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This is book 3 in the Aurora Teagarden series. I picked this up for a quick/easy read. Aurora is working for her mother‘s real estate business. She meets a man at the opening and it‘s insta-feelings. There are also dead bodies. It‘s definitely dated…

Super engaging…but not up to all the hype.

The ending gave away too much.

For all the complexity the author built into the first 400 pages, she should have trusted her readers enough to leave them wanting more.

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Thanks for the rec @jenlovesjt47 - what fun! 🤩

S.C. Roberts didn't invent the Holmesian Game of treating the Canon as a factual subjects for critical analysis, but he is credited as having popularised it, so it was reasonable to assume his story, "The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts" would feel authentic, and it does (phew! ?)
Rather than featuring a paleontological crime, the Megatherium in question is a gentleman's club similar to the Diogenes, but allowing more conversation between ⬇️

Stuart Palmer was a screenwriter and detective fiction writer, whose series of "spinster sleuth" mysteries featuring Hildegarde Withers sound interesting in both book and film form, and I'm minded to seek them out.
His Holmes pastiche, "The Adventure of the Marked Man" sees H&W in Cornwall investigating a series of death threats against an unassuming man. I don't think all the ends were quite gathered together, but it was still a good story 4?

Vincent Starrett was an important Sherlockian scholar, so I had high hopes for his "Adventure of the Unique 'Hamlet'", and while it was fun, it was a little too fun-ny. Written for private circulation to a group of like-minded Sherlock aficionados, I think there are some in-jokes that don't land so well for a general audience, & the amusing comments about eccentric bibliophiles edge into self-referential indulgence. But - it was still fun ? 3.5?

#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

Spending tonight‘s #HyggeHour back with Trixie & the gang to finish the second half of Book 16 for #BobWhiteBuddies.

On my couch, drinking this flavored iced tea & enjoying a couple snack sized Take 5 bars I purloined from a dish at the board meeting last week.🍫🦹They are one of my favorite candy bars.

Mood is fine. I could use another weekend day but my workweek, while busy,should be at least a bit calmer.

My next audiobook. Fifth in the series. #serieslove @TheSpineView @Andrew65

This was entertaining. I would read the next one, but I‘m not in a rush to do so. I am excited to see what Netflix does with it, though.

This is the start of a new series by the author of the Ruth Galloway mysteries, which were my favorite, so I had to give this a chance. This one is a little out there bc it features time travel. It took a bit for me to get into the story but I ended up really liking it. There was some nervous tension in the story in a few ways and it kept me guessing.

This is the UK cover, which is much prettier than the US one I had. #DoubleSpin for August