This is super cute. I love a good fairytale. If you're looking for short books to meet your yearly book count, this definitely gets my vote.

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This is pretty cheesy. But it's entertaining. I um may have destroyed it slightly. This is why we travel with ARCs and not nice books. One of my besties suggested getting me a Yeti. 🤷

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This author takes African myths and the beginning of the slave trade and starts a quite interesting and compelling story. The main narrator is a mermaid.

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I went pretty heavy on the library books because I'm feeling slightly lazy rn.

This was unusual. It's a mystery but the format is a bit different.

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Pub date is 4/9/24.
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I loved this. The author is the absolute master of the unreliable narrator.

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1. 😂 No. I travel.
2. Snowflakes? Or those cute elf gnome things.
3. The OG Bing Crosby.

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I sort of half assed this while commuting on the train.

I keep trying with this author and I don't know which thing is less plausible the American setting or the time travel. Title translates to Will You Be There? I do love this cover.

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This was mentioned in The Ivy Tree. #SundayBuddyRead @TheBookHippie

It is so good. Josephine Tey was a master.

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One of my book besties just gave me a puzzle for my birthday. 😍

This has a lovely cast of characters and I was drawn into their stories. A library is bombed and sets up in the London Underground where people are sheltering during air raids. But that's almost incidental to the story.

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Pub date is 3/12/24
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It's so fluffy! I couldn't stop reading this. It was supposed to be for December book club. I just read it early. This author seems to get better as she goes along (I hated Lydia Bird). And tbh I don't love this cover. They have creepy hands.

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Past pub date.
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This author's writing is so beautiful. She tells stories of her near misses with death. Some are sort of normal and funny. Some are very emotional and they'll pull your heart out. I love her even more after reading this.

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This is very well written. The author takes stories from her own life as well as those of others and looks at different scenarios where bias is quite common.

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Divergent + dragons

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I somehow blasted through 3 15+ hr audiobooks in about half a month. I would read more of these but this is it. 😭 I want more.

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I bought this because of the cover. I might be a bit of a magpie. I enjoyed it. It's well written and readable.

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This is sort of a classic locked room mystery. 7 friends and a fiance are trapped on a remote NZ estate during a freak snowstorm. It's entertaining. Even if it's slightly predictable.

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Pub date is 11/21/23
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This series is so addicting.

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I like fairytale retellings that center on the villain backstory. This is the "evil witch" from Rapunzel. As if the book people wouldn't know that. This is a really good story and I appreciate what the author did with it. It has been on my want to read for a while.

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This totally sucked me in. A young woman in Philly finds out she has an inheritance and travels to Ireland where she finds out that she inherited more than money. And there's a whole separate world. And grandma happens to be a powerful witch. And I'll leave the rest for you to discover. This sucked me right in and I've already started the next. I recommend the audio because Irish spelling is a beast.

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This book is about a woman mourning her father and possibly her sick husband though both are still alive. It's about a stage of grief family members go through with loved ones that are suffering from terminal illness. Something people deal with all the time. And because this author is definitely extra, she does it in an unexpected way. I love this cover.

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This is normally my kind of book. But maybe I read too many others that are similar and this doesn't live up to the comparison. It's good. And it's entertaining. But nothing earth shattering.

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Pub date is next year sometime. I should have looked it up before starting the post.
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This book is fantastic. The author is so brave to tell this story. Would I have bought this book if it wasn't so controversial? Likely not. Do I understand why people are all fired up about this? Maybe? Do I get why people are calling it porn? Definitely not. As a popular meme pointed out, if books turn you into things, where are all the wizards and vampires?

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So good. I really liked The Push and this is on a similar level of psychological twistiness. It takes a while for all of the aspects of the plot to sort themselves into coherence, but totally worth it. My book club bestie found this author so of course we had to read the new one.

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This turned up on one of the prize lists. And it definitely belongs there. A woman and child are caught up in the aftermath of the Civil War and end up in an asylum. The author adds quotes and actual pictures and diagrams from the asylum.

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Past pub date.

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Late to the monthly party as usual.

This is my #aardvark pick for Nov. The description has Nickel Boy vibes + ghosts.

I have been so pokey about reading these. The art is beautiful. There is this odd mix of adorable characters and really violent scenes. Somehow it works.

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I love this author and this might not be her best book but her writing is magic even if the topic she chose for this is a bit bland compared to some of her others. Still giving it a pick.

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#Aardvark @AardvarkBookClub September pick.

This is actually pretty interesting. I learned stuff. And the arguments are well thought out and explained. The "kids" at work read interesting things. I never would have picked this up but one of them handed it to me.

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These are hard to put down. The pace is fast and the adventure keeps you interested. This is Gunnie Rose 5. It seems like this series is likely to continue.

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This is quite inspiring. She is a Peloton instructor. My friends are into that. It seems to also seep into my life. I love memoir audiobooks read by the author.

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If you like Charlaine Harris, this series is excellent. This is Gunnie Rose 4. But it actually features her half sister Felicia. I enjoyed it so much I already moved on to the next book.

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I really enjoyed this so much. Is Mary actually Annabel or is she playing the part as she has been set up to do? I would totally read more mysteries by this author.

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This is maybe a little bit weird. A young maid who resembles someone French and famous is brought to France for a covert operation. That sounds pretty normal. It's French Revolution with vampires.

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This is pretty good. There's an awful lot going on and I probably should have read it more quickly but I was busy. It may have been a bit tricky to follow. Finished on the airplane home on Saturday.

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This was book 2. Travel days are great for reading.

Travel day. This is book 1. Loving it so far. Killers of a Certain Age and Red (movie) vibes.

This was interesting. It's basically an art book about Barcelona that the library had available in French. I'm not extra at all. Tagged book is not correct.

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This is great. She sort of hits you on the head with how obvious some of her points should be.

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This is sort of just ok. Like it's good but it didn't blow me away.

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Waiting for a flight.... 🛫

Definitely do the audio on this. I kind of loved it but others are stating it's unfocused which did not bother me on audio.

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This is a family story told in 3 timelines. It's more about how women who are different have been treated in patriarchal society than it is about witches. But there's some of that second thing too. When our book club leader tried to pick a different book for October we basically told her why this was the correct choice. 😂 We're jerks. Good news is we also got a November book.

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Beach. Just beach.

😍🦉

You never know what you're going to find in Provincetown.

Lookie lookie what I got! ❤🔪🎃🖤

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