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OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620

Joined August 2016

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” -Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Novel
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Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro
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Recursion by Blake Crouch
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OriginalCyn620
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A cute summer read! Really captures the anticipation and angst of summer romances.

#bookspinbingo
#tbrtarot (I forgot I had this one already on my list for this month, so I‘m using it instead of the book I previously picked out)
#read2025

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 6h
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OriginalCyn620
A Court of Silver Flames | Sarah J. Maas
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I really enjoyed this whole series! Read with the #LittensLoveRomance group, so I can‘t say too much, but this is an awesome installment…can‘t wait for the next one!

#bookspinbingo - free space
#serieslove2025

TheSpineView Excellent! 9h
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 9h
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5h
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OriginalCyn620
Summers at the Saint | Mary Kay Andrews
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Pickpick

From the cover, you‘d think this is a fluffy summer read, or at least I did! But it‘s more mystery, with secrets and betrayals, and very light on romance. It was good though! Not what I was expecting, but it kept me turning the pages!

#bookspinbingo
#read2025
#pop25 - a book by the oldest author in my TBR pile

DieAReader Excellent!💖 1d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 12h
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OriginalCyn620
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My #botm box arrived yesterday! The tagged book was my pick for June, and since it‘s my birthday month, I got the Backman for free!

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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Finally got my #bookspinbingo card for this month done! ☀️

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 2d
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OriginalCyn620
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A bit lengthy, but Elizebeth Friedman‘s story is so interesting, I didn‘t mind! She was a pioneer in code breaking, but of course, at the time, her achievements and contributions were overshadowed by her husband (also a code breaker) or not recognized at all.

#pop25 - a book about an overlooked woman in history

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OriginalCyn620
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So excited for my June book spins! ☀️

#bookspin #doublespin

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! These both look so fun!! 3d
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It‘s Pride Month! I‘d love to get all 3 of these books read this month! 🏳️‍🌈

dabbe HPM! 🌈 3d
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #bookspinbingo list for June! ☀️

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!!! 3d
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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A decent reading month…3 bingos!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 3d
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OriginalCyn620
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I liked this one more than I thought I would! I thought Kya‘s story was pretty compelling.

#bookspinbingo - free space
#pop25 - a book where nature is the antagonist

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3d
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Hello Girls | Emily Henry, Brittany Cavallaro
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My pick for June for #readordonate!

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What Happens in Amsterdam | Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Excited for this one! My pick for June for #fictionaltraveler!

willaful It sure made me want to visit Amsterdam... 1w
OriginalCyn620 @willaful Well now I‘m intrigued! I already want to go to Amsterdam pretty bad 🤣 1w
peanutnine Ahh I am so looking forward to reading this one! Love the setting, love the author 💖 1w
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julieclair This looks adorable! Stacking. We are going to Amsterdam next Spring. 🌷 6d
OriginalCyn620 @julieclair I‘m so jealous! I hope it‘s an amazing trip! I do hope me and my husband get there someday. 🌷 6d
julieclair I hope you do, too! 🤞 I have been wanting to go for years. Glad it‘s finally on the calendar, even if it is a year away. 🤗 6d
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My pick for June for #thematiccozies!

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OriginalCyn620
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So cute! After a failed one night stand, Alexis, a shy school librarian, enters into a fake dating agreement with Texas gubernatorial candidate Logan, when a suggestive photo of them ends up online. I really liked both characters, and rooted for them!

#bookspinbingo - got another bingo!
#pop25 - book where the MC is a politician

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1w
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The Club | Ellery Lloyd
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I know this has gotten mixed reviews but I liked it. At an exclusive island resort for A-list celebrities, a place where they can party and unwind without the eyes of the press or randos on them, bodies are found, but who among them has been killed? Pretty much all the characters are awful, and they all have secrets, which slowly unfold as it‘s learned who has met their end.

#pop25 - book set at a luxury resort
#read2025

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 4d
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OriginalCyn620
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A cute and fluffy romance! I think Red was an awesome love interest, and with Chloe, I now understand more about chronic pain and how disabling it can be for those who suffer from it. The representation is important!

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book that features a character with chronic pain

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w
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Bookshop Cinderella | Laura Lee Guhrke
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Such an adorable HF romance! The two MCs are just so likable and I rooted for them immediately. Don‘t want to say too much as the #LittensLoveRomance buddy read isn‘t quite finished. 🤫

#bookspinbingo - free space

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
StayCurious I really enjoyed this one! 2w
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Emmett | L C Rosen
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A cute modern #lgbtq+ YA retelling of Jane Austen‘s Emma! Very enjoyable, and it‘s a quick read.

#readordonate
#bookspinbingo
#read2025

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2w
julieclair Fun! 2w
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The Heiress: A Novel | Rachel Hawkins
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Pickpick

Enjoyed this one! Got pretty twisty for about the last 1/4 of the book.

#bookspinbingo - free space
#read2025

DieAReader 💖💖💖 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
kimrenee This was a roller-coaster ride! The last part had so many twists and turns 4d
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The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
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OMG, this was so freaking good! I can‘t even!

#tbrtarot - make your own prompt {a book with a movie/tv series adaptation}
#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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This is my first book by this author and I wasn‘t sure what to expect, but the creepiness was off the charts. It was a slow burn at the beginning but then it took a really dark turn!

#fictionaltraveler
#bookspinbingo

EmilyM I liked this one--it was definitely creepy! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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Love at First Book | Jenn McKinlay
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I loved everything about this book!!

#bookspinbingo - got a bingo!
#pop25 - a book with 2 or more books on the cover or “book” in the title
#read2025

DieAReader 🎉Excellent! 3w
konlitsy Intrigued!! - definitely adding it to my TBR! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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The Good Daughter: A Novel | Karin Slaughter
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This was a really good book with lots of tension, but it‘s also pretty dark. Tons of trigger warnings! And there were some really good twists towards the end.

#bookspinbingo - this is my #bookspin for this month

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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OriginalCyn620
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This is the first cozy I‘ve read that didn‘t involve an active murder investigation. It was enjoyable enough, though. To be fair, the title implies that seeds of murder are planted, and this is the first book in this series. Books 2 and 3 do have murder investigations so I‘ll give the next one a try. This one did have mysteries, and in the process of figuring them out, an old murder is solved. A soft pick!

#thematiccozies
#bookspinbingo

julieclair Intriguing! I like the idea of something a bit different. 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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OriginalCyn620
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This full cast production was fabulous! And AC really knew how to craft a mystery. I‘m always surprised and impressed when I read her books!

#bookspinbingo - free space

tpixie Fun!!! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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OriginalCyn620
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Another good installment in the series! This one lacked the tension and action of the previous books, however, through multiple POVs, we get to know the beloved characters better. But IMO, any time spent with Rhysand is time well spent. 🤣

#LittensLoveACOTAR
#bookspinbingo - free space
#serieslove2025

StayCurious Agreed! 4w
TheSpineView Great job! It is a great series! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
Andrew65 Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 3w
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Famous Last Words | Gillian McAllister
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Really enjoyed this domestic thriller…it got pretty twisty near the end! This was my first book by this author but it won‘t be my last.

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book that features a married couple who don‘t live together
#read2025

DieAReader 🥳Excellent!! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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Didn‘t want to stop listening to this one! A hell of a twist at the end too!

#bookspinbingo - this was my #doublespin for this month!
#LitsyAtoZ #LetterY
#pop25 - a book with a title that starts with Y

Texreader I like those twisty endings! Stacked! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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I enjoyed this story of female gangsters in post-WWII England, but probably not enough to continue the series. Alice, the leader of the all-female The Forty Thieves, recruits Nell, an unwed mother-to-be, into her gang. After a betrayal that lands Nell in jail, she vows revenge on Alice.

#bookspinbingo
#LitsyAtoZ #LetterQ

Texreader Nice #letterQ !! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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This month‘s #bookspinbingo card is all ready to go! 🌼

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 1mo
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The Good Daughter: A Novel | Karin Slaughter
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Looking forward to my spins for this month!

#bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! Looks like a suspenseful month!! 😂 1mo
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Got 2 bingos in April! I kinda wish I could‘ve read a couple more books, but I can‘t really complain…still a good reading month!

#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 1mo
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The Incendiaries | R.O. Kwon
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Mehso-so

This was just okay for me. I was hoping a book about a cult would have more action!

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book about a cult

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1mo
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Two Can Play | Ali Hazelwood
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Ali Hazelwood can do no wrong, IMO!

#bookspinbingo - got a bingo!

AkashaVampie It's on my TBR. Good to know that it's a good read. 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #bookspinbingo list for May!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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In the Weeds | B. K. Borison
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So true.

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In the Weeds | B. K. Borison
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Another cute and steamy installment in the series!

#bookspinbingo
#serieslove2025

TheSpineView Fantastic! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
Andrew65 Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 1mo
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Floating Hotel | Grace Curtis
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Each chapter is a vignette of a staff member or a guest aboard a luxury spaceship hotel. So many characters to keep up with and really, not much happens. This is more character driven and I prefer plot driven! I‘m not really sure what the author was trying to say or what the point was.

#bookspinbingo
#pop25 - book about space tourism

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 1mo
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Rose is planning a wedding for a relative from St. Olaf, and when Dorothy‘s date to the wedding turns up dead, she becomes the prime suspect. This was just a good, silly time, and I loved it! I‘m not saying that the story was groundbreaking or anything, but I think the voices of the Girls were captured nicely. Lots of 80s nostalgia and references to things that actually happened on the show!

#bookspinbingo - free space
#read2025

TheBookHippie I love Golden Girls! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
DieAReader 💖💖Fabulous! 1mo
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Emmett | L C Rosen
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I‘m always up for a Jane Austen retelling, and this one is an #lgbtq+ retelling of Emma. It‘s my pick for #readordonate for May!

julieclair This one sounds fun. Enjoy! 1mo
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Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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This is my pick for #fictionaltraveler for May!

monalyisha My friend, who is a Spanish teacher, was just telling me that she spotted a Spanish language version of this at B&N and it‘s just called “Gothic.” 1mo
julieclair Ooohhh… this one has been on my TBR for awhile. Enjoy! 1mo
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Family secrets are revealed and new and old loves are found when a grandmother and granddaughter make a summer visit to the Italian island where their family is from. A decent read and the descriptions of the Italian settings will make you feel like you were there - or at least make you wish you were!

#fictionaltraveler
#bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
julieclair I want to be there! 1mo
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My pick for May for #thematiccozies! It‘s the first in a series, and the MC (and amateur sleuth) starts her new job as head gardener of a wealthy gated community.

kspenmoll That looks good! 1mo
BookmarkTavern What a cute cover! 1mo
julieclair Sounds fun! Stacking. 1mo
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I couldn‘t take it anymore and I had to finish! I can‘t say too much because I read this with the #LittensLoveRomance group, but like the previous books in the series, this one is also an emotional roller coaster. The author has a great talent for writing tension and twists!

#serieslove2025
#bookspinbingo - free space

TheSpineView Fantastic! 👍📖📚 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I finished this like within the first week because I couldn't stop 😂 1mo
OriginalCyn620 @TheSpineView @Andrew65 I forgot to tag you for #serieslove2025! 🤪 1mo
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Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏🙌 I own the first one in this series really need to read it. 1mo
StayCurious @Andrew65 the first one isn‘t the best - it really picks up by book 2 - I think you‘ll be hooked 1mo
Andrew65 @StayCurious Thanks, that‘s good to know. 1mo
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I have finally read this! Obviously I‘m not the target audience for it, and I just never thought much about making it a priority. But it was delightful! I can see why it‘s so beloved.

And I am curious about which Hogwart‘s house I‘d be sorted into 🤔

#bookspinbingo - free space and got a bingo!
#pop25 - book I‘ve always avoided reading

BennettBookworm Congrats!! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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Good Company | Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
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This was just okay for me. It was character driven, so there‘s not much actually happening. I prefer plot driven stories!

#bookspinbingo
#read2025

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 1mo
DieAReader Excellent! #Next 👋🏻 1mo
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Pantone: Colors | Pantone
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And this board is complete! 😃
#pantone2025

Lauredhel Congrats! 1mo
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OriginalCyn620
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Found a #pantone2025 match for this recent read!
#limpetshell

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Eleanor and Park | Rainbow Rowell
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I loved the 80s setting…brought back some memories for sure. This is a sad love story, but a really good one too.

#LittensLoveRomance
#bookspinbingo - free space

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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