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Hello #SheSaid!

I‘m really enjoying this book so far, not much overlap with her previous book, but the talk about matriarchs, carrying on the traditions over multiple generations, ties to & fighting for the land, the continuing line despite it all, the people that we lean on & in turn become the ones approached to lean on, all feel very solid & centering to me this week. Terrible things happen to people & a people, but humans & families carry on.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @willaful ⤵️ 7d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know. 😉 7d

Lindy Becoming a Matriarch is a finalist for Canada‘s GG awards. The winners will be announced on November 13th. 🏆 7d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Again if anyone could not get it in the US, please respond to the form below and we can mail my copy around the US to read. 7d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa https://forms.gle/LkJaSPSGwGjo97RN9 7d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott

Hello #SheSaid!

My book has arrived, so the schedule is up and ready to go!

Singout My audiobook will be available in a week: I‘ll be a bit behind. 2w

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DebinHawaii

Spooky Season | Jessie Haas

I failed to read as much as I wanted or complete all of my books & challenges for October & #HauntedShelf but I did manage to finish some & read/listened to 15 books + 1 children‘s book & 2 stories.

I still need to do reviews but I finished for #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #ChildrensClassicRead2024 #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies 3 for #SeasonalCozies #SeriesLive my 3 #Roll100 books but no #CastTheDie
Starting fresh for November & working on my #TBR

AnnCrystal 📚👏🥳👍🙏💝. 2w

TheSpineView Great job! 2w

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2w

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TheAromaofBooks

Spin of Fate | A. A. Vora

Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is TWELVE! Our official #DoubleSpin number is ONE!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone‘s lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card. I am NOT tagging anyone on that post!! If you want to bingo, please just check my profile for the card. This saves me having to double tag ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont‘d) everyone/keep track of who wants to bingo and who doesn‘t!!

I use the same tag list for the entire year, so if you would like to be added or removed, please just let me know. It takes me a while to tag everyone (there are over 200 of you!!!) so I will add “FINISHED” to the last tag batch so you know whether or not I missed you. If I did, it was completely inadvertent. Sometimes I just spell someone‘s username wrong. ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) As always, the link to the masterpost about how this challenge works can be found on my profile or here - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com/bookspin-bookspinbingo-litsy-challenge/ - and the link to the Google Form where you can track your reads for the end-of-the-year-giveaway can be found here - https://forms.gle/4kTBMWAsCa9Cvmqs6

Thanks for playing, everyone!! Please know that I read EVERY comment on this post but don't always ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) have time to reply to them all!! Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm and for making this challenge SO much fun!!

I'm going to post the Bingo board, and then come back and start the tag list on this post. Happy reading!!!
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TheAromaofBooks That is everyone I have on my tag list, so if you didn't get tagged and would like to be added, please let me know!! Happy reading, everyone!! 2w

Soubhiville Yay! I‘ll be reading How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons (poetry! Haven‘t done that in a long time!) and a reread of one of my favorites- The Starless Sea! Thank you Sarah! 🙂📚 2w

bekakins This is amazing, in a happy coincidence I had just started reading number 12 on my list anyway! 😁 2w

Lcsmcat I‘ll be reading Sea Runners (Doig) and Trying to Save Piggy Snead (Irving). 2w

Suet624 It's time for me to come up with a whole new list. I've been slacking because I didn't want to read the books I had selected! :) 2w

Julsmarshall Woohoo! Finished my #1 yesterday on a long drive while traveling for work. Great way to kick things off! Thanks for organizing this, it has made me really look forward to the 2nd of every month! 2w

GinaKButler Woo-hoo!! I got

The Thorn Birds

Singout Also our #SheSaid book,

Becoming a Matriarch

bookandbedandtea Good morning, Sarah. Yay for #BookSpin day! 2w

AmyG

Things We Lost in the Fire

claudiuo Indeed what I was waiting for 🎉 Thank you so much! 2w

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DieAReader I‘m gonna skip this month & next to try catching up lol😂 2w

dabbe Thank you! #yourock 🤎🍁🧡 2w

willaful Oooo.... two toughies for me this month! But both in my #10BeforeTheEnd list, so that's excellent. 2w

Sace I‘ve got a week off for Thanksgiving so I‘m hoping for lots of reading time this month! 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Looks like I need to prioritize A Series of Unfortunate Events #12 The Penultimate Peril and the tagged that I've wanted to get to for years.

Elizabeth Is Missing

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vlwelser

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial | Mona CHOLLET

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French take on the patriarchy and how we got here. It's interesting.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Becoming a Matriarch | Helen Knott

Hello #SheSaid

This is supposed to be our next read, but I‘m having a difficult time getting a copy here in the US. Is anyone else having issues?

staci.reads Yes, all I can find is a $23 dollar paperback from a 3rd party seller on Amazon, and I don't want to go that route for a couple reasons. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Even on eBay I can only find shipped from England, Canada, or Australia 🤷‍♀️ 2w

Suet624 Looks really good. Bummer it‘s hard to find. 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Suet624 I thought so too, that‘s why I was wondering if anyone else was having issues too 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @staci.reads I‘m going to order from them, the payment still goes through Amazon and they are located in Canada, so probably why they needed to go 3rd party seller. I‘ll let you know how I make out 2w

MallenNC I only saw it on Amazon for $38 which isn‘t reasonable and I see it on Blackwell‘s site from the UK for $12 (shipping included) but the shipping time probably would not work for our purposes. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa It‘s very odd to me that it‘s won some awards, and that her first memoir is available everywhere, but this one is so difficult to get in the US. 2w

TheKidUpstairs I'm not sure what shipping costs are, but if you want to order it but not use Amazon, I think GoodMinds.com ships to the US. (GoodMinds is a FirstNations owned and operated online book store here in Ontario) 2w

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AllDebooks

Bright I Burn | Molly Aitken

I really enjoyed this #AtoZReadathon challenge, just 4 away from a full set! I'll tag my reads in the comments. It's been a great month with some fantastic reads. Thank you for hosting @Texreader

AllDebooks #LetterA

A Haunting in the Arctic

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AllDebooks #LetterD So good

Dark Matter: A Ghost Story

AllDebooks #LetterE ☹️ 2w

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Hex: Darkland Tales

AllDebooks #LetterG ☹️ 2w

AllDebooks #LetterH #Naturalitsy

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Roots to Leaves

AllDebooks #LetterI #SheSaid

In Defence of Witches: Why women are still on trial

AllDebooks #LetterJ

The Night Animals

AllDebooks #LetterK #BookedinTime prompt - Ancient Egypt

The Woman Who Would be King

AllDebooks #LetterL

Lanny: A Novel

AllDebooks #LetterM A favourite of the month

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

AllDebooks #LetterN #VirginiaBloomsberries

Night and Day

AllDebooks #LetterO

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

AllDebooks #LetterP

The Place of Tides

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Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen

AllDebooks #LetterR

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville

AllDebooks #LetterS #AuthorAMonth Tana French

The Searcher

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Tyll

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Vesper Flights

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The Clocks in This House All Tell Different Times

AllDebooks #LetterY

You Like It Darker: Stories

AllDebooks #LetterZ Just WOW 👌

Mischief Acts

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial | Mona CHOLLET

Hello #SheSaid!

I hope you are having a good week! See you in the comments…

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know. 😉 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa This section fit in fairly well with the book on medicine we read earlier this year… but the ties into the environmental movements, and capitalism and the draining the land of all resources, wrestling it into submission I thought was a very interesting connection. Witches still are accused of bad weather in movies & tv..nature‘s forces…makes me wonder if we will see an even bigger backlash as environmental disasters get worse 😬 3w

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vlwelser The medicine stuff definitely aligned with books we read previously. I thought this book was good if only because it gave a different non-English speaking perspective. Her sources are a bit different even if she does use some classics like Rich and Steinem 3w

Bookwormjillk @vlwelser I agree it was good to get a non-English perspective. This book didn‘t wow me, but I‘m glad I read it. 3w

MallenNC I think this may have been a little too academic for my brain at the moment but I did enjoy the variety of sources she referenced. Based on the title I thought there‘d be more historical witches though. 3w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial | Mona CHOLLET

Hello #SheSaid!

I hope everyone is having a good week.

Just a reminder if you have not seen it yet to check out our other post to nominate books to read next year. I‘d like to get the survey out soon, so nominate before the end of the month.

See you in the comments for this weeks section:

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know. 🎃 4w

CatLass007 I can‘t seem to find the post asking for nominations. I already may have seen it and even nominated something but I don‘t remember. 4w

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Bookwormjillk I‘m finally catching up on this one! It‘s an interesting book. 4w

JenlovesJT47 I‘m really behind, just started this yesterday 😳 4w

MallenNC I‘m behind but I jumped ahead to this week‘s section (I‘ll go back to catch up). There wasn‘t anything really surprising in this section— as a woman I‘m well aware of the unfair aging standards! It made me mad to read it all together. I liked her examples from real life and the arts. 4w

MallenNC I put several suggestions on your other posts. A lot of them are books that I‘ve had on my TBR so I‘m hoping some get picked so I finally read them! 4w

vlwelser I also added a bunch from my tbr. I tried to pick women's issues but some are history and memoir. Hopefully I remember to vote for them 😂 4w

vlwelser This book is interesting especially from a French perspective since we usually get UK and US mostly. I think the French do better than the US with the aging thing but they also struggle. We're just way far behind. 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser I like added other non-fiction books myself, it‘s still a perspective on anything from the not usual male pov, even if it‘s about the environment or politics or anything. 4w

vlwelser Perfect. Hopefully we'll get a good mix. 4w

CatLass007 When I was in the fourth or fifth grade my grandmother moved in with my family. It didn‘t take long for me to decide that getting old was the worst thing that could ever happen to a person. I remember riding bikes with my friends and telling them that I wasn‘t going to get older than 55. They asked how I was going to manage that and my answer was, “I‘ll just off myself.” I was eleven. When I was 50, I joined the Senior Citizens (cont)⬇️ 4w

CatLass007 Center and somehow a conversation about aging began and I told them about my plan as an eleven year old. I told them I‘d decided to raise my expiration date. I‘m 62 now, more aches and pains than I could have imagined as an eleven year old. The orthopod wants to replace my left knee but I‘ve been putting it off for a few years. Not much gray hair, just like Mom. And as I was listening to this chapter about celebrities going gray I kept (cont)⬇️ 4w

CatLass007 thinking about Andie McDowell and her gorgeous gray locks. And Jamie Lee Curtis, what a knockout. Back in the early 80s Joan Collins posed for Playboy. I was in college and not thinking that I hoped I looked half that good when I was her age. I was wishing I looked that good THEN. Ageism is a crazy thing. 4w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @CatLass007 it really is and attitude and morale make such a huge difference 4w

CatLass007 My grandmother was manic-depressive and her behaviors that I often attributed to her age may have been due to her illness. I grew up with two parents telling me what to do and all of a sudden here was a third person giving me orders. Between the conflicting signals from the three adults in my house and the even more conflicting messages from the nuns… I don‘t think I stood a chance. 4w

Singout I was the one who nominated this book, but then read it really early, so haven‘t been commenting. I think it‘s excellent and really tackles the issues around aging and independence stigmas well. If you scroll back to earlier in the year in my feed, you can find some of my favourite quotes! 2w

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DebinHawaii

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial | Mona CHOLLET

#WickedWhispers

A non-fiction #Witch book that I am reading for #SheSaid this month. So far interesting & feminist—I‘m identifying with a lot of it.

It‘s on my #HauntedShelf #TBR & although it has some lovely purple on the cover, I‘m going to use it for the #Grey prompt on the #BookScavengerHunt list.

Team #Flerken

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🖤🧡🖤 1mo

TEArificbooks This also works for #witchathon for more #hauntedshelf points. 1mo

Eggs Sounds really good👍🏼 (edited) 1mo

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