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All challenge books for #CastTheDie. Don't think I'm going to get everything finished...

@Puddlejumper

Even the "radical" bookstores are having a sale...

(Top left is Bookishly bottom left Ideal Bookshelf., I couldn't fit their logo in)

So I went clothes shopping today. I think these are going to look good on me.

Argh! I thought I had another chapter to go of the book I was *actually reading* but no, an "exclusive extract"...

Line ‘em up! Book club, 2026, January thru December. #FirstSaturdayReaders

Choose between two very different houses to shelter in during those rainy March days. ☔️

Books tagged in the comments. #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

@LeahBergen @willaful @CarolynM @Ruthiella @rubyslippersreads @Gissy @bookandbedandtea @kwmg40 @quietjenn @Kimzey @catebutler @Cuilin

Our #FurrowedMiddlebrow nominations for January are two of my favorites authors:

Sharp‘s first book is about a girl who feels like an outsider in her self-consciously artistic family, and strives for an ordinary life.

Ten Way Street is described as having “a little more Noel Streatfeild in it than the average Susan Scarlett,” which got my attention. 😁 It‘s about a governess caring for the difficult children of an actress.

Please vote below!

“Shadow Edge” is a psychic-detective series featuring Liam, a consultant for the LAPD who can see and communicate with spirits. He works closely with Detective Thompson as a string of murders shakes the city. Liam becomes convinced that the killer is also a psychic—and a very powerful one. The book is short, but it‘s captivating, well-written, and includes a romantic angle between Liam and Thompson. I really enjoyed it. 🤯🤯🎧

A bit late...

Happy Birthday @MatchlessMarie! I'll probably read more today but am unlikely to finish anything else. Thanksgiving madness is here!

My #37By37 goal was four books, which I met, as well as a short story and two graphic novels. And am several stories into Table for Two, one of my #10BeforeTheEnd books.

Speaking of little free libraries... my sister hired a young woman to help her out with chores and asked her to take my sister's library books back. And she walked all around the neighborhood putting the books into different free libraries! 😂

Luckily my sister's boyfriend was able to retrieve them all.

Some cute community libraries in Berkeley.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-read...

Absolutely flabbergasted by this article.

Two down...

#10beforetheend @ChaoticMissAdventures

Waah!!! How did i not know this existed?

#ScreamTeam, my final points are 13,100.

I finished ~46 books and got 98 bingo lines and 7 completed boards. Got all the word search words, but not a single Cluedo. 😂

@PuddleJumper

(We should ask Litsy to make a “book“ for #HauntedShelf!)

That‘s book group for next year, finalized at today‘s meeting. #FirstSaturdayReaders

Blackout? I used Touch Not the Cat for the “classic book“ square, because it's an old genre classic, but I'll let @OutsmartYourShelf decide if that counts or not.

#SPNBookBingo2025

There were some disappointments, but overall an extremely good reading month!

@Read4Life

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/womenintranslation/longlist2025/

The judges said of the 2025 longlist:
“....the longlist... showcases the extraordinary range and depth of global women‘s writing now available to readers in English. The inclusive scope of this prize means that it crosses borders not just language and space but of time as well... Our longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.”

Friends, please welcome @AuntieJulie to Litsy! She's a friend of mine from another website and I persuaded her to give this a try.

I love these chap books. So much temptation...

https://www.strangers.press/product-page/kanata-full-set
#Japan #InTranslation #StrangersPress

I think I'm on track!

#10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

Relatable.

Me contemplating my #HauntedShelf pile and the six remaining days.

Will the last week of the month have a great book? Here's hoping!

#threelistthursday #tlt @dabbe

Not really my area, obviously, though pretty much all of my reads I liked.

Favorites not on the list: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier, Defekt by Nino Cipri, The Hollow by Agatha Christie, Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey.

I wonder what it means that all of my favorites this month have been by YA authors. And all of the latest books by my favorite adult authors are not hitting the mark.

@Read4Life

Images aren't working for me 😞, so here's my #10BeforeTheEnd list:

Emily Wilde‘s Map of the Otherworlds
Conspiracy in Belgravia
I Ordered a Table for Six
Table for Two
Touch Not the Cat
Whispering Wood
Imogen Obviously
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Flame
Come, Tell Me How You Live

Some have been on my #bookspin all year, some are #SeriesLove, some I own and will thus never read. 😂

Going to take @ChaoticMissAdventures prompt and read these books on my shelves before the end of the year. Some have been there longer than others! Wish me luck...

#10beforetheend

Finally got the Frisco Disco square!

#FourFoursIn25 @laureldhel

Sat in the second row and was so star struck forgot to take a photo. So articulate and interesting to listen to.

More events coming up: Norwich, London, Kendal, Newcastle...
https://www.sarahhallauthor.com/events https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/helm-sarah-hall/

I just learned about #TrekTuesday right after I found this. Any Mozart-loving Trekkers out there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXGb-MNwwTg

Scavenger Hunt: group

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam

Pretty successful readathon, I'd say! @TheAromaOfBooks

Was a close call between this and The Bullet That Missed.

@Read4Life

Arrgh! Canva has changed stuff around again and I can't figure out how to do anything. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Going to focus on #BookspinBingo books for this weekend's readathon.

@TheAromaOfBooks

I went to the library today and left with fewer books than I returned. A personal triumph!

Oh no!

It's a disaster for nature, but also for humans. Without trees to hold the earth back, mudslides occur....

(Book not in the db - 738 Jours)

@OutsmartYourShelf knows all, tells all! Will my next read be a cozy witchy romance, a historical fantasy, or a science fiction mystery?

#SPNBookBingo2025 Driver picks the music.

No contest.

Lots of reading, bookshops, sunshine. 🇨🇵

(And an unexpected large protest march, but moving swiftly on...)

Montpellier.

And because I'm a wild woman out of control. I also made a separate bingo board which has my #CastTheDie books and some other challenges! (And two already read.)

I noticed I have a repeat on this and the BookSpin board, so I'll change the middle square to a generic challenge.

#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam @Puddlejumper

Has anyone found “Gideon the Ninth“ in the Queer Horror Wordsearch? I've been over it with a fine tooth comb and still can't find it.

#HauntedShelf