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The mystery of the old violin | Augusta Huiell Seaman, William Hutchinson (Printer)
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Presumably I read this book back when I purchased it for a quarter back in 1997, but I have no memory of it 😂 A Scholastic Book Club reprint of a 1932 story, this one was perfectly fun but not particularly engaging. But I probably would have liked it better when I was the age for which it's aimed. Soft pick.

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That‘s #BookChain2025 completed. Thanks for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks !!

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CSeydel Oof I keep forgetting to do this 4w
willaful Nice! I keep getting stuck and have been on 30 for the past week. 4w
TheAromaofBooks YAY!! Fabulous progress!! 4w
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Sarahreadstoomuch
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This one took me forever to read…. I just didn‘t feel compelled to make time for it, even with the exquisite setting. And I would‘ve bailed and tried again, except I needed this as a do-over for a #bookchain prompt I didn‘t plan very well! 😂🤷‍♀️ @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2mo
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willaful Super cute the way you included the previous board! I've been wondering how to do that... 3mo
Lauredhel @willaful I'm That Weirdo who keeps all my challenges in Keynote, just because I'm used to it and know how to use it :)

So it's just screenshot, paste, & shrink!
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TheAromaofBooks Looking fabulous!!! 3mo
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#BookChain 2025 - books 1-20.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looking amazing!!! 3mo
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Time To Go House | Walter D. Edmonds
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My mom got this as a library discard when I was a kid, and I always loved it growing up. Smalleata is a mouse whose clan moves into the human house across the field when winter comes (and the people leave for the season). There, she falls in love with a house mouse. Lots of adventures, but it's actually pretty intense for a children's book, as some of the mice get eaten! I really enjoyed this reread and still find this a delightful book. And it ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) may help explain my reluctance to set mousetraps 😂

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Suet624 I was thinking I should find it for one of my grandkids but then .... mice get eaten!!
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TheAromaofBooks @Suet624 - It's intense but not graphic. Kind of along the lines of the original Bambi book. One mouse gets eaten because he is willing to sacrifice himself to help the others get away. And a rat gets hunted down by weasels in what is probably the scariest scene of the book. I loved this book when I was 12ish, but it's a book I would read first before handing to a younger reader to make it's not too intense. 4mo
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Suet624 @TheAromaofBooks thanks for the explanation. 💕 4mo
LeahBergen What a sweet cover! 4mo
TiredLibrarian Walter D. Edmonds is from my neck of the woods, and I met him once, years ago. He was a very kind man. 4mo
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Navigate Your Stars | Jesmyn Ward
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A beautiful little book, in which Ward talks about her hard road to fulfilling her dream of being a writer. This is for the people to whom things don't always come easily, who have to keep their vision in mind and take step after patient step to reach it.

#BookChain book #6
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Bold Fortune | M. M. Crane
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If you ignore the fact that these people have only known each other for, like, two weeks, this was a perfectly fun read. Violet's off to Alaska to talk to a grumpy guy who could help her fix her job, but he isn't interested in having an Outsider tell him what they should do with their land. So he challenges her to see if she can handle an Alaskan winter. Violet seemed like she should annoy me, but I actually found her can-do attitude to be kind ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) of endearing. Definitely a soft pick, but not a bad piece of brain candy.

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I first bought, read, and loved this book back in 2020. Now that we're getting ready to move and I have an entire house to update, it seemed like a great time to revisit it. Atwood just does a fantastic job with this book. She gives you the science behind color and our perception of it, then moves into the more emotional aspect of it - somehow, she stays out of woo-woo land by encouraging readers to ground the way they feel about colors with ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) practical application. There is a section visiting homes of various people who work with color (as home decorators and the like), and even with the homes that I didn't like, Atwood still points out tips for incorporating the methods used. The final section talks about how to create your own color wheel and palettes for different spaces. Just like when I read it the first time, this book immediately had me looking at everything around me ⬇ 5mo
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) differently, looking at undertones, connecting colors, the way textures can change color, etc. Even if you aren't getting ready to redecorate your house, I still high recommend this one as it goes beyond just slapping some paint on walls, with tips on making small changes (even things like putting a bowl of fruit on your table) to brighten spaces and tie things together. A perfect balance between science, feelings, and practical ⬇ 5mo
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DogMomIrene This book sounds fantastic! We‘re not ready to paint…yet…so may be the perfect read to start thinking about wall colors. Thanks! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks @DogMomIrene - She has lots of ideas for testing colors using other items in your space, plus seeing how you feel about those colors at different times of day and different lighting. So I think it's a great book to read while you're still in the thinking stage!! 5mo
AnnCrystal Does this talk about precisely which colors affect which mood (orange can encourage eating and conversation, green can calm you, blue can make you feel safe)? Or is it vague about direct emotional affects and more about how colors work together to appease the eye? 5mo
Lcsmcat We‘ve been trying to decide what color to paint the dining room for YEARS. Sounds like I need to read this book. 😀 5mo
TheAromaofBooks @AnnCrystal - Both, but I would say more the latter than the former. There is a section where she talks about each color, its history, and an overview of how it generally impacts mood and space, which leads into how combining different colors can be appealing, sometimes because it's also combining two feelings (blue for comfort + orange for warmth & energy). The author definitely believes that color is personal and encourages the reader to think ⬇ 5mo
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) about memories and places that may influence how YOU feel about a color beyond how it is “supposed“ to make you feel. (I.e. I got teased wearing a red dress when I was little and still don't like the color red.) So while she does give the broad strokes to general color+mood theory, she talks more about discovering what appeals to you personally and how to help focus that into a harmonic whole. 5mo
TheAromaofBooks @Lcsmcat - The author is so warm and friendly and I love the tips that she gives for experimenting with color before making big commitments. 5mo
AnnCrystal @TheAromaofBooks perfect, Thank You! 👏☺️👍📚🎨💝. 5mo
DogMomIrene @TheAromaofBooks Totally where we are! We‘ve been in this house for just over a year and we haven‘t hung any art because we‘re still moving things around, making sure we like how we‘re moving around various spaces. I checked my library and they don‘t have it, so I‘m buying it and savoring it🥰 5mo
TheAromaofBooks @DogMomIrene - I hope you love it!! It has sprayed edges and a wonderful matte finish on the cover, so many pictures - I find it a joy to handle as well as read haha 5mo
julieclair This looks SO interesting! Stacked! 5mo
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The Nature of Disappearing: A Novel | Kimi Cunningham Grant
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Finally got to my November #TravelingThrills book 😂 I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It's not super fast-paced - definitely more suspense than thriller - but I liked the MC so much that I didn't mind. The back and forth between past and present chapters felt balanced and even though there were some aspects of the grand reveal that left me scratching my head a bit (a side character's motivations/methods seemed like a bit of stretch), I'll still be ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) checking to see what else this author has written.

Great pick @bookandbedandtea !! @Jerdencon

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Bookwormjillk Love that cover! 5mo
bookandbedandtea I'm glad you liked it! I've been meaning to read this one of hers 5mo
sherrisilvera I really liked These Silent Woods. This is on my tbr so I'm glad to hear you liked it! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks @bookandbedandtea @sherrisilvera - A lot of GR reviews seem to think that this book wasn't as good as These Silent Woods. The premise of that one sounds really intriguing so it's now on my TBR!! 5mo
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