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MaleficentBookDragon

MaleficentBookDragon

Joined October 2016

Bookish, Somewhat Crafty, Professional Dabbler, Gamer, Photographer, Cat Lady, High Tea Lover, New Librarian! Chelle_Rydz on IG & GR
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Extra bonus for voting early at the library.
Reward: bought a book at the library for $1.

thewallflower0707 Yay for voting! 2d
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It‘s opening day for #allhallowsreadswap!!!

In theory we should open our #ahrs24 📦 at midnight, but who am I kidding? That was never going to happen. WHO can wait?

Please post a pick of your scary books and treats.
Mine are spooktactular! 👻

Avanders 🤣🤣🫣 I certainly didn‘t. 🫢 3d
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I absolutely 😻 this #ahrs24 📦! You really went above and beyond @chasjjlee
Everything is more than perfect,
Did you make the book sleeve as well as the bookmark?!?! It is so pretty.
I need a new cover for my laptop for all these amazing stickers (I‘m a child and ❤️ stickers and magnets so much).
#allhallowsreadswap

Avanders 😍😍 4d
chasjjlee @MaleficentBookDragon I'm so glad you love it ❤️! Yes, I made the book sleeve, the bookmark and the mini books 📚🥰. Happy Halloween 🎃 hope you enjoy! 4d
MaleficentBookDragon @chasjjlee the mini books too? I love them! Thank you! 4d
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Thank you @Larkken for this perfectly scary #allhallowsreadswap 🎁.
I am really looking forward to reading these two books. Thanks for adding in the sci-fi book; I‘m really getting into the genre more. The bookmarks are so cool.
😻😻😻😻😻
#ahrs24

Larkken I hope you enjoy everything 🤗 3d
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Wow! @bookish_wookish you went above and beyond. I 😻 everything about my #hhs24 #hauntedhallowswap @bookish_wookish From the books to the book sleeve and bookmarks, to the candy and sticker, it is all stuff I love. And those socks! Tim Curry IS Pennywise. 🧑‍🍳 💋
100 🐈‍⬛ out of 10!
Thank you so much!
And thank you @wanderinglynn for hosting this great swap.

wanderinglynn Awesome! 🧡🎃🖤 4d
bookish_wookish Tim Curry IS the only Pennywise! @MaleficentBookDragon Im so glad you love everything! 4d
MaleficentBookDragon @bookish_wookish I do. I may have squealed a little when I opened each thing. 🐈‍⬛ 4d
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bookish_wookish Yes!!! Love that!! 4d
AmyG Great socks!!! 4d
Avanders Omg the socks. 😍 3d
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Falling Down: The Boy in the Iron Box | Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
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This was an action packed little serial horror novella; a quick read when I didn‘t have my book with me. Each of the six sections was around 20 - 40 pages.
At first I thought it might be part of the world of The Strain series but it wasn‘t.
It felt a little like a James Rollins novel with the action and pacing, which I enjoy.
Not perfectly written but fun.
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
Part of Amazon‘s Prime Reading, so free if you have Prime.

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Spinning Away | Jake Maddox
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I am only 3 behind on my #bookspin and #doublespin reads for this year. That is really good for me.
@thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking fabulous!!! 6d
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My #bookspin options for November.
These may change depending on the I get in my #ahrs24 and #HHS24 swap packages. 😁
@thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6d
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My latest #netgalley books. I really need to start reading more of the books I got from them. 😬

ChaoticMissAdventures I am currently reading this one, and I love Han Kang but you need to really concentrate on this there are a lot of time and reality shifts going on 1w
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I ended up picking this book because I‘m feeling a bit Victorian Gothic today. #hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
BTW this is a beautiful cover. Aside from the creepy 👁️.

BookwormAHN 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤 2w
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Bait and Witch | Angela M. Sanders
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BookwormAHN 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤 2w
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The Cloisters | Katy Hays
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I have a bit of a book hangover after So Thirsty and Clown in a Cornfield 3 before that.
I want to stay in the spooky season but I don‘t want slasher or black comedy right now.
Which of these two would you suggest?
Or go completely rogue and suggest a good spooky read.
#hauntedshelf
#blackcatcrew

Ruthiella The Silent Companions was pretty spooky. 2w
Karisa I just recommended The Silent Companions to someone else too. Creepy and so good! 2w
BookwormAHN I haven't read The Silent Companions yet but The Cloisters was really creepy and good 🐈‍⬛ 2w
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Fictional Minds | Alan Palmer
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Untitled | Unknown
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All wrapped (badly) and off to their new homes.
#ahrs #allhallowsreadswap
#hhs24 #hauntedhallowsswap

wanderinglynn Yay! 🎃🧡 2w
Texreader So cute!! 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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Untitled | Unknown
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I received my 2nd #ahrs #allhallowsreadswap today

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I may be a little obsessed with Halloween amigurumi right now.
#audiocrochet
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew

TheBookHippie How fun!!!! 2w
BookwormAHN Cool 🖤🐈‍⬛🖤 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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So Thirsty | Rachel Harrison
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DebinHawaii I‘m about to start this one too! 2w
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Received my #ahrs #AllHallowsReadSwap 📦 today

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More Than Candy Corn | Christine Depetrillo
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My candy corn ghostie needed a fun witch‘s hat which she wears so jauntily. 🧙 👻
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
#hookersoflitsy #audiocrochet

Texreader Super cute!!! 2w
ShananigansReads 🩷🩷🩷 2w
wanderinglynn So cute! 2w
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AnnCrystal 💕🤩😍👍💝. 2w
ShyBookOwl Sooo cute! 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
Gissy 😍👌 2w
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Steampunk: Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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#audiocrocheting a raven today
Looks more like an angry bird to me.
#hauntedshelf #
#hookersoflitsy

Texreader Love love love it! 2w
Kitta So cute! 🥰 2w
Sace It‘s darling! 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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#bookhaul three for my ❤️ of 🫖 time.

Texreader 😋 2w
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This Cursed House | Del Sandeen
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AardvarkBookClub Wahoo!!! Happy October box friend! ☺️💜 2w
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Starter Villain | John Scalzi
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#bookhaul one today from a Spooky Book Fair in Falls Church, Virginia.
The cover alone of the tagged book made me buy it.
I could have bought at least 4 more but I tried to have some restraint.

Ruthiella Starter Villain is a lot of fun! 2w
Texreader Fun book! 2w
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Sace I‘m adding that one to my next @AardvarkBookClub order! 2w
DogMomIrene I loved Starter Villain! I think Covid made Scalzi even funnier. 2w
AmyG I absolutely loved both of these. Great choices. Enjoy!!! 2w
AardvarkBookClub Starter Villain is so fantastic 🐬🌋 2w
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Frankenstein | Mary W Shelly
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Dan Steven‘s is reading Frankenstein to me as I crochet some witchy ghosties for a few swaps.
#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
#audiocrocheting

BookwormAHN Nice 🐈‍⬛ 3w
Deblovestoread I loved listening to this version last year. And your ghosties are cute! 3w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3w
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TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 🧡🎃🍫 3w
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Next up. I had fun with the first two.

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Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes
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This is a pick for me.
Barnes has become a must buy for me. I will wait impatiently for Cold Eternity next year.
#31x31 #hauntedshelf #bkackcatcrew

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A Dark and Secret Magic | Wallis Kinney
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Chocolate Walk eve shopping in Lititz Pa. Plus wine and gaming with my sister. New book from Aaron‘s Books. Knitting for later.

#hauntedshelf #blackcatcrew
#bokscavengerhunt #pumpkin

LiteraryinPA That‘s my hometown bookstore!! 💗💗 3w
BookwormAHN Nice 🐈‍⬛ 2w
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#bookoutlethaul

Witches and ghosts for spooky season.

4 for me, 2 for swaps

Avanders 🤩🤩😎 4w
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The Year of the Witching | Alexis Henderson
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I may have entered a fugue state when I entered the mother of all used book stores, McKay‘s in Manassas VA. #BOOKHAUL

And I have said I would never buy or read a JoJo Moyes book, especially this one because of my great love of The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek.

BookishTrish Rehoming all these stories 1mo
Avanders … it‘s been known to happen… 🥸 4w
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This Cursed House | Del Sandeen
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Another great month for the @AardvarkBookClub
I could have gotten at least 4 more but I need to show some
#aardvarkbookclub
What did you all get?

AardvarkBookClub Fantastic choices friend 😉💖 1mo
Avanders 👏🏼👏🏼 1mo
Sace I also got This Cursed House! 4w
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So Thirsty | Rachel Harrison
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It's a Rachel Harrison #Bookspin / #Doublespin month.
@thearomaofbooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 1mo
Avanders 😯 fun! 1mo
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My streak is broken. I had not ordered from #Bookoutlet in over a year.
Some books for me, some for swaps. Okay, only two are for swaps, the rest are for me. 😊

Gissy I bet those extra books just mysteriously appeared in your shopping cart 👻 📚😂 1mo
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What Moves the Dead | T. Kingfisher
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Well, I'm 2 for 2.
This is ANOTHER book I had on my wish lists for Halloween swaps that I already own through #Netgalley. Sheesh!
I really need to get to work on those. 🤗

PuddleJumper 🤣🤣 1mo
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Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes
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The protesters outside are getting louder.

#firstlinefridays

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I love these posts! What can you think of?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/bjSd5CaPjXRDsUwh/?

Britt-Marie Ate Here

Where‘d You Eat, Bernadette?

Taco Bell House

The Other Black Cod

Hooked_on_books How about A Tale of Two Delis 1mo
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The Pram | Joe Hill
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My October's extra scary #bookspin list.

I have everything here from sort of cozy mysteries to creature features to haunted houses, to teen slashers. I'm excited for October reading.

Spooky season is here (and it will last until at least Spring).

@thearomaofbooks

Captivatedbybooks Ooo i may have to add some of these to my TBR 1mo
Avanders I like that spooky season lasts until at least spring. 🍻🍻 1mo
CloakNQuill The best time of the year 👻🖤 1mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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Dead of Winter | Darcy Coates
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You know you really need to get to reading your #netgalley books when you realize that a book you have on your wishlist (and on swap wishlists) is ACTUALLY IN YOUR LIBRARY. And for over a year.
Duh!

monkeygirlsmama 🤣btdt 1mo
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Book of Matches | Simon Armitage
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All of the #AllHallowsReadSwap matches have been sent out.
Remember to post when you send, receive, and then open your packages on the evening of October 30th. Tag me in the posts.
Let me know if you have any problems or questions.
We have a small group of 29 this year, US and Canada only.
#AHRS2024

Avanders 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 1mo
AmyG Question- i didn‘t get an email and just wanted to confirm…did I sign up for this? I‘m sorry. It‘s been such a busy month. 1mo
MaleficentBookDragon @AmyG sorry Amy but there was no form from you. If you don‘t mind a direct match I can send you one. 1mo
AmyG I‘m sorry. It‘s ok. I probably forgot to sign up…it‘s been such a busy month. Thank you. 1mo
MeesesPieces If someone is needing a match id be more more than happy to join. US preferred. 1mo
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Hitchcock Hotel | Stephanie Wrobel
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I was a #goodreads winner! 🎉

Avanders Ooh 😯 I‘m super curious about this one! 1mo
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All Hallows' Eve | Annabelle Jacobs
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I('ll be making the matches tonight and I left sign-ups open until then. So, there is one last chance to join this year's #AllHallowsReadSwap.

Sign up here-
https://forms.gle/NjSo5bQdggXXGzc3A

@litsyevents

LibrarianRyan So glad I saw this and didn\'t miss it! 1mo
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All Hallows' Eve | Annabelle Jacobs
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Sign Ups END TOMORROW for thIs YEAR‘s #AllHallowsReadSwap #AHRS
Sign up here-
https://forms.gle/NjSo5bQdggXXGzc3A

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At Kramers, the boozy bookstore in DC.

CoffeeAndABook Boozy bookstore 😊 absolutely yes 💯 1mo
Leftcoastzen Cheers! 1mo
mcctrish I want a boozy bookstore 1mo
sarahbarnes Love that place! 1mo
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The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris
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I‘m doing pretty well on this month‘s reading plan.
Three down, one in the works.

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Steampunk: Poe | Edgar Allan Poe
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My #halloweenaesthetic is creepy but cozy.
A little steampunk, a little spooky, a little witchy. Tarot cards & tea leaves.
With lots of snacks and beverages (either warm & cozy or adult) for all the scary book reading and horror movie marathons.
And you HAVE to have a black cat. 🐈‍⬛
I like spooky and creepy.
Ghost stories are my all time favorite.
I like being scared, NOT grossed out.
#hauntedhallowswap #allhallowsreadswap
#hhs #ahrs

wanderinglynn Love it! 💀🖤 Especially the snack part 😋😉 2mo
MaleficentBookDragon @wanderinglynn you gotta have your snacks and drinks! 😹🍿 🍫 🍬 ☕️ 🫖 🍸 🍹 🥂 2mo
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So Thirsty | Rachel Harrison
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So….who‘s in for an October read-a-long for So Thirsty? #sothirstyreadalong
Low pressure. We‘ll have almost all month to read the book. Throughout the month I may post something about the book but the last week of the month I‘ll post questions or prompts about the book. After that we can all post our final thoughts/takeaways/likes/dislikes.
I‘ve never hosted a read-a-long so help me out if I‘m wrong.
Anyone is welcome to join.
#aardvarkbookclub

BookwormAHN Looking forward to it 🦇 2mo
AardvarkBookClub 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ 2mo
TheSpineView Vampires are my favorite! Count me in. 2mo
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Megabooks This sounds great! I‘m looking forward to discussing/checking in with y‘all! 🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏻‍♂️ 2mo
nitalibrarian 👍🏼Sounds good. Thanks for setting this up. 2mo
ICantImReading @MaleficentBookDragon I‘m excited, thank you for organizing this!! I‘ve never done a read-a-long! 🧛‍♀️🖤 2mo
Avanders 🙋🏻‍♀️🩸🍸 2mo
DebinHawaii I missed this earlier but it‘s on my TBR & I would love to join in! 4w
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All Hallows' Eve | Annabelle Jacobs
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#AllHallowsReadSwap is back!
We are getting close to Halloween & scary book season (who am I kidding, it's always time for scary books).

It's a simple swap of 3 items-
1 BOOK From Your Recipient's Wish List/TBR
1 SCARY BOOK you recommend
Halloween Candy or other treat

Opening Night is October 30th so we can have a new scary book to read on Halloween. #AHRS

Sign Ups are open until Sept 23rd.
https://forms.gle/NjSo5bQdggXXGzc3A
@litsyevents

MaleficentBookDragon Here is the inspiration I had 7 years ago for this swap.
https://youtu.be/1tYtLeWN5NQ?si=HZAFglrhmxAF4M8X
Wow, has it been that long?
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Texreader I‘m in! Yay!! 2mo
KaylasReadingNook I‘m so excited for this event again! 😄 2mo
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Deblovestoread Yay! Signed up 🎃 2mo
wanderinglynn I‘m not signing up this year because I‘m trying to downsize. But I‘m happy to be swap angel should you need one. Hopefully you won‘t but just in case. 2mo
Avanders 🎃🧡👻♥️💀🖤 2mo
MaleficentBookDragon @wanderinglynn Thanks, that‘s very sweet of you! We‘ll miss you. 2mo
CloakNQuill All signed up 🎃🖤 2mo
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Midnight Feast | Lucy Foley
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Ok. I will not change my mind on this one. I LOVED loved this book.
It is better than the one I read for book club, which I also loved, The Guest List. I‘ve read all of hers now and I think this is the best one and I need to talk about it. The twists keep coming at the end but they make sense to me. I figured a few of them out but I did gasp 3 times.

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Relic | Douglas J Preston
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#TwoforTuesday
1. American Museum of Natural History in NYC
https://www.amnh.org/.
2. Relic by Preston and Child - Natural History Museum with a creature running amok. 😍

TheSpineView Great museum! Thanks for playing 2mo
DebinHawaii Another favorite! Thanks for the tag! 2mo
BookwormAHN Love Relic 🖤 2mo
kspenmoll Natural History Museum is fabulous! 2mo
Avanders Ooh I don‘t think I‘ve ever been! My favorite is, probably unsurprisingly, the Field Museum in Chicago 🤓♥️ 2mo
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I will be hosting the #allhallowsreadswap again this year.
Opening day is October 30th so we all have something scary to read on Halloween. And some candy.
If I get my 💩 together, I‘ll have the sign up sheet done this week. Stay tuned. #AHRS

My original inspiration-
https://youtu.be/1tYtLeWN5NQ?si=HbpNJ-sJnFd61f6t

Spread the joy. And the terror.
And remember, candy is very important!
🍬 🍭 🍫
🧛🏻‍♂️ 🧙 👻 🧟‍♀️ 👿 👽 🔪 🩸 🐍 🦈 🦇 🕷️

KaylasReadingNook This was so much fun last year! 😄 2mo
ShelleyBooksie Yay!! 2mo
Deblovestoread Yay!! 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
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Gissy 🎉 2mo
Ddzmini I‘m so glad… I need to get back into swaps 😛📚🎊🧛🏻‍♀️ 2mo
Avanders 🖤💀♥️👻🧡🎃 2mo
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