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JessClark78

JessClark78

Joined October 2016

Reader. Bibliophile. Coffee addict. Mother of Cats. Ravenclaw. House Stark. My favorite genres are Horror, Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Gothic Literature.
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The Crow: Quoth the Crow by David Bischoff
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Baltimore Noir by Laura Lippman
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Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey
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Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner
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Sanitarium Magazine Issue 3: Sanitarium Issue #3 (2020) by Kurt Newton, Alex Taylor, Jennifer Porter
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Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
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You by Caroline Kepnes
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Angels on Fire by Nancy A Collins
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Doll House by John Hunt
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Blood Pact by Tanya Huff
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Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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Blood Lines by Tanya Huff
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Dead-End Jobs: A Hitman Anthology by Joe R. Lansdale, Max Allan Collins, Chris Miller, Tom Pitts, Andy Rausch, Rob Pierce, Paul D. Brazill
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Lost Souls by Poppy Brite
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Telling Stories/Taking Risks: Journalism Writing at the Century S Edge by Alice Klement, Carolyn Matalene, Klement, Matalene
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Blood Trail by Tanya Huff
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The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Various
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The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn
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#20in4 #Readathon Wrap Up

I didn‘t have a lot of time to read over the weekend. Got two and a half hours of reading done. Read six chapters of Ashes on the Waves, and one story in Baltimore Noir.

Andrew65 Well done on the reading you did get in and thanks for taking part. 👏👏👏🙌🥳🍾🥂 1d
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Two week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
The Crow: Quoth the Crow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dark Dreamers: Conversations With The Masters Of Horror ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Ashes on the Waves - Read nineteen more chapters.
Baltimore Noir - Read four more stories.

📚 Next Up
The Crow: The Lazarus Heart

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Current goals for the weekend:

▪️Finish Baltimore Noir
▪️Read at least ten chapters of Ashes on the Waves

#20in4 #Readathon

Andrew65 Have a good weekend of reading 😁 5d
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Starting next.

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#MagnificentMay #Readathon Wrap Up

▪️Read for fourteen hours last week.
▪️Finished The Crow
▪️Read thirteen chapters of Ashes on the Waves
▪️Read seven stories in Baltimore Noir
▪️Read nine chapters of Quoth the Crow

@Andrew65

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2w
Andrew65 Brilliant, well done 👏👏👏🙌🍾🥂🥳 Thanks for playing along. 2w
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#BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
The Crow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Ashes on the Waves - Read thirteen more chapters.
Baltimore Noir - Read seven stories.
The Crow: Quoth the Crow - Read nine chapters.

📚 Next Up
The Crow: The Lazarus Heart

Cinfhen Fantastic 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2w
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The Crow: Quoth the Crow | David Bischoff
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Starting tonight. The first in a small series of novels based on The Crow.

#SeriesLove2023 #MagnificentMay #Readathon

TheSpineView Sounds good! Enjoy! 3w
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3w
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Joining in late. No time to read over the weekend.

Goals for the week:

▪️Read a few chapters a day of Ashes on the Waves
▪️Read The Crow
▪️Start Baltimore Noir

#MagnificentMay #Readathon

BookishMadHatter The Crow is one of my favorite movies of all time and now I need to read the book 3w
Andrew65 Great to have you with us whenever you join. Good luck 😁 3w
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#BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
Sanitarium Magazine Issue No. 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Animal Farm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Ashes on the Waves - Read the first two chapters. Reading a few chapters a day this week.

📚 Next Up
The Crow
Baltimore Noir

Cinfhen Wow! 75th anniversary of Animal Farm 😍 such an iconic book 🙌🏻 3w
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Ashes on the Waves | Mary Lindsey
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She looked like something out of a dream. . . or a nightmare.

#FirstLineFridays

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1. Art and English.

2. Harry Potter, The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView The Magicians! Great choice! Thanks for playing 1mo
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#20in4 #Readathon Wrap Up

▪️Read for ten hours.
▪️Finished In a Dark, Dark Wood
▪️Read eight short stories/poems in Sanitarium Magazine 3.

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Ashes on the Waves | Mary Lindsey
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My #TitlesAndTunes picks for May.

I started this book once a few years ago. Based on Poe‘s Annabel Lee, this is a gothic tale of love cursed by the otherworldly beings who inhabit the island and the sea around it.
Song choice is The Islander by Nightwish, a haunting song that, I think, matches the tone of the book.

#IslandVibe

CBee One of my favorite Poe poems 🖤 1mo
BarbaraBB Great choices! I listened to the song and it‘s haunting indeed! 1mo
Cinfhen Gave me the goosies!! So good 😊 I love discovering new artists through these challenges ♥️ 1mo
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Two week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
The Writing Retreat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
In a Dark, Dark Wood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Sanitarium Magazine 3 - Finished three more short stories.

📚 Next Up
Animal Farm
The Crow

Cinfhen That cover of The Crow!!!! Fantastic 1mo
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Sometimes the only thing to fear...
is yourself.

Last book finished for April and #ThingsInCommon. It took a couple chapters for me to get into this and then it kept getting more and more interesting as it went on. Another entertaining read.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#20in4 #Readathon

Andrew65 This kept me wanting to read too. Well done 👏👏👏 1mo
Clwojick Great job! 💚 1mo
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My April wrap up.

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My goal for the weekend is to finish In A Dark, Dark Wood and then get back to Sanitarium Magazine 3.

#20in4 #Readathon

Andrew65 Best of luck 😁 Hope you are enjoying In A Dark Dark Wood. 1mo
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At one exclusive writers‘ retreat, it‘s publish and perish...

I‘ve seen mixed reviews for this one. I liked it. I found it entertaining.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Up next is In A Dark, Dark Wood.
#ThingsInCommon
Both feature some type of retreat. Main characters that are writers. Trees on the cover.

batsy Yes, I enjoyed it too! 1mo
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Three week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
Hope ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Last Innocent Year ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Sanitarium Magazine 3 - Finished the first sixteen short stories/poems.
The Writing Retreat - Finished the first nineteen chapters.

I‘ve been neglecting my Kindle so no progress on any of those books.

📚 Next Up
In A Dark, Dark Wood

Cinfhen Ohhhh…..you had two 5 star reads this week! Amazing 🤩 1mo
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#AwesomeApril #Readathon Wrap Up

▪️Nine and a half hours of reading done last week.
▪️Finished My Last Innocent Year
▪️Read half of The Writing Retreat

Andrew65 That‘s brilliant, well done 👏👏👏🙌🥳🎉🍾🥂 1mo
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Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1. A writer.

2. Currently unemployed, writing in the afternoons.

3. I mostly listen to instrumental and different types of rock music.

Last week‘s #WondrousWednesday

Eggs 🌷💗 🌷 2mo
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1. More. I always spend more.

2. I walked into the bookstore and they have a lot to read.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView More books! 🌞🤩😊 2mo
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My Last Innocent Year: A Novel | Daisy Alpert Florin
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I preordered this coming of age story because I liked the cover and it sounded interesting. I‘m glad I did because I really liked the story and the characters. I would‘ve finished sooner but I haven‘t been getting much reading time lately.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#AwesomeApril #Readathon

Up next is The Writing Retreat.
#ThingsInCommon The main character is a writer.
Both books released in February 2023.

Andrew65 Sounds good. Well done 👏👏👏 2mo
Clwojick Woohoo! Well done! 2mo
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My current goals for the week:

▪️Finish My Last Innocent Year
▪️Read The Writing Retreat and In A Dark, Dark Wood

#AwesomeApril #Readathon

Andrew65 Have a good reading week. I‘m aiming to read In A Dark, Dark Wood this month. Will be interested to hear your thoughts when you‘ve read 2mo
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My Last Innocent Year: A Novel | Daisy Alpert Florin
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I didn‘t get to read yesterday. Starting off April and #ThingsInCommon with this.

Clwojick Ooooh love the cover! 2mo
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Thanks for the tag @Eggs and @IndoorDame

1. Favorite moment was spending time with my two best friends yesterday. We watched the movie Shag and ate taco dip.

2. Least favorite is losing sight of the giant camel cricket that is currently hanging out in my living room.

3. Creative. Empathetic. Loyal.

#WondrousWednesday

Eggs Loved Shag!!! Thanks for joining in 💛 2mo
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Hope | Glen Duncan
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This is the story of Gabriel Jones, and how his porn addiction ruined his relationship with the one woman he has ever loved. This is Glen Duncan‘s fantastically written debut novel.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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The Witching Hour | Anne Rice
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Book One of Lives of Mayfair Witches

This was my first time reading this. I started this in January to read along with the new AMC series so I could be more familiar with the story. The book is very in depth and well written. Took a little while to read but I‘m glad I did. It‘s so much better than the TV adaptation.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SeriesLove2023

TheSpineView This is on my TBR list. Fantastic! 2mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I need to start this soon. It's the longest book (that's easily accessible) on my shelves. 2mo
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February & March Wrap Up

In February, I was only able to finish Wintersong and The Princess Bride while still working on The Witching Hour.

In March, I finally finished The Witching Hour and read Hope. Started reading a story collection that‘s still in progress.

I‘m a little behind on my reading goals right now. Hoping I can catch up some in April.

5feet.of.fury Someday I will stop putting off the Witching Hour 2mo
JessClark78 @5feet.of.fury I took my time and read it slowly over two and a half months around other books I was reading. 2mo
5feet.of.fury @JessClark78 I started it in July of last year 😅 but got barely anywhere, I‘ve tried to put it back on the TBR a couple times but it‘s such a commitment it keeps getting pushed back. Glad to hear it‘s worth it! 2mo
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Thanks for the tag @PageShifter

1. Probably Ophelia, The Annabel Lee, The Sandpiper, or something else book or animal related.

2. I would only leave boat manuals and necessary books on it. I would be too worried about it sinking to leave any good books on it.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView All great names! Thanks for playing 2mo
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Hope | Glen Duncan
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Wrap Up #20in4 #Readathon

▪️Read for five hours.
▪️Read up to page 277 in Hope. Almost finished it.

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏🙌🥳🍾🥂😍 2mo
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Two Week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
The Princess Bride ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(I actually finished this after Wintersong. Forgot to include it in the last #BookReport.)

📖 In Progress
Hope - On page 250. Almost finished.
Collected Poems - Haven‘t read anymore because I kept forgetting to charge my Kindle. Will be starting again this week.

📚 Next Up
Sanitarium Magazine 3

Cinfhen I cant find my kindle wire - so I feel your pain… 2mo
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My goals for the weekend:

▪️Finish Hope
▪️Start Sanitarium Magazine 3

#20in4 #Readathon

Andrew65 Great to have you with us, best of luck 😁 2mo
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Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

1. My house gets a little chilly in winter so lately its been comfy athletic pants, turtlenecks, and a sweater or flannel shirt.

2. Two, Hope by Glen Duncan and Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems.

Last week‘s #Two4Tuesday

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Three week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
Wintersong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Witching Hour ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Hope - Read the first fifty-three pages.
Collected Poems - Will be starting this again this week.

Not sure what I‘m reading next.

5feet.of.fury Congrats on finishing The Witching Hour! I started it last July but it has been abandoned. I think I might take a step back from some reading challenges and prioritize it next month. Glad to see you loved it! 3mo
Cinfhen Woohoo!!! Fantastic!! 3mo
Cinfhen Thank Gd it was five stars 🙌🏻😁 3mo
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Days 7, 8 & 9 #MarvellousMarch #Readathon

Got about seven and a half more hours of reading done. Read a few more pages of Hope and finished The Witching Hour.

Wrap Up

▪️Read for fourteen hours.
▪️Read fifty-three pages of Hope
▪️Finished The Witching Hour

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Days 4, 5 & 6 #MarvellousMarch #Readathon

Read for two and a half hours over the past few days. Finished a couple more chapters of The Witching Hour and a little more of Hope.

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 3mo
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Days 1, 2 & 3 #MarvellousMarch #Readathon

Four hours of reading done so far. Read about six or seven chapters of The Witching Hour and forty pages of Hope.

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 3mo
PageShifter I have not even noticed that Rice has several series, I had never checked! 3mo
JessClark78 @PageShifter I‘m way behind on reading her books. I‘ve only read three or four. 3mo
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My goals for the week:

▪️Read at least 100 pages of The Witching Hour
▪️Finish reading Hope
▪️Read some more of Collected Poems on Kindle

#MarvellousMarch #Readathon

Andrew65 Great to have you with us, good luck 😍 3mo
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⚔️ A Classic Tale of True Love & High Adventure ⚔️

I read this once when I was a teenager. I forgot about the Zoo of Death, but other than that this was a fun, enjoyable reread. This illustrated deluxe edition also features some lovely artwork.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Trashcanman Today, we escape 3mo
Blueberry "The greatest story ever told" ?? 3mo
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Wintersong | S Jae-Jones
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The last night of the year. Now the days of winter begin and the Goblin King rides abroad, searching for his bride....

This was a reread. Book One in a two book series.

Inspired by Amadeus, Labyrinth, and Phantom of the Opera, this is a dark, beautifully written Underworld tale. I love the way the author weaves the musical details into the writing. This is also one of my favorite book covers.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SeriesLove2023

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Andrew65 That‘s great 👏👏👏 3mo
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My goals for the month are to finish my current reads and to continue reading the books I didn‘t get to in my January and February TBR piles.

#MarchMadness #Readathon

Andrew65 Great to have you with us, best of luck 😍 3mo
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1. Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones. (reread)

2. Not much going on in March. I‘ll be doing some readathons on Litsy, and maybe going to the annual St. Patty‘s Day party at my aunt‘s.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView 💚🍀 Thanks for playing 3mo
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Day 4 #20in4 #Readathon

▪️Got four more hours of reading done.
▪️Read The Princess Bride. Was too tired to finish the last part about Buttercup‘s Baby.

Wrap Up

▪️Read for twelve hours total.
▪️Finished Wintersong
▪️Read most of The Princess Bride book.

Andrew65 That‘s brilliant, well done 👏👏👏🙌🥳🎊🍾🥂😍 3mo
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Days 2 & 3 #20in4 #Readathon

▪️Got over five more hours of reading done.
▪️Read the first half of The Princess Bride.

Andrew65 Excellent time, well done. 👏👏👏 3mo
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Day 1 #20in4 #Readathon

▪️Two and a half hours of reading done.
▪️Finished Wintersong
▪️Started The Princess Bride

Andrew65 A good start 👏👏👏 3mo
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Not sure how much reading I‘ll get done. Hoping to finish Wintersong and The Princess Bride over the weekend, then try to read some more of The Witching Hour.

#20in4 #Readathon

Andrew65 Great to have you with us, good luck 😁 3mo
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This #BookReport covers the last three weeks.

📚 Finished
Other Birds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Witching Hour - Been reading this one on and off. On page 710.
Wintersong - Read to a little past the halfway point. On page 258.
Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems (Kindle) - At 8%.

Cinfhen Woohoo 🥳 🙌🏻 3mo
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Days 4 to 9 #FabulousFebruary #Readathon

I didn‘t give myself much time to read. Got around six and a half more hours of reading done over the rest of the week. Focused mainly on Wintersong.

Wrap Up

▪️Read for thirteen hours.
▪️Read about 100 pages of The Witching Hour
▪️Read 175 pages of Wintersong
▪️Read to 5% in Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems

Andrew65 Well done o nthe reading you did get in, every little helps. Thanks for playing along 👏👏👏🙌🥳 3mo
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Days 1, 2 & 3 #FabulousFebruary #Readathon

▪️Read for almost six and a half hours.
▪️Read almost a hundred pages of The Witching Hour
▪️Read a couple chapters of Wintersong
▪️At 5% in Collected Poems on Kindle

vivastory Allen Ginsberg 👏 👏 4mo
Andrew65 Brilliant start 👏👏👏 4mo
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