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GinaKButler

GinaKButler

Joined February 2018

Wife❤️Mom👫 Fan in the Stands 🏐⚾️. Bibliophile📚Beach Bum🌴Lakeland, FL📍
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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Here we go…June‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - In My Dreams I Hold A Knife
#doublespin - Les Miserables (also my Q2 #chunksterchallenge2023 pick)
Book Club - Summer At Tiffany

Almost all of these books are on this list to satisfy one of the reading challenges I‘m working on. Looking forward to a great month!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks @Amiable

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 1d
Amiable Good luck! 1d
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Oh yeah…my favorite! June‘s #bookspin and #doublespin pics! I‘ve been working on Les Mis since April and have about 300ish pages left, and I‘ve been looking forward to my #bookspin (I recently saw it was added to my library‘s Hoopla audiobooks)!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks
My #bookspinbingo card will be posted next! 📚

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Good luck getting through the end of Les Mis!!! 1d
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Yours Truly | Abby Jimenez
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I‘ve been looking forward to this one! It‘s my first read for the #14books14weeks2023 challenge!

#bookspinbingo
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

TheHeartlandBookFairy Yay 👍👍 2d
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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May‘s #bookspinbingo board. Technically, I have a few more pages left in one book, but I‘m counting it for May.

9 - books read
1 - bingo
2 - non-fiction
3 - 23 in ‘23
1 - #unreadbookshelf
#bookspin and #doublespin both finished!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks Looking forward to June!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!!! 2d
paper.reveries Wow! Way to go! 2d
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The Cuban Heiress | Chanel Cleeton
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Up next on 🎧…Chanel Cleeton is an auto-buy for me!

#bookspinbingo

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Fourteen | Shannon Molloy
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My #14books14weeks2023 list in grid form so I can check them off as I complete them. I‘m about to start my first one! 😊

@TheHeartlandBookFairy

TheHeartlandBookFairy Yay, looks great! 4d
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950 pages in…planning on finishing this #chunksterchallenge2023 pick in June!

@Amiable
#bookspinbingo

Amiable Good luck! 👍🏼 5d
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June | Lori Copeland
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My June #bookspin list! This is mostly my #14books14weeks2023 list, some audiobooks, the end of my #chunksterchallenge2023 and a couple of my 23 in ‘23 picks. I‘m hoping for a productive month and some great reading!

Looking forward to the numbers you pull…as always, thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks books 📚
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5d
TheHeartlandBookFairy Thanks for joining us! ❤️Anne of Green Gables❤️ Happy summer, happy reading 😎📚 5d
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Up next…another backlist that I didn‘t read at the time. It‘s on my 23 in ‘23 list. I‘ve heard all good things AND it‘ll give me a bingo!

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marleed I love this and will always have a copy on my shelves! 1w
Cuilin Loved it. Enjoy. 1w
dabbe The title sounds like something Dracula would say. 🤣🧛‍♂️🩵 1w
paper.reveries What a nice cover! Hadn't heard of this one. 5d
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The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas
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Here we go! My stack for the #14books14weeks2023 challenge: read 14 books in the 14 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day! All of these are books I own but have not read with the exception of 2 library books. I can‘t wait to cross them off my TBR! Thank you for the invite, @CoverToCoverGirl and thank you for hosting, @TheHeartlandBookFairy 📚

Want to join in the fun, @Kelly326 🥰

marleed I like your summer shelf clearing plans as I‘ve read 7 - half your stack! 2w
GinaKButler @marleed oh, wow!! Any favorites that I need to move to the top of the list? 2w
TEArificbooks I liked What You Wished for and Falling 2w
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TheHeartlandBookFairy Welcome and thank you for joining. Is! Happy summer, happy reading 😎 📚 2w
dabbe LOVED Travels with Charley. 💙💚💙 2w
CoverToCoverGirl Lovely! We Begin At the End is very good. 2w
Kelly326 Almost done with my stack. We have some of the same books picked. You have some really big ones in that stack!! 1w
Amiable Looking forward to your thoughts in “North and South” —that one is in my pile, too. 6d
GinaKButler @Amiable I‘ve been looking forward to reading it. I‘ll keep you posted! 5d
GinaKButler @Kelly326 Dying to see your stack. I‘m way ahead on my annual reading goal, so I wanted to add a few mini-chunks. Go big, or go home! 😂 5d
Amiable @GinaKButler Love that chunkster spirit! 🙌🏼 5d
GinaKButler @Amiable 😂 They‘re always my favorites! I just finished Beach Music by Pat Conroy. Loved it! 5d
Amiable @GinaKButler Oh, I ADORE Pat Conroy! A few years back my husband and I were in South Carolina and I insisted that we stop in Beaufort! 5d
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Up next on 🎧…I‘ve been looking forward to this release!

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The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
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Up next, my May #doublespin
I‘m hearing good things about this one and could use a page-turner. Pro tip: don‘t have two non-fictions going at the same time. It makes for slow reading. 🤪

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@TheAromaofBooks

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Not my usual genre…one of the other women chose it for this month‘s book club pick.

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Up next…Machu Picchu is definitely on my bucket list, so I‘ve been looking forward to reading this. I‘m using it for the South America prompt of my Memoir Around The World Mini-Challenge.

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#unreadbookshelf

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When in Rome | Sarah Adams
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Ready for something a little lighter…I‘m using this for Kentucky in the Book Girls‘ Guide Reading Around The US book challenge.

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wanderinglynn It‘s a cute story! I liked it. Plus, there‘s lots of pie. 🥧 1mo
GinaKButler @wanderinglynn I really liked this one, too…and immediately handed it to a friend! (edited) 4w
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Hiroshima | John Hersey
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Last year I read Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up And The Reporter Who Revealed It To The World by Lesley M.M. Blume, so this year I added Hiroshima by John Hersey to my 23 in ‘23 list. This poor little copy from our library is starting to fall apart…the reporting by Hersey is excellent and knowing the back-story of how the government wanted to cover up the after-effects of the bombing makes it that much more incredible. #bookspinbingo

CallMeIshmael I read Fallout a couple years ago and loved it. I need to read This as well 1mo
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I didn‘t expect to love this book, but I do! Finishing up with my favorite red-head. 🐶
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Follow.my.read I felt the same. I absolutely loved it. 1mo
dabbe Da sweetest pup! What a face! 💙🐾💚 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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Book Journal | HarperPerennial
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Slowly, but surely, filling this in…

#bookjournal

Jenken1998 lovely! 1mo
Cuilin 😍 1mo
dabbe Lookin' good! 💙💚💙 1mo
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CoverToCoverGirl I love this. How did you create it? I can‘t draw a straight line.. 1mo
GinaKButler @CoverToCoverGirl The pages are a dot grid. I sketch it out with pencil and a ruler and then go over it with pen. Thank you! My goal is to *actually* stick with my reading journal all year long. So far, so good! 1mo
Amiable Is there a method to the pattern of how you color it in? I know that each color is for a month, but are you aiming for a rainbow-type look at the end? Instead of coloring the books in the order that you read them? Just intrigued by your process! 1mo
Amiable And also —what if you read more books than you‘ve plotted out? Or does this chart represent specific books that you‘ve planned for this year and not every book you will read? (So many questions—sorry! I used to be a newspaper reporter. 😬) 1mo
GinaKButler @Amiable There is no rhyme or reason…I just want a colorful bookshelf when it‘s full. 1mo
GinaKButler @Amiable I plotted out 95 books. I read 90 last year, so I *should* be ok, but I can always draw a line down some of the chunky ones to add a few. I usually don‘t use pen on it for titles until I‘m sure I‘ll finish. The ones you see are either in progress or one of my #chunksterchallenge2023 picks. I‘ve added TBRs in past years and then never got to them. My goal is really just to keep up with this… 1mo
Amiable Thanks for explaining your thought process! I love the way it looks. It‘s going to be so pretty when the year is over. 1mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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May‘s #bookspinbingo card! Not going to lie, I like this layout and am hoping to have multiple bingos this month!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

marleed Ohhhh, I like your card. The tagged is among my all time favorites! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looks fantastic!! 1mo
Singout What @marleed said! 1mo
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The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
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May‘s #bookspin and #doublespin

I feel a little bit like I‘m cheating…my #doublespin was April‘s #bookspin and I‘m halfway through it already. What were the chances it would be picked again? 😂

@TheAromaofBooks

Thank you for hosting!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Enjoy!! And sometimes an easy win is the way to go! 😂 1mo
CBee The exact thing happened to me 😂🙌🏻 1mo
GinaKButler @CBee winner, winner, chicken dinner! 1mo
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GinaKButler @TheAromaofBooks I‘ll take it! There‘s so many books on this board that I can‘t wait to read! If I haven‘t told you lately, I look forward to #bookspin every month and am so thankful that you host it! 1mo
CBee @GinaKButler yes! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Thank you!!! I'm so excited that it's helping you work through your TBR!!! 1mo
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May Day | Jess Lourey
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Here we go…my May #bookspin list. I‘ve already started numbers 2 & 12. Can‘t wait to see what you pick, @TheAromaofBooks Thank you for hosting! 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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My April #bookspinbingo board!
7 books read
1 bingo
2 non-fiction
2 #unreadbookshelf
Read my #doublespin and started my #bookspin

Making my way through Les Miserables for the #chunksterchallenge2023

Looking forward to a better May!

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 1mo
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A little late starting, but I‘m picking up my April #bookspin today. I‘m also using it for The Islands prompt in The Book Girls Guide Reading Around The US Reading Challenge.

#bookspinbingo

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TheBookgeekFrau Such a good book!! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! 1mo
GinaKButler @TheBookgeekFrau I *loved* this one…way more than I expected to! 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @GinaKButler Oh I'm so glad 😊 I feel like it never got the love it deserved when it came out 1mo
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Good Girl, Bad Girl: A Novel | Michael Robotham
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Definitely in need of a page-turner after 1776. This one is my April #doublespin

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I haven't read any of his books in a while. I absolutely loved the Joseph O'Loughlin series. 1mo
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Up next on audio…love a haunted house! This one will give me a bingo!

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AmyG This was a fun audio book. 1mo
mesquite I hope to get to this sometime soon in the year. Also suggest, if you haven‘t yet, check out The Southern Book Club‘s Guide to Killing Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group. Both of them are by Grady Hendrix. 1mo
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The Thorn Birds | Colleen McCullough
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Recent #bookhaul from the library‘s used book sale!

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Amiable How are you liking it? 2mo
BarbaraBB It gets better by the page don‘t you think? 2mo
GinaKButler @BarbaraBB @Amiable Let me get through this battle at Waterloo and I‘ll let you know. 😂 2mo
BarbaraBB Lol just skim that one and return to the main characters 😉 2mo
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1776 | David McCullough
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Up next! This one is on my 23 in ‘23 list and on my #unreadbookshelf

#bookspinbingo

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My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy | Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
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Up next…I‘m using this for the Multiple Continents prompt for my Memoir Around The World Challenge.

#bookspinbingo

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Hello Beautiful | Ann Napolitano
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Up next on audio…our April book club pick! 🎧

#bookspinbingo

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It Ends With Us | Colleen Hoover
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My not-a-book-person-friend handed this to me and said, “I couldn‘t put this down,” so, it‘s next on the list!

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Aims42 That‘s the same type of friend who lent me her copy too 😁 So glad to have more reading buddies! 2mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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Here we go! April‘s #bookspinbingo board!

#bookspin - The Marriage of Opposites
#doublespin - Good Girl, Bad Girl
Book Club - Hello Beautiful
#chunksterchallenge2023 - Les Miserables

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

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 2mo
Amiable 👍🏼👍🏼 2mo
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My April #bookspin and #doublespin

I‘m excited about this month! I‘m using The Marriage of Opposites for the US Islands prompt of the Book Girls‘ Reading Around The States Challenge and I checked out Good Girl, Bad Girl because of a review on Litsy! I love when 2 different genres are picked!

Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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My March #bookspinbingo board!
1 bingo
2 classics (4 if you count The Godfather and the Agatha Christie)
My #bookspin and #doublespin both read
1 non-fiction
2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads

I‘m excited that I‘m on track for the book challenges I set at the beginning of the year after a not-great 2022. Looking forward to April!

@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 2mo
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April | Gabrielle Lord
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My April #bookspin list!

It‘s a mix of audio, book club, library, challenge, and unread bookshelf picks! Can‘t wait to see you numbers you pull, @TheAromaofBooks 📚

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
Lcsmcat The Marriage of Opposites was a surprise pick for me. And I see lots of other good titles on your list! 2mo
GinaKButler @Lcsmcat I‘m doing the Reading Around The States Challenge by the Book Girls Blog and this came up as a rec for the American Islands category. I‘m excited about it! 2mo
GinaKButler @Lcsmcat I just finished it and it was a surprise *love*! 1mo
Lcsmcat @GinaKButler Yay! I‘m glad you liked it. 1mo
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Up next on audio 🎧

It seems kind of crazy that this is my first Pat Conroy!
#bookspinbingo
#almostachunkster

CoverToCoverGirl Well then, we‘re quite the pair because I have never read anything by him either. I‘ve checked out reviews on some of his books but just never picked him up. I anticipate your review. 2mo
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The Invention of Wings | Sue Monk Kidd
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Up next: I‘m hoping to squeeze this one in before the end of the month. I‘m using it for the Book Girls‘ Guide Reading The States Challenge (South Carolina).

It‘s also one of my #unreadbookshelf books!

#bookspinbingo

Bren912 I love your book shelf 2mo
GinaKButler @Bren912 Thank you! It‘s been a work in progress! 2mo
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The Lifeguards: A Novel | Amanda Eyre Ward
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Carline reading! Up next: our book club pick. This one will give me a bingo!
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Up next on audio! 🎧

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dabbe Lovely!❣️ 3mo
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Here we go…the 2nd chunkster for @Kelly326 and I in 2023! Our plan is to finish it by the end of June.

@Amiable
#chunksterchallenge2023

Amiable Good luck! This wasn‘t one of my favorites. 3mo
TheKidUpstairs Best of luck! Beautiful edition 😍 3mo
IndoorDame Love that edition!!! 3mo
JamieArc I have that édition to and plan to get to it soon! 3mo
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The Godfather | Mario Puzo
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Working the middle school book fair and starting my February #bookspin

#unreadbookshelf
#23in23
#bookspinbingo

Texreader Best job ever! 3mo
Aims42 I can smell this picture 🥰 I miss those days!! 3mo
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Starting this collection of short stores today…it‘s my March #bookspin

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
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Starting to slowly make by way through Agatha Christie, starting with the Hercule Poirot series. *large print so I don‘t need readers at the volleyball tournament. 😂

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Jaimelire @GinaKButler I do that sometimes too. Often it‘s faster to get the larger print version of books from my library network and the added bonus is not needing to wear my glasses.😀 3mo
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Every Summer After | Carley Fortune
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Up next on audio! 🎧

#bookspinbingo

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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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My March #bookspinbingo board is ready to go! Looking forward to a great month!

Singout Looks good! 3mo
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Here we go! March‘s #bookspin and #doublespin

So, I hadn‘t quite finished Mockingjay, my February double spin, so I left it in spot 20, thinking there‘s no way it would get picked again! 🫣 It feels a little bit like cheating, but I‘m leaving it, because there‘s so many books on my list that I‘m excited to read!

Thank you so much for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks ! #bookspin is my favorite!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Sounds like February's DoubleSpin was the first half and March's is the second half 😁 3mo
GinaKButler @TheAromaofBooks Isn‘t that the truth! In February, I was planning on reading the second one in the trilogy and added this one at the last minute, thinking “what are the chances she‘ll pick this?” I should know better! 😂 3mo
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Book Journal | HarperPerennial
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Slowly, but surely, filling this in…!

Amiable That‘s going to be so pretty when it‘s all colored in! 3mo
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March Book | Jesse Ball
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So excited for March‘s #bookspin and #doublespin picks! Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks !

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3mo
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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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February! Ending with 1 bingo.
9 books read
2 non-fiction
1 classic
*finally* read The Joy Luck Club!
And, I returned 3 borrowed books off of my nightstand to a friend! (This is a BIG win!)

Looking forward to March!
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fantastic month!!! It always feels so good to make some progress on a SPECIFIC stack! This month I finished a series that has been piled on my desk for months - so good to check it off! 😂 3mo
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Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow
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Mehso-so

Unpopular opinion: I did not love this. Hamilton is incredibly well-researched and very informative, but is just so dry compared to Chernow‘s other biographies.

This book is a good reminder that politics and the press are, and always have been, nasty business.

This was my first of 4 #chunksterchallenge2023 books. I‘m so glad to be on to the next one! @Amiable

JenReadsAlot Wow that was fast.... I'm slogging through around page 250! 3mo
Amiable Agreed! I'm so glad I read “Washington first because I might not have picked it up if I'd read this one before it. 3mo
K.Wielechowski I really enjoyed reading the first 3rd but when I got to the middle I struggled. Downloaded the audiobook just to get through it. 3mo
GinaKButler @JenReadsAlot @Amiable @K.Wielechowski Well, your comments are making me feel better! I *would* like to read more about Aaron Burr though. 3mo
CoverToCoverGirl Oh dear! It‘s unfortunate you didn‘t enjoy this one. I loved it, even more than Washington and Grant and I thought they were both brilliant. I‘m hoping to get to Titan soon. 3mo
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