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I'm on a mission to complete the #192025 challenge! I have 8 prompts left. I have these four on the go in various formats. Then four more and I'm done!
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
@Librarybelle

TheBookHippie I‘ve got 7 left! 1w

merelybookish @TheBookHippie Yay! Exciting to be so close! 1w

Liz_M Impressive! I have 30ish left and some of the books are loooong. 1w

Librarybelle Yay!! That is incredible, @merelybookish and @TheBookHippie ! 1w

merelybookish @Liz_M Good luck! At least you have them planned out. I've been scrambling with the last 15-20 to find titles I want to read and are available. 7d

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

I needed the extra day to refer to my #192025 plans to set my list for June. I've decided to try playing catch up on #foodandlit later, so I'm hoping to jump into Greenland with two books. Let's see what I should prioritize this month!

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w

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BarbaraJean

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

Relieved that June‘s #BookSpin numbers didn‘t add to my over-full June reading (too much 😂)—the #DoubleSpin pick is also my book club pick for the month. And the BookSpin landed on one of my #192025 spots, which I need to make a bit of progress on. I‘m hoping for a #BookSpinBingo right down the middle, with 3 free spots!

📘BookSpin: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (a book from the 1920s—40s)
📗DoubleSpin: The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Looks fantastic!! 2w

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TheAromaofBooks

Spinning Forward | Terri DuLong

Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is TWELVE (again 😂)! Our official #DoubleSpin number is TEN (...also again??) !! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone‘s lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card. I am NOT tagging anyone on that post!! If you want to bingo, please just check my profile for the card. This saves ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) having to double tag everyone/keep track of who wants to bingo and who doesn‘t!!

I use the same tag list for the entire year, so if you would like to be added or removed, please just let me know. It takes me a while to tag everyone (there are a lot of you!!!) so I will add “FINISHED” to the last tag batch so you know whether or not I missed you. If I did, it was completely inadvertent. Sometimes I just spell someone‘s username wrong ⬇ 2w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) As always, the link to the masterpost about how this challenge works can be found on my profile or here - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com/bookspin-bookspinbingo-litsy-challenge/ - and the link to the Google Form where you can track your reads for the end-of-the-year-giveaway can be found here - https://forms.gle/2TgEz5N3NLq3GyV56

Thanks for playing, everyone!! Please know that I read EVERY comment on this post but don't always ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) have time to reply to them all!! Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm and for making this challenge SO much fun!!

I'm going to post the Bingo board, and then come back and start the tag list on this post. Happy reading!!!
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TheAromaofBooks @Lcsmcat @AllDebooks @PuddleJumper @ChelseaM6010 @guinsgirlreads @OriginalCyn620 @TheSpineView @Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures @julieclair @Jess861 @BookNAround @Megabooks @AmyG @Suet624 @PathfinderNicole @SusanLee @JoeMo @Librarybelle 2w

TheAromaofBooks @ElizaMarie @Sace @Elizabeth2 @JackOBotts @Enchanted_Bibliophile @Zuhkeeyah @Jadams89 @wordslinger42 @LeafingThroughLife @vlwelser @Bookworm54 @peanutnine @LitsyEvents @Mollyanna @BarkingMadRead @Daisey @AnneCecilie @Bookwormjillk @JenReadsAlot 2w

TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder @sherrisilvera @staci.reads @zezeki @behudd @JamieArc @AudioBookingWithLeah @sebrittainclark @Maggie4483 @BookmarkTavern @Jari-Chan @bookandbedandtea @Laughterhp @Chelsea.Poole @ShananigansReads @vonnie862 2w

PuddleJumper TBR reads for me! 2w

TheAromaofBooks @Yuki_Onna @Eggs @Read4life @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @merelybookish @TheBookgeekFrau @Clare-Dragonfly @CoffeeNBooks @BacklistReader @Karisimo @Sarahreadstoomuch @Allylu @MatchlessMarie @ChaoticMissAdventures @rachelsbrittain 2w

TheAromaofBooks @RaeLovesToRead @Bklover @Sargar114 @MemoirsForMe @BarbaraJean @michellelav @tdrosebud @Larkken @ImperfectCJ @CSeydel @HeyT @Deblovestoread @Prairiegirl_reading @Caryl @Nessavamusic @BookwormAHN @AsYouWish @Caterina @Singout @AshleyHoss820 2w

TheAromaofBooks @DGRachel @willaful @kelli7990 @CoffeeK8 @majkia @BookKenz @BookishMadHatter @VeganCleopatra @Soubhiville @MallenNC @mrp27 @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @kwmg40 @aperfectmjk @Lkempf @Marmie7 @janeycanuck 2w

TheAromaofBooks @bekakins @The.Great.Catsby @Pigpen_Reads @lil1inblue @Coffeymuse @robinb @DieAReader @DogMomIrene @rabbitprincess @hissingpotatoes @LeslieO @katiekat311 @TieDyeDude @ferskner @Kristelh @Chrissyreadit @KatieB @llwheeler @hes7 2w

TheAromaofBooks @Bookbuyingaddict @Scochrane26 @triplem80 @MaleficentBookDragon @candc320 @claudiuo @booksblanketsandahotbeverage @kstadt929 @Jess861 @Librariana @Lizpixie @GinaKButler @Rachel_reads @Librariana @becliz @5280reader @gossamerchild @rockpools @LibrarianRyan 2w

TheAromaofBooks @kimmypete @Rissreads @audraelizabeth @RainyDayReading @MittenGirlPeach @julsmarshall @melissajayne @Fortifiedbybooks @aCleverDuck @galueth28 @Bookzombie @GirlNamedJesse @Aconight @Allydanielle88 @Airykah13 @beliz @Nelnjali @cewilf 2w

TheAromaofBooks @KellyHamHer @a_lunae @Kiwidragonnerd @Shanaqui @LeeRHarry

That is everyone I have on the tag list, so if you'd like to be added, please let me know!! 2w

MatchlessMarie Number 12 must be feeling pretty smug 😂 2w

Suet624 I‘m so excited to be reading blacktop wasteland by SA Cosby. I‘ve read all of his except for that one. Thanks for the push to take that off my TBR. 2w

Bookwormjillk Yay! Bookspin day! I forgot. That gives me something fun to do at lunch. 2w

LeeRHarry Both short books so yay! Bookspin has been kind! 😊 2w

claudiuo Thank you so much! 2w

TheSpineView Ready Or Not, we know June is here when we get our #BookSpin numbers. Thanks! 🥰 2w

AmyG Yay!!! Thank you! 2w

Librarybelle Yay!! 2w

ferskner What is up with 12!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 2w

willaful @ferskner This will be my third 12 read! 2w

MemoirsForMe Yay! 12 is a lucky number for me! 2w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick My goodness, 12 has some strong energy this year! Good Omens and The Watcher in the Shadows. Both on my physical shelves, and I believe they are both for #192025 . Huzzah! 2w

Sace Yay! Another #PaperbackCrush for me! Those are quick, nostalgic reads. 2w

Eggs 🩵💙🩵 2w

Bookbuyingaddict Thank you 🙏 I may have to re write my list as too many books not enough time 🤣😘x x x x 1w

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merelybookish

The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation | Fanny Howe

May's miserable weather 🌧️ 🌧️ meant a banging month for reading! I managed to read 10 books & these are my favourites.
Catherine Lacey's Nobody is Ever Missing blew me away. Jon Krakauer can write about things I don't care about (mountaineering) and I am GRIPPED!
Fanny Howe's memoir/philosophical treatise left me thinking.
Sour Cherry is a Bluebeard origin story.
South Riding is a 1930s Middle March
Open, Heaven ripped my heart open.

merelybookish My biggest disappointment was

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

merelybookish I managed to complete 3 prompts for #192025 and read 3 books off my shelf, one that I've had since 2018. 2w

Ruthiella Nice wrap up! Is Sarah Burton Dorothea Brooke? 🤔 2w

merelybookish @Ruthiella Thanks! Good question!! Arguably. She does kind of dedicate herself to the greater good. FWIW, I don't think South Riding quite as good as Middlemarch but the scope felt the same. 2w

sarahbarnes Sounds like some great reading! I‘m stacking Sour Cherry and I loved Lacey‘s other books once read so adding this one to my list now as well! 📚 2w

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Bookwormjillk

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

I think I finally figured out my June #BookSpinBingo list. Of course I‘m still working on April but we won‘t focus on that. Looking forward to many warm sunsets on the patio with Not My Cat. I‘ll tag my 20 in the comments. @TheAromaofBooks

Bookwormjillk For #FoodAndLit

Boy with the Narwhal Tooth: A Constable Petra Jensen Novella

Bookwormjillk A Northanger Abbey retelling (must catch up and read actual Northanger Abbey first)

Ghosted: A Northanger Abbey Novel

Bookwormjillk #CampLitsy25

Audition

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Bookwormjillk #CampLitsy25

Wild Dark Shore

Suet624 Great photo! 3w

Bookwormjillk A longest day of the year tradition

The great gatsby

Bookwormjillk For a work presentation

Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Bookwormjillk Just cause it sounds good

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

Bookwormjillk #14books14weeks

Coconut Layer Cake Murder

Bookwormjillk #14books14weeks

Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph

Bookwormjillk Because a friend booked a trip that reminded me of this

Neither Here Nor There

Bookwormjillk Curious about the Booker winner

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Bookwormjillk #ReadingCanada

Marilla of Green Gables: A Novel

Bookwormjillk #AuthorAMonth

Starter Villain

Bookwormjillk #50by50

Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

Bookwormjillk #SeasonalCozy #SeriesLove

Egg Drop Dead

Bookwormjillk #ReadingCanada

Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

Bookwormjillk #ReadingCanada

New Girl in Little Cove: A Novel

Bookwormjillk Library hold coming soon

Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery

Bookwormjillk Reading club

I'd Know You Anywhere

Bookwormjillk #192025

The Bean Trees

Aims42 Also looking forward to the Not My Cat posts this summer ♥️😻♥️ 3w

dabbe #nmc 🖤🐾🖤 3w

AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 3w

LiseWorks Love Not my cat 3w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w

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TheAromaofBooks

The Big Blue Soldier | Grace Livingston Hill

pick

Now that I'm down to only a handful of years to read to complete the #192025 challenge, I've turned to my shelves to see if I can fill any gaps. This slim story by Grace Livingston Hill checked of 1946, plus got an unread book off my shelf!! It's a perfect pleasant little story - Aunt Marilla is adorable - but too short to really build any kind of tension or actual romance between the two main characters. A soft pick, but one I won't reread.

TheAromaofBooks #192025 - @Librarybelle
#100YearsofBooks
#WickedWords - Car @AsYouWish
#ISpyBingo - Blonde Hair
#GottaCatchEmAll - Book you forgot you owned @PuddleJumper
#Read2025 - 29/100 TBR books @DieAReader 3w

Librarybelle Yay!!! 3w

merelybookish That's exciting! I am also down to a handful of years! 3w

Bookwormjillk Nice!! 3w

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 3w

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TheAromaofBooks

Miss Carter and the Ifrit | Susan Alice Kerby

so-so

This book had all the ingredients that I should enjoy, but somehow they just didn't work here. Miss Carter is a middle-aged woman, never married, who lives by herself in a small flat in London and works for the censor's office during WWII. Through a series of events, she finds herself in possession of an ifrit (i.e. genie). Part of the reason this book didn't quite work for me was that the ifrit's magic never really made sense to me. Apparently ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) he can't actually make things, just conjure them from other places? But he has to actually go in person and fetch them? Or something? And he physically flies to these places and consequently can be shot down by bullets? Or something? I was very distracted by the lack of sensible magic (you know what I mean haha) There is also a strange romance (ish) that I guess is supposed to be an acceptance of practicalities, but instead I just felt ⬇ 3w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) bad that Miss Carter was giving up her peacefully independent life to go live with someone who more or less takes her for granted/doesn't seem to appreciate her. It was a strange vibe.

All in all, it was okay for a one-time read, but it's not a book I'm planning to keep. Right ingredients, wrong mixture.

But look at all those #ISpy prompts! 😂 - Cleaning Utensil, Cursive Font, Cat, Title/Author in Different Font, Book, Circle 3w

TheAromaofBooks Also!! 1945 for the #192025 challenge @Librarybelle
#100YearsofBooks
#GottaCatchEmAll - Ghost or Spirit @PuddleJumper
#Read2025 - 25/100 TBR books read @DieAReader
#BookSpinBingo 3w

DieAReader Great!! 3w

Librarybelle Yay!!! 3w

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merelybookish

Lady Into Fox | David Garnett

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A fun little novella about a woman who suddenly turns into a fox, and how her husband manages. Author was part of the Bloomsbury Group.
Although very different in style and tone, reminded me a bit of the recent memoir Raising Hare.
Both suggest humans can learn a lot from wild animals.
Another prompt complete for #192025!

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