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BooksandCoffee4Me
Friday's Feast | Don Pendleton
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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

All about reading and #Litsy this week!
Love creating and reading our haiku poems. 🤗
Reading Theo of Golden with my husband. 💛
Finding 3 books from my tbr list on Kindle Unlimited. 😃
Consistently reading now that I‘m not on heavy pain meds all day. 👍
#Litsy, motivation, discovery, friends, and fun, 👏

Play? @Desha @Welltraveledpages

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peanutnine
Running Close to the Wind | Alexandra Rowland
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#Bibliophile #FaveColorOnCvr 💙
I love this book and adore this special edition because of the pretty blue design

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

xicanti So pretty! 😍 2h
PuddleJumper That's gorgeous! 2h
TheSpineView I love special editions! 💙📘 2h
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PuddleJumper
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I'm going to be running a few of the heists from here. I think I'll do a review for each one and how it went 😅

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willaful

“I would ask you to remember Tao, as one woman with power to another--the greater good much always come before the personal.“

“No,“ said Tao. Here, at last, was something she was sure off--something that she had learned in her journeys, that perhaps the High Made had not. “You're wrong. There's no such thing as greater good--there's just good, and the more of it we can do, the better.“

CarolynM ❤️ 7h
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GatheringBooks
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Pickpick

#Bibliophile Day 9: #2ndBkInTrilogy #2ndBookInTrilogy - Chaos Walking trilogy is fantastic! My review all the way back in 2012 here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-3tP

Eggs Perfection 🫶🏻👌🏼 14h
TheLudicReader 100% agree about this series. I hardly ever finish a series; it always feels like too much of an investment. But this one? Couldn't have abandoned these characters even if I wanted to. And Manchee? 😭 25m
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BarbaraJean
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Mehso-so

Belated review…

Honestly, I didn't enjoy this. I didn't find it engaging, for all its action. The characters held promise, but weren't developed at all. I was initially excited about a strong female protagonist in Cora, but her characterization & role flattened as the book went on. Cooper sacrifices character development for horrific action sequences and scenic descriptions that fell flat. There were problematic racial stereotypes galore, but⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) … I was bracing myself for far worse. There was a lot of “noble savage“ to the descriptions of the “good” Native characters, then basically all the Native characters/tribes allied with the French were portrayed as bad/scheming/backward, while their French allies were largely let off the hook. It was so interesting to see the book‘s combo of “of-the-time” stereotypes with some more nuanced depictions of Native characters & culture than ⤵️ 16h
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …I'd have expected. I was pleasantly surprised by the respect shown for the traditions described near the end of the book. But I hated the ending!

Ultimately, I'm torn about this book's value as a classic. It deserves some credit for how it has shaped other writing, and it has some value as a biased but illuminating portrayal of a specific time and place. But on balance, I don't think I'd recommend it. ⤵️
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BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) One more off the TBR, read for the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead, and an adventure novel for Q2 of the #ClassicsChallenge. @Lunakay 16h
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AmyG I read this after the movie came out. What a slow, tedious read. 15h
Lunakay Well done! 11h
BarbaraJean @AmyG SO tedious! @Lunakay Thank you! 1h
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Texreader
The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas
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#tlt #threelistThursday

Faves: tagged
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein

I‘ve read and really liked David Copperfield. I expect to read Dickens‘ other books this year for #whattheDickens and I‘ll probably read Mansfield Park someday

I recently bought The Three Musketeers so I‘m looking forward to that one

Not a huge fan of the books I read in high school and college: The Scarlet Letter and Candide

ChaoticMissAdventures I really really struggled years ago when I read with 16h
dabbe I was surprised GREAT EX wasn't on the list, but I adored BLEAK HOUSE. I'm still working through NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵📚🩵 16h
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Bookpearl
Hatchet (Reissue) | Gary Paulsen
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Library haul! And he was too excited about the bookmarks that he scored from my book bucket.

TheBookHippie Such good reads!! 19h
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PirateJenny
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Pickpick

I have been fascinated by the events at Dyatlov Pass for quite some time. This book recounts the author's retracing the journey of the hikers and delivers a very plausible theory of what happened.

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Enchanted_Bibliophile
The Fever Code | James Dashner
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Pickpick

3½✨
I couldn't find a copy to read, but I found the audio book; and now I want to listen to all of them. Mark Deakins did a superb job!

I read these books in publications order, so this was the last one for me.
I've finally got all my questions answered and enjoyed learning how everything started.
This book and the Original is in my opinion the best. Both have riveting plots and are quick paced; with a lot of information.

Enchanted_Bibliophile I think I would have appreciated them more in my younger years, but alas I now know the story of the Maze Runner.

#SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView
#LitsyAtoZ #F @Texreader
#BookChain2025 #DifferentColourTitle @TheAromaofBooks
#Pantone2025 #MistedMarigold @Lauredhel
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Andrew65 Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 Always good to find a good narrator. 19h
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