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TheBookgeekFrau
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Swapping out my #DoubleSpin #MonthlyNonfiction2025 for a #BookSpinBingo nonfiction because mood reading 😂

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MonicaLoves2Read
Untitled | Unknown
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4.5⭐️

A hilarious and entertaining new cozy mystery series. The Dog Ladies started off with a murder mystery party that turned into a real murder, and I thought, "Oh great, another one," but I was wrong. I feel in love with Gloria, Pryia, and Ryan. Gloria and Pryia are lonely women in their eighties, and Ryan is a lonely IT young guy. They all have dogs and a cat. When murder happens at the party, they decide to solve it.

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OriginalCyn620
Emmett | L C Rosen
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A cute modern #lgbtq+ YA retelling of Jane Austen‘s Emma! Very enjoyable, and it‘s a quick read.

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TheAromaofBooks
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Published in 1980, only four years after Belenko's escape from Russia (and well before the fall of the Berlin Wall), this book was quite fascinating. Belenko actually had more or less the ideal situation in Russia as the MiG-25 pilots were highly valued and treated well (by Soviet standards). Reading about his slow recognition of the cognitive dissonance between what he was being taught about his country vs the west and what he could actually ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) observe with his own eyes was intriguing. Thoroughly enjoyable and a reminder of what life in the Soviet was actually like.

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TieDyeDude I used to read a lot about the Cold War, though admittedly most of my reading had a Western bias. This sounds like it would be a really interesting book! 2d
TheAromaofBooks @TieDyeDude - It's a really quick read (under 300pgs), which is nice but also means that sometimes I wished I could get more details. When I was checking to see what happened to Belenko after 1980, I was surprised to find that he just passed away two years ago! 1d
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TheAromaofBooks
Bloodsworn | Scott Reintgen
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Sadly, the sequel to Ashlords had even fewer phoenix-horses 😞 This book is all about the war, and while it overall did work, the ending where everyone just suddenly is going to get along despite generations of being enemies felt... unlikely lol (If we just take all the money from the rich people and give it the poor people, then everyone will be happy!!! ...riiight) But still, it was an engaging read with characters that I liked. These books ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) also had minimal romancing, which was nice. Enjoyable, but not books I'll read again.

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TheSpineView Love the cover 💙🐎 2d
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2d
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Miss Carter and the Ifrit | Susan Alice Kerby
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Mehso-so

This book had all the ingredients that I should enjoy, but somehow they just didn't work here. Miss Carter is a middle-aged woman, never married, who lives by herself in a small flat in London and works for the censor's office during WWII. Through a series of events, she finds herself in possession of an ifrit (i.e. genie). Part of the reason this book didn't quite work for me was that the ifrit's magic never really made sense to me. Apparently ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) he can't actually make things, just conjure them from other places? But he has to actually go in person and fetch them? Or something? And he physically flies to these places and consequently can be shot down by bullets? Or something? I was very distracted by the lack of sensible magic (you know what I mean haha) There is also a strange romance (ish) that I guess is supposed to be an acceptance of practicalities, but instead I just felt ⬇ 2d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) bad that Miss Carter was giving up her peacefully independent life to go live with someone who more or less takes her for granted/doesn't seem to appreciate her. It was a strange vibe.

All in all, it was okay for a one-time read, but it's not a book I'm planning to keep. Right ingredients, wrong mixture.

But look at all those #ISpy prompts! 😂 - Cleaning Utensil, Cursive Font, Cat, Title/Author in Different Font, Book, Circle
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Ashlords | Scott Reintgen
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This is one of those books where I loved the concept more than the execution. It's a great world with an intriguing idea - the existence of horse-phoenixes, whose ashes can be mixed with different elements to create a horse with different powers when it rises again in the morning. My problem: I wanted MORE about these horses, but they ended up just kind of being a tool for the story. The other issue is that this book was about a (phoenix) horse ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) race AND about the start of a war, so there were times that the plot felt a little muddled. Personally, I wanted more race and less war lol While the characters were likable and engaging, Reintgen made the unfortunate decision to make one of the POVs in second-person, which felt clunky, awkward, and kind of like he didn't have another way of writing a distinguishing voice. I am STRONGLY of the opinion that if a book is going to have more⬇ 2d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) than two POVs, then they should be in third-person. Multiple first-person POVs (and in this case, one second-person) is confusing, and it's difficult to make them all distinguishable from one another.

Despite my complaints, I really enjoyed this one and picked up the sequel immediately.

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vlwelser
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This one is truly lovely. She might be my new Valerie Perrin back up author. I have no idea if these are being translated into English. Yet. They definitely should be.

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Tamra I hope Valerie has a new one soon! 22h
vlwelser @Tamra I still need to get my hands on Tata 18h
Tamra @vlwelser it needs to be translated, like now! 😅 18h
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vlwelser
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This is good if you're interested in this topic. The author came to one of my social groups. She's lovely.

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MonicaLoves2Read
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4.75⭐️

Based on true events, Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli grabbed me at the beginning. Full of suspense, I wanted to listen as fast as I could to find out what happened to the kids on the bus. The only problem I had with the book is that I wish Ili would have gone just a little further to let us know what happened to the teacher and mom.

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