
Link to summary/analysis (spoiler alert): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kmgu_t6jJMdILHLLSaGsumT8hELSxOuQ/view?usp=shari...

Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, StayCurious, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Fr3NcHtOaSt, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02

kelli7990 Yay! 4d

dabbe @kelli7990 🤩🤗🤩 4d

Librarybelle Thank you! 4d

dabbe @Librarybelle YW! 😘 3d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

@pageshifter @AnneCecilie @indoordame @librarybelle @theAromaOfBooks @Aimeesue @kelli7990 @5feet.of.fury @Read4Life @AnnR @mom2bugnbee @pageturner1 @eeclayton @erzascarletbookgasm @aroyse @dabbe @cuilin @mollyanna @Tineke @Larkken @StayCurious @kimrenee @AllDebooks

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious @Blackink_WhitePaper @Daisey @RayHallucinogen @Born.A.Reader @Chrissyreadit @Fr3NcHtOaSt @Anishalnkspill 6d

Librarybelle We‘ve talked about Holmes‘ growth as a human throughout the canon. I think this shows that under all of the frustrations and somewhat harsh criticisms of Watson, Holmes really cares for him and recognizes him as a friend. 6d

CogsOfEncouragement Oof. I understood at this point SH was faking illness and my heart still hurt for W hearing SH say: only a general practitioner w/very limited experience and mediocre qualifications. W was humble enough to move forward in getting help rather than concern himself with ego. It was a balm to read SH tell W he could only fool him at four yards, etc. and that W is only a bad liar, not a bad doctor. 6d

dabbe I guess what Holmes did to Watson in “The Final Problem“ (letting Watson think he was dead for three years) was much worse than what he did to him (and Mrs. Hudson) here. He took a big chance with both of them in the hopes that Smith would confess to the crime of killing his nephew. But that's the magic of these stories. By now we know SH's relationships with both Watson and Mrs. H are solid, and they actually help him nab the villain. 5d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

@pageshifter @AnneCecilie @indoordame @librarybelle @theAromaOfBooks @Aimeesue @kelli7990 @5feet.of.fury @Read4Life @AnnR @mom2bugnbee @pageturner1 @eeclayton @erzascarletbookgasm @aroyse @dabbe @cuilin @mollyanna @Tineke @Larkken @StayCurious @kimrenee @AllDebooks

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious @Blackink_WhitePaper @Daisey @RayHallucinogen @Born.A.Reader @Chrissyreadit @Fr3NcHtOaSt @Anishalnkspill 6d

Librarybelle You have to suspect that Holmes is up to something, though as a reader, we‘re not quite sure what it is. I would say he fools Watson, but sometimes Watson isn‘t the keenest observer. As for Mrs. Hudson and Holmes‘ views on women, Watson lays them out at the start. Mrs. Hudson acts like a mother to Holmes; she‘s a nurturer. 6d

CogsOfEncouragement Two times SH shows too much energy for a dying man, and if Watson wasn‘t so very worried for his friend he would have seen through the nonsense. I can‘t fault Watson for caring too much. Plus, I enjoy when Doyle gives us clues in this way. Very entertaining. 6d

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CogsOfEncouragement Hudson and SH have a relationship established by him getting her out of a bad marriage, yeah? I‘ve always felt they have a history that allows SH much leeway in the annoyances Mrs. Hudson puts up with because it is SH. I don‘t think she would put up with such things from someone else. We have those relationships in real life I think. We give certain loved ones a pass here or there in their habits because we know they absolutely have our back. 6d

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement I love this interpretation of Mrs. Hudson. I agree. I think she understands Sherlock and therefore makes accommodations. 6d

Cuilin @Librarybelle As the reader I wanted to tell Watson “you know he‘s faking it right?” But I‘m aware that would not have been helpful to the plot. 6d

Librarybelle @Cuilin 😂 6d

dabbe My views on Mrs. Hudson might be warped due to the Cumberbatch SHERLOCK episodes. In those, she is one sassy lassie who adores Sherlock but doesn't take his BS without shelving out some of her own. I now see her in this way in the original canon, too, and I love their symbiotic relationship. 5d

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

@pageshifter @AnneCecilie @indoordame @librarybelle @theAromaOfBooks @Aimeesue @kelli7990 @5feet.of.fury @Read4Life @AnnR @mom2bugnbee @pageturner1 @eeclayton @erzascarletbookgasm @aroyse @dabbe @cuilin @mollyanna @Tineke @Larkken @StayCurious @kimrenee @alldebooks

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious @Blackink_WhitePaper @Daisey @RayHallucinogen @Born.A.Reader @Chrissyreadit @Fr3NcHtOaSt @Anishalnkspill 6d

Librarybelle I liked this one, and maybe I was in the mood for a story that features Holmes using deception to catch the culprit. Once again, we the reader do not know much of the backstory until near the end of the tale, so we‘re kind of left feeling a bit surprised—why does Holmes want to entrap the culprit. But, we‘re also finding out the clues as Watson does, so since he tells the story, I suppose that makes sense! 6d

CogsOfEncouragement Another one where Doyle especially allows us to feel smarter than Watson. “In an instant, with a tigerspring, the dying man had intercepted me.” This sentence told me SH was faking an illness for some reason, and the trap for Culverton Smith soon became apparent. Nice touch to have Smith and Inspector Morton trying to hide smiles from Watson for very different reasons. An entertaining telling. 6d

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Cuilin @Librarybelle I liked this one too, brevity being the soul of wit. 6d

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement Very entertaining. 6d

dabbe Now that we've read over 40 (gasp!) of these and Doyle was riding the SH gravy train by now, it'd be so easy to be totally formulaic--which many detective stories can be. Here, he totally breaks the mold. No start in front of the fire at 221-B; we have Mrs. Hudson thinking Sherlock's dying! Wonder if people back then were feeling “The Final Problem“ vibes when they first read this one! Well done, Doyle. 5d

Read4life I enjoyed this one & liked how it opened with Mrs. Hudson. Well done, ACD! 5d

Cuilin @Read4life yes this one was good. 5d

Cuilin @dabbe I wondered that too, I bet it worried his loyal readers. 5d

kelli7990 I enjoyed this story. 5d

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LitsyEvents

The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Arthur Conan Doyle

Via @dabbe

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
Good discussion yesterday, Sherlockians. Next up:
“(TAo) The Dying Detective.“ Discussion will be on 3/29 and will be led by @Cuilin.
Summary/analysis link (spoiler alert):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wDe28JDm2-cpV2zqoU3ofknukb9BfrN6/view?usp=shari...

dabbe TY! 🤩🤩🤩 1w

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Littlewolf1

Dragon Guard Warrior: Dragon Guard of the Northern Isles Book 1 | Alicia Montgomery

so-so

3.2⭐️ I liked it… It was not bad, even with some of the content being kind of cringe. It was a cute second chance at love Trope that included shifters. The fact that the dragon shifters called themselves fable shifters, because they shifted into mythical creatures, was a little weird for me. I mean, how are you mythical if you exist, and dragons in this story EXISTED. This is my #Roll100 #74 and my last #Roll100 for March.

PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2w

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Dying Detective | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin @LitsyEvents

Good discussion yesterday, Sherlockians. Next up: “(TAo) The Dying Detective.“ Discussion will be on 3/29 and will be led by @Cuilin.

Summary/analysis link (spoiler alert): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wDe28JDm2-cpV2zqoU3ofknukb9BfrN6/view?usp=shari...

Have a good week. 😊