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TheBookgeekFrau

TheBookgeekFrau

Joined January 2018

Eclectic reader📖📚
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Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage by Janelle Brown, Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Christine Brown, Robyn Brown
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover! 2d
Eggs Great choice 👏🏻👏🏻 2d
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs 🖤💛❤️ 2d
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Went to the library with my daughter and granddaughter so they could get library cards. Paid a quick visit to the Friends Of bookstore 😁

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marleed Good choices! 3d
kspenmoll Nice haul! 3d
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TheBookgeekFrau @kspenmoll Thanks! Many have been on my wish list for a while. Now let's see how long they sit on my TBR shelf 😂 3d
TheBookgeekFrau @marleed Thanks!! And thanks to Litsy! 3d
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 📚💛📚 3d
bookandbedandtea Oooh what a great selection! 😍 3d
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea Right?!! I was so excited to find so many newish books 💞 3d
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Turtle Moon | Alice Hoffman
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Eggs This was so good 😊 3d
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Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage | Janelle Brown, Kody Brown, Meri Brown, Christine Brown, Robyn Brown
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My daughter and I binged Sister Wives last year when she and my granddaughter were living with us. It was a great nightly ritual for us to unwind together after busy days. Since Christine's book just came out, I figured I'd start at the beginning before reading it.

Prairiegirl_reading Christine‘s book is pretty good! 5d
TheBookgeekFrau @Prairiegirl_reading Good to know! This one is good, too. A lot of stuff from the show, with a bit of a deeper look into the start of the family. 5d
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The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver
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Bailedbailed

After 136 pages I'm out. It's just not holding my interest. #HailTheBail

This concludes my #AllergicToChunksters challenge. Thank you @julieclair for helping me get 3 huge books off my TBR shelves!! 🙏🏼💕

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 👋🏻 #Next 5d
TheAromaofBooks I know many people love Kingsolver's books, but I have tried three and haven't been able to finish any of them, so she just must not be a good fit for me. 5d
TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks She's hit or miss for me now. I loved her earlier books, but either her writing style changed, or I did 🤷🏻‍♀️ 5d
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The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver
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"In the beginning were the howlers."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

dabbe Well, this doesn't bode well! 😂😱😂 6d
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Nope 😂😂 6d
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The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver
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Eggs Beautiful photo 👏🏻👏🏻 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs 💛🧡💛 1w
LiteraryHoarderPenny I really loved this one! Had all kinds of good things in it, to me. 1w
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TheBookgeekFrau @LiteraryHoarderPenny Thanks for that, because I'm having a hard time getting into it. But I feel encouraged to give it more time 😊 1w
bookandbedandtea I was looking at this on my shelf over the weekend. It sounds great but it's soooo huge. I deferred it again. 😬 1w
julieclair Good for you! 1w
LiteraryHoarderPenny @TheBookgeekFrau I listened to it, but I don‘t know if that would help. I hope it gets better for you! 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @LiteraryHoarderPenny Listening to books doesn't work for me, my mind wonders too much lol But, thank you, I've read some more and am getting into it....for now 😅 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @julieclair And Thanks to *You* for this challenge!💞 You are the fire beneath my chunkster avoiding ass 😂 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea The first 30 or pages had me really regretting my decision. But I figured I had to at least give it to 50. I'm currently on 52 and getting into it. 1w
TheAromaofBooks Good luck!!! 1w
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Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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Bailedbailed

It started out great, but by page 121 my desire to read was almost non-existent. #HailTheBail 🙌🏼

65/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

Bookbuyingaddict Agreed 👍 I did the same funny it‘s claimed to be her best 😳 1w
TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks 🙌🏼🙌🏼 1w
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TheBookgeekFrau @Bookbuyingaddict I'm hoping her not best is better! 😂 1w
Aims42 This was one that I did finish but I should‘ve just bailed. Not my cup of tea 👎 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @Aims42 I'm glad I'm not alone in this! 😅 I just don't get all the love this book got 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1w
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego This was boring AF, but I think that was intentional to make the ending more impactful. It all kind of pops off at the end. But I didn't really find it worthwhile. And if I remember correctly, the epilogue pissed me off. 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego So boring!! What good is an impactful ending if you put your readers to sleep before they get there? 🤣 I couldn't even care about the characters who seemed like dust sheets draped over the furniture 1w
Aims42 @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego UGH! The epilogue almost made me throw the book across the room! I remember thinking, “I finished it for this?!?!?” And being super mad too 🤣 1w
Aims42 @TheBookgeekFrau Definitely not alone 🩷 1w
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TheBookgeekFrau @Aims42 💛🧡💛 1w
DieAReader #Next 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 1w
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The Girl Next Door: A Novel | Elizabeth Noble
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1w
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Eggs 💔💔💔 1w
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Bel Canto | Ann Patchett
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Coffee and a #BookSpinBingo book

Ruthiella This was my first Ann Patchett book and probably still my favorite. 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @Ruthiella I'm really enjoying it so far! 2w
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Bailedbailed

After 158 pages of characters moving through molasses, I'm ready to #HailTheBail

64/80

September #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻 Better luck with the next book! 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @DieAReader 🙌🏼🙌🏼 2w
dabbe YES! #betterbooksahead 💜🧡🤎 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🧡💛🧡 2w
TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 2w
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Eggs I‘ve always wondered if I‘d like Haruf books…did you? 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs Yes. Just this one and one other, I can't remember the name of, I didn't. 2w
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Apples | Frank Browning
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Eggs Beautiful in its simplicity 🍎 2w
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"After the funeral James came straight home, to look after his brother."

#FirstLineFridays
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Staring this month's #DoubleSpin

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare
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Another "I can't believe I never read it" I'm glad to have finally read!

63/80

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

kspenmoll Loved this book! It is set in a town near me where they have tours. https://share.google/jp60WDl58SXZqBfyc (edited) 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @kspenmoll I wish I would've read this when I still lived in NY because I would've gone on the tour! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
DieAReader 💖🤓 2w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yes!! 🙌🏻 2w
Eggs Truth👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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#Falling #WhatsForDinner
Pork chopsss
And
Apple Sssauce
Ain't that swell?

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 2w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 👏🏻 2w
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Zanballer | R. R. Knudson
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Eggs Perfect 🏈 (edited) 2w
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare
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September #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks 🧡🤎🧡 Thank you, again for hosting this challenge! 🙏🏼 2w
TheAromaofBooks It's been so fun to see how many books people have read for this challenge over the years!!! 💕 Thank you for joining me!! 2w
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#Falling #Wildlife

We had a visitor last week 🐻

dabbe 🤎🐻🖤 2w
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TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🤎🤎🤎 2w
Read-n-Bloom Yikes 😬 lol 🧸 I love bears but not when they‘re that close and we have bears close up in our hills. My husband came across one this past Spring when we had a bad wildfire around our house and he was up fighting it. I guess the fire ran him out of his den 😆 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @Read-n-Bloom I don't mind them this close--on camera only! 😅 2w
Read-n-Bloom @TheBookgeekFrau Exactly 😂 Me too 😆 2w
Eggs Yikes 😳 🐻 🤯 2w
Dilara 🐻 😲 2w
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Housewitch: A Novel | Katie Schickel
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Eggs Great cover 🖤💚❤️ 3w
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August #ReadingBracket winner is the tagged book

MemoirsForMe Fannie! 🙌🏻 3w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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No bingos this month but 5 TBRs off my shelves

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Bookbuyingaddict Wow 🤩 so neat 1w
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August wrap-up

Total read: 11
✔️ #BookSpin
✔️ #DoubleSpin
8 #ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025
2 DNF
1 5 Star (Something To Look Forward To)

DieAReader 🎉🎉Excellent job!! 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 3w
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16 Lighthouse Road | Debbie Macomber
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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Starting another #BookSpinBingo read

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The Dark Half | Stephen King
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Eggs 🖤🤍🖤 3w
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Pickpick

Nobody writes characters like Fannie Flagg. They're funny, flawed, sad, and just so damn human that you can't help but to love them.

61/80

Ruthiella I‘m glad it held up! 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @Ruthiella Me too!! So nice to read an enjoyable book for a change 😅 And now I can wholeheartedly recommend it for your Mom!! 3w
bookandbedandtea Yay! I'm glad you got to read a good book. Here's hoping this turns your year around. 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea Thank you, me too!! 3w
MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 1w
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September #BookSpin #DoubleSpin list

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3w
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Another Little Free Library stack 💞

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Survivor: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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I was so excited for a new Fannie Flagg book. But I'm hesitant to start it because every auto-buy author has been a disappointment this year.

Ruthiella Ooh! I am going to get this for my mother! 4w
bookandbedandtea Oh how depressing that your tried and true authors are letting you down this year. I hope that trend reverses itself soon. 🤞🏻 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea Yes!! It's like 2025 is the year of shitty story-telling 🤣 So far though, this one is proving to the exception 😌 3w
MemoirsForMe I just listened to a wonderful interview with Fannie on Adriana Trigiani‘s podcast “You Are What You Read.” I ordered the book right after it. Fannie always delivers! 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @MemoirsForMe Yes she does, and she is! And I can't wait to see where these stories go! 3w
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Must Love Dogs | Claire Cook
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Mehso-so

I usually enjoy Claire Cook's books, but this one was just eh.

60/80

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#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

DieAReader Onto better books👋🏻 4w
TheBookgeekFrau @DieAReader I hope so! So far it's really been a year pretty crappy books 😣 4w
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 4w
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From bottom to top:

Special delivery from a most excellent friend @Offmybookshelf
Book mail
Little Free Library crawl

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Must Love Dogs | Claire Cook
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"I decided to listen to my family and get back out there."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Eggs Great choice 🙌🏻👍🏼👌🏼 4w
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Pickpick

This was almost a DNF. But, when I got surprised by who Katy runs into in Positano the story really took off for me. The ending was a little disappointing because I would've liked some kind of explanation. Overall, it was good story to get lost in.

59/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

willaful I really like her but I can't bear to read about people grieving their mothers now mine is so frail. 😞 1mo
DieAReader 🎉 #Next 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @willaful I get that. The beauty of books is, they'll still be around when you're ready for them. 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty
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Eggs Do you recommend this one? 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs Yes. It's nothing you expect it to be; and the way Moriarty rolls it out makes unputdownable 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks On my list! 1mo
Eggs It‘s apparently on my TBR already… 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs This was one crazy read!! 1mo
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And moving on to start another #BookSpinBingo read

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Hollywood Kids | Jackie Collins
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Bailedbailed

After 235 pages, I just don't care enough to read another 300 pages. #HailTheBail

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#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 1mo
LiteraryinPA On to better things! 😋 4w
TheBookgeekFrau @LiteraryinPA Yes! Reading time is too precious for books that don't beg to be picked up 4w
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Eggs Love Jenoff🩷🩷 1mo
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#CharacterCharm

"Off The Beaten Path" #Artist - Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics

Cute little art town of Green Mountain Falls, CO

Eggs That looks awesome 👏🏻 🥰 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs It really is! And when the wind blows, it's magical 💞 1mo
ShelleyBooksie WOW - that is stunning 1mo
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TheBookgeekFrau @ShelleyBooksie It was such a marvelous thing to see and hear. The streamers made the most soothing sound in the wind 1mo
marleed Is this a permanent piece of flowing art? I need to see this🤩 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @marleed No. It's only there until October 20th. 1mo
bookandbedandtea Very cool! Wonder if I can work around soccer games to get down there before it's removed. 🤔 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea Can't miss soccer! You just might have to take a day off work 😂 It's there til Oct. 20 -- so plenty of time to find an excuse 😉 1mo
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Death Wish | Iceberg Slim
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Reggie I always think of my grandpa when I see Charles Bronson. He‘d always watch his movies. 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Reggie My Dad too 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️🖤❤️ 1mo
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Hollywood Kids | Jackie Collins
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I've read Hollywood Wives and Hollywood Husbands, so when I came across this last fall at the library book sale I thought might as well round out the family 😂
I'm looking forward to good, trashy read.

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Bailedbailed
DieAReader 💖🤓Onto better books 1mo
TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 1mo
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"The waiters were singing 'Happy Birthday' in Chinese."

#FirstLineFridays
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