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Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm | Carolyn Keene

so-so

So close between So-So and Pan. I chose So-So for those who want to read the entire series. But, whoah! Racist, tedious, and poorly written. While there was danger, hidden tunnels, kidnappings, and arson, none of it felt urgent. Nancy even goes to a weekend party at her boyfriend‘s fraternity even though the young boy she‘s “protecting” has been kidnapped. WTF, Nancy? Hard not to eye-roll throughout this one. #oy #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle

Laughterhp Yes! That was so weird!! 3d

lauraisntwilder And at the party, Nancy meets a student from India who knows the only other adult Indian she has ever met! 3d

Librarybelle This one was bad! 3d

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BarkingMadRead I feel like this is the general consensus. So bizarre 3d

dabbe @Laughterhp 🤩😂😄 3d

dabbe @lauraisntwilder 🤩😂😄 3d

dabbe @Librarybelle 🤩😂😄 3d

dabbe @BarkingMadRead 🤩😂😄 3d

sarahbarnes Great review. 😂 3d

dabbe @sarahbarnes 🤩😂🤗 3d

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Deblovestoread

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday

Favorites:

1) Lemon Meringue Pie also known as Icebox pie
2) Apple Crisp
3) My Grandmother‘s peach cobbler

Hard pass on anything jello related although I am guilty of feeding my kids the orange jello cool whip dessert when they were small.

@dabbe

TheBookHippie I cannot jello. 5d

dabbe You didn't put carrots in your orange jello, did you? My grandma did, and #oy was it a struggle to get down! 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡🍁🤎 5d

Deblovestoread @dabbe I wasn‘t that mean 😂 Veg in jello turn 🤢into 🤮 5d

dabbe @Deblovestoread 🎯!!! 4d

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Librarybelle

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 2mo

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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! 😂 5mo

Megabooks @dabbe that‘s something you either like or don‘t! 5mo

Megabooks Agree with you on length. 100 pages could‘ve easily been cut and made a stronger story 5mo

squirrelbrain I agree with your review! 5mo

Chelsea.Poole I definitely agree with you. This was too long and could have been accomplished with fewer pages! 5mo

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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 😳😳😳 6mo

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) 6mo

dabbe @Read4life 🤩😘😀 6mo

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dabbe @AnnCrystal 🤩😂😘 6mo

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 6mo

dabbe @KadaGul Amen! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

AnnCrystal @KadaGul that's grand 👏😉👍💝. 6mo

bthegood comment for Week of May 18th has me laughing out loud - thank you!! 😂 6mo

Lesliereadsalot 96 days! Who knew so many people were reading Nancy Drew?? 6mo

dabbe @bthegood 😂😂😂 I had quite a slump in May. I hope to get back at it this month! 6mo

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot There are only TWO ebook copies at my library--the so-called biggest library in Phoenix. They need more! 🤩 6mo

bthegood @dabbe 👍 6mo

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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. 6mo

dabbe @AmyG He kept those pages turning! 🤩 6mo

Eggs Great choice - # 3👏🏻🙌🏻 6mo

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TheBookgeekFrau Sidney Sheldon was a staple of my mom's and therefore little teeny bopper me 😆 6mo

dabbe @Eggs 😘 6mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau I couldn't believe my mom actually let me read them; they could get quite steamy! 😂 6mo

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 6mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau Oh, man, I forgot about Harold Robbin's! That now reminds me of me sneaking in SCRUPLES by Judith Krantz. #oy! 🤩 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Ditto Scruples - thanks for the reminder 😁 (edited) 6mo

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

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dabbe

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#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!💜🏷 8mo

AmyG Ooooo definitely #2….I just watched it last week. 8mo

Eggs Thx 💜💚💙 8mo

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Suet624 Great choices. 8mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 💚🩷💚 8mo

dabbe @AmyG 💚🩷💚 8mo

dabbe @Eggs 💚🩷💚 8mo

dabbe @Suet624 😘🤗🤩 8mo

TheBookHippie Oh Gone with the Wind!! Yes. ♥️ 8mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤩😂😘 8mo

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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
8mo

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 8mo

BarkingMadRead @thebookhippie @clare-dragonfly @aimeesue @rubyslippersreads @thearomaofbooks @kao @crinoline_laphroaig @elizamarie @daena @graciouswarriorprincess 8mo

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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. 8mo

IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead I‘ve often wondered what constitutes a “unique” name for a white woman in England in the 30s 8mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame probably something so chill now 8mo

Ruthiella Her name is Jan Brady, forever doomed to be overshadowed by Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! I mean, Rebecca. 8mo

IndoorDame @Ruthiella 👏👏👏 Sold! call her Jan 🤣 (edited) 8mo

Ruthiella Also, it‘s so awkward when your first date is an attempted murder/suicide! 😱😆 8mo

CatLass007 @Ruthiella You have a wicked sense of humor! I like that in a person. 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 🤣☠️🤣☠️ 8mo

BarkingMadRead Omg @Ruthiella #janbrady FTW 8mo

Bookwormjillk Jan 😂 🏈 8mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella Jan is perfect! 8mo

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.⬇️ 8mo

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." 8mo

Crinoline_Laphroaig So many flowers in this Chapter. I highlighted so many. 8mo

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? 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Roary47 I get the idea that she‘s an adult, but maybe a bit younger than Max 8mo

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. 🤔 8mo

Clare-Dragonfly @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, the descriptions are so vivid and wonderful! I can see the flowers so clearly! 8mo

Bookwormjillk These chapters are long but they don‘t feel like it. 8mo

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk I totally agree! 8mo

Graciouswarriorprincess @Crinoline_Laphroaig These descriptions are so vivid! 8mo

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. 8mo

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. 8mo

BarkingMadRead @ElizaMarie that‘s a brilliant point! 8mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk Oh, my nose! Oh,my nose! 😂😂😂 8mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk As opposed to our last book! #oy 😂🤗🤩 8mo

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