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The Big Six | Arthur Ransome

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Busy weekend & wasn't on Litsy much, but I finished two books!! This one was pretty fun, although not my favorite in the series, as I found it rather stressful at how everyone wrongly blamed the boys for casting off the boats. It seemed absurdly obvious who actually had the motive to do so, so I was continually aggravated at the adults in this story. I will say that the boys' actual parents believed & stuck up for them, which I liked. Overall, ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) it's still a fun little story - I don't know how Ransome writes such delightful characters & adventures.

I'll admit that it's a bit of a stretch for my #TBRDeckofCards @Clwojick but Shark?? What was I thinking?! 😂

Also #SeriesRead2021 @TheSpineView
#StackingtheSeries (Level One) @audraelizabeth
#BookSpinBingo 4y

TheSpineView Way to go! 👍📖📚 4y

Clwojick 🤣🦈🦈 Yeah! That‘s a hard one. I do have this one on my shelf though

Shark Girl

TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick - They catch a giant pike that describe as being “as big as a shark“ so I'm going with it 😂 This was a fun one, especially if you've read The Coot Club, since it takes place in the same area with a lot of the same characters. 4y

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TheAromaofBooks

The Big Six | Arthur Ransome

Decent week. I finished five books (including 1984, which wasn't in the plan haha) I read about 100 pages of The Covered Wagon (published 1922). I'd hoped to find a story of life on the Oregon Trail, but this was honestly just a soap opera set among the covered wagons, with two dashing young men (one upright & honest, the other underhanded & dastardly) competing for the love of young & beautiful Molly (whose mother is also named Molly & the ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) author rarely bothered to tell me which Molly he was talking about at any given paragraph). I just couldn't deal with the drama any more. Into the giveaway box!!

I'm really enjoying my chapter-a-day of Harry Potter & Mansfield Park (quite the contrast) & also (not pictured) a travel guide for Vietnam. Currently about halfway through the tagged book - another delightful addition to the Swallows & Amazons series.

#BookReport @Cinfhen 4y

vlwelser You need a bigger shelf! 4y

Cinfhen The Covered Wagon sounds hilarious although I‘m sure it‘s not meant to be ..., 4y

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LitStephanie May I recommend A Sudden Journey by Karen Fisher? It is a realistic, not romanticized, novel about a woman travelling with her husband and kids and a laudinum addicted man who has been devastated by losing his family. It was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. Gives some great insight into what life was like in that place and time. 4y

TheAromaofBooks @vlwelser - Right!? This is just the “very near the top of the TBR“ shelf... so maybe I just need to be less ambitious! 😂 4y

TheAromaofBooks @Cinfhen - It honestly was - just soooo melodramatic. I gave up on the chapter when Molly was just hanging out, daydreaming about the boyz & the sees a wildfire coming... & tries to send a SMOKE SIGNAL to warn everyone... like honey, if they can see your smoke signals, they can probably see that a wildFIRE is on the way! 😂 I just couldn't deal any more!! 4y

TheAromaofBooks @LitStephanie - Thank you!! I'll check it out!! 4y

marleed @TheAromaofBooks Haha - a smoke signal to warn of wildfires! 4y

Cinfhen Hahaha 🤣 how did this book get published?!?!??! 4y

TheAromaofBooks @marleed @Cinfhen - Right?? I was like were there no editors in 1922?!?! 4y

LitStephanie @TheAromaofBooks that is hilarious! 4y

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rockpools

The Big Six | Arthur Ransome

#7covers7days #covercrush Day 6

Something completely different 🙃

Anyone who fancies a(nother) round, you‘re tagged - 7 covers, 7 days, no explanations. GO!

batsy Oh! 😍 5y

rockpools @batsy I was debating getting rid of my Swallows and Amazons collection at the start of the year. But I think they might stick around a bit longer... 5y

batsy @RachelO I don't mean to be so bold as to tell you want to do, but ... NOOOOOO DON'T 5y

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