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Leftcoastzen
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#FeelinTheLove #Hearts A memoir on the TBR !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤎🤎🤎 1w
Eggs Sounds really good 🤎 1w
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xicanti
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This morning Sneaky Casey stole a pillow and hid behind BIRDING WITH BENEFITS, which is a lot of fun so far. I love it when something that‘s marketed as a romcom is actually full of jokes and wacky hijinks! (Publishers do seem to be getting better about this.) I‘m excited to read more later this afternoon. Hopefully I can finish it tomorrow so the next person on the holds list gets a go.

CoffeeAndABook This sounds like fun!! I could use a good chuckle 😮‍💨 Stacked 📚 3w
xicanti @CoffeeAndABook good choice! 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
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peanutnine Loved this one! Definitely has some great funny moments 3w
xicanti @peanutnine I feel like BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIRDING primed me to get all the birding nuances here, too. 3w
peanutnine @xicanti omg totally! Between those two books I've gotten so interested in birding. I was just mentioning to my husband that I want to buy some binoculars for when we go hiking this spring 😆 3w
xicanti @peanutnine birding for everyone! One of my friends recently became obsessed with some eagles that keep hanging out in her tree, to the point where she‘s always got her binoculars and her camera close by, and I‘m all, “You didn‘t even read the birding books!” 3w
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Librarybelle
Dark Chocolate Demise | Jenn McKinlay
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Panpan

I struggle with this series, and yet the cupcakes keep me coming back. This is book 7–some this far have been good, others not so much. This one I really did not like.

This one focuses more on the personal lives of Mel and Angie rather than the mystery. A woman who looks like Angie is killed at a zombie walk. It‘s pretty obvious Angie was the target (it‘s related to an ongoing situation from the prior 2 books…I‘m going to be as spoiler free ⬇️⬇️

Librarybelle ⬆️⬆️⬆️ as possible) and yet both Angie and Mel basically deny this. They are independent women (and Mel at one point refers to herself as a liberated woman) who do not need help or protection. Except… they do. I‘m an independent woman, and I certainly know if someone in the mafia was clearly out to get me I would listen to law enforcement and my family and stay safe. I‘m not sure if their obtuseness and blatant disregard for loved ones‘ concerns.. 4w
Librarybelle …is supposed to be a highlighted strength for independent women, as portrayed in this book, or if it‘s a caution that independent women can be obstinate. It left me feeling very disgruntled and yelling at my phone as Susan Boyce reads the story on audio. Yes, it‘s a cozy mystery, so amateur sleuths are known to do silly and dangerous things. But, this just crosses the line. There are other things too that drove me nuts with Mel and Angie. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ (edited) 4w
Librarybelle ⬆️⬆️⬆️ It‘s fine to be frustrated that people are hovering, but it‘s also not cool to drag people into danger. Sigh…I have the rest of the series on audio, so I will continue to listen (I do like the cupcake talk), but this one was just too much. Disclaimer: My threshold for people‘s poor behavior is pretty low right now given the world‘s issues, so this may play a part in my feelings for this. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4w
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xicanti
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This week‘s small library haul, plus a guide to the Châteaux of the Loire I found at the thrift store. BIRDING WITH BENEFITS is the last #AuldLangSpine title I‘ll be able to source before month‘s end, but I probably won‘t get to it until early February. HEAVENLY TYRANT is a long-awaited sequel, while the other two were impulse grabs off the shelf. I‘ve wanted to reread ORANGE for ages now, and I‘m excited to read more plays this year.

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Librarybelle
Sugar and Iced | Jenn McKinlay
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A beauty pageant asks for the bakery to make cupcakes for the pageant, and once again Mel and Angie are involved in a murder investigation. This one was better than some of the previous in the series, and I‘m always interested in the cupcakes (but not some of the concoctions created by the pageant participants…yuck).

Mel also has a pretty big life decision to make in this one.

Good listen! #LitsyAtoZ #LetterS #52BookClub25 #APunInTheTitle

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Librarybelle
Going, Going, Ganache | Jenn McKinlay
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Pickpick

When a magazine photo shoot goes wrong, Angie and Mel are forced to bake cupcakes with the magazine staff. There‘s a lot of drama in this one, and it‘s not just the murder! Good listen and story, though I‘m now a bit exasperated with Mel. 😂

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TracyReadsBooks
Sulfur Springs: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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This one finds Cork O‘Conner traveling to Arizona after his new wife gets a frantic call from her son. What they find are secrets & lies, a porous border where trouble between drug cartels, vigilante border patrol groups & those trying to keep a low profile as they help undocumented immigrants is brewing, & a past that Cork‘s wife would have preferred to forget about. Solid, although not my fav in the series, story & a good read.

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Sulfur Springs: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Managed to go a week or two without reading a Cork O‘Conner book. I‘m almost caught up on the series so trying to take my time with the last few…

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peanutnine
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November Fiction #ReadingBracket2024
It was difficult to pick my favorite this month. I read a few really unique romances

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Blueberry
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo
Blueroseis For some reason Amazon UK is charging £24.20 for this book but eBay has brand new copies for £7.99
I may be tempted to get s copy at that price.
3mo
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