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Catsandbooks
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Pickpick

4.5/5 ⭐️ Another great part in the Nine Lives Magic series!

#HauntedShelf #HexesandCrows #spookoween #witchathon #pumkaboohunt #halloweenAtoZreadathon #31by31 #psreadathon

Bookwormjillk 😻😻😻 18h
TheSpineView 🖤🐈‍⬛📖🖤 14h
PuddleJumper 😻😻 6h
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Catsandbooks
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Pickpick

4.75/5 ⭐️ 2nd in a witchy cozy mystery series and so very funny! I laughed out loud at Selene, the talking cat! Enjoying this quick and light series!

#HauntedShelf #HexesandCrows #spookoween #witchathon #pumkaboohunt #halloweenAtoZreadathon #31by31 #psreadathon

Bookwormjillk Hiss-Tory ha! 18h
TheSpineView I love these covers! 14h
PuddleJumper Those eyes! 6h
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Bookwormjillk
Signal Moon | Kate Quinn
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An overdue update after last weekend‘s readathons. I read Carrie on the train from Newark to DC, but after that whirlwind trip my brain was mush. So I decided to start clearing some of the short stories off my list, including those pictured. #PSReadathon #31by31 #Spookoween #BirthdayBashReadathon

TheSpineView Great job! 1d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 23h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 13h
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JenlovesJT47
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Time spent reading yesterday: 8 hours 30 minutes = 85 points x‘s 7 for 6 readathons = 595 points.

I‘m reading the tagged book for the pumpkin spice readathon & it really fits the cozy vibe (plus I love the covers from this series!) 🎃

#HauntedShelf
#FrightClub
#BirthdayBashReadathon
#PSReadathon
#Witchathon
#31by31
#Spookoween
#ReadAway2024

🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃

TheSpineView Great job! 2d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🎃🖤 24h
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JessClark78
Untitled | Unknown
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Day 21 Readathon Totals #HauntedShelf

Read for five hours yesterday. Read almost half of Of Saints and Shadows. Read some more of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe on Kindle.

#Witchathon #31by31 #SupernaturalBookBingo
#SpookOWeen #BirthdayBashReadathon
#PSReadathon #ReadAway2024 +50 each

+351 points #FrightClub

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OriginalCyn620
The Mystery Writer | Sulari Gentill
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Pickpick

Finished this over the weekend (before the accident) but haven‘t had a chance to post until now. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! And it wasn‘t what I was expecting, but it was a wild and tense ride.

#HauntedShelf #DeadSerious
#readordonate #birthdaybashreadathon #psreadathon #bookspinbingo #promptmaze #ispybingo #31by31 #spookoween #HalloweenAtoZBingo #HalloweenAtoZReadathon

Texreader I‘m so sorry to read about the accident!! I hope all heal quickly. ♥️♥️♥️ 2d
OriginalCyn620 @Texreader Thanks so much! ☺️ 2d
PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 2d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 24h
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TheAromaofBooks
The Last Close Call | Laura Griffin
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A traveling book that I was supposed to read in September, whoops. This one was borderline so-so for me, mainly because the two MCs were inconsistent and kind of annoying. Also it felt like the overall message in the end was that in the nature vs nurture debate, you can't escape nature (more details in the spoiler), and I didn't care for that. However, the use of forensic genealogy was intriguing and I enjoyed the secondary characters.

TheAromaofBooks The criminal in this one is a serial rapist. He was given up for adoption by his 16-year-old birth mother. At the end, you find out that she had gotten pregnant because she had been raped, and there is this overall vibe that the reason this guy was a rapist was because his dad was a rapist, and that was just the way it had to be, despite him being adopted and raised in a loving home. This isn't stated explicitly, but combined with the fact that ⬇ 3d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) after they capture the criminal the reader never gets any explanation/viewpoint from him at all - we never find out what his motivation was, if something triggered him to start this, why he left Texas for five years, why he came back, whether or not his girlfriend was remotely suspicious, etc. NOTHING. So all we're left with is “his birth father was a rapist so“ and that just didn't sit well with me. 3d
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TheAromaofBooks @Jerdencon @Bookandbedandtea - FOR REAL I am also going to finish my pick for October and then mail them both to Paula before the end of October 😂 I would be interested to hear if you had any thoughts on the nature vs. nurture aspect of this book - was that just me reading too much into it?? 3d
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3d
Jerdencon @bookandbedandtea honestly I do believe nature plays a part (I work as a school psychologist so seen this happen) - kids are raised in a wonderful home but still have issues BUT I‘ve also seen the other side of it too - think it‘s one of those mysteries of life and genetics. Also my books will be in the mail beg of next week! (edited) 3d
OriginalCyn620 🖤🖤🖤 3d
bookandbedandtea @Jerdencon @TheAromaofBooks I did feel this leaned a little hard on nature because I've always wanted to believe nurture weighs heavier in that balance. I'll send my books out next week as well. 😄 2d
TheAromaofBooks @Jerdencon @bookandbedandtea - It seems like nature has to play a substantial role because, like Denise said, you see kids raised in lovely homes and still turn out troubled. Just looking at myself and my five siblings (including one adopted) all raised by the same parents, but all really different as adults, it's obvious that nature is there haha But it felt weird that the conclusion was kind of “oh his birth dad was also bad, that explains why ⬇ 2d
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) this guy was also bad“ without any real nuance or exploration of other influences/aspects of the bad guy's life. Anyway, it was an interesting book and I didn't dislike it, but I felt like the ending dragged out kind of purposelessly haha 2d
bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks I think you have a good point, Sarah, about the lack of nuance regarding the bad guy and that more explanation about him would have made for a better story. I could have stood for more if that and less of the romance between the leads. 2d
Jerdencon @bookandbedandtea I agree about the romance part 1d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🦇🖤 24h
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TheAromaofBooks
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I know going into it that this type of romantic suspense is going to need me to gloss over a lot of ?!?!?! moments to make it work, but this book was really pushing the limits haha Pretty ridiculous on the whole, but sometimes that's what you need. A long while back someone gave me a box of random thrillers/romantic suspense, and this was one of them. Mildly entertaining, but off to a new home now.

#HauntedShelf #DeadSerious @OriginalCyn620

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LiseWorks
Spells Trouble | P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast
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I have to blame the beautiful summer like weather we have been having the past weekend for my slow reading. I spent my days trail walking for fall photos. I did keep up with the #BuddyReads #BirthdayBashReadathon #PsReadathon #HauntedShelf #FrightClub @Bookwormjillk @PuddleJumper @Jadams89 @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Lovely weekend here as well!! 3d
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3d
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DebinHawaii
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#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024

Read for #BobWhiteBuddies Book 7 in the series doesn‘t quite live up to my childhood hype of it. I remember it being a favorite because of the code found in the magazine (Saint Nicholas-a real children‘s magazine) & the little spark of Trixie/Jim romance (a corsage & a dance but be still my preteen heart) Unfortunately the racist caricature of the Japanese brothers doesn‘t age very well. It still gets a nostalgic ⬇️

DebinHawaii … but soft pick. I‘m also using it for the #HauntedShelf #BookScavengerHunt #FIgure prompt as in addition to Trixie, there‘s the figure of a very bad guy on the cover.

Read during the following readathons for Team #Flerken 👻 points:

#HalloweenAtoZReadathon @TexReader
#Spookoween @TheSpineView
#31x31 @catsandbook #HappyAutumn #PSReadathon @bookwormjillk
#BodyDouble @PuddleJumper #BirthdayBash @TheAromaofBooks
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TheSpineView Excellent! 3d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I just started this one, but already I'm like... why does the school board give the Hawks a pass but the Bob-Whites (who are all model students and children of prominent citizens) have to work for it?? 😂 I also remember being intrigued by the code growing up, but now am like, this seems like a lot of work to write SOS 😆 3d
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