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Happy Birthday @MatchlessMarie! I'll probably read more today but am unlikely to finish anything else. Thanksgiving madness is here!

My #37By37 goal was four books, which I met, as well as a short story and two graphic novels. And am several stories into Table for Two, one of my #10BeforeTheEnd books.

#OffMyShelf 26 letters in title
#10beforetheend
#37by37

Peter Carey is never going to be a favorite, but I do admire him even if I don‘t love him. This started off well but became baggy in the middle. A French aristocrat travels to antebellum America to ostensibly writes treatise on American prisons but really to escape political threats. He‘s accompanied by Englishman Parrot, a nominal servant but very much his own man and with a tragic past.

#bookreport #November9to15 #2025
Currently Reading first 4 books #sundaybuddyread #10BeforetheEnd #memoir #NFNovember #readyourkindle #coffee #RedmondsndHazeMystery #audiobook #Prontolibrarybook #ChristieCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3 #RedmondandHazeMystery

I bailed on the library book (tagged) -due today but also I just couldn‘t get into it. Finished the Christie & audiobook.

I missed #FridayHappyReadingHour yesterday but this morning I am enjoying my coffee and listening to the sound of the rain with the slider open.

I am ready to finish up the tagged for #NancyDrewBR as well as Parrot and Olivier for #OffMyShelf and #10beforetheend today.

Later, after errands and my parents, I will crack in to my pile for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge.

I‘ve wanted to read another book by Kirshenbaum since loving Rabbits for Food. This one was lovely in a meandering, melancholy way, true to the title. Reflections on life‘s choices, through stories Sylvia tells Henry on their roadtrip, which is itself a story that you know from the start won‘t have a happy ending. Definitely my kind of book.

#10BeforeTheEnd

This one is on the high side of so-so for me. The concept, a crime scene photographer who can see and talk to the ghosts of the victims, is a good one, but this first in the series has too much childhood back story to be properly considered a thriller, and there‘s too much unnecessary detail in places. But my kindle copy included the first chapter of book 2 and I‘m kinda already invested in that story
Book 4 of #10BeforeTheEnd
Book 97 #Read2025

The story of a former member of the French Resistance turned expert hit-woman is humorous but turns very dark very quickly. Not for the faint-hearted.
TW for animal cruelty.

Third finish for #10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures
Book 96 #Read2025 @DieAReader

Another book from my #10beforetheend list. Enjoying it so far! 🤍

I ended up inhaling over half of this today. It's very much food for thought that we have less privacy in law than we used to: in Scotland, now, you can be prosecuted for private speech in your own living room. It's surprising how ambivalent and unsure I feel about some of this.

Definitely gonna sit with it a bit before I write a full review.

This was one of my #10BeforeTheEnd; 5/10 now read.

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge

I‘m a little late for my own challenge! 😂 I‘ve settled on my pile of possibilities. Super pleased that some work for other prompts.

1. “Unnatural Causes“
2. “A Fatal Grace” #OhCanada
3. “Crime at Black Dudley” #HashtagBrigade
4. “The Mystery of the Yellow Room”
5. “Poirot‘s Early Cases”
6. “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” #Roll100
7. “Six Wakes”
8. “Follow Her Home”.
9. “The Quincunx” #10beforetheend