"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."
I enjoyed Ellis Peters's The Trinity Cat, sad and sordid though it was. The 2nd story, A Happy Solution by Raymund Allen, was a Country House mystery written, I think, more for the chess problem it features than the mystery, but it was ok. The third story is The Blue Carbuncle, one of my favourite Holmes adventures, so this feels like comfy slippers ????❤️
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Told from Peri‘s POV. Great little short story.
"He was sitting on the top of the rear gate-posts of the churchyard when I walked through on Christmas Eve, grooming in his lordly style, with one back leg wrapped round his neck, and his bitten ear at an angle of forty-five degrees, as usual."
- The Trinity Cat, Ellis Peters
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
#haikuhive #haikuaday
A fave by a favorite author. 💛🤎💛
Hair and watch laid down,
love trades treasures for the other––
empty hands, full hearts.
#FridayHappyReadingHour #happyfridaydrinks
Yay yay yay it‘s Friday!
Enjoy everyone!
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Another sweet story about a Christmas mishap that comes right! (One year I really do need to figure out a bingo game for these recurring cozy Christmas tropes.)
Today‘s #KindredSpiritsChristmas story is “The End of the Young Family Feud,” from the “Christmas with Anne” collection. It‘s also on Hoopla, or online in these collections:
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150145
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24877/24877-h/24877-h.htm
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This is a worm fuzzy Christmas Song by Colin & Caroline #DashingThruDecember @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl #2025reads
Reading today, another short by Poe. I‘ve only known a couple of his poems and really like the rhythm that runs through them, I‘m finding this rhythm is also in his shorts. This is the third story I will be reading by Edgar Allan Poe.
If A Christmas Story had a soundtrack, I‘d have done better than 50% on this quiz! I blame the way my phone was jumping among all the pop up ads. 😉
Link to today's quiz: https://www.mentalfloss.com/quizzes/name-holiday-movie-by-soundtrack
#TakeThreeThursday
