readingoceania

My 2024 reading. Highlights for me were doing some deep dives for #FoodAndLit, reading all of the Station Eleven books in a row over a couples of weeks for #AuthorAMonth, reading around the world for #ReadingAfrica #ReadingAsia #ReadingTheAmericas and #ReadingOceania (none of which I have completed so I‘ll still be going in 2025), the hilarity of #HashtagBrigade, #CampLitsy, and numerous other challenges that have made my reading life so rich.

Megabooks, Soubhiville, BarkingMadRead, Texreader, Librarybelle, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB, Catsandbooks

Librarybelle Excellent reading stats! 3mo

BarbaraBB Looking forward to another year of this with you (edited) 3mo

Megabooks Glad you enjoyed CL! Already excited for 2025! 3mo

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Ruthiella Fantastic stats! 👍 3mo

squirrelbrain Glad you had fun at #camplitsy! ❤️ 3mo

AnnCrystal 📚👏🥳👍💝. 3mo

bthegood 🥳🥳 3mo

Catsandbooks Wonderful! 🎉👏🏼 3mo

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Texreader

The House in the Cerulean Sea | Tj Klune

Seven books read in September. I finished the #LitsyAtoZ challenge this month with the #letterU! Two books read for #authoramonth, 3 for #foodandlit #Malaysia, 2 for #readingOceania #Australia and #Samoa. @Soubhiville @Catsandbooks @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Catsandbooks Awesome! I keep forgetting that Storygraph does these graphics! 6mo

GingerAntics I think I‘m going to have to start tracking my reading in storygraph. I keep hearing so many good things. 6mo

Librarybelle Hooray! A good reading month! 6mo

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Texreader

Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel | Nancy Horan

Big News! I finished this book, which means I completed the #LitsyAtoZ challenge!! I‘ve read books that start with every letter of the alphabet this year for the seventh year in a row! This book was for #Samoa #ReadingOceania, a challenge I finished much earlier this year but for which I still have more books I found and want to read. Review to come.

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 6mo

MaureenMc 🎉🎉🎉 6mo

Librarybelle Congratulations! 6mo

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wanderinglynn Fantastic! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 6mo

TheBookgeekFrau Congratulations!!🎊📖👏🏼 6mo

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Texreader

Tales of the South Pacific | James A. Michener

My second weekend in a row at HPB ended in a massive book haul… so here goes:

The tagged book came up in my search when I was reading for #readingOceania and it looked like a book I‘d enjoy

And then I saw Space and thought that‘d be a good read as my son starts his journey in college to become an aerospace engineer

marleed How cool. I‘m always on the lookout for a book called by Michener called The Drifters. I read it in high school for my own entertainment. My dad was impressed I chose his favorite author so he read the book after me. We talked and talked about that book. I‘d love to see it on my shelves and have those memories flood back everyday! 7mo

Texreader @marleed I‘ll now have to keep a lookout for it too! 7mo

marleed It‘s a great story! 7mo

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Texreader

David Copperfield | Dickens Charles

What a great readathon! Here‘s my wrap up:

-I finished The Alternatives (#campLitsy) and A Town Like Alice (#foodandlit #Malaysia #readingOceania #Australia)

-I continued reading Wolfsong (#authoramonth), and

-I started David Copperfield (#whatthedickens) and The Storm We Made (#foodandlit #Malaysia)

Thanks @TheSpineView for hosting #fortheloveofbooks!!

@Catsandbooks @Cuilin @Soubhiville @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇲🇾💕 7mo

squirrelbrain A great weekend! 7mo

TheSpineView Great job!👍🤩📖 7mo

Librarybelle Awesome!! 7mo

Cuilin 🎉🫶 7mo

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Texreader

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook | Hampton Sides

My two Hampton Sides books from HPB. The tagged book should work for #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Librarybelle In the Kingdom of Ice is really good! 7mo

CSeydel I loved In the Kingdom of Ice! 7mo

Texreader @Librarybelle @CSeydel Great! I‘ve been anxious to read Hampton Sides books and feel so lucky to have found these 7mo

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TheAromaofBooks

Spin Around Space | Igloobooks

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Hey everyone! The moment you have all been waiting for!! Our official #BookSpin number is SIX! Our official #DoubleSpin number is FOUR!! I have thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone‘s lists & am really looking forward to seeing your reviews!!

My next post will be the #BookSpinBingo card. I am NOT tagging anyone on that post!! If you want to bingo, please just check my profile for the card. This saves me having to double tag ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont‘d) everyone/keep track of who wants to bingo and who doesn‘t!!

I use the same tag list for the entire year, so if you would like to be added or removed, please just let me know. It takes me a while to tag everyone (there are over 200 of you!!!) so I will add “FINISHED” to the last tag batch so you know whether or not I missed you. If I did, it was completely inadvertent. Sometimes I just spell someone‘s username wrong. ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) As always, the link to the masterpost about how this challenge works can be found on my profile or here - https://thearomaofbooks.wordpress.com/bookspin-bookspinbingo-litsy-challenge/ - and the link to the Google Form where you can track your reads for the end-of-the-year-giveaway can be found here - https://forms.gle/4kTBMWAsCa9Cvmqs6

Thanks for playing, everyone!! Please know that I read EVERY comment on this post but don't always ⬇
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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) have time to reply to them all!! Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm and for making this challenge SO much fun!!

I'm going to post the Bingo board, and then come back and start the tag list on the last post. Happy reading!!!
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LiteraryinPA Yay! It‘s go time! 7mo

IndoorDame Last month‘s numbers flipped! 😆😂 7mo

TheBookgeekFrau 💜💜💜 7mo

AmyG Thank you! Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend! 7mo

AllDebooks Yay, that captures the buddyreads 7mo

BarbaraJean Woohoo!! Early numbers are so exciting! I‘ve got two nonfiction books I‘ve been wanting to get to—Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson for BookSpin and the tagged for DoubleSpin!

Now What?: How to Move Forward When We're Divided (about Basically Everything)

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willaful By chance, my double spin is the same as my bookspin last month, The Revisionaries, which I haven't finished, so that seems like a sign!

My bookspin is Heart of Blood and Ashes. 7mo

TheAromaofBooks @IndoorDame - I swear I mix them up! 😂 7mo

HeyT I had to look up the numbers from last month to make sure I wasn‘t going crazy that my picks this month are the two I just put on the list. 7mo

TheAromaofBooks @HeyT - I honestly hadn't even noticed that they were same numbers until @IndoorDame pointed it out. I went back and checked. Apparently everyone is REALLY supposed to read those numbers! 😂 7mo

IndoorDame @TheAromaofBooks haha, it‘s because of the app I use to make images with the books I end up choosing. The background from your last post usually gets saved in it until I replace it with the new one. 7mo

Librarybelle Yay! Mine are The Hotel and Two Stories! 7mo

claudiuo Thank you so much! 7mo

bekakins Like others I was really confused and had to check I was looking at the right months post 🤣 excited to finally finish the culture series though with my double spin! 7mo

bookandbedandtea Woohoo! Here's to another good month of reading. 😊 7mo

Bookwormjillk I got two books for #ReadingOceania

I may actually finish this challenge! 7mo

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Texreader

A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute

I‘ve started this audiobook for #Malaysia #foodandlit It also works for #readingOceania for #Australia

I‘ve read it before back in high school and really liked it.

Free on Audible

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB, Catsandbooks

Librarybelle Thanks for posting! 7mo

Catsandbooks Yay! 🇲🇾 7mo

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Bookwormjillk

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

My September #BookspinBINGO list - back to school back to reading challenges. I‘m trying to make a dent in #ReadingOceania and #ReadingUSA

Thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 7mo

willaful Wow, this may be the first list I've seen where I haven't heard of any of the books! Oh, i see it's for a geographical challenge, that would do it. Have a good month! 7mo

Bookwormjillk @willaful yeah I had to dig for some of these! 7mo

BkClubCare @willaful - MISTER PIP!!! A favorite 😍 7mo

BkClubCare Curious abt the Block Island one. A very VERY cool island 7mo

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Texreader

Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II | Wil S. Hylton

This is an interesting news piece about #Palau #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-pW3P-K16m/?igsh=NGh4Z2JiYWliYnc0

Karisa Beautiful place with a sad past… I didn‘t know much of that history. I‘d only heard of this island nation when watching an old season of Survivor this summer. 😅 So interesting! Thank you for sharing! 7mo

Librarybelle Thanks for sharing! 7mo

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