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Karisimo

Karisimo

Joined July 2022

LibraryThing member Karisimo

middlegradefiction*literaryfiction*historicalfiction*mystery*sci-fi
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#threelistthursday @dabbe

My favorites:
1. Coconut Cream Pie
2. Carrot Cake
3. Strawberry Pretzel thing

This makes me want to have a baking day!!! Yummmm!!!!

dabbe Same here! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🤎🍁🧡 2d
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1. Sunsets because I grew up on the west coast of Florida!
2. Bumbling assassins, mystery

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2w
Eggs 🧡🧡 2w
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To start off nonfiction November, let's share memoirs for #middlegrademonday !

The tagged is about the author's trip to Europe in his middle school years and captures all the insecurities of that age so well. Graphic memoirs like this one are becoming quite the trend!

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Daisey Ooh, interesting choice. I‘ll try to remember to check my shelves when I‘m back at school tomorrow. 2w
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Sandwich: A Novel | Catherine Newman
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#daysdevotedto #sandwich

I read this and very much identified with a lot of the emotions!

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻 2w
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November #BookspinBingo board is set! I want to read them all!!! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 2w
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November #BookSpin is a middle grade historical fiction I've been wanting to read. #Doublespin is my #AuthorAMonth selection!

Thanks for hosting yet again @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! I've had Garden Spells on my TBR for quite sometime. And I'm a sucker for a horse story, so I'm curious to see if you enjoy Bea and the New Deal Horse!! 2w
Aims42 I loved “Garden Spells”! I feel like it‘s a good one for this time of year 😁 Enjoy!!! 2w
Karisimo @Aims42 oh good, i like to read books in the right season! 2w
Karisimo @TheAromaofBooks Bea and the New Deal Horse is a super sweet middle grade story! It addresses hardships, but is very hopeful in tone. Lots to love for horse lovers! 1w
TheAromaofBooks I will have to check it out!!! 7d
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It was a challenging month, it included some children's lit class requirements but also some enjoyable reads!
@thearomaofbooks

1 BINGO
#AuthorAMonth
#Bookspin
#Doublespin
#ShardlakeBR
6 audiobooks
3 YA
4 Middle Grade
12 books total

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 2w
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I can't believe it's November already!!! But here we are and here's my plan!

@TheAromaofBooks
#Bookspin
#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
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#wickedwhispers #blood
This is one of those almost too crazy to be true stories! Don‘t read it if you need to boost your faith in humanity!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great pick 🩸👏🏻🧡 3w
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This makes me so happy!!!!

Prairiegirl_reading I only have 26 more weeks to wait!! 😂😂 I hope you enjoy it!! 😊 3w
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Dread Nation | Justina Ireland
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#wickedwhispers #dread
I‘m currently reading another alternate history by this author!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 3w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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The Witch Elm | Tana French
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Low pick for this #authoramonth book. This was my second Tana French book and I think I can safely say she is not for me. I liked the mystery, but her characters are very unlikable to me. Not terrible, but so much else out there that I enjoy more!

@soubhiville

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The Girl in White | Lindsay Currie
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#middlegrademonday #horror
It's the season for all things spooky and scary! I think Lindsay Currie hits all the right notes with her middle grade suspense/horror/mystery stories! What would you recommend?

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Eggs Perfect!! 3w
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October | Ellen B. Jackson
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#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern

Definitely! I love seasonal reading!

BookmarkTavern Woohoo! Thanks for answering! 3w
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#wickedwhispers #grave @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My first Neil Gaiman read several years ago

Eggs 🖤🪦🩵 3w
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Trick of the Light | Louise Penny
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Eggs Love Gamache💙💙 3w
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The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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#wickedwhispers #shadow
I bet I‘m not the only one to pick this book today!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Probably not! 3w
Eggs Loved this series❣️ 3w
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice! 🐾 4w
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A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness
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#wickedwhispers #monster
Both the book and the movie are excellent!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Perfect 🤩 4w
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City of Ghosts | Victoria Schwab
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It's #middlegrademonday once again! Let's share ghost stories!

I loved the tagged book because it's perfect for kids on the older end of middle grade but not fully ready for YA. And it's set in Scotland!

Any and all are welcome to play along!

Daisey This is a fun series! 4w
Karisimo Another good one is 4w
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#wickedwhispers #magic
This book was a drag but I love the Stephen King quote that inspired the title!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Awesome 👏🏻 1mo
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Scream and Scream Again!: Spooky Stories from Mystery Writers of America | Chris Grabenstein, Tonya Hurley, Peter Lerangis, R L Stine, Beth Fantaskey, Steve Hockensmith, Wendy Corsi Staub, Heather Graham, Emmy Laybourne, Daniel Palmer, Lisa Morton, Carter Wilson, Bruce Hale, Ray Daniel, Phil Mathews, Doug Levin, Jeff Soloway, Joseph S Walker, Alison McMahan, Stephen Ross
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Lesliereadsalot Next Tuesday try to catch the interview with RL Stine on the podcast put out by Chicago Humanities Tapes, on Spotify and other platforms. 1mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
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#wickedwhispers #haunt
In this case, the TV show was better!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤 🏠 😱 1mo
Eggs Such a great cover🧡🧡 1mo
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The Grace of Wild Things | Heather Fawcett
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#wickedwhispers #witch
Twist on Anne of Green Gables where Anne tries to apprentice herself to a prickly witch who eventually warms to her 😉
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Wonderful👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
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Address Unknown | Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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#wickedwhispers #unknown
This isn‘t spooky in the Halloween way, but it‘s haunting in its own way!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Sounds good 👌🏼 1mo
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The Candymakers | Wendy Mass
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Eggs I like this one too🍭🩵🍬 1mo
willaful My kid loved this. 1mo
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mcctrish I‘m still in the library hold queue for this 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1mo
Eggs Cover Love 💙 ❤️ 🩵 1mo
Karisimo @mcctrish I won a copy from Goodreads!!! 1mo
mcctrish Oh my gosh @Karisimo that‘s AWESOME 1mo
Lesliereadsalot My favorite book of this year! Enjoy! 1mo
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#wickedwhispers #zombie
I liked the epistolary style of this one! (Nothing like the movie that followed)
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 🖤❤️🖤 1mo
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Red, White, and Whole | Rajani LaRocca
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This week's #middlegrademonday theme is inspired by our family's trip to the ER this weekend that ended in an appendectomy for my son! I also love the tagged book- a heartfelt story about a girl dealing with her mother's illness. I'd love to hear your recommendations!

Read4life Sorry to hear this. I hope your son heals quickly. Hugs to all of you. 💙 1mo
Mollyanna Hope your son is doing better and heals quickly. 1mo
dabbe Sorry to read about your son. I hope he is on the mend and up and running again very soon. 🖤🧡🖤 1mo
Librarybelle Wishing your son a speedy recovery! 1mo
Karisimo Thanks everyone! He‘s healing well, just really sad about missing the end of cross country season and not meeting the time he needed to run at the college he wants next year. 1mo
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Spells for Forgetting | Adrienne Young
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Eggs Wow sounds compelling 😮 1mo
Karisimo @eggs I didn\'t love it as much as I expected, but I think Adrienne Young just isn\'t for me 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1mo
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Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Jones
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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#wickedwhispers #cadaver
A very interesting nonfiction story!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

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Here's my board! Let the #bookspinbingo fun begin!

@thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So cute 🧡 1mo
Eggs Adorable 🐽 1mo
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Bridge to Bat City | Ernest Cline
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#wickedwhispers #bats
Just read this fun middle grade book- a self proclaimed mostly true tall tale about how the largest urban colony of bats came to live in Austin, Texas.
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🦇 1mo
Eggs Brilliant 🦇🖤 1mo
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Untitled | Unknown
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I won a copy of my #bookspin book through Goodreads so it's sitting only nightstand waiting for me to start! And my #doublespin is the next read for the #shardlakeseriesbr , already on hold at my library! The combo of a new release and an older title is perfect!

@TheAromaofBooks

Lesliereadsalot I loved All the Colors of the Dark! Hope you do too 2mo
dabbe I think we\'re going to see more of King Henry in the next one! 🧡🤎💛 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!! 1mo
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Back to the reality of grad school demands on my time! But not too shabby considering...
@TheAromaofBooks

My Stats:
16 books (1 DNF - Whose Body?)
2 BINGOs
6 middle grade
1 YA
1 NonFiction
8 audiobooks
✅bookspin
✅doublespin
✅litsyscifibookclub
✅ finished August's Author-A-Month who was new to me!

LiteraryinPA Not shabby in the least! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!!! 2mo
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October already!?! Craziness!

@thearomaofbooks
#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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The World-Famous Nine | Ben Guterson
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Just for fun, this week is numbers in titles! This new one from Ben Guterson will appeal to fans of his well-loved Winterhouse series- it's set in a department store with secrets instead of a hotel. What others can you think of for #middlegrademonday?

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The Unteachables | Gordon Korman
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Eggs Brilliant 🙌🏻 2mo
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Lunch Money | Andrew Clements
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 💰 2mo
Eggs 💚 💴 🍽️ 2mo
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Worser | Jennifer Ziegler
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Eggs Great choice!! 2mo
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Big Tree | Brian Selznick
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You all! This book is an experience! I listened to the audio production while reading a physical copy with illustrations. You'll miss out if you only do one or the other! I didn't expect a story of two sycamore seed siblings to be so epic. I'm rarely emotionally moved by a book, but this one did it! 🙌🏼

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Let's have fun with #middlegrademonday this week and share some favorite fairytale retellings! This is a humorous tale of the princes of Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel trying to foil evil plots against their kingdoms.

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1. Tagged book was a spur of the moment listen provided by LibroFM‘s program for librarians.
2. Audiobooks!
3. Middle grade and historical fiction

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
#wondrouswednesday

Eggs Me too # 3 🙌🏻 2mo
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Private Label | Kelly Yang
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1. Only once usually, I‘m too lazy to change!
2. Tagged is on my TBR!

@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2mo
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#schoolspirit #graduate this is a few days late but I just saw this next installment announced!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs How exciting! We love the Pigeon❣️ 2mo
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It's #middlegrademonday In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, let's share our favorite middle grade books featuring Latine characters!

Sal & Gabi hits so many notes- Ghosts, action, science fiction, school troubles, grief, and hilarity all in one story!

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TheSpineView Thanks for the tag 💛 🏷 2mo
Eggs Thx for tagging me 🧡 2mo
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dabbe Will do; thanks for the tag! 😘 2mo
Daisey I saw this and then left school before checking my shelves. I may need to post tomorrow. 2mo
Karisimo No problem @Daisey !! 2mo
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Throwback | Maurene Goo
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#schoolspirit #homecoming
A cute YA where a girl time travels to the 1990s to help her mom win Homecoming Queen!

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Brilliant 👸🏼 2mo
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