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Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat | Li Chen

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Detective Beans: The Case of the Missing Hat, by Li Chen (2024)
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Premise: A plucky kitten solves the greatest mystery of his young detective career: the loss of his favourite fedora.

Review: This is just pure graphic novel cuteness. That is all.

Bookish Pair: Cat‘s Cafe by Gwen Tarpley (2020)

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RoyallyReading

Detective Beans: and the Case of the Missing Hat | Li Chen

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Super cute and lighthearted mystery graphic novel, perfect for young mystery fans. I love the art style on this one and the way it can be used to introduce kiddos to detective fiction.

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Kristy_K

The Mountain King: A Novel | Anders de la Motte

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Overall I enjoyed this, but there was a lot going on and a lot of POVs that at times I got a little tripped up. Interested to see where the series goes.

#arc #sweden

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JuliaTheBookNerd

Holmes and Moriarty: The new official Sherlock Holmes novel | Gareth Rubin

#Keyhole 🗝️💙

#CoverStories 📖🦋🍀

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Aims42 This is a gorgeous edition 😍😍😍 4mo

Eggs Beautiful 🩶🗝️🖤 4mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 💙 🔑 4mo

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Doppoetry

Edogawa Rampo: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro | Rampo Edogawa

I also read a bit of this today, but due to a small but persistent headache, I didn't get much reading done.

So far, I am not the biggest fan of some wording choices and the general feel of the translation.

Doppoetry I can't really put my finger on it, but there are long sentences that feel like run-ons, causing it to feel a bit too overwritten as a result. I believe it is because it reads like a stream-of-consciousness type story, but even then, it could have been edited better.

Reading it just feels somehow “off.“ It is a feeling I get when I read translated works. It isn't that the translation is incorrect, but moreso there are better ways--

4mo

Doppoetry -To word a particular sentence than what the translator chose so it feels more comprehensive to read rather than directly translating a sentence that might be awkward to read in English, otherwise. 4mo

Doppoetry Some nuance can also be lost in translation, so to speak. This first story is a murder mystery, and when the detective examines the body, he mentions that “these fingerprints have no distinguishing features.“ This can imply multiple things, but it reads as if the detective made an obvious observation that was already established. 4mo

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TieDyeDude I think a good translator is often underappreciated, because their work shouldn't be noticeable. Jose Saramago is one of my favorite non-English authors, and his writing intentionally forgoes most punctuation and paragraph breaks. It creates a lot of run-ons, but the writing is so brilliant that it just works. 4mo

Doppoetry @TieDyeDude It is definitely a skill to translate a work seamlessly, even with a language barrier. It often depends on the translator's intent as well. Do they go for the most literal translation? a more nuanced meaning? etc.

It can definitely work if it's the intent. With this particular author, it wasn't the intent. He wrote horror and mystery stories heavily inspired by Poe. I also own a different collection of his translated by-- 4mo

Doppoetry @TieDyeDude -another translator, and that one didn't feel as off as this particular one, so I do wonder what happened there 🤔 4mo

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Pogue

The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair | K. H. Saxton

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This was adorable. I loved the puns, and the mystery. Thank you to @WildAlaskaBibliophile for adding this to her #AuldLangSpine list. @monalyisha

WildAlaskaBibliophile There's a second in the series that came out in the fall and I'm excited to read it! 6mo

Pogue @WildAlaskaBibliophile I will have to see if my library has it. This was just adorable. (edited) 6mo

WildAlaskaBibliophile @Pogue I agree! 💓 6mo

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kspenmoll

DeKok and the Sorrowing Tomcat: A Mystery | Baantjer

#FoodandLit #Netherlands
This is my first year participating in this prompt. I am excited- found the perfect book for me, a mystery set in Amsterdam & its nearby “provinces”, with a protagonist, who is quite the character. Detective Dekok is a an Amsterdam policeman who is grumpy,irreverent, ignores authority, & is suspicious of new policing methods. So far enjoying this read. The wafels were introduced to me by @Bookwormjillk Add coffee & yum!

Texreader, Catsandbooks

Bookwormjillk They‘re so good! 7mo

Dilara Welcome to FoodandLit! I hope you'll enjoy it - I do! 7mo

Texreader Yay!! So happy to have you! And the book does sound good. 7mo

BarbaraBB How fun you‘re reading this! The series is quite old school and was made into a TV series in the 90s/00‘s that became a huge hit in the Netherlands 7mo

Catsandbooks Added you to the tag list! Enjoy! 7mo

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VanessaCW

Holmes and Moriarty: The new official Sherlock Holmes novel | Gareth Rubin

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A fast paced, cat and mouse chase, rollercoaster of an adventure. It takes the reader on quite the journey, twisting and turning at every corner, action packed all the way to the end. A bit of a horror story, too! It‘s narrated via two voices, that of Dr Watson and Col Sebastian Moran. It was interesting to get two sides of the story. I didn‘t always know what was going on but I went with the flow and ended up thoroughly enjoying the ride. #TBC

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WildAlaskaBibliophile

The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair | K. H. Saxton

Spending a cozy Sunday evening cuddling and reading. We're eexpecting temps to drop into the upper 20s overnight; a crisp night, just right for getting lost in the twists and turns of a good mystery!

Ruthiella 😻😻😻 10mo

AnnCrystal 💕😻🐾💝. 10mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 10mo

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VanessaCW

Holmes and Moriarty: The new official Sherlock Holmes novel | Gareth Rubin

#Pigeonhole

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