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Fortifiedbybooks
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Mehso-so

This was my #BookSpin for March. It was good, but I felt like a lot of the points the author's were trying to make didn't go deep enough. This whole book could have been a YouTube video. There were some funny bits of trivia, though. #2025OffMyShelf

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Fortifiedbybooks
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Pickpick

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟This was my #DoubleSpin for March, and it's one of the best books I've read this year! I love the Discworld series, and Rincewind is one of my favorite characters. #OokBOokClub #2025OffMyShelf

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wanderinglynn
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Panpan

New to me author #OffMyShelf

The tagged was almost painful to read. Overhyped, boring, and disappointing. No character development, no world building, & not really a cozy fantasy. I skimmed most of it & still@knew exactly what was happening.

It‘s off my shelf & onto my PangoBooks bookshop.

But at least this book did finally get me my first #2025OffMyShelf bingo!

Ruthiella You are half way there to completing the board! 👏👏👏 2mo
wanderinglynn @Ruthiella thanks! I‘ve found this challenge to be really motivating. 2mo
Laughterhp Yes! I couldn‘t stand this book either! 2mo
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wanderinglynn @Laughterhp I‘m really baffled by all the high ratings. 2mo
Bookzombie I‘m unstacking this one now. So many other books to read. 🙂 2mo
wanderinglynn @Bookzombie a lot of people did like it. 🤷🏼‍♀️ But I agree there are a lot of other books to be read. (edited) 2mo
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wanderinglynn
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I‘m not going to get another book finished, so I‘m calling it. It‘s been a month between polar vortexes and political insanity, and I escaped hard into books!

Final tally is 41 + 7 DNFs
🎧 25 audio
📚 14 physical
💻 9 e-books

And 12 were for #2025OffMyShelf 🎉

I break it down on my blog, wanderinglynn.com

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wanderinglynn
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley
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Mehso-so

Banned book #OffMyShelf

While I appreciate this book for its literary importance and for its themes/concepts, I did not find this book interesting or easy to read due to the execution & presentation. Plus, the Fordism got a bit cheesy. "Oh Ford!"

So, I am glad I finally read it, but I think there are better classics that speak to the same or similar themes and concepts that Huxley presents.

#2025OffMyShelf

Luke-XVX It wasn‘t until I read this that I got the pop cultural reference of Smashing Pumpkins naming one of their songs “Soma” 2mo
wanderinglynn @Luke-XVX I totally forgot about that song! But now it makes so much more sense. 2mo
Luke-XVX Same thing when I finally read The Outsider by Camus and and then I knew the significance of “Killing an Arab” by The Cure 2mo
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Ruthiella I loved this book, but read it as a teenager. I might feel differently now. 2mo
wanderinglynn @Luke-XVX yep! I remember connecting that one in high school. 👍🏻😀 2mo
wanderinglynn @Ruthiella yes, it‘s interesting to see whether books we loved when we were children still hold true for us at different points in adulthood. 2mo
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wanderinglynn
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Pickpick

#OffMyShelf for short stories; anthology, or essays

I‘m really wishing I had taken a Russian literature class in college. I absolutely loved this short story collection. An incredible writer, Chekhov definitely transcends time. I can see why he‘s considered one of the greatest short story writers.

So this book is off my TBR shelf, but I‘m definitely keeping it & will revisit these stories often.

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Ruthiella Nice work! I‘ve not read Chekov yet, but he‘s on my list. All the classics really, because they are the building blocks for what came after. 2mo
wanderinglynn @Ruthiella I recommend Chekhov—he‘s very readable. 2mo
Lesliereadsalot I took two Russian literature classes in college. Have never regretted reading War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov among many others. The professor was blind and made these novels come alive. Best classes I took! 2mo
ferskner Russian lit is so daunting before you start but then so addictive! 2mo
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Fortifiedbybooks
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My #BookSpin list for February is full of books from my TBR, with the exception of Night Shift by Stephen King, which is the #LosersClub book of the month. I will be getting it from the library since I don't already own it. All of the other books will qualify for my #ShelfLove reading challenge and many of them will qualify for the #2025OffMyShelf prompts as well. I picked mostly shorter books since February is usually not a good month for me.

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Fortifiedbybooks
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Pickpick

My #DoubleSpin for January was magical and weird and so different from just about anything else I've read in the Fantasy genre that I'm not sure how to rate it. I didn't LOVE love it, but I did find many of the sentences and individual words were soothing somehow. I don't know how else to describe it so I'm giving it a “Pick.“ #2025OffMyShelf

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wanderinglynn
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I‘ve been so motivated with my #2025OffMyShelf challenge, I created a part 2!

These prompts are a bit broader to allow for a variety of interpretations.

I‘ve also put the Part 2 Reading Challenge on Story Graph. The links for SG as well as a jpg or pdf version of the bingo board are on my blog: http://wanderinglynn.com/2025/01/23/2025-off-my-shelf-reading-challenge-part-2/

#2025OffMyShelf2 #OffMyShelf2

Ruthiella Nice! 👍 2mo
llwheeler Awesome! I love this idea; I started the first board but haven't got around to posting yet. Thanks! I'll have to check it out on storygraph too. 2mo
wanderinglynn @llwheeler thanks! ☺️ 2mo
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Fortifiedbybooks
Opal (a Raven Cycle Story) | Maggie Stiefvater
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Pickpick

This was my #BookSpin for January, and overall, it's a solid Pick. Though it's the last book in the Raven Cycle series, it's only a short story and is told from Opal's perspective. You would definitely need to have read the other books in the series to understand what is going on and why. Though I haven't read Call Down the Hawk yet, I imagine that this is a nice bridge between the 2 series. #ShelfLove #2025OffMyShelf