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MatchlessMarie
I Spy a Christmas Tree | Walter Wick, Jean Marzollo
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Made my first bingo line of #WinterGames2024 for #ISpyBingo #HolidayBookDragons Pardon my hexxus X‘s

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2d
LiseWorks 👏 2d
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2d
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MatchlessMarie
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Pickpick

Finished on 12/7. Another impulse Disney graphic novel. I think Turning Red was a slightly better adaptation but it was still very good. +8 word search words. Candle for #AVeryMerryBingo and #ISpyBingo. Gift for #ChristmasCheer #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #WinterGames2024 #GingerbreadJourney #HolidayBookDragons

BookmarkTavern So cute! 2d
DieAReader 💖💖💖 2d
Eggs Lovely 🥰 2d
Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 1d
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MatchlessMarie
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Pickpick
Bookwormjillk 🎉🎉🎉 2d
BookmarkTavern A Christmas monster mash! 2d
DieAReader 🎉😝Excellent! 2d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d
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Lauredhel
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“Luck“

Only one prompt to go for a clean sweep! #ISpyBingo #ISpy2024 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3d
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TheAromaofBooks
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Pickpick

A soft pick for these two loosely-connected stories that take place on Nantucket a year apart. These were super Hallmarky and perfectly pleasant. I enjoyed the first more than the second, because the mom in the second story drove me kind of crazy. But the greatest tragedy is that I was 160 pages in and all of the sudden the book skipped to page 216!! Right at the big finale of chaos (you know, where the kid ran away with the puppy and supper is ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) getting ready to burn and the baby is coming early and someone's ex showed up unexpectedly... the usual Christmas stuff 😂) SO I caved and purchased this book for a SECOND time except in Kindle version! All in all I was missing about 40 pages, which is a lot when the story is only 195pgs long. But it all worked out because then I was able to search the Kindle version for word search words and found 674!!!!!

So yeah, not groundbreaking ⬇
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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 5d
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TheSpineView Great job! 5d
AnnCrystal 😳yikes👀📚💝. 5d
Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 5d
BookmarkTavern Wow! But an excellent number for the word search! 4d
julieclair How bizarre! You can now have your own personalized hashtag, #ReadOrTrash 🤪 4d
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TheAromaofBooks
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Pickpick

This is the (loose) sequel to I'll Be Married for Christmas, which I enjoyed so much I immediately ordered this one 😂 This is another marriage of convenience romance (MY JAM) and is somehow even cuter than the first book, maybe because it has the only missing ingredient from book one (i.e. CATS!!)? Super cute, likable characters, (mostly) believable situation, and adults who communicate!! 🎉 I'll definitely be checking out more of Cain's books.

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) This book also has something I love - the guy's POV. When you have a strong, silent type it really helps to get in his head a little so his motivations make his actions make more sense. Cain does a great job with this, and it really made both of these books so much more enjoyable than ones where you just get a straight female POV.

Also, yes, those are the Christmas decorations I'm still putting up even though Christmas is only two ⬇
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TheSpineView Fantastic! 7d
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BookmarkTavern Sounds cute! 7d
AnnCrystal 👏🎅🦌🤶📚. 7d
Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 5d
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TheAromaofBooks
Merry and Bright | Jill Shalvis
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Mehso-so

Three shorts in this one. They were all okay, but more about the characters shagging than anything Christmasy. Sometimes I enjoy Shalvis, but it feels like whenever she has shorter stories, she focuses on spice over story, which just isn't my personal preference lol

But lots of prompts checked off, and another book off my shelf!!

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

Bookwormjillk 🌲🌲🌲 7d
julieclair Congrats for clearing it! And, after reading your review, I‘ll know never to add it to my TBR. 😂 7d
BookmarkTavern Good job! 🎉 7d
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TheAromaofBooks
Making Spirits Bright | Nan Rossiter, Fern Michaels, Rosalind Noonan, Elizabeth Bass
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Mehso-so

Four novellas in one by four different authors.
Making Spirits Bright - 1*, absolutely dreadful. Besides the story making 0% sense, the entire plot of a rich woman just deciding she wishes she had a kid or two and immediately just running out to try and rush through an adoption felt honestly icky, like kids were a commodity that she could just go out and buy on a whim like a puppy. It was weird. But maybe I'm sensitive to it because my youngest ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) sister was adopted out of foster care, so I kept saying, “that isn't how any of this works?!“
Runaway Christmas - 3.5*, best of the bunch. Fun story where a teen runs away to visit her aunt in NYC for Christmas. However, the aunt is having a rough couple of days where things keep going wrong and she keeps getting saddled with more random responsibilities (starting with the neighbor's dog and escalating from there). Super fun and cute. ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Home for Christmas - 3*, the FMC is a single mom and once read ONE book by ONE person saying that single moms shouldn't date because it can make your kid feel insecure and unloved (or something) so she literally spends the story snogging her crush in a garage at night after the kid has gone to bed. I just. The rest of the story about saving the inn was fun, but the romance was dumb.

Christmas on Cape Cod - 2*, Would have been higher if ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the author could have been bothered to take two paragraphs to explain to me how these characters are related/how they ended up where they are. I don't know if these characters are from other books by this author so she just assumed I already knew everyone, but I THINK what happened is is Guy A was dating Girl and she got pregnant and they broke up and Girl married Guy B and then a few years later Guy B died so the kid went back to Guy A ⬇ 1w
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) who is the actual birth dad?? Or something?? This was actually a perfectly pleasant little story about a single dad and his son getting a puppy for Christmas and realizing the girl next door is hot stepmom material, but I couldn't enjoy it because I spent the entire 80 pages in detective mode trying to figure out what the heck was going on with these people based on vague hints from the author. SO annoying. 1w
Bookwormjillk Story #1 yikes 1w
TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - It was extra weird because I've read other books by Fern Michaels and enjoyed them, but this one was just bizarre. 1w
PuddleJumper ❄️💙❄️ 1w
julieclair Very entertaining review! I‘d say donate is definitely the right move here. 😂 1w
BookmarkTavern Oof, yeah that first one feels icky to me too! Hope the next read is better! 1w
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Lauredhel
Husband Material | Alexis Hall
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And that's June finished #ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

Just “Luck“ and Stethoscope to do for a full sweep for the entire year, including bonus cards! And I have books lined up for both of those.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Amazing progress!!! 1w
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TheAromaofBooks
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Pickpick

This is what I'm looking for in holiday romance!! Cheesy, predictable, but still loads of fun with likable characters and storylines that actually make sense!! 😂 I'm a HUGE sucker for marriage of convenience stories, and this one played out pretty well. Super cute, and I'm planning to read the next book this week!!

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

PuddleJumper ❄️❄️ 1w
TheSpineView Fantastic! 1w
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julieclair Stacked! This is my kind of book! 😃 1w
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1w
BookmarkTavern Sounds lovely! 1w
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