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Gissy

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Grave Visions | Kalayna Price
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#StorySettings Day 14 #Graveyard I enjoy this series I need to continue with it, this is the next book I have to read.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚🖤 2d
Eggs 🩵🪦🩵 2d
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@Chrissyreadit as always, thank you so much for this wonderful Beltane package😍As I explained to you in the email I received it a couple of days ago but things are busy and complicated this month, story of my life🙄But I‘m celebrating the season😌🙌♥️ Thank you for The Witch‘s Apothecary book, beautiful and practical, easy to follow the instructions 🧙🏼‍♀️ ♥️But love that cover too😍

Thank you friend🥰♥️♥️♥️

#TravelingStars2024 @wanderinglynn

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2d
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛! i‘m so glad you like everything- i will try to send you an email tomorrow! 2d
Gissy @Chrissyreadit No rush, I know we have busy lives🤗but I love everything 😃👌❤️❤️❤️ 1d
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Eggs Pretty cover 🧡💜 3d
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3d
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The Wedding Date | Jasmine Guillory
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#StorySettings Day 11 #Wedding

@Eggs “Alwaysbeenalverofbooks

Eggs This was a fun book❤️🖤❤️ 3d
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Gunslinger | Stephen King
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Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻 3d
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An Unwanted Guest | Shari Lapena
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Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 3d
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The Dazzling Heights | Katharine McGee
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Eggs Fantastic👏🏻 3d
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Eggs 🧡🖤🧡 3d
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The Rumor: A Novel | Elin Hilderbrand
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Eggs Lovely 🏖️ 3d
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Eggs Excellent choice👍🏼🫶🏻 3d
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Open Season | C. J. Box
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Eggs Well played 💚 🏔️ 🩶 3d
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The Last Flight | Julie Clark
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ✈️ 🖤📚 3d
Eggs ❤️ ✈️ 🖤 3d
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The Good Luck Cafe | Annie Rains
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🩵🤍 3d
Eggs Brilliant 🌺🪻🌸 3d
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One by One | Ruth Ware
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks How was this one? It‘s on my shelf 📚📚 3d
Eggs Perfect ⛷️ ❄️ 3d
Gissy @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks It was okay for me 3 ⭐️ Predictable but I still like how author develops the characters in the story. 3d
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Chrissyreadit did your package arrive? I‘m guessing i really need to give them 2 weeks? 2w
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#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe (late post😳)

So many good songs😌but I will mention 3, only 3 of my favorites
🎧 I still haven‘t Found What I‘m looking For (I loved U2) that concert of 25th Rock&Roll Hall of Fame was fantastic) with Springsteen (like the song I‘m on Fire😆), Black Eye Pea, EtcI have it!
🎧You Give Love A Bad Name-love the drums in one specific part
🎧Like A Prayer-that video👌
Each decade is unique, including the current one

Gissy Thank you @Eggs @TheSpineView 🥰♥️♥️ 2w
TheSpineView You're welcome! All great songs!💜🎶 2w
Eggs You‘re welcome 🎶🎵 2w
dabbe Now on our 80s Litsy Spotify playlist! Thanks for sharing! 🤩🤩🤩
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5sZRAAKVORN1SRh7S6l60g
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Another hard/dark story. Hard to read because story has various triggers which were so descriptive.. I‘m not a fan of magical realism but author used it amazingly. Two characters connected in two time lines? Maybe...story use the concept of quantum multiverse. The ending was expected to me as I have seen in novels read using this concept. Beautiful and thoughtful lines even in those dark parts. Brilliant. Amazing narration by author. 4/4.5⭐️

Gissy First novel by this author. I bought 3 more books by her but this one was read for #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

Many topics discussed in this novel (culture, social actions, identity, etc) even the role of the reader in that wonderful quote by Marcel Proust. 4/4.5⭐️

April 2024
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin #2 @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo (grass)
#52bookclub24 prompt #5 (magical realism)
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DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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Sace This one has been sitting in my shelf forever! 2w
Gissy @Sace It‘s good but I think you have to like magic realism and the multiverse concept. I‘m not fan of neither one but it kept my interest to continue reading it. Also, check for the triggers because it could be disturbed, uncomfortable, I don‘t know if I‘m using the correct word, for some persons. I liked the author as narrator in the audiobook. 2w
Sace I like magical realism. Multiverse not so much. 2w
Suet624 I still think of this book often. 2w
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#Women‘s Prize Long & Short List

The books I have read from the long list for the Women‘s Prize have been so hard to read, so dark, sad.

This one is a family drama/coming of age story, narrated in two time lines. Every main character has a dark side in terms that they are not who they project to others, they have secrets, they are full of lies, hurting others. There are some triggers here: suicide, sexual abuse. Some parts are so sad😢⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) But with hope at the end? Each character was looking that cultural identity. I really liked this one. Beautiful! 4/4.5⭐️ 2w
Gissy April 2024

#ReadAway2024 @DieARrader @Andrew65 @Ghani4Roses
8th book read from Women‘s Prize fiction nominated list
#BookSpinBingo #19 (Because I wanted to read it) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo (sun)
#52bookclub24 prompt #42 (finding identity)
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BarbaraBB I enjoyed this one a lot too. 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
Suet624 Already stacked, but I'm happy to see you liked it. 2w
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Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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Eggs Sounds really good 📚❤️👍🏼 2w
Suet624 Just got this one from the library. 2w
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#IndependentBookstoreDay and more...

Middle stack are the books I bought in Libreria Laberinto (Labyrinth Bookstore) located in Old SJ. They specialized in books in Spanish but also has books in English. I can find those Spanish books from different countries difficult to find in other local bookstores. Books in Spanish can be pretty expensive many comes from Spain.
Right stack-books from a charity store also in SJ. Not too cheap but⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) they are for a good cause😃

Left stack-books I bought in eBay and they arrived today!! That bookmark describes my social life-where I go and spend my money
📚📚📚💰 😆
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Librarybelle Lots of great books! 3w
LeahBergen Great haul! 👏 3w
TheBookHippie Nice books!!! ♥️♥️♥️ 3w
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The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd
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Eggs A great novel 👏🏻👏🏻 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Loved this one!! 🐝 3w
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The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Eggs Love E. A.❤️❤️ 3w
Pogue This was such a good book. 3w
Suet624 I've read and listened to this twice. So good. 2w
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A Broken Blade | Melissa Blair
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Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 3w
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What? @Captivatedbybooks 😱I received an amazing #CreepyChristmas box and now these beautiful gifts😍I‘m in love with everything the booksleeve is gorgeous, so pretty🤩and the bookmarks are so unique. On the back they have an explanation of Cucuy and La Llorana legends. The magnetic bookmark represents something I love☕️ with a message in Spanish👌Thank you, Thank you🥰Un abrazo grande desde aquí, La Isla del Encanto, (A big hug from PR)😘 @teebe

julieclair That book sleeve is gorgeous! 3w
TheBookHippie Wow!!! 3w
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More #LitsyLove cards✉️📬😍These are from @Bookbyuingaddict beautiful library postcard 🤩😍 and @BookNAround

I‘m adding books to my wish list from the books you are saying are currently reading😱😂

I bought this beautiful box to put all #LitsyLove cards I‘m receiving 🤗♥️

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4Life @DieTyeDude

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 😍 3w
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These are the first #LitsyLove cards I received. I am already loving it. I‘m using my letter openers😃I have few I have received from book subscription boxes. The first card I received was from @deblovestoread and these other two came a day later from @Eggs (thank you for the beautiful bookmark) and from @AmyG I even love the mail stamps😍Each card is so unique so pretty with a personal gesture, touch🥰⬇️

Gissy It is so lovely to expand the friendship in this community and knowing you better, about yourselves, where you live, your hobbies and your reading tastes. United by what we live....books, reading...Thank you for that lovely welcomed 🥰♥️♥️♥️ ✉️📬 3w
AmyG I so look forward to hearing from you. 😘 3w
Eggs 🩷🩵🩷🩵🩷 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Mine should be there any day ❤️ 3w
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The Maid | Nita Prose
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#SpringSkies Day 24 #Neurodivergent

I haven‘t read this one but it was one of the novels classified as neurodivergent mentioned in GR. another book from my physical tbr😳

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

Eggs I haven read this but it sounds good. Also 3w
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Reading this one now. I will continue reading the books nominated in the long list regardless if they don‘t appear in the short list tomorrow. I have the books, they are in my tbr except The Blue Beautiful World because I would need to read the first 2 books first and Soldier Sailor which I don‘t own yet 🤷🏽‍♀️☺️

BarbaraBB This one is great and Sailor Soldier too! 3w
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Hangman: A Novel | Maya Binyam
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7th book read from Women‘s Prize for fiction Long List
Unpopular opinion but this time, I really liked this novel. In a peculiar, unique sarcastic tone, the author narrate different topics: (social, political, cultural, etc) through this man who visited his country after 26 years of exile.I think it was so creative. Character has a fragmented thinking process, thinking about what he is thinking/observing/doing. ⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) it was funny but in a surrealistic/existencial narrative. I know it is not one of the favorites novel in this list but I enjoyed it because it was different. 4⭐️ 3w
DieAReader 🥳Awesome! 3w
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BarbaraBB Awesome that you liked it! I couldn‘t get through it. 3w
Gissy @BarbaraBB It is different and mine is an unpopular opinion. I don‘t think this novel will be in the short list.

The experience in reading these novels from the long list have been so interesting, trying to see why the judges selected them😃

I watched a couple of videos about long list predictions and various interesting novels were mentioned that were not selected. I wish I could read them later. But too many books, too little time
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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Western Lane: A Novel | Chetna Maroo
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6th book read from the Women‘s Prize for fiction-long list
😬Sorry this one didn‘t work for me. I‘m not a fan of novels about sport even though the story has other topics. I wasn‘t interested in the story and I couldn‘t believe so decision made. 2.5/3⭐️

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 3w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3w
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5th book read from Women‘s Prize fiction long list. Mixed feelings, again🤷🏽‍♀️Maybe my expectations have been too high because they are books nominated for a prize. A HF based on true events and also based on previous
short stories. Maybe that it‘s why I felt disconnected in some parts.
The narrator in this story is working in a new project at her job, a nursing home in Korea. She will help the residents to write their own obituary⬇️

Gissy (Cont.)The narrator ask the persons to use 3 words in their obituary that describe themselves. Until she knew Ms Mook who will use 8 words, representing stages of her life. Story is about this woman, about the difficulties she lived in Korea at that time and her current life. A sad story. But as I said some parts were like disconnected to me or not well integrated. Maybe I had another idea of what the novel was about 3.75⭐️ 3w
Gissy April 2024
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader &Andrew65 @Ghani4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #9 (Women‘s Prize Long List) @TheAromaOfbooks
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DieAReader 🔥You‘re on a roll!!! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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El mentiroso | Mikel Santiago
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(The Liar) First book in a trilogy. It‘s more like a suspense story. This man, Alex, sees an unknown man next to him..but is that man dead? Then he sees a stone in his own hand.., with blood...did he kill that man?...but he is not sure about anything because he wake up in a hospital and he doesn‘t remember anything. Fragments of memories come and go. And then, the story goes to discover what really happened, who is Alex⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) The story has some twists but some of them are quite predictable. In general I found it enjoyable, a little too long but kept my attention. 3.7/3.8⭐️

#ReadAround2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #14 (Book in Spanish) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo (yellow font-authors name😉)
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julieclair That cover is so atmospheric! 3w
Gissy @julieclair Yes! The other two books have similar covers 3w
DieAReader 👋🏻Next up! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3w
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4th book read from the Women‘s Prize for fiction long list. Mixed feelings with this one. It was beautifully written but I didn‘t find a well integration in the story, specially the first parts. In some parts I just lost interest because I felt author was jumping from one topic to another🤷🏽‍♀️Let‘s see if it included in the short list. It didn‘t work for me as I expected 3⭐️

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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Bright Young Women | Jessica Knoll
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I read this book as part of #GabyReadsBookTroop (YouTuber) and I concur with their analysis that this is more like a HF because it is based/inspired in a true case but novel is from the victims POV😢It was interesting but sometimes I don‘t know what the author wanted to emphasize, the victims?, the main character? the legal process? In my opinion I don‘t see that integration so well but this is an unpopular opinion.⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) It seems that this book was well accepted in that book club🤷🏽‍♀️ 3.8⭐️

April 2024
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #8 (late reading- this was the book assigned for last January in @GabyReads ) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo (doesn‘t shows full face)
Book Posted in #ItTakesAllKinds (day 3/05) #F&NFWithSameTopic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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DieAReader 👋🏻Next up! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3w
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The Maiden | Kate Foster
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Interesting HF inspired by true event where a woman was sentenced to be executed in the maiden, a guillotine used at that time. The story fictionalized the life, affair and sentence this woman. Interesting but also a sad story. Trigger point, sexual and physical abuse. However I thought, why this novel was in the Women‘s Prize fiction long list? I‘m not an expert but author describes so well each character giving them an unique/different voice⬇️

Gissy (Cont.) I love this edition, so pretty! 3/3.5 ⭐️

#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin (#11) women‘s Prize Long List @TheAromaOfBooks
GoodReads AroundTheYear #ATY prompt #18 (botanical cover)
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DieAReader Great🥳 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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The Lies We Told | Camilla Way
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Captivatedbybooks Mami te llego el paquete que mande? Bendito son las cosas que faltaba de tu swap box he diciembre, por fin me recuerde a mandártelos 3w
Gissy @Captivatedbybooks Sí!!! Todo está bello. Acaba de llegar! Estoy aquí poniendo unos reviews para tomar una foto y ponerla. Mil gracias🥰♥️♥️♥️ 3w
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King Lear | William Shakespeare
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 💜 3w
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Prophet Song | Paul Lynch
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cool cover 🖤🤍 3w
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#SpringSkies Day 20 #2ndChanceRomance

I read this book, yes...I have various editions...Do I need this edition? Yes!!! 😂

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

peanutnine I have this edition. It's so pretty!! 😍 3w
Gissy @peanutnine You have a treasure ♥️🙌 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 3w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🖤🖤 4w
Eggs Brilliant!! 4w
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#SpringSkies Day 18 #Powerful (in this case, a powerful quote for me)

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛💛💛 4w
keithmalek No. Sometimes, it's just difficulty. 4w
Eggs 💛🧡💛 4w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful cover 💛💚 4w
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#motivationalmonday @cupcake12

🌼Nope
🌼I live in what they call garden apartment which means I live in a hole😳😂the last apartment in a five story building. I have a small patio but in front of my living room (glass sliding door) I only see the balcony, part of my small patio, wood fence & some trees behind the fence🤷🏽‍♀️but I love this privacy🙌
🌼Caribbean Puerto Rico 🇵🇷Today was a rainy day, less hot than usual, 84 degree 84% humidity 😳

Gissy Thanks for tagging me @sleepswithbooks & @Read4life 🥰♥️♥️ 1mo
Cupcake12 Thanks for joining in x 1mo
tpixie @Gissy thanks for tagging me!! I must‘ve opened up the app and missed it until today!!! 🦚 1mo
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#5JoysFriday

🌼 I spent time with family specially with my mother
🌼received some books I ordered📚🙌
🌼I could spent more time reading 📖😌late hours most of the time from 9:00 ish to 1:00 am🤷🏽‍♀️
🌼Bought some new clothes 👍
🌼Received my first #LitsyLove letter yes!! From @Deblovestoread and then this Saturday I received 2 more. I will post a photo soon 😍
Thanks @debinhawaii @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Deblovestoread Yay for #LitsyLove. 💜 1mo
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#SpringSkies Day 16 #SurpriseEnding

I will say, tagged book and The Kind Worth Killing both novels were so good for me.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Gissy Read September 2022 1mo
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Carrie Soto Is Back | Taylor Jenkins Reid
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#SpringSkies Day 15 #WomenInSport

I don‘t read many novels with this topic so this is a popular book mentioned in this prompt.

I have the English edition but I saw the translated title and it was curious, quite different 😳 Perra (female dog) is used the same as- b#%$& woman 🤷🏽‍♀️Well, how would you describe Carrie in those first chapters?

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Gissy Read February 2023 1mo
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The Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi
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#SpringSkies Day 14 #InvolvesHeist

A trilogy that is waiting for me to be read😳😬Story of my life🙄

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Pretty cover 💚🖤 1mo
Eggs Beautiful 💚👏🏻🖤 1mo
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