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#WeeklForecast

Continue with Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Monsters

I want to continue listening to my audio, tagged book

I want to finish Playground

I want to read I Hate Fairyland 5 and Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland 1

I hope to get a start on the second book in the Dream Harbor series, Cinnamon Bun Book Store

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AnneCecilie

Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (Revised) | Carolyn Keene

#BookReport

I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I finished both The Mystery of the Ivory Charm and Aftermath

I read Amy and Isabelle

I DNFed Orbital, I just wasn‘t in the mood for it

I‘ve just started Monsters

Balibee146 I DNFed Orbital too for now 14m

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dabbe

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @cuilin
#CharlesAugustusMilverton
#CAM

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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Librarybelle This one seemed very short! We get to see Holmes and his thoughts on justice…Milverton sounded odious. 1d

kwmg40 @dabbe I think I accidentally got put on this tag list. I'm one of your Shardlakians, not Sherlockians. I'd love to join but have a few too many buddy reads on the go right now! 😄 1d

dabbe @kwmg40 Well, there's a reason I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Matthew Shardlake. 😂 So sorry about that! 🤗 1d

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kwmg40 @dabbe No problem, and I‘m sure a lot of us aspire to be like Holmes or Shardlake! 😁 1d

eeclayton One thing that bugs me is how they didn't realise something was off when they smelled the cigar smoke all over the house 🤔 1d

kelli7990 I liked this story. 17h

CogsOfEncouragement @eeclayton Good point, and absolutely no noise from the bedroom. I was surprised SH didn't confirm all was to plan. 16h

Cuilin Quick yet exciting!! 15h

dabbe @Librarybelle I think this is one of his shortest ones. Either I'm getting better and better at Victorian writing styles, or this one read very quickly! 😂 13h

dabbe @eeclayton Yeah, how could he be asleep with all that smoke? Definite clue there! 13h

dabbe @kelli7990 🎯!!! 13h

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement SH didn't seem at his best on this one, but it was fun to see him turn into a burglar! 🤩 13h

dabbe @Cuilin Yes! 13h

dabbe It might just be me, but I LOVED that the noble lady kicked some serious ass! Finally, a Victorian woman who goes balls out and rids herself of her enemy. And she kept firing at him until all the bullets were used! Wowza! 🤩

Wow. Should I be that happy about a murder? Or killing? Which is it? 🤔 13h

CatLass007 @kwmg40 I‘m glad you were accidentally included in our group. Now I can add Matthew Shardlake to the extensive, but apparently not extensive enough, list of sleuths I should investigate. 10h

CatLass007 @dabbe She was great, wasn‘t she?! 10h

kwmg40 @CatLass007 Do consider joining the #ShardlakeBR! The series is great. 10h

CatLass007 @kwmg40 Thanks. I‘m going to give the buddy read a pass for now. I feel a little in over my head with buddy reads right now. But I‘ll check out the thread and see what‘s up. 9h

AnishaInkspill I hope to read this in the next few days 🙂 4h

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AnneCecilie

Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm | Carolyn Keene

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve just started Aftermath and the tagged book #NancyDrewBR

I started Orbital last night, but I‘m not really feeling it. The winner of the Booker Prize is announced on Tuesday, and if it wins I might pick it up again

Then I‘ll see what I‘m in the mood for

Tamra I really enjoyed Orbital, but I know others haven‘t. 7d

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AnneCecilie

The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden

#BookReport

I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I read Dyr som er verre foreldre enn deg (trans. Animals that are Worse Patents than You) and The Safekeep

I‘m almost done with The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues

I‘m reusing last week‘s picture since The Safekeep has been returned to the library, so I didn‘t get to Orbital, but hopefully later today

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AnneCecilie

The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I want to start Dyr som er verre foreldre enn deg (trans. Animals that are Worse Parents than You)

I want to read The Safekeep and The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues

Maybe I can even get a start on Orbital

dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 2w

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AnneCecilie

Pumpkinheads | Rainbow Rowell

#BookReport

I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I reread my autumnal graphic novels; Garlic & the Vampire, Garlic & the Witch and Pumkinheads

I‘m currently reading Casting Off

dabbe 🤎🍁🧡 2w

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Karisimo

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

It was a challenging month, it included some children's lit class requirements but also some enjoyable reads!
@thearomaofbooks

1 BINGO
✅#AuthorAMonth
✅#Bookspin
✅#Doublespin
✅ #ShardlakeBR
6 audiobooks
3 YA
4 Middle Grade
12 books total

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 2w

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dabbe

Sovereign. C.J. Sansom (Revised) | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

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LiseWorks I feel for Roderick, I don't like the way prisoners are treated. The gaelor I hate. He is cruel and reluctant to listen to Shardlake. I like the older lawer and feel for him as he knows he is dying. I'm not sure about the young girl Barack is involved with. 3w

Mollyanna I like Wrenne, but I feel he‘s hiding more than his illness. I hope I‘m wrong. Tamasin is an interesting character, and a different perspective. Maleverer and Radwinter are bullies 😛 3w

OutsmartYourShelf I wondered if Radwinter was based on John Sage, notorious torturer who worked for Edward I. All round nasty piece of work by all accounts.

Malevever - is that a clue? Mal- meaning evil or bad. Probably overthinking it.

Tamasin - you know if you had a line up of the love interests in these books I'm not sure I'd be able to differentiate between any of them. All very samey in character. 3w

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dabbe @LiseWorks Agree 💯. I also wonder if Broderick might be poisoning himself somehow because he knows what's going to happen to him if he makes it to London. And to be in a cell where you look out the window and see your best friend's bones hanging there. How horrific was this society! 3w

dabbe @Mollyanna I like Wrenne, too. I wonder if there's more in that library of his. And it's a necessary plot point (I think) to have Tamasin inside the queen's quarters. I bet we're going to get more of her insider views in the 2nd half of the book. 3w

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf I have no idea re: Page--interesting idea! Love your thought of “mal“ meaning evil. I'll add to that: his name ends in “ever“ as in evil forever maybe?

So far, the Tamasin-Barak love interest is similar to the one in DISSOLUTION. We'll have to see if that changes in the 2nd half. 🤩 3w

kwmg40 I liked most of these fictional characters, and Sansom is good at making each of them a little bit mysterious, hinting at some interesting backstory that may be revealed as the novel progresses. 2w

AnneCecilie I have the same feeling about Wrenne @Mollyanna I never thought about that regarding Malevever‘s name @OutsmartYourShelf but it makes 2w

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dabbe

Sovereign. C.J. Sansom (Revised) | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR
#Sovereign

Thoughts, Shardlakians?
Henry VIII: https://shorturl.at/u2qTe
Catherine Howard: https://shorturl.at/75Mnp
Thomas Culpeper: https://shorturl.at/UBSXb
Richard Rich: https://shorturl.at/frVZU
Lady Rochford: https://shorturl.at/9WTOV

LiseWorks I always felt sorry for Henry as he really wasn't raised to be the king. I think his injury really changed his personality as medical Doctors of the time failed him. He was also surrounded by ambitious men who influenced him. 3w

Mollyanna I find Lady Rocheford intriguing, especially wondering what her true motivations were in the Boleyn affair and after. Was she really against her husband or simply trying to survive as a woman in tumultuous times? 3w

Karisimo Sansom definitely portrayed King Henry completely unlikeable, especially for how he treated his wives as disposable. Could he have had some redeeming quality in real life? It's hard to imagine. 3w

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OutsmartYourShelf Henry VIII - really dislikeable in this book & I have a feeling that it may have been close to the truth.

Catherine Howard - felt sorry for her in that she didn't have much of a choice once Henry decided to marry her. Very foolish for keeping Culpepper & Dereham around her.

Lady Rochford - absolute snake in that she gave evidence about Anne Boleyn's supposed dalliances & yet facilitated Catherine Howard's. 3w

kwmg40 Most of the real-life characters are shown to be far from admirable, and I suspect the portrayals are truer than ones I've seen of them in other historical fiction about the Tudor period. 2w

lil1inblue @kwmg40 I agree! There was so much treachery and violence during this period, I cannot imagine that they were warm and fuzzy people. While the era intrigues me, I've never liked Henry VIII. He always seemed like the epitome of the patriarchy to me. 2w

dabbe @kwmg40 🎯!!! 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue And quite a few heads were lopped off during his reign. Yikes! 😱 2w

AnneCecilie To get to the top and to stay at the top, it‘s seems that you had to be ruthless and protect yourself. 2w

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