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Currently reading. 🎄

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Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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Perhaps his absence is a sign of hope. If there is mercy in the world, Captain Harry Balfour of the West Africa Squadron will spy this ship tossing upon whatever sea she sails and board her, set her captives free, right every wrong. It is not too much to ask. It is far too much to ask. It is not.
#Marlwy #JonClinch #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Christmas #Retellings #Historical #BritishLiterature #Holiday 💚💚💚💚

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Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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Perhaps his absence is a sign of hope. If there is mercy in the world, Captain Harry Balfour of the West Africa Squadron will spy this ship tossing upon whatever sea she sails and board her, set her captives free, right every wrong. It is not too much to ask. It is far too much to ask. It is not.
#Marley #JonClinch #lastline #closingline #book #books #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Christmas #Retellings #Historical #BritishLiterature #Holiday 🩵🩵🩵

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TorieStorieS
The Christmas Ghost | Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne
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#SweetValleyTwinsSuperChiller books were always my favorites! In this second #SweetValleyChristmas for the 6th graders, Elizabeth works for a fundraiser for the children‘s wing of the hospital & asks teen Hollywood star Beau Dillon for help but Jessica plans to meet him instead, leading to a re-imagining of #AChristmasCarol as Jessica is visited by her 2nd grade self, a unicorn of the present & a scary future without friends (but still fashion)!

JenlovesJT47 Man I haven‘t read this one in so long! 👵🏻👵🏻👵🏻 Do you have a list of the SVT books in publication order? 3mo
TorieStorieS @JenlovesJT47 This was one of my favorites, for sure! I don‘t have an official list but I have been trying my best to read each series in publication order just based on the published dates— usually they come out one a month, so if the next number skipped a month, I start looking at the supers to see which one is from that missing month! 3mo
JenlovesJT47 Man I haven‘t read this one in so long that I had forgotten most of it. The only thing I remembered was the fancy carousel horse. I do think it‘s hilarious that in her vision of her high school self we are really supposed to believe Jessica would ever be unpopular lol. 😆 2w
TorieStorieS @JenlovesJT47 I know…. An unpopular Jessica Wakefield?! A unbelievable fate worse than death! 🤣 This is one that I remembered well, but always enjoy reading it! 2w
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He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
#AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #Fiction #Christmas #Classics #Fantasy #Audiobook #Literature #HistoricalFiction #Holiday 🩷🩷🩷

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Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge.
#Marley #JonClinch #book #books #bookmark #bookmarks #bookmarket #bookmarkets #bookmoment #bookmoments #bookquote #bookquotes #bookqueen #quote #HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Christmas #Retellings #Historical #BritishLiterature #Holiday 💚💚

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Cuilin
Marley: A Novel | Jon Clinch
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More villain origin story than a retelling. This was marvelous and the writing wonderfully Dickensian. We meet a nasty Marley, and a kind Scrooge as schoolboys and observe how Marley‘s influence pollutes Scrooge. You could continue straight to a Christmas Carol, and the transition would be seamless.

#BookedInTime
Marley 4 ⭐️
Christmas Carol 5 ⭐️
Great Expectations 5 ⭐️

dabbe On the spreadsheet! 🤩 12mo
Deblovestoread I hope to remember this next year before my annual Christmas Carol read. 12mo
Cuilin @Deblovestoread yes!! I recommend reading this right before A Christmas Carol. I may do that next year too!! 12mo
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Cuilin @dabbe 🙏 12mo
dabbe GREAT EX and BLEAK HOUSE are my faves by Dickens (exempting A CHRISTMAS CAROL, of course). 🤩 12mo
Cuilin @dabbe Bleak House, Carol, Oliver T, & Two Cities are mine. This year I want to read 12mo
dabbe @Cuilin 🤩😍🤗 12mo
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kelli7990
Mr. Timothy: A Novel | Louis Bayard
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Here‘s my review for this book I didn‘t finish. This is also a #TeamBuddyRead but I‘m not going to count it towards the #wintergames and I‘m not going to do the #wordsearch on it.

#GhostsOfXmas

BookwormAHN Sometimes you just need to bail 😸 12mo
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