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peanutnine
Earl Crush: A Novel | Alexandra Vasti
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"Having kidnapped the rake, Persephone Ballard found she was not entirely certain what to do with him."
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

From "The Christmas I Stole a Viscount" - a free holiday novella if you sign up for Vasti's newsletter. I loved the tagged book and from the first line of this one, I think it's also going to be a hoot!

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charl08
A Kind of Anger | Eric Ambler
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Not exactly "festive" reading!

Ruthiella To balance out the good cheer! 😜😂 4d
CSeydel Ooh it sounds good! 4d
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Octoberwoman
Sheba: A Spy Thriller | Jack Higgins
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I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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melissajayne
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Pickpick

4.5⭐️

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Abailliekaras
Creation Lake: A Novel | Rachel Kushner
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Mehso-so

I enjoyed this novel about Sadie, an undercover agent infiltrating a commune in France. The strong writing & Sadie‘s wry voice & cynical humour pulled me along, but Bruno‘s emails about anthropology dragged. They felt like essays only loosely connected to the story. I liked Sadie‘s dark, opinionated humour & the thought-provoking ideas about corporate espionage. Too meandering for a spy novel & the ending was contrived & unsatisfying.

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Bookish_Thoughts
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“The planes looked like distant pinpoints at first, and few who saw them took them seriously even up to the moment they dropped their payloads.”
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@ShyBookOwl

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Skygoddess1
Mehso-so

Extremely well researched book but overly long winded and quite dull at times

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danx
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Pickpick

I‘ve finally got around to reading Le Carre, and it did not disappoint. A murder mystery set in the early 1960s at upper crust school Carne, this felt like a British Raymond Chandler. The scenery, dialogue and characters enjoyable, weaving through the whodunnit entertaining. I only learned today that this is his only book outside of an espionage setting. I‘m not sure I‘d love his others in that case but I‘ll give them a go.

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CatMS
Clown Town | Mick Herron
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This one is for fun, love me a Slow Horses tale. That is our new pup Goldie playing with hubby in the background. She is a handful being a 1 year old Lab rescue from Kalamazoo SPCA, she came up from Louisiana so experiencing snow for the first time and loves frolicking in the deep parts.

Ruthiella 🐶❤️🐶❤️🐶 2w
dabbe 🤍🐾🤍 2w
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Gissy
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Pickpick

April 2025 Book #4
I enjoyed this book inspired my true events. I was absorbed in the book but also I was searching for some historical events. I like the author‘s writing style. Love the cover. After I finished the book, I bought three more books by this author. Couldn‘t finish them this month but looking forward to read them later. 3.8/4⭐️

Soubhiville I like this author too 🙂 3w
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Amiable Excellent! I didn‘t realize this one was so hefty! 3w
DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 3w
Gissy @Amiable That edition has like 503 and then the acknowledgement and then the first chapter of a new novel😳so it will be more pages. I didn‘t want to read that first chapter because I bought the book and I will read it later. The book has deckled pages, which I love, and usually they looked like book have less pages. 3w
Gissy @Soubhiville I read The Rose Code and I also liked it and I bought like three more books😄 3w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3w
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