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It‘s birthday month time! #BingoBoard #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpin book club pick #DoubleSpin It Devours

#Roll100 The Woman Who Would Be King, A Year in Provence, Final Harvest

#OokBOokClub The Fifth Elephant

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Uninvited Guest

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Tin Woodman of Oz

#QueerBC Island Time

#ThematicCozies Booked For Revenge

Princess Ozma has been kidnapped, & all the magical artifacts of Oz have vanished. Dorothy puts together a team to rescue the lost princess.

I remember loving this one as a kid, because it‘s a dramatic search & rescue, all the girls are together, & my favorite animals. And I adored the bears. I also appreciated the resolution with Ugu. But I hadn‘t remembered the Lion or Scraps being quite so condescending to every one around them. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I really liked this one! There‘s an actual plot and a reason they can‘t just fix everything with one of their magical objects (and the magic belt seems to exist again, though of course it doesn‘t work the way it did originally). Plus there‘s lots of Scraps being smarter than everybody. I didn‘t like the way the animals were so mean to each other, though. #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

I don‘t bounce back from jet lag as quickly anymore. 😂 It‘s taken me a couple days to put together my August #BingoBoard ! #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin NetGalley ARCs

#Roll100 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, I Am Spock, Firebird

#OokBOokClub Jingo

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Missing Heiress

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Lost Princess of Oz

#QueerBC Heartstopper

#ThematicCozies Mockingbird Court

The royal kingdom of Pingaree is invaded & decimated. It‘s up to young Prince Inga, visiting King Rinkitink, & an irascible talking goat named Bilbil to rescue the people & restore the kingdom.

A fun, solid plot w/ interesting characters. I loved Prince Inga & how determined he was to rescue his people. But I disliked how Rinkitink was entirely useless, & I feel like I would have liked this better if it was just Inga & Bilbil together.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

Trot & Cap‘n Bill have fallen through a great whirlpool, & escaped into a magical land they don‘t know. Their travels will bring them new friends & old, & of course a love story & a political coup.

I love Trot getting to know as much as we do about Oz. The friendship between her & Bill is genuinely delightful. & I loved seeing a new corner of Oz. But there are recurring issues of beauty = goodness & ugly/disfigurement = evil. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

Lots of fun new characters in this—I liked Prince Inga, King Rinkitink, and especially Bilbil the talking goat. It has an actual plot, too, which made it even more fun. However, Oz is barely relevant. The title is strange since not only does Rinkitink only spend a couple of chapters in Oz, he‘s not even the main character. Why not call it Prince Inga in Oz? #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad

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Y‘all, I had completely forgotten that I have an Oz omnibus edition on my kindle! 😂😂😂 I can start on Scarecrow and #BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad continues!

I've finished another three Oz books. Just one more and I'll be caught up for #beyondtheyellowbrickroad. Of these three, The Patchwork Girl of Oz was my favorite.

This book struck a decent balance between “plot” and “random punny adventures.” Some of the things that irk me about other Oz books were definitely present here (are Glinda and Ozma *really* all that great?). But I just loved Trot, Cap‘n Bill, and the Orks so much that I can‘t downgrade the rating. #BeyondtheYellowBrickRoad