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AnneCecilie
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#BookReport

Read The Illustrious Client

Finished Our Share of Night

Continued with my yearlong reads on the right

Continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit and Autocracy Inc

I‘ve started Northanger Abbey #PembetLittens #JaneAustenThenandNow, Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my current reads and hopefully finish some.
Start Sister in Law

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Daisey
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Happy Sunday! These are a couple of books I‘m very much looking forward to for May.

I‘m going to listen to Rilla on audio since I‘ve yet to start, and after yesterday‘s posts compare passages to my print copy.

As for Lamentation, I read most of Heartstone in ebook, and I may have to do the same for this one so I can fit pages in when and where I can without carrying this hardback around.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMReread #ShardlakeBR

BarbaraJean That classic Bantam paperback! Such nostalgia (even though I never liked the cover of this one 😂) 1d
dabbe All my Shardlakes are in ebook form. They'd be way to heavy to cart around! 🤣😍🤣 1d
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LitsyEvents
Lamentation | C.J. Sansom
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repost for dabbe:

#shardlakebr

Hello, Shardlakians~
Fascination discussion this past Wednesday, as always! Up next: LAMENTATION. Wonder if we'll still see Catherine Parr, Johanna, and Ellen. 🤔

Have a lovely rest of your weekend!

#BuddyRead

dabbe TY! 🤩 7h
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dabbe
Lamentation | C.J. Sansom
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#shardlakebr @LitsyEvents

Hello, Shardlakians~
Fascination discussion this past Wednesday, as always! Up next: LAMENTATION. Wonder if we'll still see Catherine Parr, Johanna, and Ellen. 🤔

Have a lovely rest of your weekend! 😍

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Karisimo
BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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April report time! Here's what I read:

4 Bingos
19 books
12 audiobooks
7 middle grade
2 YA
1 DNF (Echo of Old Books)
#Bookspin
#Doublespin
#authoramonth
#shardlakebr
#litsyscifibc

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 4d
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Daisey
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Pickpick

I realized as I joined the discussion of this book that I had forgotten to review it. I felt this one started slowly (which was partially impacted by my lack of reading time), but once it got going I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of things going on in this one, but I also love those layers of complexity and history. I also really appreciate that we get to know characters more in the series, but the mysteries are unique.

#ShardlakeBR

Daisey Thanks again @dabbe for hosting this buddy read and getting me to revisit this series! 4d
dabbe @Daisey YW! I have thoroughly enjoyed revisiting it as well. I also love how Sansom hits us with completely new mysteries but gets us to love the characters more and more--well, most of them anyway. 🤣😍🤩 4d
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AnneCecilie
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Pickpick

Another winner in the Shardlake series.

This time Shardlake gets a case from the queen to look into a case. A young man has committed suicide after saying that something monstrous has happened to his previous pupil. The family lives in the south not far from Ellen‘s hometown, so he decides to look into her story as well.

An intricate mystery, fooling me to the end. I did not see that end coming.

#ShardlakeBR

dabbe Excellent review. I was in the dark as to the mystery, too, and I read it before! 🤣 4d
AnneCecilie @dabbe I read it before too, but some 10 yrs ago. We can‘t be expected to remember everything 😊 4d
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dabbe
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#ShardlakeBR

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

LiseWorks Because he finds out the truth. Again, a man controlling a woman for his own benefit. What a society! I'm glad there was a good ending for her 5d
lil1inblue I found it so satisfying because there weren't real consequences in the other cases. We needed a win! Shardlake offering Josephine a position is yet another example of him helping those without agency. 4d
kspenmoll When I get to this book in the series ( only read first 2 ) I need to go to your pages & find your posts! The visuals are fabulous!!!! 4d
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AnneCecilie I shows us who Shardlake is and his not just words, but that he follows through on what he thinks is right. And also one of the bad guys in the story got his punishment. 4d
dabbe @lil1inblue And hopefully she'll fill in nicely after the loss of Joan. 😍 4d
dabbe @kspenmoll TY! I try! The posts will be here for you, too! 😍 4d
dabbe @AnneCecilie Delightfully so! 🤣 4d
Daisey @lil1inblue This fits with what I was thinking. Shardlake is able to find answers, but there‘s not much of a feeling of success with the cases. Getting rid of Coldiron and keeping Josephine actually feels like accomplishing something good for the future. 4d
dabbe @Daisey I love how you predict a more positive future for Josephine and Shardlake. 🩵 4d
kwmg40 I'm happy the book ended with Shardlake getting rid of Coldiron and keeping Josephine on, as it does feel that some sort of justice has been served, at least in this situation. 4d
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dabbe
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#ShardlakeBR

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

OutsmartYourShelf It was a bit of an ignominious battle for both sides & most of the attention has gone on the loss of the Mary Rose. 5d
LiseWorks Just to show you are this constant fighting with the French was a waste of time 5d
lil1inblue I liked how the Mary Rose was almost another character in the book. I wonder if the battle doesn't get much attention because Henry VIII's marriages are so salacious that they become the focus of the period. 4d
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AnneCecilie I remembered the ship scenes from my first read, but couldn‘t remember anything around it. I think this battle has just gotten into the overall history of the war between England and France in this period. There were constant fighting and probably fights that were more memorable. 4d
dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf 🎯🩵🎯! I think the most memorable part of this so-called battle is the drowning of THE MARY ROSE. And those poor men under the mesh cloths! 😱 4d
dabbe @LiseWorks Seems like they've been at it forever, doesn't it? 4d
dabbe @lil1inblue 🩵🎯🩵! Everybody loves a love story gone horribly wrong, don't they? Look at how we devour that kind of entertainment even today! 4d
dabbe @AnneCecilie 🎯🩵🎯! I mean, this one only last 1 1/2 days! 4d
kwmg40 I hadn't known much about this event. After reading Heartstone, I'm eager to visit this part of England and learn more about the history. 4d
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dabbe
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#ShardlakeBR

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

OutsmartYourShelf A collection of rogues there & strangely enough, Coldiron is probably the least worst comparatively. 5d
LiseWorks I'm not sure I liked the king lol or any of the men. 5d
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lil1inblue Arses indeed. They're all so self-serving! And they are never held accountable! I guess some thjngs never change - look at how people with money and power get away with things still! 4d
AnneCecilie The rich and powerful get away with everything 4d
dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Yeah, I got the feeling that once he was booted out that he will be gone for good. Though there's still Josephine, and I wouldn't put it past him to maybe return and try to do some damage to Shardlake somehow. 4d
dabbe @LiseWorks 🎯🩵🎯 Henry VIII just thoroughly disgusts me. 4d
dabbe @lil1inblue I did love Catherine Parr giving Rich the what-for, though! In fact, I was absolutely GLEEFUL! 🤣 4d
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