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MatchlessMarie

MatchlessMarie

Joined December 2016

Just a human living in this inhuman world 🤖 she/her ✨ Goodreads: http://bit.ly/2DYYwQh LittleLifeWrecker on StoryGraph
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You by Caroline Kepnes
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Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
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There Must Be Some Mistake by Frederick Barthelme
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Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
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It | Stephen King
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Your heart will be afloat too 🤣 Going through a bunch of old paperwork and found this bizarre precious moments Valentine clown

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No I haven‘t fallen off the face of the earth I‘ve just been moving… still 🥴 But I finally got to listen to this cast audio version of Angels in America which was fantastic. I see a subscription to National Theater at Home in my future. Maybe a reward for when this moving nonsense is behind me. 🙃

LiteraryinPA I moved a month ago so I feel for you! It‘s a lot. Hope you are settled soon so you can nest with a good book! 1w
Kenyazero Moving is so much work! I moved at the end of May and I‘m definitely still in-process 😵‍💫 glad you got to take some time to enjoy an audiobook! 1w
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August #BookSpin / #ReadYourKindle lists and #BookSpinBingo board.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 1mo
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July | Julie Murray
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Ehh I read more rental listings in July than books and two of these were rereads. 🫣 Here‘s to a better month. August is gonna be a busy month of moving and getting settled in the new place. #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Still great progress!! Good luck with the move!! 1mo
Ruthiella Moving is so stressful. Good luck! 😊 1mo
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Donation was successful on Thursday at work. Donating blood is a great Sumer-ween activity 😄🦇🅰️➕🩸 #LitsyBloodDrive

monalyisha Great photo (and accompanying action)! 1mo
TieDyeDude 👏 👏 👏 Thanks for the tag! 1mo
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I love this @TieDyeDude !! I actually just signed up for a blood drive at my work happening on July 16. So I‘ll be participating early. I am using this donation to determine if I can be a candidate to donate platelets in the future. This time of year is when shortages tend to happen. Please donate if you can! #LitsyBloodDrive

TieDyeDude Close enough! Thanks for donating. Our local blood bank doesn't do platelets, but I've done it in the past a few times. I struggled with sitting still for the whole time, but it is an interesting experience, and plenty of time for audiobooks 😁 2mo
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Been decluttering preparing to move and I came across this coloring book from when my kid was in his Peppa era. Don‘t come for my poor coloring skills lol but I couldn‘t help but wonder what “book with a blue cover” mummy pig is reading and when might the title slip her mind? 🤔

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The Fourth of July | Kevin Dowd
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It‘s a somber day for the US, but especially for the Texas Hill Country. San Antonio (where I live) recently experienced a flood related tragedy. Seeing it happen again so soon is heart wrenching. 💔

Librarybelle So sorry to hear 2mo
TheBookHippie So sorry.. 2mo
Trashcanman 🫂 2mo
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CBee It‘s just awful 😢😢😢 2mo
kspenmoll So so sorry. Heartbreaking. 2mo
dabbe Unbelievably hearbreaking. 🩵💙🩵 2mo
Deblovestoread Such a tragedy. 💔 2mo
CoffeeK8 Heartbreaking! 2mo
Bookwormjillk So sad 💔 2mo
Chrissyreadit im sorry- 😢 2mo
JessClark78 💔 2mo
Nebklvr Hoping more survivors will be found 2mo
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July #BookSpinBingo 🎆

Surprised that the BookSpin pull was an actual book since my list this month is mostly free spaces. Going to try for a blackout because I‘d like to stay far away from doomscrolling the rest of the month. I‘ve seen enough 🫣🔥

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!!! 2mo
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Trumpets of Death: A Graphic Novel | Simon Bournel-Bosson
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The ethereal look of this cover is what initially drew me in to want to try this book. A lot of the details are left intentionally ambiguous and the art does a lot of the storytelling, allowing for reader interpretation.
This is a book that will make you want to start again as soon as you finish to see what you might have missed the first time around. This would be a great book to prompt discussions and the artwork is chillingly beautiful. #ARC

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June | Lori Copeland
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June reading wrap up and first #bookspinbingo of the year!! 🙌 Favorite reads were Fahrenheit 182, We Could Be Rats, and Trumpets of Death which was an ARC I received that comes out in August. I still need to get a proper review out, but it‘s a graphic novel to watch out for! 🍄

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 2mo
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People Die | Kevin Wignall
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This book has been on my shelf forever. It was a so so read for me. As the title suggests there is a lot of killing in this book. The main character it a hitman who unwittingly is called to do a job outside of protocol and chaos ensues. Ended up being a read AND donate. I dropped it off at a little free library near me and swapped it for this Encyclopedia Brown book. #ReadOrDonate #EBBR #ISpyBingo

Ruthiella Great find! I love it when the FLL delivers like that. 😃 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
julieclair I‘m guessing there will be less killing in the Encyclopedia Brown book! 😆 2mo
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#SundayFunday

I recommend this one a lot. It‘s existential and heartwarming. One of the most wholesome books ever. Will stay with you for a long time. 👽 🦔 🐌 🥹

BookmarkTavern That one looks very sweet! Thanks for sharing! 2mo
willaful I took your recommendation. Really delightful! 2mo
MatchlessMarie @willaful Awesome! I‘m glad you liked it. He has another one I still need to get to called Goodbye, Again. 2mo
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July #BookSpin is pretty much going to be a FREE for all. I rolled over unused free spaces from the beginning of the year to July. I‘ll do the same in December. No freebies left behind!! Trying for some #ChristmasInJuly shenanigans as well. I found some holiday kindle books on the recent Stuff Your Kindle Day so those are on my #ReadYourKindle list for July too. 🎄☀️

CBee How do I always miss Stuff Your Kindle day? 🤪🤦‍♀️ 2mo
MatchlessMarie @CBee the IG algorithm always finds me in time 😂 it was on 6/20. I think some of the titles are still showing as free if you want to take a look. https://www.romancebookworms.com (edited) 2mo
CBee @MatchlessMarie cool, thank you!! 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2mo
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Immediately thought of Vlad from The Bromance Bookclub especially with Teddy narrating 😂

Read4life Yes! 2mo
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Picture it, the SAPL 4:42. I‘m minding my business picking up my Firestarter adaptation hold 🍿 and then whamo I see this beauty and couldn‘t just leave her there. I really hope it‘s good 😄 🔪 🍰

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You | Caroline Kepnes
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I‘ve been decluttering / organizing and finding this bookmark in this book cracked me up so much 😆

Leftcoastzen 😁 3mo
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Pen Pal | J. T. Geissinger
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First time getting a skip the line notification from Libby. This was on my #AuldLangSpine list and I have had it on hold since January. Yes, January. I realize I could have started it anytime via KU but Troy Duran is worth the wait 😍 🎧

Sinnett_Blue One of my favorite books 📚 enjoy! 😍 3mo
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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir | Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi
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This book is kind of pissing me off because it made me remember how I waited for hours outside in the cold for a ticket to the Blink 182 Pop disaster tour with Green Day (2002) only to be prompted by youth group guilt to give it away 😒. See also exhibit B: proximity of my Enema of the State and Good Charlotte self-titled albums to my Brio Girl novel 🤣

ChaoticMissAdventures Ohhh no! That is so sad. But also. What a time waiting in line for tickets was. Core youth memories. 3mo
TheBookHippie Oh dear. 😵‍💫 3mo
MatchlessMarie @ChaoticMissAdventures I know right!! Back when Ticket Master was an actual office in the mall. It‘s kind of crazy I somehow talked my parents into letting me go to the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour alone at 12 years old in a time before we had cell phones 😄 3mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @MatchlessMarie ahah times were wild then. I had an older cousin who worked at Ticketmaster in rural Oregon (in a sporting goods store 😂) she took me to my first concert at 12 too, mine was Bon Jovi and it was a dream. 3mo
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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir | Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi
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Sadly, same. 😂

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#IcedTea #JuneSpecials I‘m suddenly parched reading this line 😂

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🫖 3mo
Eggs Excellent 🍵 3mo
dabbe Feeling this hugely in 🐦‍🔥, AZ! 3mo
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Bears & Bakeries | Dylan Drakes
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So I ran out of cookies and I realized I hadn‘t put my review up here! Book 2 of the Sweet and Stocky series finds Havelock “Locky” Sorensen unexpectedly let go from his accounting job with well padded redundancy payout. His roommate Kai lovingly strong-arms him to take a risk and pursue his dream to open a night time bakery. Kai connects Locky to small business project manager Benedict Owens to get started. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie Locky resists, preferring to play it safe with his career and his heart. But he finds that he doesn‘t know how to act when Benedict is around and soon both of their guards are let down so a new dream can take shape.

Locky is an absolute awkward mess and I love him for it. While this book is low angst, I enjoyed the emotional depth of Benedict and Locky as they navigate deeper topics like familial trauma, sobriety, and shame. ⬇️
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MatchlessMarie This is balanced so well by the humor in this book. I laughed so much reading it. We also get to see cameos from Cubs and Campfires, which I adored. 3mo
peanutnine I need to check this one out! I bailed on Cubs and Campfires - I really liked the writing and characters but the premise put me off. This sounds more up my alley 3mo
MatchlessMarie @peanutnine Fun fact… Locky is the blonde mentioned early on in Cubs and Campfires by Luca. I did prefer this installment to Cubs. There is a novella sequel to Cubs coming out soonish. Probably August called Cubs and Campfires Winter Rangers though. 3mo
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo
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TheSpineView 👍🤩📖 3mo
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I initially got this to try listening with my son to see how he‘d do with an audiobook that didn‘t accompany a shorter picture book. It didn‘t hold his interest beyond the first chapter (but I think it would have been different if Libby had a whispersync feature like Kindle/Audible does). Normally I would DNF a book I intended to read with him when he loses interest, but I thought the sound effects were really cool and kept going with it. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie Even if you are just vaguely familiar with Minecraft or not at all, it‘s a good story. But I think my favorite thing about it was how larger life lessons were woven throughout like Books Make the World Bigger, Never Give Up, Take Care of Your Environmnent So It Can Take Care of You. I‘m not sure if I will continue the series, but it seems promising. #Island #FictionalTraveler #ISpyBingo #LetterI #LitsyAtoZ 3mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
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Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir | Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi
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When the stars align and your ebook is ready at the same time as your audiobook. 🩷🩶

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The Family | S.E. Green
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ June‘s #DoubleSpin

Leah‘s daughter returns home after being gone for 5 years living on a cultish commune with her batshit father.

I think this book‘s WTF-am-I-reading-page-turn-ability helps to gloss over some of the flaws of this book. Ex: The daughter in this book reads like a 13 year old during a time where she is written to be 18, plotholes, flat writing at times, etc.

#ReadYourKindle #LetterF #LitsyAtoZ 7 prompts for #ISpyBingo

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 3mo
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Ten Steps to Nanette | Hannah Gadsby
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TheSpineView Perfect 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻👌🏻 3mo
Eggs 🤗❣️🥰 3mo
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The Family | S.E. Green
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TheSpineView Perfect! 3mo
dabbe 💙🩵💙 3mo
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The Rose Code | Kate Quinn
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Eggs Great choice 💔 3mo
tpixie I read this great book, I don‘t remember this quote! 3mo
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Firestarter | Stephen King
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
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Eggs Brilliant👍🏼 3mo
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Ten Steps to Nanette | Hannah Gadsby
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ChaoticMissAdventures I have so much admiration for Hannah Gadsby. A real genius on the stage. 3mo
TheSpineView 😍😍😍 3mo
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Eggs This book sounds amazing and fun! 3mo
dabbe Perfect haiku, too! 😍 3mo
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Pet Sematary | Stephen King
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Perfectly reasonable reaction to the loss of good oatmeal cookies and you know death 😅

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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
dabbe 🤣🤩🤣 3mo
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Eggs Wonderful 💗 🥚 💜 3mo
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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June #BookSpinBingo holy hashtags Batman.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 3mo
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This is probably going to be a repeater for today‘s prompt, but it was literally on my desk so least effort on my part 😄 #RockyRoad #JuneSpecials

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 3mo
Eggs Perfect 🍨 3mo
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Ten Steps to Nanette | Hannah Gadsby
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TheSpineView Excellent! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo
dabbe 🩵💙🩵 3mo
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TheSpineView Perfect 😊🌞😊 3mo
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Ten Steps to Nanette | Hannah Gadsby
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If nonfiction counts, I‘m currently about a third of the way through Hannah Gadsby‘s “memoir situation”. #SundayFunday

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Slightly South of Simple | Kristy Woodson Harvey
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Eggs At first I thought it was a Hilderbrand novel-great choice! 3mo
MatchlessMarie @Eggs I was gifted a Christmas book from this same series so I am hoping to get to that book by the holidays 😁 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this author ✍️ 3mo
Eggs @MatchlessMarie Lovely🙏🏻 3mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Well if you love her books, im sure I would too🧡 #kindredspirits 3mo
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I haven‘t exactly been following through on #ReadOrDonate this year so I am going to let June be a mulligan and will finally make it out to my Little Free Library if I still don‘t finish these by the end of the month. Also I did not intentionally make the last 3 titles spell out WTF, but wtf 😂

willaful 😂 😂 😂 3mo
julieclair 😆😆🤪👍 3mo
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June | Lori Copeland
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June #BookSpin and #ReadYourKindle lists. I will try to post in real time this month so I don‘t utterly clog the feed with catchups.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3mo
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Pet Sematary | Stephen King
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I‘m not sure how this one ended up on my Libby holds list since it‘s not going to be on the #losersclub schedule anytime soon but instead of delivering later yet again I was like ok let‘s read her! I know this was meant to be scrapped but I loved it so much and I can‘t get the story out of my mind. I‘m catching up on the adaptations too. As you can see, it‘s very meme-able. 😅 ⬇️

MatchlessMarie I plan on making some oatmeal cookies (referenced in the book) later today as well since I‘m already making another book referenced cookie today. Cookie party! 3mo
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The Long Walk | Richard Bachman
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April‘s #losersclub pick but read in May. It was physically exhausting getting through this one as someone who struggles with daytime drowsiness reading about how tired all these guys were. 🫩 Which maybe made it a more immersive experience? 😂 I did find the 4mph rule distracting since I was listening to the audio. Holding a conversation is taxing at 3mph let alone 4 so I had to suspend disbelief in that aspect. ⬇️

MatchlessMarie I believe they have lowered the mph rule for the adaptation which I am looking forward to seeing in September. The cranked up existential dread made up for the tediousness and made this a pick for me. 3mo
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