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Bk15 of #Scarathlon & Bk3 of #20in4 & #FinalStretchathon is done! Woohoo!My annual reread of this Dame Agatha classic is always a joy. Love me some Ariadne Oliver! #31x31 #Falling4Books #Rushathon #Spookaween #AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #ISpyBingo #PromptMaze #NaturalitsyBingo #BookspinBingo #ScaredyCatRC #OctoberBingo #BookishFirst #ThrillerBooksBingo #OctoberRC #HalloweenReadathon #OctoberBookBingo #ReadLikeHellathon #SpookyGhostClub 5286pts

Bk13 of #Scarathlon & Bk1 of #20in4 & #FinalStretchathon is done! A chunkster of a book, wasn‘t sure if I‘d finish it! Strike & Robin take a 40yr old cold case of missing doctor Margot Bamborough, last seen in 1974. #31x31 #Falling4Fall #Rushathon #Spookaween #AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #ISpyBingi #PromptMaze #NaturalitsyBingo #BookspinBingo #OctoberRC #BookishFirst #ThrillerBooksBingo #OctoberReadingBingo👇#SpookyGhostClub 6391pts

Bk9 of #Scarathlon & Bk2 of #OutstandingOctober #Readathon is done. Thank god! That was one of the most ominous books I‘ve read. It starts quietly but once it gets going it‘s like a hand just hovering over the back of your neck. Creepy as f**k. #31x31 #Falling4Books #Rushathon #Spookaween #AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #ISpyBingo #Witchathon #PromptMaze #NaturalitsyBingo #ErasGhostBingo #BookspinBingo #OneMoreChapter👇 #SpookyGhostClub 3031pts

I really wanted to like this one, the idea of a historical fiction horror really appealed to me, but in the end, I think it just fell flat.

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This book is about how we destroy the world and how nature gets creative rebuilding it. It's also very similar to the TV show Mysteries of the Abandoned.
#Naturalitsy @AllDebooks #NaturalitsyBingo #rewilding

I have general interest in birds, everyday I feed wild sparrows in my balcony and try to identify birds whenever I travel. But this book is exquisite , and beyond imagination. These are the true anecdotes from the author‘s life. It shed a light on different aspects of bird watching, hunting and love for nature. Short but intense one 5🌟 #doublespin #bookspinbingo #nonfiction2023 #naturalitsybingo #birds

A complete surprise, combining a memoir of the author and his father, whose ‘together‘ activity was eel fishing, with a natural/social history of the eel, and what we don‘t know about them. I went in (honestly?) indifferent to eels, and came out with respect and fascination for these stubborn, elusive creatures. Great stuff!

Thanks for prompting this read #naturalitsy! #NonFiction2023 #RollingInTheDeep #NaturalitsyBingo #Water

The Hidden Life of Trees meets Devil in the White City. This masterpiece of environmentalist true crime writing had me spellbound from start to finish. Lifelong Canadian logger Grant Hadwin experiences a spiritual transformation into an environmental activist. His increasingly quixotic quest to change the industry in the 1990s leads to a bizarre and seemingly inexplicable protest with a truly epic backstory. Hadwin remains missing to this day.

#Naturalitsy

Time to choose our next read for Jan/Feb 2023
We had so many themes last time, it was difficult to make a decision! This time I suggest 1 theme - Water. This is completely open to interpretation. You can choose water bodies, water wildlife, ice, glaciers, weather, preservation etc. There are so many of us now, I do suggest we each have 1 recommendation only.

I'll close the comments on Sunday for voting next week.

Over to you...