My May #BookSpin landed on “A book on my actual TBR shelves“ 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.😉

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A 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 “debt“ 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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I 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.

Not 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 😃

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 😁

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 😁 Stone Sky - great conclusion to The Broken Earth trilogy (#Roll100 February pick) and The Beekeeper's Apprentice. Both picks!
@TheAromaOfBooks @PuddleJumper

And here is my #BookSpin list for March.

As always, thank you so much, @TheAromaOfBooks!

With 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!

@TheAromaOfBooks

After 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. 😃
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!

First 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.

Posting my #BookSpin list kinda late because I really wanted to finish one more book before that: Space is Just a Starry Night by Tanith Lee. Loved these short stories! This is my first Tanith Lee but I enjoyed her writing so much that I already added one of her novels to my next month list! A pick.

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A great space opera that won Hugo Award in 2020 about an ambassador from a small station to the Teixcalaan empire, caught in the middle of the empire's succession crisis. I really enjoyed Arkadi Martine's writing and while it doesn't mean anything about her craft, I was happy to hear she is married with Vivian Shaw, another author I like a lot, of the Greta Helsing series. A definite pick!

And with this I get my #BookSpinBingo for this month!

Another series by the awesome Seanan McGuire that doesn't let down. Quite different than Wayward Children series which I love but still a great read: a blend of mystery and fantasy, non-stop action that doesn't let down, great world and character building. A pick!

@PuddleJumper: this is January #49 #Roll100 pick on my list.
@TheAromaOfBooks: I was able to advance in the #PromptMaze with this read.
Thank you both for awesome challenges!

One more #litsyrecommends, the #DoubleSpin for this month was a really enjoyable #urbanfantasy. Great writing, a bit more rough and gruesome than I expected though. A pick!

Using this opportunity to post my #BingoSpin board for this month.

@TheAromaOfBooks - I already marked it on the form, I love the new way of keeping track of the Spin reads. Thank you!

My #BookSpin list for January.

I really didn't want to say January 2022 because then I had to ask myself where did 2021 go and didn't wanna go there but since this is more than likely my last post this year, I have to do it, if only to wish everyone a great New Year, full of happiness, health, everything you desire and of course, a lot of great books!

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Happy to report that I finished a few great books in the last couple weeks and got a #BookSpinBingo:
- Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan;
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers;
- The Starlings & Other Stories - an anthology by the so-called Murder Squad and their Accomplices, edited By Ann Cleeves.

All authors I will read more from and all great book picks!

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Here is a great collection of stories written throughout the years by the great Donald Westlake, just in case one doesn't have enough of Dortmunder or wants some fun with him and his gang in smaller doses. Most of the stories are good, some are really great. I loved the fact that there are eleven stories, I guess this is what makes a thieves' dozen 😁 A pick!

@TheAromaOfBooks This is my October #DoubleSpin (I know, took me a while...)

Another book I found out about on #Litsy that was a good read. Beautifully written, maddening in parts when so aptly presenting the “shackles“ society sometime imposes on all of us. Don't remember who I have to thank for finding about it, either @Erin.Elizabeth10 or @thegreensofa so thank you both! A pick!

@TheAromaOfBooks: this was my #DoubleSpin for this month: it's been a while since I had one! Also making progress towards a bingo. Thank you!

This month was a blur, unfortunately didn't get to make a noticeable dent in my TBR list so my #BookSpin for December is almost identical to the November one.

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Another standalone funny and really great Terry Pratchett novel that I enjoyed quite a lot. I've seen comments that it is really not a Discworld novel at all but The City Watch was mentioned so that is good enough for me to make it part of Discworld. A pick!
As a side note, when I submitted my November bookspin list I had Last Light on it but as soon as I started it I found out it was not my kinda read so replaced it with this one.
#BookSpinBingo

I love Star Trek and Picard so I'm happy I finally got to read it but I was a bit disappointed. Una McCormack's writing is great, she has a great ability to make characters and action come alive. But I found some of the plot pieces all over the place, and major action threads treated superficially without enough details; also, some characters' actions and even presence were not justified for me. Still a pick, it's Star Trek and Picard after all 😁

Forgot to post my list for November but here it is my #BookSpinBingo card, which is derived from the #BookSpin list anyway 😁

Thanks again for all you do and for making me read more, @TheAromaOfBooks!

My #BookSpin for this month, a good read but not great. Quite a few twists and an unexpected ending but overall I felt it had a lot of parts that could have been omitted and made it shorter and more dynamic, I would have enjoyed it more as a novella. Still a pick, barely one though.

I was also able to finish a #BookSpinBingo, here is my board. Thanks @TheAromaofBooks for pushing me to read more, can't tell you how much I appreciate it!

Another Swedish noir author I've never read before and enjoyed a lot. For once I started with the first book in the series, but that was just lucky, I didn't even know there is a series featuring Chief Inspector Van Veeteren, who's style is pretty different than other Swedish detectives that I know of, like Wallander, Beck or Bäckström, just to name a few. A pick.

@TheAromaOfBooks This is my September #DoubleSpin, finished just a bit late.

@TheAromaOfBooks Here is my #BookSpin list for October. Can't want for the 2nd. Thank you for always making this fun!

No BookSpin finished yet but I am happy to report a #BookSpinBingo instead that I achieved by finishing these reads, all picks for me:
- To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers: a beautiful space exploration novella;
- Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad: a harder to read but excellent classic novel about European colonialism and ivory exploitation taken to extremes;
- Lewis Carroll's excellent Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; ⬇

My first Roderick Alleyn book, in fact my first Ngaio Marsh, this is #26 in the series. A little free library find, way at the end of the series but it didn't feel like I really should have started with book 1 (in any case, I already ordered the first book to start in order). In my opinion, some views were a bit dated, especially about women but the plot was good and it happened in Rome (as obvious from the title) so overall I enjoyed it.

I kept waiting to post this hoping that I get to finish my #BookSpin read but it didn't happen. At least I am happy I got a #BookSpinBingo after finishing a few more great books, like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey's Decision at Doona and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. Last 2 are each 1st in 3-book series that I may continue reading sometime in the future.

Also posting my reading list for September.

Thank you, @TheAromaOfBooks!

Just finished another great Brandon Sanderson, my #DoubleSpin for this month and I loved it. First in a 3 book series, looking forward to next ones.

Also finished a couple more books started in July, both great: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing.
All of them picks.

And since I didn't post my #BookSpinBingo card yet, here it is now.

As always, thank you @TheAromaOfBooks!

@TheAromaOfBooks

Very late as always, here is my #BookSpin list for August.

First book in the Easy Rawlins series, didn't disappoint. I love Mosley's Leonid McGill series and now I love this one too, looking forward to next book already. My July #BookSpin. A pick!

Also finished third book in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, Beneath the Sugar Sky, and the second in The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. Both great reads.

And I got a #BookSpinBingo 😏 @TheAromaOfBooks

My #DoubleSpin for back in May, just finished now and I am happy I did. This was such a great read: using as background a very unlikely walk of six hundreds of miles, with no proper equipment or planning or anything, we get to see deep into Harold's memories, with all the regrets, loses, never spoken thoughts and more. It rung so true to me, it was painful in parts. A pick!

@TheAromaOfBooks

Finished a few more books on my quest to get a bingo ⬇

Beautiful novella, I really loved the story and how it unfolded, in separate talks between the 2 main characters. Great writing! Thanks for TOR free ebook program, I already got the second book in The Singing Hills Cycle, I will start it soon.

Also finished last installment in the Murderbot series, Fugitive Telemetry; this series keep going strong and I love it.

Here is my #BookSpinBingo board

@BookishMarginalia #LitsyAtoZ

Here is my list for July, I am participating in both #BookSpin and #BookSpinBingo. Thanks again and again for organizing this, @TheAromaOfBooks!

With not much time left in the month, I was able to finish this book which was my #DoubleSpin and with it also get my first #BookSpinBingo in a while.

I love Ann Cleeves' Vera and Shetland series, I've seen this book at the library and thought it was a standalone, only halfway through it I found out it is actually the third novel in the Inspector Ramsay series. I liked it a lot so now I need to find the first 2.

Thank you @TheAromaOfBooks!

You were right @AllisonM89, I just finished my #BookSpin for June and it was such a great and beautiful read! Rather than I, better let some quotes talk:

“Books and tales are as close as she can come to a place where magic is still real, where women and their words have power.”

“Maybe magic is just the space between what you have and what you need.”

“A witch is just a woman who wants too much”⬇

Thanks @TheAromaOfBooks!

My June #BookSpinBingo card.

My #bookSpin list for June

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My @DoubleSpin for April, finished just now, was great. Not all the story was great but the parts about blues, how it came to be, playing it, what it means deep down were great, and if you love blues, like me, then even awesome. A pick!

I also finished this week All In, the Prequel to The Sagittan Chronicles by Ariele Sieling which helped me get my first #BookSpinBingo in a long while.

Thank you @TheAromaOfBooks and @BookishMarginalia #LitsyAtoZ

My #BookSpin for May - it was great! An amazing look into a dark time in world's history, so many heartbreaking events seen through the eyes of a little Jewish girl, one of the only 12 children that survived the Lodz ghetto in Poland. Definite pick!

Found it in a little free library a few months ago, I wanted to read it since and @TheAromaOfBooks made it possible this month: Thank you again and again!

Also my Y for #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia⬇

My #BookSpin from way back in December is now done read. Yay! It took a while but it was worth as all China Mieville's books I've read. I have to be honest, some stories were a bit too complex/strange/abstract for me, but others were simply awesome, his imagination is amazing. A pick!

And since today is the best day of the month when the #BookSpinBingo card is revealed, here is mine, Thank again for all you do @TheAromaOfBooks!

I kept waiting to publish my #BookSpin list for May hoping I will finish at least one more book or at least get half a #BookSpinBingo 😁 but it won't happen. Another disappointing month in terms of how much I was able to read. Next month will be better. Maybe...

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I wanted to read this book for ages, I even started it a couple of times but every time I was slowing down when reading the dialogs and not enjoying it as it deserved. Until @mom2bugnbee mentioned the audiobook (thank you so much!) read by Ruby Dee so I gave it a try. What a revelation! The way she brings to life all the words I was struggling with and Janie's story it's simply amazing! A definite pick!

@BookishMarginalia #LitsyAtoZ

Just finished my #BookSpin for April: V for Vendetta and it was really really good. It was a recommendation in the foreword of one of the Sandman volumes and it didn't disappoint. A great story from start to end. To my shame I didn't know that Alan Moore also wrote The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Watchmen so this will not be my last encounter with his writing. A definite pick!

@TheAromaOfBooks

Kept waiting to post my list for April, hoping I will finish more books in March but it's not happening so here is my #BookSpin list. Also looking forward to #BookSpinBingo.

@TheAromaOfBooks

Just finished my March #BookSpin and I really loved it. Leaving aside the Fantasy elements, this was just beautiful writing. The characters, their interactions and love stories, the idea, I really loved it.
And quotes like “Books can smell of cheap thrills or painstaking scholarship, of literary weight or unsolved mysteries.“
Definite pick! 👍

Thanks again @TheAromaOfBooks!

Also thanks to @BookishMarginalia for #LitsyAtoZ 2021