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kwmg40
A Question of Blood | Ian Rankin
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A very good installment in the Inspector Rebus series, in which Rebus investigates a school shooting that involves a family connection.

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This book satisfies my final prompt for #gottacatchemall “Corsola: Grey cover“ (mostly grey anyhow), and I've now caught them all! @PuddleJumper

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TheSpineView Well done! 1d
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1d
Andrew65 Love this series and really need to get back to. I‘m on about book 14. 1d
bookaholic1 This is such a great series 14h
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dabbe
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Librarybelle This shows that even Holmes can be led astray (Armstrong and his tactics). It also shows a tad bit of vulnerability with Holmes—Watson‘s concern that Holmes will seek opium again. 2d
dabbe @Librarybelle Also, Holmes shows quite a bit more emotion and empathy with Staunton as he kneels over his wife--even the picture shows that. Our mathematical-solving machine has quite a bit of heart, and it keeps growing over these stories. 2d
Cuilin The impulse to put the doctor at ease in the cottage and communicate his understanding is demonstrating a softer side to Sherlock than we‘ve seen before. 2d
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Read4life Sorry, @dabbe & @Cuilin My father in law passed Thursday and I haven‘t read this for this week‘s discussion. 2d
Cuilin @Read4life So sorry for your loss Lynn. Take time with your family, books and stories will wait. 2d
dabbe @Read4life So sorry to read this. Stories can wait; you take care of you and your family. You're in my thoughts. ❣️ 2d
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Librarybelle I think it really shows society‘s abhorrence of different classes getting together—Staunton has to essentially hide his bride! These works are near the end of the Gilded Age, and there is so much disparity between the rich and the poor and the lack of attention to the poor by the rich. 2d
dabbe I also have to add that Staunton really pisses me off. You put your wife in a lonely place because you want that inheritance money from an uncle you can't stand. The uncle states to Holmes that he has absolutely no interest in Staunton's personal life, so why would Staunton worry about being disinherited? He basically locks her away in a castle (like in a fairy tale). And she willingly goes along with it? #oy! 2d
Cuilin He fell love, they married, she had to hide and then she died!! Says it all. 2d
dabbe @Cuilin Reminds me of the song from A CHORUS LINE: “What I did for love.“ 2d
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Librarybelle I‘m not sure if this is the best answer for this, but I felt for this story Holmes really had to use minute clues to solve the mystery. He also had to employ, to borrow the word used by @CogsOfEncouragement , manipulation throughout—not only with Mount James, but also to get the telegram contents. In turn, Holmes is manipulated by Armstrong and led to venture to every village seeking Staunton. 2d
dabbe @Librarybelle I love how you said “mystery“ because to me, there was no crime anywhere ... just a missing person who was missing for (I guess) good reason. Why he couldn't have just left a note saying he had urgent business and wouldn't be able to play, I have no idea. Well, I guess that would then mean no story, right? 🤣 2d
Cuilin A missing persons case 🤷‍♀️ I liked the mystery though again I got excited when they talked about rugby. 🏉 2d
dabbe @Cuilin Indeed. If only he could have written another note saying “Gotta go away for a while“ or something to that effect. But then, no story. 2d
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dabbe
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @cuilin
#TheMissingThreeQuarter

Can you believe we're at story 39? 🤩 Sorry for the later-than-usual post.

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

CogsOfEncouragement Another entertaining tale. Using the dog to track a scent he himself placed was clever. 2d
CogsOfEncouragement I also enjoyed SH manipulating Lord Mount-James to consider how the disappearance of Godfrey could possibly be a problem to himself in order to get him to care. Very amusing. 2d
dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Excellent word to describe what SH did: manipulating. 🙌🏻 2d
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Librarybelle Oh yes, @CogsOfEncouragement ! I loved the manipulation part! Very clever. I was more satisfied with this story than last week‘s story. 2d
dabbe @Librarybelle It had one of the most tragic endings, too! 2d
Daisey I found the commentary about sports in this one entertaining as well along with all of the manipulation. 2d
dabbe @Daisey And from someone who knows next to nothing about rugby, I learned quite a bit! 🤩 2d
kelli7990 I enjoyed this story. I can‘t believe we‘ve read 39 stories together. 2d
Cuilin Loved it. As someone who loves Rugby it may have influenced my feelings about this story. 2d
dabbe @kelli7990 IKR? 🤩 2d
dabbe @Cuilin I'm intrigued to learn more about it! 2d
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas | Agatha Christie
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Christmas Bookclub Meeting!

Ruthiella Wow! 🤩 Looks delicious! 😋 2d
Soubhiville Yum!😋 2d
KadaGul My Kind of Bookclub 💚😁❤️😊 2d
MaleficentBookDragon I want to be in your bookclub. High tea for bookclub is fantastic. 15h
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TheSpineView Enjoy! 2d
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MariaW
Hercule Poirot's Christmas | Agatha Christie
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This was another collection of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple short stories with a somewhat Christmassy background. I liked it because it was entertaining, but it seems like compilation mas mday the audiobook company because I couldn‘t find it as book.

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TieDyeDude
Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley
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@chaoticmissadventures #333challenge

Auto-buy: V.E. Schwab, Patrick deWitt, P. Djèlí Clark

Read More: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Walter Mosley, Percival Everett

First Time: Malcolm Gladwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Brom

ChaoticMissAdventures Kurt Vonnegut is one of my all time favorites I even got So It Goes tattooed on myself! These are great lists! I do recommend listening to the podcast If Books Could Kill episode about Outliers before reading Gladwell, it turns out not everything he writes is on the up and up. 📚 3d
TieDyeDude Thanks for the recommendation, @chaoticmissadventures I got “Blink“ at our book club book swap, otherwise Gladwell might not have made this list :-)
I saw an article that argued the movie of Breakfast of Champions starring Bruce Willis is misunderstood and underrated. Then I went down a rabbit hole reading about Vonnegut, who I've never really gave much thought to.
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Ordeal by Innocence | Agatha Christie
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“But Hester, I‘m years older than you are. You can‘t really—“
“That is—if you want me,” said Hester with sudden doubt.
“Oh, I want you!” said Arthur Calgary.
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