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Clare-Dragonfly
The Road to Oz | L. Frank Baum
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Mehso-so

Another adventure through strange and random lands. Another thing that is pretty dark if you think too hard about it, which Baum clearly didn‘t intend the reader to do. The characters were fun, and while I‘m getting pretty sick of the way Baum correlates beauty with goodness/friendship, at least he subverts that a little in this book.

BookmarkTavern Yeah, the beauty = goodness always bothers me too. 12h
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Creme_de_la_them
The Wonderful Wizard of Futhermucking Oz | L. Frank Baum, Matt Youngmark
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Pickpick

Book #6 of 2025: “The “Wonderful” Wizard of Futher-Mucking Oz” by Matt Youngmark

About as good and wholesome as the original, just with more swearing 😂 It‘s a cute and quick read. Bonus: the author is a Seattleite!

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Jen2
Toto | A.J. Hackwith
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Pickpick

Fabulous

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CatLass007
Bailedbailed

I‘m just disappointed.

Susanita I tried to read it many years ago and just couldn‘t get into it. 1w
CatLass007 @Susanita I gave it a good try but just couldn‘t force myself to continue. 1w
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Cathyloves2read
Son of a Witch | Gregory Maguire
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Mehso-so

I‘ll start by saying that I‘ve always loved the story of the Wizard of Oz.Wicked strayed from the original story a bit, but not enough to bother me. This book strayed a bit too far away for my liking. I hardly recognized any of the original characters or storyline. Maybe that is what the author intended.There are many questions left unanswered, but there are two more books in this series. I may or may not read them.

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dabbe
The Wizard of Oz | Frank Baum
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Eggs LOVE 💖💘💗 3w
dabbe @Eggs From b&w to color! 🤩 3w
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lauraisntwilder
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Lyman Frank Baum
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Mehso-so

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

BookmarkTavern Eureka is so fun. She‘s just a little chaos kitten, trying to create drama. 😂 3w
lauraisntwilder @BookmarkTavern Ha! Yes, chaos kitten is the perfect term! 3w
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BookmarkTavern
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Lyman Frank Baum
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Mehso-so

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. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

BarkingMadRead I still have to read this! I may read it next month along with the next one! 4w
Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Awesome bookmark! This Oz story… was not my favorite. 4w
willaful @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I was never very fond of this one either. 3w
BookmarkTavern @BarkingMadRead Feel free read as you like! 💕 @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage @willaful My mom calls this one and Ozma of Oz Baum‘s attempts to write the other stories he wants, but throwing them all into Oz in the last couple of chapters so he can call them Oz stories. 😂 3w
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Clare-Dragonfly
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Lyman Frank Baum
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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.

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JenlovesJT47
Ozma of Oz | L. Frank Baum
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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⭐️🐓🐓🥚

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BookmarkTavern I really should rewatch this movie! 🍿 1mo
JenlovesJT47 @BookmarkTavern that is a great idea, thinking about watching it tonight with my son. Beware the wheelers! 😱🛞 1mo
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