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#Antarctica
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Maggie4483
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Finally have some time to get my #Bookspin list done. Only a week late, NBD.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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Teresereading
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#schoolspirit
#team
Antarctic exploration - the ultimate team survival
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Eggs Fascinating 👏🏻🤗🙌🏻 2mo
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Tara
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Pickpick

My heart belongs to the Franklin expedition, but I‘m trying to branch out! Endurance doesn‘t disappoint (truly HOW did they survive that) but I do have an unpopular opinion™️. I am not sold on Shackleton‘s leadership skills! Lansing glosses over mistakes and tends to give Shackleton full credit for feats that were group efforts (or even just Frank Worsley efforts, justice for Frank.) It felt biased and made me wonder about other sides to the story

Tara (Also fyi for fellow animal lovers, there‘s a cat and several dogs that do not make it out of this expedition and it is not easy to read about. Also lots of hunting of penguins and seals.) 2mo
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caffeinated
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The first annoying thing is when I ask Dad what he thinks happened to Mom, he always says, “What's most important is for you to understand that it's not your fault.”

#FirstLineFridays

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bekakins
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Pickpick

Catching up on the weekends reading- this was my #doublespin for Aug and I found it absolutely riveting! Probably not for everyone but I found it genuinely suspenseful & also enjoyed the extracts from various diaries of those on the original Endurance expedition!

TheAromaofBooks Ooooo I am definitely going to get a copy of this for my husband! He and my dad and my brothers and my grandpa literally all took turns reading Endurance last year and they all were so into it that I didn't even bother reading it myself because every time I saw any of them they started telling me more about it 😂 3mo
bekakins @TheAromaofBooks amazing! He will definitely enjoy it if he was interested by the original expedition story! 2mo
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Victoriahoperose
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Mehso-so

Just okay for me. A little slow in parts, but great descriptive setting and interesting depth to the characters. I just felt like it was dragging a lot and that it could have been a little bit shorter. It needed more suspense in the beginning to draw the reader in and keep them engaged. But, it was interesting enough.

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jamield1911
The Split: A Novel | Sharon Bolton
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Bailedbailed

Absolutely not for me, at all. The plot was all over!

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readswellwithothers
Cold People | Tom Rob Smith
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Pickpick

Well, I‘m sure glad I didn‘t check to see what y‘all thought of this book before I read it because WOW, there is *no* Litsy Love to be found! Was it an alien story? Nope. Were there some plot holes? I suppose, yes, but can‘t that also just mean that we get to walk away with some questions? Isn‘t it okay to wonder, to allow some space for our beautiful brains to choose imaginative explanations of our own? Anyway, I‘m making this a pick. ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

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Clare-Dragonfly
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Mehso-so

I guess this is what I expected of Lovecraft. Strange explorations, monstrous creatures of time long past, it‘s so scary when the monstrous creatures are actually just people (i.e., racism). It was pretty slow and boring, and for the most part I felt like I was being told it was scary, not shown. It did get creepy toward the end, though, and I did like the ending—I appreciated that the narrator did figure out that the monsters were just people!