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LeslieO

LeslieO

Joined April 2016

Book lover & Retired Librarian; too fond of books and it has turned her brain☕️📚📚🍷
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!!! 1d
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For me summer reading officially starts June 1st. #summerreading #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5d
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It Ends With Us | Colleen Hoover
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Let summer begin!😎🍉🌻 And by summer I mean reading on my deck. 📚🌴I want to make the most of these beautiful summer days by getting out here earlier and more often. It was a rough winter. We set the snowfall record for the whole country I believe. Time to enjoy warm sunny days.

Not really loving the tagged book tho.

Amiable What a gorgeous view! 6d
LeslieO @Amiable My happy place! 6d
Tamra Oh, I love the red stain. Giving me ideas……🤔 6d
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TNbookworm Gorgeous reading spot❤️ 5d
mom_of_4 Im sitting outside to read to. 5d
LeslieO @mom_of_4 That as outdoorsy as I get! 😆 5d
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A recent read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️s #generations #MayMontage

Eggs 💗📚👍🏼 3w
paper.reveries Love that cover!! 7d
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Seating Arrangements | Maggie Shipstead
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Eggs 💙🤍🖤 3w
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Migrations: A Novel | Charlotte McConaghy
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This is high up on my #TBR but keeps getting passed over. #ScienceRelated #MayMontage

Jenken1998 I loved it! 4w
Eggs Beautiful cover! 4w
Hooked_on_books It‘s so good! It‘ll be a treat for you when you eventually get to it. 3w
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I picked this as a #DiscussionBook because I didn‘t like it and it seems everyone else in the world did. I felt I wasn‘t smart enough to follow. I kept trying to figure out the half death. Maybe it was in there but I heard the author say he added the half to differentiate the book from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. #MayMontage

Eggs I haven‘t read it yet…great choice! 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I haven‘t read it yet… 4w
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Untitled | Anonymous
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This one is easy.
Never in bed, too uncomfortable.
Don‘t have a pet.
Prefer pj‘s
Every other answer is BOTH. 😊
#readinghabits

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩷🩷🩷 4w
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When Life Gives You Lululemons | Lauren Weisberger
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This is not on my #TBR but maybe it should be. #SunglassesOnCover #MayMontage

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this cover 🧡 4w
Eggs 😎📚🕶️ 4w
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The Escape Room | Megan Goldin
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Four high powered players in the Wall Street finance world compete in an escape room challenge. #TBR #FinanceRelated #MayMontage

Eggs What a cover 🧡🌟🧡 1mo
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The Celebrants | Steven Rowley
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Coming at the end of May! #PublishedinMay #MayMontage

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs 🧡💙💚 Looks good. 1mo
Megabooks So excited!! 1mo
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Saw the musical last night. So good! I love Tudor history so this was fun.

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Carrie Soto Is Back | Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Auto buy author for me! #AuthorHas3Names #MayMontage

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love her book!! 1mo
Eggs Lovely collage for a talented writer❤️❤️ 1mo
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I can already see a BINGO in my future! #BookSpinBingo

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Bird Cottage | Eva Meijer
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batsy Love the Bird Cottage cover! 1mo
Eggs Wow beautiful 🤩 💛🤗 1mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love yellow 💛📚 1mo
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The Last Word: A Novel | Taylor Adams
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I almost skipped this month. I loved No Exit but only liked Hairpin Bridge. But I decided to give this one a try. #BOTM #TBR

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#AprilRecap :
Nine! Huge for me
#bookspin✔️
#doublespin✔️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✔️✔️(Hello Beautiful & Zero Fail)
#nonfiction2023 ✔️✔️
#serieslove2023 - nope

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BINGO! Woo-hoo! First time in a long time, it helps when #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are in the same row.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fabulous month!!! 1mo
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#covertrend with a twist. A guy with the reflective glasses.

Clwojick Yes! Love this! 💚 1mo
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The Bookshop Book | Jen Campbell
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Here‘s all my independent bookstore purchases for the month. An online order from Parnassus in Nashville (after listening to the most recent Indie Press List from the Currently Reading podcast ) and in person shopping at Politics and Prose in Washington DC, and Talking Leaves Books here at home in Buffalo NY. I celebrated Indie Bookstore day all month!

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#independentbookstoreday Limited myself to one since I‘ve done a lot of Indy bookstore purchasing this month. #TBR #minibookhaul

kspenmoll I want to read this! Let me know what you think! 1mo
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Two down in my quest to read the Fiona Davis books along with a nonfiction book about the featured building.

BethM I enjoy her writing. 1mo
Aims42 I love books about famous buildings and landmarks 🥰 I think they should have their own niche under ‘Non-Fiction‘, like ‘Building Biographies‘ or something like that 1mo
LeslieO @BethM I‘m really enjoying this one. 1mo
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LeslieO @Aims42 I totally agree! 1mo
LeslieO @Aims42 what are some of you favorite building bios? 1mo
Aims42 @LeslieO “Empty Mansions” by Bill Dedman, “Castle on Sunset” by Shawn Levy, “The Secret of the Savoy” by Olivia Williams, “The Last Castle” by Denise Kieanan are my top favorites 🏗️🏙️🏠 1mo
LeslieO @Aims42 I own The Last Castle ( haven‘t read it yet tho) and I‘ll add the rest to my list! 1mo
Aims42 @LeslieO Happy Reading 🥰 1mo
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Ready for MAY! #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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Quick trip to DC for a wedding so of course I had to visit a bookstore. #independentbookstores #TBR #bookhaul #ObamaShopsHere

SamAnne Oh, I love that bookstore! 1mo
youneverarrived Ohh I visited DC a few years ago and my hotel was really near this bookshop. It was lovely 😍 1mo
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More in my favorite #CoverTrend . The Booking Agents Series. Sounds like a cute cozy, a psychic travel agent teams up with a skeptical detective.

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The Right Attitude to Rain | Alexander McCall Smith
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One of my favorite McCall Smith series. #WithaWeatherWord #TemptingTitles

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ☔️ 📚👌🏻 2mo
Eggs Pretty 💚🖤💚 2mo
Cathythoughts Gorgeous cover💚 2mo
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#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin two books on my TBR for awhile and now I have the push I need to move them to the top of the #TBR

marleed I love having Fiona Davis atop my TBR! 2mo
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#MarchRecap
#BookSpin ✔️
#DoubleSpin✔️
#SeriesLove2023✔️
#Nonfiction2023 - didn‘t finish yet
5⭐️ We All Want Impossible Things and The Bullet that Missed, 4⭐️all the rest

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Bingo! | Rosemary Wells
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The goal this month is more than 6. #BookSpin #DoubleSpin

ChaoticMissAdventures 6 books or 6 bingos!?!? 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looks fantastic!! 2mo
LeslieO @ChaoticMissAdventures Hahahaha! Good question! Books! I rarely ever get one bingo. 2mo
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As usual, I went with the thriller. #BOTM #MountTBR

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The Change: A Novel | Kirsten Miller
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Wow. Poor effort by me this month. Only 6. No bingos. But I did finish my #bookspin and #doublespin. And I read 3/4 of Zero Fail. On to a more productive April! (I hope 🤞)

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Great month!! 2mo
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A Perfect Explanation | Eleanor Anstruther
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#Publishedin2020 # MarchMagic This was my 2020 birthday pick, following my rule of treating myself to a book I‘ve never heard anything about. I think the cover got me.

Eggs Wonderful cover🖤🤍🖤 2mo
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I loved this book. 💙💛 #NeurodiverseProtagonist #MagicMarch

Eggs 🌼🌿🌸 2mo
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Symphony of Secrets | Brendan Slocumb
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Loved The Violin Conspiracy and can‘t wait for Slocumb‘s new one! #AuthorofColor #MarchMagic

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 2mo
Eggs Perfect 🤩 2mo
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Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson
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Amazingly, one of the reasons this book has been banned is “bias against male students.” 😳 #FavoriteBannedBook #MarchMagic

CBee I had no idea this was banned! And for “bias against male students?” Omg 😳😳😳 2mo
Tamra What?! Beyond stupid 2mo
Jas16 That is infuriating. 2mo
Eggs ❤️🤍💚 2mo
dabbe I can't even wrap my head around that. Unbelievable.
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The Secret Place | Tana French
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I love the slow burn of a Tana French mystery. Elite girls boarding school + Murder. #SetinHighSchool #MarchMagic

TripleS Love her books!! 2mo
Eggs Great pick!! 2mo
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Enchanted April | Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Ready for some spring reading. Hoping the weather around here starts resembling spring. #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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Guncle | Steven Rowley
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Loved The Guncle and looking forward to Rowley‘s new book The Celebrants. #LGBTQasMC #MarchMagic

Karisa Oh! That was such a good book! It has all the feels—tears, laughs—💗💗💗 2mo
Eggs Perfect 🤩 2mo
marleed Oh me too. I have it pre-ordered along with the tagged! 2mo
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The Change: A Novel | Kirsten Miller
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“No one had seen the woman who lived at 246 Woodland Drive since early November.” #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl Such a good book! 2mo
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Katniss and Lisbeth. #KickAssFemale #MarchMagic

Eggs ❤️🧡❤️ 2mo
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I‘m not much of a romance reader but it wouldn‘t be summer without an Emily Henry. #EniemiesToLovers #MarchMagic

Eggs Looks good ❤️💜❤️ 2mo
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The Other Typist: A Novel | Suzanne Rindell
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Two of my recent favs #setin1920s #MarchMagic

Eggs I adored The Paris Hours! 2mo
LeslieO @Eggs Oh me too! 2mo
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Ocean State | Stewart O'Nan
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Eggs Fantastic covers!!! 2mo
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A Thread of Grace: A Novel | Mary Doria Russell
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Posting these two together since it‘s the same author (and I forgot yesterday 😜 ) The Sparrow is my favorite #AboutScience #SciFi and the tagged book is my #BookYouOftenRecommend #WWII #HistoricalFiction

#marchMagic 💚☘️🪄

Eggs Well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2mo
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Ms. Demeanor | Elinor Lipman
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1. Yay to both!
2. I like decorative endpapers. And I always love a map. My current read (tagged) has chapter titles, which I feel we rarely see anymore and I like it. Example: Chapter 8 I‘d Rather Not Go Into It.
3. Winter in front of the fireplace, summer on my back deck

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
Play along Littens! #wondrouswednesday

Eggs #2 yes! Great suggestions! 3mo
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French Holiday | Sarah Ready
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More in my favorite recent #covertrend. #FaceOnTheCover with sunglasses reflecting something. #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks to @julesG for finding more covers!

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marleed Great pic - I find these covers irresistible! 3mo
Eggs Well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3mo
LeslieO @marleed Me too! I‘m drawn to them. 3mo
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Loved the book, haven‘t watched the movie yet. (I‘m counting it even tho it‘s a movie not a series😜)
#AdaptedtoNetflixSeries #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great choice! On my TBR! Didn‘t know there was a film! 3mo
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I loved Wintering, looking forward to Enchantment. And they are so pretty! 🧡💙

thereadingreference Wintering was great! I'm looking forward to Enchantment, too... and your photo made me want physical copies 😍😍 3mo
LeslieO @thereadingreference They do look nice together 3mo
mcctrish Oh I need to finish Wintering and get my hands on Enchantment 3mo
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The Betrayals | Bridget Collins
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It‘s my birthday tradition to buy myself a book. It has to be one I have never heard of. I couldn‘t decide so I got three. Happy birthday to me!

JenReadsAlot Happy birthday to you! 3mo
Ruthiella Happy birthday! 🥳🥳🥳 3mo
BrittanyReads Happy birthday!! 3mo
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ReadingOver50 I like that tradition 3mo
Smrloomis Ooh I love that tradition. I definitely need to adopt it. Happy birthday! 3mo
RebelReader This one is really good 3mo
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These are all the bookish podcasts I listen to regularly. It‘s how I get my 10,000 steps a day in and why my library holds list and #TBR are so huge! I love them all but I think From the Front Porch is my fav. 💙 Annie B Jones. #FavoriteBookishPodcast #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs That does sound good 😊 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 📚 3mo
emz711 Ah so many to try! Never got into one after books on the night stand besides the occasional Overdue. And I'm impressed they majority of these are on Stitcher! 3mo
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LeslieO @emz711 I still miss Books on the Nightstand! 3mo
tokorowilliamwallace I need to zone out while strolling/going for walks, so I can only listen to shuffled playlists and not anything I'll actually have to pay attention to. Plus I haven't broken down to buy any Bluetooth headsets/earbuds yet, so I listen to my music on speaker. My hearing and comprehension with hearing is so terrible. I can't understand what half of the songs I hear are evening saying/singing. So instrumental/ambient is best for me. 3mo
LeslieO @tokorowilliamwallace Sometimes I think I should just zone out more! (edited) 3mo
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