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TheSpineView 🧡🍂💛 7d
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BooksandCoffee4Me Autumn is my favorite season also. Love the cool breezes, but have to admit I love the longer days of June. 😊💛 7d
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JenlovesJT47 💛🐝🖤 I‘m in Florida and I‘m already dreading how hot it‘s going to get this summer 🥵 7d
dabbe May I ask where you live? I'm from hotter-than-hell Phoenix! You captured the piercing hot sun with your words and pic! 💛🐝🖤 6d
Reggie My countdown for the year ends with the summer solstice because that‘s when daylight starts getting shorter and we start sliding towards fall. 6d
Kristy_K @BooksandCoffee4Me If only we could have long days with cool breezes. 6d
Kristy_K @dabbe I live in Southern California, but this picture is actually Oslo (where I‘m traveling now). It was 80-100 degrees the week I left So Cal and I was looking forward to the cold but the sun seems just as hot here and I ended sunburnt lol. I can‘t imagine summers in Phoenix! It‘s bad enough in So Cal lol. 6d
Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 and you have humidity too, right? I‘d never leave the house lol. 6d
Eggs I feel this! Central Texas now: highs each day 98+ 🔥 6d
bellabella It was 94 yesterday with no breeze and humid. It isn't as bad as some of yours, but for me it was awful. 😂 6d
lil1inblue This makes me glad I'm in Michigan. 😅 😉 6d
JenlovesJT47 Yes! I lived in Cali for 2 years for college and it was just as hot there but no humidity. The humidity is the worst here and in Georgia 🥵 6d
dabbe @Kristy_K I lived in San Diego for a few years, and I was amazed at how hot it got! Of course I couldn't afford to live along the beach, so I lived inland, and the desert there is just as hot as Phoenix. How lovely to be in Norway! I visited Bergen back in 1990 (😱) and thought it the most beautiful country I'd ever seen. Enjoy your trip! 💚💜💚 6d
Kristy_K @Eggs It seems too early in the year to be that hot! 6d
Kristy_K @dabbe Thank you! 6d
Kristy_K @bellabella 94 is still awful! 6d
DebinHawaii I‘m already ready for fall & winter! 😅 💛🐝🖤 5d
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TheEllieMo
Murder in Williamstown | Kerry Greenwood
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I‘ve loved the Phryne Fisher series, and have now read all 23 books in the series. This one isn‘t the best, it feels like the author, being aware of the limited time she had left, wanted to ensure that the series cameto and end with no loose ends - Greenwood passed away in March this year.

Book 36/60 Page 11.715/18,000 #Read2025 @DieAReader
#SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

ChaoticMissAdventures I absolutely loved the TV show, I had my hair cut like Phryne for years 😍 1w
TheSpineView Fantastic! ❤️📖📚 1w
TheEllieMo @ChaoticMissAdventures I love that! I don‘t think it would suit me, though 😟 1w
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1w
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Cathythoughts
The Weekend | Charlotte Wood
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I really enjoyed this one. Three women friends get together to sort out a deceased friend‘s house. The women‘s relationship is real and complicated.. ‘ It was all this lying, all the unspoken things that suffocated…‘
I must read more by Charlotte Wood, I was never inclined to read Stone Yard , but I will now. Love her writing. Thankyou @andrew61 for your review, it got me reading this book.

CarolynM Lovely review. I enjoyed this one too. I haven‘t got to Stone Yard Devotional yet but I know a lot of people who have loved it. I also know a few people who hated 1w
Cathythoughts @CarolynM I see. I‘ll have to try Natural Way , I‘m curious about her now. 👍🏻❤️ 1w
Tamra I am really anxious to read Stone Yard. I recall listening to The Weekend and I can remember the character development was good, but yet I gave it a so-so review. Is this the one with the old dog? 🥹 1w
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Cathythoughts @Tamra Yes the one with the old dog.. he is referred to as a ‘security blanket‘ .. I liked that. I really enjoyed the book. Like her writing. 1w
Tamra @Cathythoughts that made me sad! 😢 1w
Cathythoughts @Tamra Yes, there was a sadness about it… Fin was his name ❤️💔 1w
squirrelbrain Great review! I think I bought this on Kindle after loving SYD. 🤔 (But I haven‘t read it, of course!) 1w
Cathythoughts @squirrelbrain Thanks Helen. I‘m looking forward to trying Stone Yard and Natural Way 👍🏻❤️ 1w
LeahBergen Great review, Cathy! 😘 1w
andrew61 Glad you enjoyed it Cathy. We will be discussing it in my reading group this week and I am anticipating a good discussion. 1w
Centique I really enjoyed this one too. Stone Yard Devotional is so different - very introspective - but again her character development is excellent. I really think you will like it as well! 1w
Cathythoughts @LeahBergen Thanks Leah 😘 1w
Cathythoughts @andrew61 Oh that should be an interesting discussion! Enjoy. 1w
Cathythoughts @Centique Thanks Paula, character development really makes it for me 👍🏻❤️ 1w
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Creadnorthey
Cloudstreet | Tim Winton
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A beautifully crafted book. Writer Peter Carey‘s playbook in many ways and it was through an interview with him mentioning the book that I discovered this truly incredible family story.

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LapReader
The Queen Is Dead | Stan Grant
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Yesterday after work I went grocery shopping and got my false eyelashes put on for ballet Eisteddfod season. The Beautician was running late so I got some time on the massage chair. I needed it. Afterwards I walked home via the local Little Free Library. These were my scores. I went home to a pie and mash for dinner made by my elderly neighbour, Kenny who had a stroke so his wife gets him to cook for me and boy doesn‘t it make my life easier.

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Last night‘s scores from my building‘s library.

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shawnmooney
Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright
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https://youtu.be/2dFM8gunt-4

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Mystery guest
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
Queen James: A New History About the Life and Loves of Britain‘s First King, James Stuart by Gareth Russell

LeahBergen 🥰🥰🥰 3w
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vivastory
Illywhacker | Peter Carey
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My belated #weirdwords entry is courtesy of the tagged book, which I haven't read but I intend to. According to Ye Olde Google: Illywhacker is “A small-time confidence-trickster or seller of trinkets.“ The con man description does seem very much of the moment.
Carey has yet to disappoint as as writer. I read Oscar & Lucinda shortly after joining Litsy & I STILL think about that book. Another fave is True History of the Kelly Gang.
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vivastory *One of my favorite signed book anecdotes is that while I was reading my copy of O&L (i Bought it on a discount shelf at HPB & it had a a movie tie-tin cover), I happened to notice that ir was signed by Carey! Someone had the nerve to take a movie tie-in cover & request an autograph (it was a good movie, but STILL) lololol I would just die of embarrassment personally lol, but again that's me 😃 (edited) 3w
CBee Such a funny word, I love it! And love your anecdote - I think I feel the same! Sort of sad that I haven‘t been to many book signings though 😂🤦‍♀️😅 3w
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Doppoetry
Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay
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Normally, I would say that the story dragged, but I think in this case, the way the story meanders adds a lot ot the atmosphere of the novel. To me, this wasn't so much a “whodunnit“ novel as a “What even happened here?“ Some scenes in this book border on the supernatural.

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keepingupwiththepenguins
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Larrimah might not delight the true crime purists who need to see a bad guy locked up for life, but it will enthrall anyone with an interest in the outback, tall tales, and/or the search for answers. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/larrimah-caroline-graham-kylie-stevenson/