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My usual trio: an audiobook, a middle grade book and a bedtime book (which happens to be my #doublespin and #authoramonth book!)

#weekendreads
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Completed by #bookspin and #doublespin picks for November

#bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks

#serieslove2024 @andrew65 @TheSpineView

I really loved this one! Woman finds herself alone, unemployed, and unsatisfied and takes a spur of the moment trip that will change her life. A literary bus ride through the UK? Yes, please! When she discovers all the other tour members are centenarians, the bus is less than modern, and the driver enjoys messing with her, will she find a way to enjoy herself? 😉 Reader, she will! #netgalleygroup #BookspinBingo #Doublespin

My favorite of the series. All the elements come together in a terrific space opera. Great characters, twists and turns, complex plot, and of course terrific world building.

#Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

November #SeasonalCozies and #DoubleSpin

This cozy series is just so much fun to read. The characters, the setting and weaving funny with serious issues are all so well done.

#SeriesLove2024 #readyourebooks

#TodayILearned what a terrible leader Henry III was. That's probably why there aren't many films or books devoted to him. Still, I'm really enjoying Costain's Plantagenet series. It's very readable, even if some of the feelings and thoughts the author attributes to these real-life characters might have involved some guesswork.

#NFNovember @Bookwormjillk
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

This short story collection was more hits than misses. She examines the intersection of being Black and Puerto Rican in America.

It‘s bookended by stories about a college girl who joins a convent. The first told by the men lusting after her and the final story by her. Another hit was a multiple perspective story about a man married to one sister while in love with and a father to the other‘s children. #doublespin

Not tagged book, I'm not sure if this one's been translated into English.

If this was my first Ogawa, I wouldn't have read any other of her books. Hiroyuki is way too perfect, which makes a dull character. Then there whole plot is too “male-centered“, even though we have different female characters the book would not pass the Bechdel test.

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#BacklistReadathon @Clwojick

#WeeklyForecast

Includes:
*#TBRtarot
*#DoubleSpin
*#SeasonalCozies
*#Roll100 (2)
*#SeriesLove2024 (6)
*#readyourebooks (3)

My #DoubleSpin for this month was a quick read that spoke to my Hobbit self. Someday, I want to live somewhere surrounded by trees, even if that means I have to plant them myself.