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Yuki_Onna
Halloweenland | Al Sarrantonio
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My #HauntedShelf Check-In: 5422 points total.
Team #HexesandCrows @Catsandbooks
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Participated in:
#Spookoween @TheSpineView
#31by31 #readathon goal: read for 31 hours in October
#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge #TPRC
#GottaCatchemAll #SpookyEdition - completed prompts for Misdreavus & Spectrier; caught: Cubone
#PumpkabooHunt caught: 2 small, 1 medium, 1 super
@PuddleJumper
#BirthdayBashReadathon @TheAromaofBooks
#PSReadathon @bookwormjillk
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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 Brilliant! 7mo
Bookwormjillk 🎉🎉🎉 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 7mo
Catsandbooks Awesome job! 👏🏼 🧡🖤 7mo
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triplem80
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PuddleJumper Nice! 7mo
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Laughterhp
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I‘m very surprised by how many pumpkaboo I caught! Luckily I read a short story collection and was able to catch some small ones. Reading Shadow of Night caught me the super!

#pumpkaboohunt #hauntedshelf #flerken

Seabreeze_Reader Wow, 10 large pumpkaboos! Way to go. 🎃👍 7mo
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PuddleJumper
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I am amazed I got any large or super Pumpkaboos for #PumpkabooHunt

#HauntedShelf #Flerken

Seabreeze_Reader 👍🎃 Well done! 7mo
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Yuki_Onna
Happy Birthday Book | Helen Exley
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🥳🎂 Happy Birthday Sarah! 🎂🥳
I just had a delightful yummy breakfast with chocolate chip muffins with cinnamon pumpkin spice coffee in your honour ☕🤗😋
Have a beautiful cosy day! @TheAromaofBooks

Those are the books I'm reading this weekend for your #BirthdayBashReadathon #PSReadathon and my #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain @bookwormjillk
🧡🍂🎃🎂❣️🍂🥳🎂🧡

Bookwormjillk 🎉🎉🎉 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Thank you for the birthday wishes - and I'm glad to provide a reason for a delicious breakfast!! 😁 I'm looking forward to a chill day - hope yours is, too!! 7mo
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TheSpineView Lookin' good 7mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 7mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 7mo
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kwmg40
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Mehso-so

I'd read both the 1935 and 1972 versions of this book for #NancyDrewBR. The two stories were completely different, the first set in the Canadian North and the second at an archeological dig in Ohio. I much preferred the 1935 version, which had more action and a somewhat more plausible storyline.

@Librarybelle
#CozyReads @Bookwormjillk
#HauntedShelf #Flerken #BodyDoubleReadathon @PuddleJumper

Ruthiella I wonder why they changed it so radically for the 1972 version? 🤔 7mo
Texreader How odd! 7mo
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Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 7mo
Bookwormjillk Very cool you read both. Thanks for the comparison. 7mo
AnishaInkspill how interesting and puzzling at the same time 7mo
Librarybelle It definitely sounds like the 1930s version was better! 7mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 7mo
TheSpineView Interesting that there are two versions. 🤔 7mo
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triplem80
I Was A Teenage Slasher | Stephen Graham Jones
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Pickpick

Low pick for me, because honestly, I'm not a huge fan of horror -- especially when it comes to gore, and this book has plenty of that! That said, I did enjoy the premise and the quasi-epistolary format.

#HauntedShelf #HexesandCrows @PuddleJumper @CatsandBooks #PumpkabooHunt #Witchathon @TEArificbooks

PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 7mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻❤️ 7mo
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triplem80
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Pickpick

I was so glad I was able to get back to this book after having to return it to the library last month! I kept turning the pages (loved the short chapters!), hoping for some happiness for these characters who seemed to face nothing but heartbreak. Definitely one of my favorites this year.

#HauntedShelf #HexesandCrows @PuddleJumper @CatsandBooks #PumpkabooHunt #SupernaturalBookBingo @outsmartyourshelf #Witchathon @TEArificbooks

PuddleJumper 🖤🧡🖤 7mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🐦‍⬛🧡 7mo
OutsmartYourShelf Great🙂 7mo
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Faranae
Rattling Bone | Jordan L. Hawk
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Trying to catch up points and posts for #HauntedShelf for team #Flerken!

2 words, R for @texreader's #HalloweenAtoZbingo 22 readathon or bingo squares including #BodyDoubleReadathon and #CozyReads #31by31 plus 1 medium #PumpkabooHunt and a move on the #promptmaze, a book cover...

Book rec: chilly night, paranormal, jump scare, snuggles, series. Read The Forgotten Dead first! It's actually a CHRISTMAS book if you want spooky for December. ;)

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 Brilliant! 7mo
willaful I'm annoyed at myself for not remembering this would fit for Winter Games... 4mo
Faranae @willaful It was even on my re-read list for the holidays, but I only got a couple of those in and this didn't number among them. 4mo
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PuddleJumper
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#PumpkabooHunt stats I'm getting everything ready for #Hauntedshelf check in as I'm not sure I'll get a chance to log things before then

I'm really pleased. I got one large! Terrible book but I read it

#Flerken

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PuddleJumper
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Mehso-so

I enjoyed the writing of this. It was a standard human trapped on an alien planet romance. I liked the world building and all the characters felt different.

I'll carry on with the rest of the series as I'd like to see what happens to the other characters.

Mpreg is not my thing. It was not really a big part of the book, it happens at the end and is speedrunned through which worked for me!

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PuddleJumper I do think every writer that mentions penis size should watch that TikTok with the woman telling people they don't really know what 12 inches looks like because a dick that measures from hip to collar bones of an average human is not going where the author wants it too.

7mo
OutsmartYourShelf @PuddleJumper 😆 I saw that TikTok too. 7mo
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TheSpineView Fantastic! 7mo
OutsmartYourShelf 💛 Excellent. 7mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🩵 7mo
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PuddleJumper
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Mehso-so

This series has never been strong on plot and this one just gives up entirely. The plot is nonsensical and doesn't serve much of a purpose.

This is my least favourite so far because they inconvenienced people paying for language lessons to have sex in a closet. Everyone was so understanding because they are mates. No. You unprofessional ninnies.

#HauntedShelf #Flerken

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kwmg40
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Mehso-so

I finished this second book for the #CatsAndDogs readathon, featuring a bookshop owner, a faithful dog, and lots of Hallowe'en themed fun.

I liked the setting and the characters but the reading experience was marred by very slopping editing. Still, this book fulfilled a lot of #HauntedShelf challenges!

@Bookwormjillk #Flerken @PuddleJumper

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PuddleJumper
Butcher and Blackbird | Brynne Weaver
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Mehso-so

This is a romance book with serial killer trappings. That aspect is treated like a quirky part of their personality rather than a driving force in the book.

When it is featured it's gory for the sake of being gory and disturbing. I would have preferred to focus on how they found them, verified they were killers etc Rather than the violence but that's a personal preference.

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PuddleJumper The two MCs' voices were incredibly similar. I had to constantly check whose POV it was.

The romance was not romancing. I wasn't interested in them as a couple. You need more to a relationship than banter. It just felt like they bantered and thought about how hot the other one was.

It was a very shallow read. I think if you like dark romance then try this series otherwise I'd avoid.

7mo
Catsandbooks I was thinking about trying this one since it's so popular everywhere, but I think I'll pass 7mo
PuddleJumper @Catsandbooks It's a romance book with gore. I was expecting more on the serial killer/vigilante angle. If you enjoy romance books with darker themes then it isn't a badly written book 7mo
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PuddleJumper
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Mehso-so

There were a lot of characters and background given at the start of the book. It felt a bit much. I thought I was reading a mid-series book but no.

Personally, I don't think you can have a cosy mystery when the victim is the character's close friend. It changes the dynamic.

This was fine. It was predictable and safe but an easy read.

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PuddleJumper
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Panpan

I've had issues with this author before in terms of length. This book is long and it's packed full of unnecessary moments and details. I don't care what the MC has for dinner and their thought process behind it unless it has something to do with the plot.

It is simultaneously fast paced and so incredibly slow. I ended up skim reading the majority of it because so much of it was unnecessary.

PuddleJumper The romance and the smut hits a bunch of different tropes and kinks. I would say this is definitely a dark romance.

Without giving too much away there is a religious element to it and that bleeds over into a d/s type relationship. The religious language and ideas used in that aspect was very off putting for me because it was language usually aimed at women.

7mo
PuddleJumper That part of the toxicity between the couple was something I could not get over. Apparently that\'s a hard no for me! You live and learn. 7mo
Bookwormjillk 😻😻😻 7mo
Catsandbooks That sucks ☹️ 7mo
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PuddleJumper
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Pickpick

I buggered my knees this weekend so I indulged in IWTV season 2 and a lot of KU books. I'm playing catch up now with posting.

This was another fun instalment. It is slowly moving towards a throuple which I love and I just want to know what Adam is!

BookishMadHatter These books are great as a quick, fun read or a palate cleanser. I just got the latest one and am debating whether to hold off to read it closer to the next one, or just dive in 7mo
PuddleJumper @BookishMadHatter Oh I know! The last one is coming out in December and I don't know whether to pace myself or not 7mo
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TheSpineView Poor thing! Hope you feel better! 7mo
Bookwormjillk Hope you heal quickly! 7mo
OutsmartYourShelf Hope you feel better soon. Excellent work on the reading front though. 7mo
PuddleJumper @OutsmartYourShelf Thanks ❤️❤️ 7mo
Catsandbooks Hope your knees are better soon! 🧡 7mo
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kwmg40
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Pickpick

This series is so much fun! I love the mix of witches, vampire and knitting in the Oxford UK setting. This installment also featured the cast of a Shakespearean production and romantic chaos when love potions get administered to the wrong targets.

#CatsAndDogs @Bookwormjillk
#HauntedShelf #Flerken @PuddleJumper
#GottaCatchEmAll (66. Rapidash: Romance)

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kwmg40
Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes
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Mehso-so

This sci-fi/horror story is creepy and atmospheric but the plot dragged along and there wasn't much character development. It's too bad, as the sci-fi elements were interesting and had lots of potential for a great story.

#LitsySciFiBookClub @TheSpineView
#HauntedShelf #Flerken @PuddleJumper

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kwmg40
Shrines of Gaiety | Kate Atkinson
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Pickpick

An enjoyable historical novel set in 1920's London. It started slow but I liked how the various plotlines eventually wove together, and I also found the morally ambiguous characters (which, frankly, were almost all of them) interesting.

My first book finished for #HauntedShelf! #Flerken @PuddleJumper
#52bookclub (A revenge story)
#AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #PumpkabooHunt #GottaCatchEmAllSpooky

Librarybelle Yay! #LiteraryCrew is reading this one this month, and I‘m looking forward to it! 8mo
kwmg40 @Librarybelle I will certainly drop in to see the discussion! 8mo
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Texreader Fantastic! #letterS 8mo
Ruthiella I liked this a lot too. I also liked how she kept the ending open for two certain characters. 8mo
DieAReader 🎃👻Excellent!! 8mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 Well done! 8mo
kwmg40 @Ruthiella Me too. I found that, even with the open ending, I found the way the book concluded very satisfying. 8mo
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PuddleJumper
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Pickpick

This is a spin off from another series. I haven‘t read it and I didn‘t think I missed much. It‘s a mash up of ghosts, romance, save this failing business, and surprise grandchild.

All of the characters were awkward and adorable. I really hope this develops into a series as there were some interesting ideas and plots that weren‘t fully developed in the book.

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PuddleJumper
Carmilla | Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
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Pickpick

Finally got around to my Carmilla re-read. Gets me into the autumnal feels

#HauntedShelf #Flerken

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PuddleJumper
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Pickpick

Today has been a shit show with buses being late, clients cancelling and generally being shitty. I was in the right mood for paranormal silliness.

#HauntedShelf #Flerken

TheSpineView Fantastic! 8mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Sometimes you really do need a book to take you away from reality! 😅 8mo
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CBee I hope tomorrow is better ♥️ 8mo
Texreader Glad the silliness helped make your day better 8mo
OutsmartYourShelf Brilliant 👏 8mo
Kenyazero Glad you had this silly pick-me-up after a rough day! 8mo
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PuddleJumper
Bookshops & Bonedust | Travis Baldree
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Pickpick

I stayed up quite late last night reading this 😅

I loved this, I actually preferred this to Legends & Lattes. Restoring a failing bookshop, creating a sense of community and fighting a necromancer are just more my thing.

This had way more plot. The book recommendations given to Viv matched what was going on in the story which I loved.

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PuddleJumper This didn't have that soporific effect of the first one because there was more plot. I would recommend this one to people first, there is a mention of Legends & Lattes in the epilogue but you don't need to have read it to enjoy this one.

8mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 8mo
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dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 8mo
Catsandbooks Cute kitty! 🖤 8mo
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AmandaBlaze
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This was a reread from last year. Lots of points to be made for # HauntedShelf. This is also my #Bookrec for #Dark.
#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #BookSpinBingo #31by31 #HalloweenAtoZ #HalloweenAtoZBingo #Spookoween #PumpkabooHunt #GottaCathEmAllOctober

TheSpineView Well done! 8mo
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Yuki_Onna
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PuddleJumper
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This one has some action in it! This is probably my favourite couple so far. The dynamic was different and they were both military.

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