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JoyBlue
A New Lease on Death | Olivia Blacke
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This paranormal cozy mystery is funny, but not without content warnings. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#a-new-lease-on-death

Publication is expected October 29.

#NetGalley #StMartinsPress #MinotaurBooks #ANewLeaseonDeath

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Blueberry
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Also known as the movie Yours, Mine and Ours with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball.
#A Big Family #AboutABook
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Love it 🥰 3mo
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JoyBlue
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Happy A Certain Kind of Starlight publication day, Heather Webber! I have supplemented my review of the e-book [June 11] to reflect my second reading via audio ARC. Don‘t miss my updates! https://debbybrauer.org/#a-certain-kind-of-starlight

Today—July 23—is publication day.

#NetGalley #TorPublishingGroup #ForgeBooks #MacmillanAudio #ACertainKindofStarlight

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JoyBlue
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This could be your next beach read. Don‘t dawdle in getting on your library holds or bookstore preorder lists. Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#a-certain-kind-of-starlight

Publication is expected July 23.

#NetGalley #TorPublishingGroup #ForgeBooks #ACertainKindofStarlight

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OutsmartYourShelf
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Mehso-so

Exactly what it says: 12 short stories themed around Christmas with 12 holiday recipes. Standouts for me were:

3). Dark Christmas - ghost story set in a house which has been rented by a small group of friends for Christmas but only one of them turns up.

9). A Ghost Story - haunting based around Mallory & Irvine's ill-fated attempt to climb Everest.

& (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf 10). The Silver Frog - amphibians come to the rescue of orphans being ill-treated by the owner of the orphanage.

Overall it was good but short stories always leave me wishing they had been a bit longer. 3⭐

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6028152602
Read 16th-19th Dec 2023

Holiday Read - 25
Readathons - 325
Words - 6820
Post - 1

Total - 7171 pts

#WinterGames #HollyJollyReaders @Laughterhp
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo
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OutsmartYourShelf
A Tudor Christmas | Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke
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An interesting little book about the traditions of a Tudor Christmas. It's surprising how many traditions & foodstuffs have managed to survive to modern day, even if they are in a slightly different form today. Mince pies once did indeed contain minced meat but this was gradually phased out until they became the sweet pie of today, whilst the traditional Christmas pudding also went from a savoury dish to a sweet pudding with the removal of meat.

OutsmartYourShelf That's one thing you can say for the Tudors, they were definitely carnivores!

It did meander a little into the Puritans & ye-olde-killjoy Oliver Cromwell who is outside the scope of Tudor history but 'tis a minor quibble. With plenty of little anecdotes alongside illustrations & quotations from period-contemporary poems, ballads, & carols, this is a treat for any history buffs. 4🌟

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6018105006
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo
Catsandbooks 🍭❄️❤️ 11mo
BookmarkTavern That sounds so interesting! 11mo
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OutsmartYourShelf
Malice | Keigo Higashino
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Osamu Nonoguchi visits his friend, bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka, the day before Hidaka is due to emigrate to Canada with his new wife. Later that evening, Nonoguchi receives a telephone call from Hidaka asking him to return to his home as he needs to see him again urgently. When Nonoguchi reaches the house, all the lights are off & Hidaka doesn't answer the door, so he raises the alarm & Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is given the case.

OutsmartYourShelf The police find Hidaka dead on the floor of his office, with both the door to the office & the front door to the house locked from the inside. Both Nonoguchi & Hidaka's wife have alibis for the time of death. Who killed the author & why?

The reader is kept at arms length from the investigation & the characters really as the murder & circumstances are told from written confessions, notes, or interview transcriptions.
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OutsmartYourShelf It is a writing style that takes a little getting used to. The story starts slowly but as the twists & turns of the case started to reveal themselves, I found myself needing to know what happened next. There's no gore & most of the TWs below are not graphic. 3.5🌟

TWs: murder, infidelity, sexual assault, animal cruelty/death, bullying.

#WinterGames #HollyJollyReaders @Laughterhp
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo
Ruthiella Sounds interesting! I‘m really interested in exploring crime fiction from other parts of the world! 🎄🔪💀🎅🏻 11mo
BarbaraBB I really like these series too 11mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 11mo
Catsandbooks 🍭❄️❤️ 11mo
Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎅🏼🎄 11mo
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BarkingMadRead
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peanutnine Looks like a cute read! 💖 12mo
BarkingMadRead @peanutnine it was a lot of fun! 12mo
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kspenmoll
A Room with a View | E.M. Forster
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#weeklyforecast

My plans:
~Continue with Wolf #bookedintime
~Read next section of MessyLives #sundaybuddyread
~Read/catch up on A Room #achapteraday #pemberlittens
~ Finish GE & ZNH chapters in A Life, 40 pgs #ninewomenwritersbeginagain
~Read several ch. of Night Gate #kindle #Enzofilesseries #serieslove2023
~listen to 4 ch. Broken #a karenpirienovel #audible

Cinfhen Nice genre of books you‘ve got going 😊 1y
Andrew65 Love Peter May! 1y
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Blerdgal_Fenix
Twilight | Stepheni Meyer
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Quote: “This that weather that had Bella cuddling another dude right in front of her old man.”
#a little humor - thought you guys might like it 😂 #twilight #Werewolves #teamjacob