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LeslieO

LeslieO

Joined April 2016

Book lover & Retired Librarian; too fond of books and it has turned her brain☕️📚📚🍷
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I love #bookspin and #doublespin day! Always look forward to seeing which books from my TBR I will definitely read this month. Thanks @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! 2w
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First Frost | Sarah Addison Allen
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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🧙🏻 I had a great spooky season month. And I got a BINGO! #BookSpinBingo

🎃 #SeriesLove2024
🎃 #BookSpin
🎃 #DoubleSpin
🎃 Bingo!
🎃 no 5⭐️ but the tagged book and Lula Dean were 4.5

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!!! 2w
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I skipped the last two months of #BOTM and I really wanted this add-on! This month‘s selections didn‘t thrill me but I chose the sweet, whimsical one. Seems like a curl up with a cup of tea on a snowy day type of book.

Sace That‘s the one I picked too! 2w
LeslieO @Sace It looks very sweet. The cover has a middle grade look to it. Usually I picked the thrillers. 2w
Sace I loved the cover! I was about to skip this month until I got to this book. 2w
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Weyward: A Novel | Emilia Hart
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@Readergrrl Thank you so much for the fantastic #HauntedHollowSwap package! I didn‘t realize the pumpkins were earrings at first, so cute! The books and bookmark are perfect! Can‘t wait to start some spooky reading. I had to include a pic of the beautiful wrapping job! You are the best!

And thank you for organizing @wanderinglynn

wanderinglynn Awesome! 🧡🎃🖤👻 2w
Readergrrl I‘m so happy it got to you in time! I‘ve read both books and they were simply delightful! 🎃🧙🏼‍♀️🧹 2w
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I have a nice plan for November but I also have 5 library holds about to come in at once ( I know I could postpone some but I like to live dangerously 😄) so I‘ll probably be using up free spaces. Can‘t believe it‘s almost November! #BookSpinBingo

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It came! Can‘t wait for opening day! #HHS24 #HauntedHollowSwap

wanderinglynn Yay! 🎃🧡 3w
Readergrrl Yay, I‘m so happy!! 3w
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The Night Gardener | Jonathan Auxier
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#5JoysFriday
🍁Spooky season reads like the tagged book
🍁Football, especially my Bills with a big trade this week
🍁Fall walks, leaves are peak this week
🍁Apple season!
🍁The trees on my street in their yellow glory

KadaGul Bills Mafia got a good trade with Amari Cooper, and Duvante Adams made the mistake of his life going to the Jets. 4w
BarbaraJean The Night Gardener is so good!!! 4w
kspenmoll The colors are so beautiful this season!🍁 4w
DebinHawaii A lovely list of joys & pictures! 💛💛💛 I love apple season! 🍎🍏🍎 Thanks for sharing & spreading the joy! 🤗 4w
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Silence for the Dead | Simone St. James
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Just starting this one. #spookyreads #spookyseason #bookspin

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Forgot to take a pic as usual but my #HauntedHollowSwap package is in the mail. #HHS #HHS24

wanderinglynn Yay! 🎃🧡 1mo
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Really looking for to both of these. One for spooky season and Jackson Brodie❤️! #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo

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Looking forward to spooky season!👻🎃🍁

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The Other Half | Charlotte Vassell
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Pretty great month! I read two 5⭐️ books (All the Colors + Here One Moment), one #Nonfiction2024, two back-to-school titles, one quirky British police procedural, one reread, and completed my #bookspin and #doublespin #readingrecap #monthlyrecap #Septemberrecap

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!!! 1mo
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Where's Waldo Now? | Martin Handford
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I feel like I should have done better, as a retired school librarian. And having been a librarian I‘m not really surprised at any of the books on the list. People will complain about the weirdest things. #IReadBannedBooks #TLT #ThreeListThursday

Here‘s three of my favs from the list
📖 Speak
📖 Monster
📖 Eleanor and Park

dabbe Same here, as a retired English teacher! More for our TBR? Or not. Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡🤎💛 2mo
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Ready for spooky season. (Plus a few non-spooky) #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo
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The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Can I make it to 100 this year? That‘s the real challenge. #2024readingchallenge #readinggoals

TheSpineView Yes you can! 2mo
Hooked_on_books The math is in your favor to make that happen! 2mo
wanderinglynn Congrats! 🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 And yes, YOU CAN DO IT! 🙌🏻 2mo
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Ruthiella Nice work! 👍 2mo
BookmarkTavern Woohoo! Go for it! 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
Avanders You can do it!! 🦾🦾 (but it‘s also ok if you don‘t 😉🤗) (edited) 2mo
dabbe #yahooyou! Keep on going! 🚂🚂🚂 2mo
Meshell1313 Amazing! You can do it!! 🙌🎉 2mo
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I think my #HalloweenAesthetic is cozy scary! #HauntedHollowSwap #HHS

wanderinglynn Love it! 🎃🖤 2mo
LeahBergen Mine, too! 😀 2mo
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The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time”

#FirstLineFridays

ShyBookOwl Cemetary of forgotten books?! I definitely want to know more! Great opener 2mo
LeslieO @ShyBookOwl It‘s so good! 2mo
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The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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I feel like I‘m on borrowed time! Still reading on my deck. We are having 2nd summer here in Buffalo. Temps in the 80s for a couple weeks and the awning is still up! Soaking it in while I can. Rereading this classic so I can continue the series. #stillsummerreading

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🍁Loved the tagged book🧡
🍁I read a fair amount on my Kindle but I way prefer to hold a real book.
🍁I think it‘s a tie between thriller and contemporary fiction

🍁🍁🍁🍁Play along Littens! #wondrouswednesday 🍁🍁🍁🍁

Eggs Thx for joining in🥳 2mo
Karisimo I tagged the same book 😉 2mo
LeslieO @Karisimo It was so good! 2mo
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The Other Half | Charlotte Vassell
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If All the Colors of the Dark doesn‘t take me the whole month I will get to these two.😆😜

Nebklvr Shadow of the Wind🥰 2mo
LeslieO @Nebklvr Me too! It‘s a reread for me, it‘s been a long time. And I want to read the other books in the series. Have you read the other 2? 2mo
TheLudicReader All the Colors of the Dark is a really quick read…despite the page count. 2mo
Nebklvr @LeslieO I have read 2 or 3? Others. I liked his last one. The other two not as good. 2mo
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The Perfect Couple | Elin Hilderbrand
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Great month! But I have a lot of summer books going back on the shelf until next year. Something to look forward to!
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
#SeriesLove2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✅✅ (The Road to Dalton, The Wedding People)
Used all 5 free spaces! So many library holds came in at once!✅
#MonthlyRecap

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 2mo
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I plan to start the month with the tagged book. Then on to some academia, dark and otherwise. #
Also hoping to reread The Shadow of the Wind and then finish the series over the winter. BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3mo
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Spent a few days at the shore. Came upon a silent book club on the beach, watched the moon rise over the ocean, read a few good books and visited my favorite vacation indie Thunder Road Books. Lovely. #summerreading

Gissy 😍📖 🌊👌 💙💙💙 3mo
TrishB That looks great! 3mo
LiteraryinPA A silent beach book club sounds amazing! 3mo
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The Road to Dalton | Shannon Bowring
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The tagged book has been high on my #TBR for awhile. Hopefully this is the nudge I need. Plus a beachy read. #bookspin #doublespin

BarbaraBB It‘s a lovely read! 3mo
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Back to the mystery/thrillers. I was hoping the Riley Sager would be an add on. #BOTM

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North Woods | Daniel Mason
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My goodness, @TheBookHippie , I feel like I just traveled to the lakes and mountains of the Pacific Northwest! 🪵🌄🌲🌲The books are great, I can‘t wait to read North Woods. I‘m suddenly into birds thanks to my Merlin app so I love the tote. The assortment of book clips is awesome. I may have already consumed half the chocolate, so not pictured! I love it all, thank you so much. #Staycationintime

Thank you for hosting @DinoMom @Chrissyreadit

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!! I‘m so glad you love it!! I love that chocolate so I don‘t blame you! 😅🍫 3mo
Chrissyreadit 😍😍😍😍 3mo
Hooked_on_books What a cute tote! 3mo
DinoMom Great package 📦 3mo
Meshell1313 Awesome!!! 😍 3mo
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West of Sunset | Stewart O'Nan
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Great month!
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
#SummerTeads ✅✅✅✅
#FiveStarReads ✅✅✅ (Sandwich, The Situation Room, God of the Woods)
#Nonfiction2024

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 4mo
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Last month of beachy summer titles. Can‘t believe it‘s almost August! But there‘s more sun to soak up! 😎⛱️🌻#BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 4mo
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@TheBookHippie your #staycationintime box is on the way! The post office says it should arrive Saturday. 🤞📬📦

Chrissyreadit 🎉🎉🎉 4mo
TheBookHippie 😍😍😍😍😍 4mo
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Station Eleven: A novel | Emily St. John Mandel
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Well. This is kind of pathetic. #NYTTop100

BarkingMadRead I only had 5 🙈 I had 4 or 5 more on my shelves 4mo
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Looking forward to my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin but got distracted by my new #BOTM.

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Vacationland: A Novel | Meg Mitchell Moore
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Love that the #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are in the same column as 2 free spots. Maybe I‘ll get a bingo! #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 4mo
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I was hoping for one of these two this month. I was also hoping to only get one book this month. Oh well! #BOTM

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“Dawn had not yet broken when Mike Stieglitz steered his blue Toyota Camry toward the White House on January 6, 2021.” A little something different in between the summer beachy reads. #FirstLineFridays

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Ready for more summery reading! Really looking forward to the new Hilderbrand. And a few set in Maine. #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5mo
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Clara Reads Proust | Stephane Carlier
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Completed my June #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin. Loved Clara, and tolerated The Writing Retreat. I had high hopes but it just fell flat for me. Better luck next month! #BookSpinBingo

AnneCecilie Clare sounds interesting, especially since I‘ve read Proust. 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! I have The Writing Retreat on my shelf, but I've heard a lot of mixed reviews. 5mo
LeslieO @AnneCecilie You would probably enjoy it even more. I did read Swann‘s Way in college but I remember nothing! 5mo
BookishClaire Woohoo! Great to see some Clara love 4mo
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The Guncle Abroad | Steven Rowley
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Finally reading in my happy place! The weather has not been cooperating. Yesterday it was 56 degrees! Next week 90s. But today is a pleasant 73 and sunny. I‘ll take it. #summerreding

Tamra Enjoy! 5mo
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I haven‘t #DNF a book in a long time but this one just isn‘t for me. I loved The Dinner and have had this one on my summer list for years. But I‘m 80 pages in and I‘m not enjoying it so on to something else.

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
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Hope to get to all the summery reads on the board. Plus the library books and the #bookspin and the #doublespin.😊📚#BookSpinBingo

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In an Instant | Suzanne Redfearn
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What a month! Lots of good reads this month.

Tied my all time personal best! 12 books! Woo hoo! ✅
Read in one day ✅✅✅
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
#Nonfiction2024 ✅✅

#BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Fantastic month!!! 6mo
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Just a couple mystery/suspense picks, as usual. #BOTM

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My favorite day of the year, the local AAUW used book sale! Added some series titles I needed, found a O‘Nan book I never heard of, added to my Hilderbrand collection. Only one nonfiction and I was happy to find it. All in all a great haul. I always say buying a book and reading a book are two separate pleasures! #bookhaul #MountTBR

Ruthiella Wow! What a stack! 🤩 6mo
Hooked_on_books Oooo, look at that haul! Fabulous! 6mo
LeahBergen And I see a Brookner! 👏👏 6mo
LeslieO @LeahBergen So happy to get a Brookner I needed! 6mo
dabbe Wow! 😲😍😀 6mo
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Lost Lake | Sarah Addison Allen
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Ready for SUMMER READING! Can‘t wait to dive in to a few beachy, sunny, summery reads out on my back deck! (If they ever put up my awning) First up will be Emily Henry. Summerhouse with Swimming Pool has been on my summer list for years so I have to get to it. Plus a few thrillers because I‘ve been whipping thru them lately. Let‘s go summer! #SummerReading #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 6mo
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Here are some of the “unputdownable” thriller/suspense reads I‘ve whipped through lately.

Hooked_on_books I just started Nina on audio today and crap! I don‘t want to stop listening! 6mo
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In an Instant | Suzanne Redfearn
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Ready to go! #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 6mo
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Descent | Tim Johnston
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#MonthlyRecap #AprilRecap
#BookSpin
#DoubleSpin
#SeriesLove2024
Book that‘s been on my board forever✅
Book I read in one day (tagged) ✅
The latest Kate DiCamillo (loved it!)✅
Great month✅

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!!! 7mo
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As usual I went with the mystery/crime fiction. Both set in the Pacific Northwest. They sound fabulous. #BOTM

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Bird Cottage | Eva Meijer
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Ready to go. So many I want to get to on this list. Trying for a record number this month. #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 7mo
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#IndependentBookstoreDay #BookHaul
The middle two are mine and the other four are my husband‘s . He‘s not even a reader! I‘ll have to leave him home next time 😆😜

Tamra I‘m anxious to hear about backyard birds chronicles! (edited) 7mo
LeahBergen Haha! My husband scopes out the cookbooks, too. 7mo
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Garden Spells | Sarah Addison Allen
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Hoping to read more of my own books than library books this month. I always get distracted by the shiny and new. #BookSpinBingo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fantastic!! 7mo
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