Litsy

Two soldiers on opposite sides save and succor each other, in an effort to find “something human“ in an ugly war. The friendship they develop as they share their lives could lead to lasting love... and peace. A sweet, slow-moving romance which is surprisingly warm and comforting despite the circumstances.

#URC “A book from a country that doesn‘t exist anymore“ (fictionalized.) #ChristmasAtoZ letter D #Adventathon #Winter Games Team #XmasChaCha

BookmarkTavern, Texreader, StayCurious, Faranae

BookmarkTavern 👏🏻👏🏻 1w

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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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willaful

M Is for Monster | Talia Dutton

An alternate universe “Frankenstein“ story. A dedicated scientist tries to bring her sister back to life but another spirit inhabits the body, desperately afraid of being driven out or further experimented on. A poignant story about identity and found family.

#HalloweenAtoZReadathon Letter D

#Spookoween #31By#31 book 6

Works for #URC prompt, book by an Asian author. Also for nonbinary/genderqueer prompts.

Texreader, sebrittainclark, Jadams89, TheSpineView, dabbe, Catsandbooks, Scochrane26, LiseWorks, Faranae

TheSpineView Fantastic! 3mo

Texreader Great!! 3mo

Catsandbooks 👏🏼👻🧡 2mo

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willaful

Nevertheless, She Persisted: A Book View Cafe Anthology | Vonda N McIntyre, Mindy Klasky, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

This authors collective is having a 50% sale off of ebooks today! Seems to be largely speculative fiction. Time to stock up on Le Guin!

https://bookviewcafe.com/

(Oddly enough, I read a flash fiction anthology with this title and I don't think it's the same one. I guess it was a popular idea. Oh wait, I just remembered I read *both* of them, for a #URC prompt of two books with the same title! The other one (Charlie Jane Anders) was better.)

willaful The other book is available free, btw.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084V2BXVT/ref=sr_1_1_nodl?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270488...

Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original

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willaful

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I decided to move away from numerical goals because they discouraged me from reading more challenging books. But I still love a fun challenge. My favorite for many years has been @faranae's #URC and my newest favorite is #BookSpin, which has been great for getting me to tackle the books I keep forgetting about.

BookmarkTavern, TheAromaofBooks

BookmarkTavern Totally fair! And I love the BookSpin challenge too! Thanks for posting! (edited) 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Glad BookSpin made the cut 😂 I try to keep it loose so it can fit with different types of goals. 5mo

willaful @TheAromaofBooks The adaptability is definitely a plus! 5mo

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willaful

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And DNF'd 3, IIRC.

Doesn't surprise me that this list is largely non-fiction.

Faranae Non-fiction and ugh, literary fiction. There's almost no genre fiction on there, and gods forbid any *romance*.

Of the books I haven't read, I don't want to read them, and of the books I have, I hated almost all of them. Well, you've seen what I said about them on the blog. 😂 5mo

willaful @Faranae I don't remember Atonement but I loved Demon Copperhead and the Great Believers, both of which I read this year, mwah ha ha! #URC

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Faranae @willaful “Oh cruel Fate, when wilt thou weary be? When satisfied with tormenting me?“ 😆 5mo

PuddleJumper I hadn't heard of many of them. I think I'd read about 3 and most of them were for school 😂 5mo

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willaful

Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh

Just the perfect #URC category for this. Do keep reading... it is so worth it!

#QueerBooks

Faranae

Faranae 😎 very nice to see one of my templates in use! And good to know the book gets better. 7mo

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Daisey

The C*ck Down the Block | Amy Award

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Apparently, I‘m going through a contemporary romance phase. I saw a review of this book by @LibrarianRyan the other day, and made a snap decision to see if I could find a copy. It was absolutely a pure fluff read about a football player and a librarian who are long time friends. There‘s low drama and an emphasis on body positivity.

#audiobook

LibrarianRyan Yep!! I won‘t lie I read it for the title. 😁 8mo

willaful @LibrarianRyan If you feel like doing a challenge, @Faranae 's #URC has that exact prompt. :-) 8mo

Daisey @LibrarianRyan That‘s absolutely what caught my attention, and your positive review made it an easy decision. 8mo

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Faranae @willaful I saw the tag and thought “well, that's somewhat smuttier than willaful's usual URC fare...“. The URC *also* has “A book involving fowl“, although I really hope no one submits purely euphemistic chickens to it, or that will be an exclusively romance review post next year. 😂 8mo

willaful @Faranae I don't have anything for the fowl prompt yet! 🔔 8mo

Daisey @willaful @Faranae This one has a few real chickens and the rooster Luke Skycocker is definitely a key character! 8mo

willaful @Daisey Good to know. :-) 8mo

LibrarianRyan @willaful I can NOT add another challenge. 😁😁😆😆🤭🤭 8mo

willaful @LibrarianRyan relatable! 8mo

Faranae @Daisey That is a FABULOUS name for a rooster.

(Aside: I run the URC every year, but also the MRC, which is only 12 prompts, and the FRC, which is 25. Check them out sometime for next year maybe 😁) 8mo

LibrarianRyan @Faranae I will. I do the BBRC every year. Its runs on a fiscal year rather then a calendar year. The goal is to read books in every age group (ie Birth and beyond).

Can I find your challenge on StoryGraph or just Listy> 7mo

Faranae @LibrarianRyan They're on StoryGraph! https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/33a421eb-5943-48e1-84a9-2692ecb...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/09cba1c2-9057-44f2-9e7a-3a788f7...
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/8e734069-c30f-466a-b40f-740c314...
(and also on a Google Sheet, on my blog, and on a Discord server...) 7mo

LibrarianRyan @Faranae you had me at Storygraph, Here is the current BBRC. The new one isn't loaded yet. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/d3cd2784-48d6-47f4-9a45-1743546... (edited) 7mo

Faranae @LibrarianRyan I'll mark it on my calendar so I remember to give it a try! 😁 7mo

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willaful

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam | Thien Pham

A sweet memoir about immigrants from Vietnam pursuing the American dream, with memories, both good and bad, captured in the tastes of food.

In other words... It's “Dreamy steamy“! #FourFoursin24 perfection! 😁

Also book #4 in the #BookChain : title has few words than the last book. #BookSpinBingo : book stacked on Litsy.

This fits several #URC prompts, so we'll see where it ends up eventually.

TheAromaofBooks, Faranae

Lauredhel Oh I liked this one too! 11mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 11mo

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