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DieAReader
A Conspiracy of Bones | Kathy Reichs
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#Wardens2025 #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025 #ShelfSweep #4Elizabeth #ReadYourKobo

I absolutely love being back into 🦴Bones series💖🤓

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Gissy
Ayiti | Roxane Gay
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February 2025 Book #5

This is a collection of short stories, powerful ones in terms of topics. First book I read by this author and looking forward to read more books by her. However, my experience with short story collections is that I like some more that the others and this is not an exception. Also, some stories I saw them more narrative, informative than a short story per se. It was the same experience I had with In A Dream Hoyse ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) by Carmen Maria Machado. That one is not a short story collection but sometimes I saw also the story as one informative, giving statics or facts that disconnect the idea, the flow, the line, premise of the book. That was my experience with both readings. But I really liked this book and the message. 3.5⭐️ 11h
Gissy #BookSpinBingo #1 #AuthorAMonth (read in designated month) @Soubhiville @TheAromaOfBooks
#Readatgon #Read2025 @DieAReader
#AcquiredViaLitsy #BlitsySwap2022 @Karisa @Chelleo
#OffMyShelf2025 @wanderglynn
#NationalBlackHistoryMonth (2nd book read for this month celebration even if it doesn‘t appear in Google or any o other platform
#UltimateReadingChallenge2025 prompt #32 book from swap shelf @faranae
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TheAromaofBooks Lovely cover!! 11h
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Gissy
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February 2025 Book #4

Maybe I expected more from this book since it was recommended by YouTubers with I follow their recommendations, but not always we have the same taste in books, and this is an example. Loved and intrigued by the premise. But I felt disconnected with characters. I thought Irena was arrogant and thinks everyone needed to please her. Some of the translators invited to this event in Ireba‘s house had infatuated feelings 🙄⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) with the author. The ending? Which I was supposed to understand this collective vs individual feelings between author/translator narrator/author whatever…I never felt moved for anything discussed. Maybe I didn‘t get along with Irene‘s personality and these translators dependent personalities 🤷🏽‍♀️3⭐️ 12h
TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the shelf!! 11h
Ruthiella I‘m so curious about this one too! So many strong opinions. 10h
Gissy @Ruthiella Try it, mine is an unpopular opinion. One of the YouTubers that I follow she strongly recommended it (Britta Bohler). I will keep my copy in case I try to re-read it🤷🏽‍♀️ 2h
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uncommonlycozies
The Harpy | Megan Hunter
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--> in case anyone else was as interested in the lore
it‘s far too late if I‘m doing things like this 😂
#uncommon #fiction #bibliophile #read2025 #librarybooks
#revenge #smut #psychological #lore🪽

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Gissy
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February 2025 Book #3

A contemporary chick lit where Felicia, an unsecured, immature character constantly take bad decisions that jeopardized her marriage, her emotional and physical security…and you, as a reader, will feel frustrated and mad during all this drama. Male figures here are terrible, abusive. Sexual abuse was minimized by family. Maybe the ending was a small step for Felicia start to grow up. Maybe this was the part that I liked⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) This is not a great story and a lower rating (so-so) would be more adequate. But maybe I saw it from a mental health perspective where I saw Felicia as a woman who didn‘t healed her trauma in an appropriate way, she didn‘t have support and just continue life but that scar was open. If you didn‘t like Queenie, you are not going to like this one and I think in Queenie this trauma part was better developed and worked. 3⭐️ 22h
Gissy #BookSpinBingo #11 (book from swap) #ISpyBingo (window) @TheAromaOfBooks
#Readathon #Read2025 @DieAReader
#AcquiredViaLitsy2025 @MatchlessMarie book acquired from #BlitsySwap 2023 Thank you @Chelleo

#NationalBlackHistoryMonth (February) even though these celebration/commemorative dates/months are not longer in Google 🙁
The explanation why it was removed is absurd
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TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 11h
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 4h
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Gissy
All Yours | Claudia Pieiro
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February 2025 Book #2 (book 1 in this duology)

I still think my favorite book is Elena Knows but this one was a great story. A thriller involving a triangle relationship. Only 162 pages and it was amazing of how many twists it has. Unlikable characters but so well described. I really like Claudia‘s writing style, how she develops these characters. However, there were some actions in our main character that I found unrealistic or too convenient⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) Don‘t want to say much because this is a short book. 3.8/4 ⭐️4 because I love the writing style 3.8 because of those unrealistic parts

#BookSpinBingo #17 (book in Spanish) #ISpyBingo (lowercase letters on spine) @TheAromaofBooks
#ReadaAThon #Read2025 @DieAReader
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BarbaraBB I loved this one too. 19h
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! 11h
DieAReader 💖💖💖 4h
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Gissy
Spinning Silver | Naomi Novik
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February 2025 Book read #1 😳😬🫣

I started this book inJanuary but finished it in February for in memory of @sharread #Sharreadathon @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Book was picked from her litsy list.

I liked this book, the world and character. A Rumplestiltskin retelling. However, didn‘t like much the ending, maybe I was expecting something more dramatic and dark due to the story. But still I liked it. 3.8/4 ⭐️

Gissy #BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin #10 (subscription-received this book in Uppercase subscription which is not longer open). Have it since 2018😳signed copy
#ISpyBingo (phrase “author of” on cover) @TheAromaofBooks
#ReadAThon #Read2025 @DieAReader
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 23h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11h
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MonicaLoves2Read
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder | Rachel McCarthy James
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Mehso-so

2.5⭐️

Not exactly what I was expecting. I thought this would be more about the axe murders and murderers throughout history. Instead, it's more a history of the axe with some murders thrown in. I enjoyed the first half of the book, looking at before the 1700s. James had me engaged during the first half of the book. It involves prehistoric time and up til the 1700s (cavemen, Egyptians, and Henry VIII), while the latter focused on George ⬇️

MonicaLoves2Read ⬆️ Washington, Lizzy Borden, and some murders I never heard about. At times, James had me intrigued by what I was reading, but at others, I felt bored. She seemed to get long-winded on some things.

Published May 13, 2025
#ARC #History #Bookspinbingo #Read2025 @TheAromaofBooks
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11h
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MonicaLoves2Read
Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel
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Finished this audio yesterday. I liked it better than the first one. Anne Boleyn is on her way to execution and Henry VIII has his eyes on Jane Seymour. This was shorter than Wolf Hall.

#Bookspinbingo #audio #Read2025 @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11h
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TheSpineView
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This is the latest book, #20, in the Jack Logan crime thriller series. It says something about the quality of the writing, plots and characters that have kept me interested this long. In fact, this is one of the few books series I have stuck with from the beginning. Loved this book as much as the first. Lots of twists and tension to keep you interested. Then the various backstreet to fill in any gaps and make it more interesting. Hoon even makes..

TheSpineView ... an appearance in this one. If for nothing else as to give some comic relief. 5🌟 #SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 Andrew, one element mentioned in book 19 will be important in this book. I know you will enjoy when you reach this point. 3d
Andrew65 Great to hear they are keeping up the standard. My June is going to be focusing on this series. Thanks for the nine, and well done 🎉🎉🎉 3d
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2d
MallenNC I hadn‘t heard of this series! I love a crime novel series. I just downloaded the first one. 1d
TheSpineView @MallenNC The series gets better as it goes along. Enjoy 23h
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