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Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

Here‘s what I‘m #currentlyreading.

Sherlock Holmes: I‘m caught up on the #noplacelikeholmes buddy read.
Broken Play: This is an ARC I signed up to read coming out June 5. It‘s good but I need to make more progress in it.
Ten Birds That Changed The World: This was the February book for #naturalitsy.
Royal Assassin: I just started listening to this book for #realmofelderlings. I only listened to the prologue but it‘s good.

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kelli7990

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

Here‘s how I did on #bookspinbingo in May. I completed all of the short stories for #noplacelikeholmes, completed the short story collection for #christiescapers, finished the January book for #naturalitsy, finished a book series for #serieslove2025, finished Assassin‘s Apprentice for #realmofelderlings, finished my #roll100 book from February, read an ARC on my Kindle and finished the book club book for Crow Club on Fable.

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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Great progress!! 17h

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dabbe

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin @LitsyEvents

Fabulous discussion and insight yesterday, Sherlockians! We're getting closer to the end! Next up: “(TAo) The Sussex Vampire.“ Discussion will be this coming Saturday, 6/7, and will be led by @Cuilin. Have a good week. 🤗

Link to summary and analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbyHAZrTXjmnC6KRzh5x6YdASAOmncCq/view?usp=shari...

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Librarybelle Thank you! 1d

dabbe @Librarybelle YW! 😍 1d

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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 for #noplacelikeholmes.

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Three Gables - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

#thethreegables

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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Librarybelle There seems to be a lot of layers of deception, but to be honest, the story was that non-engaging that I didn‘t pay attention to everyone! 😂 Klein is the biggest deceiver, and it appears she even added layers of protection to deceive the other deceivers. 3d

CogsOfEncouragement True, like a tier cake of liars. Maybe that is actually an interesting plot idea after all, but this needed a rewrite even back then. 3d

dabbe @Librarybelle @CogsOfEncouragement Agree 💯. I would add that Douglas Maberley‘s manuscript serves as a hidden truth that unravels Klein‘s schemes. If published, it would have let the world know about Klein's machinations. Even Langdale Pike, someone we never meet, deceives all sorts of people with his gossipy knowledge. Deception seems to drive the plot, but Holmes ensures that the bad gal literally pays for it. 2d

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Three Gables - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

#thethreegables

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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CatLass007 Bad people are treated badly and when bad things happen to bad people, it‘s what they deserve. As Hettie said on NCIS:LA, “Haters gonna hate.” (edited) 3d

Read4life I read “Haters gonna hate” & now TS Shake It Off is stuck in my head. At 3:30 AM!! The brain will not be quieting down now. 😆 3d

CatLass007 @Read4life 🙀 Sorry. It‘s not a song I‘ve heard so it‘s not stuck in my head. But I have a migraine, if it makes you feel any better. That‘s why I‘m awake. It‘s definitely not helping me to look at my phone either. But I‘m listening to a book with a 30-minute sleep timer and I have to keep looking to play the next 30. 3d

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Read4life @CatLass007 migraine is why I‘m still up too. Hope yours eases up soon. I was just able to take some meds so I‘m going to try and get settled enough to sleep. 🤞🏻 (edited) 3d

CatLass007 @Read4life Dang! I‘m sorry. I took my prescription med about 1.5 hours ago. I‘m not getting the relief I need, so I capable another. I‘m chalking it up to the weather. 3d

Librarybelle Hope you both feel better now, @CatLass007 @Read4life ! Migraines are horrible. We also see Holmes‘s idea of justice—basically have Klein give the money for Maberley to go on a trip around the world. Never mind that Maberley‘s son is dead. Time doesn‘t heal all wounds… 3d

CogsOfEncouragement I think this ending is complete rubbish. 3d

dabbe @CatLass007 @Read4life @Librarybelle @CogsOfEncouragement
Sorry about your migraines! Hope you're both feeling better today.

I think Holmes treats Mrs. Maberley with sympathy, recognizing her vulnerability as a widow. In contrast, he manipulates Isadora Klein into paying a steep price for her attempted coercion. This shows that Holmes believes justice should be flexible—protective of the innocent but unyielding toward the corrupt. 2d

CatLass007 @dabbe I agree with your assessment, mostly. Except that Holmes will allow this woman to keep her “good name” and marry a younger, titled man, probably ruining his life and the lives of everyone around him. He might have considered doing more. But I think that‘s just another of the many reasons I didn‘t like this story. 2d

dabbe @CatLass007 Good point. I think I associated this titled man in this story with the foppish King of Bohemia in “A Scandal in Bohemia“, so I thought nothing of what the male might have to endure. The patriarchal world is bad enough as it is. 😉 2d

CatLass007 True. I enjoy a lot of the retellings from a woman‘s perspective that I‘ve read. I‘m just about to begin The Change by Kirsten Miller. Maybe if Isadora Klein treated other women well, I‘d have a different perspective about her. But she didn‘t trust anyone she couldn‘t buy, manipulate, or threaten, male or female. But this whole story was awful. 2d

dabbe @CatLass007 🎯🩵🎯! 2d

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Three Gables - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

#thethreegables

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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CatLass007 Nope. 3d

Read4life I‘m with @CatLass007 Nope! 👎🏻 3d

Librarybelle Other than this was typical attitudes for that time…nope. This one was pretty bad with its ethnical epithets. 3d

CogsOfEncouragement No, it was so very bad. The only thing I was remotely entertained by in this story was imagining his dandy outfit. I loved it. 3d

dabbe @CatLass007 @Read4life @Librarybelle @CogsOfEncouragement
🎯🎯🎯! In a weird way, Holmes reminded me of the older Atticus Finch in GO SET A WATCHMAN, a book that should have NEVER been published (again IMHO). The older Atticus shows quite a bit of racism and in an acidic way--just like Holmes in this story. To me, the writing was most shocking. Some critics actually wonder if this was even written by Doyle! 2d

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Three Gables - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

#thethreegables

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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CatLass007 Here again, the reader is left completely in the dark about who people are and why things are happening. I didn‘t enjoy this story at all. (edited) 3d

Read4life Definitely not on my list of favorites. 3d

kelli7990 It‘s 3 AM over here and I just finished reading this story. I didn‘t really like this story that much but at least it was short. 3d

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Librarybelle I was very underwhelmed. Not a favorite of mine, and I agree with @CatLass007 that there are way too many elements we have no clue about throughout the story. Not a good setup. 3d

CogsOfEncouragement I hate to say this, but if this was somehow the first SH story I ever read I wouldn‘t be compelled to read another. 3d

dabbe @CatLass007 @Read4life @kelli7990 @Librarybelle @CogsOfEncouragement I couldn't agree more. I felt like it was a snarkier “A Scandal in Bohemia“. I also despised how Dixie was treated by H&W. And you're so right, @CogsOfEncouragement: if this had been the first story ... 😳! So far, I'm thinking that Doyle should have ended with “His Last Bow.“ 2d

eeclayton While I agree with the previous comments, I found the part about buying the house with everything in it kind of interesting. It kept me guessing about what might be found in the man's suitcases. (The fact that it was a manuscript was rather underwhelming, though.) Considering that Isadora inteded to deal with the problem in a legal way if possible, she gave up on buying the house way too easily. 2d

dabbe @eeclayton Excellent point about Isadora giving up too easily. It seemed she wanted to hone right in on the nasty stuff! 2d

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LitsyEvents

The Adventure of the Three Gables - A Sherlock Holmes Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle

repost for @dabbe

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Fabulous discussion and insight today, Sherlockians! We're getting closer to the end! Next up: “(TAo) The Three Gables.“ Discussion will be next Saturday, 5/31, and will be led by @dabbe. Happy Memorial Day tomorrow. 🤗

Link to summary and analysis (spoiler alert!): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IlpHKODs2DFBIrlY0KYMdlppsuFfmChC/view

dabbe TY! 😍 1w

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dabbe

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin @LitsyEvents

Hi, Shelockians~
Sorry for the confusion as to the order of these stories in this last edition. Though originally published separately, we are reading the stories in the order they were first published in the volume titled THE CASE-BOOK OF SH. Above is a pic showing the order of the final last 9 stories. Hopefully, this will keep us all reading the right story at the right time. We're almost there! 😍

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CatLass007 They‘re really messed up on the audiobook that I have anyway. It will have the title of one story but it will be a completely different story. But I figured it out and I will figure this out. Thank you! 1w

tpixie Amazing feat! 🔍 🕵️‍♂️ 🔍 1w

dabbe @CatLass007 YW! 💚🩵💚 1w

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dabbe @tpixie We've been going since January 2024! 💚🩵💚 1w

tpixie @dabbe great perseverance 💚 1w

kelli7990 The Stephen Fry audiobook doesn‘t have the correct titles for the stories in the last collection of stories. It says one title of the story and then when it starts playing, it says a different title. 1w

dabbe @kelli7990 I don't know what to do about that. If you can send me the list of the titles from the Audible, I might be able to figure out which one is which. 1w

Librarybelle I was thrilled that these are now on Project Gutenberg! 1w

dabbe @Librarybelle Yay! 🤩 1w

kelli7990 @dabbe I‘ve already figured it out. I‘ve been playing the beginning of the stories until I get to the one I‘m looking for. That helps but it‘s still annoying that I have to do that in order to find the story I‘m looking for. 1w

dabbe @kelli7990 Sorry about the troubles. 💚 1w

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