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The Christmas Bookshop: A Novel | Jenny Colgan

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Bk10 of December & #WinterGames2021 is done! I love Jenny Colgan‘s books. I‘m not a romcom/chicklit reader at all but her books always make me smile. Plus I love the setting, Scotland is top of my travel wishlist, and this book makes Edinburgh sound so magical. And there‘s a bookshop!🙌 #AVeryMerryBingo #HemisphereGames #MerryBookmas #TisTheReadson #AVeryMerryReadathon #WinterCosy #WrapItUpReadathon #Adventathon #MistletoeManiacs 5,326pts👇

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Lizpixie #ChristmasFilmsReadathon #TisTheReadson #DecembersBookBingo #ChristmasReadingChallenge #NightmareBeforeChristmasathon #SeasonsOfReading #ClearUrShit #BookishBingo #BookspinBingo #Pageathon #Pop21 #PennyPerPage #PickYourPoison #SeriesRead2021 #StackingTheSeries #FinishingTheSeries2021 3y

Lizpixie And I remembered to do the #WGWordSearch which was 2,900 of those points!🙌🙌🙌 3y

PuddleJumper @Lizpixie 🤩 That's awesome! 3y

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TheSpineView Great job! 3y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3y

Jadams89 🎉🎄👍🏻🎅🏻🎁 3y

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Finale (Caraval, #3) | Stephanie Garber

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I'm glad to be finished with the series. This very well could be an unpopular opinion, but overall the series dragged and the descriptive language meant to evoke whimsy & wonder grated my nerves. Finale has less of the weird similes, but a few still made it in. This is another book where the Dragna sisters are in a game, or aren't they? Don't believe anything, except this one time, numerous times. It felt like there were too many characters ⬇️

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick this time around, which made it lose a bit of the charm of the first book. This book had both sister's POV chapters, which definitely helped. It's not awful, but I could probably gripe a lot more than compliment. A mild spoiler below. 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick How many times can these girls be that stupid and how many times can the reader expect to enjoy them getting hurt and duped?! Maybe I'm more sensitive to this being older, but it just felt like they needed legit wins, not all with the help of guys. 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick +1036 points 6 hours on 16 RATs and 3 hours on 2 others.#wintergames2020 #wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick And 3 hours during #taylorswiftplaylistathon #hemispheregames 4y

Traci1 How terrible is it that I don't remember if I've read the first one of these? I I did, but I am not sure. 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Traci1 It wasn't all that memorable. I was active with the BookCon app for a few years and many of them were huge YA fans. They raved about these and I'm totally underwhelmed by each one. (Probably why I own them all). I'm glad I found Litsy. 4y

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! This series has been on my TBR forever but I never seem to get around to it. Maybe I never will 😂 4y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheAromaofBooks This very well could be a case of me being a grump. If you're interested, I can send them to you. 4y

TheAromaofBooks haha I never turn down books from my list, so you are welcome to send them my way - although I still don't know when I read them!! 😂 4y

TheSpineView I read the first book in the series. It was Ok but I never felt the urge to the the next one. 4y

Andrew65 Brilliant progress 👏👏👏 Shame this one wasn‘t better. 4y

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A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens

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This was my first time reading this book and I really enjoyed it. The narrator was engaging and the story moved on at a good pace. As someone who watches The Muppets version annually, it was fun to know that the "...who did NOT die" line isn't a Grover exclusive.

+651 points for Team Read plus 3 hours, 20 RATs

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick #CrushTheRush #readyourway @thespineview #averymerrybingo @jadams1776 #festiveflicks @traci1 #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks #littenlisten @aperfectmjk #bookmasbingo @midnightbookgirl #christmasspiritRAT #TheLegendayRAT #NutcrackerRAT #merrybookmasRAT #ReindeerRAT #cosyathon #travelathon #winterathon #acrosticathon #hemispheregames #tisthereadson #clearurshit #taylorswiftplaylistathon
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TheAromaofBooks Yes!! And I'm always surprised about how faithful of an interpretation the Muppets version actually is - they literally quote huge swaths of the book! 😂 4y

TheSpineView 🤩📖📚 4y

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Death on the Nile: Hercule Poirot Investigates | Agatha Christie