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LittlebearReads
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I just signed up for my first swap, the #JólabókaflóðSwap hosted by @MaleficentBookDragon , and I‘m very excited to see how it goes!

MaleficentBookDragon Welcome! I hope you love it as much as I do. 1d
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The 2024 shortlisted authors are:
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry
Lana Makes Purple Pizza
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine
48 Stories of Exile from Palestine
Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego
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It's a swap day. #LittleChristmasSwap @bookish_wookish hosting.

bookish_wookish Thanks for sharing!! 🎄 1w
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charl08
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From recent research by the Literacy Trust [UK]. (I think, of course for adults too, it's just they only asked the youngsters for this research!)

Their programmes work to give more children access to books and reading.
They're looking for support and volunteers: https://literacytrust.org.uk/reading-for-pleasure/

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MonicaLoves2Read
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🍬Sweet Candy
🎃Make
👻Ghost
🦉Owl
🎃Mummy
🎉Party
👻Carpet
🪄Spell
🕸Cobwebs
🎃Carved
🪦Graveyard

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

MommyOfTwo Carpet? 🤣 2w
Eggs 🧡🎃🖤 2w
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MonicaLoves2Read
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I can't believe November is Friday! Ugh! Where as the year gone.
@TheAromaofBooks here's my November #Bookspinbingo list! Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to do each month. 🥰

DogMomIrene 2024 has flown by. Pretty much the only goal I‘ve kept up with has been my reading goal😂 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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charl08
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Translation (original language published) stats for 2024 so far.

Suet624 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3w
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charl08
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Sorely tempted by these.

"The First Decade Collection is a limited edition series of ten hardbacks celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions‘ publishing over the first ten years. With a run of 1000 copies, each book is casebound in fine linen cloth ..."

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/first-decade-collection/
#LotteryWinnersOnly

squirrelbrain Oooh, so pretty! 😍 3w
charl08 @squirrelbrain yeah, shame about the £££! 3w
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MonicaLoves2Read
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Great day to sit outside and read with the boys. 📚🐶❤️

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 3w
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StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego
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🎃📚

Texreader 😃 3w
Gissy 🎃👌🧡🤎💛 3w
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Rather than pretending to know the answers, be there to share your questions. Don't be afraid of saying, "I don't know". We are mudlarkers, walking by the shores of our civilisation, and through the muddle, we find discarded and unloved beauties: shards of ceramic, pieces of lapis lazuli.

5. Trust in the power of words. Both written and spoken, words are magic.

From Elif Shafak's substack.
https://elifshafak.substack.com/

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Leanestaystrong1995
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Coconut cream pie cheesecake 🥰

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charl08
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I don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I'm a very fast reader, and good at filtering out gibberish....

Is Ludwig a Litsy member?
#BBC

ChaoticMissAdventures Is that David Mitchell? 4w
ChaoticMissAdventures @charl08 oh wow! This looks so fun, he can be really funny will have to check it out!! 4w
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Bookwomble We rather binged this - fantastic series, and can't wait for the next one! 4w
charl08 @Bookwomble yes, six episodes were not enough... 3w
Bookwomble @charl08 No, I was disappointed to get to the end so quickly, but that's the sign of a good programme, I guess 🙂 3w
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MonicaLoves2Read
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Bailedbailed

Darkness, Darkness by T B Crattie not in database.

I didn't finish this ARC. Got to page 80. I didn't care for the f word and mf word being used in every chapter. I read books that occasionally have the f word in them, but the author overused it and mf in my opinion

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Leanestaystrong1995
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Pickpick

Going to San Francisco 🥹

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MonicaLoves2Read
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☕️ Coffee
🟤 Brown
😂 Funny
🎧📚 Both
🦃 Thanksgiving
🧤 Glove
🎉 Low Key Group

Want to play? @SilversReviews @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @CoverToCoverGirl @RamsFan1963

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in🧡🍁🧡 1mo
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charl08
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Goals for the week (18/10)

This Dark Country
The Persian Boy
Hitting a Straight Lick...
Body Kintsugi (Women in translation)

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Not in database

5⭐️

Deader Than A Wet Hen is the second book in the Dixie French Mystery Series. Dixie visited Loblolly, SC, and fell in love with the small town. She found a little home and 3 friends. Mariam owns the dog grooming/bakery store. Ada owns the coffee shop that Dixie likes to write in. Toni is a deputy with Sheriff's Department.

love Dixie French and her friend, Miriam. They crack me up. Two older women whioseem to be ⬇️

MonicaLoves2Read ⬆️near when someone is murdered. They are amuter detectives who are not very good at all. In fact, they stumble into solving cases.

Ella Duke has written a cozy mystery series that makes solving a murder fun. She has picked older single women as solvers of murders. What I like is that all 3 women are involved somehow throughout the book, though in this one, Dixie and Mariam take the lead. If you're looking for a new cozy mystery to read, I think you might like The Dixie French Cozy Mystery Series.

Published October 8, 2024

Thanks to Booksiern and Ella Duke for the E-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

😊Happy Reading😊

#Booksiern #elladuke #deaderthanawethen #thedixiefrenchseries #arc #readaway2024 #serieslove2024 #cozy ##cozymysyery #readmytbr
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MonicaLoves2Read
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I had to stop at my local library bc I was having trouble with Libby App. With 3 bookcases and my Kindle full, I leave with 4 books🤦‍♀️. I think I have a book problem 😂🤣😂📚❤️📚

#libraryhaul #needmorebooks

dabbe That\'s the best kind of problem to have! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
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charl08
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Autumn sale: 25 per cent off everything on our site with the code AUTUMN2024

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/

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MonicaLoves2Read
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It finally cooled off enough, we can sit outside and I can read. My reading buddies, Lil Spot standing and Max pn the swing. 📚❤️🐶❤️

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 2mo
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MonicaLoves2Read
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October #Bookspinbingo Board. For some reason I do better when I don't name books. 📚😊📚
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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AlaSkaat
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If anyone is wondering why I‘m suddenly following them again after being sure I already followed them - this app unfollowed almost everyone for some reason!
So ignore me - just passing through again…

Ruthiella Yikes! 😳 Do you have an android phone? 2mo
AlaSkaat @Ruthiella an iPhone. But it‘s so slow that I‘m surprised it still works at all! It‘s been through multiple people and multiple hells 😅 a few inconveniences like this happen quite often ☹️ 1mo
Prairiegirl_reading Oh jeez! I just checked and my following and followers numbers are the same. That‘s not how it was before. I don‘t know who I‘m missing. 😞 1mo
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AlaSkaat @Prairiegirl_reading it could be the app glitching then!! 1mo
Prairiegirl_reading I just did my iOS update so that‘s probably got something to do with it. Who knows? 1mo
AlaSkaat @Prairiegirl_reading oh it could be ! 1mo
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Not in Database. A quick biography on Catherine Parr. Parr was the last wife of King Henry VIII. He was her third husband. She married him when he was moving England from the Catholic Church to Protestant. She was smart or conniving enough not to be put to death after Henry VIII's cabinet said she was going against him when she discussed church and faith with him. Interesting quick read.

😊Happy Reading😊

#bookbingo #offtheshelf2024

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Quick historical fiction book about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Based on true events. Two different women. One in West Berlin. One in East Berlin. This follows their lives through 1989 up until the fall of the wall.
It's a good read. We get to see the difference between living in the two cities.

I won this through a Goodreads Giveaway. Thanks to Goodreads for the E-book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

##bookspinbingo

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Book Mail! Won through Goodreads Giveaway!

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Joseph Clampitt wrote a book of what I have only dreamed of doing. Going back to biblical times and talking with disciples. It was an inspirational book.

Clampitt talks to Paul in Ephesus. Taking a journey back 2000 years to learn why he can't hear what God says. I truly enjoyed it. I can't wait to get to heaven bc there's so many things in the Bible I want to discuss with the Disciples, Moses, Noah, David, and so many more.


MonicaLoves2Read ⬆️ What a glorious day that will be.

I highly recommend 'The Presence of Jesus' if you are struggling with any part of your relationship with God. So, so good.

😊Happy Reading 😊

# Booksiern #thepresenceofjesus #josephclampitt #arc #readaway2024
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MonicaLoves2Read Tentative Publication Date October 30. 2024 2mo
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When I can get my camera out in time to capture a reader, I feel like a spider. I got one. A lot of schools close their LFL, and I'm happy I could keep mine open and accessible through the summer. Ah, summers end... I'm going to miss my free time, but I'm excited to have the kids in the building again.

Ruthiella Shhh! A reader in the wild! Caught in their natural habitat. 😅 3mo
mandarchy @Ruthiella That is a free range kid, out alone with a bike. Very rare indeed. 3mo
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Leanestaystrong1995
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https://youtu.be/0maFGkGhJCE?si=-BWCHx4X1KcM1hn0 check me out on YouTube and feel free to subscribe 🇵🇹🤗

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Wonderful cozy mystery! Ella Duke started the Dixie French Mystery Series off great. I fell in love with all the main characters in 'Something Dead the Cat Dragged In ', especially Dixie.

Dixie takes a vacation to Loblolly, S.C. to work on writing a book. She meets her landlord at a coffee shop, while there a guy drops dead. She's soon involved in a murder investigation, even though the deputy tells her to stay out of it. ⬇️

MonicaLoves2Read
I enjoyed 'Something the Cat Dragged In ' a lot. I can't wait to see what Dixie and her friends get involved in next. Great characters!

😊Happy Reading 😊

#booksirens #elladuke #somethingthecatdraggedin #ARC #readmytbr #readaway2024 #serieslove2024
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MonicaLoves2Read
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I won this from a Goodreads Giveaway

I found this to be a cute, cozy mystery. It was a little slow for me, but it picked up toward the end. I was half right about who was involved. It's the first in a new series. Even though this one was slow to me, I will read the next one. I enjoyed learning about Meave and Chiquita. McBride had good character development with Meave. Low pick. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

#bookspinbingi #readmytbr #readaway2024

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charl08
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This journalist is talking about important political stuff (Ukraine, exchange of prisoners) live from Kyiv but I'm distracted by his bookshelves. I'm thinking not curated for camera, and clearly in use 🤩

Ruthiella Oh yeah. When it‘s a journalist, I also always assume it‘s all nonfiction! 😅 3mo
Deblovestoread I need to go organize those shelves stat! 3mo
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Jess861
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So excited to sign up for the #FallingForFallSwap. Can't believe it is almost autumn already but I'm so ready for the cooler weather and everything fall!! Thank you so much to the hosts of this awesome swap!

#fffs #autumn @Avanders @Chrissyreadit

Chrissyreadit 💛🧡💛 3mo
Avanders Thanks for reposting!! 🍁🍂🧡🍎🍃🎃 3mo
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mandarchy
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Dude! I'm such a nerd. Look who just followed me on Threads!

Julsmarshall So cool! 3mo
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mandarchy
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Happy #nationalbookloversday 😁 I bought books for my school library that I'm sure my students will love. I can't wait to share these with them.

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ShananigansReads
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I forgot to post this the other day.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ShananigansReads24

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Leanestaystrong1995
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Pickpick

iPod old school

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MonicaLoves2Read
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Kindle: The Heron Legacy by Leona Francombe (Booksiern ARC)
Physical: Most Honorable Son by Gregg Jones (Goodreads Giveaway Won)
Audio: Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam by M. C.Beaton
Just finished Camoflaged Killer by David A. Gibbs

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

PaperbackPirate I‘m reading 3mo
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I've read three - favourite of the three James by Percival Everett.

#Booker #Longlist

BarbaraBB I‘ve read two of your three too and am very interested in your third: Devotion. 4mo
Graywacke I ordered ten yesterday ☺️ 4mo
charl08 @BarbaraBB Stone Yard is great. Hope you get the chance to read it. @Graywacke are you sure you're not working for the Booker promo team?? 4mo
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Graywacke @charl08 I think they may have put a chip in my head. 4mo
squirrelbrain I‘ve read 4, and flew through a third of My Friends last night. I‘ve got nearly all of them for ‘free‘ - other than those not yet published. 4mo
charl08 @squirrelbrain 'free'? Nice work. 4mo
squirrelbrain A fair few on NetGalley, and then various digital library systems. Everand and Audible aren‘t actually free, I suppose, as you pay a subscription but never mind. 🤣 4mo
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Books on the #Booker longlist.

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Panpan

Look at Irish in Chicago in the late 1800s. It was slow. I was enjoying it until Fanning threw a black person into the middle of the book. Fanning put him in out of nowhere just to commit a murder. I gave it a low 2.

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MonicaLoves2Read
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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ShananigansReads
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I‘ve spent most of 2024 trying to find a way to track my series and after many Etsy searches and time on YouTube I think I‘ve finally built one that shows everything I want. It still needs some tweaks but I‘m so happy with it.

LiteraryinPA That‘s epic!! 4mo
Read4life That looks fantastic! 😍😍😍 4mo
bthegood 🎉 🎉 4mo
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A week until the #Booker24 longlist announcement.

Any predictions?
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2024

Cathythoughts Great quote ❤️ 4mo
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Putting this “Read Across the USA” section in my reading journal, and I‘m happily surprised at how much I‘m already able to fill in from what I‘ve already read! Go, me! #ReadingJoutnal