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Lauredhel

Joined November 2016

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Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio
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Breaks: Volume One by Emma Vieceli, Malin Ryden
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Twelfth Grade Night (Arden High, Book 1) by Molly Booth, Stephanie Strohm
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Love, Laodice | Kate Healey
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Kate Healey has not disappointed me yet! Her Olympus, Inc series is an insta-buy for me. Greek mythology inspired modern-day romances set in and around an imaginary magazine publishing company. Love, Laodice is the second book in the second three-book arc, after Ask Cassandra and before XO, Xena (can't wait!)

It's a romantic suspense , rivals-to-lovers, fake-dating story. [...]

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

Lauredhel Laodice and Telfer from the Bridal magazine team up as an engaged couple to report on a retreat for engaged couples. Things seem a bit fishy from the start, and as they dig deeper and deeper quite a few shenanigans ensue (includes peril and death, though not of a MC). Steamy sex scenes, but not so many that you get bored with it.

The world connects with Cassandra's story, and Cassandra/Laodice/Xena are of course sisters.
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Lauredhel (You may know Kate Healey as Karen Healey, New Zealand author of When We Wake/While We Run, Guardian of the Dead, The Shattering) 1w
Clare-Dragonfly Oh! This sounds interesting and I loved some of Karen Healey‘s books. I might have to give this series a try. (edited) 1w
Lauredhel @Clare-Dragonfly Enjoy! The first one is Persephone in Bloom 1w
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CarolynM Love Tim Minchin❤️ 2w
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Today's library books

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Weirdo | Tony Weaver, Jr.
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This is a good graphic memoir about a nerd in middle school. Weaver takes us through his bullying, mental health, and found-familiy journey with sensitivity and humour.

First Wicked Word of the year!

#WickedWords @AsYouWish

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Four Fours | CD Moulton
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Now launching the #FourFours #readingchallenge for 2025! #FourFoursin25 is a flexible year-long challenge.

Easy: Pick 1 word; match theme, event, character, cover pic, or vibe. So for 'Frisco Disco, you might read a book set in SF. Picket Cricket might suit a book featuring a cricket match.

Hard: Both words. So for Yellow Cello - maybe a yellow cover with a a cello player MC.



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Lauredhel There are as many ways of doing this challenge as there are readers. All year or quarterly. Find both words in one book. Heck, you can even take this as 32 separate prompts instead of 16 two-word ones. Do whatever you like! 

I'd appreciate if you would repost the grid and tag me, to spread the word.

@thebacklistbook @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2w
AbigailJaneBlog Thanks for the tag! I didn't get a chance to do this last year but it's already in my book spreadsheet for this year 🥰 2w
Lauredhel @AbigailJaneBlog cool, welcome back! 2w
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Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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And here's what I'm using for #BookChain #Bookchain2025 if anyone wants it @TheAromaOfBooks

willaful Oooo, I missed the annoucement. This is a fun one. 2w
Lizpixie What‘s this one? I haven‘t got this on my list! 2w
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TheAromaofBooks Ooo nice!!! 2w
Librarybelle Great graphic! I made a screenshot. Thank you!! 2w
Lizpixie @TheAromaofBooks I‘m in as well! 2w
TheAromaofBooks @Lizpixie - Glad to have you along!! 2w
Read4life @TheAromaofBooks can you please email me the word document for this challenge? Faas2202@gmail 2w
BarbaraBB Thanks! I‘ll use the graphic! 2w
Deblovestoread Sweet! Thanks 🩶🤍🩶 2w
Kristy_K Thanks for making!! 2w
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A to Z | Sandra Boynton
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Just sharing this little cover grid for #LitsyAtoZ if anyone wants one.

#LitsyAtoZ2025 @TexReader

willaful Very cute! 2w
CarolynM Thank you! 2w
Texreader Nice!! Thank you!! 2w
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Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates
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OK y'all... I'm doing more #readingchallenges next year than ever before. So this post is me officially giving myself permission to double-dip, triple-dip, even quadruple-dip in any and all challenges. Mkay?

willaful I'll allow it. 😂 2w
Lauredhel @willaful Magnanimous of you! 😂 🙃 2w
Lauredhel Also if I finished it on the 31st, it's probably the 1st somewhere (a little Pacific island), so it counts. 2w
Ruthiella I love it when one can double, triple or even quadruple on challenges! That in and of itself is a great challenge! 👍 2w
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Cascade Failure | L. M. Sagas
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My husband and I had to go into the city to do a thing at the Apple Store. “Let‘s just drop in and say hi to Stefen at Stefen‘s Books, we don‘t need any more books but you know we‘ll just have a look”.

#bookhaul

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Husband Material | Alexis Hall
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julesG 🤣🤣🤣 3w
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Phantom Hearts | Rosie Talbot
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Today in "lauredhel is picky about gratification novel lettering again ": ok, at least they picked a typeface, but why an uneven baseline one? Gah.

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I can't believe it - I finished every single prompt for I Spy for 2024, even the bonus ones. This is a colossal challenge and so much fun. Thanks @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks. #ISpyBingo

PuddleJumper That's amazing!!
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Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏 👏 4w
Read4life Congrats!!! 📚📚📚 4w
TheAromaofBooks Oh man, I was scrolling your feed looking at challenges and realized I somehow missed this tag a couple weeks ago. This is really amazing!!! I don't think I cleared a single board 😂 2w
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I hit library graphic novels so freaking hard this year, so there was a lot to work with! 2w
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The Rez Doctor | Gitz Crazyboy
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And with a stethoscope on the cover of the Rez Doctor, that's #ISpyBingo finished for 2024!
@Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Fabulous work!!! 4w
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I am so here for this queer 1960 NYC baseball player - reporter romance.

DyAnne Enjoyed it. Liked her “We Could Be So Good” (another queer midcentury romance) even more. 4w
Leelee08 Omg I looooved this book🥹❤️❤️❤️ 4w
Lauredhel @DyAnne that's in my TBR! It's in the same world isn't it? 4w
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DyAnne Mark is in both books. 🩷 4w
Lauredhel @DyAnne I'm loving the historical context. Except even though he's fictional I can't stop thinking about how Eddie will only be in his early forties when AIDS hits NYC. 4w
DyAnne 💔 4w
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“Luck“

Only one prompt to go for a clean sweep! #ISpyBingo #ISpy2024 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1mo
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This starts like a contemporary realistic family story about a girl who goes to stay with her Nainai who runs a boba cafe… but it quickly turns into a fantasy/monster story. Fun so far.

On my hook : Sempervivum Shawl in alpaca silk #litsycrafters

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Girlmode | Magdalene Visaggio
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Library paper book haul for the day!

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These Enola Holmes graphic novels are very cute, though I am annoyed by the tiny lettering.

ShyBookOwl That's not a super legible font either 1mo
Lauredhel @ShyBookOwl my pet peeve 1mo
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Husband Material | Alexis Hall
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And that's June finished #ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

Just “Luck“ and Stethoscope to do for a full sweep for the entire year, including bonus cards! And I have books lined up for both of those.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Amazing progress!!! 1mo
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And I'm done! #artgallery #WickedWords
Thanks for the challenge @AsYouWish

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AsYouWish Nice!!! You are the first one to find Lobster!!!! 1mo
Lauredhel @AsYouWish 🦞🦞🦞 1mo
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December is for lightweight reads! Romance and dogs, what's not to like?

On my hook : Graphite Mandala, sized up for a little floor rug. #litsycrafters

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
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Husband Material | Alexis Hall
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Sounds sticky.

readingjedi 😂😂😂 1mo
Clare-Dragonfly And cold for the poor Rock! 1mo
julesG 🤣🤣 1mo
Lauredhel @Clare-Dragonfly look I'm in a hot climate and this STILL sounds too cold to me 1mo
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And with that book, I'm finished my #goodreads #readingchallenge for 2024!

Enchanted_Bibliophile Well done 👏🏻 1mo
Emilymdxn Incredible! 1mo
MidnightBookGirl Congratulations! 1mo
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Kappadeemom Congrats!!! 1mo
Meshell1313 Ah maz ing! 🙌 1mo
Jerdencon Wow! Congrats 🎉 1mo
Kimzey Wow! That‘s amazing! Congrats! 1mo
Jas16 🙌🏽 1mo
Nebklvr Amazing! 1mo
Ruthiella Wow! 🤯 Impressed! 1mo
PuddleJumper Congrats! 1mo
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This YA fantasy-horror graphic novel had really enjoyable art and great action, but was perhaps a bit thin on the plot and character development side of things.

#FrozenSick progress - I'm finished! H6 went straight
to K2 and I was done :O @Puddlejumper There's another one, isn't there?

PuddleJumper 😂😂 Ok minimum you can do it is 12? Ok, that's good to know. There are different ways to complete it but you'd need to start from the beginning again and make different choices 1mo
Lauredhel @PuddleJumper and I had no idea it was twelve of course, when I laid this out 😊 1mo
PuddleJumper @Lauredhel It's good for me to know. I might have over estimated how many books you need. It's hard to keep track with all the different branches 1mo
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The Rez Doctor | Gitz Crazyboy
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Cherries, coffee in a Calamityware cup, crochet, and a Crazyboy comic

#graphicnovel #coffeeandbooks #booksandfood

dabbe Love that color! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
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I‘m really enjoying this queer Regency romance! #romance #romantsy

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Breaks: Volume One | Emma Vieceli, Malin Ryden
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Library graphic novel haul for the day!

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The Woman in Black is a spooky, sad ghost story with an amazing sense of place.

#Christmas #WickedWords @AsYouWish
#rockingchair #ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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Number the Stars | Lois Lowry
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I made some really good reading challenge progress with this one slim book! I give myself permission to double-dip in December's #WickedWords @AsYouWish ... so here it is, both #office and #necklace found in Number the Stars.

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Number the Stars | Lois Lowry
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PuddleJumper Wahoo! That's great! 1mo
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Number the Stars | Lois Lowry
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This 1989 book has been on my TBR forever, so it definitely qualifies as a Book I've Been Ignoring for #FrozenSick. It's also got a Star of David on the cover, completing December for #ISpyBingo, yay! @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Fabulous progress!! 1mo
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I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg - has a gavel on the cover! This was a tough prompt to fill, so I turned to junior nonfiction. It's a cute, informative little book.

And that's August of #ISpyBingo done.
#ISpyBingo2024 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 1mo
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Four Fours | CD Moulton
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willaful Whee! 2mo
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Four Fours | CD Moulton
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Now launching the #FourFours #readingchallenge for 2025!

#FourFoursin25 is a flexible year-long challenge.

Easy mode: Pick 1 word; match a theme, event, character, cover pic, or vibe. So for 'Frisco Disco, you might read a book set in SF. Picket Cricket might suit a book featuring a cricket match.

Hard mode: Both words. So for Yellow Cello - maybe a yellow cover with a a cello player MC.



Comment for an add to the tag list!

@litsyevents

Lauredhel There are as many ways of doing this challenge as there are readers. All year or quarterly. Find both words in one book. Heck, you can even take this as 32 separate prompts instead of 16 two-word ones. Do whatever you like! 

I'd appreciate if you would repost the grid and tag me, to spread the word.
@thebacklistbook @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas1
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Lauredhel @thebacklistbook thanks for doing the storygraph! 2mo
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TheAromaofBooks Oh my gosh, you graphic is so cute this year! LOVE the pictures!! 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I take absolutely zero credit; clip art to the rescue! LOL. But I'm glad you like it. 2mo
CoffeeNBooks I'm in again this year! 2mo
Lauredhel @CoffeeNBooks yay, welcome back! 2mo
ReadingRachael Yay! I‘m in too! 😄 (edited) 1mo
AbigailJaneBlog Yaas looking forward to this one!! ❤️❄️ 1mo
Lizpixie I‘m still in! 2w
Lauredhel @Lizpixie and the countdown is on! 2w
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Banned Book Club | Kim Hyun Sook
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Banned Book Club | Kim Hyun Sook
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Banned Book Club, set in 1980s Korea, feels more relevant than ever. Do not normalise autocracy.

sarahbarnes 😓 2mo
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And with that #lighthouse in the background on the cover, and featuring heavily in the book, I've also ticked off the last square in #RippedBodiceBingo for 2024.

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I re-read this #childhoodfavourite via audiobook. While the Anne series was never unfeminist, Anne's House of Dreams is where Montgomery started to lean in a little on the social commentary about how women were misused by men.

And that's my No Shame Reading Challenge done for 2024!

#NSR24 #NoShameReadathon24 @Nessavamusic

Nessavamusic Amazing job!! 2mo
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Four Fours | CD Moulton
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I've finished #fourfoursin24 after a four month hiatus between prompt fills!

And I've just about finished finalising the prompts for next year's #fourfoursin25 - so stay tuned, and let me know if you'd like to be added to the tag list. #readingchallenge #readingchallenges

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Do put me on the 2025 list, please!! 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks the former list rolls over, you CANNOT ESCAPE (j/k I will take anyone off the list who asks) 2mo
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TheAromaofBooks Trapped in the challenge quicksand 😂 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks And someone just keeps pouring more in 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I'm already up to eight and it's not December yet 2mo
TheAromaofBooks Right?! And I'm obviously part of the problem because I'm personally hosting three challenges so far 😂 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks you are absolutely part of the problem 2mo
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I was re-reading Anne's House of Dreams for Childhood Favourite and Lighthouse prompts in other #readingchallenges, but there it is, finally, my last prompt fill for #fourfoursin24 ! Yay! #garretparrot

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Anne's House of Dreams | Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Audio crocheting with Libby and the fifth Anne book. #litsycrafters

MaleficentBookDragon What are you making? 2mo
Lauredhel @MaleficentBookDragon just a striped skinny scarf 2mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
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Guess which book has a ski hill on the cover? This Gen X ski-resort romance does! And that's a full house on March #ISpyBingo #ISpyBingo2024

That's eight months completely full, six prompts to go in the monthly challenges and 3 in the bonus challenges.

 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Fantastic progress!!! 2mo
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The Ghostkeeper | Johanna Taylor
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This graphic novel had some spookiness, but there was an overall cosy vibe. Onward to the D1 square of #FrozenSick but I'm not 100% sure what “Newest“ means - newest book on my TBR?

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PuddleJumper Up to interpretation. Newest on your TBR, most recently published, newest book you bought etc 2mo
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Navigating with You | Jeremy Whitley
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This is a gorgeous sapphic YA romance graphic novel. A Black disabled cosplayer and a Latina bisexual cooking fan who is mourning her mother bond over a manga book club and a quest to obtain all the manga books in an out-of-print series. The disability rep is fantastic and the character and relationship exploration is nuanced.

#FrozenSick @Puddlejumper

PuddleJumper Ooo that sounds fun! 2mo
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Navigating with You | Jeremy Whitley
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Splorfed my tea.

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My first #FrozenSick entry! @Puddlejumper


Come As You Are could have filled either prompt, since it's set in a Montana ski resort. But I've chosen to Explore The Town, because I'm just that kind of adventurer. Off to D3!

#readingchallenges

willaful I like how you did this... 2mo
Lauredhel @willaful just found an image online from pages discussing the module, and de-opacified it 2mo
PuddleJumper Ooo looks great! 2mo
Lauredhel @PuddleJumper I only played D&D a few times (I was a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay player mostly) but this is giving me flashbacks! 2mo
PuddleJumper @Lauredhel Love it! I really tried to give it that vibe within the limitations 2mo
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Pantone: Colors | Pantone
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OK people, the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is ready! This is a challenge based on the seasonal trend colours from Fashion Weeks.


Please note there are TWO grids - for London (blue border) and NY (green border). Later, two more grids will be released for the autumn/winter trend colours.

To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. That's it, you're done.

(and yes, White Grape was in both!)

@litsyevents

BarkingMadRead I‘ve always wanted to do this challenge! 2mo
peanutnine I completely fell off of this challenge this year but I can't wait to try again in 2025! 2mo
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PuddleJumper Looks great! Thank you 2mo
Lauredhel @BarkingMadRead Welcome!
@peanutnine Welcome back!
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Enchanted_Bibliophile Definitely joining this one again. Is there a StoryGraph Challenge yet? 2mo
Lauredhel @Enchanted_Bibliophile storygraph never quite stuck for ne, but please go ahead and set one up if you wish! 2mo
OriginalCyn620 Yay! 😀 2mo
mariaku21 Yesss!!!! So excited for this 2mo
PaperbackPirate I should try again! Thank you for hosting! 2mo
Lauredhel @PaperbackPirate IDK if I'm even “hosting“ as such, I just hurled these colour squares roughly at a page and released them into the wild :D

Make sure you get both grids, and stayed tuned for the second batch of colours down the track (I've added you to the tag list)
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I love the way you have this set up to make it easy to add the books!! 2mo
Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks Look I may have absolutely zero talent and even less knowledge in the design field, but I'm not gonna let that stop me 2mo
TheAromaofBooks This is literally me on Canva every day 😂 2mo
mariaku21 @Lauredhel (⁠。⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠。⁠) 2mo
mariaku21 For everyone using Storygraph, I just saw that Angleslist is hosting the Pantone 2025 challenge over there. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/2a8f2871-9809-42a8-9d8e-ab91b10... 1mo
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Pantone: Colors | Pantone
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OK people, the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is ready! This is a challenge based on the seasonal trend colours from Fashion Weeks.


Please note there are TWO grids - for London (blue border) and NY (green border). Later, two more grids will be released for the autumn/winter trend colours.

To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. That's it, you're done.

(and yes, White Grape was in both!)

@litsyevents

tpixie I love this # ! I don‘t really want to participate, but I do like looking at them!! 2mo
julieclair Thanks for continuing for 2025!! And…. I guess we should all be buying some article of clothing in the White Grape color, lol. 2mo
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mariaku21 Count me in! I love trying to match as many as possible 2mo
Lauredhel @julieclair LOL, it's not quite my colour, but maybe socks? 2mo
julieclair Socks work! 👍 I was also surprised by the number of darker Autumn colors in both the London and New York palettes. 2mo
Lauredhel @julieclair Apparently the inspiration for LFW was supposed to be fresh and optimistic? While NYFW was drawing from the natural world/eco-inspired. The bottom five shades in each are supposed to be “seasonless“ neutrals
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julieclair So interesting! I like the London colors better. Maybe I‘m just a “fresh and optimistic” person! 😂 2mo
mariaku21 For everyone using Storygraph, I just saw that Angleslist is hosting the Pantone 2025 challenge over there. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/2a8f2871-9809-42a8-9d8e-ab91b10... 1mo
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Happy Litsyversary! | Special Events
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It's my EIGHTH #litsyversary

!!!

IuliaC Happy Litsyversary! 🎈🥳 2mo
julesG Happy Litsyversary!!! 2mo
Ruthiella Happy Litsyversary! 🥳🥳🥳 2mo
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Enchanted_Bibliophile Happy Litsyversary 🎉🎈📚🎉🎈 2mo
Daisey Happy Litsyversary! 📚 🎉 2mo
AmyG 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
thegirlwiththelibrarybag Time flies when you are busy reading! Happy Litsyversary! 2mo
JessClark78 Happy Litsyversary! 🎊📚🎉 2mo
Jas16 Happy Litsyversary 🥳📚🙌🏽 2mo
Kitta I never get these notifications for some reason. 🤷🏻‍♀️ anyway happy litsyversary!! 2mo
TheSpineView Happy Litsyversary! 2mo
Deblovestoread Happy Litsyversary 🎉 2mo
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dabbe HL! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
Seabreeze_Reader 👍🏻🙂🎉 2mo
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