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oddandbookish
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Pickpick

What a gem of a book!

I am personally not a fan of positive affirmations. They‘re just not my thing and I find them overly optimistic. Disappointing affirmations are more up my alley so I ended up loving this book.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/review-disappointing-affirmations...

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willaful
Grown Ups | Marian Keyes
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A soft or maybe mixed pick. This story is like a very slow and looooong train wreck. It's got a weird structure, an enormous cast, and a lot of nervous anticipation. But it's also got intriguing family dynamics and characterizations, and very strong depictions of love, addiction and grief. I don't regret the 6 or 7 hours I put into it.

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin

LiteraryinLawrence Great review! 5h
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TheAromaofBooks
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Mehso-so

This book gets full marks for being absolutely lovely, with tons of beautiful photographs. However, while the theme was good, the material was very repetitive. They gave the steps for planning a garden (found in virtually any gardening book: hardscape, focal points, anchor plants, filler plants, groundcover), then said, “you can replace any of your regular plants with edible plants!!“ and then covered the same steps for your front yard, back yard⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) and containers, so they ended up saying the same things a lot. There were a few interesting ideas, but these authors are also from SoCal, so while they threw out some little possibilities for those of us who live where the land freezes half the year, it definitely felt like the focus was on people who can garden pretty much year round. A nice book to page through, but it didn't really bring anything unique to the table for me. 12h
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yourfavouritemixtape
Exciting Times | Naoise Dolan
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Bailedbailed

My #bookspin this month. Had to bail. I couldn‘t care less.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 13h
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Read4life
Untitled | Unknown
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That‘s my March #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin books completed. 💙💙

Crazeedi I ❤️ your picture, such a cool idea! 20h
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking fabulous!! 19h
Read4life @Crazeedi Thank you 💙 19h
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willaful
My Lucky Star | Joe Keenan
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I enjoyed the first two in this series but somehow never seem to get very far in this one. Gonna add it to my #BookSpin list.

BookmarkTavern Good luck with your list! Thanks for posting! 1d
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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
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Mehso-so

3.5 ⭐️s
For the first 7/8 of this book I loved it. That last 1/8 hit and it went from a hard 5 to barely above a 3. I really loved the characters and how human Doerr portrayed them. No one was villainized with a vague stroke. Of course there are Nazis and they are very much in the wrong. But Doerr reminds us that unfortunately they are just as human as those they sought to exterminate. The end just felt so lackluster for what he‘d built up to.

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm This was my #Bookspin for February. 1d
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CoffeeNBooks
Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen
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Pickpick

Lady Georgiana leaves London to stay with her brother and sister-in-law at Castle Rannoch to help out while they have guests visiting from America. When a series of coincidental "accidents" occur, Georgie tries to figure out what's happening and why.
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 19h
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TheLudicReader
Rovers | Richard Lange
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Pickpick

A straightforward revenge thriller featuring a cast of vampires known as Rovers. I do love vampire tales and this is a pick only because it was easy to read and some of the characters were sympathetic, but it certainly wasn‘t the best story about blood suckers I have ever read. #bookspin for March
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 19h
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BookishMadHatter
BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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Mid-month check in with my #bookspinbingo board

I've read the #bookspin pick and am currently almost halfway through the #Doublespin pick, and counting my dnf book I have 1 bingo

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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking great!! 19h
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