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MatchlessMarie
People Die | Kevin Wignall
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Mehso-so

This book has been on my shelf forever. It was a so so read for me. As the title suggests there is a lot of killing in this book. The main character it a hitman who unwittingly is called to do a job outside of protocol and chaos ensues. Ended up being a read AND donate. I dropped it off at a little free library near me and swapped it for this Encyclopedia Brown book. #ReadOrDonate #EBBR #ISpyBingo

Ruthiella Great find! I love it when the FLL delivers like that. 😃 21h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11h
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LiseWorks
Seduction in Death | Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb
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Pickpick

This was another great installment in this series. Eve knew who had done it and just had to get evidence. We see inside the killer's mond in this one. #SeriesLove25 #Read2025
I'm so disappointed that there were no #ISpyBingo spots o this book. @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @DieAReader

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1d
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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @TheAromaofBooks

Here are July‘s prompts and the #ISpyBingo board. Anyone can play. These items can be found on the front cover, back cover or spine of the book. You can try to get them all in a month, or keep this board in play for longer, whatever works for you. See @TheAromaofBooks ‘s original post for links to all the 2025 boards and the Storygraph challenge.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Thank you for reposting!! 4d
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willaful
Mr. Fox's Game of "No!" | David LaRochelle
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Cute interactive book along the lines of “The Monster at the End of this Book.“ Though do you really want to train your child to say “no“ to everything? 😂

#ISpyBingo Negative word

LiseWorks Look at you go. 6d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5d
willaful @LiseWorks I have books for both sock and polka dot, but I doubt I'll manage to get to them in time. Ahh well. 5d
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Lauredhel
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Mehso-so

Gorgeous cover, cute title, liked the mooncake contest storyline idea. The rest was just meh. Theo was a dick, and there was no chemistry between them. Took me ages to read because I kept falling asleep a few pages after picking it up.

I did get the #Autumn prompt for #LGBTQIA2025 @Kenyazero - one to go! As well as Cake, finishing March for #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 6d
ravenlee Wow! If you need a book with asexual rep, the FMC in this one is on the ace spectrum and one of the secondary characters is also ace: 6d
Lauredhel @ravenlee thanks, I found six in my TBR already! Have you read Role Playing? Also ace spec (but a M-F romance) and one of my faves 6d
ravenlee Ooh, that looks good! And…apparently it‘s already on my TBR! 🤣 Someday I will whittle it down… 6d
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TheAromaofBooks
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Mehso-so

This is one of those weird books that I like less every time I read it. When I first read it ~age 11, I loved it: Black Beauty except a dog! But subsequent rereads as an adult have made me look at this book a little more critically. My main complaint is that there isn't actually a story. In BB, we have a clear linear story, from birth to final home. But Joe is just a collection of random sermonettes against animal cruelty. I think that as a child⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) I had more to learn about the concept of cruelty through carelessness - you don't have to hit your dog with a stick to mistreat him. But as an adult, I found this book much preachier than I remembered, and I definitely wanted more story. The book was choppy and abrupt, with some chapters feeling very unnecessary or shoehorned in just to get another specific lesson checked off the list. I can see why it was popular when it was published, ⬇ 1w
TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) and Joe is a likable narrator, but as a more critical reader than I was as a child, I find this book to be lacking, well, soul. There just isn't a real connection between the reader and any of the characters, including Joe, who ends up just feeling like a mouthpiece for Saunders's lessons. Despite being a well-loved book when I was growing up, I actually don't see myself rereading this one again. 1w
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TheAromaofBooks PS Beautiful Joe did not specifically address whether forcing your pet to pose with a book is animal cruelty, but I think Waylon may have thoughts 😂 1w
PuddleJumper 🐕🐕 1w
rubyslippersreads I ❤️ everything about this photo. 🐶 1w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w
AnnCrystal 😍💕🐕🐾💝. 1w
BarbaraJean I agree with all of this and since I still haven't reviewed it yet, maybe I can just refer people to your review, minus the Black Beauty/re-read context since this was my first read and I haven't read BB yet 😆 And I LOVE your book styling choices here (even if your dog does not love said choices) 😂 😂 1w
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TheAromaofBooks
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Bwahaha here I am actually remembering to post the new #ISpyBingo board in a timely manner! Miracle!!

Anyway, here are July's prompts. As a reminder, anyone can play. These items can be found on the front cover, back cover, or spine of the book. You can try to get them all in a month, or keep this board in play for longer, whatever works for you!! I personally have been adding a new board every month but plan to give myself a year to clear each ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) one, so I'll be playing this one from July 2025 to the end of June 2026 (theoretically haha)

If you want to see all the 2025 boards they can be found here - https://www.canva.com/design/DAGVO4NctsY/-lGsmflP3sUW9FsAung8hg/view?utm_content...

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TheAromaofBooks And if you want to track the prompts on Storygraph, they can be found here - https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/85a6eb78-a914-4e84-a200-9073f75... (I have the challenge set to run through December 31, 2026)

Feel free to let me know if you have questions, or if you'd like to be added to the list of people I tag with each month's board!!
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LiseWorks It's July already? Love the #ISpyBingos 1w
julieclair I downloaded all 12 boards in January, and have been working on them all at the same time. I‘m wondering which one will be my first coverall! 7d
TheAromaofBooks @julieclair - That's what I did last year, but then it was a little crazy at the beginning of the year checking off a jillion prompts, and then by the end of the year I was just looking for a handful of weird ones. So it's been kind of fun starting a new one each month. I still haven't cleared any of them, although I only have one prompt left in January. (Handcuffs?? What was I thinking?! 😂) 6d
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks I must admit I loved checking off a jillion prompts at the beginning of the year! 😆 January is my best month so far, too, but even so, I still have 7 empty spaces. One of which is handcuffs (yep… what were you thinking🤣 I have visions of myself in December, having no time for holiday festivities because I‘m running around looking for a book with handcuffs on the cover! 😂😂😂 6d
TheAromaofBooks @julieclair - Your Christmas wishlist is composed of one item: ANY book with handcuffs on the cover 😂 5d
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks 😂😂😂🎄 3d
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TheAromaofBooks
The mystery of the old violin | Augusta Huiell Seaman, William Hutchinson (Printer)
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Pickpick

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.

TheAromaofBooks #100YearsofBooks
#Pantone2025 - Curds & Whey @lauredhel
#Roll100 #GottaCatchEmAll (Instrument on Cover) @PuddleJumper
#ISpyBingo - Instrument - not guitar or piano
#BookChain
#Read2025 - 35/100 TBR books read @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo
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AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2w
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2w
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Lauredhel
Don't Cause Trouble | Arree Chung
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Cute MG graphic novel with a bit more going on below the surface.

And with scissors on the cover, that's February done! #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks

Four grids are fully completed; 15 prompts to go.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fabulous progress!! 2w
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Read4life
Untitled | Untitled
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PuddleJumper 🙌🙌 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 3w
TheSpineView Enjoy! 🤩📖 3w
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