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rwmg
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Siddheag receives distressing news about her pack and Sophronia and the other girls put their training into practice to help her and incidentally foil the latest plot of the Picklemen.

It's been 3 years or more since I read the previous installments so I was a bit hazy on the details of what had happened. Fortunately there is fan wiki to remind me who was who. Great fun.

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Waistcoats & Weaponry | Gail Carriger
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If anyone saw Monique, a well-dressed woman of quality, dangling from the doorway, they apparently assumed everyone had difficulties in life and moved on.

IriDas Is that the first line? Because that‘s certainly an attention grabber. 😮 16h
rwmg @IriDas No, I posted the first line earlier. I just thought I'd share this line because I thought it was funny. 16h
rwmg @IriDas No, I posted the first line earlier. I just thought I'd share this line because I thought it was funny. 16h
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Waistcoats & Weaponry | Gail Carriger
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"Funambulist,” said Sophronia Temminnick, quite suddenly.

#FirstLineFridays
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LeahBergen
The Getting of Wisdom | Henry Richardson
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My current read, and one I‘ve been meaning to get to for years, is this 1910 Australian classic about a country girl who is sent to a Melbourne boarding school.

Have any of my Australian friends on Litsy read it? 😀

Liz_M I'm not Australian, but I read this years ago. 2d
Ruthiella Gosh, why haven‘t I read this? I‘ve probably always mixed it up with 2d
CarolynM I haven‘t read it, but I have seen the film😉 2d
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LeahBergen @Liz_M Did you remember liking it? I‘m only a few chapters in but so far, so good! 2d
LeahBergen @Ruthiella I think I may have confused it with that title, too 😆 2d
LeahBergen @CarolynM Haha! I only noticed that there was a film when I was looking at the different covers here on Litsy! Is it a popular Australian novel? Like Anne of Green Gables here in Canada? 2d
Teresereading Yes - Year 11 English Lit 2d
CarolynM It‘s thought of as a “literary” novel so I‘d guess most people who‘ve read it would have read it at school, like @Teresereading 🙂 I think Seven Little Australians would be closer to the Anne equivalent, in spite of the ending😭 2d
LeahBergen @Teresereading Oh! That‘s interesting! 1d
LeahBergen @CarolynM I have Seven Little Australians waiting on my shelf! 1d
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Miriam8
The Hand on the Wall | Maureen Johnson
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Kappadeemom
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*Ignore hubby‘s leg* Twins, Bel and Rose, are taken in by their rich grandmother after losing their mom. Grandmother ships them off to boarding school where they try to fit in. Bel starts running with a wild crowd and gets involved in a school prank that causes a lot of other things to happen. I enjoyed this one but lots of trigger warnings (you can find them in other reviews, I consider them spoilers).

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Lcsmcat
Old School | Tobias Wolff
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I loved this short novel so much that I bought another of Wolff‘s. Masquerading as a coming-of-age story, it is really about truth and honor and identity. The prose is sublime and the characters so true I had to double check that it was a novel, not a mémoire. #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

CarolynM I liked this one a lot too. 7d
TheLudicReader This has been on my physical tbr shelf for years! 7d
Lcsmcat @CarolynM It almost makes me want to read more Hemingway. 😂 7d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6d
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Miriam8
The Vanishing Stair | Maureen Johnson
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Truly Devious: A Mystery | Maureen Johnson
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PuddleJumper
Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire
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Mehso-so

Well that was a weird little book. It was a bit too shallow for me, nothing was developed and I didn't care about the characters.

I don't think I enjoyed it enough to carry on with the series.

flying_monkeys This is a series that you can jump around in. You do not have to read them straight through in order. If you're open to giving another one a try, I highly recommend In An Absent Dream. Lundy is a character who resonates with a lot of readers. 1w
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