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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with the buddy reads; Lamentation #ShardlakeBR, Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Blanched Soldier #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Continue Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, Sister in Law and on audio Weyward

I‘m about to start The Quest of the Missing Map #NancyDrewBR

I also want to read Small Boat and get a start on Tata

Suet624 Perrin! 💕 2d

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kelli7990

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World�s Ocean | Helen Scales

Here‘s my progress on other books I‘m #currentlyreading.

Sherlock Holmes: I‘m caught up on the #noplacelikeholmes buddy read.

Assassin‘s Apprentice: I have 5 hours left in the audiobook I‘m reading for the #realmofelderlings buddy read. I haven‘t read any more of this book.

What The Wild Sea Can Be: I‘m reading this book for the #naturalitsy buddy read. I have 9 hours left in the audiobook. I haven‘t read any more of this book.

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LitsyEvents

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier | Arthur Conan Doyle

repost for @dabbe:

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Hello, Sherlockians~
Sorry I'm so late in posting! Fabulous discussion last Saturday. Next up: “(TAo) The Blanched Soldier.“ Due to Mother's Day this Sunday (HMD, all you moms! 🌹), discussion won't be until NEXT Saturday, 5/17, and will be led by @dabbe.
Link to summary/analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pq8m0_fIVju34TeDarltkrWZEHgGq0xv/view?usp=shari....
Happy Hump Day! 🐪

dabbe TY! 😍 4d

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

Hello, Sherlockians~
Sorry I'm so late in posting! Fabulous discussion last Saturday. Next up: “(TAo) The Blanched Soldier.“ Due to Mother's Day this Sunday (HMD, all you moms! 🌹), discussion won't be until NEXT Saturday, 5/17, and will be led by @dabbe.
Link to summary/analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pq8m0_fIVju34TeDarltkrWZEHgGq0xv/view?usp=shari...
Happy Hump Day! 🐪

Cuilin 👍🙏 6d

Liz_M @LitsyEvents 6d

dabbe @Cuilin 😍🤩😍 6d

dabbe @Liz_M TY! 😍🤩😍 6d

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Read4life

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#WeeklyUpdate

Really good reads last week.
#EBBR
#LittensLoveACOTAR
#Readyourebooks
#MotherDaughterBuddyRead
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
#readyourTBR
#WickedWords 1-5
#Roll100
#SeriesLove2025

Cuilin, StayCurious, Andrew65, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, CBee, dabbe, AsYouWish, PuddleJumper

TheSpineView Fantastic! 📚🤩📚 1w

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1w

Cuilin Fabulous 🎉 1w

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Andrew65 An excellent week, well done 🎉🎉🎉 1w

Ruthiella Nice work! 👍 1w

dabbe Our last SH book! I'm kind of 🥺 about it! 💜💚💜 1w

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kelli7990

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho | Arthur Conan Doyle

I just finished reading this week‘s short story “The Illustrious Client” for #noplacelikeholmes. Stephen Fry is going to be reading this collection of short stories for the last time. I‘m glad.

Daisey So, I downloaded this audiobook a few years ago to listen to some individual stories, and after The Last Bow I thought it was complete. Thanks to your post, I redownloaded and now can listen the Casebook stories narrated by Stephen Fry as well. 10h

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Thoughts?

@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 1w

CatLass007 We the reader never find out who the client was but I believe Holmes discovered his identity and chose to respect his privacy, even refusing to discuss it with Watson when Watson discovers the client‘s identity. Holmes disgraces the Baron by publicly revealing his diary which has the added benefit of convincing the young lady to end the engagement. It would be nice if women suddenly became respected and independent but that still hasn‘t happened. 1w

Librarybelle I did like that there is a mystery about the “client” was never really revealed. 1w

dabbe As horrific as the vitriol throwing was, it was justly ironic that the baron's pretty face was destroyed since that's how he lured his women to him in the first place.

We also have a women vs. women situation, too. In “Charles Augustus Milverton,“ the woman killer is married to a famous celebrity. Holmes thinks justice has been done and doesn't report her. In this one, though, the downtrodden Kitty will be brought before the courts for her crime. (edited) 1w

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Thoughts?

@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 1w

CatLass007 It‘s widely believed that the Baron murdered his wife although he has never been convicted. He is a psychopathic misogynist. When I first read the question I thought there is no way someone like him would have his own podcast. And as I worked through my response I realized that he could accomplish far more than having a podcast, he could become president. 1w

Librarybelle The Baron is rather slimy and very calculating. Good point about being president, @CatLass007 ! 1w

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CatLass007 @Librarybelle Thanks. Scary, isn‘t it? 1w

Cuilin @CatLass007 Yep! 😑 1w

dabbe @CatLass007 🎯🩵🎯 I mean, you can be a convicted felon many times over and still be president, right? 1w

dabbe The baron reminds me of Charles Augustus Milverton, as does this story. Whereas Milverton himself didn't have liaisons with women, he blackmailed them after finding out about their liaisons with others. This was his way of making a living. The baron, though, does what he does just because he can and for the perverse pleasure it brings him, making him more evil IMHO. 1w

CatLass007 @dabbe Right. 1w

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Cuilin

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Thoughts?

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

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement @catlass007 @CrystalE02 @curiouserandcurioser @Larkken @BeeCurious @Blackink_WhitePaper @Daisey @RayHallucinogen @Born.A.Reader @Chrissyreadit @Fr3NcHtOaSt @Anishalnkspill 1w

CatLass007 I think convincing the young lady not to marry the murderer is no mystery but Holmes enjoys a challenge. He is a puzzle solver. I think he accepts the case to find out who the client is. (edited) 1w

Librarybelle My thoughts exactly, @CatLass007 ! 1w

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CatLass007 @Librarybelle Great minds… 1w

dabbe I think the most mysterious thing about this story involved “The Illustrious Client.“ We never find out who he is! Perhaps he might be King Edward VII due to the emblem on Damery's coach, but we'll never know. 1w

dabbe I also have to say, poor Watson. Holmes makes him bone-up on Chinese pottery, never telling him the real reason. Watson does his best and crams like he's taking a high-stakes exam only to be told by Holmes that he only had a few minutes to located the lust book because his “time was limited by [Watson's] knowledge of Chinese pottery.“ 1w

CogsOfEncouragement @dabbe When Watson‘s undercover conversation went so badly so quickly, I immediately thought - Okay, SH knew it would be this way. What is SH doing right now? lol 1w

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement You were way ahead of me! I was thinking, “Way to go, Sherlock, putting Watson in such a dangerous position!“ Never thinking anything but that. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 1w

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kelli7990

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

Here‘s how I did on my April #bookspinbingo list. I read the short stories I was supposed to read for #noplacelikeholmes, I read the Agatha Christie book I was supposed to read for #christiescapers. I read an ARC I signed up for from Chasing Books PR and I finally finished my #roll100 book that was picked back in February. I made progress in the #realmofelderlings buddy read and started reading the January book for the #naturalitsy buddy read.

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Looking great!!! 2w

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