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The story seriously is one damned thing after another! What a wild ride of time travel and history and collateral damages

In a dystopian setting, people are controlled by the government. Emotions are illegal, and faces are masked; it is a dehumanized society. When a young boy dares to defy the authorities, he is sent back to the distant past in an attempt to tame him. But will he come back the same?
An YA novel but important lessons for everyone in our times.

3.5 Stars • In The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Aiden Bishop is trapped in a time loop at Blackheath estate, where Evelyn Hardcastle is murdered daily. To escape, he must solve her murder, waking each day in a different guest‘s body with eight chances to crack the case. Guided by the Plague Doctor and hindered by rivals, Aiden unravels a web of secrets, betrayals, and shifting timelines in a twisty, metaphysical mystery.

This was my #DoubleSpin for November, and I'm glad I finally read it. I'm now caught up on the #Outlander books and am only awaiting the final season of the show and the final book in the series. Perhaps I'll try something from the “Methadone List.“ But first, I need to read my #BookSpin book for the month.

What a tome this is - a thoroughly enjoyable one, though. I always love finding out what these characters have been up to. Some time travel plus lots of things going on which are too numerous to mention. There is a very sad moment so don‘t forget your hankie!😢. I can‘t wait to read book nine and then I would imagine there‘ll be a quite a wait until book ten is finished, the final instalment. I shall be so sorry to say goodbye to Jamie & Claire.

I was sold on this one by a convincing shelf talker at my favorite bookstore, and it didn't disappoint! This fantasy played with time, memory, history, and love. It was a little commentary on censorship, a little on government corruption, and a lot on the influences on our consciousness and reality. I loved it! This was my November #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

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Although I‘m not sticking to daily reading I am caught up on both annual reads. I‘m am going to bail on The Grapes of Wrath. Will read Part IV of Life with Picasso tonight for tomorrow‘s discussion.

Both finishes this week were feel good reads. I had intended to listen to and hopefully finish Nobody‘s Girl but found listening to it too emotional. Ordered a print copy to continue this week. No progress on the Austen.

(1959) Second in Norton's “Time Traders“ series. In this one, time agents discover an alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth in the Pleistocene. When the agents send it through a time gate for studying in the present, they accidentally trigger a return-to-home function, sending the mysterious craft and all on board to distant worlds. It's a big-dumb-object adventure, one of my favorite sf tropes, and I hope Norton builds on it through the series

An early birthday present from a friend who lives on the other side of the world who did get a bit stressed that the Australian release date for this would arrive before the book did (funnily enough it arrived day of). Genuinely hilarious getting a text suggesting that I stay out of bookshops 🤣 This is one of my most anticipated books of the year.

November 13, 2025 I have reached page 98. It seems like Lucy is traveling back in time and has two kids that she never knew she had and is a wife to Sam. Her life is very crazy and she is trying to get to "the good part"... where she ends up falling in love with Sam I suppose! We will see