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MatchlessMarie

MatchlessMarie

Joined December 2016

San Antonio, TX 📍 she/her ✨ Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2DYYwQh
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First pick of the month! I listened to the audio but this would be a good book to own to revisit. I especially appreciated the section How to be Sane on the Internet. #NonFictionNovember #10BeforeTheEnd

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I hope it‘s not too late for me to jump on this #10beforetheend challenge. The Litsy algorithm was barely showing me this tag today. Here are 10 books I am hoping to finish before 2025. Great idea @ChaoticMissAdventures 🤩

ChaoticMissAdventures Never too late! Well January 2025 would be I guess! Good luck 🍀 16h
BookmarkTavern The Dictionary of Sorrows is one of my favorites! 💖 11h
MatchlessMarie @Avanders @BookmarkTavern I barely heard about it like a month ago because one of my online friends received it as a gift and posted it. Now I keep hearing great things about it 🖤 4h
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November #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks. For my DoubleSpin I had marked as a #ReadYourKindle book so I am choosing Morbidly Yours which was a pick from October and also fits this month‘s #TBRTarot prompt for a book that begins with the first letter of your middle name.

CBee Yay! 1d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!! 1d
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I will be hosting an 8 day readathon leading up to my birthday. I am turning 36 so I am going to try for 36 hours by my birthday. These challenges get more challenging the older I get! Please join me! You can match my challenge, read 36 chapters instead, or set a totally different goal. Use #36by36 on your posts and tag me so I can see what you are reading. 🧁

LiseWorks I'm in and happy birthday 🎂 🥳 2d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Happy birthday 🎊🎁🎈🎉🎂 2d
AmyG Happy Birthday! I shall try to read all that I can….and think of you. 🎂 2d
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Bookwormjillk Fun! Happy birthday 🎂 2d
Seabreeze_Reader Have a fun week! 🥳🎂🎉 (Maybe I can try for 3 + 6 hours, lol.) (edited) 2d
kezzlou85 What a fun idea. I'm tempted to try for the 36 hours like you. 🎂📚 2d
ShananigansReads Yay! I was hoping this would be back this year. I‘ll be traveling durning the weekend and work will be crazy with the holiday coming so I‘m going to shoot for a conservative 360 pages. 2d
MatchlessMarie @Seabreeze_Reader lol I will have to keep that in mind if I suddenly realize I‘m in over my head 🤣👌 2d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Happy Birthday!! 1d
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#ReadYourKindle list November.

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November #BookSpin List. I am going to attempt to read more nonfiction this month for #NonFictionNovember

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October #BookSpinBingo wrap up. 10 books read in October is not too bad, but it pains me how close I came to getting a double Bingo 🤣 Crossing my fingers for November, which is also my birthday month! I plan to host a readathon during my birthday week. I will post details soon. 🧁 📖

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 4d
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Brownie Points | Jennifer Coburn
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Final total points check in for #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew We went as this famous duo last night since I already got to be Roz. My reading slowed down after my break in happened midway through October. I was just one book away from a #BookSpinBingo but oh well better luck in November 😜 Thank You @PuddleJumper for making this happen and @Emilymdxn for being a great team captain. Also happy to clock just over 44 hours for #31by31 @Catsandbooks

PuddleJumper Amazing! 4d
Catsandbooks Awesome job! 👏🏼 🧡 4d
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Error 404 Title Not Found | Pickett's Class
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Not yet in the database…

Kayley Loring and Connor Crais y‘all!!! Billy Boston‘s book did not disappoint and I‘m so happy I got to finish it in OCTOBAH. One of my favorite takeaways is “we‘re all gonna die so don‘t be a dumbass”. Also I never thought I‘d get teary eyed over Tubthumping 🤣 This book also has a Spotify playlist I will link below. I absolutely love this series and I‘m so glad Billy got his HEA. https://tinyurl.com/yff2fkkk ⬇️

MatchlessMarie #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 Used Kindle Whispersync for this book but but used the special edition cover to fit the Pumpkin cover hunt prompt. Also love the caulking dead pun on this cover 😅 +2 more word search words. #ReadYourKindle #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 #LongNights #ItsATrope (edited) 1w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1w
Bookwormjillk 🎉🎉🎉 1w
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DieAReader 🎉🎃❤️‍🔥 7d
TheSpineView Awesome! 7d
PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 7d
Emilymdxn Amazing! 7d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐈‍⬛🧡 5d
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Coraline | Neil Gaiman
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Catching up. I finished Coraline on 10/25. Somehow I have never read the book or watched the movie till now. I think the movie might have been slightly creepier than the book, but I enjoyed both. Meme unintentionally also has candles which was my cover hunt prompt for this one. 🕯️ #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 #LongNights

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w
Bookwormjillk Ohhh those button eyes get me every time 1w
DieAReader ❤️‍🔥🎃🎉 7d
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TheSpineView Awesome! 7d
Emilymdxn I‘ll never forget having this book read to me by my primary school teacher! Maybe that was where my horror obsession began 7d
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 5d
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I might have shamelessly ordered this book so I could justify sending my son to school as a “book character” on Halloween 😅 Fits the beast prompt for the book cover scavenger hunt but sadly didn‘t catch any of my remaining word search words. #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 #LongNights

Bookwormjillk 🍕🍕🍕 2w
TheSpineView 👍🌞📚 2w
PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 2w
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AnnCrystal 🐢🍕🐢🍕🐢🍕🐢🍕💝. 2w
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1w
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐢💚 1w
Emilymdxn Amazing! It‘s really hard to get those last few word search words I‘m in the same boat 1w
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Carrie | Stephen King
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Finished Carrie today. Probably did not think my lunch through very well while listening though 😅🩸Took an unintentionally long break from #LosersClub but it was nice to read King again. I can‘t believe I‘ve never read this one till now although I did read a lot about it from On Writing. Claimed 2 more word search words and blood for the book cover scavenger hunt. #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 ⬇️

MatchlessMarie Claiming for #witchathon since there are a lot of witch references in this one although no actual witches but I guess that could be up for debate 🤣 2w
BarkingMadRead Yeahhhh I dunno about that lunch, it matches your book cover 🤣 2w
Catsandbooks 😂👏🏼❤️ 2w
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MatchlessMarie @BarkingMadRead pepperoni tomato soup with slices string cheese one of my favorite easy meals lol but it did feel a little morbid 🤣 2w
TheSpineView Excellent! 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2w
DieAReader 😂Oops! 🥳Great finish! 2w
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Payback's a Witch | Lana Harper
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Sadly this one got called back to library purgatory before I finished it but it at least crosses Moon off the book cover scavenger hunt. Maybe it will come back to me before the end of the month. 🤞🌙 #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

PuddleJumper Ah that's a shame! 2w
Emilymdxn That‘s such a shame I hate when that happens! 2w
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Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween | Deborah Nourse Lattimore
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After finishing the Cruella puzzle, my son and I started a Cinderella one. I couldn‘t help but think about how Cinderella has so many Halloween elements in it. There is evil, magic, a pumpkin, a black cat, and dressing up. Come on! So I took to Google wondering if anyone else thought this and came across this book which is kind of a witchy retelling of Cinderella with dirt. Fits the animal cover prompt and also completes my Goodreads goal 🎉⬇️

MatchlessMarie #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo October prompt for #TBRTarot (less than 200 pages.. a lot less lol) #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 #PSReadathon Finally a book for #Witchathon 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
TheSpineView Great job! 2w
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Emilymdxn This sounds fantastic! 2w
DieAReader 🥳👻Fantastic! Great job📚🥳 2w
Catsandbooks Congrats! 🙌🏼🧡 2w
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Night Sky book cover prompt. This book is going to be on my November TBR as well. #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

Emilymdxn Beautiful cover! 2w
BookmarkTavern I love this book! ✨ 2w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2w
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Monsters, Inc | Disney Enterprises, Inc
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Morgan‘s Wonderland is our Halloween tradition but this year they have extended Halloween weekends for the entire month of October so I‘m giving my Roz a trial run. I kind of want to show up to work like this since I also work in HR 🤣 #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

marleed Ohhh, Morgan‘s Wonderland😍😍😍 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
willaful You've got the facial expression down perfectly! 2w
MatchlessMarie @marleed Morgan and her father were actually there today and we got to say hi! Also the Roz costume was a huge hit. I think I probably would have won the costume contest if I entered but I couldn‘t do that to the kids 🤣 @willaful @dabbe 💚💚 2w
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Pucking Sweet | Emily Rath
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Have not been very active this week. Unfortunately I‘ve been dealing with some real life spookiness.. home invasion/burglary that happened on Tuesday. Feel very fortunate that my son and I were not harmed and we only took a financial hit. Kind of puts a damper on fictional spooks dealing with real life creeps, though.

#HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween ⬇️

MatchlessMarie This book put me over my 31 hour goal for #31by31. I am just over 45 hours in now. This 20 hour audiobook was read during both #CatsandDogs and #CozyReads I am marking this book as a spice rec. Completed the Monochrome cover prompt and found 3 more words for the word search. Fits enemies to lovers / love triangle / forbidden love tropes for #ItsATrope. I enjoyed returning to the Jacksonville Rays universe for Poppy‘s story. 🩵 (edited) 2w
Sace 😱 I‘m sorry for the financial hit but so glad you and your son weren‘t hurt. How awful! 2w
Bookwormjillk That's terrible. I'm so sorry. 2w
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TheAromaofBooks Oh my goodness, that is so scary!!! My grandparents were robbed a couple of years ago, during the day while they were at the grocery store, and the deputy said the robbers had probably been watching their house to learn their routines. It made it feel extra creepy. I'm glad you and your son are okay!!! 2w
Susanita Oh my gosh! That‘s horrible! I‘m glad you‘re all safe. 2w
Cuilin Oh no I‘m so sorry. Glad you and your son are safe. 2w
TheBookgeekFrau Thats just horrible!! Glad you and you're son weren't hurt🙏🏼 🧡 2w
MaureenMc How awful! So glad you‘re safe. 💗 2w
TheSpineView That's terrible! So glad you are OK. 2w
DieAReader ❤️‍🔥🫂Glad everyone is safe!! 2w
PuddleJumper That's terrible! I'm glad you and your family are safe 2w
AnnCrystal That's just terrifying 🙏💝 thank goodness your son and you are both alright 🫂💝. 2w
Catsandbooks So sorry you're dealing with that! Glad y'all are OK! ❤️ Yay for getting over 31 hours though ☺️ 2w
Emilymdxn Im so sorry to hear! I hope you and your son are doing okay now, sending lots of love 2w
bthegood Glad to hear you and your son are safe 💙 (edited) 2w
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Brownie Points | Jennifer Coburn
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Emilymdxn Incredible work well done! 3w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3w
Seabreeze_Reader 🎃👏💀 3w
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Hello, Cruella | Maureen Johnson
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This is the puzzle my son and I finished recently. I enjoy making puzzle progress videos so you can see the one for this puzzle here. They are pretty satisfying to watch after the work is all done. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88jTQW3/ #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

PuddleJumper That's so cool! 3w
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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Made a quick bingo board so I could get some points for some shows. Been saving season two of CM evolution to binge this month and I did it in the past 2 days 😝 Also my son and I have been working on a cruella puzzle since the end of September. Will share that in the next post. Puzzles and #audiopuzzling are kind of my thing lately. #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

Emilymdxn I am always a fan of a quick new bingo board to get some points! 3w
PuddleJumper Love it! 3w
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Frindle | Andrew Clements
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Reread this one on 10/10 in anticipation of the sequel that was just published in August (The Frindle Files). Was able to find chestnut in the #HauntedShelf word search. I actually took the oath when I was a kid in 1998 so it was a very nostalgic reread for me. 🖊️ #SkeletonCrew #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31

TheSpineView Great job! 3w
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3w
DieAReader 🤓👻🎃 3w
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Pucking Sweet | Emily Rath
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Just started this one. I already knew this was gonna be my enemies to lovers pick (not between these two) for #ItsATrope but this scene was hilarious 🤣 #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

PuddleJumper Nice! 1mo
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Daydream: A Novel | Hannah Grace
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Finished my October #BookSpin pick this morning. Also you couldn‘t tell from looking at it but there is a Halloween party that happens in this book as well as Christmas scenes just in case anyone wants to justify this as a holiday read. 👻🎁 This has been my favorite installment of this series, but I think a lot of us were dying for a Henry book since Icebreaker. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie Found 2 more word search words, used the purple prompt for the cover scavenger hunt and the friends to lovers prompt for #ItsATrope. #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2024 #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31 #catsanddogs 1mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
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TheSpineView Great job! 1mo
Bookwormjillk 🎉👻 1mo
DieAReader 🎃🥳🖤Excellent!! 1mo
Emilymdxn I love those surprise times a book suddenly works for bingo boards! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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I got to spend some time with @the_wastrel today who recommended this book to me. It just so happens to fit the magical sparks or swirls book cover scavenger hunt prompt. I placed it on hold. If I don‘t get to it this month, I think I may attempt to participate in #NonfictionNovember next month if that‘s still a thing 😜 #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

Emilymdxn That‘s a beautiful cover! 1mo
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Orange cover for the #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew cover scavenger hunt and sadly fits the cadaver prompt for #WickedWhispers #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Spookoween #31by31

TheSpineView 👍🧡🍊🧡🎃🧡 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👍🏻📚 1mo
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DieAReader 🥳👻Great! 1mo
Eggs Well done 👍🏼 1mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🧡 1mo
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The Guncle Abroad | Steven Rowley
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Finished on Wednesday. Took me a minute to grasp the Google sheets wizardry for #HauntedShelf 😝 Grabbed 17 word search words on this book alone. Counting this one as a series recommendation. I love these characters! I have really enjoyed this series and hope book 2 isn‘t the end. Also I really enjoyed Rowley‘s narration on audio and was surprised to only find he has narrated his own work. #SkeletonCrew ⬇️

TheSpineView Awesome! 1mo
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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
DieAReader 🥳Fantastic! 1mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐦‍⬛🧡 1mo
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I have zero recollection of placing this on hold, but I guess we are reading about cholera today 😅 #hauntedshelf #skeletoncrew

LibrarianRyan Stacked! 1mo
Emilymdxn Very spooky to be surprised by a book like that eh? 1mo
PuddleJumper 🤣🤣 1mo
MatchlessMarie @Emilymdxn exactly 👻also this lessens my guilt a little at being so bad at drinking water 🤣 1mo
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Spinning a Web | Lisa Trumbauer
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Here are my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks for October. Been taking my time with Negatives so I can take music breaks for each band mentioned 🖤⚡️ #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

Emilymdxn I have daydream on my tbr im really looking forward to it! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!! 1mo
MatchlessMarie @Emilymdxn It‘s pretty good so far! I already spotted an icebreaker easter egg lol 1mo
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Emilymdxn Love pumpkinheads SO much! Great list 1mo
MatchlessMarie @Emilymdxn Pretty sure I started the physical copy last year but I had too many books going at once and my loan ran out before I finished it 😂 🎃 1mo
PuddleJumper 🎃🎃 1mo
CBee I also LOVED Pumpkinheads 🎃 💛🧡🖤 1mo
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October, October | Katya Balen
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Part of my October TBR. Will post my #ReadYourKindle list next. #BookSpin #HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew 👻

Emilymdxn I really hope you love paybacks a witch! 1mo
PuddleJumper 💜💜 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
MatchlessMarie Also apparently I can‘t count so I just added a free space for number 5 lol 1mo
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Here‘s my Let‘s Go book rec for #SkeletonCrew #HauntedShelf. I randomly grabbed this one from my library, but I would love to own it. It is a picture book, but adults should read it too. It‘s cute and funny and I think most adults will get teary eyed toward the end. It‘s perfect. 👻🥹🖤

Luke-XVX I love this book! 1mo
PuddleJumper 👻👻 1mo
Emilymdxn Thank you for the rec I need to read this IMMEDIATELY 1mo
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Haunted: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk
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October is nipping at our heels! There is still time (but not much) to sign up for #HauntedShelf if you have enjoyed #Scarathlon in the past this is basically that 👻 Sign up link below ⬇️

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7g2cbAys_w6B9G5HHloV6kRr1yQvXVOptseGn...

PuddleJumper It's so close! I'm excited! 1mo
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Cubs & Campfires | Dylan Drakes
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I was so excited to read this cozy and low angst MM romance with some much sought after plus size representation / appreciation. Luca is a journalist whose passion is to highlight honest stories about sexuality. This book is placed in the early 2000‘s so this kind of work is not for the mainstream. After an offhanded suggestion to write about celibacy instead, he lands the potential for a huge writing opportunity. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie The catch is that he needs to actually stay celibate for the entire summer.

He finds an isolated job working in a remote fire watch tower to stay away from temptation and focus on writing. What could possibly go wrong?

One day Luca meets Artair, an outdoorsy virtuoso of a nomad who is familiar with the area and who also plans to stick around for the summer.
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MatchlessMarie I really loved the banter between these two and especially Artair‘s penchant for puns. Oh and the spice of course. I loved how the size of these men is not used as a device to drive the plot, it just is. Lovely story and I dare you to finish this book without a marshmallow break. 1mo
gossamerchild That cover is just the best. 1mo
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willaful super cute! 1mo
MatchlessMarie Oh I forgot to mention I went back and tracked down all my unfinished #TBRTarot challenge prompts since it started in 2022 and this book fulfills the book that begins with a prologue prompt from June 2023 😄 @CBee I‘m sure there have been others but this is the one I remembered so I‘m counting this one 😉 1mo
CBee @MatchlessMarie sounds good to me! I can‘t believe we‘ve been doing it for 2 years! 1mo
MatchlessMarie @CBee That‘s right! You started in October. I‘m gonna catch up eventually 😆 1mo
CBee @MatchlessMarie time flies when you‘re reading good books 🤓😍 1mo
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Diary of a Blood Donor | Mati Unt, Ants Eert
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Completed my third 🩸 donation of the year yesterday! I usually try to time it so I can do it near Halloween as a bucket list item for spooky season stuff, but I saw they had these awesome spooky glow in the dark shirts so I got it done earlier so I can wear it in October. Please donate if you can! 🫀🫶🏻#HauntedShelf #SkeletonCrew

KadaGul Bless your heart 🫶. The world 🌏 needs more people 👤 like you. 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
Jadams89 That‘s a great shirt! I give as often as I can being O- 👻💚 1mo
TieDyeDude Love it! I donated yesterday 🩸 1mo
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So I picked this book up at the library thinking how cute. And then went from that to well the silly thing is it was just published in 2022! This makes no sense! And that‘s when I realized there are kids out there that belong to entire adults that were wee babes when Pluto was reclassified and might not even know the drama 🤯 Anyways it‘s time for my ibuprofen 👵🏻

LiteraryinPA That is… disturbing. 😋 1mo
willaful Yikes!

You might like this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoYgKO3dD4
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MatchlessMarie @willaful That was great haha 1mo
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Never Lie | Freida McFadden
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@MartinaLove Here are your picks for #TrappedInASpookyHouse. I must admit I got a little lost in the blurbs on your TBR. You have a very compelling list! Spooky reading!! May survival be ever in your favor 🪓 🎃

MartinaLove Thank you!! Can‘t wait to read them!! 2mo
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Devil Himself was undoubtedly my most anticipated dark romance of August. After the tailspin that was the world of Devil of Dublin I was so ready to come back to Glenshire— so much so that I didn‘t think to brace myself. By the end of chapter one my heart was on the floor and I found the mantra in the back of my mind being—In BB we trust ♾️—as I moved on to chapter two and beyond.

Full review https://tinyurl.com/pc6m4azj

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A Short Stay in Hell | Steven L. Peck
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Oh look a glimmer of hope 💀

Ruthiella Not sure it‘s a good trade off! 😂 3mo
TheBookgeekFrau 🤣🤣 3mo
OrangeMooseReads Finally! 😆 3mo
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🤣 IYKYK

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Cubs & Campfires | Dylan Drakes
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So for kicks and giggles I thought I would check on some other ARCs I signed up for and I was chosen for this one too!! 🤯 Safe to say I will be contributing to #ReadYourKindle this month after all 😉

I really need to get better about checking my personal email 🫣😅

Kenyazero That looks so cute! I hope you enjoy the arc! 😍 3mo
peanutnine This looks adorable! 3mo
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Omg I can't believe I almost missed this news. I rarely get selected for these things. Can't wait!!! 😈😍🇮🇪

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Finally getting my July Wrap Up posted. Took forever because I was fighting with my printer 🖨️ 🥊 Pretty surprised I only finished 5. July is usually one of my most productive reading months because of #ChristmasInJuly dissociation 😅 Last July I read 17. I think my distraction of choice this July was music and a spontaneous Nashville roadtrip. Maybe I can learn to love this horrid season one day. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie A Very Merry Bromance had to be my favorite but I adore the series and will never stop recommending it, probably. The Friend Zone was a should-have-DNF‘d book for me but sometimes you just need to watch the train wreck to its conclusion, you know? 💥🚂

Also look at all those squandered free spaces! I think for September I might go back to all my 2024 bingo cards and roll over all my unused freebies and just have a free for all #BookSpinBingo. 🤪
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Susanita Yes, sometimes you just have to embrace the train wreck! 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks What kind of printer do you use? 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!!! 3mo
MatchlessMarie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have an epson. I‘ll probably try to upgrade at some point. It mostly gets the job done but I have to fiddle with alignment every once in a while. I‘ve had it about 4 years now. 3mo
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Happy Birthday @TieDyeDude !!! For your treat yourself #AKBirthday challenge I got up early and got a walk in before work and grabbed a smoothie afterward. I hope your birthday is awesome and literary!

TieDyeDude I haven't seen a Smoothie King in years. What a great treat! 3mo
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August | K. C. Kelley
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CBee The title “Petty Betty” is making me lol 😂 3mo
MatchlessMarie @CBee I actually scored that one for free from a stuff your kindle event this year 😅 3mo
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Back to the Future | Kim Smith
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August #BookSpin / #BookSpinBingo

So when I grabbed some picture books from the library I hadn‘t realized that I actually already read my #BookSpin pic back in 2018, so it was a reread for me. Also I accidentally put Safe and Sound (by Mercury Stardust) on my list twice so instead of scratching it out I actually found another book with the same title that released this year (by Laura McHugh) 😂

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Love your improvises! 😂 3mo
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I randomly found this at a dollar tree. Perfect for #ChristmasInJuly here are some of my favorites:

Q: How did the hipster end up in the lake?
A: He went ice-skating before it was cool.

Q: How do you find Will Smith in the snow?
A: Look for fresh prints.

Q: Why didn't Guns N' Roses make it to the winter gig?
A: Axl Froze.

My favorite part of Hanukkah is spinning the dreidel. That's just how I roll. I drop it like a top. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie Scrooge hates Christmas but loves reindeer. Every buck is deer to him.

If your great-grandmother saw me making mashed potatoes out of a box, she would turn over in her gravy.
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Texreader 😂😂😂 3mo
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The Friend Zone | Abby Jimenez
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SoI did end up finishing it. I am pretty good at DNFing when I am bored but when it‘s a train wreck sometimes it‘s hard to look away 🤣

This book unironically highlights the harm of the idolization of biological children IMO. As someone with PCOS who can certainly related to the struggles Kristen experiences with her cycle I was actually kind of excited to see this kind of representation in a FMC. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie It‘s just too bad that she ends up being so insufferable that I probably should have DNF‘d this book. She basically places the MMC‘s mention of a desire for biological children onto a pedestal in the stratosphere and pushes this idealized narrative even after he tells her otherwise. 4mo
MatchlessMarie To say nothing of the ending which even though, according to the author‘s note is based on true events, I feel that a lot of folks who struggle with infertility could take as a sucker punch. Also she did Brandon so dirty to advance the plot. I did enjoy the banter and some of the character development, but I really couldn‘t recommend this one. 4mo
MatchlessMarie Also Josh is a saint 😂. Am I going to probably read the next in the series to see what justice Sloan may have? Yeah, probably 🫣. (edited) 4mo
peanutnine Poor Brandon 😭😭 that plot twist was so unexpected 4mo
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The Friend Zone | Abby Jimenez
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Fictional me has no luck with Joshes either 🤣

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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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I know we are already halfway through July but I finally made a bingo card. Technically the first one I have committed to my bullet journal for the year. I am unaware if I have gotten bingos from earlier months because I just haven‘t gotten around to tracking them. I will catch up eventually 😆 #BookSpinBingo

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The One | John Marrs
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That last line tho 🤣 💀

BarbaraJean 😂 😂 4mo
Texreader That‘s hilarious 4mo
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