Litsy

Hey folks! How the heck are ya? I've been slumping HARD. I'm hoping that spring brings me peace, focus, and plenty of cherry blossom blooms!

I haven't peeked at the numbers selected for this month. Fingers crossed that I don't wish I had. 😆

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 3w

Ruthiella You got some heavy reads on your list. Start with Mrs. Harris goes to Paris maybe. It‘s supposed to be light and fun. 3w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @Ruthiella Thanks for the rec. I was trying to finish #192025 by I may need another year. 😬 My hold on Redwall (audio) just came in, so I'll give that a go. My library has Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and New York on the same audio file, so I'll fill in a free spot, too. Bookspin is Sex and Rage. Doublespin is anything set in Ireland. 3w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w

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BarbaraJean

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom | John O'Donohue

April‘s #DoubleSpin is clear—and is also my #44 pick for #50x50. For my #BookSpin, I get to pick a book published in the 1950s—70s for #192025. Above are the three I‘m thinking about… any recommendations?

TheAromaofBooks

Suet624 Yay for Anam Cara. I‘ve only read A Separate Peace (as a teenager) out of the three and I liked it. (edited) 3w

TheBookHippie I like them all 👀🤫🙃 3w

BarbaraJean @Suet624 I'm really looking forward to Anam Cara. It's been on my list for so long and it's nice to have the “assignment“ to read it! @TheBookHippie Good news is I'll be reading them all at some point before the end of the year!! 3w

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TheBookHippie @BarbaraJean literal DECADES since my reading of them 😂 3w

TheAromaofBooks Oh Black Sheep is one of my favorite Heyer romances!! 3w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Oh, that‘s good to know! I‘ve been leaning toward Black Sheep anyway because I‘m pretty sure that will be a nice escapist read—the other two, not so much 😆 3w

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Liz_M

The Odyssey | Homer

A fair amount of reading was done in March. While many books are in the 3-star range, I did really enjoy The Odyssey (read over two months). I finished ny #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin, read a couple of books for #192025, read two books set in big cities for #FictionalTraveler, a couple of #1001Books, and I even got a Bingo.

Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 3w

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TheAromaofBooks

Spinning Forward | Terri DuLong

Good morning, everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is THIRTEEN! Our official #DoubleSpin number is FOUR!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone‘s lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card. I am NOT tagging anyone on that post!! If you want to bingo, please just check my profile for the card. This saves me having to double tag ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont‘d) everyone/keep track of who wants to bingo and who doesn‘t!!

I use the same tag list for the entire year, so if you would like to be added or removed, please just let me know. It takes me a while to tag everyone (there are a lot of you!!!) so I will add “FINISHED” to the last tag batch so you know whether or not I missed you. If I did, it was completely inadvertent. Sometimes I just spell someone‘s username wrong. ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) As always, the link to the masterpost about how this challenge works can be found on my profile or here - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com/bookspin-bookspinbingo-litsy-challenge/ - and the link to the Google Form where you can track your reads for the end-of-the-year-giveaway can be found here - https://forms.gle/2TgEz5N3NLq3GyV56

Thanks for playing, everyone!! Please know that I read EVERY comment on this post but don't always ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) have time to reply to them all!! Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm and for making this challenge SO much fun!!

I'm going to post the Bingo board, and then come back and start the tag list on this post. Happy reading!!!
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TheAromaofBooks @Lcsmcat @AllDebooks @PuddleJumper @ChelseaM6010 @guinsgirlreads @OriginalCyn620 @TheSpineView @Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures @julieclair @Jess861 @BookNAround @Megabooks @AmyG @Suet624 @PathfinderNicole @SusanLee @JoeMo @Librarybelle 3w

TheAromaofBooks @ElizaMarie @Sace @Elizabeth2 @JackOBotts @Enchanted_Bibliophile @Zuhkeeyah @Jadams89 @wordslinger42 @LeafingThroughLife @vlwelser @Bookworm54 @peanutnine @LitsyEvents @Mollyanna @BarkingMadRead @Daisey @AnneCecilie @Bookwormjillk @JenReadsAlot 3w

TheAromaofBooks @lauraisntwilder @sherrisilvera @staci.reads @zezeki @behudd @JamieArc @AudioBookingWithLeah @sebrittainclark @Maggie4483 @BookmarkTavern @Jari-Chan @bookandbedandtea @Laughterhp @Chelsea.Poole @ShananigansReads @vonnie862 3w

TheAromaofBooks @Yuki_Onna @Eggs @Read4life @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @merelybookish @TheBookgeekFrau @Clare-Dragonfly @CoffeeNBooks @BacklistReader @Karisimo @Sarahreadstoomuch @Allylu @MatchlessMarie @ChaoticMissAdventures @rachelsbrittain 3w

TheAromaofBooks @RaeLovesToRead @Bklover @Sargar114 @MemoirsForMe @BarbaraJean @michellelav @tdrosebud @Larkken @ImperfectCJ @CSeydel @HeyT @Deblovestoread @Prairiegirl_reading @Caryl @Nessavamusic @BookwormAHN @AsYouWish @Caterina @Singout @AshleyHoss820 3w

TheAromaofBooks @DGRachel @willaful @kelli7990 @CoffeeK8 @majkia @BookKenz @BookishMadHatter @VeganCleopatra @Soubhiville @MallenNC @mrp27 @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @kwmg40 @aperfectmjk @Lkempf @Marmie7 @janeycanuck 3w

TheAromaofBooks @bekakins @The.Great.Catsby @Pigpen_Reads @lil1inblue @Coffeymuse @robinb @DieAReader @DogMomIrene @rabbitprincess @hissingpotatoes @LeslieO @katiekat311 @TieDyeDude @ferskner @Kristelh @Chrissyreadit @KatieB @llwheeler @hes7 3w

TheAromaofBooks @Bookbuyingaddict @Scochrane26 @triplem80 @MaleficentBookDragon @candc320 @claudiuo @booksblanketsandahotbeverage @kstadt929 @Jess861 @Librariana @Lizpixie @GinaKButler @Rachel_reads @Librariana @becliz @5280reader @gossamerchild @rockpools @LibrarianRyan 3w

TheAromaofBooks @kimmypete @Rissreads @audraelizabeth @RainyDayReading @MittenGirlPeach @julsmarshall @melissajayne @Fortifiedbybooks @aCleverDuck @galueth28 @Bookzombie @GirlNamedJesse @Aconight @Allydanielle88 @Airykah13 @beliz @Nelnjali @cewilf @KellyHamHer @a_lunae 3w

TheAromaofBooks That's everyone on my tag list, so if you haven't been tagged and would like to be added, please let me know. Happy Spinning, everyone!!! 3w

Soubhiville Thank you! 📚❤️ 3w

GinaKButler Yay!! I got

The Good Part

Bookwormjillk 2nd month in a row I got a Nancy Drew. Not always the best books, but easy to finish! 3w

claudiuo Thank you! Indeed what I was waiting for! 3w

Librarybelle Looks like I have Jane and the Wandering Eye and this month‘s #SundayBuddyRead ! 3w

TheSpineView Awesome! 3w

Lcsmcat Yay! I get to read

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

bookandbedandtea Yay for #BookSpin day! Thanks, Sarah! 3w

5feet.of.fury Oooh I never really count these I just like the bingo board but these are both library books on my April list I started at the end of March 3w

BarbaraJean Yay! My BookSpin is a decade range for #192025, so I get to choose something published in the 1950s—70s, and my DoubleSpin is one I picked for my 50x50 challenge (tagged)!

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

MemoirsForMe Woo hoo! I get to read 2 celebrity memoirs! 🙌🏻 3w

dabbe Thanks for hosting! 🩵💙🩵 3w

CSeydel Thank you for keeping this going. It‘s such a fun game! My books are The Ghost Map and

Forgotten on Sunday

PuddleJumper Royal Assassin and an ARC this month 3w

Suet624 Four letters of love by Niall Williams! 3w

CoffeeK8 Thanks for organizing! 3w

Eggs Bookspin: Widows and Orphans. Doublespin: Cause to Run 3w

Kiwidragonnerd I'm quite sure how the tagging thing works, but I'd love to join Bookspin for next month! (And all months after that) 1w

TheAromaofBooks @Kiwidragonnerd - Yay!! Glad to have you along!! Being on the tag list means I'll tag you twice a month - once in a lil reminder post, and then once on the 2nd when I post the numbers. Also if you go to my profile there is a link to more info about the challenge, including info on tracking your reads so you can enter in my end-of-the-year giveaway!!! 1w

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Liz_M

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing | Eimear Mcbride

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And I thought the book tagged in the comments was bleak. This has most of the same plot points – family tragedy, religion, poverty -- mixed with an older protagonist and therefore adds exploitative and unhealthy sexual behavior, all wrapped in a light stream-of-consciousness delivery. And yet, with all these elements that should keep me at a distance, should make it nearly unreadable, I never avoided picking it and cried many times while reading.

Liz_M

Discomfort of Evening

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Liz_M #FoodandLit #Ireland #1001Books #192025 1mo

BarbaraBB Great review. Both so bleak but I enjoyed (not the correct word) Discomfort much more than this one. 1mo

Liz_M @BarbaraBB the prose was more straight-forward in Discomfort, for sure. 1mo

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BarbaraJean

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear | Seanan McGuire

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I love the Wayward Children series so much, and this latest book didn‘t disappoint. I ached over Nadya‘s our-world story and loved her underwater portal world (and ached again over the ending). I‘m constantly impressed by how deftly McGuire weaves into her fantasy worlds huge topics like adoption and ableism, in ways that illuminate and universalize the experiences of diverse characters.

This was my 2025 pick for #192025.

Librarybelle

Librarybelle Yay!! 1mo

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BarbaraJean

Going Postal | Terry Pratchett

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Still working my way through belated reviews…this goes back to early February for the #OokBOokClub.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, from the characters to the satire to the fact that it had CHAPTERS.* And the reappearance of characters from The Truth. And golems! There‘s so much more substance to the characters here (I‘m looking at you, Rincewind), which gave more depth to the story overall—and its satire of government was maybe a little too ⤵️

julesG

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …relatable right now, with quotes like:

“Steal five dollars and you‘re a common thief. Steal thousands and you‘re either the government or a hero.”
“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”
“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” ⤵️ 1mo

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d):
*I love Terry Pratchett, but his aversion to chapters has been a mild annoyance thus far. The lack of chapters somehow has the opposite effect from what I assume Pratchett was aiming at—it‘s harder for me to sink into the book when I don‘t have clear units of content to anticipate. My brain wants those clear divisions.

Also also: this was my 2004 pick for the #192025 challenge with @librarybelle! (edited) 1mo

Librarybelle Excellent!! 1mo

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willaful I also noticed the wonderful CHAPTERS and was wondering if they're part of why this book is so popular! 1mo

julesG I think Rob wrote something about the chapters in his biography of Terry. I'll check and come back (though later, just got out of bed it's 6am here)

Terry Pratchett: a Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography

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julesG Wanted to get back to you and clean forgot. I looked through the book, but couldn't find the passage. Sorry. 3w

BarbaraJean @julesG Thanks for looking! I poked around online & found some Terry quotes from an interview: “life does not happen in regular chapters, nor do movies, and Homer did not write in chapters,“ and: “I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults.“ He has a point, but I have several answers on what function they serve in books for adults! With his use of chapters here and in Making Money, it seems he did find a function for them. 3w

julesG I was wondering, especially with the "synopsis" of each chapter, whether it had to do with his diagnosis. But since he didn't stick to it, I guess it's more of a "tried it, not my cup of tea" thing. 3w

BarbaraJean @julesG I wondered if he used chapters specifically in the Moist books, in order to poke fun at (Victorian?) novels where there's a little synopsis/preview at the beginning of each chapter. Or to work in the little quotes he uses. (Or both.) I think you're right, it was an experiment and he decided he wasn't into it! 2w

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BarbaraJean

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

#BookSpin list for April (even though I haven‘t even started my BookSpin or #DoubleSpin from March yet 😬)

Lots of challenge/buddy read picks on this list, with #192025, #ChristiesCapers, #OokBOokClub, and my own #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and #50x50. But it also stays pretty close to my physical TBR—which is ostensibly my goal with BookSpin! Looking forward to the numbers next week!

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! The Man in the Brown Suit is one of my favorite Christie books, even though (because??) it's completely ridiculous 😂 Is All Creatures Great and Small a buddy read? I love those books so much!! 1mo

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks All Creatures is on my list for #192025, and so is The Man in the Brown Suit, for that matter (with a nice #ChristiesCapers overlap)! I've never read either and both feel like fun & cozy reads, which I need more and more these days. 1mo

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kwmg40

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat | W.J. Burley

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This was the first book I've read from the Superintendent Wycliffe series and it was a weak pick for me. The mystery was just OK but I did enjoy the cozy seaside setting and Wycliffe's character, so I'm willing to try more books in the series.

#192025 #1978 @Librarybelle
#gottacatchemall (Eevee: Read a book you own) @PuddleJumper

Librarybelle I‘m not familiar with this. I may have to check it out! 1mo

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