Just passed halfway there was a twist I absolutely didn‘t see coming. It made the backstory details all the more interesting. This story didn‘t end anything like I expected a thriller/mystery to end, and I‘m going to be thinking about that for a while.
December #DoubleSpin Category: Mystery/Thriller
And thank you @TheAromaofBooks for inspiring me to ‘shop‘ in my own bookshelves for another year!
pick“I want you to know the story of how you came to be and to understand why I had to do what I did. I know that some of the things I did were crazy, Some people thought that I went too far, that I became unhinged."
Well done Goodman! I‘m excited to read more of her books ? This is my December #doublespin
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pickMy February #DoubleSpin pick was this historical romance novel. I‘d never read Beverly Jenkins before. What a treat! Credit goes to my alma mater for hosting a discussion of romance novels through a critical/intersectional lens, and including this one on their list. Jenkins‘s afterword describing her research made me want to read the others in this trilogy. (I‘m not a big fan of romances or westerns, so that‘s saying something!)
pickThis was a very unique read! I hadn‘t read anything like it before.
It blends fact and fiction to create a “history” of animals starting from the Paleozoic Era all the way to present day and beyond. Basically it personifies animals and tells their story in relation to humans. The animals are presented in a very human way.
Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/review-animal-intelligence/
pick4½✨
Another excellent, suspenseful thrill that kept me on the edge of my seat, and up way too late. Meyer just gets better, and better as he goes.
My full Afrikaans review is on StoryGraph and Goodreads
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#LitsyAtoZ #K @Texreader
#Pantone2025 #CumulusCloud @Lauredhel
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pickWith this clever little novella finished today I have finished all but 2 of my #bookspin and #doublespin books for the year.
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so-soWhile Schönhaus' story of living in Berlin under the Nazi regime as a Jewish document forger is interesting, the writing was just so, so bad.
88/80
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My December #BookSpinBingo
My #BookSpin book is The Black Falcon‘s Christmas
My #DoubleSpin book is The Gingerbread Bakery
#BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard December and Christmas are some of my favorite times of the year. I have so much to look forward to this month!
#BookSpin NetGalley #DoubleSpin Bloodmarked
#Roll100 The Inconvenient Indian, Great Fortune, Burns Poetry
#OokBOokClub Where‘s My Cow?
#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery off Old Telegraph Road
#QueerBC The Bones Beneath My Skin (I knew I had forgotten to add one!)
#ThematicCozies Where the Bodies are Berried
I'm definitely looking forward to reading my #BookSpin, but with the way my life has been going lately, I'm not sure about my #DoubleSpin, The Darkest Night. I've already finished the first book on my December list, Enid Blyton's Christmas Stories, and I'm hoping to get at least one #BookSpinBingo this month, even if I don't manage to finish both books.
