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#maybingo #spin #doublespin I could be on my way to getting a bingo! Whoop whoop 🙌 one ☝️ line maybe 🤔 2 being stuck home with covid isn‘t nice but it‘s helped my reading 📖 every cloud has a silver lining !

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking great!! Hope you feel better soon!!! 2y

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Spinning the Record | Robert Hyers

Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is FIVE!! Our official #DoubleSpin number is TWENTY!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone's lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card!!!

My tagging/tracking system has changed this year, so if you didn't get tagged PLEASE let me know so I can add you to the (semi) permanent ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont‘d) tag list! I will post “FINISHED“ when I post the last batch of tags so you can tell if you have been missed!!

Below are a few housekeeping items that I would really appreciate if you took a few moments to read. As always, my new masterpost about both #BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo can be found on my blog - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com/bookspin-bookspinbingo-litsy-challenge - & this link is always available in my profile as well. ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks 1. Remember, this is a no-pressure challenge!! You can read one or both of these books. You can bail on them. You can bail on the whole challenge and try again next month. Whatever works!! This is supposed to be fun not stressful!! ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks 2. I do have a giveaway at the end of the year. Every BookSpin or DoubleSpin book completed counts as an entry!! In the past, I have tracked these myself, but for 2022 YOU are in charge of tracking your own entries!! To help with this process, I have created a Google Form that can be found here - https://forms.gle/X57ePKzuHpsqLjE5A - You can use this Form two different ways: You can update it throughout the year OR you can wait and fill in ⬇ 2y

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) all the information at the end of the year. If you want to be entered in the giveaway you MUST use this form. However, if you do NOT want to be entered in the giveaway but still want to use the form for organizational purposes, I have set it up so that the personal info/address blank is OPTIONAL - so you can use the form without submitting your name/address. If you do not care about the giveaway you do NOT have to use this form at all ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) There is more information about how the form works when you click on the link and go to the form because I LOVE overexplaining things!!! You are also ALWAYS welcome to ask me questions!!

4. Even though I don't HAVE to see your reviews I love reading them!! So please feel free to tag me in any and all BookSpin reivews!!

5. For the giveaway, DNFs do count!! The goal for #BookSpin is to get a book off your TBR, so if you decide not to ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) finish it, it's still off the TBR and still counts as a completion in my book!!

6. If you do not finish your #BookSpin/#DoubleSpin book this month it is STILL ELIGIBLE for a giveaway entry as long as you complete it sometime in 2022!! There is space in the form for you both to put down what book you are SUPPOSED to read & then to check off which books you DID read! ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks 7. Everyone is welcome to join this challenge!! If you wanted tagged & I missed you, it was completely inadvertent!! Please just let me know that you want to be added to the tag list. You can also let me know if you want to be removed - no hard feelings!! Feel free to jump in & out of this challenge as needed. Also, obviously, getting tagged doesn't mean you HAVE to actually participate!!

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TheAromaofBooks 8 & final (FINALLY) - While I don't have time to reply to all of the comments to this post, I do read every one and love seeing which books got picked for you!! I do respond to any direct questions or confusion, so please feel free to ask away if something doesn't make sense or you need some clarifications. Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm, and happy reading!!! 2y

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melzen You forgot to tag me 2y

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TheAromaofBooks That's all the tags I have listed - if you still haven't been tagged and want to be, please let me know!! 2y

TheAromaofBooks @melmes - I have to tag everyone in batches because of the text limits on Litsy comments, and it takes a bit to upload them all. You're just towards the end of the tag list!! 😊 2y

AmyG Thank you! I will be reading

Crossroads: A Novel

Clare-Dragonfly Damn. I didn‘t get my wish at all—two books that are not on this month‘s assigned reading 😂 2y

Kyndrill Thank you! I‘m going to be reading 1984 for the first time😄 2y

claudiuo Thank you so much, just what I was thinking about. So happy my #5 is any book on my TBR shelves (yes, plural 😁), I keep reading new books I find at libraries (either the real one or the little free kind) and my TBR shelves keep growing. Thank you! 2y

Bookwormjillk Yay! 2y

Kristelh Thank you, again happy with my numbers! 2y

Kangaj1 Thank you! My bookspin is The Big Over Easy and doublespin is Take My Hand. 2y

bookandbedandtea Woohoo! Thanks, Sarah! 2y

AllDebooks Thank you Sarah, here we go again 😃😍📚 2y

ravenlee Good morning indeed! I‘ve got Lady Susan for bookspin and Haunted for doublespin. Thanks! 2y

Chelsea.Poole Eekkk! So exciting! Thank you ☺️ 2y

Singout Thank you! Mine is one I‘ve been putting off by award-winning lesbian Toronto writer Farzana Doctor.

Seven

BeckyWithTheGoodBooks My bookspin is “And The Mountains Echoed” and my doublespin is tagged

The Summer We Lost Her

kellyann28 My book spin will be

Stealing Embers

MittenGirlPeach Wooo! Playing for the Ashes and Other Side of the Coin. Looking forward to a great reading month.

Playing for the Ashes

robinb Excited about my picks! One, the next in a favorite series, It Begins in Betrayal, and the second, a YA set during Covid.

Hello (from Here)

willaful Both numbers came up on open-ended slots for me -- “graphic novel“ and “library book.“ I think my first will be Belonging and the second The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History.

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Librarybelle Woohoo! Then She Was Gone and The Vanished Bride for me! 2y

staci.reads Bookspin is tagged. Doublespin is Once There Were Wolves. Super excited for them both!

Intimacies

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick The Thief of Time, last month's Author A Month book that I only got about 50 pages into and Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography. Both have been sitting on my shelves unread for at least five years. 2y

BookmarkTavern Yay! I‘m so excited! 2y

Clwojick 🫠🫣 I am so far behind! I haven‘t even made a list yet for this month! 2y

CSeydel I‘m late I know … my books are The Colony and The Violinist‘s Thumb. Two nonfictions this time! 😍 2y

TheAromaofBooks @CSeydel - Never too late to BookSpin!!! 😁 2y

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Spinning the Record | Robert Hyers

Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is ELEVEN!! Our official #DoubleSpin number is TWO!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone's lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card!!!

Just a few quick housekeeping items that I would really appreciate if you would take a moment to read!! I know I'm rambly so sorry!! ⬇

TheAromaofBooks 1 - Remember, this is a no-pressure challenge!! You can read one or both of these books. You can bail on them. You can bail on the whole challenge and try again next month. Whatever works!! This is supposed to be fun not stressful!! If you can't remember exactly how this challenge works, please check out my master post here https://www.litsy.com/web/post/1989556 or just ask!! ⬇ 3y

TheAromaofBooks 2 - I am planning to have a giveaway at the end of the year. Entries are reviews of #BookSpin & #DoubleSpin books, but I will only know about them if you tag me, so please tag me whenever you read & review your book for the month. DNFs count! The goal for #BookSpin is to get a book off your TBR, so if you decide not to finish it, it's still off the list, so tag me & tell me why you bailed. ⬇ 3y

TheAromaofBooks 3 - I am tagging everyone who posted a list THIS MONTH (my tag list changes every month!!), so if you posted a list & you do not get tagged here, please let me know! It means I either accidentally missed your original #BookSpin post OR I wrote down your username wrong. Either way, I'm really sorry. Everyone is welcome to join this challenge, so if I missed you it was entirely by mistake - just let me know!! ⬇ 3y

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TheAromaofBooks 4 - If you do not finish your #BookSpin/#DoubleSpin book this month it is STILL ELIGIBLE for a giveaway entry as long as you complete it sometime in 2021!! Whenever you review it, just tag me as usual be sure to let me know which month it is for - there is a maximum of 2 entries per month, so if you don't let me know it's for a different month, it may not count. ⬇ 3y

TheAromaofBooks 5 & final - While I don't have time to reply to all of the comments to this post, I do read every one and love seeing which books got picked for you!! I do respond to any direct questions or confusion, so please feel free to ask away if something doesn't make sense or you need some clarifications. Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm, and happy reading!!! 3y

TheAromaofBooks @SpookyMazeofBooks @Allylu @Bookwormjillk @BarbaraBB @AllisonM89 @Tattooedteacher @Elizabeth2 @peanutnine @Clare-Dragonfly @EliNeedsMoreShelves @wanderinglynn @SusanLee @kimmypete1 @guinsgirlreads @candc320 @RaeLovesToRead @Chrissyreadit @michellelav @DivineDiana @Traci1 @squirrelbrain 3y

TheAromaofBooks @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Lcsmcat @Grrlbrarian @Daisey @vlwelser @Eggs @claudiuo @ozma.of.oz @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @bookandbedandtea @Reagan @BayouGirl85 @Librarybelle @Simona @reading_rainbow @Kangaj1 @marleed @Vanessa @rockpools @Sargar114 @Michael_Gee @CoverToCoverGirl 3y

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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm It has begun!!! 🤘😆🤘❤️ 3y

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Clare-Dragonfly Yay! 😁 My pick is

The Emperor's Edge

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TheAromaofBooks @Mollyanna @triplem80 @JamieArc @Lovesbooks87 @Caterina @Kelly326 @LeafingThroughLife @effani @jmtrivera @mrp27 @Gissy @VeganCleopatra @Kenziejo 3y

RaeLovesToRead Woo! Sweet Bean Paste and We have always lived in the castle 3y

Allylu Yay! My #BS is Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor and my #DS is Future Girl by Asphyxia that I have been hoping to read for months! Thank you! 📚 3y

Lcsmcat My book spin is

Disgrace

magyklyXdelish Bookspin is Plain Bad Heroines - Doublespin is Hench 3y

TheSpineView Awesome! My #BookSpin book is a book in the Dresden Files series and my #DoubleSpin book is Harbinger both I really want to read. 3y

SusanLee Thanks! I got Kate Furnival‘s The Farside of the Sun! 3y

staci.reads My bookspin is Fascism: A Warning and doublespin is The Natural Way of Things! 3y

HeyT I‘m dying third month in a row Double Spin has done me dirty and pulled a chunkster. Lol 3y

Kangaj1 I got Artemis by Andy Weir and Early Riser by Jasper Fforde. 3y

claudiuo What I always look for beginning of every month... Thank you so much. My BookSpin is tagged. DoubleSpin is a longer book, luckily I started it already, maybe I get to finish it this month: Skyward.

Death in a Strange Country

megnews I got 2 set in NYC-1 of my fav settings. My #BookSpin is The Lost Girl of Astor St and my #DoubleSpin is

The Fifth Avenue Artists Society: A Novel

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GinaKButler So excited! My #bookspin is A Moveable Feast and my #doublespin is

West with Giraffes

OriginalCyn620 Yay! My #bookspin is

Survive the Night: A Novel

OriginalCyn620 And my #doublespin is

The Guncle

Eggs 🥰🥰 3y

Butterfinger I can't believe how lucky I am. 11 is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (which I started yesterday) and 2 is No Fixed Address ( which I planned to start today) 3y

AmyG Yay! My book is

The Break-Up Book Club

Caterina Haha this challenge really said "continue your James Baldwin kick that started with #AuthorAMonth!" My Book Spin is No Name in the Street and my Double Spin is Notes of a Native Son. 3y

BarkingMadRead BS is Lost Hero and DBS is Cujo 3y

Librarybelle Woohoo! Mine is The Personal Librarian and Asking for Truffle! 3y

SamAnne I lucked out with my #Bookspin—Persuasion. And psyched about my #Doublespin: A Thousand Ships which I‘ve been trying to get to for months and want to read before my book club reads Song of Achilles next month. 3y

bookandbedandtea It looks like a great reading month! Thanks for all doing this, Sarah, I look forward to it every month! 3y

Deblovestoread Yay! #Bookspin is A Land More Kind Than Home and #Doublespin is No Fixed Address. 3y

Caryl I‘ll be reading memoirs about two of my favorite people: John Lewis‘s March: Book Three and Beverly Cleary‘s My Own Two Feet. I‘ve started the Cleary and predicted in my August list post that it would be the first book I will finish this month! 😀 3y

CaitZ My #bookspin is Artificial Condition (Yay! Murderbot) and in a strange twist my #doublebookspin is my bookspin from last month - 1000 Mike Walk on the Beach. Maybe I'll read it this month. 3y

EadieB @deeannloso You can click on #BookSpinBingo and see who is participating and what their bingo cards look like. 3y

TheAromaofBooks @HeyT - I just don't know what the #BookSpin Fates have against you!! 😂 3y

BarbaraJean @Butterfinger @Kdgordon88 I have No Fixed Address as my 2 / DoubleSpin as well! (edited) 3y

BarbaraJean Yay!! My #BookSpin is one I‘ve been wanting to get to for a while:

The Daughter of Time

robinb So excited about my books, Tidewater Inn and especially my “double”, Death in a Darkening Mist. 😊 3y

Singout I‘ve totally been procrastinating on this one, so it will be good to get it off the list! About descendants of Black Americans whose community in Nova Scotia was destroyed in the 60s.

Africville: A Novel

Butterfinger @BarbaraJean that is so cool!!!! 3y

BookDadGirlDad My #bookspin is The City of Ember (which I happened to start yesterday 😁 😁) and my #doublespin is Dead Wake by Erik Larson. That will fit with my reading style!!!!
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks Yes!!! My #bookspin is tagged and my #doublespin is “We Were the Lucky Ones.” I‘m so excited about both of these!!

Killers of the Flower Moon: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI

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bibliobard Didn‘t post a list here — but I did make one and will participate 3y

Tera66 🌞 3y

TheAromaofBooks @bibliobard - Sounds good!!! 3y

CarolynM Thank you😘 3y

NikkiM5 I will post my bingo card today. Life has been nutty 😝 3y

michellelav I completely forgot to make an august list so this month I'm just going to catch up on previous months bookspins 📚😁 3y

TheAromaofBooks @michellelav - Sounds like a plan!! 😆 3y

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Spinning the Record | Robert Hyers

Went around the house and gathered all the physical books I either own or have borrowed that are on my 2017 #readharder challenge. MIA: Vampires in the Lemon Grove and 1984. I'll find you this weekend!!

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