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Joined April 2016

WORDS IN THE HEART CAN NOT BE TAKEN. ~ Sir Terry Pratchett, “Feet of Clay”
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RushAThon | Readathon
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It‘s that time of year again! No hard goals here, just vibes. Read what you want, when you want, and share something that brings you joy or makes you smile!

Let us share a little warmth and light during the darkest and coldest times of the year.
✨❤️✨

#Adventathon December 1st - 24th

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#WeeklyForecast

Let‘s see what I can get done before December! 😅

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My parents both contracted COVID for the 4th over the past week, so I feel pretty good that I still managed to finish two books. 😅

Ruthiella Oh dear! I hope they have mild cases and recover quickly! ❤️ 3d
willaful How stressful! I hope they're okay. 3d
AmyG Yikes. I hope they are better soon. 2d
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BookmarkTavern @Ruthiella @willaful @AmyG Thank you! They‘re both doing much better now. ❤️ 2d
AnnCrystal Oh! Fourth catching of covid?? How scary. May they feel better soon. 2d
AnnCrystal Oh! Fourth catching of covid?? How scary. May they feel better soon. 2d
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System Collapse | Martha Wells
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Murderbot‘s life continues to be difficult when its humans decide to try & rescue a group of colonists from being conscripted by a corporation, all while it‘s trying to deal with it‘s own PTSD.

Murderbot, my beloved. Another fantastic story tying together Murderbot‘s snark, reluctant bonds with ART & Preservation, the power of stories, & the need for support systems when dealing with trauma. I recommend rereading Network Effect before.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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Nanny Ogg's Cookbook | Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan
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I‘d love to see any kind of fandom related cookbook. It would show we have at least two things in common. A strong interest in cooking, and a passion for our fandoms, even if we don‘t share specific interests.

#SundayFunday We‘ve finally started to get snow, so I hope you‘re staying warm today, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

vonnie862 I love Fandom cookbooks! 3d
Nelnjali Oh, that's a fun idea. I already have a partner, but when I was dating, fandom cookbooks would have definitely gotten my attention. I love to cook and would love the common interest. My partner and I actually first bonded over books and our mutual love of many of the same video games. :) 3d
BookmarkTavern @Nelnjali That‘s very sweet! 💕 3d
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Legendborn | Tracy Deonn
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When Bree learns there may be more to her mother‘s death & of the existence of a secret society of reborn Arthurian knights, everything she knew comes into question.

I really loved this. The twining together of Arthurian myths & an examination of past & present racism in the US & grief & self discovery was so well done. I‘m less a fan of cliffhanger endings & a very quick romance, but I‘m so excited for the second one! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern General warning for grief for death of a mother and racism, Chapter 26 deals with the aftermath of a whipping 4d
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I really need to carve out some time so I can sit down and finish my #LMPBC book. I‘ve been almost done for over a week, but work is busting my butt right now. 😂

WaterVixxen Did you finish legendborn? 5d
BookmarkTavern @WaterVixxen I‘ve got like 30 pages left. 😅😅 5d
WaterVixxen @BookmarkTavern did you enjoy it? I just ordered it. 5d
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Finished some good audiobooks this week! ❤️

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Did you watch The Good Place & find yourself thinking, “gosh, I wish they talked even more about moral philosophy on this show”? Then boy do I have the book for you.

Don‘t expect a book about the show. Instead, this was an easily digestible & laugh out loud funny introduction to a bunch of philosophies on how & why to be a good person. The addition of the cast from the show was a delight, & I found myself wanting to explore even more. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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BookmarkTavern Chapter 10, This Sandwich is Morally Problematic deals with discussion of the accusations against Woody Allen 1w
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I am forever going to be grateful for Lindy West, and specifically this book. It‘s helped me open so many conversations with family members that I otherwise wouldn‘t have had the courage to start. ❤️

#SundayFunday I hope you‘re all healthy and happy, and don‘t forget to tag me!

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The Winter Knight | Jes Battis
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Myths can be rewritten. As Wayne learns when a mysterious force begins killing off modern knights. He must work with a Valkyrie, a monster, and a rune smith to stop it.

This was a really interesting twist on Arthurian legend! Urban fantasy & a diverse cast, which I loved. Really loose world building, a too quick romance, & pacing that was all over the place, which I enjoyed less. But once I got to the last 1/4 I was in! 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

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#AudioMending

Not quite as much about the show as I would have liked, but this is definitely a fun listen.

TieDyeDude Yeah, rather than a behind-the-scenes for the show, it is more of an exploration of some of the philosophies mentioned in the show or used as the basis of some episodes. I found it interesting and entertaining, but there is a The Good Place podcast if you're looking for more about the making of the show. 2w
peanutnine @TieDyeDude The Good Place podcast is so good!! I loved the detail they went into and the many guests 😍 2w
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❄️It‘s beginning to look a lot like Christmas ❄️

Not quite yet, but we are quickly approaching my second favorite time of the year! And that also means it‘s time for #WinterGames2023 !

Get together your chilly reads, your warm drinks, and your coziest of blankets, and let‘s get through the longest nights of the year together!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmlwTZhimnpp8m1oEETyMCIsDbgBK3JwuKu0TD...

Clwojick Thanks for sharing! 2w
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Saint Juniper's Folly | Alex Crespo
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Secrets & selves will all be discovered when three teens become friends because of a haunted house in the middle of the woods, & the ghost who won‘t let one of them leave.

Is cozy horror a thing? Because I kind of feel like this is that. This was a charming little story about found family, self discovery, & a very creepy house & twister ghost. The romance felt a bit rushed, & the ending felt abrupt, but the narration was all on point! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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BookmarkTavern General warning that all of Taylor‘s POV chapters deal with her grief over the loss of her mother 2w
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This last week has been a little rough, so I‘m really hoping to get back into the swing of things this week! There‘s so many holiday swaps and challenges to sign up for! ❤️🎄❤️

jitteryjane724 Oh my goodness Brian Jacques!! Takes me back to my Redwall days...what an adventure 🤎💚 2w
BookmarkTavern @jitteryjane724 it‘s my second to last Redwall book. I‘m excited and a little sad. ❤️ 2w
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Not a great week for finishing anything, but I am enjoying all three books!

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I set myself a number goal, just as a bar to reach for. But more specifically, I want to give a huge shoutout to @TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo and @PuddleJumper #Roll100 challenges on Litsy!

Both of these have helped me enormously with working on my more important goals of reading all the books I already own! I have loved rediscovering books I bought years ago. 💖

#SundayFunday Hope your have a marvelous day, and don‘t forget to tag me!

tpixie Yes! While I didn‘t really follow @PuddleJumper ‘s rules, I did grab random books off my shelf this year- and my goal was to read more books on my own bookshelf that been waiting for me! (edited) 2w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! I love seeing how people make #BookSpinBingo work for them!!! 2w
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Board to Death | CJ Connor
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What a perfect time for Book Riot‘s Plan a Perfect Fall Day Quiz!

https://bookriot.com/autumnal-book-recommendation-quiz/

#BookRiotQuiz #QuizRecommendations

Hooked_on_books We must have similar fall plans, since I got the same book! Fun quiz. 3w
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A Power Unbound | Freya Marske
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I love delayed birthday presents! 😂😂

And now I‘m ready to do a reread of The Locked Tomb when Alecto is FINALLY announced! 😅

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The Sable Quean is my penultimate Redwall book, and I‘m both really excited and kind of sad about it.

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Ah! I loved Dark Descent and Innocent Sleep both so much!

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Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

My sisters recommended that I read this whole trilogy after we saw the first movie, and I was surprised by how much I liked them. The way the books dealt with the choices and consequences of a revolution felt so real and grounded.

#SundayFunday Have a great day, and don‘t forget to tag me!

ChaoticMissAdventures Such a great series. I loved the movie too and cannot help but read the poem in his voice and cadence. 3w
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November #bingoboard time!

#BookSpin Father Christmas‘s Fake Beard, #DoubleSpin NetGalley ARC

#OokBOokClub Father Christmas‘s Fake Beard

#LitsySciFiBookClub The Terraformers

#WhimsicalReads A Deadly Education

#Roll100 The Sable Quean, The House of the Wind, Yes, Please

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Final point total of the second half of #Scarathlon2023 ?

9,656!

Didn‘t quite make it to 10,000 but I got close! Thank you to @Clwojick and @StayCurious for hosting again! And a ton of thanks to my fellow Hexes for a wonderful time and so many new books to read! #HHC @dabbe, @Clwojick, @Liatrek, @JessClark78, @Chrissyreadit, @StayCurious, @TheDaysGoBy, @vonnie862, @LadyCait84, @Sresendez12, @Nessavamusic, @kelli7990, @JessieKB

LadyCait84 That‘s so many points!!! Go you!!! 🧡 4w
Chrissyreadit 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 4w
dabbe That's a grand total of 18713! #woohooyou! Thanks for being such a witchy part of our fab group! 💜🖤🧡 4w
Clwojick Amazing! Well done! 💖🦇 4w
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Goodness! October‘s #MonthlyRoundup looks so good! I finished so many books! Yay! Can‘t wait to see what November brings!

MissyD Which app do you use? I love the bookshelf look of this 4w
BookmarkTavern @MissyD I use an iOS app called GoDaddy Studios! And I used a blank bookshelf picture I found on Google images! 4w
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The Innocent Sleep | Seanan McGuire
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Tybalt usually leaves the questing to October. Unfortunately, she‘s vanished & Titania has rewritten the world to suit her own desires. It‘s up to him to find what allies he can & save the world before Titania makes her spell permanent.

Did I stay up too late to finish this? YES. Am I going to regret this later? Also yes. But I enjoyed every minute of Tybalt‘s snarky, reluctant questing. & I adored seeing his POV of characters we know. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern Featuring my own little Queen of Cats. #Lucygirl #CatsofLitsy CW 👇🏻 (edited) 4w
BookmarkTavern The novella Doubtless and Secure has off page child death 4w
RaeLovesToRead Hi Lucy 👋🏻😊 4w
dabbe Hello there, Lovely Lucy! 🖤🐾🖤 4w
Jari-chan Fluffy kitty! 😻 4w
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It‘s time for November! A chill in the air, leaves on the ground! It‘s fall!

#BookSpinBingo

willaful Also hoping to read A Power Unbound this month. 1mo
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Legendborn | Tracy Deonn
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I‘ve got two Arthurian options and one Greek! Any of these look interesting to you? @mrsmarch @5feet.of.fury

#LMPBC #GroupG

5feet.of.fury Good with any, but Legendborn in particular I have had my eye on! 1mo
mrsmarch I‘ve recently read Pandora‘s Jar, it was good! Of these three I would choose 1mo
willaful Just butting in to say Legendborn is excellent! 1mo
BookmarkTavern @5feet.of.fury @mrsmarch Legendborn it is! 💙 @willaful That‘s excellent to know! (edited) 1mo
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LibraryThing as a library service | Aina Manso Santolaria
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I just wanted to share that thanks to @CloakNQuill and the #HauntedHollowSwap , I am officially over 1000 books in #LibraryThing ! 🖤🧡🖤

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@CloakNQuill They arrived in the middle of a bunch of trick or treaters! Thank you again! This was so incredibly thoughtful of you! ❤️

CloakNQuill Glad they made it safely. Happy Halloween! 👻 1mo
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The Innocent Sleep | Seanan McGuire
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My Halloween traditions! Arsenic and Old Lace, and a book to tide me over until it‘s too cold for all the kids trick or treating! ❤️

khooliha Love that Criterion cover for Arsenic & Old Lace! 1mo
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Elizabeth stays in the background as the cousin then wife then victim in the story of Victor Frankenstein. This is her version of the story.

I wasn‘t expecting to be as engrossed in this as I was. White takes a background, flat character & gives her a depth & internal world that blew me away. And finally a retelling that treats Victor as the creepy incel he really is. I‘m a little torn on the ending, but overall I really loved this. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

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The Innocent Sleep | Seanan McGuire
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The leaves are falling, the sky is awash in pinks and reds and oranges and golds, the wind is blowing, and I could not be happier.

#ScarathlonBucketList

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@CloakNQuill What an incredibly thoughtful box! I literally squealed at the rolling pins. And the books are all such perfect choices! I can‘t wait to get to all of them. More of my absolute favorite candy, and a beautiful smelling candle.

This was just an utter delight to open. Thank you so much! And thanks again to @wanderinglynn for setting this up! #HHS #HHS23 #HauntedHallowSwap

wanderinglynn Awesome! 🎃🖤👻🧡 1mo
CloakNQuill I went more witchy/fairy for you since we have very different scare levels. I‘m very glad you enjoy everything!!! 🧡 two more items will be in an Amazon package tomorrow 😊 1mo
JamieArc I recently finished Weyward and really liked it! 1mo
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The Passion of Artemisia | Susan Vreeland
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The life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted into the Accademia dell‘ Arte in Florence.

What a lush novel! The way Vreeland paints a beautiful scene, and an unflinching portrait of a passionate and ambitious and flawed woman. Also loved the attention paid to Artemisia‘s process and artwork. I definitely had to look up every single painting as I read. Will be seeking out more of Vreeland‘s work! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern The first three chapters deal with the aftermath of Artemisia‘s rape by her painting instructor, her public trial, and the torture she endured for her testimony 1mo
TheSpineView Great job! 1mo
dabbe 🖤🎃🖤 1mo
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🦇🧡 1mo
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I cannot wait to start The Innocent Sleep! 🖤🧡🖤

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I loved relistening to Into the Drowning Deep! Murder mermaids just in time for Halloween! 🖤

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Neil Gaiman has taken inspiration from many places for his creative works. This book examines the medieval influences on some of his projects.

Such an insightful book! What we think of as Medieval has changed over the years, and Gaiman‘s use of these different interpretations just makes his own writing better. Makes me want to reread a bunch of Gaiman‘s books, and also seek out the ones I haven‘t encountered yet, like Sandman. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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There‘s just a couple days left for #Round19 of @suvata ‘s #LMPBC ! Join @mrsmarch and me in #GroupG for some retellings of classic myths!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/18DcN6bIDZeUbjruT6tlEYWn4BFCYdTgkguRa...

suvata Oooo … I like this idea 1mo
mrsmarch If It is just the two of us @BookmarkTavern does that mean we each get to choose two books? 🤪 1mo
BookmarkTavern @mrsmarch Honestly, I‘d be down for that! 😁😁 (edited) 1mo
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A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
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I love all the ghosts in the tagged book, but I have a particular fondness for Marley.

And a good part of that is because of Statler and Waldorf as Jacob and Robert Marley in A Muppet Christmas Carol. That song gets stuck in my head on the regular. 😂

#SundayFunday Hope you all have a safe and spooky Halloween, and don‘t forget to tag me!

BeeMagical Casper!!😊🖤 1mo
majkia The Captain from the Ghost and Mrs Muir 1mo
Clwojick Beetlejuice! 🖤💚🤍 1mo
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Dracula | Bram Stoker
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Seeing the Dracula ballet with a new friend. This is Bram. 🖤

willaful How creepily adorable! 1mo
Ruthiella Too cute! 🦇 🖤 1mo
MissyD Cute. 1mo
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Tori is determined to prove the existence of the murderous mermaids that killed the crew of the mockumentary ship her sister worked on. She may have bit off more than she could chew.

I enjoyed this just as much the 2nd time round! Beautifully diverse cast, lots of science, a typically benign folktale creature turned on its head, & moments of character between the action. I was a little more disappointed with the abrupt ending though. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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TheSpineView Fantastic! 1mo
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The Innocent Sleep is at my local bookstore just waiting for me to pick it up! 🎉🎉🎉

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I am so enjoying Into the Drowning Deep!

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If I didn‘t have to worry about making anything or cost, I have always wanted to dress up as Queen Lucy, from the very end of the tagged book. Something rich, and dark, and luxurious. ❤️

#SundayFunday Have a marvelous day and don‘t forget to tag me in your post!

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Dracula | Bram Stoker
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Pumpkin carving with the family! And I just had to start one of my favorite Halloween stories while carving this little fellow! 🎃

IMASLOWREADER love that story 1mo
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The Bone Witch | Rin Chupeco
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Tea learns of her necromantic powers when she accidentally raises her brother. She‘s taken under the wing of another bone witch to learn how to protect the kingdom from the dark forces trying to destroy them.

The world building was truly amazing in this, lush & vast. Unfortunately, there was a lot of info dumping, this felt very slow throughout, & this really felt like a prologue expanded into a whole book. It all felt like set up. 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

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An adorable little primer and workbook on goblin mode and why it‘s going viral as a lifestyle.

This was a cute little book. Talks a lot about work, relationships, and food, and what about those can be goblin. Cute little illustrations, and does take a little bit to talk about finding balance in a goblin lifestyle so that you don‘t slip so far into not taking care of yourself, although I feel that could have been talked about more 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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RaeLovesToRead Hi Lucy! 👋🏻😄 1mo
TheSpineView Well done! 1mo
BeeMagical Ok I need this! 1mo
GondorGirl I've been claiming to be a goblin for years... nice to know other people have seen fit to join me. 1mo
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I can‘t believe I nearly broke 10,000! That‘s definitely going to be my goal for the second half of this!

#Scarathlon2023 #HHC @dabbe, @Clwojick, @Liatrek, @JessClark78, @Chrissyreadit, @StayCurious, @TheDaysGoBy, @vonnie862, @LadyCait84, @Sresendez12, @Nessavamusic, @kelli7990, @JessieKB

Nessavamusic Awesome! 1mo
dabbe #yahooyou! #hexesrock! 🖤🧡🖤 1mo
Clwojick Fantastic job! WAY TO GO! ☠ 1mo
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Snow Place for Murder | Diane Kelly
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When the plans of a new competing resort near Misty‘s Mountaintop Lodge are derailed, Misty tries to find out if the death of the man in charge was accidental or murder.

This was cute, but just as slow and plodding as the 2nd. Lots of description, lots of tell. & some seemingly pointless chapters from the cat‘s POV. But also paired with a cute relationship, her interactions with her sons, & plenty of red herrings. 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

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