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Here‘s my #10beforetheend selection. I‘m always looking for something that encourages me to read what I already own.

A few will do double work for the #OffMyShelf challenge.

The Quincunx will meet #Allergictochunksters and #ChunksterChallenge2025 .

It‘s also a holdover along with The Illusionist from the #14Books14Weeks challenge. 🙊

#weekendreads

📕For the first time in a long while I am reading the #NancyDrewBR selection on time! 😅

📗”Don‘t Let‘s Go…” is a #Roll100 pick for October 👍

📘”Await Your Reply” is left over from #14Books14Weeks ! 😬

Reading during our rest day on the Tour Du Mont Blanc!

The framing of Claudia Lin wanting to become a detective like her favourite fictional detective was such fun! And adding the family dynamic gave this an extra bit of dimension that bumped this from an okay book to a really good one. Looking forward to the next in the series!

Book 5 for #14Books14Weeks, way past when the challenge ended, as per my usual approach to this challenge 🤪

Very late #14books14weeks wrap up post. I read all but one! I'm 8% into Walkaway, and it was my Sept #bookspin too, so I'll hopefully knock it off sometime before the end of the year.

Read this back in July & absolutely loved it!
It's a story about two opposites who must work together in a small town PA restaurant. Greg is an extroverted bartender who left his extravagant NYC life behind after getting into too much debt. Julian is an introverted sommelier whose OCD makes it hard for him to accept change & let anyone close. Once they get over their initial skepticism of each other, they strike up a friends w benefits situation⬇️

Read this in July while on vacation. It was a beautiful, tender story about grief and allowing vulnerability into the hard parts of life. This was a very slow burn romance but Bastone writes her characters with so much heart and chemistry that it's worth the wait 💗
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My #14books14weeks summer challenge board. I finished 9 out of 14, and I‘m almost through Treasure Island. It‘s better than the last two summers…next year I need to remember that August is usually a bust for me! 😂

Thank you for hosting, @Liz_M 📚

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I did it! Read them all. Thanks for the impetus to get these books off my TBR @Liz_M

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I regret nothing! 😂 But other library books and/or challenges got in the way, so I only read 11 of the planned 14. I will get to The Impressionist, The Quincunx, and Await Your Reply before the end of the year, I hope.🤞

Thank you for hosting @Liz_M ! This is a great challenge and I love any excuse to make a stack of books! 📚

I managed to read 13 of my #14Books14weeks stack. Considering I peppered in some #1001books I had been putting off, I am pleased with the result. I still want to read Fado Alexandrino; it will be on September's list (again).

Five books were exceptionally trippy which made for an odd summer - A Void, The Unconsoled, Lananrk, The Castle, I Who Have Never Known Men.

I was lovely to read some of the contemporary books from my shelves,.