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�Feliz A�o Nuevo! (Happy New Year!) | Clara Coleman

For those of you who celebrate this season, Feliz Año Nuevo 2025 (Happy New Year 2025). Wishing you and yours, health, love, harmony, peace, and also…many amazing books 📚 and splendid reading time😃🎉🎊. If you don‘t celebrate it..just relax and have a wonderful reading time🤗

I live in one of the municipalities without electricity since 5:49 am☹️They are working on that but you never know when🤷🏽‍♀️A different celebration and⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) and the generator where I live is having problems😳A celebration with candles and lamps🕯️🔦 3d

Gissy @AmyG I sent you a #LitsyLove holiday card but it was returned to me☹️ 3d

Ruthiella Happy New Year! 🍾🥂🥳 3d

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AmyG @Gissy I am so sorry! My post office is notoriously bad. Every once in a blue moon a letter is returned. 🤷‍♀️ 3d

AmyG @Gissy Wishing you a Happy New Year! (In spite of the power outage). 3d

Gissy @AmyG I can try again even when the holidays are gone in USA, we are still celebrating here almost until mid January 😳😂I included something small in the card. I will review the address again that I have from #LitsyLove data. 3d

Gissy @Ruthiella Thank you🤗 3d

Deblovestoread Happy New Year! Hope you get your power back soon. 🎉 3d

DaveGreen7777 Wishing you the best in 2025, Gissy! 3d

AmyG Thank you. You most likely had the correct address. 3d

LeahBergen Happy New Year!! 🥳 3d

dabbe ❣️🥂❣️ 3d

TheBookgeekFrau Happy New Year! 🥂📚 2d

Gissy @TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Thank you and I hope you both had a wonderful celebration. Here I reading my first 2025 book😃 2d

Gissy @LeahBergen Thank you! @DaveGreen777 @Deblovestoread @AmyG I hope you also had a wonderful celebration. Wishing you all the best and happy reading 2025📚🤗 2d

dabbe @Gissy #metoo! 🩵❄️🩵 2d

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TheSpineView

The Tree A Day | Amy-Jane Beer

I got this book today to read in 2025 for #Naturalisty @AllDebooks

I looked through the book and it looks packed with information. Looking forward to reading this one.

AllDebooks Me too. I can't stop browsing 💚 5d

TheSpineView @AllDebooks It will be hard to not read ahead. 5d

TheBookHippie Mine is out playing in Mail land 😬😵‍💫😅🫠 5d

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TheSpineView @TheBookHippie Bummer! 5d

TheBookHippie @TheSpineView I just hope it comes by the first !! 5d

TheSpineView @TheBookHippie 🤞 5d

dabbe #metoo 💚💚💚 5d

TheSpineView @dabbe 😊🌞🤗 5d

Seabreeze_Reader #metoo (ended up getting the HB copy, instead of Kindle) although I've been restraining myself from peeking inside. 4d

TheSpineView @Seabreeze_Reader Great willpower! 4d

Seabreeze_Reader @thespineview I hid it from myself at the back of my bookshelf, lol. Out of sight, out of mind. 😃 4d

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dabbe

Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR @LitsyEvents

REBOOT! Based on the fact that we're all a bit behind and because of the holidays, I moved everything back a month. Above is the revised schedule.

Next discussion date will be for the 1st half of REVELATION, chapters 1-24, on 1/31/25. Hopefully, that gives us all a little more breathing room. I'm really enjoying this one and hope you are, too! 🤩

Daisey, PurpleyPumpkin, Texreader, AnneCecilie, Gissy, Centique, OutsmartYourShelf, jenniferw88, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, batsy, Chrissyreadit, kwmg40, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, dabbe, Fr3NcHtOaSt, RaeLovesToRead, bthegood, lil1inblue, PageShifter, LiseWorks, The_Book_Ninja, Karisimo, Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes, BookWrym

Deblovestoread Breathing a sigh of relief 😮‍💨 Thanks, Denise! 🩵 6d

dabbe @Deblovestoread Yay! #metoo! 🤩😂🤗 6d

Daisey I didn‘t comment the other day, but as another person who hasn‘t had a chance to start yet I very much appreciate more time to get caught up before discussion. (edited) 6d

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Texreader I may participate now. I‘d love to reread these books 6d

kwmg40 That sounds good to me, thanks! 6d

Librarybelle Thank you!!! 6d

dabbe @Daisey #yahoo! 🤩😂🤗 6d

dabbe @Texreader We'd love to have you! Let me know if you want to be tagged. 🤩🤗🤩 6d

dabbe @kwmg40 Yay! 🤩😂🤗 6d

dabbe @Librarybelle YW! 🤩😂🤗 6d

Mollyanna Thank you! I am really enjoying what I‘ve read so far and will really be able to enjoy it and savor it now. 6d

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe Thanks Denise, this really helps!:) 6d

dabbe @Mollyanna Yay! YW! 🤩😂🤗 6d

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser YW! 🤩😂🤗 6d

OutsmartYourShelf Appreciate this as I haven't started it yet! Still trying to complete a few reads for Christmas readathons. 6d

dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Yay! 🤩😂🤗 6d

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Megabooks

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

This is my #top24of24! I was a bit stingier with the 5⭐️ this year, and only 8 received that (upper left quadrant plus Dead Bastards and Cue the Sun in bottom right). The rest are 4.75⭐️ and 4.5⭐️. Nine of these are nonfiction, which is about normal and pretty close to my reading NF/F split. Can‘t wait to see even more of these as the year winds up! 👏🏻📚

BarbaraBB

squirrelbrain Great list! ❤️ 2w

MallenNC I really liked Margot, Small and the Mighty, and The Husbands. The only other one I‘ve read is The Wedding People, which I liked but the audiobook didn‘t completely work for me. I think I should have read it. I still need to get to James and Cue the Sun. They‘ve been on my TBR. (edited) 2w

Deblovestoread Fantastic list! Screenshot for TBR explosion 📚 2w

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AmyG I still have a few of these to read. Great list…..but then, I expect nothing less. 🙌🏻 Ha! Yes @Deblovestoread (edited) 2w

Suet624 Screenshot!! Thanks for putting your list together. 2w

BarbaraBB I am happy to see the Piñeiro here and am I now extra looking forward to The Wedding People and Playground and Model Home. The ones I haven‘t heard of I need to check out. Great list Meg, screenshotting! 2w

Chelsea.Poole As always, I love your list and we are pretty much in sync! Several you have here will make my list and the ones I haven‘t read I‘m already on hold for 👯‍♀️ will soon start Wedding People, loved Keanu and on hold for

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

Chelsea.Poole Ooh and LOVED The Husbands and Margo…not as familiar with the Widows, need to fix that apparently! 2w

Megabooks @squirrelbrain Thanks! 2w

Megabooks @MallenNC Both were great. Cue the Sun was especially interesting for me because I always have reality TV on in the background during the day. I just kind of let it run. Right now I've got on Teen Mom: Next Chapter. My reading taste is definitely more refined than my TV! 2w

Megabooks @Deblovestoread Yay! Enjoy! 2w

Megabooks @AmyG Thank you! 2w

Megabooks @Suet624 Awesome! Hope you find one you like. 2w

Megabooks @BarbaraBB Yes, thank you so much for A Little Luck! It was really fantastic! I hope you like Wedding People. So serendipitous that it was on the ToB short list! 2w

Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole I think you'll love Widow's! By far the best memoir I read this year. Heat was interesting reading in concert with my Bourdain year because the author originally went viral with an indictment of Mario Batali and his being called out in #MeToo. Bourdain disavowed him publicly despite their long friendship. They also shared an assistant who has a memoir coming out in April! Exciting!

Care and Feeding

BarbaraBB I think you have a sixth sense for that. Are you feeling better yet? 🩷 2w

Megabooks @BarbaraBB Maybe, but I was surprised by that one! I am feeling a bit better. I'll write you and Cindy soon. 💜 💜 2w

Centique Oooh what s good list. It will take me ages but ill get to some of these! Im reading Wedding People right now and loving it! 2w

BarbaraBB 🤍🤍 2w

youneverarrived So many on my tbr 💜 2w

Megabooks @Centique thanks Paula! That‘s such an enjoyable book. I loved (and rooted for) those characters. 2w

Megabooks @youneverarrived fantastic!! I always love seeing what you‘re reading. 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10) | Terry Pratchett

so-so

1/? I have a feeling someone's going to read this and accuse me of lacking a sense of humour. Know that I find some of Pratchett's writing hilarious, AND I have issues with some of it.
I regularly appreciate how Pratchett weaves social commentary into fantasy comedy, but upon reread I'm not sure that method was successful in this book.

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I think maybe the awe for old Hollywood 'magic' might have gotten in the way of telling a less adventurous, more hilariously critical tale. Maybe Hollywood being so shallow makes even the commentary seem shallow, especially post SAG-AFTRA strike, and this many years after the start of #MeToo. Going into detail about the ugliness of Hollywood, about dreams that can seduce people into accepting unreasonable behaviour, it all leaves a bad taste. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Exploitation, film execs vs creative people, not paying actors well, and historically, animal abuse:
He's the canny yet oft neglected jester figure of the story who always lands on his feet regardless of whatever life throws at him, but Gaspode permanently being used and cast aside just makes me sad. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I normally can enjoy the melding of modern institution with ye olde fantasy especially if it's turned on its head, but Pratchett's ultimate message in this book is not that the institution is corrupt but the idea is sound and you need to do the best you can to confront it and make better individual and communal choices, like the City Watch books; instead it's that the institution represents a power that's better at the bottom of the sea. 3w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? It feels less like the momentary triumph in an ages-long battle against moral decrepitude and more the author, after presenting all the dazzling aspects with a sense of wonder (and foreboding), washing his hands of an industry that has no redeeming features to offer. Upon reflection, possible correct, not in respect to the creative medium of film, but the modern film industry, which is a depressing conclusion. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? And then there's the elephants motif running though as a message of excess and further greed and danger and exploitation, basically everything about the characterization of the people from Klatch and the made up foreign figures (probably a mirror for how they were historically depicted in early films) is winceworthy. I want to put it down to Pratchett's aforementioned fun with puns, and sharp satire, but overall it seems like a bunch of lazy 3w

Robotswithpersonality 7/? jokes and timeworn stereotypes about 'foreigners' while simultaneously attempting to make elephant traders sound like small town British businessman. The line between commentary on and reinforcement of racism and xenophobia is a little too blurred for my taste. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 3w

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 Oh, and it's probably just a function of being published in the 90s, but the heteronormative nonsense with Ruby and Detritus, not to mention Victor and Ginger, did not improve my impression of this story taking a little too much inspiration from early 20th century film. 🙄 (edited) 3w

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Mpcacher

Bury the Lead: A Quill & Packet Mystery | Elizabeth Renzetti, Kate Hilton

pick

This is a lighter mystery featuring Cat, who is a journalist with a small town paper. When a famous actor dies on stage during a performance, Cat (who was already doing a piece on him) investigates. The story has humour, parental angst, lots of small town doings and some #metoo drama. I enjoyed it and look forward to the next in the series. Thanks to NetGalley for digital advance reading copy. 3.75/5 stars.

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dabbe

Kiss in Space: Poems | Mary Jo Salter

#poetrymatters
#carole
@TheSpineView

#wintergames2024
#holidaybookdragons
@StayCurious @LiseWorks
+20 points (10 for photo, 5 for post, 5 for also being a fab book!)

Time to rewatch THE THIN MAN. 🖤

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe love The Thin Man movies!💜 1mo

dabbe @curiouserandcurioser #metoo They are so adorable together! 🤩 1mo

TheSpineView Great choice!😍😍😍 1mo

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willaful Her husband sounds like my kinda guy. 1mo

curiouserandcurioser @dabbe they are! Some of my very favorite movies;)💜 1mo

dabbe @willaful Especially on New Year's Eve! 🍸 1mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 💙❄️💙 1mo

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dabbe

Untitled | Untitled

#poetrymatters
#visible
@TheSpineView

TheSpineView 😍😍😍 1mo

kspenmoll Love this! 1mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 🧡🤎💛 1mo

dabbe @kspenmoll #metoo #greatminds 🧡🤎💛 1mo

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Read4life

Cozy Winter Vibes: A Blank Lined 120 Page 6X9 Journal for the Winter | Paige Paige Cooper

#SeasonalSpiritShare #SSS @dabbe

Snow. Warm drinks. Cold, crisp weather. Books. Fireside reading. Gingerbread everything. Family.

I love winter and the calm I feel when there‘s snow on the ground, a coffee in one hand and a book in the other.

dabbe #metoo It is the most wonderful time of the year. I need snow, though! 😂 Thanks for sharing. You're on the #sss list! 🤎🍁🧡 2mo

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