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mydearwatson

mydearwatson

Joined November 2016

Wife to a wonderful man, momma to the most beautiful little boy you've ever seen, lover of God, lover of books
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun | Cornelia Funke, Guillermo Del Toro
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This wonderful book is ONLY TWO DOLLARS today!

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The Boy from the Woods | Harlan Coben
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Mehso-so

I can‘t necessarily recommend this book, but because I‘m a sucker for a good back cover description, I‘ll probably read another Coben novel eventually.​

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Full review with SPOILERS at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/05/29/the-boy-from-the-woods/.

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The Boy from the Woods | Harlan Coben
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“In one of the most bizarre cases in recent history, a wild-haired young boy, estimated to be between six and eight years old, was discovered living on his own in the Ramapo Mountain State Forest near the suburb of Westville...and then the dragons arrived.”

😂😂😂

Show me yours!

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My three-year-old loves his books ❤️. He likes to read with Mommy but also by himself. We read this together after naptime earlier.
#mydearwatson #toddlersoflitsy

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Bossypants | Tina Fey
Mehso-so

I did expect the book to be constant laughs, not just laughs sprinkled through the essay, but that‘s on me.

Full review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/bossypants/.

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I feel you, Goose 😆.

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The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
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1.) Serena Joy Waterford. I wouldn‘t say I like her at all, but the TV show expanded on her character so much that I began to empathize with her sometimes.

2.) Excessive sex (and thoughts of) and cursing. I‘m looking at you, Stephen King 👀.

3.) Any of my favorites. Michael Ende is dead, but I would love something signed by Amy Tan. Or Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke. Or Murata Sayaka. Or...

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs I‘m with you on #2 especially mindless obsessive hostile sex 4y
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Untitled | Unknown
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Thanks for making this list of bloggers, @Sace !

#Blog: https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com
#Goodreads: mydearwatsonbooks

#thisismyblog

Sace You're welcome! 4y
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The Hunting Party | Lucy Foley
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OriginalCyn620 This one sounds good! 4y
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Pretty Baby | Mary Kubica
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A hard-to-put-down thriller with some very heartbreaking events. I‘m reading a funny book now (something I don‘t normally need to switch to after a thriller). If you read this, you might do the same or exercise some self-care when you finish reading this book.

Full review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/pretty-baby/.

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BridgetteM Hey there! @Sace started a tag for Littens with book blogs. Hope you don‘t mind that I‘m tagging you! #ThisIsMyBlog 4y
mydearwatson @BridgetteM Thanks! I‘ll create a post later. 4y
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Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes
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OriginalCyn620 Love that cover! 4y
Smrloomis Me too! The cover is great. 👍🏽 4y
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The Pearl | John Steinbeck
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#setinmexico #day5 #bibliomaynia @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I feel like I read part of this a long time ago. I kind of want to read the whole thing, but it‘s been awhile since I‘ve read Steinbeck, and I didn‘t like it then. It‘s probably time to try again.

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UwannaPublishme Steinbeck! 🙌🏻 4y
OriginalCyn620 I haven‘t read it either but I‘m willing to give it a go! 4y
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#day4 #samebookdifferentcolor #bibliomaynia @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Pic on the left is from #goodreads and was the original cover of the copy I bought for my Nook. Pic on the right is what it looks like now. Complete redesign, for some reason.

wanderinglynn I like the one on the left better. It‘s a cleaner, sleeker cover. 4y
OriginalCyn620 I‘ve never seen the one on the right! 4y
Sweetkokoro I actually love the new cover designs they catch my eye and make me want to read this series. The originals never caught my attention, I thought they were bland and boring, so I always overlooked the series. 4y
mydearwatson I don‘t hate the one on the right; I just paid for the one on the left 🙃. 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve never seen the one on the right! 4y
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New Spring: The Novel | Robert Jordan
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OriginalCyn620 Pretty! 4y
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Android Karenina | Ben H. Winters, Leo Tolstoy
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#bookhunt #scavengersaturday #round3 @ShyBookOwl

I have the paperback copy; it‘s part of my #tbrmountain. Pic is from #goodreads.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👍🏻📚 4y
OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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Pretty Baby | Mary Kubica
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Playing out of order because I just discovered this game. Also, #whynot?

So far, Litsy reviewers haven‘t liked the tagged so much, it seems, but I‘m loving it so far! I hope I don‘t change my mind; I love psychological thrillers and mysteries.

#bookhunt #round2 @ShyBookOwl

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m out of order too!!! 😱😱 4y
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I hate sorting/ folding clothes. I do enjoy watching murder mysteries, especially ones that are British AND bookish. Makes chores much more enjoyable.

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This was my favorite of the Ruth Ware novels that I‘ve read so far.

Pic from #goodreads.

Full review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/05/11/the-death-of-mrs-westaway/.

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Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Does watching book-ish things on the internet count as reading?

I watched the version with Cumberbatch as the monster and Miller as Frankenstein last week; I watched the reverse yesterday. I preferred Cumberbatch as the monster, but everyone was incredible in all their roles.

#nationaltheatre

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The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux
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Hahahahahaha
#sparknotes

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On Beyond Zebra! | Dr. Seuss
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#mydearwatson loves these pages. We‘ve read them about a hundred times in the past three days.
#toddlersoflitsy

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This book was okay...I love off-beat stuff, but there was too much talk about killing animals. I did love this poem at the beginning.

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I loaned the tagged book to my dad. My parents‘ puppy enjoyed the book yesterday.
#dogsoflitsy

wanderinglynn Uh-oh! 😳 But it looks like he at least enjoyed it. 😉❤️🐶 4y
LinesUponAPage I hate it when that happens. So many times I've seen this in my own house. 😬 They finally, finally don't touch or go near my books! 😁 4y
Megabooks Yikes!!! 4y
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The Stranger | Harlan Coben
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I haven‘t read much lately 😢, but I have been crocheting more (when my son lets me). I finished this series last night...confession: I liked it way better than the book. Pic from #IMDb.
#litsyconfessions #sorrynotsorry

rubyslippersreads I agree—it was much better than the book. 4y
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun | Cornelia Funke, Guillermo Del Toro
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Congratulations to @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks !
#5N5giveaway

1.) Easily the tagged book. Easily.
2.) I honestly have no idea. I don‘t usually pay attention to release dates 🤦🏻‍♀️.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have you added!! Thank you 🎈🙌🏻📚🎊🎉💗 4y
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Put Me in the Zoo | Robert Lopshire
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So I‘ve read this book to my three-year-old about a billion times, and tonight he says, “Cat in the Hat”. I‘ve never noticed it before. I think he‘s smarter than me.
#toddlersoflitsy

Bookzombie He is smarter than me too! I didn‘t notice it until I read what you wrote. 4y
megnews I loved this book as a kid and reading it to my three and never once noticed it. Kids are so observant. 4y
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The C. S. Lewis Bible | C. S. Lewis
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We sang this this morning at church. The music minister picked it out weeks ago.

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I Wish That I Had Duck Feet | Dr Seuss, Theo LeSieg, Theodore Lesieg
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My son loved petting the lizard that‘s in front of a local library! We got the tagged book there (plus a bunch more), and he likes it ❤️.

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I Wish That I Had Duck Feet | Dr Seuss, Theo LeSieg, Theodore Lesieg
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My son loved petting the lizard that‘s in front of a local library! We got the tagged book there (plus a bunch more), and he likes it ❤️.

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My Lovely Wife | Samantha Downing
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🔪👰❓

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1 Amy Tan, Agatha Christie (I know there are a few problematic things here), Danielle Paige (at least her _Dorothy Must Die_ series)

2 Malala Yousafzai, Elizabeth Warren, Wendy Davis, Michelle Obama...

3 Bunmi Laditan‘s Twitter feed

4 A local indoor playground, a local freezer meal business, a local restaurant chain (the woman is a co-founder of this, another restaurant, and a publishing company)

@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads #friyayintro

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Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original | Catherynne M. Valente, Charlie Jane Anders, Seanan McGuire, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kameron Hurley, Jo Walton, Nisi Shawl, Carrie Vaughn, Alyssa Wong, Amal El-Mohtar, Brooke Bolander
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The Ginza Ghost | Keikichi Osaka
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I love Japanese literature, and I love mysteries, so this was a great pick for me.

Also, can we just pretend I didn't take such horrible picture of my e-reader?

Full short review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/the-ginza-ghost/.

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This book will be published in March. If you're a fan of Seluk, you'll more than likely enjoy it.

Huge thanks to #NetGalley for providing an advanced copy of #HowIBrokeUpwithMyColon by #NickSeluk in exchange for an honest review.

Full review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/how-i-broke-up-with-my-colon/.

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Have you read this? WHAT THE HECK HAPPENS TO ROWAN?!?!

Rowan Caine applies for a dream nannying job in Scotland, but is it too good to be true? Apparently, since the novel starts with her writing letters from a Scottish prison to a barrister. But is what happened cause by the supernatural or something closer to her new home?

Full review at https://mydearwatsonbooks.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/the-turn-of-the-key/.

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Last Winter We Parted | Fuminori Nakamura
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun | Cornelia Funke, Guillermo Del Toro
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The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji
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Mehso-so

Cute story but waaaay too many commas.

Ms_T 🤣 4y
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So I love this book. I‘ve read this book to my son about a bazillion times, and he loves it. I‘ve noticed other mistakes in it before, but this misspelling is here and throughout the whole book and makes me want to throw it through a window.
#dinosaurs #christmas #toddlersoflitsy #mydearwatson

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Alarms and Discursions | G. K. Chesterton
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” -G. K. Chesterton
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I know of a few people who could benefit from reading this book.

I think writing this book helped Dr. Seuss be a little less racist, at least against the Japanese and Japanese Americans, if I remember correctly.

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The New Girl | R.L. Stine
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I‘m letting my kid watch so much TV today 🤦🏻‍♀️. We were going to go to an indoor playground, but my kid managed to find his way to the cat poop to play with it, so I kind of lost my motivation. While cleaning up the library (where the cat‘s stuff is), I decided to pull out a fun read (even though I‘m already reading a billion books at once).

Bookzombie Oh that‘s a mess. So sorry that happened. 💗 4y
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Mary Poppins ABC | Mary Shepard, P L Travers
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I think this might be my kid.
#mydearwatson #toddlersoflitsy

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So much fun! A good way to introduce kids robe sparing with apostrophes. Not a fan of the “exceptions” 😂.

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The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold
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1.) I love psychological thrillers. I also really like sci-fi. I was able to attend an advanced screening of a very bookish, very awesome mystery movie.

2.) _The Lovely Bones_. Also _The Time Traveler‘s Wife_. Also...

3.) Caroline B. Cooney, S. E. Hinton, Brian Jacques, Robert Pinsky

4.) Too cold (though I do acknowledge those that don‘t have shelter and can‘t cover up with an extra blanket)

#litsylearn @Alora

Alora Hello! Thank you for playing 💙💙 4y
Alora I‘m going to guess the lie is that you like sci-fi?! 4y
mydearwatson @Alora Yup :-)! 4y
Alora Haha I can agree with that! 4y
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Subject 375 | Nikki Owen
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Hanging out outside with my son, wishing that more chapters of this book were available on Serial Reads.
#toddlersoflitsy