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Lollymya
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ◼️ Still in a bit of a #bookhangover (Photo found online) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52698452 #bookspin #januarybookbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4y
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Free to Fall | Lauren Miller
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Set in the not-too-distant future, society looks very similar to today. Unsurprisingly, people are more dependent on their cell phones than ever, especially on an app called Lux, which analyzes every situation for you and tells you the optimal choice for every question - what to eat, where to shop, when to leave for an appointment. When Rory gets accepted to the most prestigious high school in the country, she's thrilled, especially when she ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks finds out that her mother (who died when Rory was born) also attended the same school. Things take a darker twist, though, as Rory begins to discover things about the school, a secret society, and (of course) Lux. While some aspects of this story were predictable YA/scifi/dystopian kind of stuff, overall I really loved the concept of a society that has done its best to quash that quiet voice in our heads & replace it with 100% rational choices ⬇ 5y
TheAromaofBooks thanks to technology. This book felt like it could easily have strayed too far into religious territory, but kept the balance well. Overall a fun read for its genre.

Challenges: #ReadtheUSA2020/#SeparatedbyaPondTour - Massachusetts @Andrew65 || #WinterBookBingo - Book on the TBR too long (since 2016!) @Honeybeegirl || #JanuaryBookBingo - Character moves to a new town || #TurningPagesBingo - Set in high school || #BackwardsAtoZ - No N || ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks #FebruaryBookBingo - Title starts with F 5y
Crazeedi Well done!👏💕 5y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏😊 5y
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maich
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I read 9 books in January. 4novels, 1short story, 1audiobook (another one in progress), 3fairytales (2picture books and 1 collection of fairytales for children). My favourite was tagged book (Skye).
#bookreport
#JanuaryBookBingo some of the books suit to several criterion. But I didn't get Bingo.
It was great reading month. 👏👏❤

#januaryreads #bookbingo #litsyfun

Pageturner1 @maich we‘re do you got the bingo sheets? 5y
maich @Pageturner1 @Readage posted it on Litsy. And a few other Littens too😊 You can find them with hashtag #BookBingo 5y
bibliobliss @Pageturner1 I'll send you this year's monthly bingo boards if you're interested 5y
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bibliobliss @maich 😉👍 5y
Pageturner1 @maich yes please, thank you 5y
Pageturner1 @Readage yes thank you 5y
bibliobliss @Pageturner1 What's your email? I'll send them all to you 😉 5y
Pageturner1 @Readage hcolyer@live.com 5y
bibliobliss @Pageturner1 Thanks. Sending soon. I'll let you know shortly!! 5y
Pageturner1 @Readage 😊 thanks 5y
maich @Readage 😘😘 Who created this Bingo? I didn't know who to tag🙈 5y
maich Thank you @Readage 5y
bibliobliss @maich No problem 5y
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bibliobliss
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maich 👏👏 5y
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bibliobliss
Letter from the Birmingham Jail | Martin Luther King (Jr.)
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• Read in full yesterday for a last-minute #BookishFirst #JanuaryBookBingo prompt for "a book about the civil rights movement." I didn‘t even plan it, I just picked it up and read it and found the prompt later. It was wonderful, by the way, and I'm better for having read it. Just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth ???? •

#recentlyread #history #civilrights #AmericanDream #race #colorline #MLKJr #challenges #readharder #TBRRead #hope #nonfiction

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The Lost World | Michael Crichton
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I can't believe that the carry-over character from the first book was the person who drove me the most crazy! The actual story & action in this book was great fun, but listening to pages of pompous prosing by the great Dr. Ian Malcolm really dragged down the pace. Some of what he said was important to the story, but a lot of it felt like padding. Would people really sit around & listen to multi-page lectures when they could be DINOSAUR WATCHING?!

Bookwormjillk Lol you‘re so right 5y
TheAromaofBooks Challenges: #WinterBookBingo - White Cover @honeybeegirl || #JanuaryBookBingo - Book With Map || #BackwardsAtoZ - No I || #ReadingBingo - Book That Became a Movie 5y
TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - It just seemed unlikely that people, including two children, would rather sit in a dark trailer listening to him prose on about various scientific theories about extinction instead of being out watching real, live, honest-to-goodness DINOSAURS! 🙄 5y
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Lizpixie
Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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I have a #bingo on the last day of January on the #JanuaryBookBingo Just in time for the February card! It is
*A Debut-Say Nothing *Published In January-Come Tumbling Down *Free Square-Urn Burial *Blue Cover-Loch Of The Dead *Multiple Narrators-One Of Us Is Next. Then the others were *Borrowed From The Library-The Bookshop On The Shore *MC Moves To A New Town-Sawkill Girls & *Set In The 1920s-Ruddy Gore.

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Lizpixie
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One more down in my #PhryneMarathon This sees Phryne & her maid Dot take the lovely Lin Chung on a house party weekend in the Australian Alps. But like all of Phrynes adventures, things get lively, a maid is assaulted then goes missing,there‘s death threats & snares laid for the unwary. Just another weekend for the unconventional flapper! #phryneappreciationclub #LitsyAtoZ2020 #LetterU #PopSugar20 #PublishedInThe20thCentury #MountTBR2020 #Bk3 👇👇

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bibliobliss
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• Updated ongoing #challenges ⬆️

So close to having some completed #BookBingo lines but I probably won't make it in the next few days. I'm really making a serious effort to #readharder this year but it takes consistent perseverance •

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#BookishFirst #JanuaryBookBingo #WinterBookBingo #LitsyAtoZ #ReadWithMrBook #ReadingWithMaja #readingchallenge #ReadingChallenge2020 #BooklyReadingChallenge #inprogress #alwaysreading #foreverbetweenpages

maich Which one did you read for snow on the cover? 5y
bibliobliss @maich I don't have a physical copy but one edition of Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher" has snow on the cover 5y
maich @Readage I never heard about this one. I love to see new books😊 5y
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Lizpixie
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One more down in my #PhryneMarathon This is one of my favourites,she meets Lin here & coz I think the conclusion is very clever.Of course, I love all the Phryne books and could reread them for years! #phryneappreciationclub #LitsyAtoZ2020 #LetterG #PopSugar20 #SetInThe1920s #MandMChallenge #FavouriteAuthor #JennyIs30 #Detective #MountTBR2020 #Bk2 #BeatTheBacklist2020 #Bk5 #AntiAlphabetSoup #LetterH #WinterBookBingo #JanuaryBookBingo #SetInThe1920s

BarbaraTheBibliophage Fun — all those prompts!! ♥️📚👊🏻 5y
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