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1. Family lunch, then road tripping with some friends - all the way across the border into NSW - only to cross immediately back over to visit Cactus Country… & maybe jump on a paddle steamer in Echuca
2. I‘ve been disappointed that a couple of promising looking fantasy books were series starters & not standalones (I took them back to the library unread)
3. I can remember lots - but this is the famous 5 adventure that I daydreamed about the most

What a nostalgic little read! I absolutely LOVED this series as a child and my parents have returned my copies… hilariously I have written my name inside the front cover about 27 times 🤣

Fully expecting the series to have some problematic passages in the 21st century, but I really enjoyed this one!

#2023Book67
This book is definitely a product of its time in terms of the language used. But my real problem with it is that all of the action took place in the last three chapters and the mystery was resolved immediately.

What says - “lived through a global pandemic” like using your cloth mask collection to fill in the gaps in a box of books? 🤔

#littenswanttoknow @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I read for the sheer pleasure a beautiful sentence can give you,to expand my horizons and learn about perspectives different from mine,for fun,to relax my mind after a stressful work day by disappearing into the world of the book.
My family are all book readers,so my parents and grandparents inculcated the habit!
Any snatch of time I get!

I found this one a little disjointed (were castle restorations ever mentioned in the novel?) - all is forgiven with the excitement of hidden tunnels and lots of appearances of my favourite distracted scientist / pretty useless dad, Quentin.

My daughter's currently devouring this one. I told her I was about her age when I read this series & I absolutely loved it. She was surprised I still remembered small details of the plot (considering I was her age, oh, about 100 years ago 🙄) but then I told her I have actually read this book so many times I could probably recite it from memory 🤣

Absolutely love the vintage cover too. My copies in the early 80s had photos from a TV adaptation.

Favourite author as a child! The famous five was my favorite.