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KarenUK
Forecasting: Methods and Applications | Spyros G. Makridakis, Rob J. Hyndman
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#bookreport / #weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

Still not having a lot of time to read, but enjoying what I do read, which is what matters! 😍

The McEwan is my final #pop2020 !!! 👍

Cinfhen Woohoo!!! Glad you‘re enjoying your latest batch of books 4y
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KarenUK
December's Wish | Karly Lane
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My not very ambitious #DecemberTBR .... we‘ll see how I get on! (I never have much reading time in December- work is bonkers!)

L to R, Top to bottom...
- The first Enola Holmes middle grade, as the movie was adorable, and it‘s my #bookspin
- Next 2 will complete my #pop2020 with an AI and an anthology
- a gift from my lovely friend @squirrelbrain
- Some festive Hercule for #AuthoraMonth
- My final book for December for #readwithMrBook

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squirrelbrain Sounds like a good plan to me! 😘 4y
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KarenUK
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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What a joyous, busy, messy novel... and I loved it...
These are interconnected stories, populated mostly by Black British women..... each voice was unique, each story had something to say.... about family, identity, race, love, creativity, expectations and disappointments.
I loved the structure and style, giving the writing vibrancy and rhythm. This book made me think, made me laugh, made me feel, and what more can I ask for than that.
#pop2020

BarbaraBB Great review again. I was a bit too impatient to get the most out if this book yet I still enjoyed it. 4y
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KarenUK
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#popsugar2020 #pop2020

Making good progress with 28/40 so far for my Pop Sugar Reading Challenge this year.....
How‘s everyone else doing? 😊💕📚

MelissaSue81 I have had such problems reading and have all but abandoned my challenges but you have some amazing books on this list! I‘ve read some of the same ones so I might have to go fill in some blanks for popsugar! 4y
erinreads I‘m at 21 so far for this challenge! I was just looking at my list earlier today to brainstorm some ideas for books for my remaining prompts. 4y
BarbaraBB I love your graphic and now I want to make one myself too. I am doing really well with #pop20 - as do you! (edited) 4y
KarenUK @MelissaSue81 Sounds like a plan! I love it when you realize you‘ve fulfilled a prompt without even planning to! 😊👍 4y
KarenUK @Erinreads I‘ve been doing the same thing today.... also been considering doing their Summer challenge too 🤷‍♀️😊📚 (edited) 4y
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KarenUK
George | Alex Gino
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#bookreport & #weeklyforecast combined this week.... @Cinfhen
- LOVED Lolita on audio! Jeremy Irons is perfect as Humbert Humbert. The writing was spectacular and he‘s the epitome of unreliable narrators (which I love)
- All about Sarah (in translation) was beautifully written and was quite unsettling in a good way.

- just started 800 grapes, and halfway through George which is lovely and very moving...
- Next up a #BOTM that works for #pop2020

Cinfhen Wonderful array of books and genres 🎉💜🙌🏻😊 4y
Megabooks If the rainbow is for LGBTQIA, A Burning has a transgender main character. 👍🏻 4y
KarenUK @megabooks Thank you! Good to know.... Hope things are improving with your dad 🤞💕 4y
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KarenUK
All about Sarah | Pauline Delabroy-Allard
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@Cinfhen #weeklyforecast

- continue Lolita on audio for #booked2020 and #pop2020 for my banned book
- just started the tagged book, translated from the French. Saw this one posted on Daunt books Instagram feed, and thought it sounded my kind of thing
- Eight Hundred grapes is my final book for #booked2020 #wineorwhine
- George is a middle grade story, I picked for #pop2020
- my week includes 2 #pride picks 🌈

Should be a great week! 💕📚😊👍

TrishB Love your graphic! 4y
Cinfhen I have the #BannedBook prompt left for #pop20 ! 4y
BarbaraBB What do you think of Lolita? It‘s a favorite of mine! 4y
KarenUK @BarbaraBB I absolutely love it! Can‘t believe I‘ve not read it before! 4y
BarbaraBB I am so glad you do! 👯‍♀️ 4y
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KarenUK
A Burning: A novel | Megha Majumdar
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#BOTM June pick.... sounds great, works for my #pop2020 #socialmedia prompt and the cover is gorgeous 😍🔥😍🔥😍🔥😍🔥

Prairiegirl_reading The cover reminds me so much of homegoing and then it‘s blurbed by Yaa Gyasi. I think I‘ll have to check it out! 4y
Cinfhen I choose this one too....plus 2 more 🙊 4y
KarenUK @cinfhen That was me last month! 😂... which two others did you get? 4y
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Cinfhen It‘s my bday month, so one was a freebie 🥳I chose the new Britt Bennett and 4y
Cinfhen But it‘ll probably be months before I actually get the books!!! No plans to fly to States anytime soon ☹️ 4y
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KarenUK
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#Nextup
For this #pop2020 challenge, I‘ve decided to finally read this Pulitzer Prize winning novel that I‘ve been meaning to read forever! Apparently there is a documentary from 2016 about the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, with the same name, that‘s available on Prime. I may just watch the film too....the trailer made it look quirky and interesting 🤷‍♀️!

What is everyone else reading for this prompt?

CarolynM Foreign Affairs was my first Alison Lurie and it made me a fan. I loved it. Enjoy. (edited) 4y
KarenUK @carolynm I‘m not sure why I haven‘t gotten to it sooner! It sounds like just my jam! 💕😊 4y
Cinfhen I read a terrible nonfiction about Jeffrey Epstein titled Filthy Rich, which was also a TV series. Apparently a new TV series with that title is supposed to begin airing in June starring Kim Cantrell. And I recently read that Netflix is making a series based on the book I read about Jeffrey Epstein 4y
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KarenUK
Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Broward Mall | Plantation, Florida (Bookstore)
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#quarantinereadschallenge
📚My Dark Vanessa
📚The Secret History by Donna Tartt
📚Daunts of Marylebone (and where I work! See tag)
📚Pride & Prejudice
📚Atonement
📚next up is The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
📚The 30‘s of Christie‘s Poirot
📚Gone Girl
📚At least 100 books, #booked2020 & #pop2020
📚Anywhere outside, shady with a cool breeze
📚Anything Roald Dahl or Agatha Christie
📚Sending love to @cdcnmac & @Tex2Flo 💕💕💕

cdcnmac #quarantinereadschallenge
📚The Secrets We Kept by Lara Presott
📚The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
📚Gainesville: Book Gallery West, Third House Books
📚Not a re-reader
📚White Oleander
📚The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton
📚Under the Tuscan Sun
📚 The Double Bind
📚 80 books
📚Indoor patio with view of our yard hanging out with my cats
📚 Charlotte‘s Web, Nancy Drew series
📚Sending love to @Tex2Flo and @Harrykdaily💕
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KarenUK @cdcnmac 😊💕👍 5y
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KarenUK
She Must Be Mad | Charly Cox
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Great on audio. Hearing Charly read her poems, written when ages 16-22, was a moving experience. As she struggles with anxiety and depression, being uncomfortable in her body, experiencing heartbreaks and self doubt, it felt familiar. It‘s a long time since I was her age, but I‘m not sure some of us ever lose those feelings completely. I love that she quotes “our lord savior” Britney Spears in her introduction,”I‘m not a girl, not yet a woman”💕

Cinfhen Great review 💜sounds wonderful! The ONLY rule for #Booked2020 is only one book per prompt , so you need to decide for #millennial or #ThinkPink 😘 5y
KarenUK @Cinfhen I‘m going with #thinkpink.... I‘ll use Queenie for #millenialauthor ... can still #doubledip though because it works for #pop2020 #onlywordsonthecover 👍😉 (edited) 5y
Cinfhen Yay!!! Good thinking 🎉🧡🎉🧡 5y
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