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birchblood · 1 year

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Yes, I remember thinking, this is what missing someone feels like, like part of your flesh has been torn away.

Carol Goodman, from The Lake of Dead Languages

#literature quotes #lit #carol goodman #the lake of dead languages

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oldshrewsburyian · 2 years

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Apologies if I already asked this, but recs for campus detective novels? I will be buried with my copies of Gaudy Night, but I want to try some other authors over the summer in between researching for my prospectus.

I do! Also set in Oxford is Robert Robertson's Landscape with Dead Dons, and it is uproariously funny.

Obviously the premise of the campus novel relies on an American setting, but if we do take Oxford (bless it) as providing an insulated setting suitable to the requirements of the genre, Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen novels would count. And Swan Song contains so many Wagner jokes... which I realize will only be a recommendation if you like that sort of thing (I do.)

Guillermo Martínez, The Oxford Murders, is (obviously) still in Oxford. It might be a shade over-clever for my taste, which I astonish myself by saying. Perhaps the problem is that it's written by a mathematician and I will take any amount of excessive cleverness dished out by my fellow humanists.

Sebastian Faulks, Engleby, is a dark and extremely intelligent mystery that starts at a university, and arguably would not have developed in the way that it did without the university setting.

Nayana Currimbhoy, Miss Timmins' School for Girls, is a satisfying classic mystery plot with a richly atmospheric evocation of the place and time (and monsoon season!) in which it is set.

Geoff Cebula, Adjunct, is brilliant, inventive, and will make you laugh-cry about the realism of its academic setting, I suspect, if you've ever been precariously employed at a university.

Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages, would count, I think, but I remember its prose (favorably!) better than its plot.

Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation, is an academic mystery rather than the murderous kind, but no less satisfying as a classic detective puzzle for that, in my view.

I'll also add this list of campus mysteries for good measure, though I've read few of them myself.

#campus novel #my detection obsession #book recommendations #asks and answers #nayana currimbho #elaine hsieh chou #carol goodman #geoff cebula #sebastian faulks #guillermo martinez #edmund crispin #robert robertson

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libinih28 · 7 months

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Okay so yes we know what a declension is in Greek or Latin and this book keeps repeating it over and over "declension declension declension " but could this be a reference to it's other archaic definition "a moral decline"? Something fucked up is going on at the school and I'm assuming it has to do with a moral decline of the students and teachers, mostly Jane, Lucy, Matt, Melissa, Sandy, Ellen, and Dr. Lockhart. I just think this is a tongue in cheek kind of situation where the answer is right there in front of you the entire time, like what could the answer be, but the author hides it under the guise of the main character teaching Latin

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tealeavesand-roses · 1 year

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**Update** March 18, 2023

Status: Read Rating: 4.5/5

Finally finished this one and loved it! It was simultaneously dreamy and eerie. I don't understand how it's never been made into a movie; the details in the setting and characters etc. made it an enthralling read.

I made a playlist on Spotify, the same name as the title.

🌨️🪵🦢🌲⛸️🦌

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February 28, 2023 Current Read: The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

50ish% done, truly enjoying this one

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signal-failure · 2 years

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Latin, Classics, and Drowned Secrets in "The Lake of Dead Languages"

Latin, Classics, and Drowned Secrets in “The Lake of Dead Languages”

In The Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman, Jane Hudson has returned to her old boarding school as a Latin teacher. Her ex-husband mocked her chances of supporting herself as a Latin major, but fortunately Heart Lake School offers this Old Girl a teaching post with housing for herself and her little girl. Heart Lake School has the typical boarding-school ghost stories, while Jane has her…

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#Carol Goodman #classics #Girls and Schools #Latin

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devonellington · 8 months

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Wed. Aug. 23, 2023: Mercury Joins the Retrograde Lineup

image courtesy of GooKingSword via pixabay.com Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Waxing Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron, Mercury Retrograde Sunny and cool Mercury goes retrograde today, so take care with communication, travel, electronics. Try not to sign any contracts. Good time to go shopping in thrift stores, though. There’s a Process Muse post on Draft Numbering here. Griddle’s…

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freshlybrewedbookreviews · 1 year

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The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman

I was looking for a fast-paced thriller, and this was not it. The mysterious death doesn't occur for quite some time, and in this story the art world reigns supreme. I felt like I was reading a book for a college art class, going into the myths behind the art and various techniques for creating various types of art. Maybe if I'd been more in the mood for an art history lesson, I would have enjoyed it more, but for me reading it as a thriller, it really dragged.

#book review #freshly brewed #The Drowning Tree #Carol Goodman #books #reading

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roseunspindle · 2 years

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The Lake of Dead Languages

#booklr #dark academia #the lake of dead languages #carol goodman

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teamstarkid-polls · 3 months

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#starkid #curt mega #spies are forever #agent curt mega #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time #hatchetfield #headless: a sleepy hollow story #vhs christmas carols #president howard goodman #kyle clauger #mark chasity #douglas keane #duke Keane #eddie chiplucky #Eugene trousers #officer bailey #if any of you tag curt in this I swear to god

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kingoftieland · 8 months

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Better Call Saul co-creator has ONE REGRET from penultimate episode! 📞

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aisacang · 5 months

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I drew each of them for more than 30 sec…

#Weather Wizard #Pied Pipper #Saul Goodman #Jesse Pinkman #Carol Ferris #Trevor Philips #Raine Whispers #Rick Sanchez #tuca and bertie

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bombsoverbagdhad · 2 years

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[While crying and throwing up] Here’s how McWexler can still win

#my daddy and my mommy and my daddy and my mommy #better call saul #breaking bad #breaking bad spoilers #better call saul spoilers #jimmy mcgill #saul goodman #gene takovic #gene takavic #bob odenkirk #kim wexler #rhea seehorn #mike ehrmantraut #johnathan banks #carol burnett #mcwexler

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lalo-tellmeagain · 2 years

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NOT Jimmy’s love of schmoozing old ladies being his downfall 😵‍💫

#better call saul #carol burnett #saul goodman #gene takovic

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tealeavesand-roses · 1 year

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The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. Wow. In despair. I love this book. In my feelings, so I of course made a playlist to encapsulate it all 🥹😢

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boardchairman-blog · 2 years

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**Shots of the Episode**

Better Call Saul (2015)

Season 6, Episode 10: “Nippy” (2022) Director: Michelle MacLaren Cinematographer: Paul Donachie

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devonellington · 9 months

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Tues. Aug. 15, 2023: A Creative Weekend and a Creative Start to the Week

image courtesy of Antonio López via pixabay.com Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Dark Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron Retrograde Rainy, warm, humid Another long catch-up post! Imagine that. Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain: Episode 111: Jed Smythe’s Fate Dorran and Dr. Josiah Hickey save Jed Smythe’s life, but what’s left of the man and his memories? Legerdemain Serial…

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