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TheBookgeekFrau

TheBookgeekFrau

Joined January 2018

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Thanksgiving | Janet Evanovich
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Thank you @dabbe for the tag☺️ I skipped last week's #TLT bc dessert is really not my thing and my score was abysmal 😂

I've tried 35/73 for 48%

My faves:
🥚deviled eggs
🍠candied yams
🍞stuffing

And the whiskey-cranberry slushie is something I'd really like to try. Which also got me thinking to bring back Brandy Alexanders this holiday season 🥃🍸

#ThreeListThursday

dabbe Is it too early for cocktail hour at 11 AM? 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing! 💛🤎🧡 14h
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 😂🥂 10h
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#DaysDevotedTo #Television

This was an interesting history of reality TV

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Looks good 🩵 14h
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Gerald's Game | Stephen King
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚🤍 2d
Eggs 🖤❤️🩶 2d
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Mafia Princess: Growing Up in Sam Giancana's Family | Antoinette Giancana, Thomas C. Renner
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Leftcoastzen 😄I remember when this book was hot! 4d
TheBookgeekFrau @Leftcoastzen Late 80s, right? Like around the time John Gotti kept beating all the charges he was brought on trial for 🤔 3d
Eggs 💛👑🧡 3d
MemoirsForMe I remember this one! 1d
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dabbe 🧡🍁🤎 5d
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe I so thought of you when posting this! 😊🤎🧡 5d
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau That made me smile! I've loved seeing all the PEANUTS posts today; they made my heart happy! And how can you not first think of Charlie Brown, right? 🤩😂😘 5d
Eggs 🧡🖤💛 5d
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"On the morning of the fine spring day, full of sunshine, that ended with my arrest in Gaza, I woke early from an uneven sleep, dressed, and pushed back to its proper place the desk meant to barricade the door of my hotel room."

Ok, a #BookSpinBingo book for another bingo that I actually have not read ?

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Easiest bingo I ever got! Started this book over coffee this morning only to get to page 5 of the introduction to see an underline. So I flip through, and yup, I already read this 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 It is relieving to know that I at least remember read books once I start to re-read them.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5d
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Panpan

It was a little all over the place, too drawn-out, and not quite about what the synopsis says it's about. And if I wasn't too lazy to decide on a different book, it would've been a DNF.

78/62

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list! 7d
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TheSpineView Great story! ❤️🏇 1w
TheBookgeekFrau @TheSpineView Yes! I really enjoyed it, although the writing was so repetitive 😣 1w
Eggs I love horse stories 6d
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs This was a good one! 6d
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Before You Know Kindness | Chris Bohjalian
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Friday night plans 😌

dabbe Nothing better. 🧡 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe So much so that I made it my Saturday night plans as well! 😂🤎 2w
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau 🤩😂😘 2w
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Happy Holidays | Janet Dailey
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@dabbe Thanks for the tag, and I hope you're not feeling sore from your dental work 🙏🏼🦷

I don't read much holiday stuff, but the ones I've really enjoyed are:

🎄 The Winter Street series by Elin Hilderbrand
🪽Angels at Christmas by Debbie Macomber
🤶🏼 Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

dabbe THANK YOU! I'm making a list, and checking it twice. Thank you for sharing and making the end of this week nice. 🩵❄️🩵 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe ❤️💚❤️🫂 2w
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Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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Pickpick

So glad I finally read this 😊

77/62

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 2w
TheBookHippie I love this book. 2w
PaperbackPirate Such a good one! 🖤🐴 2w
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Milk in My Coffee | Eric Jerome Dickey
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Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2w
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Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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"The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Eggs Perfecto 👌🏼 2w
marleed I never read the book but the mini series is seared into my memories! 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @marleed I haven't either, yet. I remember my mother being glued to the TV for the mini series, and my husband remembers his parents glued to their TV. 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs 🧡🤎🧡 2w
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Black Beauty | Anna Sewell
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When I read The Eighty-Dollar Champion, last month, there was mention of the how and why Black Beauty came to be written. I decided it was finally time to read this book I've had since I was about 8.

MaleficentBookDragon I loved this book as a child. I wonder how I‘d feel about it as an adult. Maybe it‘s time for a reread. (edited) 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @MaleficentBookDragon I learned that it was originally written for adults to highlight and warn against the abuse of work horses. From that the ASPCA was born to protect their well-being. 2w
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Killers of a Certain Age | Deanna Raybourn
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Mehso-so

This isn't my genre of choice, but I thought it would be more character driven than plot driven given the unusual age of the woman. Definitely a case of it's the reader, not the book.

76/62

#BookSpin
#MountTBR #ReadAway2024

TheAromaofBooks I enjoyed this one, but felt like the characters were all kind of the same. 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks Yes! The last chapters had a few pops of personality, but that was it. 2w
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YOU: The Owner's Manual | Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
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@Eggs thanks for the tag 🧡🤎🧡

📖 Snow days (like the one currently happening 😁), early AMs and late PMs when all the house is asleep

📖📖 I don't really have one outside of reading down my TBR shelves to make room for the TBR piles that are taking over my living room 😅

#WondrousWednesday

Eggs #2 I know that feeling 🤪😳 2w
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs 😂😵‍💫 2w
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MemoirsForMe Yay! Love Anne Tyler! 🙌🏻 2w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2w
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🍭 3w
bookandbedandtea What a great title! 3w
Eggs Clever! Eating bon bons and filing nails 💅🏻 2w
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Eggs Yay Dagwood 🥪❤️📚 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs 🤎🥪🤎 3w
dabbe #iconicandclassic 🤩🤩🤩 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🤎🧡🤎 3w
bthegood 🙂 3w
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Killers of a Certain Age | Deanna Raybourn
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Post morning workout activity 😊

#Bookspin

bookandbedandtea I enjoyed this book 😁 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea I hope it's as fun as I think it's gonna be. So many Littens liked it 🤞🏼🤞🏼 3w
bookandbedandtea @TheBookgeekFrau I hope you like it. I cackled frequently throughout 😆 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @bookandbedandtea That's exactly what I'm hoping for! 3w
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The House of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea
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Panpan

I really wanted to like this end of life story, but the writing style was so distracting that I found it hard to stay in the story.

75/62

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

TheAromaofBooks Bummer!! 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @TheAromaofBooks It happens 🤷🏻‍♀️😕 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @DieAReader Here's to better reads 🥂 3w
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#BookSpin and #DoubleSpin for November

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 3w
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The House of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea
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"Big Angel was late to his own mother's funeral."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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My Favorite Authors | Thomas Costley
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#DaysDevotedTo #Authors

Stephen King - My first auto-buy author. I've been reading his books for so long that I can't remember life without him💞

KadaGul True Fan 😍🤎🫶🧡👊🫰 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @KadaGul 💯🤎🧡 3w
marleed Wowza! 3w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 3w
Gissy Beautiful 📚😍👌 3w
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Favorites | Garret Mathews
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Bridge to Terabithia is October's winner, but Beach Music took the Bracket.

dabbe Wowza! 🧡🍁💛 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe A little creative colab between me and the Mr. I showed him the e-templates and he drew it up for me. In 55yrs I've never once managed to draw a straight line 😂😂 3w
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau Wowza! Is he an architect or something? I've never seen such straight lines! 🤩😂🤩 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe lol He's a design engineer. For decades was a tool and die maker, and designed packaging (he inherited his father's plastics company) so everything he dealt with had to be precise to smallest Nth measurement 😵‍💫🤯 He's quite handy to have around 😂 3w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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1 bingo for October

#BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 3w
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October Wrap-Up

Total read: 6
#BookSpin ✔️
#DoubleSpin ✔️
#MountTBR 5
DNF 1

#ReadAway2024

DieAReader 🤓❤️‍🔥👻 3w
TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 3w
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@dabbe Thanks for the tag!! 🧡🧡

Favorites:
Everything I never Told You
Big Little Lies
Silence of the Lambs

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

dabbe The only one I've read is BIG LITTLE LIES. More for the TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🎃🖤 3w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 📚📚📚 3w
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Flesh and Blood | Michael Cunningham
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🩸 3w
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3w
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The House of Broken Angels | Luis Alberto Urrea
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A beautiful fall morning for outdoor reading 🍁😊

BarbaraBB I loved this one! 4w
TheBookgeekFrau @BarbaraBB 🙌🏼🙌🏼 4w
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In Evil Hour | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Eggs Fantastic 🫶🏻👌🏼 4w
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Pet Sematary | Stephen King
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Eggs Good one 👏🏻👏🏻 4w
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Pickpick

It's a good, solid Jill Shalvis story complete with likable characters, humor, banter, and found family. However, I found myself getting impatient with "the formula" plot. Time for a break. I did get a #BookSpinBingo though, so woohoo!

73/62

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024

DieAReader Excellent!! 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I like Shalvis's writing, but in small doses haha 4w
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dabbe Very pretty! 🤩🤩🤩 4w
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 💛🤎💛 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🩶🖤 4w
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"Alive was better than dead."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

dabbe I'll drink to that! 🍻 4w
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@dabbe thanks for the tag 🖤🧡

Finally a decent score - 46%

A lot of likes, but favorites are:
The Wizard of Oz
King Kong
The Shining

Honorable mention to my number one scary movie: Terminator

#ThreeListThursdsy #TLT

dabbe I think the original KING KONG is the best KING KONG there is! Even the special effects still hold their magic today. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🖤🧡🖤 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 🦍🧡🧡 1mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful 😍 1mo
Eggs Wow 🤩 stacked! 1mo
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Monster | A. Lee Martinez
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻 1mo
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Starting this palate cleanser after a lot of non-fiction reading this month. My brain needs a break 😂

KadaGul Jill Shalvis is my top pick for a cozy and feel-good romance. 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @KadaGul Me too! I love the humor of her characters. 1mo
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Mehso-so

This horse's story was so touching and inspiring, but the writing was repetitive and dull. Only the story and history kept me from DNFing. However, the long buried horse-girl in me is glad I read it 😊🐴

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks (Happy Birthday!!)

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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Silently Screaming | Dawn Husted
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Eggs Classic!! 1mo
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"The horse vans parked along Seventh Avenue came loaded up with dreams."

#FirstLineFridays
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My score went up slightly 💃🏻

17%

Favorites:
Romancing The Stone
Smokey and The Bandit
Top Gun

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

dabbe Oh how I love ROMANCING THE STONE! I need to watch that one again! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🖤🧡🖤 1mo
mcipher @dabbe I haven‘t seen that one in years but I used to love it! 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 💞💞💞 1mo
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bthegood I liked Smokey and the Bandit when it came out - I laughed when I saw it on this 100 Thrills list - is it a thriller? 😂 1mo
TheBookgeekFrau @bthegood 😂😂 Thrills and laughter🤷🏻‍♀️ But it helped me up score 😂 1mo
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