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TheKidUpstairs
The Axeman's Carnival | Catherine Chidgey
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I had picked this one up a couple of months ago, and couldn't really get into it, and put it aside, thinking it just wasn't the right time. Turns out #AuldLangSpine was totally the right time! I whipped through this one in three days (yes, I was overly eager and started early, too @CBee 🤣). I love Chidgey's ability to tell the story hidden behind the story, the sense of unease and apprehension she lends with just a few well placed glimpses. 👇

TheKidUpstairs It was gripping and thoughtful, tense but full of heart, intriguing commentary on lives lived online, domestic violence, and our relationship with the animals around us, and a generous sprinkling of humour. I loved it. 1d
TheKidUpstairs My son is really into origami, so I included the talking crow he folded me in this pic - he knows I love a corvid! 1d
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CBee I absolutely adore your review and even more, the origami crow!! Perfect 🐦‍⬛ 22h
squirrelbrain Great review! 21h
monalyisha @TheKidUpstairs @CBee I can‘t even get over that you‘re both the first to post #AuldLangSpine2026 reviews and that you both picked up a book from the other‘s list, started it, stopped, then picked it up again for the event. And that you both started early, unbeknownst to the other person! Just fabulous. 😅💖 16h
CarolynM Great review. You‘re absolutely right about that “story behind the story” thing. 10h
CBee @monalyisha your matching skills are obviously magic 😊💚 13m
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Pinta
The Place of Tides | James Rebanks
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Mehso-so

Slow, like building nests and collecting eiderdown. Portrait of unique nesting grounds on remote Norwegian islands & a determined older woman charged with caring for the ducks. Takes patience, both the reading and the waiting for the birds. 2024

110 “We do not think of watching the world around us as work.”

258 “The island and the wild things are never fully known… We are all just children. We never know enough, not even the half of it.”

Pinta 125 “And the world became spellbindingly beautiful when you thought you were dying.” 2d
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kspenmoll
Lost Words | Robert Macfarlane
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Tamra Love it! 😍 2d
AnnCrystal Beautiful illustration and bookstaging of a beautiful book 💝🤩🌼🐦📚🐇🤩💝. 2d
monalyisha I just bought this for our collection at the library! It‘s being processed & cataloged. I‘m eager to flip through it! 2d
JenlovesJT47 Beautiful 😻 2d
dabbe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2d
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DebinHawaii
Hollow Kingdom | Kira Jane Buxton
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#Read2025

Glad I finally read this one (even better that it came with yummy chocolate as my #jolabokaflodswap) even better. It was a very unique story set in Seattle where a zombie apocalypse occur & our MC, S.T., a semi-domesticated crow who loves humans (mofos) fights for survival with his best friend, a bloodhound named Dennis. It‘s not perfect & slogged a bit but it made me laugh, cry (especially hard at one part 😭), & appreciate Seattle.

DebinHawaii Thanks again @JamieArc for my wonderful swap package! I‘ve made my way through most of the Sanders & Michigan Mints. The Yoder bar is next! 😉 3d
JamieArc I‘m so glad my Jolabokaflod package is still giving 😊. A very happy new year to you 🥂 3d
DieAReader Wonderful📚🍫 2d
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CarolynM
The Axeman's Carnival | Catherine Chidgey
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#12Booksof2025 July

I read 4 of the books in my top 25 in July, Wood Working, Fundamentally, Better Days and this one, my favourite of the year.

Suet624 Such a great month! 3d
merelybookish Tagged book sounds fascinating! 3d
TheEllieMo This sounds interesting! 3d
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CarolynM
The Axeman's Carnival | Catherine Chidgey
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Here‘s my best 25 book of 2025. The Axeman‘s Carnival is number 1, the 6 to the right of it the next tier, in no particular order, and the best of the rest below, again in no particular order. #Top25of25

HeatherBookNerd Woodworking made my best of list this year too. What a great debut. 3d
BarbaraBB Screenshot taken! I loved most of your 7 favorites too. Two I haven‘t read but I have the Coe on my shelves thanks to you. And I obviously need to read Geraldine too. 3d
squirrelbrain We have such similar taste- love your list! ❤️ 3d
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TrishB Screenshot! Off to go have a look properly! 3d
TrishB Have added a couple to my lists! Frustratingly Better Days and Geraldine only available on eBay from Australia. Kept them on my list to see if they become more available. 3d
Suet624 Chidgey is a must read for me. Love seeing your list. 3d
Rissreadswithcats I haven‘t read a Chidgey yet. I better do something about it in 2026. 3d
staci.reads Lots of books on this list that are new to me. Thanks for sharing your list! 3d
LeahBergen Darling would make my “best of” list, too (if I actually got around to compiling one 😆). 3d
Christine Great list! Woodworking figured prominently on mine too, and I‘ve been wondering about Fundamentally. 18h
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BookishMarginalia
H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald
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Excited for this movie adaptation!

Watch the trailer here:
https://youtu.be/73V6kQfGyt0?si=-XgpRfwG8sr-4RbN

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JenReadsAlot
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Pretty good, but I really just want a book full of owl pictures!

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ImperfectCJ
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#12BooksOf2025 Day 4: The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham, another win resulting from trying to read what my kids are reading in school (this is one my college kid read for an environmental nonfiction class).

@TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo This sounds like such a nice read 6d
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BookishMarginalia
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This one completely pulled me in. I devoured it in 2 days! Roxie Laybourne feels like a fully realized character even though this is nonfiction, and all the side paths into feather forensics, the Smithsonian, bird strikes, misogyny, and conservation made the world feel rich and alive. Some parts broke my heart, but I came away with real admiration for people who choose these quiet, obsessive corners of science.

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