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My #DoubleSpin for January was magical and weird and so different from just about anything else I've read in the Fantasy genre that I'm not sure how to rate it. I didn't LOVE love it, but I did find many of the sentences and individual words were soothing somehow. I don't know how else to describe it so I'm giving it a “Pick.“ #2025OffMyShelf

I found this novel quirky and charming, but plodding as well. It's billed as sci-fi, but it mostly shows the insightful perspective of a woman who is different from everyone else.

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I wanted a good escape book today, and I decided to drop everything and pick up a Murder, She Wrote mystery, one set in Cabot Cove, Maine (I think this place rivals Midsomer in England for murder capital of the world).

I think I liked this one more because of the setting and my familiarity with the characters than the mystery itself—I knew the killer as soon as it happened, which is so rare for me. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

So good! This almost felt like a series of disconnected fairy tales in the beginning but then settled more into a novel. Maybe it‘s the Love Actually of book bans and closet Nazis? Whatever it was, it was pretty damn good. It did drag a bit at the end, stopping it from being a five star read for me but it got close.

My January #DoubleSpin

My January 2025 #Bookspin and #Doublespin wintery picks are done and dusted.
Both were solid reads that made the cold and snow characters in the stories.
Neither knocked my socks off but I enjoyed reading both.
The tagged book was a #netgalley arc, so thanks to them for giving me a copy of the book for an honest review.
That‘s 2 more stripes on Rebecca my knitted #ReadingSnake (horror and thriller)

This is lovely. I'm going out on a limb and comparing it to Three by Valerie Perrin. I loved that book. I loved this book quite nearly as much.

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US pub date is 5/20/25
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Wow! Another book my daughter has been trying to get me to read for a long time, and damn if she wasn't right! This is not your typical YA fantasy. It has it all: history, folklore, action, and romance, all while deftly addressing racism and sexism, both historical and modern. It's simultaneously disturbing and empowering. I have book 2 waiting on a shelf, but I need a breather before going in. This was my January #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

So I was a little annoyed that this book was more about two people working at a newspaper than about children being sold out of desperation in the 1930s. But after a bit I became so immersed in the story that it didn't matter anymore.

3/80

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I loved the Arc of the Scythe series, so of course I wanted to read this volume of short stories that Neal Shusterman and a few other authors wrote taking place in the Scythe world.

I was surprised that the other authors just co-wrote with Neal, I was hoping for some completely different voices. They all have the feel of the trilogy. But they were mostly enjoyable. The only one I didn‘t like was Perchance to Glean, about dreams.
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