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Pictures of books to vote on: Five Little Indians The Circle

What will we be reading in November?

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Person on a couch reading with dog in their lap

Rainy day reading buddy. 📖 🐕 🌧️

Covers of the books I read and listened to in September: Read - 1 Book: -Babel by R. F. Kuang (SIBC Book) Going back to school cut into my reading time!!! Listened - 7 Books: -Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry -Once Upon a Time in Dollywood by Ashley Jordan -The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow -Shift by Hugh Howey -Dust by Hugh Howey -Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez -Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yamboa

📚 September 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 1 Books
🎧 Listened - 7 Books

Book club Oct announcement with pictures of the book covers.

We are reading two books by Shirley Jackson in October:
-We Have Always Lived in the Castle (10/1-10/15)
-The Haunting of Hill House (10/16-10/31)

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Our September book pick is Babel by R.F. Kuang.

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📚 August 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 7 Books: -On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton -The Keep by Jennifer Egan (SIBC Book) -The Book of Love by Kelly Link -Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan -So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan -The Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio -Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz 🎧 Listened - 8 Books: -Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez -The Husbands by Holly Gramazio -A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher -Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid -Wolfsong by T. J. Klune -Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson -Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch -Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

📚 August 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 7 Books
🎧 Listened - 8 Books

Frankie wants to be a model.

It’s my last week of summer vacation and you can definitely feel the weather changing. Needed a blanket for patio reading time this morning… I’m going to miss the lazy summer mornings of coffee and reading outside. 📚 ☕️ ☀️ 🐕

Pink flowers in the rain

Rainy day blooms. 🌺

Coves of all the books i purchased!

It started at @lalabookslowellma.bsky.social when I saw The Enchanted Greenhouse's pretty sprayed pages so then I had to snag The Spellshop from @bookoutlet to match… then things esclated quickly. I can’t take credit for Clark the Shark though, that seems to have ended up in my order accidentally!

Bird feeder with 2 goldfinches on it

A visit from a pair of goldfinches in the yard.

Hardcover version of Immortal Consequences by I. V. Marie.

I’m not saying I picked my August BotM selection solely because it was so pretty, but come on look at that cover and those pages!! 🤩

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Corner of my living room with new small shelves on the wall. Bottom two shelves have books on them, top shelf has a leafy plant.

New little corner shelves for books and plants… because I’m slowly turning my house into a jungle. 🌿

Three fluent pet word buttons on their foam pads.

Ok, let’s see how this goes…
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Announcement of the shelf indulgence book club August book pick. Cover of the book The Keep by Jennifer Egan.

Our August book pick is The Keep by Jennifer Egan.

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📚 July 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 3 Books: -Animal Farm by George Orwell -Wellness by Nathan Hill (SIBC Book) -The Names by Florence Knapp 🎧 Listened - 8 Books: -Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano -The Unwedding by Ally Condie -My Vampire Plus-One by Jenna Levine (Audiobooks Only Book Club) -Bookishly Ever After by Mia Page -The Manor House by Gilly Macmillan -Warm Up by V. E. Schwab -Vicious by V. E. Schwab -Vengeful by V. E. Schwab

📚 July 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 3 Books
🎧 Listened - 8 Books

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📚 June 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 4 Books: -Fourteen Days by Atwood & Preston -I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger (SIBC Book) -Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin -I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 🎧 Listened - 8 Books: -An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson -The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny -Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto -Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller -Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins -The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan -Hum by Helen Phillips -My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

📚 June 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 4 Books
🎧 Listened - 9 Books

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📚 May 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 5 Books: -The Lady Waiting by Magdalena Zyzak -The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (SIBC book) -The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie -Foster by Claire Keegan -The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 🎧 Listened - 9 Books: -The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst -This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta -London Rules by Mick Herron -Now or Never by Janet Evanovich -The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer -The Marlebone Drop by Mick Herron -The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe -The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe -The Most by Jessica Anthony

📚 May 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 5 Books
🎧 Listened - 9 Books

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Sitting outside holding a copy of the book The Teller of Smaller Fortunes

Weekend errands and chores are complete and the sun has come back out. Time to sit outside and break open this bad boy! ☀️📚☀️

That’s a tough call between Open Throat and The Great Believers!

What will we be reading in June?!

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📚 April 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 3 Books: -Open Throat by Henry Hoke (SIBC book) -The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai -Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh 🎧 Listened - 9 Books: -The Awakening by Caroline Peckham -The Celebrants by Steven Rowley -Evil Eye by Etaf Rum -The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan -What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley -The Wedding People by Alison Espach -Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Muderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
-Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell -Spook Street by Mick Herron

📚 April 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 3 Books
🎧 Listened - 9 Books

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Cover image of the SIBC book pick for our May read.

Our May winner is The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw!

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📚 March 2025 Book Log 📚 📖Read - 4 Books: -The Fetishist by Katherine Min (SIBC book) -Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth -Stoner by John Williams -Shanghailanders by Juli Min

📚 March 2025 Book Log 📚 🎧 Listened - 10 Books: -Four Squares by Bobby Finger -The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center -Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang -Birds of California by Katie Cotugno -Meet the Benedettos by Katie Cotugno -A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston -The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coastes -What Have You Done? By Shari Lapena -The Floxglove King by Hannah Whitten -All Systems Red by Martha Wells

📚 March 2025 Book Log 📚

📖Read - 4 Books
🎧 Listened - 10 Books

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Libby audiobook 2025 BooK #28 A Memoir in Nine Adventures 我的妈呀！ CONNIE WANG Oh My Mother - -→ slide for more thoughts rating Listen #21

OH MY MOTHER! BY: CONNIE WANG I'm not sure there was enough material here for a full book. However, it was quick, fun, and enjoyable. I feel like ultimately it is more about the author herself than about her relationship with her mother. There are parts that will make you laugh, but I would have liked more stories about the author's mother.

2025 🎧 Listen 21/Book 28 - Oh My Mother! by Connie Wang

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Cover image of the book The Fetishist with a 4 star rating

THE FETISHIST BY: KATHERINE MIN This was the Shelf Indulgence Book Club March book selection. I was drawn to the cover and curious how the fish was going to tie into the story (it did not disappoint). It wasn't until I started reading that I realized this was published post-humorously by the author's daughter. (If you haven't already read it, I would recommend "White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color" by Ruby Hamad as a great non-fiction companion piece to this book). (swipe to continue ---> )

THE FETISHIST BY: KATHERINE MIN "When someone dies, our impulse is to flatten her out, to press her between wax paper like a leaf, or to fix her in amber like a bug. Death as capture, death as collected works. But death is a false terminus, one moment only. It seems more significant because it is the last moment, the most recent, when really it is the smallest and least telling. Life is the plumpness of all directions, of surprises and contradictions, of impulses, mistakes, duplicities, and redemptions. While the vanishing point on the horizon line is a dot, a blip, the same for us all."

2025 📖 Read 7/Book 27: The Fetishist by Katherine Min

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Cover image of the audiobook version of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center with a 3.5 star rating

This was an enjoyable rom-com all about defining what a rom-com is should be. It's like a warm bath for your brain, a temporary escape from the world. THE ROM-COMMERS BY: KATHERINE CENTER "If you wait for other people to light you up, then I guess you're at the mercy of darkness."

2025 🎧 Listen 20/Book 26 - The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

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Cover image of the audiobook Four Squares with a 4 start rating.

FOUR SQUARES BY: BOBBY FINGER I love a good "found family" story and this delivered. It's about community and friendships, as well as grief and loss. It is set in the present day and follows our main character Artie while he is dealing with some changes in his life. However, you will also be transported back to NYC in 1992 as he reflects back on his life and the people he has been close to along the way. "That's what the book is about right? The pleasure of finding your people."

2025 🎧 Listen 19/Book 25 - Four Squares by Bobby Finger

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Cute small dog in pajamas

When your grandparents buy you pjs, you have to model them!

Cover of the book The Luminaries with a 2 star rating

THE LUMINARIES BY: ELEANOR CATTON This was not at all what I expected after having read Birnam Wood by the same author. Do you remember that icky feeling you would get when watching Deadwood? You could wrap your head around the fact that the racism and misogyny was "period appropriate" but it still made you hella uncomfortable. This book gives off the same general vibe. If this wasn't the SIBC pick for February I likely would have DNFed it. It kind of put me in a reading slump this month because for the around the first 400-500 pages or so l was just not invested in the story or the characters. (swipe to continue --> )

THE LUMINARIES BY: ELEANOR CATTON It did pick up at the end, and I am glad I stuck it out and finished it, but not enough to bring it up the 3 star "I liked it." rating. I also do not know enough about astrology to really pick up on the astrological stereotypes of the characters. Maybe someone more well-acquainted with horoscopes and star charts would find it more enjoyable. "If I have learned one thing from experience, it is this: never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view."

2025 📖 Read 6/Book 24: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

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