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Check out my "Currently Reading" section. Am I spreading myself thin? Would you still trust or judge my reviews if I am reading all these books at the same time?
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Devi is 25% done with The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025
"How you die should be up to you. How you live is usually upto everyone else"
Sep 20, 2025 09:29AM Add a comment
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025

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Devi is 21% done with The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025
The best part of this book so far is the level of details that go within these short stories. Each story gives a complete and total picture of the incident, with the readers feeling like they have been reading a series and knows the complete picture. The authors have beautifully crafted these stories in a very engaging manner. I am 21% into the book and every single story so far has been flawless and mesmerizing.
Sep 20, 2025 09:20AM Add a comment
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025

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Devi is 14% done with The Inheritance: A Novel
So far, the book is a pull. I am unable to stop listening. One thing I wish there was a character list. It's slightly confusing when the chapter starts with a name. But maybe I'll get used to it soon.
Zoey, Aisha, and Myra are really interesting to learn more about
Sep 02, 2025 06:43AM Add a comment
The Inheritance: A Novel

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Devi is 20% done with The Dallergut Dream-Making District: A Novel
In one of the stories, Penny is helping a regular customer who has lost his sight, to see the world in his dreams
Aug 17, 2025 08:57AM Add a comment
The Dallergut Dream-Making District: A Novel

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Devi is 80% done with All Spooked Up (Haunted Paint Store Mysteries #1)
Wtf am I reading
Hannibal Watson?
Why so many points to explain things? I feel like I'm reading a work email where I am being shouted at
Too perfect a husband. I mean it's not that it's not possible but this description is not going well with the story
Dad's ghost is still not accepted
Dad's an ex police detective but he doesn't have a whole lot of useful suggestions for someone who had been apparently very good
Aug 17, 2025 05:27AM Add a comment
All Spooked Up (Haunted Paint Store Mysteries #1)

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Devi is 20% done with Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #3)
What i really like about this series is that even those kids who are not choosing to be in the race are also appreciated and not ridiculed either by the other kids or adults for being different. Sierra always chooses books over the adventure and she's appreciated for her choice all the time, not because it's making sense to others but because it's what makes her happy
Aug 16, 2025 07:37AM Add a comment
Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #3)

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Devi is finished with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Oh no!!!!!!! The book is over
Jul 23, 2025 10:49AM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

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Devi is 60% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Nope. Made a mistake. Ocean is extremely busy with her kids, but would do anything for Mrs. B. Lily-Ann is Anthony's sort of friend, also dealing with her ex husband, but just so awesome in her own skin.
Jul 23, 2025 07:08AM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

Devi
Devi is 60% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
I think I want this story to NEVER EVER END!!!!
Jo Nichols, you have created a wonder!! I can't wait for a sequel. Please have a sequel
Jul 23, 2025 07:06AM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

Devi
Devi is 60% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Hamilton - an eccentric loner but loves his neighbors and would do anything to protect them, in his own weird way
Sophie - over-anxious creative writer, a sort of damsel in distress, who is unknowingly bringing everyone together through an attempt to safeguard her
Nicolas - a mystery for everyone, but grows to like Sophie
Jul 23, 2025 07:06AM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

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Devi is 60% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
OMG the characters! Mrs. B - the extremely nosey landlady who's in everyone's business but who genuinely means well
Ocean - has two kids, is Queer and so so so adorable, and is Anthony's only friend apart from Mrs. B right now
Anthony - think biker dude with a heart of gold, no purer than gold. I totally love him
Jul 23, 2025 07:04AM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

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Devi is 10% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
OMG this is the author's first book!!!
Jul 22, 2025 04:26PM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

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Devi is 10% done with The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Completely hooked. i went into this book thinking I will listen to the audiobook for some time and then switch to writing, but now I am not able to stop listening.
Jul 22, 2025 04:24PM Add a comment
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

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Devi is on page 21 of 304 of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)
"You know what they say about libraries?
That they have something for every chapter of your life"
Jul 19, 2025 09:42PM Add a comment
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library, #1)

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Devi is 50% done with No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (The Vacation Mysteries, #2)
One problem I have with this book - I am at 50% of the story and the body hasn't dropped yet. I mean, the body drops in chapter 1 and then it's the backstory, but 50% of backstory? Chapter 17 out of 30 chapters? a bit too much wait, I'd say
Jul 19, 2025 05:30PM Add a comment
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (The Vacation Mysteries, #2)

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Devi is 54% done with O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)
I know my dad isn’t Santa Claus. But sometimes I wonder.

Vicki Delany. O Deadly Night (Kindle Locations 2074-2075). Kindle Edition.
Jul 18, 2025 11:57AM Add a comment
O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)

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Devi is 52% done with O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)
This book is different from the other Year-Round Christmas mysteries.In this one, Merry is not directly involved in the mystery, which feels like a vacation compared to the other books where she's heads-on into the mystery
Jul 18, 2025 11:48AM Add a comment
O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)

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Devi is 40% done with O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)
Absolutely love how Dt. Diane Simmonds treat Matterhorn and how Mattie just dissolves under her attention.
Jul 18, 2025 08:46AM Add a comment
O, Deadly Night (Year-Round Christmas Mystery, #8)

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Devi is 72% done with Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
I love the way catehrine talks to us during the book like she's with us while reading. Also absoluly love the footnotes. Like a best friend is sharing stories and insights
Jul 17, 2025 09:20AM 1 comment
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

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Devi is 9% done with The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
"I wonder if Sebastian Bell would approve of this man that I have become, or even if we would get along?"
Love this line. Puts things in perspective on if you were to meet yourself, would you like yourself?
Jul 13, 2025 11:52AM Add a comment
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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Devi is on page 150 of 391 of The Book of Lost Hours
The pain Lisavet feels while erasing Ernest's memory is so physical, it coming straight out of the book to hit your heart
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The Book of Lost Hours

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Devi is on page 20 of 336 of Death on the Island
Very engaging first two chapters. The premise is set and now we go back in time to figure things out
Jul 12, 2025 09:05PM Add a comment
Death on the Island

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Devi is starting A Cold Case (A Maurice Mundy Mystery Book 1)
Too many repetitions of "an observer would note"
Jul 11, 2025 12:28PM Add a comment
A Cold Case (A Maurice Mundy Mystery Book 1)

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Devi is 20% done with The Author's Guide to Murder
Why is there so much mention of sex and horniness? It feels misplaced and doesn't get along well with the story.
Also the chemistry between the three "supposedly" best friends is so awful.
I am not sure i will finish this book
Jul 11, 2025 07:55AM Add a comment
The Author's Guide to Murder

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Devi is starting Widows and Orphans: A Quill & Packet Mystery, Book 2
Robert Bringhurst - the elements of typographic style
Jul 10, 2025 06:35AM Add a comment
Widows and Orphans: A Quill & Packet Mystery, Book 2

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Devi is starting Widows and Orphans: A Quill & Packet Mystery, Book 2
"Isolated lines created when paragraphs begin on the last line of the page are known are "Orphans". They have no past but they do have a future and they need not trouble the typographer. The stub ends left when paragraphs end on the first line of a page are called Widows. They have a past but not a future, and they look foreshortened and forlone.
Robert Bringerst - the elements of typographic style
Jul 10, 2025 06:34AM Add a comment
Widows and Orphans: A Quill & Packet Mystery, Book 2

Devi
Devi is 70% done with The Mystery at Bakers Inn: A Baking Mystery
The end is equally dissatisfying and unrealistic. <spoiler> how could she not have recognized her old companions? Those guests had been living with her under the same roof for more than 3 weeks and she never recognized them to be her old colleagues</spoiler>
Jul 09, 2025 10:23AM Add a comment
The Mystery at Bakers Inn: A Baking Mystery

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