Starting my penultimate black out board #BookSpinBingo book

Interesting history of not only the family, but also, the Gilded Age, and NYC. It helped me make better sense of 'The Swans of Fifth Avenue' by Melanie Benjamin.

83/80

Another bingo this month! #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025

"When I was six, my father took me to Grand Central Terminal in New York to see the imposing bronze statue of my great-great-great-grandfather 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#ARichLife #Blessings

I love decorated endpapers

That was a flora and fauna snooze fest, but I got another bingo 😁

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#hailthebail

#ARichLife #Veggies

Technically a fruit, but a socially acceptably vegetable 😂

Going for a 4th bingo with this book that's been on my TBR shelf since college

This just did not flow as well Ehrenreich's other books. Her attempt to show death's inevitability, and explain why it's not in our nature to accept it nearly bored me to death. But I did get two bingos!

81/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

#majicmonday

Painting the outside of my house. Huge project! But so worth it!!

#ARichLife #Pie

#ARichLife #Spice

"As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Up next for a bingo!

#ARichLife

It doesn't take a whole lot of mental gymnastics to make this fit today's prompt if you know that Felix enjoyed nothing better than his own #HomeCooking 😂

Very repetitive and slow, but the early medieval history was interesting.

80/80

#BookedInTime @Cuilin

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

Sometimes you just have to step out your front door to see cool shit - the epitome of a lazy adventurer 🤣🤣

#ARichLife #Table

I can't believe not a single Debbie Macomber book I own has a cozy #Fireside cover! So this will have to do 😂

#ARichLife

The writing was a little too stream of consciousness for me, but the breadth of history was fascinating.

79/80

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#ARichLife #Saints

I'm about 75% done with my #BookSpin but it's not a good curl up on the coach story for Friday night reading. So I figured I'd start November's #DoubleSpin

#ARichLife #Souls

"I am standing outside the door."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#ARichLife #Pumpkin

#ARichLife #Earthy

#ARichLife #Twilight

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

#majicmonday

I started a new exercise routine that has helped stop the ache in my knees. And as much as I hate exercising, I do like mobility so I've stuck with it 😊

#ARichLife

My abundance of gratitude tattoo serves as a daily reminder to be #Grateful because time is finite. The quote is from the tagged book.

Starting my November #BookSpin

I don't know how I feel about this. I was interested, touched, horrified, bored. It was too much war story for me, but I learned a lot. Overall, I liked the two MCs too much to DNF. Also, it gave me a whole new perspective on the cartoon Stop That Pigeon 😂

78/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#ARichLife #Apples

November #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin

#ARichLife #Harvest

In honor of my granddaughter's nursery school "boyfriend" Malachi ?

2025 Reading Bracket

2 Bingos in October 💃🏻😁

#BookSpinBingo

October Wrap-Up

Total Read: 8
✔️ #BookSpin
✔️#DoubleSpin
6 TBRs
2 DNFs
2 5 Star reads

And I finished #MonthlyNonfiction2025 Thank you @julieclair for hosting!

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025

#HauntsAndHexes #Fog

Happy Halloween 🎃👻💀

"Monuments matter most to pigeons and soldiers."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#HauntsAndHexes #Whispers

November #BookSpin #DoubleSpin list

Going for a third bingo this month. If I don't make it at least I'll start November with one 😁

After a bit of a slow I had a hard time putting this down. Adoption has some shady ass roots thanks to Georgia Tann. Both a heartbreaking and heartwarming story.

77/80

Another bingo this month 💃🏻 #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

"My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

My next #BookSpinBingo selection

I enjoyed the history of Cuba, and having to sneak books out, but there was just too much going on. Triple timelines feel overkill.

76/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Went to a book fair today at a local brewery. Such fun!

"She was late."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#HauntsAndHexes #Darkness

#HauntsAndHexes #Terrifying