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Karisimo

Karisimo

Joined July 2022

LibraryThing member Karisimo

middlegradefiction*literaryfiction*historicalfiction*mystery*sci-fi
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What Comes After: A Novel by JoAnne Tompkins
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One Good Thing: A Novel by Georgia Hunter
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March #bookspinbingo summary!

6 Bingos
22 books
12 audio books
10 middle grade
#bookspin
#doublespin
#authoramonth
#bookedintime

@TheAromaofBooks

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Sea Wife: A novel | Amity Gaige
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 🌊 15h
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#coverstories #music @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A world where music is the conduit of magic!

BooksandCoffee4Me Looks like a fun read!! 2d
Eggs Beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻 17h
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The Golden Couple: A Novel | Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I enjoyed this one!! 3d
Eggs Love this author duo🌟 3d
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The Lake House | Kate Morton
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SilversReviews LOVED this book!! 4d
Eggs I still haven‘t read this!! 4d
BooksandCoffee4Me Yes, I really enjoy her books, too! 4d
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Eggs Brilliant 💌👏🏻 5d
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Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy
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Eggs Beautiful 🧡 🌊 🧡 5d
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#coverstories #barn
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I don‘t remember a barn in the story, but it sure looks like one or two on the cover!

Eggs Absolutely 💯 7d
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#coverstories #jewelry @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This prompt was harder than I expected!

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks On my list 🖤 1w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 7d
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Shanghailanders | Juli Min
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 💛💗 1w
Eggs Lovely 💛💛 1w
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Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 1w
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Bridge to Bat City | Ernest Cline
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#coverstories #bridge
Loved this MG tall tale/origin story of the bats of SanAntonio!
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🦇 👌🏻📚 2w
Eggs Great cover 👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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The River We Remember: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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#coverstories #river
My most recent IRL book club read!
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks How is this one? 2w
Karisimo @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks it‘s a slow murder mystery set in post WWII Minnesota. My book club of mostly women thought it would be more appreciated by male readers. Most of our discussion focused on the characters. I liked it fine, but wasn‘t wowed! (edited) 2w
Eggs Great choice 👏🏻👏🏻 2w
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An easy practical read for those in this stage!
#coverstories #shoes
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👠 2w
Eggs Excellent 👟 2w
BooksandCoffee4Me Yes, my husband used this book as a guide for one of our adult Bible classes at our church. Good advice and we benefited from sharing experiences and gaining understanding from the book and each other. 2w
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Eggs 🩶🔑 🤍 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I liked this one! 2w
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Eggs Excellent 🏃‍♂️ 2w
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A Shadow in Moscow | Katherine Reay
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👌🏻 2w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I need to read this one 🪶 2w
Lesliereadsalot This one is really good! 2w
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Loved my #bookspin book for March!!!! It's a middle grade memoir of a girl growing up in Bosnia just before the war. She is just about the same age as me, so even though it was in a different country, it felt nostalgic. It was a perfect blend of personal, family, and national issues. I love how her culture was portrayed and was saddened by many turn of events. Now I need to read her YA account of the war years...
@thearomaofbooks

kspenmoll Stacked! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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One Divine Moment: The Account of the Asbury Revival Of 1970 | Robert Emerson Coleman, David J. Gyertson
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#coverstories #chapel
This is the chapel at my alma mater-Asbury University!
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 💒 2w
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Mr. Mosquito Put on His Tuxedo | Barbara Olenyik Morrow
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Looks interesting 🤷🏻‍♀️
#coverstories #tuxedo
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute 🖤🤍 3w
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Unplugged | Gordon Korman
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A recent read- Gordon Korman never disappoints!
#coverstories #reptile
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love GK 🦎 3w
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South of Somewhere | Kalena Miller
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Eggs Great cover 🩷🩵 3w
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Umbrella Maker's Son | Katrina Leno
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Eggs This looks so cute☔️ 3w
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Let the reading begin! This is my haul of publisher freebies for the Young Hoosier Book Award committee! 📚

Ruthiella Wow! That‘s a lot of books! 😮😊 3w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3w
AnnCrystal 🥳📚💝. 3w
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tpixie Congrats! 🎉 3w
TheSpineView Wow!! 3w
Leftcoastzen 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 3w
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Wishtree | Katherine Applegate
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Eggs 💙🌳💚 3w
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Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻 3w
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One Big Open Sky | Lesa Cline-Ransome
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Can‘t help but share another #cloud #coverstories from my recent reads!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love Lisa Cline-Ransome 3w
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The River We Remember: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Just finished this for my IRL bookclub and it fits today‘s #coverstories prompt #clouds !

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Serendipitous! Love Krueger! 4w
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#coverstories #hammock
I haven‘t read this yet, but looks like something I would like to read!

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

peanutnine Cute cover! 4w
Eggs Perfect! Love Toalson 4w
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Eggs 🖐🏻🌹🖤 4w
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A graphic memoir and my #authoramonth selection! #bookspin #doublespin @thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 1mo
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Ready to take on my March #bookspinbingo

@thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 1mo
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I packed a lot of reading into this short month!!! #bookspinbingo

22 books total
4 Bingos
13 audiobooks
8 middle grade
2 YA
3 Non-fiction
4 Black History Month reads
#AuthorAMonth
#BookSpin
#Doublespin

Thanks @thearomaofbooks and best wishes for your moving weekend!

kspenmoll Congrats!!!🎉 (edited) 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! And thank you, it's chaotic but good 😂 1mo
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March | Geraldine Brooks
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Especially excited for #bookedintime and #middlegrademarch this month!

#bookspin
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willaful Also planning to read Six of Crows for #AAM this month. 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
Karisimo @willaful have you read any others of hers? I‘ve read Shadow and Bone and The Familiar 1mo
willaful I've read Shadow and Bone and the two sequels and Ninth House and the sequel. 1mo
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A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini
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18/110 which apparently is right at the average- I'll take it!

@dabbe #threelistthursday

dabbe You are in good company! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 1mo
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My #Bookspin is a new release historical fiction I'm excited to read! My #Doublespin is a middle grade historical fiction told in verse; it also just received a Newbery Honor award and fits perfectly with Black History Month. Both historical, but very different settings!!

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2mo
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February #Bookspin Goals! Many thanks to our host @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 2mo
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My #bookspin plan for February! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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Maybe my best month ever? 22 books! A few minor holidays and less schoolwork really make a difference! #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks

6 Bingos!
12 Audiobooks
4 Nonfiction (2 memoirs)
4 Graphic Novels (YA and MG)
7 Middle Grade
2 #bitsychunkster #chunksterchallenge @amiable
#shardlakebr @dabbe
#litsyscifibookclub @thespineview
#bookedintime @cuilin

Cuilin Great reading month! 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
dabbe #woohooyou! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fabulous month!!! 2mo
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The First State of Being | Erin Entrada Kelly
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2025 #Newbery Winner just announced! This was in my personal top 3 of the year! A fun time travel story set in 1999! Congrats to Erin Entrada Kelly!
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/01/american-library-association-announces-2025-you...

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The World That We Knew | Alice Hoffman
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I had a free hour near a half price bookstore 🤷🏻‍♀️

TheBookHippie Wishtree is such a lovely read. 2mo
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Uprooted | Naomi Novik
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1. New drinks at local coffee shop
2. Enjoying a long-awaited read of Uprooted
3. Snow (And my crazy son lying in it!)
4. Just downloaded Happy Color this week and am obsessed!
5. My son committed to run track and field at Taylor University (Trojans) this fall- A huge decision!!!!!

#5joysfriday
@debinhawaii

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝
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dabbe Happy Color and Zen Color are my total obsessions and are much needed! 🩶🖤🩶 2mo
Lesliereadsalot What is it about kids and shorts? They seem so happy when they must be freezing! 2mo
Karisimo @Lesliereadsalot I know, right?! he just finished a run… 2mo
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#tlt @dabbe

I‘ve read 33 of 104. Favorites: The Eyes and the Impossible, The Last Cuentista, and The Girl Who Drank the Moon!

It is interesting to think about which books have stood the test of time and which haven‘t!

dabbe #yahooyou! I thought the same thing just looking at the covers! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤗🤩 2mo
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This was an emotional read for me! I was in 4th grade in Florida when it happened. My class stepped outside to watch so I saw the explosion live in the sky. And in hindsight there were so many reasons to not launch that day 😔 The story was well told by the author.

Amor4Libros I was in 6th grade in Bronx, NY. I remember coming in from recess and our teacher delivering the news. I will never forget that day 😔 2mo
CSeydel Oh, how traumatic to see it live 2mo
lauraisntwilder Like @CSeydel said, that must've been awful to witness. 2mo
charl08 Such a great book about an awful event. 2mo
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This is a self-published middle grade book my friend wrote for his sons- I wasn‘t sure what to expect but turns out I was very impressed! Recommend for fans of The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen.

#sundayfunday
@BookmarkTavern

BookmarkTavern Oh that sounds fun! Thanks for sharing! 3mo
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willaful About 14. A few are on my list.... 3mo
Melismatic 19 for me! 3mo
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Karkar Only 17 3mo
Kristy_K 19! With another 7 on my shelves. 3mo
DogMomIrene Just 17, but a bunch are on my TBR😊 3mo
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This graphic novel lives up to the fantastic premise- characters escaping from their books at the NYC public library! An adventurous ode to books and readers!

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January #Bookspinbingo Board is set! Already finished a short one!

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 3mo
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These #ShardlakeBR books keep coming up on my #bookspin list! I failed to start it last month, but I'll be sure to get it in now! My #doublespin is a middle grade book I'm looking forward to reading!

@TheAromaofBooks you're so right, now my year can truly begin! 😉

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! I LOVE the cover for Sylvia Doe!!! 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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