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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story | Michael Rosen
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From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .
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starlight97
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A very interesting history of the 26 letters we currently use in the English alphabet, how each of them came to be used today, as well as other interesting topics concerning language such as the many different methods of teaching kids how to read, encrypted communication and ciphers, fonts, different forms of handwriting, how the qwerty order came to be, signs and symbols, and many more.
⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
#alphabet #language #LitsyLoveReads

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Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures
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My final tally for #LitsyAtoZ for 2020

I was able to get 22 books read by using a combination of Titles and Author‘s names, curse you Q, X, Y, and Z.

Hopefully I can get those letters in 2021!

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callielafleur
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Organized my "read but keeping" shelves today, and alphabetized by author. Took forever, but I'm pretty happy with the result! Now I need to tackle my TBR, which will be a bit more intensive... ?

Leftcoastzen Looks great! 4y
Nute I‘m inspired!☺️ 4y
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Pamwurtzler
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Here are my first four for this year‘s #LitsyAtoZ.
#LetterL #LetterT #LetterU #LetterY (got that one early!)

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ness
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Psyched to do #LitsyAtoZ this year! My extra layer of complexity: no cishet abled white dudes. I read so few of them anyway, so I don‘t foresee this being a huge problem. Onwards! #AbecedarianTBR #LitsyAtoZ2020

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LibrarianRyan
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Here is my completed list for #LitsyAtoZChildrens, all picture books!

As always, Q was a pain. I am 2 books away from #LitsyAtoZGN which I am hoping to conquer when the kids dad gets home. I can have computer time (on my laptop) because they think it is work, but not reading time. Until it's bedtime reading time.

Trashcanman Just burn it all down. 5y
LibrarianRyan @Trashcanman hey you. long time no 🤓. You doing okay. 5y
Trashcanman @LibrarianRyan Same as it ever was. 5y
LibrarianRyan @Trashcanman that doesn‘t sound good 5y
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Cosyreader
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Catching up with the week! #wintergames #readnosedreindeer

StayCurious Excellent! Just in time for me to count them towards this week's totals! +78 5y
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Dan_SpiderCrafts
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Whether it really must be a Christmas Related Item .. Here is my best from today's efforts, at 3 x 20 for 60 😄 The chocolate Toblerone, and Unicorn Onesie PJs, seem most opportune for the winter holidays.

#ReadNosedReindeer @StayCurious 60+1
#WinterGames @Clwojick 🦄

StayCurious Haha I love Jovial Jacket! +61! 5y
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StayCurious All of these are so great! +78! 5y
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StayCurious
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#WinterGames Team #ReadNosedReindeer Only one game today as we start getting busier with the holidays but this one seems fun and easy. 3 points/word for a total of 78 points! Repost with your answers!

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Julies_Bookshelf_Adventures
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Only 4 letters to go for the #LitsyAtoZchallenge

Now I just have to narrow down which book I want to read for E and U.
X and Z are pretty much picked, since I only have one book on my shelves for those letters. 😅

BookishMarginalia Nice! You can do it! 5y
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BeansPage
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#TeamStoker let's play this game but let's up the participation point to 3 points!!! Aaaaaand GO!!!

#Scarathlon

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Laughterhp Reposting because we both deleted our comment 😂 5y
LauraJ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 5y
BeansPage Another round??? 5y
BeansPage I have all points calculated up to this point 🧟‍♀️ 5y
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Clwojick
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Here‘s the next mini-game #TeamSlaughter! I think it‘ll be a fun one! Let‘s try to keep the books to mysteries, suspense, psychological thrillers, or Halloween. They should be books you‘d want to read or have enjoyed. This list can then be used as an access point for recommendations! Have fun with it! 🖤

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Clwojick I can start it off! This ones been on my TBR for a while 5y
InkedBookworm13 It's been on my TBR for awhile 5y
Clwojick I‘ve been seeing a lot of this one lately. 5y
Lizpixie This is an Elizabeth George ya Mystery I think 5y
Clwojick This one was soooo good! 5y
Linsy On my TBR! (edited) 5y
Linsy Just finished this one for the second time! 5y
kamoorephoto Best book ever 5y
Booksnchill A man goes mad on Dia de los muertos in Mexico 5y
MariettaSG Clockwork Orange 5y
deirdrebeecher Frankenstein 5y
Clwojick Just finished this one 5y
MartinaLove The Night Fire. 5y
Clwojick MY FAVOURITE ♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️ 5y
Linsy Can I start it again? Reading this one for the first time right now! ♥️ (edited) 5y
Linsy My mother and sister-in-law keep recommending this Victorian-era mystery to me 🐊 (edited) 5y
Linsy Love Dame Agatha! 5y
jenniferw88 i didn't have to Google this one! 🤣 5y
Linsy Tommy & Tuppence 💘 5y
Clwojick ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ 5y
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LibrarianRyan
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part of 1 of the #BBRC is quite simple. Read a book for every letter of the alphabet. We have quite a few participants doing special books. I believe it is @4thhouseontheleft who is doing all marginalized or feminist picture books (sorry if I got that wrong)

#AtoZofPicturebooks

rockpools I raided the library‘s picture book bins on Saturday- and I have questions already. Would you accept any picture books in this, or just those for the youngest readers? - I had no idea picture books for older readers were a thing! 5y
LibrarianRyan @RachelO any and all. 5y
rockpools @LibrarianRyan Perfect- thanks! 5y
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LibrarianRyan Sometimes you get amazing generbusting books like Night Shift or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I love it when people find these treasures. 5y
alisiakae Yes, I‘m choosing diverse books, and/or strong female characters! 5y
Dragonfairykats Author last name or title of the book? 5y
Jee_HookedOnBookz @LibrarianRyan omg I love love love Hugo! Met the author few years back and he was amazing! Very gracious and friendly! Not to mention talented! 5y
LibrarianRyan @Jee_HookedOnBookz I agree. Super nice. 5y
Dragonfairykats @LibrarianRyan Thanks! I just wanted to be sure 😊 5y
LibrarianRyan @Dragonfairykats you‘ll find I‘m super easy and flexible. Especially with something like this. 5y
Dragonfairykats @LibrarianRyan I really want to participate so I've been scouring Kindle Unlimited for books. No littles so when I get to the library I might not be looked at too much! 5y
LibrarianRyan @Dragonfairykats ask for librarian for help. Tell them what your doing and they will load you up with so many recommendations. Plus they will be a big help when it comes to easy readers. 5y
HeathHof Should we be going in order of the sections or is it okay to skip around? 5y
LibrarianRyan @Mynameisacolour Skip around as much as you want. I know I will. 5y
Clwojick @Dragonfairykats I thought the same thing since I don‘t have children yet either , but I was in the children‘s section for over an hour today, and came out with 40+ books. The librarian just laughed when I said I was working on a side project. 🤩 5y
LibrarianRyan @Clwojick Different libraries are differnt, but most librarians will get a chuckle out of the project or want to join in. 5y
Dragonfairykats @Clwojick ,Awesome! I'm trying to read the books I picked up (all 12 🤯) so that way I can get the kids ones when I bring them back 5y
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suzie.reads
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I love little things like this gets your mind thinking 😊

#alphabetbookishquiz @RealLifeReading

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julesG
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Good Morning from Hawarden!

Sun's shining. Birds are singing. Books are beckoning.

#readingretreat @Mitch @squirrelbrain @scripturient @RachelO @Leniverse @eraderneely @jhod @Oryx

Tagged book was a gift from Mitch and I love it. Thanks Mitch! 😘😘😘😘

Kalalalatja Looks lovely! 6y
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sprainedbrain
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I wasn‘t going to do any more challenges... but I have a list of non-challenge books that I want to read in 2019, and I was able to almost fill up the alphabet with those. So I added a Q, U, V, and X from my tbr and now I‘m all signed up!

Thanks to the wonderful Gloria for setting this up again! See her original post for the link to sign up yourself. 😃

#LitsyAtoZ #ReadingChallenge

saresmoore 😂🤪📚📚📚 6y
sprainedbrain @saresmoore I have a problem. You get me. 😜😂 6y
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Readergrrl
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I did it!! I joined the LitsyAtoZ challenge! How many of you have joined too? @BookishMarginalia

jessinikkip I have! 😊😊 6y
AWahle Looking forward to it! 6y
litenthusiast Looking forward to starting it. 6y
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drbethandherkindle
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I intended to post my completed #LitsyAtoZ list after finishing Z for Zachariah and then…🤷🏼‍♀️ Anyway, here it is! I had a good mix of genres this year so it‘s hard for me to pick a favorite out of this group.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Yay!! Congrats!! 👏🏻🎉📚👏🏻🎉📚 6y
Pamwurtzler Very nice! We only had one book in common, I think. 6y
drbethandherkindle @Pamwurtzler Wasn‘t it the Vegetarian? 6y
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IamIamIam
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Whoo hoo! 10 to go and I've got a few planned out so I'm not in bad shape!!! I'm going to have to go with authors soon, I think, but so far I've used all titles for the challege! #LitsyAtoZ @BookishMarginalia 💜

Miss_Kim 8 more for me! Mostly the last letters in the alphabet. Then I think I‘ll start on the list using authors 💕📖💕 7y
Reecaspieces I have read 3 lol. Oh well. I will pick up the pace on this after June ...Netgalley has me hopping right now 7y
IamIamIam @Miss_Kim Way to go! 7y
IamIamIam @Reecaspieces Lol, it happens! I was on a roll reading books that all started with letters I had done already! We've still got 8 months in the year! 😉 7y
Miss_Kim @IamIamIam And you! Cheers! 7y
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Mitch
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Dipping into this hero history of the alphabet! Evidently, M first appeared in Egyptian hieroglyphs 4,000 years ago! And it means water... maybe that is why I love to swim 🤔....

lauraodom That‘s so cool! 7y
Mitch It‘s fascinating @lauraodom 26 chapters of riotous enthusiasm for letters! 7y
wanderinglynn Very interesting! 7y
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Librariana This book sounds exquisitely PERFECT! 7y
SilversReviews Love the trivia about M. 7y
Christine11 This sounds like such an interesting book! 7y
TheBookgeekFrau Love this idea! 7y
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brilliantglow
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Your name with the letters in alphabetical order. Lol

Mine is Aciilnt🤔 What's yours?

PenguinInFlight Beverly. So...Beelrvy? 😂 7y
PenguinInFlight What I actually use as my name in Skyrim and Dragon Ages is Velbrye. My husband made that name for me 12 years ago when I made my first Elder Scrolls character. 7y
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Alfoster Aenn. Sounds dumb!😂 7y
brilliantglow @Alfoster Aenn sounds Elfin or something lol 7y
Alfoster Whew! I‘m down with that!🤪 7y
brilliantglow @PenguinInFlight ohhh that's a good one! I never give my characters actual names lol cause I'm not great at coming up with any. Usually just ends up being my Username (which is the same on PC and PS) I remember playing Elder Scrolls on the Gamecube😂😂😂 7y
brilliantglow @Alfoster I always play an elfin character in RPGs when I have the option lol 7y
PenguinInFlight @brilliantglow I‘m always a dual-wielding rogue elf when I can be. I love stabbing and stealing things, for whatever reason. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ (I was always PenguinInFlight, and then my husband - boyfriend at the time - said I should have an actual name. I didn‘t know what to use, so he came up with Velbrye. He has 6 or so that he uses for different characters. He‘s Jobee Elv‘Anar mainly, and prefers to be a dark elf.) 7y
Christine11 Christine - Cehiinrst : this took me a few minutes to figure out 😂😅 (edited) 7y
readordierachel Mine is Acehlr. I feel you @Christine11 I had to write my name down on a piece of paper and cross off the letters to figure it out 😂 7y
JPeterson Jessica, so Aceijss. I‘m just going to take the double “S” at the end as further proof I belong in Slytherin. 🐍 7y
shadowspeak17 Cenortuy... 😂 7y
Soubhiville Bhiosu. Hmmmm... 7y
JackieSmith Jackie = Aceijk This is fun! 😆 7y
EricaReads Aceir. Cool! 7y
StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Danielle = Adeeilln 😊 7y
Eggs Irrehs 7y
cobwebmoth Aalru 7y
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Jess7
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I‘m going to attempt #LitsyAtoZ Reading Challenge 2018. If you would like to participate checkout the link posted on @BookishMarginalia ‘s Litsy page.

#LitsyChallenges - #ReadingResolutions

LibrarianJen I signed up to to it. The first book of the new year started with letter “D” and the second book I chose coincidentally also starts with “D”. 😑 Good thing I picked the mixed title/author option. 7y
Jess7 I chose the mixed option too! @LibrarianJen - I‘m going to try to do it, but I‘m not going to let it interfere with my reading mood. I hope to accomplish it, but I‘m not going to worry too much about it if it doesn‘t pan out :-) 7y
Pamwurtzler I signed up again this year- it was fun and I found that it didn‘t interfere with mood reading except for X and Z. Those were more of a challenge but I still found good books. (edited) 7y
Jess7 That‘s great @Pamwurtzler - I already have a good one planned for Z - author, Leni Zumas‘ Book (it was one of the #botm choices this time) - 7y
enidkeaner I‘m doing this too! I‘m doing the mixed track and I‘m going to try and complete it using my TBR list. 7y
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BookFreakOut
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Ta-daaaaa! #LitsyAtoZ 2017 is complete! Couldn‘t believe I ended up with two options for V, one ended up on O. Also, way too many titles and names begin with A, C, and R. Leigh Bardugo wins with three on this list; I filled it in as things fit and read several of hers in January. Fun, low-key challenge if you‘re looking to join in next year!

Bookzombie Great job! 7y
Daisey Congratulations! 🎉 7y
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laurieluna
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Got the toddler a leapstart for Christmas. It's all he's wanted to play with which makes me pretty proud! Learning his alphabet here. 😄 He also appears to be a lefty like his mum!
#raisingreaders #kidsoflitsy

starlight97 Yay lefties! 😁 7y
RiotMom My son is a surprise lefty! 7y
Libby1 My son is, too! 😃 7y
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TrishB Awww ❤️ 7y
MatchlessMarie I was thinking about getting something like this for my nonverbal 6 year old who is a sometimes lefty 😜 7y
DGRachel Hooray for lefties!!😍 7y
laurieluna @MatchlessMarie theres books for a range of stages, so I'm sure it would suit them! Theres loads of activities in every book. 7y
Chelleo We have a lefty too! 7y
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CocoReads
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#LitsyAtoZ is back for 2018! Follow @BookishMarginalia for the link to sign up. I‘m so excited, out of all the challenges I tried last year, this is the only one I completed.

BookishMarginalia Thanks for reposting. And it was my only completed challenge too! ✅ (edited) 7y
CocoReads Always happy to spread the Litsy challenge love! 7y
KellyK A few more chapters and I will have the 2017 #AtoZ challenge complete. My problem in completing the book is I‘m perusing books to potentially read for the 2018 challenge! 🤓📚❤️ (edited) 7y
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CocoReads @KellyK I‘m super tired tonight but that‘s part of my plans for tomorrow. Do very little outside of reading, writing, and planning. 😄 7y
Sehdcce I just registered this evening - yay!!! I'm eager for opportunities to be positive about in 2018, so thank you @BookishMarginalia !😁 7y
LeticiaToraci I'm in, can you use author's names? 6y
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mrsmarch
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#LitsyAtoZ 2018 is here! I‘m going to sign up and see how I do, maybe it will help me over any reading slumps (there‘s always a reading slump).

BookishMarginalia Yey! It‘s the only challenge I‘ve ever managed to complete 🤷🏻‍♀️💪🏼 7y
mrsmarch @BookishMarginalia So I‘m doing this one and #PassportLitsy, the two should get me through the year. 😅 7y
trueisa4letterword This sounds cool! I just signed up. 7y
Andrew65 @mrsmarch Ditto, they are the two I am doing as well. 7y
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No_One
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Inspired by @emmaturi I think I will complete an #atozreadingchallenge2018. I am pretty sure I have enough paper and audiobooks on my TBR shelves to succeed! 📚🔤🇨🇦📆🤓
Who wants to join me? 😃
Oops, I see I should have included #LitsyAtoZ !

MiyakoBunny Is that your TBR shelf? 😍 7y
No_One @MiyakoBunny fortunately/ unfortunately, yes. Every January 1 I think “Let‘s not buy any books this year and just read what I have.” and this resolution promptly falls apart within days. 😕 7y
MiyakoBunny No sad faces *high five* 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I think that resolution was meant to be broken 😎 7y
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No_One @MiyakoBunny lol! Okay, it‘s a deal! 😀 7y
emmaturi Cool! I nearly made it but didn't read any books by authors beginning with X, U and Y! 7y
No_One @emmaturi oh no, does it have to be authors‘ names? Those would be hard! Z would be hard! I hope it‘s okay if I do book titles first. Maybe 2019 can be author names..... 😉. Anyway, that is fantastic progress! I hope to do as well. 🙂 7y
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Leelee.reads
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Instead of choosing titles by letter, I wrote down the titles as read, to see how my #litsyatoz panned out. These are most but not all my titles so far. I had whole months with no reading outside book clubs due to my job (the irony of being an English teacher is there is no time to read your own books) but am happy about the many wonderful books I did read. “W” had the most titles. Who would have guessed?

8little_paws I recently reorganized my library because my BF moved in and we wanted to consolidate our books. I did fiction in author alpha order and wss really surprised at the popularity of some letters (C, M, W) I expected a lot of S, barely any. 7y
Hooked_on_books I keep running into Ws as well. Weird! 7y
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autumnlupin
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so close! only C, O, and Y to go. #litsyatoz

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night_shift
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I decided to cut back my yearly reading challenges by half. I'm keeping this one, Litsy bingo, the Read Harder Challenge, and the summer Bingo my library is doing. Plus, right now the roadtrip. So. Yeah!

I made a big, prettier page for my A-Z Author Challenge.. I've only got 9 left! Suggestions??

#atozchallenge #readingchallenge

VanChocStrawberry Oh! What's Litsy Bingo? 7y
VanChocStrawberry It's romance and very silly, but Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series would be a very quick read for Q! 7y
night_shift @VanChocStrawberry you can get a bingo card here, but it's also got a lot of suggestions for the challenges! https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/205023-litsy-reading-challenge-2017 7y
night_shift @VanChocStrawberry I'm not typically into romances, but that's an idea for Q.. I'll have to look into it, thanks! 7y
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Roselyn_Reads
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The #litsyatozreadingchallenge is the only challenge in which I've made a dent. I'm really not good at keeping up with the challenges especially if plan my reading. I'm more of a random reader and grab whatever I'm in the mood for. I've tried a TBR jar to help me keep up with the challenges but in the end I end up grabbing a different book. 😨

celtichik I have my kindle linked with goodreads which would be perfect in a no bail world. Unfortunately, I bail. 7y
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Sweettartlaura
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Oh hey... Look what I did a couple days ago... Finished my #litsyatoz title track! Notes below...

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SharonGoforth
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I'm visiting with my daughter and her family this week. This is my daughter and grandson learning letters. He'll be reading before we know it! #raisingreaders

LauraBeth How precious! 😍😍 7y
SharonGoforth @LauraBeth Thank you 😊 7y
Alfoster Too cute!😀 7y
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SharonGoforth @Alfoster Thanks! 😊 7y
Cinfhen Precious...enjoy family time 💓 7y
SharonGoforth @Cinfhen I am, thanks! 7y
kspenmoll Such a wonderful@photo of both!!❤️📚 7y
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cleoh
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#LitsyAtoZ made it to Booktube! The video is by LittleBookOwl if anyone is interested :) @BookishMarginalia

melbeautyandbooks Yay! I need to find good booktubers to watch. I will check out her channel. Thanks for sharing! 8y
cleoh @melbeautyandbooks I also really like Katytastic and Jessethereader! 8y
Michelle_mck Love an Aussie YouTuber! You may like these to @melbeautyandbooks @kdwinchester and @SavidgeReads are my fav booktubers 8y
melbeautyandbooks @cleoh @Michelle_mck - Thanks ladies! I will watch their channels. 8y
ephemeralwaltz I love her 👌 8y
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drbethandherkindle
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I've been lazy about updating my progress on #LitsyAtoZ so here is a snapshot! 16 read, 10 to go!!

Reviewsbylola Great progress! 8y
tpixie Wow! And it's only March! 8y
Wife I'm enjoying this challenge! Great progress!🌹 8y
Pixelsmummy ❤️ this idea. 8y
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Roselyn_Reads
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The #litsyreadingchallenge Bingo card is so helpful in keeping me in check and on track that I made a similar one to help me with my #litsyAtoZ challenge. Work in progress. I have to remember to read from my TBR books for my challenges. I tend to stay in one genre for a while and these challenges are helping me read across genres and books that I own and haven't read.

MrBook I like the table layout, very nice 😊👍🏻. 8y
Cinfhen Very clever💡 8y
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8little_paws
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@BookishFeminist and @becausetrains encouraged me to join #litsyatoz as a way to knock out a bunch of unread books sitting on my shelves and kindle here at home. Turns out I only need to borrow one book from the library, I can do the other 25 from books I already own! So count me in after all!

SharonGoforth 👏👏👏😊 8y
Suzze Yay! I'm doing it with my own books too. 8y
8little_paws @suzze at first I was like, nah I got enough to read, but they showed me I could just knock out 25 more of my tbr that I was going to read anyways! 8y
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jpmcwisemorgan This challenge is really helping me out too! 8y
BookishFeminist That was quick!! 😂 I'm glad you can get to so much of your backlist. I'm so excited for 2017! 8y
8little_paws @BookishFeminist I literally just went to my spreadsheet of books I own and grabbed the first one for each letter than jumped out at me. Completely random in that way. 8y
BookishFeminist @8little_paws That's a great way to do it honestly. I was really indecisive about my list and this would have been a good way for me to decide faster. 8y
BeersAndBooks Oh man I've got People's History on my list as well and it's such a beast! So happy and excited to read it, finally! 8y
Zelma I like the idea of doing this completely from my own shelves. I might try to do this and my bingo challenge solely from my books. (edited) 8y
Theresa I'm doing the same thing. I was able to fill the prompts for 3 different challenges from my bookshelf with no crossover. Now the bigger challenge is to not add to my TBR at the same time I'm trying to chip away at it. 😆 8y
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Leelee.reads
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I pulled all the titles I needed for #LitsyAtoZ from my TBR except Q, X and Z. (Doing title version.) Looking forward to this alphabetical adventure through my TBR pile! Guessing many of us will pull same titles at times, which adds to the fun! 📚📖 @BookishMarginalia

Little_Reader I'm also stuck on Q and X. After an extensive search for Z as well, I pick Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. 8y
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Leelee.reads @Little_Reader @Riveted_Reader_Melissa those look great! Thanks for the recommendations! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Leelee.reads They are both on my to read list, so hopefully they are both good. 8y
Zelma @Leelee.reads @Little_Reader Q by Evan Mandery 8y
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Signed up for @BookishMarginalia 's #litsyatoz reading challenge, and had fun making a list/heap from my shelves. Only Q and X missing. In reality, I'm sure I'll read quite randomly, but it gives me no excuse not to clear some of my tbr.

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KarenUK Slum dog millionaire source material.... 8y
rockpools @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Thank you! One of the things I really like about litsy is being around nonfiction readers. I've read Quiet, but not this. Will add both! 8y
rockpools @KarenUK Thank you! That's one I have been wanting to read! 8y
Eyelit I'm doing the same thing: using the challenge to clear up some of my tbr pile... only letters I have to outsource to library are q, x, and y 😁 8y
rockpools @Eyelit Somehow I have lots of authors called Young in the heap. I just know I'll wander iff to the library for loads of these tho. And I stumbled across cozies set on the Isle of Man for X author! Can't wait 😀 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @RachelO I'm definitely reading more non-fiction then ever before with all the great recommendations on Litsy. 8y
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For the nerd in me...

Yossarian What's it about? 9y
SharonGoforth @Yossarian It's about the origins of the English alphabet, with a chapter for each letter. I think it will be fascinating 😊 9y
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