#Winter Bingo 2025

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topaz zinc
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Attention residents:
Meteorological services are reporting incoming snowfall and a significant drop in temperatures over the coming days. Cold air masses will move across the region, bringing icy conditions, reduced visibility, and potential disruptions to daily activities.

Citizens are advised to take necessary precautions, limit non-essential travel, and ensure homes are properly cozied up. As winter conditions settle in, run to your bookshelf, grab a blanket and settle in for an adventure in another reality.

Keep up with updates through official channels only, and take care of yourselves and those around you.

topaz zinc
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Welcome to the 2025 Winter Bingo💜

Ending the year on a high note, let's see who gets as many bingos before New Years, but if you already hit your goals, take a break and plan it out till March. The rules are simple:

  1. One book per prompt;
  2. You can include one book you started before the starting date, otherwise all books need to be started and finished within the event dates;
  3. A bingo counts as any line vertical or horizontal;
  4. Update the bingo one book at a time, always prioritizing books from your tbr first!

Q&A:

  1. The card has 24 prompts and a free slot in the middle to fit any book you wish.
  2. Your card can change as the weeks go by, meaning, you can move the books on the prompts to make the best bingo
  3. All prompts are always open for interpretation to the individual, but here are some clarifications:
  • Blind pick is for choosing a book with closed eyes, blind read is picking a book you don't know much or anything regarding the plot and characters

Happy Reading everyonecattoBlush

subtle merlin
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Sorry, what are the event dates again?

topaz zinc
subtle merlin
hazy loom
toxic anvil
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Will there also be a Storygraph challenge we can use?

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Looking forward January to use the "genre you haven't read all year" 😂

I'm also not sure how I'll get a few of them. (Like "book you wanted for fall bingo" - I don't usually think about potential future bingos when I'm in the current one.)

hearty tartan
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WINTER BINGO elmoFire

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see y'all in march kekCry

buoyant pagoda
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Let’s go let’s go let’s go!

topaz zinc
robust aurora
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I don't have SG sorry x2bunnypray

olive geyser
olive geyser
toxic anvil
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Thank you so much!!! 💜

tulip shoal
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guess I need to finish Emma now as my one book I started before the date for the BotM prompt in case I can't get a copy for future months' picks

ocean moon
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I love the colouring on this one @topaz zinc

topaz zinc
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Thank uu, i love the colours a lot

ocean moon
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Omg I did a prompt yesterday without even thinking pepemegaSUCC

topaz zinc
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wrong thread?

tardy bough
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yes it should be #1444421066930786314

buoyant pagoda
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Oops! 😬

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I think I saw winter and just posted it

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At 5:45 am

fluid dagger
spark comet
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Finished Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop for set on a different continent than you. This is the book I started before the bingo

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Actually I decided to use it for “features a bookstore” prompt lol

toxic anvil
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shortest book
The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

undone steppe
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red or green cover - Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

tardy bough
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to anyone with a username starting with a: recs please Shy

true cove
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Featuring a sport - Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter. (The sport is pool/billiards/snooker, etc.)

fluid sandal
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First book in a series
Good spirits by B.K. Borison

short stream
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The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner for red or green book - also my read before start date book

fluid sandal
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Purchased this year
All superheroes need PR by Elizabeth Stephens

true cove
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Provisionally putting Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico in the free space until I figure out where I want.

wispy pollen
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@vagrant glade asking for a rec pepebabyChristmas for za winter bingo

minor berryBOT
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@holly jolly
jnix asking for a rec for
za winter bingo

wispy pollen
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updates!

vagrant glade
wispy pollen
true cove
toxic anvil
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obc buddy read
The Strength of the Few by James Islington

wispy pollen
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@true cove ok here are some options for u:
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig

grim nimbus
fathom cobalt
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A little behind from (still) trying to finish Emma, but...
First or last book of a series: Assistant the the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

grim nimbus
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Book originally wanted for Fall Bingo - The Boleyn Traitor - Philippa Gregory ✨

true cove
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Speaking of the Tudor era...
Artist/writer, etc. character - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (featuring an unnamed throughout Elizabethan playwright iykyk)

buoyant pagoda
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Publishedf in Your Birthday Month (Feb) - Things we hide from the light

toxic anvil
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features a bookstore
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

awarded or nominated
The Sea Gives up the Dead by Molly Olguin

cozy read by fireplace or heater
(I don’t have either of these, so am hoping curled up under a fuzzy blanket will count)
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

blind pick from your shelf
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

toxic anvil
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I’m looking for recs from users whose username start with “m.”

tulip shoal
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Question: for reviewed in book-reviews... does that mean I personally reviewed it or someone else did?

torn rune
crystal field
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local woman missing for set in a different continent from where you live
all rhodes lead here for characters include a writer/artist/musician

vagrant sierra
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Blind read: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

fluid dagger
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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar for "character is a writer"

fathom cobalt
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OBC BOTM: Emma - Jane Austen

pine hare
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1/5!

•Shortest Book- Headless Ghost by R.L. Stine
•Birthday Month- The Barking Ghost by R.L. Stine [June]
•OBC BR- Dungeon Meshi Vol 9 by Ryoko Kui
•Last book in the series- Dungeon Meshi Vol 14 by Ryoko Kui
•Blind Read- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

pine hare
toxic anvil
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Moving The River has Roots to Published in my birth month (March) so I can play The Most Boring Book Ever by Brandon Sanderson in its place. (48p)

set on a different continent from where you live
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

first (or last) book in a series - first
Sabriel by Garth Nix

characters include writer / artist
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

true cove
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Green or Red Cover - Fresh, Green Life by Sebastian Castillo

grim nimbus
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Cosy book read by the heater - The Last Devil To Die - Richard Osman 🦊
Shortest Book - The White Book - Han Kang

(Why is my theme accidentally white haha)

grim nimbus
toxic anvil
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12/25

purchased this year
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

blind read
The Collector’s Apprentice by B. A. Shapiro

buoyant pagoda
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Set in a different country - The Hawthorne Spectre

crystal field
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sociopath for genre you haven't read all year

buoyant pagoda
grim nimbus
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Hello @fluid sandal! Would you be able to recommend a book for me please? 💜

short stream
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Reflections of Lilje Damselfly by Natale Kelda for blind pick
Final Girls by Mira Grant for blind read (i blind read all my books d:)

fluid sandal
minor berryBOT
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Hi,Spectacular
things by Beck dorey stein, is
it ok for you?

green edge
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My board so far, sorry I couldn't update one at a time prompt for this one but will do moving forward.
set on a different continent from where you live - War & Peace (also started before winter bingo)
shortest book – Rogue Protocol
**first or last book in a series **– Heated Rivalry
characters include a writer/artist /musician – Nora Goes Off Script
celebrity book club pick – Brightly Shining (Dua Lipa Service95)

grim nimbus
toxic anvil
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celestial body on cover (has a sun and moon)
The Between by Tananarive Due

genre you haven’t read all year (thriller, sci-fi)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

wispy pollen
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^updates!

true cove
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Blind Read - Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett

toxic anvil
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Oh! Any book recs from users starting with “m”?
@robust oak @sonic merlin @topaz zinc

sonic merlin
toxic anvil
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Honestly, I’m open to anything other than romance/romantasy at the moment.

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If you have any top reads from last year, that could work. I can also try and narrow it down, but no moods are speaking to me.

sonic merlin
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I can hit you with some authors! anything by Anne Carson (Grief Lessons, Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed), Virginia Woolf (The Waves).

some books which stayed with me from last year: Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and L'Assommoir by Émile Zola.

toxic anvil
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Thank you! I have read a few of these, but will look into the others. More for the tbr! cattoHearts

grim nimbus
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Red on the cover - Translation State - Ann Leckie

buoyant pagoda
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Cozy read by a fireplace or heater- The Spitfire Murders

Technically I don’t own a fireplace and my heaters are all along the wall. But I had a cozy blanket, hot chocolate and put a fireplace on YouTube

topaz zinc
toxic anvil
robust oak
# toxic anvil Oh! Any book recs from users starting with “m”? <@580290022763266048> <@45233217...

omg thank you for tagging me, I didn't know this thread existed!!

Here's my top reads of 2025 with genres attached. In order from top fave

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Swedish🇸🇪 ) - Contemporary Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774964-a-man-called-ove

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due (American 🇺🇸 [Black]) - Horror ft Historical Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128747206-the-reformatory

Scythe (#1) by Neal Shusterman (American🇺🇸 ) - Fantasy (YA) ft Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954189-scythe

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (American🇺🇸 ) - Science Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L Wang (American 🇺🇸 [Asian]) - Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208430658-blood-over-bright-haven

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (American🇺🇸 ) - Romance ft Historical Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (American)🇺🇸 - Horror ft Fantasy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207611566-witchcraft-for-wayward-girls

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Swedish 🇸🇪) - Contemporary Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413128-beartown

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh (Canadian 🇨🇦 🇸🇾 [Syrian]) - Historical Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57390604-as-long-as-the-lemon-trees-grow

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (American🇺🇸 ) - Horror ft Thriller
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54621094-the-last-house-on-needless-street

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robust oak
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Catching up on my reads since 21st December

p_check01 Chinese Cinderella “for red or green on cover”

p_check01 the house of my mother for “would recommend for someone for performative reading” (not sure if I fully understand this prompt, but I think bc the Netflix doco just released and this book making the GR choice awards I think this fits?? Lots of talk about this at the moment anyway

p_check01 Five liars for “blind pick”. This was an arc I knew nothing about and just requested

p_check01 sorrow land for “ celebrity’s book club pick”.
Was a YouTuber I watch!
(Also learnt that rivers Solomon is just not an author for me but I gave them a go)

soft harness
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Planet Hulk by Sam Humphries for red or green cover

topaz zinc
toxic anvil
soft harness
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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green for OBC BOTM

short stream
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Hellsing vol 1 by Kohta Hirano for first in a series

robust aurora
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#1440977561198002277 for "awarded or nominated" and Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter for "first or last book in a series" sparklespastel2

grim nimbus
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OBC BOTM - Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green

toxic anvil
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Book originally wanted for fall bingo
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby

red or green cover
Lady Joker Vol 2 by Kaoru Takamura

**a book you shared in ** #shelfies message
The Facefaker’s Game by Chandler J. Birch

true cove
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Prize Winner/Nominated - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009 Pulitzer Winner)

tulip shoal
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OBC BotM - Emma by Jane Austen
Green Cover - Katabasis by RG Kuang
Features a sport (track & field) - The Long Run by James Acker
5 star prediction - Lore Olympus, vol 9 by Rachel Smythe

toxic anvil
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would recommend for performative reading
The White Book by Han Kang

minor berryBOT
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would recommend for
performative reading
The
White Book
by Han Kang

soft harness
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Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford for characters include a writer/artist/musician

rigid apex
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hello! maybe someone with username starts with v, can give me book recommendations? 😁

rigid apex
grim nimbus
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5 Star Prediction - Kill For Me, Kill For you - Steve Cavanagh

robust aurora
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green edge
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Switched this one with next one : - features a sport - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

  • first or last book in a series - The long game by Rachel Reid
  • genre you haven't read all year - Dubliners by James Joyce (short stories)
toxic anvil
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features a sport- bonus for winter one (snow boarding)
Shiver by Allie Reynolds

dense tree
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  • Cozy read by the fireplace or your heater:
    Toko Jajanan Ajaib Zenitendo, Vol. 8 - Reiko Hiroshima
  • Blind pick from your shelf:
    In His Chart: Chapter 1 - Sousuke Natsukawa
  • Red or Green cover:
    Space Invaders - Nona Fernández
  • Shortest book:
    Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - Martha Wells
  • Feature a sport - bonus for winter one (Hockey):
    Role Model - Rachel Reid
    -Celestial body on cover or in title:
    Mickey7 - Edward Ashton
  • Celebrity Book Club Pick:
    Brightly Shinning - Ingvild H. Rishøi
  • Characters include a writer / artist / musician:
    Heartburn - Nora Ephron (FMC is writer cookbook)
  • Set on different continent from where you live:
    Parole Teetee - Antje Herden
dense tree
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Hi, anyone with a username that starts with S, can you recs me your favorite book? e1shy

toxic anvil
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Do you have any specific genre/vibe/etc?

dense tree
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I don't have any specific genre, but more like in adventure, funny, cozy books atm

toxic anvil
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Most of these have cozy vibes. Also found family. 1 & 4 have some adventure as well.

For found family (also work for legendary)

  1. The Long Way to a Small , Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (or others in the series)
  2. The House on the Cerulean Sea or sequel by T. J. Klune
  3. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  4. Legends & Lattes or prequel/sequel by Travis Baldree
  5. The Empress of Salt and Fortune or others in series by Nghi Vo
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fluid dagger
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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood for "Meant to use in Fall Bingo" - I had originally thought that Atwood, at 85, was the oldest living author on my shelf, but it turns out Joyce Carol Oates is 87

robust oak
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p_check01 how to sell a haunted house for “a book you have shared in shelfies” (I shared it back in April last year heh)

buoyant pagoda
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Shortest Book - My Killer Vacation

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Also looking for recommendations from users who’s name starts with S for something romantic OR a mystery novel. Love a good junk food version of both genres as work is a lot and they’re easy

fathom cobalt
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BOTM - Emma
Red/Green cover - Glow of the Everflame
Book I wanted for Autumn Bingo - Brimstone

ocean moon
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I'm absolutely down if you wanna rec me one back pepemegaSUCC

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(Or another V named friend)

robust oak
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i also need rec from someone starting with an M plss, maybe @sonic merlin? But if no takers can i choose vaude for a horror rec????? hehe

fave genres - horror, thriller & sci fi but i will give most things a go except romance/romantasy

sonic merlin
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fair warning i haven't read a lot of horror but those were amazing - read them years ago and still think about them regularly

robust oak
toxic anvil
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buoyant pagoda
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Shady Hollow honestly looks adorable. I’m going to try it

ocean moon
rigid apex
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ocean moon
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Thank you Viv!!!

rigid apex
robust aurora
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#1453163937682948208 for OBC BOTM

crystal field
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the book of everlasting things for would recommend to someone for performative reading

short stream
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The Lighthouse Keeper and the Mermaid by Sara Bittner for purchased 2025

twin obsidian
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Seven Days in June by Tia Williams for character is a writer

true cove
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Celebrity Book Club Pick - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (Dua Lipa's Book Club October 2024) kek

grim nimbus
robust oak
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p_check01 The Compound for awarded or nominated (Goodsread choice award for sci fi)

p_check01 Her body and other parties for recommendation from an OBC member whose username starts with the same letter as your first name (also M for me)

true cove
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Published in your birthday month - Atonement by Ian McEwan (September)

wispy pollen
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Updates! Including reading jnix’s rec frogScream

hearty wind
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Alchemised by Senlinyu for a book I wanted for Fall Bingo
Powerless by Lauren Roberts for first book in a series
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston for set on a different continent
The Women Are Not Fin by Hope Reese for a genre I haven’t read all year

green edge
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Hi I need book recommendation from someone whose username starts with “N”. Maybe @fossil harness, @tall cobalt ? Thank you 🙏🏽

fossil harness
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You can also check out my ‘read’ shelf on goodreads, id say anything above the 3 star mark is rec

green edge
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toxic anvil
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free slot
You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White

short stream
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The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky for set on a different continent
The Empress of Time by Kylie Lee Baker for originally wanted to read for fall bingo

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for genre you havent read all year, i am positive that the only genres would be non fiction that i would never read, like philosophy or biology atp. can i get a pass kekCry

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unless there is a different genre that idk about

true cove
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What one haven’t you read in 2026? That’s how I’m going to do it

toxic anvil
fluid dagger
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith for "set on a different continent"

short stream
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i wanted to do it the hard way

short stream
true cove
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Fair play...

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A book you wanted for Fall Bingo - The Details by Ia Genberg (I didn't play Fall Bingo, but I did want to read this when I bought it last fall so I'm sticking it there.)

soft harness
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Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan for first or last book in a series

soft harness
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Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula by Matt Wagner for the free slot

torn rune
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buoyant pagoda
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Features/mentions a book store/book cafe/library - The Scrooge Conspiracy

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Ok well I’ve finished every published book in this series

robust oak
sonic merlin
robust oak
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honestly such a fun prompt, i want more like that!

soft harness
fathom cobalt
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Blind read from shelf: This Woven Kingdom
Set on diff. continent: The Map from Here to There

robust aurora
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#1454569594864799845 for "Purchased this year"

spark comet
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Heyy @fluid dagger can you recommend me a book please and I can for you if you need it? Uwu

fluid dagger
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oh sure! what kinds of things do you like to read usually?

spark comet
fluid dagger
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I can vibe with that! I recommend maybe Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (literary horror), maybe Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for gothic horror, or The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich for lit fic

spark comet
fluid dagger
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I got one from someone whose username starts with B, so I'm all set!

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I appreciate it though and I hope you'll let me know how you fair with any of those books

tulip shoal
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I need a rec from someone with a discord name beginning with L Shy

minor berryBOT
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I need a rec from
someone with a discord name
beginning with L

tulip shoal
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and so does haikubot apparently

hearty wind
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Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid for featuring a winter sport

short stream
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Sold by Patricia McCormick for awarded or nominated

minor berryBOT
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Sold by Patricia
McCormick for awarded
or nominated

fluid dagger
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins for "First or last book in a series"

toxic anvil
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How are people doing the 5 star prediction one? I don’t think of books like that, so am not sure how I can complete it while staying true to the prompt.

fluid dagger
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whether it will actually be a 5 star read isn't clear but here's hoping

true cove
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The one I am using has a 4.75 and a 5 from two people I follow on SG so I feel like that's a good indicator

toxic anvil
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Ooo, both of those are good ways to look at it. Thank you!!!

buoyant pagoda
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Recommend by Sakura!! - Shady Hollow

toxic anvil
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I liked it! It reminded me Fiona Barton’s books because her main character is also a ||journalist||.

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I think I’m going to do the whole series when I get more audible credits haha

toxic anvil
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buoyant pagoda
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She’s a little late to the writing game but I liked all 3 books

toxic anvil
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recommended by OBC member whose username is starts with same letter as your first name
The Waves by Virginia Woolf

@sonic merlin - thanks for the rec! This is not something that I would have picked out myself, so it was nice to try something outside of my usual. ||The descriptions were lovely and I found the parts describing the sun/trees/ocean as it starts pre-dawn until after sunset to be a really neat part of the story.||

sonic merlin
topaz zinc
short stream
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@long swift for recommendation from and OBC member whose username starts with the same letter as your first name do u mind giving me a rec peepoShy

long swift
short stream
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James for OBC BR

true cove
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Mentions a Bookstore, etc. - On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle (MC owns an antiquarian book business, visits various antiquarian bookshops, and the library)

true cove
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Rec from a member &c. - Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (recommended by Jpuzzle!)

grim nimbus
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Free space - Thank You For Calling The Lesbian Line - Elizabeth Lovatt

toxic anvil
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reviewed in #book-reviews
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamara Pierce

fathom cobalt
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Mentions a bookstore/library: A Study in Drowning

pine hare
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2/5 Update!

•Book you meant to use for Fall- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski [my original thriller/horror pick]
•Set on a different continent- Jujutsu Kaisen Vol 6 by Geje Akutami [US vs Japan]
•OBC BOTM- Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green [Jan. BOTM]
•Celestial Body on the cover- Ghost Beach by R.L. Stine [moon]
•Awarded- Sabriel by Garth Nix [won 2 awards and nominated for a 3rd]

robust aurora
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You Weren't Meant to Be Human for "set in a different continent from where you live"

green edge
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blind read - sandwich by Cathleen Newman

green edge
topaz zinc
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Let me know how u liked it

wispy pollen
robust aurora
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@tardy bough my name starts with an "a" (surprise! /j) , would you mind recommending me a book? any genre whatsoever! emojistareblush thank you!!

tardy bough
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can you pick one for me too? any genre but ideally something I haven't read before duckShy

robust aurora
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ABI

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lemme search!!

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and thank so much for the recc, it's now in my TBR!

buoyant pagoda
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Purchased this year - The Commuter

robust aurora
wispy pollen
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Update!

fluid dagger
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Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang for "a genre you haven't read all year." This is both my first hard sci-fi and my first book of short stories of the year

robust oak
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p_check01 Everything is Tuberculosis for OBC BOTM

tulip shoal
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@olive geyser when you can a chance, can you please suggest a book for me? Shy

olive geyser
tulip shoal
crystal field
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the unbearable lightness of being for awarded or nominated

grim nimbus
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Bought this year - The Names - Florence Knapp

soft harness
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The Delicacy by John Albon for set on a different continent from where you live (Europe)

twin obsidian
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Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green for OBC BotM

true cove
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5 Star Prediction - The Promise by Damon Galgut ( ⭐⭐⭐⭐)

buoyant pagoda
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Free space - Murder in Bermuda

fathom cobalt
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nominated: Heartless - Marissa Meyer

buoyant pagoda
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@toxic anvil look what popped up in my game haha

toxic anvil
short stream
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Yonder by Jabari Asim for characters features an artist

fluid dagger
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Satantango by László Krasznahorkai for "red cover"

true cove
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BOTM - Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

tardy bough
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I can't remember what I've actually posted for this so I'm just going to do a new card

  • The Valkyrie's Legacy by Tiana Warner for last book in a series
  • Twenty Football Towns by Steve Leach for blind pick from your shelf
  • The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei for set on a different continent from where you live
  • The Last Father-Daughter Dance by Lisa Wingate for shortest book
  • The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey for awarded or nominated
  • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn for free slot
  • Is This A Cry For Help? by Emily Austin for features a library
  • Fence Breakthrough: Quarter Clash #1 by CS Pacat for purchased this year
  • The Snack Hacker by George Egg for genre you haven't read all year
  • Night People by Mark Ronson for celebrity book club pick
  • https://discord.com/channels/811077227449286667/1448907196518633583 for OBC BR
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switched a few things around

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Features a book shop - The Passengers on the Hankyu Line - Hiro Arikawa

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  • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James for celestial body in title
  • All the Stars in the Daylight Sky by Maya MacGregor for blind read
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Za updates

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First/Last Book in a
Series
- Days Without End by
Sebastian Barry

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First/Last Book in a Series - Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (reserving the right to move this if needed)

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p_check01 The Mad wife for OBC BR
p_check01 Ring Shout for shortest book
p_check01 Vengeful for a book you originally wanted to read for the fall bingo (it took me SO long to read this sequel ... not sure why)
p_check01 We Used to Live here for 5 star prediction (didn't end up being 5 stars for me, but 4)

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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali for "would recommend for performative reading" I think?

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The Unbroken by C.L Clark for 5 star prediction (but it was not </3)

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kill her twice for 5 star prediction

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5 star prediction
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

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Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce for cosy read

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Alanna: The First
Adventure by Tamora
Pierce for cosy read

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#1329932012819185767 for "characters include a writer/artist/musician"

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Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team by Cullen Bunn for shortest book

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Set on a Continent Where I Don't Live - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (set in Asia [Japan])

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Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy for shortest book

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Performative Reading... - The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman for "5 star prediction" - didn't quite get there but still an enjoyable read

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Set on a different continent-Black Lagoon, Vol. 2 by Rei Hiroe (set in Thailand)
Celestial Body on the cover/in the title- The Wolf Steals the Sun by Yatsae
Free Slot- Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Vol. 2 by Bamwoo
Character includes a writer- Beautifully Broken by Cassandra Moll
Genre I haven't read all year- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (nonfiction)
5 Star Prediction- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (It was!)
Book I orginally wanted for fall bingo- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
**Revieiwed in #book-reviews **- [Paradise Kiss](#book-reviews message)

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I always enjoy seeing Piranesi love! glad you liked it

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p_check01 Vera Wong's Unsolicited advice for murders for "cozy read by the fireplace or your heater". we've had some 40 degree days lately so i skipped the heater and fireplace part of the prompt and swapped it for an aircon, unless OBC wants me to die of heatstroke kek

p_check01 Ask for Andrea for "blind pick from your shelf"

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Reviewed in #book-reviews - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Also did a little shifting

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout -- Nominated or Awarded ➡️ Shared in (#shelfies message)

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico -- Free Space ➡️ Nominated or Awarded (2025 International Booker Shortlist)

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Updates!

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The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey for shared in shelfies

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Genre I Haven't Read This Year - Ubik by Philip K. Dick (classic sci-fi, or sci-fi in general)

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All my books from December and January pepemegaSUCC

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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan for "nominated or won" - it was listed for the Booker and won the Giller

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A Poison Steeped in Magic by Judy I. Lin for pub in bday month

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I joined the server recently. Can I fill the bing card with what I read and matches? Respecting the starting date of this bingo, of course.

And if I can... Do manga count?

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Buddy Read - The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo - 19/25

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Posted in book reviews: Between Two Fires - Christopher Buhlman

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OBC BOTM- Everything is Tuberculosis
First Book in Series- The Atlas Six
OBC BR- The Canterville Ghost

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BOTM Everything is tuberculosis

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Blind Pick - Open Up by Thomas Morris - 20/25

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I finally found time and energy to start filling this blobGiggle I was able to add more than I initially thought! (looks a bit odd because I'm using canva, ignore the landscapes/placeholders). I already know I will be able to fill a few more prompts pandaYay

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Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo for shortest book

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Onyx Storm for "Wanted to Read it for the Fall Bingo"
seriously just stayed up for the last 200 pages because I needed to be DONE with this

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Updates!

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Blind pick from my shelf - We Do Not Part - Han Kang

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Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay for "OBC BR"

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Genre you haven’t read all year - Belladonna (horror)

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This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell for genre i havent read. i used 2025 for this still, never read a non fiction about race d:

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Updated, I was traveling for last couple of weeks so haven't had time to read or update but hoping to get back into it
red or green cover – Is a River Alive?
blind read – Sandwich
purchased this year – Normal People

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Call of The Fathoms by Emma Hamm for empty space

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Been a while since I updated this...
BLINDREAD: Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
5 STAR: The Same Backward as Forward by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
By the fireplace (well, I was by the A/C): House of Hades by Rick Riordan
Character includes a writer: King of Envy by Ana Huang
Genre I haven't read all year: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Shortest book: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Rec from OBC member ... : Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson @tulip shoal FrogCuteHeart

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Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken for has library

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Silver in the Bone
by Alexandra Bracken
for has library

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OBC BotM
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet

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Free Spot - The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola - 21/25

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Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan for 5-star prediction

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I expect the whole series to be good though, it starts off real interesting

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Would you consider a blogger/journalist to be a writer? Otherwise, how important needs to be the bookstore or library inside the book to match that prompt? Trying to see where I can fit the book that I'm about to finish (People we meet on vacation) 😅

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would recommend to someone for performative reading - Everything is Tuberculosis

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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett for published in my birthday month (June)

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Celestial Body on Cover/in Title - One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard - 22/25

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People We Meet on Vacation - MC is a writer (blogger/journalist)
A Sign of Affection vol. 5 - Green cover
Catwings - Shortest book

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The Haar for Reviewed in book reviews

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cozy read by the fireplace or your heater - Exit Strategy

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cozy read by the
fireplace or your heater -
Exit Strategy

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p_check01 The One for free spot
p_check01 The Paleontologist for "book purchased this year"
p_check01 The Safekeep for genre I havent read all year (romance)

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#1452939913786949663 for Cosy read by the fireplace or your heater

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Complete!

celebrity book club pick
The Guest List by Lucy Foley

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3/5 Update!
•Book shared in #shelfies- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ( #shelfies message )
•Features a sport- Jujustu Kaisen Vol 7 by Geje Akutami (Baseball)
•Recommendation from someone whose username starts with the same letter as your name- Alanna: the First Adventure [K, recc’d by kopi_pheng]
•Features a bookstore- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
•Read Cosy- An Age of License by Lucy Kinsley

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Genre I haven't read in all year: I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom, it's an essays-memoir, which is a genre I haven't read in a long time (and definitely the first of 2026 in that genre).

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Contra Amatores Mundi by Graham Thomas Wilcox for reviewed pepeSalute

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Contra Amatores
Mundi by Graham Thomas
Wilcox for reviewed

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so uh what da hell is performative reading kekCry is it that thing where them infamous people on tiktok only read dialogue or sum? so like the perfect book for those types?

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ohhh thonk

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Oh. I thought something that would make a good readaloud

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haha that's possible too! I read it as socially performative, but it could also mean "lends itself well to being performed"

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I had the same thought as lemon for that prompt.

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Hm, I don't know if I love my choice then

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Then again, I think any NYRB can look performative to the right reader, so maybe it's fine.

torn rune
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My first interpretation was the same as lemon's. But I googled the term and saw it meant something else (and I like the reading aloud idea more, tbh)

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I didn’t even know there was a different definition hamShook

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Y’all need to help the old lady out more smh

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I mean, I slotted A Raisin in the Sun there, so I guess it works either way lmaooo

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ok i realise im v late to the party but still wanna get some prompts done or at least try kekCry

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what is a blind read?

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and anyone with the letter W wanna recommend me a book? I love fantasy and getting into thriller I really like thrillers that give true crime vibes but it doesnt need to be true crime. I also love literary fiction (really good, actually is one of my favs I hope this finds you well is a close second) I do hate spice though so I tend to try and keep the spice to a minimum or skipable if possible

pine hare
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery for "mentions a library" - lots of mention of the main character checking out books and films from the local library

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Purchased This Year - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre - 23/25

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Reviewed in #book-reviews – Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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Carrie – Stephen King for 5 star prediction (and 5 stars it is)

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the vanishing half for celebrity book club pick

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Shortest Book - Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald - 24/25

(Offshore is the shortest book to win the Booker Prize.)

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Shared in shelfies: A Sign of Affection vol. 7
And that means... I got my first bingo line capooYay pandaYay cattoHearts !

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First book in a series
Dead Man's Walk - Larry McMurtry 🤠

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  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang for red cover
  • These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant for recommendation from OBC member
  • Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher for published in your birthday month
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Slowly but surely …

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Celestial body on cover or in title: Red Star Rebels by Amie Kaufman

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I have central air though haha so I put on a fireplace stream and lit a couple candles

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published in your birthday month – Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (March 2025)

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Cozy Read - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - CARD COMPLETED

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Aw that book is max cozy, good play

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p_check01 The Vanishing half for set on a different continent to where you live

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#1464982383273971712 for Red or Green in cover dogshibafatheart

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p_check01 Another update, not quite dead yet for characters include a musician! (Billy)

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the body in the library for features a bookstore, library or book cafe

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heated rivalry for features a sport (extra points for ice hockey?)

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heated rivalry
for features a sport (extra
points for ice hockey?)

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are DNFs allowed on bingos or nah?

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thinkin about it prolly not but just checkin kekCry

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The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage by Jeff Lemire for cozy read by the fireplace or your heater

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  • Katabasis by R.F. Kuang for would recommend to someone for performative reading
  • The Fall by Tal Bauer for features a sport
  • With Stars In Her Eyes by Andie Burke for features a musician
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Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark for recommend for performative reading maybe?

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Finding My Way bye Malala Yousafzai for Genre I haven't Read All Year (memoir)

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I have a hard time scoring memoirs badly though! they're usually always worth reading imo

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Omg relatable, I love memoirs!!

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Cozy read - The Body in the Library
Features bookshop - Brigands & Breadknives

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White Oleander by Janet Fitch for "celebrity book club" - in this case, Oprah's

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Vicious by VE Schwab~ Read by heater or fireplace (I don’t have a heater or fireplace so I read under a heated blanket)
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin ~ Performative Reading
** The Vegetarian by Han Kang**~ Book with a Red Cover
Melting Point by Pibi ~ Features a sport(plus extra points since it’s hockey!)
Girls’ Last Tour Vol 1 by Tsukumizu~ Awarded or Nominated(Seiun Award for Best Comic 2019)

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Common Sense by Thomas Paine for would recommend to someone for performative reading

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p_check01 Doing Harm for features a library - I know this is a super weird pick for this prompt (nonfic book about gender bias in medicine) BUT there is actually a library in here that a woman goes to for study soooooooo it counts ghostHehe

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a book you have shared in #shelfies – On earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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All the books I read till today pepemegaSUCC

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features/ mentions a bookstore, library, book cafe – Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by SATOSHE YAGISAWA

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OBC BOTM: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Free space: A Sign of Affection, Volume 8 by suu Morishita

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The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien for my free space

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#1464049159588941855 for OBC BR

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Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden for blind read

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the hobbit for cozy read by your fireplace

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Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
Would recommend to someone for performative reading

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai for recommended

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Getting close!!!

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Matrix by Lauren Groff for "wrote a review"

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the extraordinary adventures of arsene lupin for free space

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Is earth a celestial body kekCry

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Yes!

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Ok now I have a plan to finish my card pepemegaSUCC

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2 more pepemegaSUCC pepemegaSUCC

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celestial body on cover or in title – Project Hail Mary
awarded or nominated – Minor Detail

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4/5 Update!

•Blind Pick- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb by R.L. Stine
•Performative Reading- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
•Free Space- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
•(red or) Green Cover- Welcome to Camp Nightmare by R.L. Stine
•Genre You Haven’t Read Yet- Phantom of the Auditorium by R.L. Stine [was originally going to use a literary book, but swapped for the first middle-grade book I read back in January]

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Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for "blind read" - I read this book based on its author and title, which is about as blind as I will ever read a book

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One more!!

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A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt for "shared in shelfies"

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I'm not sure I'm going to finish this, that prompt about sports is going to be my downfall

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p_check01 Pieces of her for first or last book in a series
p_check01 Of Monsters and mainframes for celestial body in cover/title

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#1416902858166501437 for Celestial body on cover or title (I checked; there's a moon/sun on pretty much every cover kekCry)

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The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan for "Celestial Body on the Cover"

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I FINISHED

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5-star prediction – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I thought it will be 5-star but ended up giving 4.5

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#1475218571368857793 for "features a sport"
Chess being considered a sport saved me from leaving this prompt open ♟️

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blind pick from your shelf - Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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U found the sport one!!!

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Thanks to the Count of Monte Cristo I was stuck on that book for SUCH a long time 😄
Needed a refresher so Ella Minnow Pea was a blind short read

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Done!

olive geyser
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My books till now FrogCuteHeart

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The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata for "Purchased this year" - I got this book for free though so we'll call it "Obtained this year"

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the adventures of amina al-sirafi for blind pick from your shelf

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#1474734964514750495 for "shared in #shelfies"

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oops I haven't updated this in a while but let me get my card in before the deadline

  • The Vanishing Half for OBC BOTM
  • Brigands & Breadknives for cosy read by the fireplace/heater
  • Firstborn of the Sun for book shared in #shelfies
  • The Strength of the Few for 5-star prediction
  • Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil for a book you originally wanted for Fall Bingo
  • One Word, Six Letters for reviewed in #book-reviews
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Crow Lake for "recommended by someone whose username shares a first letter with your first name"

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I got this recommendation from @drowsy dock, whose wife and mother both really enjoyed this book

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unfortunately it looks like I will be one book short on this card! sobAUGH

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unfortunately
it looks like I will be one
book short on this card!

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read a short story, quick!

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In my eyes, this is still a win pepemegaSUCC

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rain1000 % a win!!

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I asked my partner to choose a book from my tbr shelf for the last prompt and he picked a short one, so I miiiiight be able to squeeze it in tonight

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GO GO GO

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We're all rooting for you!

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So much support PleadingHearts Uwu Smitten

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Soooo close!!!!

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It’s still March 20th in my time zone so. BR-only Blackout complete

•Five-Star Prediction- In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
•Read Cozy- Calling All Creeps! by R.L. Stine
•Bought This Year- Age of License (SWAPPED)
•Characters include an artist/writer/musician- Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson [Shallan’s an artist and Hoid’s a musician&storyteller]
•Celebrity Book Club Pick- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley [Oprah]
•Reviewed in #book-reviews- How I Learned To Fly by R.L. Stine (#book-reviews message)

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sliding in 12 minutes under the deadline haha

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Omg yall did it !!!!

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Y'ALL SLAYED!!!!

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Great job everyone!!!! Hoping to see you all in #1484707511696097310