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My hyacinths are blooming! Which means spring is here!
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#BookSpin Chaos Choreography, #DoubleSpin Spindle‘s End

#Roll100 The Joy Luck Club, Aftertaste, Spindle‘s End

#OokBOokClub Guards! Guards!

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Blinking Eye

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Road to Oz

#QueerBC The Sparsholt Affair

#ThematicCozies Sent to Death

#AuldLangSpine Wonderland

My favorite part of this one was Eureka the kitten, but she did make me wonder why Toto didn't talk. I thought it was hilarious that Dorothy meets up with the wizard and they don't catch up on what's happened since they last saw each other until they've escaped death, what? 3 times? #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

Dorothy‘s visit to San Francisco is interrupted by an earthquake, where she falls into the earth. There, with her cousin Zeb, she meets up w/ the Wizard again through many adventures.

The way Baum writes animals suddenly realizing they can talk is always so funny to me. This 1 is very disjointed, w/ almost every chapter being a separate, contained adventure. I did love the fantastical elements of the lands under the Earth. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Very fun and silly story! It reminded me of a couple of the Narnia books—I wonder if Lewis had read it. Dorothy, the Wizard, a boy named Zeb, a horse named Jim, and a kitten named Eureka travel through many lands under the earth, each dangerous in its own whimsical way. The Wizard is kind of a badass in this book. It irritated me that it took Dorothy so long to come up with her solution. But at least her speech didn‘t have so many apostrophes.

I got behind last month on #BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad but I‘m loving these books. I‘m a big fan of Return To Oz & this was such a fun read. As always the books & movie are slightly different but I love Billina & Tik-Tok. Billina especially cracks me up! Looking forward to reading the rest of the series. And as always, I‘m struck by the creativity of these books, especially considering the time period they were written. 5⭐️🐓🐓🥚

#Oz
#TheWizardOfOz

I finished these at the beginning of March. Ozma of Oz starts off pretty unhinged, but end up being a more coherent story that Marvelous Land of Oz. This Trixie book was one of my favorites so far. I like that these feel like mysteries a kid could actually solve. This one also included a long-past tragedy and tumbled down mansion, so it was checking all the boxes for this Kate Morton reader. #bobwhitebuddies #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

I‘m so ready for spring!🌸🌼🌸🌼
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#BookSpin book club pick, #DoubleSpin The Girl Who Drank the Moon

#Roll100 A Brief History of Time, Tortall and Other Lands, Mere Christianity

#OokBOokClub Raising Steam

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Bob White Cave

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

#QueerBC Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

#ThematicCozies Death by a Honeybee

#AuldLangSpine Wonderland

What on earth? When did Ozma grow up and join the Ziegfeld Follies? 😂

This is one of my childhood favs. The lunchbox trees, with the napkin leaves, could anything be more tantalizing? And I love all the adventures and the sneaky Nome King.

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“Do you expect me to believe all that rubbish about the land of Oz?... your impossible stories about animals that can talk...“ -- Bellina, the hen. 😂

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I enjoyed this, though not as much as previous books. Dorothy is really obnoxious in the beginning and it annoyed me a lot how Baum wrote her pronunciation, especially since it‘s a change from the first book. But it‘s funny (albeit quite dark at times, in a way the narrative doesn‘t seem to acknowledge) and the characters—Billina the talking hen, Langwidere the lazy princess with her heads, Tik-Tok—are delightful. #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad