The following isn't important right now, with everything else going on...I just found this annoying.
After many years of avoidance, my mom and I tried some mail ordering last year. We loved the shopping, but not the waiting for the packages in this crazy world...so we gave it up again.
Flash forward a few months.
We have no truly local book store in my neighborhood, so with part two of the tagged series coming out this month
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pickGreat read! I couldn't put it down. Well written and a good mystery - and at the same time, very sinister to think about what might have been.
pickThis was:
Creepy ✔️
Thought-provoking ✔️
Really good ✔️
so-soA widow becomes a biographer, retracing her artist wife X‘s paths and describing the full life of someone who defied description. X had aliases, recreations, mysterious art, and deceptions that really only a lover (not really the reader) could find deeply moving. I found X annoying and undeserving of a book—but I suppose that‘s how her peers felt. Really we‘re reading about the frustrations of never knowing your partner: a biography of an Ex.
Next up - I've been waiting to get to this one for a while now, and excited to finally start it. I am a sucker for WW2 novels, so I imagine I will really enjoy this (imagining a world where the Nazis won WW2). #BookTwoOf2026
September was a tough month to choose. Two 5🌟 books from two of my favorite authors. I ended up picking The Eyre Affair over The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi. Both are great books, and I highly recommend both of them, I just enjoyed Fforde's book a little bit more.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
August's selections was this very entertaining, supernatural take on Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson. I hope the author plans future adventures for the duo.
#12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
June wasn't a great month for reading, only finished 7 books. Harry Turtledove's alternate history of the Korean War was my favorite of the month.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
#12booksof2025 Didn‘t have any best of the year books in June. I started the Soulless series on audio & loved it. Just a fun story with adventure & romance. I‘ve listened to 3 of 5 in the series & will finish it next year. @TheEllieMo
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When I went out to a local store to buy the B&N gift cards (I don't believe in credit), they told me I was only allowed one card. So I figured I'd get the B&N cards that you can select your own amount.
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Then I was told that I was over the approved limit allowed. I asked why when the card says up to $500?
They mumbled some lame excuse, but something similar had happened before to my mom...during Little (t's) first term, except then, they wanted her to show an ID because “only Americans“ were allowed to purchase gift cards.
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✊🏼🦅💙. 10h