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My picks for December‘s #FictionalTraveler #HomeForTheHolidays (the tagged cozy mystery is set in a fictional holiday town in Oregon which is my old home/stomping grounds) & #ThematicCozies #Holidays (Jingle All the Slay which is a witchy holiday cozy). ❤️🎄💚

#FictionalTraveler

These are my December picks @julieclair - I think they‘ll all be fun!

#readordonate
#fictionaltraveler
#thematiccozies

Where will everyone be traveling for the #FictionalTraveler #HomefortheHolidays prompt this month? I‘ll be traveling to Virginia with Dashing Through the Snowbirds. 🎄

#FictionalTraveler will continue for 2026! I‘ll do a separate post with the new prompts, but feel free to comment below if you already know you‘d like to be added to or removed from the tag list. Everyone welcome!

November #WrapUp

1 #OffTheShelf2025
1 #Chunkster
1 #FictionalTraveler
2 #SeriesLove2025
4 #BookChain2025
1 #LitsyAtoZ
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
6 #Pantone2025
2 #Classic
1 #NonFiction

#Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

Finished a couple of weeks ago for November‘s #FictionalTraveler #Asia

I liked this second book in the series set in 1930‘s Singapore. This one takes place just after the first book with Su Lin now working at & living above the Detective & Intelligence unit. A high-profile wedding is rocked by the death of the groom after a prank involving betel nut juice. It gets a bit convoluted, but it kept the pages turning.

I have now finished the series! (I didn‘t read them in order)
The story about the dog had me crying!

#fictionaltraveler - Asia
#bookspinbingo

And I'm up to date with #FictionalTraveler too! @julieclair

Unfortunately I really didn't like this book. I was expecting a sweet forbidden lesbian romance set in Iran, and instead got a couple of naive selfish drama merchants -[cont in comments]

Also, be aware, though sold as a romance this is NOT A ROMANCE NOVEL.

I never got to my October recap nor have I finished all my October reviews but I wanted to get this posted finally. Finished 16 books & a short story, started one more & got further in Women Who Run With the Wolves (I‘m still way behind).

I finished books for #SundayBuddyRead #ChildrensClasdicRead2025 #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR
#SheSaid #MonthlyNonFiction #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler #Roll100 (3) #AuthorAMonth & SeriesLove2025 ⬇️

I do love a bit of Japanese whimsy. Not so much a novel as a collection of short stories about people who need help finding a clinic open visible to people who need it, where the treatment is cats prescribed as emotional support animals ☺️ 🐈‍⬛. As a slave to two cats, I know how much snuggles from a cat can help!
Second finish for #10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures
#Asia for #FictionalTraveler @julieclair
Book 95 #Read2025 @DieAReader