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What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust | Alan Bradley

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Flavia de Luce cozy mystery fans, rejoice—book 11 has arrived! Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#what-time-the-sextons-spade-doth-rus...

Publication day is September 3.

#NetGalley #RandomHousePublishingGroup #Ballantine #Bantam #WhatTimetheSextonsSpadeDothRust

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Vanity Fair | William Thackeray

Ch 14-15: #what #just #happened #drama #georgeisapig 🐷 #beckyisscammingeveryone #poorladycrawleydies #soobviouslypittproposestobecky #but #shes #married #already #WUT 🤯 #icantevenrightnow #staytuned #pemberlittens #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @staycurious @indoordame @morr_books @cuilin @mcctrish @thebookhippie @allylu @bookwormjillk @julieclair @ruthiella @deblovestoread @eeclayton @dabbe @willaful @rubyslippersreads @librarybelle @covertocovergirl @bklover @riveted_reader_melissa @jamiearc @kwmg40 @thearomaofbooks @daisey @samanne @ann_reads @wordslinger42 1y

IndoorDame #biggestcliffhangerever 🤯🤯🤯 1y

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame I legit squealed 1y

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TheBookHippie #WHATISGOINGON 🫣🤯 1y

IndoorDame @BarkingMadRead gasped over here. But I do my CAD reading in the morning and am always trying not to wake the neighboring apartments with yelling and book throwing. Frequent struggle! 1y

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame 😂 1y

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame 🤣🤣🤣🤣 me at Panera every week 🤣🤣🤣🤣 1y

Daisey I absolutely had a moment when I listened to this! I barely managed to stop myself from getting ahead. 1y

Bookwormjillk D__d 🍌👖. I was settling in for a good harangue about gambling and then Becky drops that little bombshell. 1y

Bookwormjillk @IndoorDame 🤣🤣🤣 1y

mcctrish This was an INSANE 2 chapters!!! First off, George is garbage!! It was bad enough his sisters were mean to Amelia, now his dad says she‘s isn‘t good enough for him AND he‘s a self absorbed douchebag?! 🤬🤬 then as soon as I realize Mrs Pitt is in her deathbed I‘m thinking #dearlordnottheoldmanproposingmarriage and then he does?! 🤯 but Becky is already married? Is this for real?! 1y

TheAromaofBooks I was mind blown!!!! I actually think Becky would have done great as Sir Pitt's wife - she would have ruled the roost, bossed him around, and made sure she inherited everything when he died 😂 But WHAT EVEN!!! I was not expecting that plot twist!!!! 1y

dabbe Becky being married is one of the best cliffhangers ever! Didn't Thackeray publish this as a serial? What would we have done back then if we had to wait a WHOLE MONTH for the next installment? #gobsmacked I also loved how Becky took down good ol' George. She put the “sarc“ in sarcastic! 🤣 1y

AnnR @Dabbe That's a great point about it being published as a serial. The zingers Thackery sticks in some 'chapters' would definitely bring reader(s) back for more. They must have felt impatient waiting for the next installment but it also sounds fun. 1y

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What the Fireflies Knew | Kai Harris

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1.66⭐ This coming-of-age story didn‘t live up to my expectations of a book compared to Sue Monk Kidd‘s The Secret Life of Bees. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#what-the-fireflies-knew

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Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir

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Holy shit that ending #what #nosrslyWHAT #tamsynmuir #gideontheninth

Gideon better be in the second book ms Muir!!!!

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Kenyazero

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien

That awkward moment when the whole party fails their insight checks and a horse thief joins them. #dnd #critfail #dongeonsanddragons #what? #fantasy #backgroundcharacter

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mcctrish

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing | Marie Kondo

I started reading this book 3 YEARS ago! When I got to the chapter “Books to keep” I put it down. I couldn‘t skip past it but I knew whatever she had to say would be crap. I. Was. Right. She ripped pages out of books to keep phrases, sentences, paragraphs that moved her? If the whole book didn‘t bring her joy give it to someone else. I know I‘m fixating but honestly WTF. I‘m the one who will be crushed to death by my tbr pile. Happily.

BookishMarginalia I agree. That is crap advice. 6y

BridgetteM My jaw is on the floor. What?!!! 😮😤 6y

Chelleo What a waste. She could just have easily taken a photo of the pages and gave the book away to someone who could enjoy it. This method ruins it for others. (edited) 6y

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blank I find her whole obsessive organizing lifestyle disturbing. Why can't I have things? Why can't things be a little messy sometimes? Let me live my life! 6y

KathyWheeler I also have a problem with her statement that the moment you first encounter a book is the right time to read. Sometimes it really isn‘t; sometimes the right time for you to read that book is years after you first encounter it. 6y

OrangeMooseReads That is a complete waste. She could have just typed them out and donated the books. (edited) 6y

mcctrish @BookishMarginalia I can‘t believe the surge in craziness about this book, like I said I started it 3 years ago and then hit a road block 6y

mcctrish @BridgetteM I wasn‘t expecting it at all 6y

mcctrish @Chelleo she starts with writing down her favourite passages in a notebook “40 books and that is too much work” then she is going to photocopy, again too much work ( #what), then it‘s ripping and gluing and again to much work so just rip and file. Honestly why does she have anything at all 6y

mcctrish @laurenslibrary she says at one point, something to the point of “when I was pursuing perfection in the field of tidying” and alarm bells went off for me. 6y

mcctrish @KathyWheeler I totally agree! When you read a book is sometimes more important than how ‘great‘ the book is 6y

mcctrish @OrangeMooseReads first she tried writing them copying, apparently copying was even more work 🤦🏻‍♀️ I can‘t even 6y

LoverofLit Sorcery! 6y

mcctrish @LoverofLit I guess with the Netflix series this has been coming up more and more. MK is qualifying her choices with the climate in Japan as very humid so books are easily wrecked by the excessive moisture and books are not as important to her as they could be to someone else. Obviously 6y

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GingerAntics

Middlemarch (Revised) | George Eliot

What does this even mean?!
#georgeeliot #middlemarch #what

Bklover ?!?!?! 6y

GingerAntics @Bklover there isn‘t an emoji for the gesture/face I‘m making right now. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 6y

Bklover I‘m impressed you‘re tackling this one. I‘ve had it for years, and it just keeps hanging out on my bookshelf! 6y

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GingerAntics @Bklover lol I recently read a memoir about a woman who adores this book. It was actually pretty good. I knew if I was going to make this happen I was going to have to do it sooner than later. I got in the wait list for the audiobook and now here I am. So much strange theology happening here. It actually seems to give it a bit of a darkness. It just mentioned treading on a puppy!!! 6y

Bklover That‘s interesting- I didn‘t realize it was a bit dark- just thought looooong! 6y

GingerAntics @Bklover where the character takes her thoughts on religion and theology is a bit dark. It‘s definitely long. I‘m going to give this book a few days, but I‘m not sure I‘m going to make it with this book. 6y

Bklover I started it right when I bought it ages ago and just couldn‘t do it. I replaced it with The Count of Monte Cristo, which was long too but way more fun!!! 6y

GingerAntics @Bklover it seems to be prattling about every little thing...it‘s almost a random stream of consciousness, but not about anything interesting. It randomly broke into Spanish at the beginning of chapter 2. I don‘t particularly like the main character. I‘m on the wait list for Count of Monte Christo. If that comes in right now, I‘m don‘t with this one. lol That one is much better. 6y

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GingerAntics

Unlikely Spy | Sarah Woodbury

WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WILLIS?!

WHAT?! WHAT IS THIS?! YOU CAN‘T JUST LEAVE IT THERE!!! GAH!!!

#theunlikelyspy #sarahwoodbury #cliffhanger #wtf #what