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Realizing there are ten weeks left in the year is ridiculous, and I can‘t resist #10beforetheend. I have 10 books left for the #192025 challenge, so that‘s my list! For some of the years I‘m still debating between a couple options, so that‘s why there‘s more than one book cover in several slots. Fingers crossed I can get all of these read by the end of 2025!

“Impoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous, studious girl seated nearby, and an unlikely relationship begins.“

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While in Palm Beach over fall break, we visited this rare books shop on Worth Avenue, one of the richest shopping districts in the US. (This is the only store we went in, lol). This first edition of The Catcher in the Rye, unsigned, $11K. Word is there‘s a signed first edition of The Hobbit there for a cool $475K. Imagine!!

This was a sweet novel, although the second half felt truncated. She says in the beginning how much she would come to know her son's father's ways, but she never does.

Next op shop was the Red Cross. This was a much better score than I usually get from there. The books were excellent. Lots of which I already own. The scrapbook supplies were super cheap and the clothes were fun. Grand total 🟰 $46.00. I didn‘t spend too much considering I downed 2 delicious margaritas at the Mexican restaurant for lunch along with 3 fish tacos beforehand.

"Beyond that, I knew nothing, especially not of love's beginnings, of that inexplicable draw to another, why some boys could pass you by without notice but the next has a pull on you as undeniable as gravity, and from that moment forward, longing is all you know."

Awwww, this made me rather weepy.

Couldn't decide what to read! I don't actually know how the book spins or bingo things that people do on here work, so I just put out six books from my TBR shelf and rolled a dice 😊🎲

So I‘m in my hometown of Melbourne, Victoria for a few days. One of our first stops was an incredible basement second hand bookstore that @CarolynM introduced me to a couple of years ago. And look at these treasures I rescued! #tbr

This was my pick this year for #mummydaughterbookclub and we all really liked it. It gave me some Secret History vibes early on, which I loved, but then it turned into its own interesting story. I hope Knight writes more!