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GinaKButler

GinaKButler

Joined February 2018

Wife❤️Mom👫 Fan in the Stands 🏊‍♀️⚾️. Bibliophile📚Beach Bum🌴Lakeland, FL📍
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The Beach by Alex Garland
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield | Charles Dickens
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In the home stretch for this #chunksterchallenge2024 read. Things are finally catching up with Uriah Heep…when I read about him, I can‘t help picturing The Shermanator from the American Pie movie. 😂

@Amiable
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Amiable Ha ha! Now I have that picture in my head, too! 😄 23h
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The Beach | Alex Garland
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Up next…it‘s on my 12 in ‘24 list!

#bookspinbingo
Book 1 of #14books14weeks

5feet.of.fury I‘ll be starting that one soon! I wanted to save it for a beach day! 2d
GinaKButler @5feet.of.fury I‘m really enjoying it so far! 41m
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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My May #bookspinbingo card!
2 Bingos
6 books read
2 #serieslove2024
2 #unreadbookshelf
Read over 300 pages of my #chunksterchallenge2024

Looking forward to June! Thank you so much for hosting, Sarah!

@TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @TheSpineView @Amiable

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 2d
TheSpineView Great job!❤️📖 2d
Andrew65 That‘s excellent - well done 👏👏👏 2d
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Hey, June | Cree Nomad
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2024 is flying by! My June #bookspin list…some classics, some for challenges, plenty of summer reading!

I can‘t wait to see what you pick, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3d
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I feel like last year I participated in a challenge to read a book per week between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I can‘t find the challenge, but I made my list! These are all books I hope to finish this summer!

Bookwormjillk I remember that. Something like 12 books in 24 weeks right? 3d
elkeOriginal What a delightful mix of genres! 3d
Ruthiella It‘s from @TheHeartlandBookFairy #14books14weeks . She‘s not hosting this year but you can do it anyway! Great stack and I wish you luck! 3d
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GinaKButler @Ruthiella I think that was it! 📚 3d
GinaKButler @elkeOriginal Something for every mood! 😂 3d
CoverToCoverGirl Beautiful!💙 2d
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Up next! It‘s one of my #unreadbookshelf picks and it‘ll give me 2 bingos!

#bookspinbingo

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The Hunter: A Novel | Tana French
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Up next…I love her books on audio! 🎧

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Bookwormjillk Me too! 2w
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The Women: A Novel | Kristin Hannah
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I swore her off after the last one, but someone picked this for our book club! I‘ve heard it‘s good!

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TheBookHippie I swore her off after my first read of her. 🤭 very unpopular opinion I know. I did hear this was good. 3w
Sace @TheBookHippie I just listened to a podcast today with a segment about overhyped books. This one came up. The presenters love this author but apparently the characters in her book usually go through a lot of calamities. 😂 I‘ve never read her though. 3w
GinaKButler @TheBookHippie Her books are entirely too sad for me…I swore her off and then my book bestie picked it for book club! @Sace I‘d love to know the podcast you mentioned! 3w
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AmyG It was a bit overhyped. But it was a decent read. I enjoyed it. 3w
Sace Full disclosure: it is an entirely new to me podcast. I‘ve only listened to that one episode but I liked it! (I‘m currently on the lookout for new bookish podcasts). 3w
GinaKButler @Sace Thank you! I‘ll check it out! I listened to Anne Bogel‘s podcast and read her blog first ages, but the past couple of years I haven‘t cared for her recommendations. If you come across any that you‘d recommend, please share! 3w
GinaKButler @AmyG There aren‘t many historical fictions set during Vietnam, so I am curious about that. My dad served in that war and has told me stories about what happened there, and how he was treated when he came home… 3w
Sace Will do! 3w
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Heartbreak Bay | Rachel Caine
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Up next on audio! 🎧
My May #bookspin pick!

Love this series! #serieslove2024

#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks
@Andrew65 @TheSpineView

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!! 4w
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 I must get back to this series. 4w
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American Royals | Katherine McGee
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Up next…something a little lighter! It‘s my April #doublespin (a little late) and it‘s an #unreadbookshelf read!

@TheAromaofBooks

#bookspinbingo

Bookwormjillk I absolutely adored this series. 4w
TheAromaofBooks These books are kind of terrible and I absolutely loved them haha 4w
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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May‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - Heartbreak Bay
#doublespin - On Writing
#chunksterchallenge2024 - David Copperfield (300pgs)
Book Club - The Women

Looking forward to a great month! Thank you for hosting, Sarah!

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 1mo
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Heartbreak Bay | Rachel Caine
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Yay! My May #bookspin and #doublespin picks! Looking forward to a great month!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Enjoy!! 1mo
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Just for the Summer | Abby Jimenez
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Up next on audio. 🎧

Feels like summer…
#bookspinbingo

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April | Julie Murray
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My April #bookspinbingo board. Technically, I‘ll be finishing up Fuzz and Plainsong tomorrow, but I want to move them off of my list.

1 Bingo
8 books read
3 non-fiction
300+ pages read in David Copperfield
2 #unreadbookshelf
#bookspin read
March‘s #bookspin read

Looking forward to May! Thank you for hosting, Sarah! @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 1mo
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May Day | Jess Lourey
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It‘s gonna be May!

My May #bookspin list! Can‘t wait to see what you pick, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

FashionableObserver The American Royals series is so good!!! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Up next for a bingo! My February #doublespin and my March #bookspin …just a little bit late! 😂

It‘s also on my #unreadbookshelf list!

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!!! 1mo
Amiable Oh, I adore Kent Haruf. 🥰 1mo
GinaKButler @Amiable He is on my list of authors I‘d like to read more of! 1mo
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Up next on audio! 🎧

#bookspinbongo
#unreadbookshelf

Sace Oooo. This sounds interesting! 1mo
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Up next: our April book club pick!

#bookspinbingo

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The I-5 Killer | Ann Rule
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Up next on audio! 🎧

#bookspinbingo

britt_brooke I listened to this recently. Hope you enjoy! 2mo
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The Wright Brothers | David McCullough
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Up next: I‘m using this for 2015 in the Book Girls‘ Backlist Challenge.

#nonfiction
#unreadbookshelf
#bookspinbingo

Amiable I adore David McCullough 😍 2mo
GinaKButler @Amiable I really enjoyed this one! 1mo
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The Princess of Las Vegas | Chris Bohjalian
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Staring my #bookspin early this month! This is a new-to-me-author that I‘ve been meaning to try!

@TheAromaofBooks
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ChrisBohjalian Awwwwww, thank you. Really honored. 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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April‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - The Princess of Las Vegas
#doublespin - American Royals
Book Club - The Unmaking Of June Farrow
Q2 #chunksterchallenge2024 - David Copperfield (read 300 pages)
Backlist Challenge (2015) - The Wright Brothers

Thank you so much for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 2mo
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The Princess of Las Vegas | Chris Bohjalian
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My April #bookspin and #doublespin picks!

Thank you so much for hosting, Sarah! 📚
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Enjoy!!! 2mo
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David Copperfield | Charles Dickens
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Starting today for my Q2 #chunksterchallenge2024
I‘m planning on reading a chapter a day.

#bookspinbingo
#unreadbookshelf
@Amiable @Kelly326

dabbe LOVE this book! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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My March Wrap-up:
0 Bingos
7 Books Read
2 Non-Fiction
1 Classic
1 Chunkster
#Doublespin Read
3 #unreadbookshelf
2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2 #serieslove2024

I‘m ready for April! Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

#bookspin #bookspinbingo #chunksterchallenge2024 @Amiable @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Great job! 2mo
Amiable Are you tackling another chunkster in Q2 or taking a break after “Peter the Great”? 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!!! 2mo
GinaKButler @Amiable Getting ready to start: 2mo
Andrew65 Excellent month, well done 👏👏👏 2mo
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The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese
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Starting today. I purposely lowered my yearly reading goal to read more chunky books, so here goes!

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Start Spinning | Maggie Casey
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This year is flying by…my April #bookspin list!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Good luck with David Copperfield. It has its ups and downs, but overall I really enjoyed it. 2mo
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Up next on audio…this one came in from my holds faster than expected. 🤪🎧

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Just finished my first chunkster of the year and I really enjoyed it. As with most historical non-fiction, I realized just how much I never learned in school and my TBR got longer. I‘m definitely going to read the rest of the Romanov series by this author!

@Amiable @Kelly326
#chunksterchallenge2024

Amiable Fabulous! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2mo
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Up next: I heard this author interviewed by Joe Rogan and have been meaning to pick up this book.

#nonfiction #bookspinbingo

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Up next on audio. 🎧

This is my book club‘s March pick.

#bookspinbingo

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Britt-Marie Was Here | Fredrik Backman
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Up next…I‘m using this for Published in 2014 for the Book Girls Backlist Challenge. #bookspinbingo

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The Silkworm | Robert Galbraith
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
TheSpineView Awesome! 3mo
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Love when one book I‘m reading references another…

Reading Tess of the D‘Urbervilles…and I‘m also reading Peter the Great‘s biography. Happy coincidence!

(And, working the middle school book fair! 💃)

Ruthiella I totally love it when that happens! 😃 3mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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Here we go! March‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - Plainsong
#doublespin - The Silkworm
Book Club - The Frozen River
Backlist Challenge - Britt-Marie Was Here
#chunksterchallenge2024 - Peter The Great

Looking forward to a great month! Thank you so much for hosting, Sarah!
@TheAromaofBooks @Amiable

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Looks fabulous!!! I really enjoyed America Royals last month even though it's also kind of terrible 😂 3mo
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End of February check-in on my #chunksterchallenge2024 book. I‘m more than 2/3s in and should finish mid-March. Peter has met and married Catherine. He has finally defeated Sweden (there has been a lot of war in this past section) and the European stage has been changing. Peter is now turning his attention on who will be his heir, and the obvious choice is a dismal disappointment. So many interesting tidbits in this book! @Amiable

Amiable I‘m so glad you are find it a worthwhile read! 3mo
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Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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My March #bookspin and #doublespin

Looking forward to a great month! Thank you so much for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Enjoy!!! 3mo
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February | June Makle
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February Wrap-Up:
1 Bingo
7 Books Read
1 Non-Fiction
3 #unreadbookshelf
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reads

And, I‘m in the middle of 3 more that will carry over into March.

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fantastic month!! 3mo
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March | Geraldine Brooks
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My March #bookspin list!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks
I can‘t wait to see what you pick!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3mo
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Devolution | Max Brooks
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Up next on audio 🎧

This was recommended on audio by Meagansbookclub on IG. Excited to try it!

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Up next: my February #bookspin and one of the classics on my list! @TheAromaofBooks

#bookspinbingo

BarbaraBB It‘s good! 3mo
intothehallofbooks Great book! 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
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Up next on audio 🎧

My book club‘s February pick! This one will give me a bingo!

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Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane
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Up next…a new-to-me author I‘ve been wanting to read.

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Amiable I adore Dennis Lehane! I did not love this book, however. If you want to read more Lehane after this one, I‘d be happy to recommend others to dive into. 4mo
GinaKButler @Amiable I would love your recommendations! 4mo
Amiable @GinaKButler “Mystic River” is my absolute favorite. “Small Mercies” —also fabulous. Loved his detective series that starts with “A Drink Before War” — it has a very Boston flavor and feel to it. His Danny Coughlin trilogy is also pretty good. That gives you a sense of Providence, RI. 4mo
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GinaKButler @Amiable Thank you! We are going to Cooperstown this summer with my son‘s baseball team and are planning on visiting Boston afterwards. Will need to pick up that series! 4mo
Amiable @GinaKButler “Mystic River” and “Small Mercies” are also set in Boston—Lehane does a superb job with realistic dialogue. I can actually hear his characters speaking in my head. (Although it helps that I lived in Boston for a number of years. 😀) 4mo
Amiable Also —have you been to Cooperstown before? My boys loved it there when they were younger. Another tourist attraction nearby is Howe Caverns, where you can take a boat tour underground through a cave system. My siblings and I loved doing that when we were kids and my family used to go camping in upstate NY every summer. 4mo
GinaKButler @Amiable We‘ve never been. Dax and his team are playing in the baseball tournament there. I‘m not sure how much down time we‘ll have, but I‘d love to check out the Howe Caverns! Thank you so much for the recommendation! My dad went to Syracuse and I‘d like to also see that campus…I‘ve never been. 🤗 3mo
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Up next…this one is on my 12 in ‘24 list.

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Ordinary Grace: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Up next on audio. I‘m using it for 2013 in the Book Girls Backlist Challenge and it‘s also on my #unreadbookshelf 🎧

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Happy Litsyversary! | Special Events
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Happy 6 Year Litsyversary to me!

This is Tipper. She‘s very busy and rarely sits still for a picture. And, she hates library books. (I think she can smell past borrowers on them.) 😂

It‘s so wonderful to be on this site and to interact with so many readers. Thank you, Littens!

#booknerd
#adoptdontshop

AmyG She is a beauty! Congrats on 6 years. 🎉 4mo
OriginalCyn620 Aww! She‘s beautiful! 🐶❤️ 4mo
Amiable So glad you‘re here to share the chunkster love! 📚🎉 Happy Litsyversary! 4mo
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Librarybelle Happy Litsyversary! She‘s a beautiful dog! 4mo
TheBookgeekFrau Happy Litsyversary!! 🎉 4mo
Ruthiella Happy Litsyversary! 🥳🥳🥳 4mo
Megabooks Happy litsyversary!! 🎉🎉 4mo
dabbe HL! And those paws! 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
elkeOriginal Beautiful pup! 3d
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February | June Makle
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February‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - Tess of the D‘Urbervilles
#doublespin - Plainsong
Book Club - Happiness Falls
#chunksterchallenge2024 - Peter the Great
Currently Reading - The River of Doubt & The Deserter

I‘m looking forward to a great reading month!
Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Looks fantastic!! 4mo
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My February #bookspin and #doublespin.

Excited for a great month…thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 4mo
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#chunksterchallenge2024 check in: I‘m 360 pages in and it‘s outstanding. We‘ve seen his rise to the throne (and overthrowing his sister), his “incognito” tour of Europe in hopes of westernizing Russia, building a navy, defeating the Turks…and now turning their attention on Sweden and founding St Petersburg. Put this on your list. Massie is fantastic!
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dabbe I did! Thanks for the rec! 🤩 4mo
Amiable I‘ve got this one on my e-reader —thanks for previewing it for me! 😀 4mo
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