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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries, Book 1)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries, Book 1): A deliciously cosy murder mystery | Joanne Fluke
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Her gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks... Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder is the first mouth-watering novel in the Hannah Swensen crime series from acclaimed author Joanne Fluke. Packed full of delicious recipes and perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton and Leslie Meier. 'An entertaining debut with some delectable recipes as a bonus' - Kirkus Reviews Hannah Swensen already has her hands full running Minnesota's most popular bakery. But when Ron LaSalle, the delivery man from the nearby Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind the bakery with Hannah's famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him, life couldn't get more complicated. Who would have the audacity - and motive - to kill the most punctual delivery man Hannah has ever had the pleasure of working with? This is one murder that's starting to leave a very bad taste in Hannah's mouth. And if she doesn't watch her back, her life could be burned to a crisp... What readers are saying about Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: 'This book was a complete delight from start to finish' 'You cannot miss this' 'Hannah is a very likable heroine... I was hooked on the plot from the very beginning'
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BookBr
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Mehso-so

This was a fun read — but what an underbelly in this small town! It‘s a bit dated, but that‘s to be expected. Hannah is frank and funny, and the mystery unwinds in a neat and tidy way that keeps you guessing but still more or less holds together. I didn‘t love all the sly pokes at people‘s looks and character, although the mother-hating cat was pretty funny. I‘d probably read another one in the series, just to see what happens to everyone.

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AileenRR
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Mehso-so

Met my goal of finally reading a mystery. This was fine, but I guess they‘re just not for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

CogsOfEncouragement I love a good mystery and this series was not for me either. Agatha Christie is great. My favorites are The Crooked House and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd if you ever want to give the genre another try. 5mo
emz711 They're really cozy mysteries 5mo
AileenRR @CogsOfEncouragement Thanks for the recs! 5mo
AileenRR @emz711 That‘s why I thought I‘d like it. I did make the chocolate chip crunch cookies though, and they were just fine for me as well 5mo
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SerenaCrawford
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Pickpick

I enjoyed this quick, light read. I look forward to more by this author. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5.

jewright There‘s a ton of them! 6mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#FoodOnCvr 🍰🍨🧁🍪🥧🍩

#ItTakesAllKinds ☘️🌈🌷🌞

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Bookwormjillk That shelf is making me hungry! 8mo
SilversReviews Love these covers!! 8mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it!! 😍 8mo
Eggs Wow !!! Didn‘t know there were so many 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8mo
JuliaTheBookNerd @Eggs This is just a small portion of them, there are 30 books so far in this series! 😊 8mo
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ShananigansReads
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This story is located in the paperback copy of Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.

#SeriesLove24 @Andrew65 @TheSpineview

#ShananigansReads24

TheSpineView Awesome! 9mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Chocolate 🍪🍫 #LuckyInLove 💋👩🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻💌💘

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute cover 🍪 10mo
Eggs 🍫🤎🍪 10mo
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TheQuietQuill
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For todays #scarathlon photo challenge: Death

Last year, this was my buddy read and it led me down the rabbit hole of cozy mysteries. These are a fun series with great recipes 🎃 #blackcatcrew 🐈‍⬛

Read-y_Picker Yeah I actually got hooked on the movie adaptations... Haven't read them yet but this one's been on my TBR probably since before last scarathlon lol.
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TheQuietQuill Ohh I didn‘t know there were movie adaptations! I‘ll have to look into those! @Read-y_Picker 1y
Traci1 @TheQuietQuill if you have the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel, there's going to be a marathon of the movies on Friday, with a new one coming on at 9pm. They're cute. 1y
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BookwormAHN The movies are really good 🧡 1y
Read-y_Picker @TheQuietQuill You should! They're pretty cute, actually. 1y
Read-y_Picker @Traci1 OMG a new one finally?! I'm down! 1y
TheQuietQuill Oh cool! Darn, I‘ll be away Friday but maybe I can record them somehow 🤔 Thanks! @Read-y_Picker @Traci1 1y
Traci1 @Read-y_Picker yep. It's called A Zest for Death. 😀 1y
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LiseWorks
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Eggs 🧡🍪🤎 1y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#ChocolateDay 🍫 🍪 #SummerSpecial 🏖️☀️🌻🎆🍉

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🍪 📚👌🏻 1y
Eggs Perfect 🤩 🍫 1y
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BookishMadHatter
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Book Club meets on Thursday ... so I guess its about time to actually, you know, read the book 😬🤷‍♀️

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Read4life
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Pickpick

I didn‘t read this in October but I have several Christmas reads from this series on my iPad. I figured I should read the first in the series to get introduced to the characters and setting. It held my interest enough to read more.
I don‘t usually read out of order, but I‘m making an exception with this and the Lucy Stone series for #BookedByHoliday reads.

#Adventathon #BookSpinBingo #WinterReadathon

Andrew65 Well done 🎄🎄🎄 Like you I don‘t normally read out of order but got a few Christmas books I will be. 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
BookmarkTavern I really enjoy the recipes in this series! 2y
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Read4life
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Revised) | Joanne Fluke, Nina Corbett
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#NovelNovember @Andrew65

🍁5 books read
🍁4 in progress including my three group reads
#LittensLoveRomance @StayCurious
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD @TheBookHippie
#WhimsicalReads @KateReadsYA
🍁1 surprising DNF

TheBookHippie Yay!!! 2y
Andrew65 That‘s brilliant. Thanks for playing along 👏👏👏🙌🥳🍾🥂😍 2y
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ImperfectCJ
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Mehso-so

This is a pleasant enough little story. Very quick and light, which is perhaps a little disconcerting for a murder mystery (I'm not used to cozies that are quite this...cozy). Not sure I'll continue with the series, but this was a fun diversion. The included recipes make me want to bake, but I'm skeptical about whether they'd actually turn out well or not.

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ImperfectCJ
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Pretty spot to wait out my teen's field trip and listen to an audiobook. Lots of surfers and shore birds (and flies). Glad I brought my sun hat!

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kezzlou85
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Pickpick

Team read done and I really enjoyed it. I like a cosy mystery and Hannah is very likeable. Plus this had an extra short story that was very sweet. The recipes included was a lovely touch 4* 51pts for #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon
@Clwojick

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Larkken
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Week 3 #scarathlon total for #teamslaughter = 9250
🎉🥳🎃
This week, I read 4 books including our buddy read, which was light and fluffy and fun, if not terribly believable. And loook, I found a Hallmark movie for it! Maybe I‘ll have to watch it 🤔 #spookoween

TheSpineView Well done 2y
SomedayAlmost It is so perfect for a Hallmark movie! (And as an author, tv/film rights are where the real money is.) 2y
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kezzlou85
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Well week 3 done and it was a good one. Total for the week was 13,050. Most of which come from finding the team words in the books I'm reading.
#TeamSlaughter
@Clwojick

Clwojick Awesome! Way to go! ☠ 2y
DanaManiac 🥳🥳🥳 2y
kezzlou85 @Clwojick thanks been a good week. 2y
kezzlou85 @DanaManiac aww thank you. 2y
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SomedayAlmost
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Mehso-so

I enjoyed Hanna‘s sarcastic demeanor, and who doesn‘t love a cookie bakery & a moody cat, but it honestly felt like a generic cozy. Strong setting can make a cozy stand out, but descriptions of Lake Eden weren‘t particularly vivid or memorable. Narrator was good. #3stars #teamread #mystery #scarathalon22 #TeamSlaughter #31by31

Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🎃🖤 2y
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Bookwormjillk
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Mehso-so

I didn‘t love the main character in this series, but I liked the mystery and the conclusion. Amateur sleuths in these types of books can be so judgmental when they‘re solving crimes, you know? 🤣

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MidnightBookGirl
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Pickpick

I originally had planned to read the Karin Slaughter book, but it turns out I had already read it, so I thought I'd try this one for the team read and I really liked it! I've already read the second book, and I plan on continuing. #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick
Word Find: 276

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Blackink_WhitePaper
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Clwojick Way to go! Great job! ☠ 2y
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MidnightBookGirl
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My friend sent this too me and it was too perfect not to share! #Scarathalon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Linsy 😂 2y
Clwojick 😂 😂 2y
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Blackink_WhitePaper
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Pickpick

Finished our #teamslaughter #buddyread book. It‘s humorous & delicious ( I mean with all those recipes!) I enjoyed listening to it. Good read, like the MC but I felt she is bit over enthusiastic with everything. I like mysteries #setinsmalltown 3.5 ⭐️ #readathon 9.5hrs #littenlisten @aperfectmjk #spookoween @TheSpineView #31in31 @Catsandbooks #promptmaze #bookspinbingo #witchathon @mdm139 #scarathlon #teamSlaughter

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🎃🖤 2y
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TheSpineView
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Eggs Love the chocolate chip skull😄🍫 2y
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5feet.of.fury
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OutsmartYourShelf
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Almost ran out of time but managed to get 279 words in just over an hour last night.

+2790 points

#Scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter @clwojick

Clwojick Way to go! Great job! ☠ 2y
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Airykah13
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Sleepswithbooks Every time I see this book posted, I have a mad craving to eat raw cookie dough!!!! 🍪🍪🍪 2y
Airykah13 @Sleepswithbooks lol, wellll cookie dough is delicious 2y
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DHill
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#TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon #wordsearch

Even looking at it now there are so many more!

@Clwojick

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gossamerchild
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I don't know if it's because I read SO MUCH the first week, but I did not get as much done this week for #Scarathlon2022. Here's my word list for this week's game. My total number of points is 1648.

#teamslaughter @clwojick

Clwojick Way to go! 🖤 2y
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Yuki_Onna
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Okay, so I went a liiiiiiiittle bit overboard with the #wordsearch #game for #Scarathlon2022 this week 😁
I spent hours and hours poring over countless dictionaries, whenever I read a book words that fit jumped at me; it took me ages to find sleep because I mulled over the word lists...

Yuki_Onna ... Continued -
Don't worry, that sounds worse than it was - if you didn't notice already - I tend to obsess over word search games! 😊😂
They're my absolute favourite and I had a blast this week!✌️
Be assured I double and triple checked my results before the final check-in!!!

🥳Checking in at 1353 found words from this week's word search for #TeamSlaughter 🥳
@Clwojick
#Scarathlon #wordcount #ChocolateChipCookieMurder #wordsearchgame
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Clwojick HAHAHHA! This is AWESOME! 👏 2y
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Roary47
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I was able to find 224 words for #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Clwojick Way to go! 2y
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BarkingMadRead
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AnnR Excellent! 🍁🎃 I'm using the same book for the recipe square. 🙂 2y
Clwojick Woohoo! 2y
PuddleJumper Wahoo! 2y
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AllDebooks
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Hot, tie, hip, rip, dip, lip, top, lop, mop, ice, hat, pat, rat, mat
Prim, late, cook, peel, heel, heal, cool, tram, drip, chip, home, chop, reed, door, root, dirt, trim, date, deer, dock, hock, lock, teak, peak, leak, mate, hate, luck, much, lord, duke, turn, pine, pike, rook, duck, look, leap, deep, leek, seek, tram, dram, race, pace, lace, make, tack, chat
Crimp, dream, recur, cocoa, hotel, motel, chuck, chimp, cheek, churn, trace

@Clwojick

AllDebooks Church, pocket, locket, rocket, choked, hurrah 2y
Clwojick Way to go! 2y
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BarkingMadRead
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Hannah is following the #clues to find the killer, so Bill can get his promotion…. #teamread #teamslaughter #scarathlon2022 #scarathlondailyprompts @Clwojick

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DanaManiac
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Pickpick

4 ⭐️

I enjoyed this read very much! I liked that even though it‘s a cozy mystery set in a small town, it didn‘t feel sterile or bland- there were some real weirdos in there! 🤣
• Team Buddy Read for #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter
• Solved it Before the Characters for #PromptMaze
• C for #AutumnAtoZ

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
Clwojick Way to go! 2y
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KT1432
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Using a #TeamSlaughter #BuddyRead for the #ScarathlonDailyPrompts #PhotoChallenge for Day 7: #Victim. I have yet to read this one, but the synopsis states one of our MC‘s customers is found murdered behind her bakery amidst her chocolate chip cookies and she decides to investigate!

#Scarathlon2022

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TheQuietQuill
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Pickpick

This was fun! This is my first “cozy” mystery that I‘ve ever read, and the recipes sound amazing! I wrote them all down and want to try them soon, yummy! Finished #scarathlon2022 buddy read for #teamslaughter 🔪

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DanaManiac
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Starting one of our #TeamSlaughter reads for #Scarathlon I‘d say murder definitely qualifies as #Crime for the #DailyPrompt

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Texreader
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Pickpick

An enjoyable but slow cozy mystery this one. Dairy delivery guy without an enemy in the world is shot behind the MC‘s cookie shop. Doofus of a detective gets the cookie shop owner to pretty much do all the work to solve the murder. Cookie shop owner apparently has a perfect IQ because she knows everything and her 4–year-old niece talks like she‘s 30. So I suspended reality a lot, but I enjoyed the mystery. #teamslaughter #buddyread #scarathlon

Lynnsoprano Perfect description of this book 😄 I read one more out of this series and decided it was just too unrealistic. Plus, the recipes have way too much butter for my diet 😂 2y
Clwojick Ahahah! 2y
Sleepswithbooks I‘m reading this one right now 😃 2y
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julieclair
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Pickpick

I enjoyed our #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #TeamBook. It was a cute cozy mystery with yummy cookie recipes. I listened on audio, but think that I might actually have preferred to read it, as the voices the narrator used didn‘t mesh well with my mental image of the characters.
#102025 (2000) #RoadTripUSA (Minnesota) #AutumnAtoZ (C) #BodyCountBingo (Multiple Victims) #BookishBingo (Owns a Cat) #LittenListenBingo #AutumnBingo2022 (Recipe)

Librarybelle I enjoy this series! 2y
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2y
Clwojick Woohoo! ☠ Way to go!!! 2y
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Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🖤👻 2y
TheSpineView Awesome 2y
AnnR Way to go! 🍁🍁🍁 2y
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Sleepswithbooks
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Revised) | Joanne Fluke, Nina Corbett
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Read for Team Buddy Read #2 I‘ve been avoiding this one because I think it‘s going to trigger my sugar-switch-let‘s-double-chin-it-cookie-munching-brain-circuits. I sacrifice a lot for #TeamSlaughter 🍪🍪

#Scarathlon #TeamRead #ChocolateChipCookieMurder #MurderingmyDietwithCookies #Readathons #Pointsathon #Spookoween #Fallreadathon #Readlikeahellathon

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 2y
AllDebooks 🤣🤣🤣 2y
MoonWitch94 Love it! 2y
TheSpineView Awesome 2y
Suet624 😀😀😀 2y
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Charityann
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Mehso-so

Finished listening to the team read. This is the second book in the series I‘ve read and I found them both to be on the slow side. Also, the MC is supposed to be in her twenties but seems more like a middle aged woman. (Maybe because they were first published before cell phones and such?) #teamslaughter #scarathlon @Clwojick

Roary47 I agree that she seems older than she is suppose to be. 2y
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Traci1
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When you take your kid to a playdate and come home with the creeping crud, you're entitled to spend the day under a fuzzy blanket with coffee and a comfort read, right?

#teamslaughter #buddyread #reread

PuddleJumper Absolutely 2y
Aims42 Definitely!! ❤️ 2y
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TheQuietQuill
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Starting this one now for #scarathlon2022 #buddyread #teamslaughter 🍪

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Clwojick
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I‘m going to past my first two pages (front and back) of matches for #Scarathlons week one game now. Hopefully I‘ll still have time to do some more, but for now I have 267 books which have something in common with our team reads. So 2670 points for #TeamSlaughter! Woohoo

Kimberlone Oh goodness I‘ve only come up with a few so far! I just started listening to False Witness on audiobook so hopefully the plot will jog my memory! 2y
julieclair WOW!!! Great job! Go #TeamSlaughter! 2y
MoonWitch94 WOW 🤩 That‘s pretty great! I stopped at 33 books 😂🤣😂🤣 2y
Charityann Nice! 😄 2y
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kay.the.bibliophile
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Just finished reading #TeamSlaughter #TeamBook & it was amazing!!! It kept me on the edge of my seat, did not see the ending coming!!! Can't wait to read the rest of the books in this series. #Scarathlon @Clwojick

Clwojick Woohoo! 2y
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Texreader
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I only got about 8 hours total for #20in4 but I still made a lot of progress, especially for #scarathlon. I finished An Unfortunate Demise, listened a lot to Good Omens, started #teamslaughter #buddyread Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder and made progress on a few others.

Andrew65 A brilliant total, well done and thanks for playing along 👏👏👏🥳🍾🥂😍🙌 2y
Clwojick Awesome job! 🖤 2y
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AnnRaz
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Never read a cozy mystery before, but here we go!
#scarathlon2022 book #2

#scarathlon #teamread #teamslaughter

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Texreader
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Clwojick 🖤🖤 2y
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