@AllDebooks Thanks for making me read an interesting book. Finally got to finish my first #Naturalitsy read, I really enjoyed it, learned a lot not only about eels but also marine research, Rachel Carson, Swedish society and more. Very interesting idea to alternate chapters about eels with writer's personal life. A pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks Finally ready now with my March #BingoSpin list.
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Finished reading:
- the tagged book (not the first time reading it, I love Douglas Adams): #Roll100 #1 pick for January and #7 in #BookChain;
- A Comedian Walks Into A Funeral Home done: my February #DoubleSpin.
These 2 reads helped me get a #BookSpinBingo for this month, I think it is the earliest I was able to do this.
Confusing and hard to follow in some parts but still a great read. I have to admit, I started it once and it didn't really draw me in but gave it one more chance and ended up liking it a lot. A pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks This was my #BookChain read for 5th prompt.
Just finished it and I enjoyed it a lot: a very cool view into the mind of a great writer about writing novels, publishing, readers, literary awards, and more. A pick.
This read also helped me get a #BookSpinBingo for this month.
@TheAromaOfBooks I was trying hard to find a book with a title starting with N for my #BookChain challenge, only when I finished it I realized this was it ๐
Last couple weeks I finished both spins and a roll100 pick:
- Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (#Roll100 pick#2): a great start of a new series for me;
- The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay (Jan #BookSpin): another good entry in the Forward series;
- Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (Jan #DoubleSpin): so-so pick: good writing but with a lot of scenes not quite necessary in the context of the book, IMO.
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A great read that helped me finish #PromptMaze Q4. Yay!
@TheAromaOfBooks BTW, I think I missed the post about the new Q1 maze, can you please send it to me? I love them mazes ๐
After reading Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds a while back, I was sure this book will be great and indeed it didn't disappoint. A pick! My December #DoubleSpin
Also, got to finish Our secret, Siri Aang by Cristina Kessler, another great read that was both my Sept #DoubleSpin and May #DoubleSpin. Another pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks - with these I finished all my spins for '22 and got a bingo - didn't think it was possible ๐ Thank you so so much!
Loved this book, I thought it will have a sad ending but by contrary it was so full of hope, love and happiness, perfect read for Christmas. A pick!
It also helped me to finally finish #PromptMaze Q3 (covers pictured)... only 3 months too late ๐ @TheAromaOfBooks
Hope everyone who celebrates Christmas had a happy one. Happy Holidays to all!
I am making progress through my โdebtโ spins and roll picks. Since my last post, I finished:
- the tagged book: a great read, looking forward to more Longmire: this was my November #BookSpin and my December #Roll20 pick #3;
- a shorter read that I enjoyed quite a lot: The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman: my December #Roll20 pick #4;
- Catherynne M. Valente's novella Comfort Me with Apples: my December #BookSpin.
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My December board is ready. Quite a few unfinished Spins and Roll picks, I'll try to focus on those this month. Thank you so much @TheAromaOfBooks!
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@PuddleJumper I didn't think I'll finish reading A Pale View of Hills this month so I added it to the December list and it just happened to be my #RollDecember no.1 pick. But I really liked it so I finished it earlier than I thought. Yay! ๐
Otherwise, not a very โproductiveโ month: no #BookSpinBingo, no #BookSpin, none of the #Roll100 November picks. Luckily I finished my #DoubleSpin: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
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This is very painful for me to admit but have to be truthful: I love Philip K. Dick, he is one of my favorite authors but this book was too much for me. As much as I tried, I couldn't get it all. There are tons of great ideas that I liked but I found out lots of it went over my head and I just couldn't focus. I felt it is better to stop reading half way through than to just skim and finish it without doing it justice. Still a pick, even if DNF!
Yay, finished another great book by Isaac Asimov, my September #BookSpin also gives me #BookSpinBingo for this month. Still not helping me progress in the Prompt Maze Q3 because it was first published in 1955 but helps me with Prompt Maze Q4 so not all is lost ๐
I can now finally get done my list for November, @TheAromaOfBooks
A very rare month for me, to finish both Spin books: yay! Another great book by one of my favorite authors, my #DoubleSpin: a pick!
It didn't help me advance in the #PromptMaze Q3 (I am stuck for weeks now in a cell that wants a book Published in the 1980s, 1990s or between 2000-2010, all my recent reads were older or newer than that ๐) but it helped me in the Q4 maze.
Thanks again @TheAromaOfBooks for all these fun ways you help me read more!
This was my October #BookSpin and I loved it! A new favorite for me, both the book and the author. Not sure why I waited for so long to read it, it had to be good with such a rec from Stephen King: โOne gorgeous read.โ The story and characters were great, writing was awesome and there is so much love of books from the very first chapter that it had to be a great read! A pick!
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@PuddleJumper Also a #Roll100 pick from back in March
@TheAromaOfBooks Late as always, here is my #BookSpin list for October. Thank you for doing this every month! ๐ป
I loved Tanith Lee's writing when I read an anthology of her stories a few months ago and I was looking forward to read this book and it didn't disappoint. A pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks I am happily reporting that this was my July #BookSpin and it also gave me a #BookSpinBingo for this month. Not to mention it advanced me one more step in the Q3 #PromptMaze. ๐
My #BookSpinBingo card for September. Thank you so much @TheAromaOfBooks for doing this every month, it really helps me read more!
pickAnother great read to get my second #BookSpinBingo for August. A very dark read but with a great message and characters diversity (main character is a Black transgender girl and her best friend has three parents) which I found really awesome. A definite pick for me!
@TheAromaOfBooks I had high hopes this will advance me in the Q3 #PromptMaze but it didn't, because the cell I'm stuck on now wants a person or place name and Pet is neither ๐
pickAn alternate timeline in which a meteor strike brings up the need to colonize the Moon or Mars that starts with developing space flight in the 1950s. An excellent read, full of love of flight, both airplanes and rockets. Really enjoyed!
To make things better this was both my August #BookSpin and my July #Roll100 pick. And it helped me advance in the Q3 #PromptMaze (no arrows, just covers in the image). Yay! ๐
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Great read and even greater listen. The audiobook was awesome, but I am happy I also had the hardcover handy to see the photos that illustrate some of these stories. A pick!
This being the first book finished this month, here is my #BookSpinBingo card as well. I formatted it so the #Roll100 and #BookSpin picks labels are in color, to jump at me and make me read them to cut down my โdebtโ.
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pickLast few days I finished reading:
- the tagged book, an excellent read, #0.3 in the Dead Djinn Universe. I really enjoyed it, I can barely wait to get the first in the series, A Master of Djinn; and
- Isis by Douglas Clegg, my way back April #BookSpin. @TheAromaOfBooks
Both picks!
Best thing is these 2 reads got my a #BookSpinBingo for July!
Finished the second book in Narnia series; I've read it before, also watched the movie but still enjoyed it a lot.
@TheAromaOfBooks This is my July #DoubleSpin but also the last read in #PromptMaze v2 (love it: over 30 books read for this maze): here are the last few reads in the maze, since last time I posted it.
#PromptMaze Q3, here I come ๐
A Litsy inspired fantasy read (don't recall who suggested it but thank you!) that I really enjoyed. Just yesterday BookRiot published an article titled โ10 Sapphic Dark Fantasy Booksโ and Fireheart Tiger is in that list: https://bookriot.com/sapphic-dark-fantasy-books/
A very nice coincidence is that my first read for July also matched the first Q3 #PromptMaze: Two-Word Title; thanks again @TheAromaOfBooks!
Also, here is my July #BookSpinBingo.
One update to rule them all...
- I just finished Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood and I really liked it. I always liked Danny Trejo but had no idea he has such an amazing life story. This read got me a #BookSpinBingo.
- I failed [again] to read my #BookSpin choice for June but I put together the list for July, hope I'll do better.
- A quick update with all the books read for #PromptMaze Q2 since my last update.
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pickIt was time for another great Discworld read, and this book was it. As always loved Sir Terry Pratchett's comments dressed in humor, this time on the subject of Gods and religion. A pick!
@PuddleJumper This was my #Roll100 #2 pick for both April and May - yay, one read, two picks ๐
What best to get a taste of this book than by some quotes.
โGods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.โ โฌ
Another great story in the Dark Tower series, this time as the title shows main character being Susannah, or better said Susannah/Odetta/Mia. A pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks This gets me to C2 in the #PromptMaze v2 which has one of the prompts โFinish a series - Go to J5โ that is the end, Was not planning but now I'm tempted to read last Dark Tower book and exit this awesome maze, just to get ready for v3 ๐
And here is my #BookSpingBingo card too.
This is the 5th book in the Wayward Children series and I loved it, maybe even more than some previous ones. Another (mostly) Jack and (some) Jill adventure in the Moors, this time with a lot more development of this strange world.
It was my 3rd #Roll100 pick for May and one more step in #PromptMaze v2 which is really great: I keep adding titles and not finding the exit (here is a not so clear map of my progress).
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My June #BookSpin list, a bit last moment, I was hoping I will finish one more book but it didn't happen.
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My May #BookSpin landed on โA book on my actual TBR shelvesโ and I chose a book I wanted to read for a while, A Perfect Blank by Rye Duran, a SciFi dystopian YA novel in verse. I would've liked more attention paid to the trans personality of the main character but even so, I enjoyed it. A pick!
Since the above is not in the Litsy database, I tagged instead Sharp Objects: finished a few days ago it got me a #BookSpinBingo.๐
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pickA great start of another urban fantasy series by the awesome Seanan McGuire. Looking forward to next in the series. A pick!
@PuddleJumper: This is a March #Roll100 pick for me, a bit late but happy to clear one more of my long list of unread picks.
@TheAromaOfBooks: #15 read in the #PromptMaze v2 list (F2).
My May #BookSpinBingo card, showing a lot of โdebtโ from previous months, quite a few unread #Roll100 picks and BookSpins. Hope to do better this month.
Beautiful book, so happy I found it in a little free library. The writing is great, a bit rough in parts for a children's book, also a little implausible in parts but for a children's book, that's ok. Apparently there is a version with some beautiful illustrations, I may have to find it. Definitely not my last read by Katherine Rundell.
And with this read I finally got a bingo and I can now get ready the #BookSpin list for May.
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pickI simply loved this book. It was beautiful, not sure how else to say it. I would like to say more but don't want to spoil it so I will just say that the way a monk and a robot try to help each other understand the world, themselves and their purpose is really really beautiful and inspiring.
It instantly became a favorite of mine that I will not just have to own but it will be one I will gift every time I can.
pickNot making a lot of progress with my #BookSpins so I chose to read a #Roll100 pick instead (almost a pick, the #1 pick was 49 but I already read that in January and this was no 48). And I loved it.
The premise is confusing and in some parts quite unclear IMO, but this is what a great SciFi book is for me: start with an idea more or less explained and use it to explore characters' actions and inner lives and the impact on the society. A pick!
My #BookSpin list for April.
@TheAromaOfBooks: Hope I am not too late as it is April already ๐
To wrap up my reads for this month, instead of showing by #BookSpinBingo card (I got a bingo, but that's about it) I decided to show my #PromptMaze progress: not a very beautiful rendering but hopefully good enough.
I am going twice through the Q1 version (top 2 rows) because I got stuck at some point and decided to try another way, now I have to follow both ๐
As always, big thanks to you @TheAromaOfBooks for coming up with this great idea!
Took a little bit to post my #BookSpinBingo card because through some sheer luck both #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin were books I started a while back, with only a few chapters left each and wanted to get them done and marked. It's probably the only time ever when I will finish both in a month ๐ Stone Sky - great conclusion to The Broken Earth trilogy (#Roll100 February pick) and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Both picks!
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pickWith 2 more books finished late this month, I finally got a #BookSpinBingo:
- Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson: a beautiful novel-in-poems, about a 11 year-old boy trying to make sense of life through poetry;
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: a great book about a man living in a House which is a labyrinth full of rooms, with an ocean trapped in the basement and a lot of life-like statues. Loved her writing!
Both picks!
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pickAfter reading a few months ago The Strange Library, I bought Kafka on the Shore
but decided to try some short stories first. I've seen his work characterized as surrealism and magical realism and some of the stories are in that realm (and reminded me of a great Romanian writer that I love, Mircea Eliade) but others are different; all have in common a great sensibility and beautiful writing. Add to this his love of jazz and I'm sold. ๐
A pick!
Just finished what I thought was last in the Mistborn series, but it turns out it was only book 3 of 7 (not counting a short story and a novella). As everything Brandon Sanderson I've read, this book was great: a lot of action, magic, unexpected twists and turns, great characters (both good and bad) and quite a lot of emotional moments. Loved it!
@PuddleJumper - my #Roll100 February #2 pick!
pickFirst book in a new series, Fractured Fables, by Alix E. Harrow and I really liked it (like everything I've read by her until now). A retelling (more like a re-imagining I would say) of The Sleeping Beauty, complete with multi-universe and a real princess. Also a critique to the way princesses are presented in fairy tales, and especially in this one. A pick!
@TheAromaOfBooks This is my first read in the newly restarted #PromptMaze.
