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Nancy Drew 44: The Clue in the Crossword Cipher | Carolyn Keene

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Another silly but enjoyable adventure with Nancy and Co. This time they‘re solving a 300-year-old family mystery in Peru, and along the way defeating a sinister smuggler known as El Gato. Problems with Spanish translations were very irritating.

43 complete for #NancyDrewChallenge and last for the year (kiddo has decreed we will finish series regardless); third finish for #24B42020. @Andrew65 @jb72 @TheReadingMermaid

Andrew65 Years since I read a Nancy Drew! 43! 😳🤩🙌 (edited) 5y

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ravenlee

Nancy Drew 43: The Mystery of the 99 Steps | Carolyn Keene

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Forgot to add this the other day: 42 down for #nancydrewchallenge! We won‘t finish, but the kiddo has decreed we will continue through the series into next year. Since we actually started at the end of last year (I reread the first six in January) it‘s all good. And our rate has certainly been respectable!

Another crazy adventure for Nancy and the girls, this time in France. Alchemy, thieves on stilts, international conspiracies, the usual.

Sace Oooo.... I can't wait to get to this one! (I've been reading my way through Nancy Drew for years 🙄) 5y

ravenlee @Sace this one certainly tested my French accent ability (only successful insofar as I‘m channeling Kevin Kline in French Kiss 😆). 5y

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LibrarianRyan

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder

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⬇4 🌟
Are you a fan of Data from the Goonie, or Inspector Gadget? Did you wish they have more brainy female characters? Girl do I have the book for you. Luella just wants her parents to understand her. She has DNA that can be changed by a toxic cloud and it is the last thing she wants to happen. And she is so smart. She could probably teach Tony Stark a thing or two. ⬇

LibrarianRyan And while at 9 she is a little scrawny to go head to head with the Hulk, her Devil Dinosaur is more than up to the challenge.

This is a kick off to a girl power marvel adventure that says smart is AWESOME. Saving your self is AWESOME, and saving everyone else is... Well it has to be done. This graphic novel has the laughs a middle grade student would want, action, comedy, plus a storyline that won't have adults talking about “kid stuff”.
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LibrarianRyan Now if this reviewer was sitting in english class they could make the argument that this is an allegory about not wanting to become a “woman” or the changes that happen as girls grow older. It‘s in there, it can be seen, but who cares. This is just a fun read and I can not wait to grab book 2.
+16 #TBRread
#BBRC #Seriesstarter
#NancyDrewChallenge #Timetravel
#BNFantasyChallenge #humorous
#KillYourTBR
5y

Crazeedi This sounds absolutely awesome!!!! And I received your card today which is absolutely awesome too! Thank you so much!! 5y

LibrarianRyan @Crazeedi you are welcome. And this was fun. 5y

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ravenlee

Nancy Drew 42: The Phantom of Pine Hill | Carolyn Keene

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41 done for #nancydrewchallenge and we‘re struggling during this busy season.

Nancy and the girls find not one but two mysteries to solve during a visit to Emerson to see Ned, Burt, and Dave. A phantom thief has been sneaking into a locked room, but how? And what happened to the treasure from a sunken riverboat? Nancy is on the job!

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Rosie the Dragon and Charlie Make Waves | Lauren H. Kerstein

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4 🌟
This was really cute. Best book of the year cute...No, but still a fun enjoyable read. I love the colors the illustrator uses and the author‘s way of making the child in the story talk to the reader and to the dragon.
+16
#NancyDrewChallenge #Nameintitle

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Kairos | Ulysse Malassagne

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3 🌟
This is a dragon (who look like dinosaurs) fantasy about a kingdom where the princess daughter has to marry and consummate the marriage to her father in order to pass power to the next ruler. Uuummmmm UGHHHHHH.

I will not be recommending this to friends, however, the artwork was amazing, and I can not wait to see what the author comes up with next.
#BBRC #Teenangst #newin2020
#NancyDrewChallenge #Red
#KillyourTBR #intersectionalFeminism

RaeLovesToRead She has to marry her... wait... what?! Ewww 5y

rubyslippersreads 😳 5y

LibrarianRyan @RaeLovesToRead @rubyslippersreads yeahhhhh. First Second books is normally much more family and ya friendly. Which I fuss this book was except for that and nudity. 5y

MTBookworm That artwork though! 😢 5y

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MrBook

The Detection Collection | The Detection Club

Reposting for @ljuliel (and congratulations @Copwithabook 😁🙌🏻🥳!):

#KeepLitsyActive #detectives

Today‘s book question will be to celebrate one of our members who just got promoted to detective ! Thanks for your service @Copwithabook

🕵️‍♀️ Name a favorite detective in a book . This can be anyone from a trained person , to an amateur sleuth that tries to solve cases. 👮

. I‘ll bet you guys can come up with a lot !

Lynnsoprano Ruth Galloway and Harry Nelson from the Dr. Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths 5y

ljuliel Thanks @MrBook 💕 5y

CoverToCoverGirl Congratulations @Copwithabook! My amateur sleuth fav would be Nancy Drew. I whiled away many an hour reading those books - more than once! 5y

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FantasyChick Sam Porter from the 4MK series 😊 5y

Lexeegee Bosch is my favorite! 5y

ravenlee I‘m going with @CoverToCoverGirl and choosing Nancy Drew! Currently doing the #nancydrewchallenge reading to my daughter (second time through the series) and we love Nancy! 5y

DrexEdit Congrats, @Copwithabook! I like Izzy Spellman from the Spellman Files or Harry Dresden, the wizard! 😊 5y

CoverToCoverGirl Hooray! for Nancy @ravenlee 😊📖 5y

vivastory Congrats @Copwithabook I'd have to say Poirot or Dublin Murder Squad, especially Conway & Moran 5y

Leftcoastzen Awesome @Copwithabook . Matthew Scudder will always be my favorite, I think. Created by Lawrence Block. Flawed and interesting Scudder.Blocks writing about New York is so good. 5y

MrBook @ljuliel 🤗 5y

Copwithabook Thank you to all who posted on this! The love and support I am receiving is amazing!! 5y

MrBook @Copwithabook *in Brando‘s The Godfather voice* You‘re family. #LitsyFamily 🤗 5y

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ravenlee

Nancy Drew 39: The Clue of the Dancing Puppet | Carolyn Keene

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38 down for #nancydrewchallenge - unlikely we‘ll finish the whole series this year but we‘re plugging along.

A life-size dancing puppet is plaguing an amateur theater troupe, and Nancy steps in to unravel this tangled mystery. As usual, several seemingly-unrelated threads come together and Nancy sorts everything out.

Hooked_on_books You‘ll be very disappointed in me. At the recent library book sale, there was a whole box full of old Nancy Drews in great condition and I didn‘t buy a single one. 😯 5y

ravenlee @Hooked_on_books what?! 5y

Hooked_on_books I know 😔 😆 5y

Sace @Hooked_on_books I'll second that "what?!" ? 5y

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Jane | Aline McKenna

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4 🌟
This graphic novel is supposed to be a modern retelling of Jane Eyre. I found myself intrigued by the story, and with more questions than answers. I thought the ending was lacking. I am sure it comes close to the original story, but to me it seemed too soap opera. It‘s been done a million times in other stories in other ways. Overall, a great read, but it needed more.
#LMPBC
#LitsyAtoZGN
#NancyDrewChallenge #BBRC #Lessthan150pages

Eyelit I felt the same way about this one - a meh pick 5y

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Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds | Gareth Hinds

so-so

3 🌟
It was just okay. I am not sure I would consider this a GN. I think of it more as a fully illustrated collection since little to no speech or thought bubbles were used. Some of the stories like the Mask of the Red Death were so paired down, it took it‘s soul away, while others, we just too long winded (I‘m looking at you Tell Tale Heart).
#BBRC #Bookswap
#NancyDrewChallenge #Readalongtimeago
#GondorGirlGNChallenge
#KillYourTBR #Shortstores

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