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BarkingMadRead
Pinstripes | Marie Long
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This was so fun! Body positivity and shifters FTW 🐅
#backlistreadathon #readaway2024 #mounttbr

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 21h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 13h
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TheAromaofBooks
The Artsy Smartsy Club | Daniel Pinkwater
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The conclusion to The Hoboken Chicken Emergency is just as ridiculous and fun as the first two. Nick and his two friends are bored in the summer heat and decide to try creating art. They make new friends, participate in an art contest, and visit a museum under the chaperonage of a giant chicken dressed as a nun. 😂 Somehow Pinkwater makes it work.

#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#100YearsofBooks (2005)
#BacklistReadathon

TheSpineView Great job! 1d
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TheAromaofBooks
Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story | Daniel Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater
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Nick's parents have sold their house in the suburbs and moved into the heart of Hoboken so he can experience urban culture. Luckily, Nick makes friends with two kids who live in the apartment next door. They spend the summer looking for the Phantom, who sometimes leaves odd gifts for people, and trying to find out more about a giant chicken who rampaged through the city years ago. Super fun sequel to The Hoboken Chicken Emergency.

LeslieO I used to read Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka to my 4th graders, which starts with the Hoboken Chicken, so I would recommend the original to them, but I never knew it was a series! 1d
TheSpineView Awesome! 1d
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TheAromaofBooks
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency | Daniel Manus Pinkwater
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Either you find Pinkwater's snarky, offbeat humor to be hilarious, or you find it to be completely bizarre and not particularly funny. I'm in the pro-Pinkwater camp and while this isn't as funny as The Snark-Out Boys and the Avocado of Death, it's still great fun.

TheSpineView Fantastic! 2d
UwannaPublishme This Jersey girl loves to see any book that mentions Hoboken! 😁 2d
TheAromaofBooks @UwannaPublishme - So many of his books take place in and around Hoboken!! He's lived there a long time. Even when he doesn't specify Hoboken, you still get that feeling haha 2d
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OutsmartYourShelf
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Roger Ackroyd's fiancée was being blackmailed over the death of her first husband & the pressure became too much & she took her own life. Ackroyd receives a letter containing some information about what happened but is suddenly murdered. There are plenty of suspects & how lucky (but perhaps unfortunate for the guilty party) that Hercule Poirot is residing in the village! (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf The timeline for Poirot's cases seems to vary a bit as the previous full-length book saw Hastings & Poirot working together whilst in this one Hastings has moved away & Poirot is retired. But not completely retired as he takes on the case of the death of Roger Ackroyd upon the urging of Ackroyd's niece, Flora. The story is narrated by Dr Sheppard who lives next to the retired detective & he takes the place of erstwhile Hastings. 7d
OutsmartYourShelf It seemed to be the usual Christie fare but that twist ending was perfect as the reader realises the clues that are sprinkled throughout the pages. I feel that I really should have worked it out but I didn't. 4.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5806765999
Read 18th-20th Mar 2024

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TheSpineView Great job! 7d
Librarybelle I really liked this one! 7d
TheAromaofBooks The first time I read this one it genuinely blew my mind. I still love rereading it and looking at all the clues that Christie gives the reader - she does such a good job of not “cheating“ - everything is there for us if we can see it!! 6d
OutsmartYourShelf @Librarybelle There's no wonder it's thought of by some as her best book. 6d
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willaful
After Her: A Novel | Joyce Maynard
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This is the second time I've been surprised to realize Maynard is more than 10 years older than me, because her depictions of life during the time I was growing up are so authentic. This is a suspense story, loosely based on real murders in Marin county, but also a vivid and fascinating look at unsupervised adolescence. The family relationships are loving, flawed and sometimes deeply sad.

#BacklistReadathon

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
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Jari-chan
Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher
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For how many years have I wanted to read this book? Ever since I finished my first Kingfisher book. I'm happy I finally managed to read it, thanks to #DoubleSpin & @TheAromaofBooks
Surprisingly, it took quite a while for me to get into the story. Only when the Dust Wife appeared, I slowly started to come to terms with this book. But after that I was all in. I started to love the characters, liked the world and the feminist plot. And the sidekicks.

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willaful
Waiting for the Flood | Alexis Hall
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This could be considered cheating for the #BacklistReadathon, since I have read the original novella before, but this new edition is three times as long, including a second novella and an epilogue for both. It's two touching stories about Edwin and Marius, long time lovers who weren't able to stay together but go on to form meaningful, healing relationship with others. Lots of drama, especially in Marius' story, because he is ornery AF. 😂

CarolynM I cried all the way through the original novella. I can‘t wait to get my hands on this expanded version. 2w
willaful @CarolynM You might keep some hankies ready for the second story. 😁 The audiobook is extremely good. 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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Lizpixie
Elysium Fire | Alastair Reynolds
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Bk3 of March is the 2nd Prefect Dreyfus Emergency. I‘m loving this series, so much so I‘ve put the authors backlist on my wishlist.Dreyfus is now Senior Prefect after Aurora & the Clockmaker but still works in the field when people start dying after their neural implants melt their brains. A world of hyperpigs, abstraction, light hugger ships, augmented humans & quickmatter! #SeriesLove2024 #BacklistReadathon #Readaway2024 #BookspinBingo

TheSpineView Fantastic! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
DieAReader 🥳 Great! 2w
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Lizpixie
Aurora Rising | Alastair Reynolds
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Bk2 of March is the 1st in the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series. A brilliant blend of SciFi & police procedural, Dreyfus is a Prefect of Panoply, the beat cops of The Glitter Band. Made up of 10,000 different habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, Prefects enforce the voting laws of the system. Until an entire habitat is killed, an open & shut case,but Dreyfus starts looking deeper & encounters things powerful people would rather stay hidden.👇

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