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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day12

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:

🎄What is your favorite memoir?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

RaeLovesToRead Probably Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key 🩵 9h

BookishMarginalia

Autobiography of a Face

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H is for Hawk

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TheBookHippie Favorite?!?! 🤪 I read many excellent ones this year but the memoir that sticks with me is

Patriot

willaful

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

xicanti I think Elton John‘s autobiography is my favourite, which I didn‘t expect AT ALL when I borrowed it. 6h

TheBookgeekFrau Tough to pick just one 🤔 But one that I still think about a lot is

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence

BethM I don‘t read a bunch, maybe a handful over the last 10 years. The ones that have stuck with me details wise were Spare and My Time to Stand 2h

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I was very happy to receive this in the mail. I was a bit bummed out to not find a page-a-day bibliophile calendar for last year & Workman publishing has produced several great such calendars in the past. I noticed that they also produced wall calendars, if that's more your speed.

tpixie Nice! 😊 thanks for sharing 19h

AnnCrystal 🆒🤩👍🏼💫. 18h

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BookishMarginalia

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day11

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:

🎄What was the last book you read set in a country other than where you live?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

BookishMarginalia UK 🇬🇧

The Killing Stones: Detective Jimmy Perez is Back in a New Gripping Mystery from the Sunday Times Bestseller

Karisa I read this gorgeous book set in Cyprus and the UK recently

Island of Missing Trees

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AnnCrystal 🥳👌🏼📚💚🤍❤️ The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta was a historical fantasy set in Mesoamerica 📚💝.

The Lost Dreamer

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Amiable Just finished this one set in Sweden

The Colony

RaeLovesToRead I live in the UK, but currently I am also in Argentina, Vermont, and a fictional city called Caten! 2d

jenniferw88 Sri Lanka

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

julesG Easy answer 99% of the books I'm reading are set anywhere but Germany. Last read was set in the USA 😁

Love Me Stalk Me: A Novel

dabbe 19th century Paris with

Les Miserables (Illustrated)

ChasingOm Japan for

We'll Prescribe You a Cat: The feel good Japanese bestselling book

TheBookgeekFrau Berlin, Germany WWII

The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day10

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:

🎄What‘s your favorite retelling of a classic myth?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

TheBookgeekFrau Wait. Wasn't this yesterday's question? 2d

BookishMarginalia @TheBookgeekFrau Good catch! The photo issue made me frazzled! Fixing now! 2d

BookishMarginalia Mine is probably Atwood‘s Penelopiad. I also love graphic novel adaptations. 2d

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willaful I really loved Rosamund Hodge's dark romantic retellings, especially Crimson Bound. I'm bummed she doesn't seem to be writing anymore.

And John Wiswell's Wearing The Lion is such a great twist for Hercules, bringing some peace to a very tragic story.
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TheBookHippie Top ten read for me this year!

Hekate

TheBookgeekFrau 😊 .... I haven't read one, at least to my knowledge. For all I know, one of Christopher Moore's books could apply 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2d

kspenmoll Loved

Circe

do-re-mi I remember reading and liking Circe but I don't recall the story very well. 2d

AmyG I loved Circe. 2d

ravenlee I love Natalie Haynes‘ nonfiction myths, and I need to try her fiction (I have most of it, just haven‘t committed yet), and this short story by Madeline Miller was surprisingly powerful.

Galatea: Short story

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dabbe @AmyG I'm with you! 💚💙♥️ 2d

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day9

RaeLovesToRead NIGHTEYES AND THE FOOL 🥰🥰🥰🐺 3d

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩📚💝. 2d

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day9

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is:

🎄Who‘s your favorite main character?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

BookishMarginalia My all time fave is Anne of Green Gables 😍 3d

do-re-mi Sarah Wheaton from the Sarah, Plain and Tall series. 3d

TheBookgeekFrau "Gin" Kelly from the wicked redhead series by Beatriz Williams 3d

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TheBookHippie Jane of Jane Eyre tied with Èponine of LesMis- yes I know she‘s not main character- I just think she should be and have her own book ???. 3d

Hooked_on_books Ramona Quimby forever! 3d

Bookwomble Too many, really, but I'll go with Frodo Baggins 🙋🏻 3d

TrishB Paige Mahoney (Bone Season) and Roland Deschain (Dark Tower). 3d

dabbe @TheBookHippie You should write one! ♥️💙💚 3d

dabbe My all-time favorites go to Sherlock Holmes (duh) and Scarlett O'Hara. 3d

lil1inblue Pippi Longstocking! 😍 3d

AnnCrystal Bruce Wayne/Batman 💝🦇💝. 2d

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oddandbookish

Animal Intelligence: The Book of Forgotten History | Will Shin

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This was a very unique read! I hadn‘t read anything like it before.

It blends fact and fiction to create a “history” of animals starting from the Paleozoic Era all the way to present day and beyond. Basically it personifies animals and tells their story in relation to humans. The animals are presented in a very human way.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/review-animal-intelligence/

oddandbookish #book #booklover #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #bookreviewer #booktok #library #doublespin #dashingthrudecember #bookspin #bookspinbingo #animals #history #fun 4d

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day8

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#BibliophileAdventCalendar #Day8

The #AdventPromptoftheDay is actually an activity: cook your favorite recipe.

So, my question is:
🎄What‘s your favorite cookbook? What makes it special?

Answer in the comments ⬇️ or post and tag 💜

BookishMarginalia Right now:

Padma's All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond: A Cookbook

TheBookgeekFrau lol - I did this activity yesterday when I made Beef Stew from my Betty Crocker cookbook. My mother got this cookbook for her bridal shower, and I stole it from her when I got married 4d

BookishMarginalia @TheBookgeekFrau That counts in my book! 4d

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TheBookgeekFrau @BookishMarginalia Oh good! 😁 4d

lil1inblue My current favorite isn't in the database: It's called Four Seasons of Cabin Cooking. My husband and I love to experiment with campfire cooking, and this is perfect for that. 😍 https://www.finnishdesignshop.com/en-us/product/four-seasons-of-cabin-cooking?sr... 4d

willaful I literally just put one of my favorite recipes in the oven - Butterscotch Brownies from How to Cook Everything. Simply everyone loves them and they're so easy -- it's enormous bang for the buck.

Another favorite is Eggs in a Nest - pouched eggs on vegetables over rice -- from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

julesG Whoop!!! Did exactly that for dinner. Made a quinoa-veggie-chicken-one-pot dish with almonds and dried apricots from a tiny cookbook. 4d

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