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HOME STRETCH! Hour 45 is here and you are ALMOST. THERE. This is the part where your hosts start to get all shmoopy about how much we love this weekend, this community, the power of books to bring people together. Hop on over to 24in48.com or comment below to let us know how things are going for you, and get ready to feel allllll the feelings. We'll be back at Hour 48 for a final update + a ton of info. In the meantime, read on!

I LOVED this book, but I don't feel like I can give it 5⭐️ because it is for such a randomly specific group of people -women who were born between about 1972-1982 & read a lot as kids. That's it. I'm in that group, & it is perfection for me. I get to read a bunch of essays about YA books from when I was a kid, 80% of which I have already read approximately 36 times each. It was like getting together with a group of my friends and waxing nostalgic.

#30junebooks #shelves @howjessreads These are just a couple of my dozens of bookshelves. Let‘s just say I am a preferred customer at IKEA 😛

@24in48 shelfie time!!! #24in48 #readathon

UK Littens, I request your advice! I'm looking for a VFM slot shelf system. Anyone have any experience of purchasing/fitting/using this type of shelving?

One of six bookshelves in my house. My husband will put one together begrudgingly, but he will anytime I ask. He is a keeper. Most of the books on the shelf have not been read. For me it‘s like the feeling of 10-year-old gets sitting next to a Christmas tree full of wrapped packages each one a wonderful present, yet to be discovered! #bookcollector #prettybooks #toberead

This delightful book of essays covers a ton of teen books from the 70s and 80s. Spoilers abound, but I don‘t mind— if I hadn‘t already picked up that particular Lois Duncan, I doubt I will in the future. I‘m binging on these right now, but I may save the second half of the book to dip in and out of later, since these make great comfort reads.

Day 1 @CaliforniaCay #sisforseptember #shelfie of my living room book case. I'm in need of more shelves.

My parents gave me a shelf and told me to do something fun with it. They bought it at an antique shop and I believe it was a product display. I put books on it of course. It‘s not perfect but it will do. #shelfie

#readingresolutions #shelfiesaturday

I really need to invest in some book shelves.

Since I haven't been home a lot recently I haven't gotten the chance to take a #shelfie so I took this one yesterday at my girlfriends aunts house. Her cousin is an avid reader so I knew I could get a good shot #marchinbooks #green #readingresolutions

#ShelfieDay

Upstairs book case
#ShelfieDay

A #shelfie of most of my doublestacked TBR shelves. At a low guesstimate, I have at least 340 books waiting to be read. Is that a lot?😋 #24in48 #readathon

The top row (and some of the bottom) is my TBR shelf. It used to be both full shelves so I'm a little proud of my progress. #shelfie #riotgrams @bookriot

#shelfie #1 #aprilbookshowers @RealLifeReading

#aprilbookshowers Day 24 #shelfie 📚📚📚
@RealLifeReading

Here's the shelf in the living room, a constant "WiP" @thegirlwiththelibrarybag

My 6 year old found my phone and took a #shelfie 😂

There are books behind the Star Wars mini-busts, I swear. 😉#FunFridayPhoto #shelfie

I think we need another bookshelf... 😳
#FunFridayPhoto #shelfie

My room is too small to back up & get a decent photo, but I do love this pair of bookcases that my dad made for me a few years ago. Now if I could just persuade him to make me a window seat!
#shelfie #FunFridayPhoto

#booknerdproblems not enough shelf space! I will have my library in order by Friday....so this is the before pic!! 📚❤️

This is such a fun book--it brought back to mind the many teenage books I adored. It was so interesting to remember how intently I made those books part of my (secret) emotional life. I read with distance now but some of these are woven into my personality.

Just found this book, a "reading memoir" about "The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading," in my old room at my mom's. I'd forgotten about it! (It even has a Borders sticker -- nostalgia!)

Just found this book, a "reading memoir" about "The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading," in my old room at my mom's. I'd forgotten about it! (It even has a Borders sticker -- nostalgia!)