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#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
None, not a lot of reading time this past week

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Don Quixote
📖 Letters from Father Christmas
#TolkienChristmas #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 The Godfather
📖 Dinged
📖 Advent
📖 Mrs. Dalloway

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

#weeklyupdate
Enjoyed the Christmas List.
Loved A History of Burning.
Currently hibernating Home at 25%, wasn‘t in the mood to read about cults.
Currently reading the chunkster that is Mortal Fear.

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📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 The End of the Affair

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Don Quixote
🎧 The Godfather
📖 Dinged
📖 Advent
📖 Mrs. Dalloway
📖 Letters from Father Christmas #TolkienChristmas (forgot to add it to the image)

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Finished The Outside- good detective read
Enjoyed The Latecomer- good family saga
Enjoying my Christmas read- The Killer‘s Christmas List, with an aptly named author for today.

What my November looked like...

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📖 Small Town Pride
📖 Sexing the Cherry
🎧 The House of the Spirits #Chile #FoodAndLit #ReadingTheAmericas2023
🎧 A Glass of Blessings

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Don Quixote
📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

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📖 Nowhere Better Than Here
🎧 Sovietistan
🎧 White Women

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Don Quixote
📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Sexing the Cherry
🎧 The House of the Spirits

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📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 The Epic of Gilgamesh

#CurrentlyReading
🎧 Don Quixote
🎧 Sovietistan
📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 The House of the Spirits
📖 Nowhere Better Than Here

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📖 Forgotten Five: Map of Flames
🎧 Lolly Willowes
🎧 An Artist of the Floating World #AuthorAMonth

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Don Quixote
📖 The Epic of Gilgamesh
📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Nowhere Better Than Here

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📚 Finish Dracula Daily!

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📖 Saga Volume 10
🎧 I Contain Multitudes
🎧 Tess of the D‘Urbervilles #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade
📖 The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 The Return of the King #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Map of Flames

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📚Continue current books
📚 Start Don Quixote!

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🎧 Wild Swans
🎧 The Final Girl Support Group #LitsyBookClub
🎧 Enemies in the Orchard
📖 The Two Towers #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Tess of the D‘Urbervilles #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade
📖 Map of Flames
🎧 I Contain Multitudes

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books

I think this is a good time for me to retire this #bookreport exercise. New endeavor TBD.

But first!
-I‘ve been reading Ripley in dribs & drabs for months and will likely continue the same.
-Two books in a row set in a library with unhinged characters is maybe a bit much. I pivoted to Tom Lake which I‘m enjoying more.
-Percy Jackson is back! Without spoiling, I think I can say there will be more books to follow.

Miss you, Cindy. 🫂💔

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—read 8 books this week (2 out of 9 forecasted; all on audio; no 5⭐️)
—🎧 doll bones

#scarathlon #blackcatcrew

#bookreport: Finished two books this past week. The Golden Spruce was very interesting, but the author seemed to spend more time on the history of forestry than on the actual events that led up to the chopping down of the Golden Spruce. The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary was very fascinating and was also made me put the book down for a bit because of how I wanted the ending to be different.

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📖 #Clarissa

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Two Towers #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Wild Swans
🎧 Tess of the D‘Urbervilles #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books
📚 Maybe pick up something new

Since the news from Israel began pouring in last Saturday, October 7 - the only book I‘ve opened is the Tehillim, Book of Psalms. Sometimes words written more than 2500 years ago hold the most power. In these dark days, when hope is almost lost, I‘m finding tremendous comfort and solace through these ancient songs and laments. Im also feeling tremendous gratitude for my Litsy family who have reached out & sent me virtual hugs and love.

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North Woods didn‘t live up to the hype for me.
Loved Hello Beautiful ❤️
Reading the new Peter James, love this series it the basic of one of the crimes in this is puppy breeding/ stealing dogs 😞
@Cinfhen a book report seems a weird to tag you in today so just sending love and hugs 😘

My friend gave me a tutorial on the TV operation before they left, but I‘ve forgotten a crucial step and can‘t connect to live TV for now. That might not be a bad thing. 😬

Anyway, here‘s where we are.

-The Woman in the Library is weird & unsettling, and we should have a good book club discussion.
-Maddy Clare was interesting & different.
-TTT is still my favorite of the series.
-Happiness Falls is hibernating.

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🫂to you @Cinfhen

Not much reading last week but did finish 2 short reads and October #NunLit. Also managed to mostly keep up on the #buddyreads. No #WeeklyForecast as I am having trouble picking what‘s next.

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📖 Two Degrees #TRS2023

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Two Towers #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Wild Swans
🎧 Tess of the D‘Urbervilles #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books

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haven‘t posted one of these in awhile, but here‘s how october‘s going so far.

—read 14 books this week (all on audio; no 5⭐️, but enjoyed the chemistry of love & the last heir to blackwood library)
—🎧 cold pursuit #bookspinbingo

#scarathlon #blackcatcrew

Two picks, one so-so, two bails (not pictured), and three started (print digital, and audio). Overall, not a bad week, eve though I‘d like to have more actually finished. I‘m hoping to get through The Ghost Tree today. #bookreport

I‘m back from my UK adventure and preparing for a much lower key trip next week.

-Finished Wind… nicely woven story of love and loss amidst a world that continues to require forced migration and family separation
-Happiness Falls is a tense family drama that I‘m tackling in small bits
-Green Mansions is kinda old fashioned so I‘ll probably set it aside for now while I work on other October books
-Frodo & Sam are wandering in Ithilien

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Reading was sparse this week. Work sucks.
Finished The Alchemists‘s Secret and about 100 pages into Goddesses, no opinion yet as not much has happened!

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🎧 A Passage to India #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade
🎧 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow #LitsyBookClub

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Two Towers #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Two Degrees #TRS2023
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Wild Swans

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books
📚 Start Tess

I surprised myself with how much I finished this week. I may start something else today, but as of right now, I have no idea what that may be. I really enjoyed Paradox Hotel, and the Will Trent novellas were fun. The Gunnie Rose audiobooks were good for listening to while I worked, and both the Bateman and Nesbo were disappointing. #bookreport

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Enjoyed Wandering Souls.
Loved The Covenant of Water.
Bookshop was ok.
Sisters of Treason was ok.
Just started All the Sinners Bleed.

Greetings from Gladstone‘s! It may or may not be raining at the moment, but it‘s definitely a little chilly.

I finished two books while in transit and made progress on some others. Of course I have also acquired more books as well! TBD what I will start next and stick with reading.

Meanwhile, we‘re at a pause in Middle Earth, as we pivot to Frodo and Sam next week.

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All ‘new to me authors‘. Absolutely loved Tom Lake, but suspect Meryl Streep‘s performance was the reason. Patchett may be too ‘schmaltz‘ for me, but I‘ll certainly try another. Both the other books started very slow and I nearly bailed on both. I‘m glad I persevered. Ended up enjoying both and was completely bowled over by Chain-Gang All Stars. Once I got past all the blood and guts, I found it an incredible read.

#bookreport: Didn‘t read that much but I am reading more regularly. Finished Seven Husbands last night; review to come later.

#weeklyforecast: Plan to finish Little Fires, as I have about a couple hours left to read. Planning to start either The Golden Spruce or When the Elephants Dance or restart In Memorium this week.

#upcoming: May continue with Charlotte‘s Web or start Dictionary of Lost Words later this week. Happy reading.

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🎧 The Flame Throwers
🎧 Air #TRS2023

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Two Towers #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Two Degrees #TRS2023
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow #LitsyBookClub
🎧 A Passage to India #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#WeeklyForecast
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I‘ve had trouble finding any desire to read at all, let alone stick with a book. Most of this week, I‘ve had to force myself to read 5 pages or listen to a few minutes of an audiobook just to keep my StoryGraph streak alive. It‘s no reflection on anything I‘ve tried to read. I hate depressive episodes. 😔 I‘ll finish the Burrowes tonight. I am enjoying it, but I‘m shelving pretty much everything else for another time. #bookreport

This week my book club met to discuss Pride and Premeditation. I didn‘t like it as much as I thought I would, but I think I liked it more than anyone else did! Oh well. Next up for the other mystery book club is Killers of a Certain Age, which should generate a fun discussion.

Progress was made on the rest, and something came out of hold that will be added next week. Lotta rain today, so a good day for reading.

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Loved the new Osman.
Loved Black Mouth - great horror 👍🏻
Just started Game of Lies.

#bookreport: Had a really good week of reading. I read for a total of about 7 hours, finished 2 books and averaged about 108 pages a day. Most days I read for over an hour, except for two.

#weeklyforcecast: I am pretty sure that I will be finishing Evelyn Hugo and Little Fires, as I have about 2 hours left in each book, based on the pace I am reading at.

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📖 Coming Up Short
🎧 Manhattan Transfer

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 Two Degrees #TRS2023
🎧 The Flame Throwers
🎧 A Passage to India #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books
📚 Start The Two Towers tomorrow #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

After finishing Old God‘s Time I dove into books 2 and 3 of The Boxcar children series as palette cleansers. I just let the child in me delight in their adventures. Will be glad to finish The Most Likely Club today.

#BookReport. #SeriesLove23

It was a productive week. I‘m up-to-date with September‘s book club selections, and we had a good discussion this week about The Rose Code. I cracked the code on donating the extra Nationals tickets I can‘t use, and I had a nice impromptu beer date with a friend of mine. I even read another chapter of Ten Women. 😄

In a couple hours I‘ll head into DC for the meetup.

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I finished Raging Storm and Criminal early in the week and had trouble settling on anything else. I have 10 hours before Persephone Rising returns to the library and 4 1/2 hours left to listen, so I guess that‘s what I‘ll be doing today. Nonfiction has been a challenge this week, and clearly I can‘t focus on fiction either. Not pictured are two other books I picked up and put down after 20/30 pages. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #bookreport

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Loved The Island of Longing
Am 50% through Strong Female- but NF wasn‘t doing it for me this week, will pick up again.
Had an outing with detective Kay in A Lethal Deception and currently hanging out with the Tudors and wife number 6 in The Queen‘s Gambit.

Best of the week is Our Fathers but all the others were good.

Most Likely Club is problematic but I‘ll finish because the comments are so good #SundayBuddyRead. I‘m struggling to keep up with Passage and will likely DNF. Boxcar Children is a sweet trip down memory lane.

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My reading is slowly coming back. I find that I can read read for about 30-45 minutes at a time, but its usually closer to 30 minutes most times. I currently am working on The Martian and Seven Husbands for my book meetings this week. And when those are done, I will get onto In Memorium and When the Elephants Dance. I will attempt to work on Little Fires and Charlotte's Web, but I have some others in the wings to work on.

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🎧 Legends & Lattes
🎧 The World According to Garp
📖 The Fellowship of the Ring #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 Two Degrees #TRS2023
🎧 Manhattan Transfer
🎧 A Passage to India #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books
📚 Make more time for MG/YA again now that we‘re back in school

It was a week of heat, baseball, personal admin, and of course reading. Capped off with the fire alarm for the building going off at 6:15 this morning. 🥺

False alarm and all is well except for a disrupted sleep schedule. As for the reading…

Finished Rose Code and looking forward to resuming book club at the library this week.

Left Middle Earth for now with a bit of a cliff hanger. Now in post-apocalyptic Africa! Started P&P. 😄

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After forcing my way through Cleveland Noir last Sunday, I hit a bit of a slump. I made progress in the things I‘d started last week, but didn‘t finish anything. I also started a couple of other books. I‘d like to finish something today, but the odds aren‘t good. The weather is iffy and wreaking havoc on my head. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #bookreport

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Slow week, work hard, but enjoyed my conference!
Cat Step was good.
Daring Night was 2nd in a Liverpool detective series that I think I enjoy more because it‘s in Liverpool 🤷‍♀️
Started Holly last night and am trying not to read at 100 miles an hour!!

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Another good reading week. The first 3 were all excellent. The others were good not great. Put my #WorldismyOyster for #TitlesandTunes back on the shelf for now.

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🎧 Vanity Fair #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 The Fellowship of the Ring #LotRChapterADay #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 Two Degrees #TRS2024 - switched up my MG read when I forgot to take the library book to school
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 A Passage to India #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade
🎧 The World According to Garp
🎧 Legends & Lattes

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books