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Soubhiville
Spinners | Donna Jo Napoli, Richard Tchen
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I‘m continuing with my 2025 #bookspin plan to just post sections of my shelves, with a February theme of pink and red. Plus my bookclub book. Ready for Bookspin day @TheAromaofBooks ! 🙂📚🩶

mcctrish That‘s a great idea 4d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3d
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Phelangies
Once Upon a Winter's Night | Dennis L. McKiernan
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In the year of our lord, 1991, there came a foreign movie I watched called The Polar Bear King about a girl who fell in love and married with man who was cursed. The curse was that she may never look upon his face. Well she did which caused him to be lost. She journeyed to rescue him through many a trial to win him back. This book is a retelling of that story which was a retelling of the Ancient Greek story of Eros and Psyche. Cat pic for fun

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TeamFiction
Bookish and the Beast | Ashley Poston
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Graciouswarriorprincess
Thornhedge | T. Kingfisher
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A fantastic retelling of Sleeping Beauty. A reverse where the princess is evil and the fairy is good. I love T. Kingfisher‘s books and this novella didn‘t disappoint.

Book 8/100 of the year.

LibrarianRyan I just finished this this week. I loved it! 2w
BooksNBowls I read this in December. TK never misses with me. ❤️ 2w
Graciouswarriorprincess @LibrarianRyan @BooksNBowls I love her books. She is a local author for me and occasionally drops into my local BN store and randomly signs the books. 1w
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wideeyedreader
East | Edith Pattou
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I swear I keep meaning to get better about posting reviews lol! This is the most recent of the books I‘ve read so far this year (just finished it before work this morning). I give this one a solid five stars—first of the year!!

Other books I‘ve finished this year:
The Diary Keepers by Nina Siegal (4.5 ⭐️)
Fearless by Cornelia Funke (4.25⭐️)
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (4.25⭐️)

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merelybookish
Goose Girl | Shannon Hale
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She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.
#firstlineFriday
@ShyBookOwl

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sarahgreatlove
Beauty | Robin McKinley
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This was an interesting beauty and the beast retelling. Pretty classic in terms of the beats but a few key differences - the beauty is not that beautiful for example. I enjoyed this.

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Charityann
Snow White and Rose Red | Patricia C Wrede
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Excited to start Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede! #fairytaleretellingchallenge 😄 I‘m sending out bookmarks (physical to those in the US, printable file to those outside the US) to those who want one! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRTxFpb8NFkNRVvMSj0lDeiVfCuyMtLIjVj00H...

@SconsinBookyBadger @JessClark78 @julieclair @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @BookmarkTavern @TheAromaofBooks @Bookworm54 @clwojick

Charityann And if you want to be added (or taken off the tag list), let me know in the comments! 4w
Read4life I‘d like to be tagged please. 4w
TheAromaofBooks Oh how fun!!! 4w
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julieclair How sweet! Thank you. Looking forward to this challenge. 4w
Cuilin Oh please tag me. I love retellings. Especially Peter Pan. 4w
curiouserandcurioser Please tag me-this looks fun!! 4w
mom2bugnbee I'm in! This looks like so much fun - thank you for organizing! 4w
Cuilin @Charityann Thank you, I‘ll start researching. 4w
wordslinger42 This is completely unrelated to the post, but I happened upon your book in the giveaway section of StoryGraph and entered to win! I didn‘t know you‘re an author, too! 4w
Charityann @wordslinger42 Awesome! Good luck!!💜 4w
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Gissy
Cursed | Marissa Meyer
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Second book read November 2024

Second book in this Gilded duology of Rumpelstiltskin retelling.

Liked it but not loving it. Again, I think the story was dragged just to justify a second book?😕This is so common now🫤Because of this dragging story there were parts I was interested and others that I was bored because of this repetitive pattern when the story is dragged.
Love both editions.

/3.5⭐️

Gissy Book read for my local book club mostly YA books #TheForgottenBookClub 1mo
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JessClark78
Zel | Donna Jo Napoli
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‘An innocent young girl... a noble youth obsessed with her beauty... and a mother who will do anything to keep them apart...‘

This was an excellent version of Rapunzel. Highly recommend to fairytale lovers.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#ReadAway2024 #ChristmasAtoZ #LetterZ
#WinterCosy #FairytaleReadingChallenge #Rapunzel
#Adventathon #WinterGames2024 TBR Read +50
#WGWordSearch (22) +220

+275 points #ChristmasChapterChasers

Andrew65 Well done ☃️☃️☃️ 1mo
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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