Welcome to Litsy!

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A very interesting woman and quite an intriguing #history of Grace. Much like the cases she dealt with, her life is filled with mysterious details.
Her life was fascinating and worth getting to know but I did find myself with more questions than answers when I finished.
All in all I'm glad I finished this book.
#mystery #Detective

"I'm not a believer in deduction. Common sense and persistent will always solve a mystery. You never need theatricals nor Dr. Watsons if you stick to a case."
#nonfiction #mystery

"The answer was always the simplest here, not a great conspiracy."

So, let me get this straight. People didn't like Grace because she was so good at making the white collar criminals mad and nervous?
Sounds like a hero! 🦸‍♀️

Fresh off From Holmes to Sherlock, it's time for more of the same vein.
Started reading this #nonfiction account of Grace Humiston.
#Sherlock #history

#20in4 #Challenge2021

Not a perfect read for me (not completely sure why either🤷🏻‍♀️) but I still I did enjoy it & recommend it😉

This was an ok read. I thought it was going to be a novel. It was snippets of solved crimes and how they went about solving them.

I'm still processing what I read in this book. I definitely want to read more about Grace Humiston as there are holes I think need to be filled. Overall I enjoyed this and the fact that it read like a novel although nonfiction.

Grace Humiston was a champion for new immigrants and missing/exploited women. #somethingaboutamovement #nonfiction2019

#mayscavengerhunt #maymadness

✅ with a star on the cover
✅ over 300 pages
✅ has a blue cover

I wanted to love and be absolutely blown away by this book and yet . . . the presentation of this woman‘s undoubtedly fascinating life fell sort of flat. The author clearly spent a lot of time researching the subject matter but the story just felt jumbled with alternating timelines. I would still recommend this since I had no idea who Grace Humiston was before this book but I wasn‘t as wowed as I had hoped to be by the book.

So life has been super hectic and gotten in the way of reading again. But I'm starting this today for book club. I am also still reading Major Pettigrew's Last Stand which was last month's book club pick.

#Jack is in his usual spot. #blackcatsoflitsy

If you find historical novels tedious and too ‘real world‘ to deal with at the moment, do not read this book. If you are the mood to read about one of the first female lawyer/detective based in New York in the early 1900‘s who championed for the poor, immigrants and young women during a time when women were not even allowed vote, read this historical book.

I really enjoyed this fascinating book about one of New York‘s greatest female detective and lawyer. For me is was all the more fascinating because my paternal grandparents were alive during this (but they were in Massachusetts not New York) so it was neat to make that connection that maybe they had heard about this story. Grace Humiston‘s contributions to society were almost lost to history if it weren‘t for Brad Ricca! Highly recommend it

Amazing book! This is the absolutely impressive narrative biography of Grace Humiston, one of the most prolific female detectives in history. She broke ground in so many different ways, and Brad Ricca truly does her justice. From her humble beginnings as a nighttime law student to her game changing career in the NYC spotlight, this book covers it all. Plus, there's the added mystery of her tackling one of the most riveting cases of all time.

I started out enjoying this book. Even though it jumped between years with every chapter. The story of Grace who championed women in the early 1900's is worthy of knowing. I just dont think this book did the best job. It became mired down in extraneous paragraphs and things not relevant to Grace's story. I rate it 2.5 .⭐
@Savedbygrace

First book of 2019!

The narrator was really good and saved the story for me. Grace Humiston is a really interesting person with a really interesting life. This book did a so-so job of telling that story. It was all over the place, it needed a better editor. At a few points it felt like he was just dumping all his research into the book whether it added to the story or not. It wasn‘t focused. She dismissed any connect to Holmes so the title is ridiculous.

24. Obsession

I have numerous ebooks involving Sherlock Holmes as the main character that I have yet to download and read.

#31bookpics @howjessreads

Such a good story!

Miss Sherlock and Miss Watson, in Tokyo..... could be fun,could be a disaster!

https://newrepublic.com/article/151011/irreverent-joys-japanese-sherlock-holmes

So I have chosen to start reading this intriguing book. If anyone‘s read it let me know if you liked it or not and why! (But PLEASE, no spoilers!)

Here are the books I finished recently, and returned to the library today. Two made a very good impression, and them I reviewed separately. The other two, I must say, only registered as a "meh." With a title like "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" I expected something more. The first part of the story was engaging. But the end seemed to drag itself out to a thoroughly unremarkable conclusion. That is my just my impression. #recentlyread #ENDLESSTBR

It's my birthday, and there seems to be a trend as to what books I am drawn to and find fascinating. #currentlyreading #birthdaygirl 🖤🎂🎉😊🇷🇺

Can‘t believe my city was mentioned in this book! What are the odds of that?

So, instead of retyping my review I‘ll just put a picture of the one on goodreads haha 😂

#mrssherlockholmes #mystery

Weekend camping read! Quite good, featuring a kick-ass woman lawyer & detective. Interesting to read about these real-life cases going on at turn-of-the-20th-century & parallels to today. Recommended.

While Grace Humiston as a person (kickass lawyer for the people, New York‘s first female consulting detective, advocate for missing girls) is fascinating, this account of her life and biggest cases falls a bit flat. I didn‘t like the time hopping first half, I‘d rather have had a fully linear narrative with an intriguing prologue setting up the Ruth Cruger case instead of the one about Arthur Conan Doyle for no reason.

Beat my sister to the ballpark and she‘s got the tickets so... naturally I‘m killing some time while I wait for her reading on my phone 😂

So wonderful you reached 50k. ??

One thing that's really #uniquelyyou about me is, that even if I don't concentrate on it, I hear all conversations and see all motions around me. My family calls me "Sherlock", because of that and because I remember quite everything. ?

@JoScho

After seeing the episode of Timeless where the crew meets Grace Humiston, one of the first female detectives in New York, I knew I had to find a book about her! I had never heard of this pioneering woman before but I‘m excited to dig in and learn her real life story as well as the details of the case that made her so famous at the time.

Yesterday was so fun! I picked up a couple new books and a Karen Slaughter ARC (book picture to come - they are still in @Vbrrgirl trunk). Nothing better than books, rosé and friends!!!! #ISupportIndies

This overall is a really good read. If you like true crime and or writing like Eric Larson then this should be added to your TBR list! This was my first piece by Ricca and I was impressed!

1. Finished The Bone Labyrinth and starting Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
2. In fiction it's intelligent thrillers and in non-fiction it's prehistory.
3. Cadbury
4. @SqueakyChu and @Ardachy and @LitsyHappenings

#HappyEaster! 🐰🐇🍬🍭🌷🌷🌷 @Syndelle777

I had a wonderful first day working at the library! Of course it was only about thirty seconds before I checked out my first book! 😁📚

The stack I need to get through tonight. In between looking for a new car 😪 wish I knew more about what to look for, my knowledge is limited to oil and tires haha. Hoping I find something decent soon that‘s not going to go belly up on me in two years like my current car just did 🙄

Found this lovely book at #B&N yesterday. Haven‘t been able to put it down.

Ugh! I feel like this was bait and switch; this book is all over the place and I lost interest....because it felt like the author lost interest.

Current read for the Book Riot Read Harder challenge... true crime #riotgrams

#TBRtemptation post 7! This is the true watershed story of the first female US D.A., Grace Humiston. She was also a traveling detective. She was put to the test by solving the case-gone-cold of a missing 18-year-old woman. She and her partner, Julius, navigated a dangerous web and collected the clues. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Try this one!

I got “The Enigma of the Judgmental Thumb”.

Judgmental Thumb??! Yeah, I‘d call that an Enigma for sure! 👍👍👎👎🤷🏻‍♀️🧐😜🤣🤣😂😂😂

Thanks @MelAnn ! 😊
#mySherlockstory

Join in the fun. It's small so I took a screen shot and blew up the words 😍.

#MySherlockStory Thanks, @MelAnn

Here is mine: INCIDENT PART-TIME TEACHER

I was a business teacher but a full time one so this was fun it turned out to be these words.

I had a few incidents in my 34 years as a business teacher, but mostly everyone was happy to learn to type.

Did you learn to type?

This was really well researched but the narrative jumped all over the place
#LitsyAtoZ

It‘s always amusing to read a book and find typos or mistakes. Even more so when the book is a library book and someone before you has fixed said typo xD
Really enjoying this book so far!

#rocktober #ifiwasyourgirlfriend #goals 😊💕
Also... I totally want the t-shirt on the right to wear to the gym 😂

This started off so strong. Narrative non fiction about a girl that went missing 100 years ago and the female lawyer turned detective who helped solve the mystery of her disappearance--what's not to love? Unfortunately, the author got so tied up in the story of Grace Humiston, the detective, that the actual story gets forgotten. Almost halfway through I decided I'd rather just google it. Such a shame.

Maybe this just isn't hitting me right... maybe I'll pick it up again someday. But over 100 pages in, & I can't find anything I like about it yet 😕. So it's a #dnf for me. Gotta move on... there are too many other books to read ❤️📚

Time for a bedtime story! @Sweettartlaura @AWahle

Evening reading. 📚☠️🖤