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Finally made it through the 1920s for #192025. I think the tagged book was definitely my favorite (but I also really liked Lady Chatterly…🌶️🌶️🌶️)

CarolynM Some excellent books there! 1d

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TheAromaofBooks

Reading Challenges Journal: Let's Do Some Reading Challenges! | J&c Publishing

Cannot BELIEVE I am working on a reading journal for ***2025*** That's not a real date!!!! @PuddleJumper is responsible for most of my challenges this year, although @lauredhel is also doing some work 😂 This year: #ISpyBingo #100YearsofBooks (and finishing @Librarybelle 's #192025 ), #Pantone2025 #Roll100 #GottaCatchEmAll and #BookChain

Not pictured - #ReadtheUSA #WickedWords @AsYouWish #FourFoursin25 @lauredhel #FictionalTraveler @julieclair ⬇

BookishMadHatter I've started on my 2025 book journal too, but I'm scaling it back a little this year. I find I have to use a bunder because if I run out of space and need to split a section in a bound journal my poor brain has a meltdown and I end up having to start all over. 2d

TheAromaofBooks Plus numerous ongoing buddy reads -
#BobWhiteBuddies
#OokBookClub @julesG
#ChristieCapers and #NancyDrewBR @librarybelle
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead @BarbaraJean
#IDLR @StayCurious @LiseWorks
#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
and the much-beloved #HashtagBrigade @BarkingMadRead despite dragging me through books I loved to hate to read 😂 2d

TheAromaofBooks @BookishMadHatter - I feel that!! For the last couple of years I've used a quad-lined composition book. Because it's sewn, I can add lots of washi tape and other pieces of paper taped in and it just gets fatter without falling apart 😂 All my ongoing, year-long challenges are in the front. Then I skip to the second half of the notebook and create my monthly #BookSpinBingo lists as I go along, plus any short-term readathons or challenges. 2d

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PuddleJumper I like organizing things! Looks amazing 2d

BarkingMadRead So honored to be on the list 🤣🤣🤣 2d

Librarybelle This looks so amazing! Good luck on all of your challenges and buddy reads! 2d

julieclair This looks great! 👍😃 2d

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mabell

Index to Murder: A Miss Zukas Mystery | Jo Dereske

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I enjoyed this one, but it wasn‘t a stand-out in the series. Helma‘s longtime (and unlikely) best friend Ruth is at the center with the uproar caused by her new series of paintings “Ruth Revealed.” Someone thought she revealed too much - and destroyed two of the pieces.
#2008 for #192025

Librarybelle

Librarybelle 😁 1w

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mabell

Farewell, Miss Zukas | Jo Dereske

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A fitting end to the series! This was the first mystery series I‘ve read that had an ending - well I guess Marple and Poirot did?

#2011 for #192025

Librarybelle

Librarybelle Yay!! 1w

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BarbaraJean

Best Wishes, Sister B: A Gentle Feel Good Comedy | Fran Smith

🎶 It‘s the most wonderful time of the year—my #AuldLangSpine list has arrived!! I‘m so excited to be matched with @Librarybelle ! I‘m planning to drop in where I can with #AgathaChristieClubR3, and am also doing the #192025 challenge, so I love having the #AuldLangSpine connection as well! This is a great list, with a nice mix of genres and moods—a few I‘ve read & loved (always a good sign), some from my TBR, and lots of new-to-me picks! ⤵️

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BarbaraJean I‘ll likely start with Best Wishes, Sister B and the others pictured above…and for the rest, I‘ll leave the timing to the gods of the library holds! 2w

Librarybelle Yay!! Best Wishes is a quick read and a fun read. Perfect way to start the new year! 2w

JamieArc Great list! 2w

Chelsea.Poole LOVED #5! 2w

BarbaraJean @Chelsea.Poole I'm planning on reading that one as well!! There are so many here that I want to get to. 2w

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BarbaraJean

Knock, Murderer, Knock! | Harriet Rutland

It‘s the last #BookSpin day of 2024! Thank you, Sarah, for running this challenge—I look forward to it every month! My last two spins of the year are: a mystery from my Kindle TBR (I‘d love to use it for the #christmascrimechallenge if I can make it fit a prompt), and one from my library list that I‘ve been meaning to read forever (and it fits a year I need for #192025). Looking forward to squeezing these into my already-full December!

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! I liked The Dean's Watch, although like the other Goudge books I've read it isn't exactly full of action 😂 But she can write such real people - I don't know, her books seem like ones I would find boring and uninteresting, but she completely pulls me in. 3w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I‘ve only read Elizabeth Goudge‘s children‘s books before! This one has been on my list because I‘ve seen glowing reviews, but also because it‘s set in a fictional version of Ely, the English town I lived in as a child. This version of the cover features the Octagon tower of Ely Cathedral, which gives me so much joy!! 3w

TheAromaofBooks Oh wow, that is amazingly cool! A lot of the book is describing the town, almost as its own character, so being able to match that with real-life experiences would be amazing. I've also read and LOVED The Scent of Water, and read and quite liked The Rosemary Tree.

Do you still live in England?? 3w

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BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Oooh, now I‘m really looking forward to the town descriptions!! I don‘t still live in England—I just wish I did! My dad was a civilian contractor for the USAF at the time and we were there for 6 years, but moved back to California when I was 9 (which is where I ended up). I‘ve been back to Ely several times to visit and dream of moving back someday! 3w

TheAromaofBooks Oh that makes sense!! I was thinking that you were in the US all this time, so you threw me off by having a childhood English village 😂 3w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Hahaha... you are correct in thinking that I have been in the US all this time! I just have a sneaky international past 😂 2w

TheAromaofBooks Very international spy of you 😆 2w

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OutsmartYourShelf

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley | Peter Guralnick

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Most people know about Vegas/jewel-encrusted-jumpsuit Elvis, but what about before he was really famous? This book looks at the first 24 years of his life including his early life in Tupelo, his start in the music business at Sun Records, & it runs up until he was drafted into the US army at the height of his popularity.

OutsmartYourShelf It's been painstakingly written & must have taken a huge amount of research. It's a long read & the first few chapters were a tough slog but eventually it became more interesting & was worth sticking with. In some parts of it, you feel as you're living day-by-day with Elvis, his family, & entourage & the amount of minutiae included can be a bit overwhelming. 3w

OutsmartYourShelf I felt that Colonel Parker remained a shadowy figure though & thought there would be more about him & his control over Elvis's career. 3.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/745159643
Read 28th - 30th Nov 2024

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#192025 (1994) @Librarybelle
#NFN @bookworkjillk 3w

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 3w

Librarybelle Hooray! 3w

DieAReader 🎉🎉Awesome!! 3w

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JudeCC

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Who‘s gonna participate?
Can‘t wait for Pop Sugar to share the list! This is my favorite time of the year! 😃🙌🥳💃💃
#52bookclub #52bookclub2025 #readingchallenge #bluekish

Deblovestoread 🙋🏻‍♀️ 4w

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I like the prompts this year, but I'm reading fewer books these days. I've been slowly chipping away at the #192025 challenge that ends on Dec 31, 2025 (or I'll declare it's a #192026 challenge) so I'm going to start the year with a focus on that challenge. Once Popsugar and Read Harder come out, I'll pick from one of the three to try to finish, as well, and plug in selections that apply to the others and see how far I get. 4w

kwmg40 I'm planning to do this in 2025! 3w

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OutsmartYourShelf

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe | Fannie Flagg

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**Review contains a slight spoiler about a character's death**

One day, unhappy housewife Evelyn visits her mother-in-law at her new nursing home & gets talking to a resident there called Ninny Threadgoode. Well Ninny talks to Evelyn is more like it, but she starts to tell her about her life in Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama in the 1920s & 1930s.

OutsmartYourShelf Despite herself, Evelyn is gradually drawn into Ninny's stories about the Threadgoode family especially Idgie, a rebellious tomboy who falls in love with a girl called Ruth Jamison & they open the Whistle Stop Cafe.

I saw the film probably a few years after it was released in 1991 & really liked it but haven't gotten around to reading the book until now. (edited) 1mo

OutsmartYourShelf It's a definite case of the film being better than the book & there are some big differences in the ending storyline. In the book, after Ruth's death, Idgie sort of disappears as a character & the reader doesn't really know what happened to her next. There's an epilogue which covers some of it but it was rather disappointing. I did like how Ninny's stories helped Evelyn turn her life around. 3.5🌟
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OutsmartYourShelf TWs: racial slurs & racism (major), domestic violence & terminal illness (moderate), implied cannibalism (hinted at).

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/611915100
Read 18th-20th Nov 2024

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#192025 (1987) @Librarybelle (edited) 1mo

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DieAReader 🤦🏻‍♀️Still haven‘t seen this🎞️ 1mo

Andrew65 This one is a classic film. 1mo

OutsmartYourShelf @Andrew65 It is. Welcome back! 1mo

Suet624 I can‘t tell you how often I‘ve watched that film. 1mo

Andrew65 @OutsmartYourShelf Thanks, try to get some normality back one step at a time. 😍 1mo

Librarybelle Great book and film! I‘ve seen the movie a few times, and I read the book a long time ago. 1mo

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Lauredhel

Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates

I've signed up for three 2025 #readingchallenges already, and it's not even December! #WickedWords is a given of course if it's running, #ISpyBingo I very much enjoy, and I like the look of the prompts for #booklistqueenchallenge25 too. And I'll be running Four Fours again, hashtagged #fourfoursin25 this time.

What are you thinking of signing up for? Or running?

#readingchallenge #2025readingchallenges

Lauredhel @TheAromaOfBooks @asyouwish @thebacklistbook @clwojick @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16
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Lauredhel Oh and we totally should do Pantone again #Pantone2025 @PuddleJumper @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @IndoorDame @Eggs @mariaku21 @Enchanted_Bibliophile @Itchyfeetreader @AmyG @peanutnine @BookwormAHN @OriginalCyn620 @Librariana @EmilyCGreene @julieclair 1mo

OriginalCyn620 I totally dropped the ball with this year‘s Pantone challenge, but if it comes back for 2025, I will do better! 🤪 1mo

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PuddleJumper I completely forgot about the Pantone challenge. #Roll100 #GottaCatchemAll #QueerBC will continue in 2025. I've also got a prompt maze #FrozenSick which is a whenever thing and #ReadYourDamnDanmei I think that's all 1mo

Lauredhel @OriginalCyn620 I've just starting yoinking colours for a #pantone2025 colour chart, so if no one else steps up to do it, it will still be happening! 1mo

Lauredhel @PuddleJumper OMG so many to explore! 1mo

Jas16 I think that 2025 is going to be a challenge free year for me. 1mo

Lauredhel @Jas16 enjoy your reading! 1mo

AmyG I am only doing a challenge that requires books I own. It‘s out of control over here. 🤣 So….Bookspin, Author-a-Month if I have the author, TBR Tarot. My only exception to my rule is the Sunday Buddy Read. 1mo

Enchanted_Bibliophile Another one on my 2025 list 🤩 1mo

Born.A.Reader @AmyG that's the one I need to do. My owned TBR is soo out of control 😅 1mo

thebacklistbook I'm doing a few challenges. For next year I'm still plugging away at read the world, the owls, #fictionaltraveler , and #tbronly2025, I am still deciding about #frozensick . I am of course running my #yuletidereads starting December 21. 1mo

willaful Definitely doing BookSpin , QueerBC, and adding Roll100 this year. I love Four Fours! Will continue #BacklistReadathon and #TBRTarot if they're on. And finishing up #192025!

@Jas16 Do what makes you happy! 1mo

willaful Oh, I forgot @Faranae's #URC. 1mo

Faranae @willaful 😭How could you forget my URC? (😆) 1mo

willaful @Faranae I know! I've got a list a mile long of possible prompts! 1mo

mariaku21 I'm always game to do Pantone reading @Lauredhel amongst any others but I'm not thinking about 2025. I still have books this year 😭🤣 1mo

BookwormAHN I'm not sure how many challenges I'm doing now. I host #StarWarsBuddyRead and I've joined #BookSpin with #ReadOrDonate plus #TBRTarot #LosersClub #AuthorAMonth and a few others however I'd Iike to Pantone again since I usually can match the books I'm already reading and don't usually have to look to hard for them. 1mo

Lauredhel @Enchanted_Bibliophile Cool, I haven't seen many others doing Booklist Queen's challenge on Litsy!

  @TheBacklistBook Just added #FictionalTraveler to my list. The more the merrier, I can always trim later if I'm not managing.

  @willaful #URC I have not heard of before *scuttles off to join* @Faranae   

@mariaku21 @BookwormAHN I'll be organising #Pantone2025 over the next week or so. Stay tuned   1mo

TheAromaofBooks Lots of fun challenges in this thread!! I'm already entangling myself in way too many buddy reads as usual 😂 I'm especially excited about once again trying to read all of Agatha Christie's books in published order, this time lead by @Librarybelle I'm also finishing her #192025 challenge. #ISpyBingo will be back, and I also do my personal challenges of trying to read the USA and read at least one book from every year of the last 100 years. ⬇ 1mo

TheAromaofBooks I'm also joining @julieclair 's challenge for #FictionalTraveler as well as whichever #GottaCatchEmAll region @PuddleJumper chooses - plus #Roll100 !! I'm interested in the Pantone Challenge which I did in 2023 but not last year, so I'll keep my eye out for that one as well!! 1mo

Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I'll add you to the pantone tag list 1mo

julieclair @lauredhel I‘ll add you to the #FictionalTraveler tag list! Glad you‘re joining us! 1mo

julieclair I‘m doing too many, but I can‘t resist! Several of the ones already mentioned here, as well as #LiteraryCrew with @Librarybelle , #BookedInTime with @Cuilin , #LittensLoveRomance with @StayCurious , and #RandomClassics with @TheAromaofBooks . 1mo

julieclair I‘ll be hosting #FictionalTraveler , #ThematicCozies (will post about that soon) , and continuing #ReadOrDonate for 2025. 1mo

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