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This reread of an old favourite completes my Gotta Catch Em All and 52 Book Club challenges for the year! I love Bilbo and the dwarves!

#gottacatchemall (Rockruff: mountains) @PuddleJumper
#52bookclub (adventure story)

I picked up an old “Canadian Educational Edition“ of this play about the murder of Thomas Becket. The notes helped but I expect I still missed a good number of references in Eliot's verse. The story was seasonal, as the drama took place during the Yuletide season.

#gottacatchemall (Lycanrock Dusk: TBR 2+ years) @PuddleJumper
#52bookclub (told in verse)

During a nostalgic moment, I picked up a few books from the Vicki Barr series, about the adventures of a flight attendant in the 1940's. These books feel very dated now. In one incident, Vicki presides over a chartered flight of hunters. One shoots a hole in the window mid-flight with his rifle. The pilot admonishes him with stern words and Vicki fixes the hole with duct tape!

#52bookclub (title is a spoiler)

In this noir thriller, a student murders his pregnant girlfriend and then starts pursuing her sister. This was a very suspenseful read that I found hard to put down!

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge (noir) @Ruthiella @RaeLovesToRead
#52bookclub (author has won an Edgar award)
#192025 #1953

A very good installment in Brunetti mystery series set in Venice, in which the Commissario investigates deaths in a nursing home. The author explores the role of the church and the power it wields.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
#BookSpinBingo
#ISpyBingo (boat)
#PumpkabooHunt (medium)
#BodyCountBingo (beneath notice)
#GottaCatchEmAllSpooky (power)

Lucy gets help from her fellow witches and vampire knitting friends to solve a murder that occurs at a summer fair. This series is so much fun!

#BirthdayBashReadathon
#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
#Witchathon
#BookSpinBingo
#ISpyBingo (exactly two people)
#PumpkabooHunt (medium)

This review is for Such Dangerous Seas, a novella bundled with Be the Serpent that tells the backstory of the sea-witch Luidaeg. Recommended for fans of the October Daye series.

#BirthdayBashReadathon
#52bookclub (prequel)
#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
#Witchathon
#BookSpinBingo
#PumpkabooHunt (small)

A very enjoyable installment in the #Discworld series, mainly because of the characters featured in this story -- Angua, Sybil and the wonderful Gaspode!

#OokBOokClub
#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
#BookSpinBingo
#PumpkabooHunt (large)
#AfterDarkBingo (Canus Latinicus )
#BodyCountBingo (the dog was the mastermind)
#GottaCatchEmAll (Sylveon: underdog character is victorious)

A low pick. I am enjoying this sci-fi cosy mystery series, but mostly for it's interesting setting on Jupiter.

#192025 2025 @Librarybelle
#52bookclub (published in 2025)

I absolutely loved this novel about a young trans woman returning to her father's rural home after her mother's death. It's a funny, sad and hopeful story.

#52bookclub (read in a “-ber“ month)
#gottacatchemall (Sliggoo: characters share one brain cell) It took me a while to find a book for this prompt, but I figure that a pair of racist transphobic characters would fit the bill. @PuddleJumper