Litsy

Nancy Drew 11: The Clue of the Broken Locket | Carolyn Keene

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1. This month's discussion is slightly different, as the plot lines for the original and the revised editions are extremely different. Questions 2 and 3 will look at the 1934 and 1965 editions respectively.

Which edition did you read? The 1934 plot line features twins adopted from a foundling home, and Nancy wants to reunite the twins with their real mother.

The 1965 edition has The Flying Dutchmen, an iron bird, and record piracy. #NancyDrewBR

Ruthiella Fascinating differences! I read the 1965 version with the iron bird, etc. 2mo

DGRachel Wow! How can those even be considered the same book? I read the 1965 version. 2mo

jlhammar 1965 for me! 2mo

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Bookwormjillk Mine was the 1934 edition. This was the first 1930‘s book I read and was surprised at how different the characters of Hannah and Mr Drew were written. Hannah was treated much more like a servant, and Mr Drew wasn‘t nearly as supportive of Nancy. (edited) 2mo

kspenmoll Wow. Mine is 1965. Interesting how different the characters are portrayed @Bookwormjillk 2mo

MariaW I read the 1965 version as well. 2mo

CogsOfEncouragement I read 1965 this time. 2mo

DGRachel @Bookwormjillk That‘s fascinating about the difference in the portrayal of Hannah and Carson. 2mo

DebinHawaii I read the 1965 version too. I am fascinated by all these differences & why they occured. 2mo

mrp27 1965, so interesting! 2mo

dabbe I've only been reading the later versions because that's what I read as a child. Seems like this one was much tamer than the original. #oy! 2mo

Roary47 1965 for me again. 2mo

kwmg40 I'd read the 1965 version, but now I'm very curious about the 1934 version! 2mo

AmandaBlaze 1965 1mo

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JenReadsAlot

Butter: Roman | Asako Yuzuki

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Soft pick for me....it was way too long. #camplitsy24 @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain

dabbe I'm slogging through (barely) and getting TIRED of all of the food descriptions. #oy! 😂 4mo

Megabooks @dabbe that‘s something you either like or don‘t! 4mo

Megabooks Agree with you on length. 100 pages could‘ve easily been cut and made a stronger story 4mo

squirrelbrain I agree with your review! 4mo

Chelsea.Poole I definitely agree with you. This was too long and could have been accomplished with fewer pages! 4mo

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dabbe

Clear: A Novel | Carys Davies

#WeeklyFavorites
@Read4Life

RE: Nancy Drew: What do you do when you're halfway finished with a library loan you've already waited 52 days for, and it expires, and you're told you have to now wait 96 days to borrow it again? You cave into Amazon and buy the damn thing because (of course), you can't wait that long and have to finish it--even though you've read it before in your youth. #oy 🙄

Read4life 😳😳😳 5mo

AnnCrystal That's why I can never borrow from the library...and you seem to be a fast reader. Me...by the time I begin reading chapter four, it's time to return 😂🤔📚👏😉👍💝. (edited) 5mo

dabbe @Read4life 🤩😘😀 5mo

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dabbe @AnnCrystal 🤩😂😘 5mo

KadaGul @AnnCrystal I can't believe how lucky 🍀 I am to have a library 📚 that doesn't charge fines 💲💳, especially because I'm a medium-pace reader 🤓!#FineFeeLibraries 5mo

dabbe @KadaGul Amen! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

AnnCrystal @KadaGul that's grand 👏😉👍💝. 5mo

bthegood comment for Week of May 18th has me laughing out loud - thank you!! 😂 5mo

Lesliereadsalot 96 days! Who knew so many people were reading Nancy Drew?? 5mo

dabbe @bthegood 😂😂😂 I had quite a slump in May. I hope to get back at it this month! 5mo

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot There are only TWO ebook copies at my library--the so-called biggest library in Phoenix. They need more! 🤩 5mo

bthegood @dabbe 👍 5mo

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dabbe

The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs (thanks for the tag! 😘)
1. My high school copy of THE GREAT GATSBY. All my notes as a 16-year-old are still in it. I have kept it through the years (now 42 years old). It is held together with a rubber band. 💚
2. That would be early 1980s: all books by Sidney Sheldon, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosamond du Jardin, and my precious Harlequin romances.
3. THE SECRET GARDEN.

Play @PageShifter, @Catiewithac?

AmyG Ha…I read so much Sidney Sheldon when I was young. 5mo

dabbe @AmyG He kept those pages turning! 🤩 5mo

Eggs Great choice - # 3👏🏻🙌🏻 5mo

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TheBookgeekFrau Sidney Sheldon was a staple of my mom's and therefore little teeny bopper me 😆 5mo

dabbe @Eggs 😘 5mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau I couldn't believe my mom actually let me read them; they could get quite steamy! 😂 5mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Not as bad as Harold Robbin's books, which I had to sneak 😂 I remember my mother recommending SS bc she loved his strong women characters 5mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau Oh, man, I forgot about Harold Robbin's! That now reminds me of me sneaking in SCRUPLES by Judith Krantz. #oy! 🤩 5mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Ditto Scruples - thanks for the reminder 😁 (edited) 5mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#TLT @dabbe

1. Gulp. I scored 38/100 bildungsromans that I've read. 😱 I have LOTS more coming-of-age books to read! 3 that I haven't read from the list: TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, and IT.
2. 3 I'd like to add to the list: DOGSONG, FOREVER, HUCK FINN.

LINK!!! https://www.listchallenges.com/litsys-favorite-bildungsromans

Tagging all who participated in this TLT list a few weeks ago. Pass the fun on! 😀

AmyG Where is the link??? And I had to google bildungsroman 😭 (Tell the Wolves I‘m Home is EXCELLENT) (edited) 6mo

dabbe @AmyG Shit. I knew I had forgotten something! I'll post again! 6mo

ShananigansReads I only got 8/100 if we are counting books I enjoyed and 11 if it‘s just books I read. I haven‘t been posting but I had to let you know I love a list vote. Spent a whole day on the app after last week‘s list. 😄🫢🤷🏾‍♀️ 6mo

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dabbe @ShananigansReads That website is ADDICTING! I've spent hours there myself! Expect more in the future! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

ChaoticMissAdventures 56! I love these list challenges! 6mo

slategreyskies Only 18 for me! 😳 🤣 6mo

JenReadsAlot 23 😔🤣😳 6mo

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards 53 - not surprising as a former English teacher now professor who frequently teaches Children's Lit & YA Lit! 6mo

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures Yay! Plus you kicked my butt! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

dabbe @slategreyskies That just means you have more to add to your TBR! 🤩😂🤗 6mo

dabbe @JenReadsAlot Just means more for the TBR! (that sorta rhymes, doesn't it?) 🤩😀🤗 6mo

dabbe @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards You kicked this former English teacher's butt! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

TheLudicReader I only scored 38 as well. Some of those titles I have never heard of, so there's that. 6mo

dabbe @TheLudicReader Just one more thing we have in common! I haven't heard of over half of them myself! And I taught middle school for 12 years! 😳 You'd think I would know a few more, but no. Of course, the last year I taught those grades was 2005, so maybe it's the newer ones we haven't heard of. #oy 6mo

julieclair 21 🫤 6mo

dabbe @julieclair I hope I didn't make you feel bad! 😱 It's just for fun--and to maybe make our TBR's even bigger beasts than they are already! 🤩😂🤗 6mo

Karisimo 46!! 6mo

dabbe @Karisimo #yahooyou! You kicked my butt! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

thebacklistbook 17% that's how many I've read. 6mo

Teresereading 24% 6mo

julieclair @dabbe No worries! I just continued taking bookish list challenges until I found one where I finished in the top 50% ! 😀😆 That‘s a fun website… I hadn‘t seen it before… but it could be a major rabbit hole for sure. 🐰💙 6mo

bthegood 17% - many of the books I have not read but saw the movie 😅 Obviously these are not my genre! Thanks for sharing - fun as always - 6mo

dabbe @thebacklistbook If you're like me, I didn't even know half of them! And I once taught middle school! 🤩😂😀 6mo

dabbe @Teresereading More for our TBR's, right? Such a wonderful, never-ending problem! 🤩😂😀 6mo

dabbe @julieclair Lordy, you ain't kidding! I've spent hours there! 🤩😂🤗 6mo

dabbe @bthegood They were my genre when I taught middle school, but now I didn't even recognize over half of them! 🤩😂😀 6mo

kspenmoll 43- so many unread books! 6mo

dabbe @kspenmoll You kicked my butt! That TBR list keeps on growing! 🤩😂😀 6mo

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dabbe

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Grab some popcorn; it's movie time! 🍿
1. GONE WITH THE WIND. Scarlett & Rhett. Vivien & Clark. Sigh.
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Because of course.
3. JURASSIC PARK. The original one. That T-rex. #oy

Play and then tag three? Easy as A, B, C! 🤩
@AmyG @TheSpineView @Eggs

Hope you'll play and pass it on! Happy Thursday, everyboy! 💚🩷💚

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!💜🏷 7mo

AmyG Ooooo definitely #2….I just watched it last week. 7mo

Eggs Thx 💜💚💙 7mo

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Suet624 Great choices. 7mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 💚🩷💚 7mo

dabbe @AmyG 💚🩷💚 7mo

dabbe @Eggs 💚🩷💚 7mo

dabbe @Suet624 😘🤗🤩 7mo

TheBookHippie Oh Gone with the Wind!! Yes. ♥️ 7mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂😘 7mo

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BarkingMadRead

Rebecca | Daphne D Maurier

Ch 4: and now we know what happened to Rebecca #butfirst #hoppyissick #ummmmmm #whatdowecallthenarrator #suggestionsplease #asiwassaying #narratorisfreefortheday #awkardlunchwithmax #awkwardcarridewithmax #almostsuicidewithmax⁉️ #yikes #howhetalksaboutmanderleythough #staytuned #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @willaful @bookwormjillk @librarybelle @quietjenn @mcctrish @catlass007 @cuilin @dabbe @ruthiella @indoordame @peanutnine @kwmg40 @5feet.of.fury @roary47 @julieclair
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IndoorDame The intro to my copy points out that she is only ever “the second Mrs de Winter” (and it has some very pointed things to say about that 😂) but that‘s quite a mouthful so I think she‘s gonna need a nickname 7mo

BarkingMadRead @thebookhippie @clare-dragonfly @aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @thearomaofbooks @kao @crinoline_laphroaig @elizamarie @daena @graciouswarriorprincess 7mo

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BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame I totally agree. We have to call her something 🤷🏻‍♀️ poor thing never has a name, although we know it‘s a pretty one and also unique. Super helpful. 7mo

IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead I‘ve often wondered what constitutes a “unique” name for a white woman in England in the 30s 7mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame probably something so chill now 7mo

Ruthiella Her name is Jan Brady, forever doomed to be overshadowed by Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! I mean, Rebecca. 7mo

IndoorDame @Ruthiella 👏👏👏 Sold! call her Jan 🤣 (edited) 7mo

Ruthiella Also, it‘s so awkward when your first date is an attempted murder/suicide! 😱😆 7mo

CatLass007 @Ruthiella You have a wicked sense of humor! I like that in a person. 7mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 🤣☠️🤣☠️ 7mo

BarkingMadRead Omg @Ruthiella #janbrady FTW 7mo

Bookwormjillk Jan 😂 🏈 7mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella Jan is perfect! 7mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig I need to find a book about gardens in DDuM books. "The daffodils were in bloom, stirring in the evening breeze, golden heads cupped upon lean stalks, and however many you might pick there would be no thinning of the ranks, they were massed like an army, shoulder to shoulder. On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like pallid snowdrops.⬇️ 7mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig The primrose was more vulgar, a homely pleasant creature who appeared in every cranny like a weed. Too early yet for bluebells, their heads were still hidden beneath last year‘s leaves, but when they came, dwarfing the more humble violet, they choked the very bracken in the woods, and with their color made a challenge to the sky....People who plucked bluebells from the woods were vandals; he had forbidden it at Manderley." 7mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig So many flowers in this Chapter. I highlighted so many. 7mo

Roary47 @Ruthiella I love it! Jan is who I will imagine her to be. Plus we don‘t know her actual age either. Are they on a date showing she‘s older than a child? 7mo

BarkingMadRead @Roary47 I get the idea that she‘s an adult, but maybe a bit younger than Max 7mo

Ruthiella @Roary47 I am reading a bit ahead. I think in chapter five it‘s confirmed she is 21. 👍 But Maxim is “old enough to be her father”, so 35 to 40 years old, I imagine. 🤔 7mo

Clare-Dragonfly @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, the descriptions are so vivid and wonderful! I can see the flowers so clearly! 7mo

Bookwormjillk These chapters are long but they don‘t feel like it. 7mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree! 7mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Crinoline_Laphroaig These descriptions are so vivid! 7mo

julieclair I am really appreciating du Maurier‘s beautifully descriptive prose this time around. I don‘t remember noticing it as much the first time I read this. 7mo

ElizaMarie I agree with “Jan“ as her name for now... But wouldn't it be wild if her name is Daphne? I mean, if I were an author, maybe I would name a character after myself and then say how beautiful the name is repeatedly. 7mo

BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie that‘s a brilliant point! 7mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Oh, my nose! Oh,my nose! 😂😂😂 7mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk As opposed to our last book! #oy 😂🤗🤩 7mo

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Cuilin

A case of identity | Arthur Conan Doyle

@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 @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious

IndoorDame I have mixed feelings about this. I found the fiction vs. reality part of it very satisfying, but the perception of women part infuriating. So the solution itself was actually very satisfying, but then the fact that the law couldn‘t touch her her stepfather, that Sherlock didn‘t bother to tell Mary what he discovered, that he clearly hadn‘t intended to tell her even before she left his office, & how nonchalant he was about it all really rankled. 8mo

CatLass007 I completely agree with @IndoorDame! Holmes is a creature of his time, and I suspect Conan Doyle was as much of a misogynist as his creation. But I sometimes wonder if the term misanthrope would be a more apt description. Holmes is extremely condescending to his male clients and even his supposed friend Dr. John Watson. Did anyone else notice that all the female clients and/or suspects are named “Mary”? 8mo

SpellboundReader Shame on Holmes for judging Mary as having a vacuous face and then not telling Mary who the perpetrator was. How is she to protect herself? It seems Homes just took the case for his own self- gratification. 8mo

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Librarybelle I completely agree with @IndoorDame - I enjoyed the fiction but the brush off of Mary and the unwillingness to share his findings is disappointing, though not out of character. Dare I say that I figured out the mystery/solution and I am - gasp - a woman!! Interesting thought, @CatLass007 - I had not thought of that! 8mo

CatLass007 @BeeCurious You‘re quite right. @Librarybelle What exactly had you not thought of? The misogyny, the misanthropy? All the above? 8mo

Librarybelle @CatLass007 Sorry - the use of Mary for the clients and suspects 8mo

CatLass007 @Librarybelle Even Watson‘s wife is named Mary, right. Of course, initially she was a client. Irene Adler is the only character we‘ve met so far which Conan Doyle seems to have used any imagination in choosing a name. Wait, if we were still in college, which I most definitely am not, this could make a fun drinking game. Every time a character named Mary shows up or is even mentioned, everyone drinks!🍷🤪 8mo

dabbe I can't help but be reminded that it is Watson who is writing this (supposedly). So, it's also him who is showing his misogynistic thoughts as well. Plus, a 1st-person narrator is never completely reliable, so how much of these damning words against women are Sherlock's? Or are they Watson's? Or both? 8mo

CogsOfEncouragement Some people change the system and some maneuver the best they can within it. Women don‘t have a lot of rights at this time. Holmes and Watson live within these laws. I feel like Doyle told stories that got people thinking about how someone like that stepfather should be prosecuted but he actually broke no law at that time. 8mo

kelli7990 Yeah. I feel like it was satisfying. 8mo

Read4life Good point, @dabbe Definitely something to think about. 8mo

dabbe @Read4life 🤩😃😍 8mo

Aimeesue I found it satisfying, though I‘m irate at mom for going along with scamming her own daughter. Mary, you need to be more suspicious! 8mo

SpellboundReader @Cuilin Thank you for posting these thought provoking questions. 8mo

Cuilin @BeeCurious you‘re welcome, apologies for lack of responses as I was at a memorial service and with family but hope to respond today. 8mo

Cuilin @IndoorDame agree, for Sherlock solving the riddle comes before caring for the client. 8mo

Cuilin @CatLass007 yes, for Sherlock the puzzle, case always comes first. 8mo

Cuilin @Librarybelle yes , me a woman figured it out too!! Shocking 😮 8mo

Cuilin @dabbe good point but they‘re definitely Doyle‘s and of their time. 8mo

Cuilin @Aimeesue oh that was infuriating!! No Mom awards there. 8mo

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement I asked my husband (prosecutor) what would happen today? He said they could be charged with conspiracy to defraud. 8mo

IndoorDame @Aimeesue couldn‘t agree more!!!! 8mo

IndoorDame @dabbe such a good point! I‘ve been thinking a lot about Doyle‘s POV as the writer, but basically ignoring Watson‘s. I need to start considering his influence too! 8mo

SpellboundReader @cuilin I'm so sorry for your loss. There is no need to apologize either, as there are other things far more important than Litsy. We all appreciate the time and effort you and @dabbe have put into making this buddy read fun and interesting. I'm learning so much and am not certain if I would have even attempted to read all these #sherlocked stories on my own. 8mo

CogsOfEncouragement @Cuilin Yes, so different today. Thankful for the fight the women before us took on to no longer just be property of their father or husband, to be able to vote, to serve on a jury, etc. Sherlock puts no blame on the mother, and I think we need to remember how limited her power was too. 8mo

dabbe @Cuilin Most definitely. Sorry about your loss, too. 💚 8mo

dabbe @IndoorDame 🤩😃😍 These 3 men: Sherlock, Watson, Doyle ... #oy! 😂 8mo

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BarkingMadRead

Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ch 9.4: the interrogation continues #enoughsaid 🤷🏻‍♀️ #thebros #handingtheirconfessiontolawenforcement #dudeneedsalawyer #iguessihadmoretosay 🤷🏻‍♀️ #hashtagbrigade #pemberlittens

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @thebookhippie @daisey @indoordame @librarybelle @mcctrish @cuilin @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @ruthiella @peanutnine @bluebird @kao @aimeesue @dabbe @currentlyreadinginco 8mo

BarkingMadRead @5feet.of.fury @willaful @teresereading @tineke @crinoline_laphroaig @samanne @graciouswarriorprincess @daena @deblovestoread @larkken @paintandprose @alldebooks @thearomaofbooks @Vansa 8mo

TheBookHippie #isthisacomedyoratragedy #whatthewhat 8mo

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BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie these guys are salivating over this confession. #silverplatter 8mo

dabbe Interrogator to Dmitry: “I didn't say you WERE the murderer; I said you were ACTING LIKE the murderer.“ #oy 😱 8mo

Bookwormjillk I‘m not a lawyer but I don‘t think MYOB is a good alibi 8mo

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead #droolingtheyare 8mo

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk I‘m sure it‘ll be fine 😵‍💫 8mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe #oyindeed 8mo

BarkingMadRead #cackling MYOB 🤣🤣🤣🤣 8mo

Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie what‘s the worst that could happen 🤦‍♀️ 8mo

Cuilin I will be using the phrase pettifogging details from this day forward. Lol (edited) 8mo

mcctrish Mitya is insane, right?! 😵‍💫 “I‘m not saying another word, all the way to the scaffold. Where was I ? Okay here‘s my story “ #ifitquackslikeaduck 8mo

Aimeesue @Bookwormjillk 😂😂😂 8mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish And I will withhold just enough details for no apparent reason and incriminate myself. So there! 8mo

mcctrish @Aimeesue and then take it back. “Who‘s telling the truth? What is the truth?” 8mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH, NIKOLAY PARFENOVICH!! Er, wrong movie. 😁 (edited) 8mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Aimeesue 🤣😂😅😁 8mo

mcctrish @Aimeesue 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I laughed right out loud 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Aimeesue oh man #missedopportunity (edited) 8mo

Ruthiella @Aimeesue 🤣🤣🤣 8mo

Bookwormjillk @Aimeesue 🤣🤣🤣 8mo

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