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dabbe
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#TLT @dabbe

1. Gulp. I scored 38/100 bildungsromans that I've read. 😱 I have LOTS more coming-of-age books to read! 3 that I haven't read from the list: TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, and IT.
2. 3 I'd like to add to the list: DOGSONG, FOREVER, HUCK FINN.

LINK!!! https://www.listchallenges.com/litsys-favorite-bildungsromans

Tagging all who participated in this TLT list a few weeks ago. Pass the fun on! 😀

AmyG Where is the link??? And I had to google bildungsroman 😭 (Tell the Wolves I‘m Home is EXCELLENT) (edited) 7d
dabbe @AmyG Shit. I knew I had forgotten something! I'll post again! 7d
ShananigansReads I only got 8/100 if we are counting books I enjoyed and 11 if it‘s just books I read. I haven‘t been posting but I had to let you know I love a list vote. Spent a whole day on the app after last week‘s list. 😄🫢🤷🏾‍♀️ 7d
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dabbe @ShananigansReads That website is ADDICTING! I've spent hours there myself! Expect more in the future! 🤩🤩🤩 7d
ChaoticMissAdventures 56! I love these list challenges! 7d
slategreyskies Only 18 for me! 😳 🤣 7d
JenReadsAlot 23 😔🤣😳 7d
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards 53 - not surprising as a former English teacher now professor who frequently teaches Children's Lit & YA Lit! 7d
dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures Yay! Plus you kicked my butt! 🤩🤩🤩 7d
dabbe @slategreyskies That just means you have more to add to your TBR! 🤩😂🤗 7d
dabbe @JenReadsAlot Just means more for the TBR! (that sorta rhymes, doesn't it?) 🤩😀🤗 7d
dabbe @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards You kicked this former English teacher's butt! 🤩🤩🤩 7d
TheLudicReader I only scored 38 as well. Some of those titles I have never heard of, so there's that. 7d
dabbe @TheLudicReader Just one more thing we have in common! I haven't heard of over half of them myself! And I taught middle school for 12 years! 😳 You'd think I would know a few more, but no. Of course, the last year I taught those grades was 2005, so maybe it's the newer ones we haven't heard of. #oy 7d
julieclair 21 🫤 7d
dabbe @julieclair I hope I didn't make you feel bad! 😱 It's just for fun--and to maybe make our TBR's even bigger beasts than they are already! 🤩😂🤗 7d
Karisimo 46!! 6d
dabbe @Karisimo #yahooyou! You kicked my butt! 🤩🤩🤩 6d
thebacklistbook 17% that's how many I've read. 6d
julieclair @dabbe No worries! I just continued taking bookish list challenges until I found one where I finished in the top 50% ! 😀😆 That‘s a fun website… I hadn‘t seen it before… but it could be a major rabbit hole for sure. 🐰💙 6d
bthegood 17% - many of the books I have not read but saw the movie 😅 Obviously these are not my genre! Thanks for sharing - fun as always - 6d
dabbe @thebacklistbook If you're like me, I didn't even know half of them! And I once taught middle school! 🤩😂😀 6d
dabbe @Teresereading More for our TBR's, right? Such a wonderful, never-ending problem! 🤩😂😀 6d
dabbe @julieclair Lordy, you ain't kidding! I've spent hours there! 🤩😂🤗 6d
dabbe @bthegood They were my genre when I taught middle school, but now I didn't even recognize over half of them! 🤩😂😀 6d
kspenmoll 43- so many unread books! 4d
dabbe @kspenmoll You kicked my butt! That TBR list keeps on growing! 🤩😂😀 4d
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Read4life
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Only 1/3 rolled #Roll100 books read in April. Otherwise, a great challenges & buddy reads month.

Once the #readyourebooks numbers are selected I‘ll post my May chart.

#AuthorAMonth #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #TBRtarot #Roll100 #ReadOrDonate #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD #childrensclassicread2024 #NoPlaceLikeHolmes #NancyDrewBR #LittensLoveRomance

Librarybelle Looks wonderful! Great reading month! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fantastic progress!! 2w
PuddleJumper Well done! 2w
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Gissy So organized wrap up!📚🤩 2w
Cuilin ✅🎉 2w
dabbe #yahooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 2w
julieclair Great month! 😀 2w
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Kitta
10,000 Drinks | Paul Knorr
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Hit 10,000 today!!

I know this is low compared to some of you (looking at you @DebinHawaii 😂) but I‘m happy to be a part of this community!

Here‘s to 10,000 more!

BookmarkTavern Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
IuliaC To many more thousands! 🎉 1mo
DebinHawaii Hah! 😆 10,000 is huge! 🎉🎉📚📚📚🎉🎉 Congratulations & here‘s to many more! 1mo
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lil1inblue Congrats! 💫 🎉 💫 1mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! 🥳🥳🥳 1mo
dabbe #yahooyou! 🥳🎉🥳 1mo
Librarybelle Congratulations! 1mo
BarbaraBB Congratulations! I am happy to have met you here 🤍 1mo
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Fortifiedbybooks
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Bailedbailed

#HailTheBail I'm starting to think that all the free ebooks I've collected over the years and finally getting around to reading are duds. This was my #DoubleSpin for March and with it goes the 2nd and 3rd books of the Everville series that were also on my TBR.

dabbe #yahooyou! #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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sebrittainclark
Paladin's Faith | T. Kingfisher
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I had a great reading month in February and managed to get 4 bingos!

#bookspin #doublebookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

dabbe #yahooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
Blackink_WhitePaper What a fabulous book journal !!! great way to keep track of your reads. well done 👏 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 2mo
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Read4life
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Another good month for my challenges and buddy reads. I didn‘t finish two of my rolled #Roll100 books but The Goldfinch is one of my March #ReadOrDonate books. At 800+ pages I‘ve started it now.
#AuthorAMonth #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #TBRtarot #Roll100 #ReadOrDonate #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD #LittensLoveRomance #LitsyLoveReads #NoPlaceLikeHolmes #NancyDrewBR #childrensclassicread2024

Librarybelle A great month indeed! Congratulations! 3mo
Cuilin What a fabulous month!!! 🎉 3mo
dabbe #yahooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fantastic progress!! 3mo
julieclair Great month! 👍 3mo
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TheSpineView
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I'm so excited! I blacked out January's #BookSpin bingo board! This has only happened one other time. Wahoo!!! 🥳🥳🥳

@TheAromaofBooks

dabbe #yahooyou! 🤩 3mo
TheSpineView @dabbe Thanks! 3mo
Read4life Fantastic 💙💙 3mo
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Monica5 Wow😮😮 3mo
TheAromaofBooks YAY!!! Amazing way to kick off the year!!! 3mo
rabbitprincess Nice!! 3mo
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Cuilin
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I did a thing. I ventured out this weekend to see my daughter in Providence. We went to the Athenæum and then to Aleppo Sweets for some Arabic coffee with cardamom and of course some baklava. The Athenæum had a sale so I got 6 books for less than $10!!! No anxiety. It was lovely.

batsy That sounds lovely. Baklava + books 👌🏾 4mo
Bookwomble Sounds so relaxing and nurturing 💖 4mo
IndoorDame Oooh, Ive always wanted to go and just never gotten around to it even though I live right near there! 4mo
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Bklover What a wonderful day! 4mo
Cuilin @batsy perfect combo! 🩷 4mo
Cuilin @Bookwomble it really was. 🩷 4mo
Cuilin @IndoorDame I recommend. It‘s a beautiful space. Have you been to the library on Nantucket? It reminded me of that. (edited) 4mo
Cuilin @Bklover delightful 🩷 4mo
IndoorDame @Cuilin no. I actually haven‘t been out to Nantucket at all since I was a girl, before I lived in the area. I used to go as a tourist to visit family friends. 4mo
dabbe #yahooyou! Looks like a lovely trip. 🖤🩶🖤 4mo
mom2bugnbee Providence, RI? If so, my daughter goes to college 30 mins away & we will need to visit next time I'm visiting her! 4mo
Cuilin @dabbe 🩷 4mo
Cuilin @mom2bugnbee yes, it‘s lovely. 4mo
Tamra Wow, that sounds awesome! 4mo
kspenmoll I am so happy for you! Little steps. 3mo
Cuilin @Tamra it was 🩷 3mo
Cuilin @kspenmoll thank you 🫶 3mo
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dabbe
A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
#SherlockianDiscussion
QUESTION #1

Hello, Sherlockians~
Time for a little discussion about A STUDY IN SCARLET. I‘m not hiding the questions, so if you don‘t want to see them yet, don‘t look! 😃 There are 6 questions; respond whenever you wish! 🤩

Librarybelle I really liked the setup of the first part. It was good to hear the back story of how Watson met Holmes. The second half was a struggle - by the end, I understood why we had to know the beginning part of part two, but it took me awhile to get to that point. 4mo
Aimeesue The meeting was neat; it‘s been so long since I‘ve read this one, I‘d forgotten how they got together. I‘d also forgotten he worked in a chem lab, experimenting all over the place. 4mo
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Read4life It was great going back to the beginning. 4mo
IndoorDame I loved that this opened with Watson‘s whole backstory before we even meet Sherlock. And I enjoyed the first glimpses into Sherlock‘s persona and his relationship with Watson starting to build. 4mo
CatLass007 This is the first Holmes I‘ve ever read and I don‘t know why it took me so long to get here. I begin to understand why Holmes and Watson are so beloved to readers. 4mo
aroyse It‘s been years since I‘ve read a Holmes! I love that Watson isn‘t sure at first what to make of Holmes and even thinks he‘s a little full of himself. And Holmes‘ army of street boys - love them!! They are the eyes and ears of the streets. 4mo
kelli7990 I tried reading Sherlock Holmes a long time ago as an ebook and I didn‘t like it that way so I decided to listen to it on audio instead. I wasn‘t sure if I was going to like it at first but I decided to keep going with the story and I liked it. 4mo
TheAromaofBooks I've never read any of the Holmes stories before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I ended up enjoying it (with some reservations). It was a fun, engaging read. Ironically, it was the mystery that I found to be a little lacking haha 4mo
AnneCecilie This was the first Sherlock I ever read, but I have had intentions to ever since I bought The Complete Sherlock Holmes back in 2017. I loved reading about how they met, it reminded me very much of the BBC production. I felt completely lost during the first half of the second part, even if it did make sense in the end. 4mo
erzascarletbookgasm I liked the beginning..introduction of Dr Watson, and how he got to meet Holmes. 4mo
Pageturner1 i liked this. enjoyed learning about the friendship. 4mo
eeclayton For me this was a re-read. I enjoyed the first part more than the second, but the switch wasn't as jarring as the first time around. @TheAromaofBooks I too felt that the character studies were way more entertaining than the mystery! 4mo
CogsOfEncouragement I read this nine years ago, I've seen the Sherlock episode, and I listened to the audiobook for this reread. I really enjoyed it. Part two seems to come out of nowhere, but I appreciate the unique way Doyle had the mystery unfold. 4mo
dabbe @Librarybelle Yeah, the 2nd part could probably have read as its own novel. Even the writing style and narrator were quite different and took some getting used to. 🤗 4mo
dabbe @Aimeesue Or that he'd hit corpses to see how the blood congealed. 😳 4mo
dabbe @5feet.of.fury 🤗 4mo
dabbe @Read4life 🤗 4mo
dabbe @IndoorDame I loved how they instantly shared their bad traits and seemed to have instant karma. 🤗 4mo
dabbe @CatLass007 Oh how they will grow on you the more we read! 🤗 4mo
dabbe @aroyse I love the list he makes of Holmes re: his good and bad traits. I also forgot that Holmes knows NOTHING about literature but EVERYTHING about sensational literature! 🤗 4mo
dabbe @kelli7990 #yahooyou! IMHO this is not the best of the stories/novels. So, hang in there because some really good ones are coming up! 🤗 4mo
dabbe @TheAromaofBooks It was pretty much a straight revenge story and arguably not his best. Greater stories are coming! 🤗 4mo
dabbe @AnneCecilie The 2nd part was such a turn from the 1st. It almost read like a history book, didn't it? 🤗 4mo
dabbe @eeclayton Agreed. That's what makes these characters so beloved; we will really get to know them as the canon unfolds. 🤗 4mo
dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement It's almost like each part were completely separate rivers that come together in the ocean at the end. 🤗 4mo
CatLass007 @dabbe Rivers coming to the ocean. I like that. It‘s very poetic. 4mo
CrystalE02 I loved the book!!! I felt like the first part was interesting and a great read, I did struggle with second part. I did enjoy the book and the characters. I enjoyed reading Sherlock's interaction with the cases and the other characters. 4mo
AllDebooks It's the first time I've read this one. I absolutely loved it, especially the second half. 4mo
dabbe @CatLass007 🤩🤗😍 4mo
dabbe @CrystalE02 It only gets better from here! 🤩 4mo
dabbe @AllDebooks That's great to hear! Do you enjoy historical fiction--because that's how the 2nd part unfolded for me. 🤗 4mo
mom2bugnbee I've read them before, but it's been some time, and since then I've become a HUGE fan of the Cumberbatch/Freeman BBC series. I loved comparing the two! 4mo
dabbe @mom2bugnbee I adore that series! So creative and, well, there's Benedict! 🤩 4mo
Mollyanna I am way behind on our readings and just finished this book a week or so ago. I really enjoyed it and loved seeing how Dr. Watson and Holmes originally connected. 2mo
dabbe @Mollyanna Absolutely no worries! Read when you can! It is fun to see how they originally met and basically sized each other up to see if they were fit to be roommates. The best roommate pairing in literature (IMHO). 🤩 2mo
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Read4life
The Rescuers | Margery Sharp
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TheBookHippie 💙 4mo
Cuilin Great week 🎉 4mo
TheSpineView Great job! 4mo
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Librarybelle Great reading week! 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 4mo
dabbe #yahooyou! 💜🤍💜 4mo
DieAReader 🥳Brilliant! 4mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4mo
KadaGul @Read4life Did you finish Bromance Book Club? What did you think 🤔? 4mo
Read4life @KadaGul I loved it! I‘m definitely reading book 2! 4mo
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