This VIRAL BookTok Favourite Just Kept Getting WORSE... She DNF'd At 30%! | DNF DIARIES
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It's time for another DNF Diaries! 📚 This month we're reading YOUR submissions about the books you couldn't finish! 📚 Spoiler alert: This episode contains spoilers for the following books and series beside the chapters
CHAPTERS: 0:00 - INTRO 6:17 - My Husband's Wife – Alice Feeney 9:32 - Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall 15:02 - Library System Reset series – K.T. Hanna 15:50 - Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 16:25 - Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella 17:31 - Apples Never Fall – Liane Moriarty 18:16 - Babel – R.F. Kuang 19:02 - Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid 20:19 - A Hunger Like No Other – Kresley Cole 20:58 - The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty – A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) 21:25 - Lightlark series – Alex Aster 26:45 - The Wedding People – Alison Espach ✨ Today's cocktail: Cass's White Wedding Wine 🎧 Tune in, sip with us, and remember — keep your glass, your bookshelf, and your TBR full. 🍸📖✨ __________________________________________________________________________
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