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I finished the first quarter of #Booked2023!
1 Part of a trilogy
2 About reproductive rights (far fetched, I know)
3 Quiet YA
4 Using the word Twist
5 About a pandemic
6 Proper noun in title

On to the next quarter, of which I‘ve read a few books already.

Another one for #Pantone2023 @Clwojick

Final quarter and finished up #booked22 !
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

Booked was a good novel that was easy to read, yet had a good couple of life lessons and morals to learn from it. I enjoyed it because it was never too boring.

And finally, my #fall picks for #booked2023!

*as always, these are subject to change*

My #summer picks for #booked2023!

*as always, these are subject to change*

These are my #spring picks for #booked2023!

*as always, these are subject to change*

Okay, I‘ve come up with possibilities for #booked2023! These are my #winter picks.

*as always, these are subject to change*

My initial ideas for #Booked2023 #Fall @alisiakae @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

My initial ideas for #Booked2023 #Summer @alisiakae @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

My initial ideas for #Booked2023 #Spring @alisiakae @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

My initial ideas for #Booked2023 #Winter @alisiakae @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage

19 Dark Academia
20 Coming out
21 Hope Punk
22 Think Greek
23 Adapted for small screen
24 HIV

With these I finished #Booked2022 and now I can totally focus and look forward to #Booked2023, yay!

My big boy (10 yrs) reading a few pages while he waits to get his braces. 🦷

First ideas… #summer #booked2023 💕☀️

First ideas… #fall #booked2023 🍁💕

First ideas #spring #booked2023…. 🌷💕

So this, and the next 3 posts are my first ideas for #booked2023 picking from my physical shelves/my kindle/digital ARCs etc…… which I know are going to change but it‘s always fun planning anyway!
Thanks to the hosts for another great bunch of prompts! 💕
#winter ❄️

Repost for @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @alisiakae

We‘re super excited to share the 24 new prompts for #Booked2023 a yearly reading challenge split into quarters (seasons) ♥️This is a no pressure fun way to enhance your reading throughout the year as we celebrate national & international events 🤓Below is the sign up link and additional information 👇🏽

https://forms.gle/VqNnym5EqfFHxEsf6

Congrats to our third quarter winner @julieclair 🎉💕🎉 and many thanks to everyone else who entered our #Booked2022 drawing♥️There‘s still one quarter left to go and watch this space for #Booked2023 details coming soon😁 Julie please see info below 👇🏽

#booked2022 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae
Only two read this quarter…. But enjoyed both very much…. #authorborninafrica #nauticalnovel
8 left for the final quarter…. Hoping I make it!

With these books I finished the third quarter of #Booked2022:

13- Includes a recipe
14 - Set in a Canadian province
15 - Involves an exploration
16 - About sisters
17 - New in 2022
18 - Set in a hotel

Favorite is Subdivision, the least one is Our Country Friends.

Just 7 prompts this quarter…. So 10 more to go…..
#booked2022
I really enjoyed all of these…. And this challenge always pushes me outside my comfort zone…
3 Non fiction! Some YA! And Fantasy! 😌📚💕

I finished the second quarter of #Booked2022 already! The books I chose are:

1. About a fictional royal: The Shadow King
2. Written by a journalist: The House at Sugar Beach
3. Author born in Africa: We Need New Names
4. Make your own prompt (A Dutch book): We Slaves of Surinam
5. A nautical novel: The Still Point
6. A murder mystery: The Aosawa Murders

Half of them I used for #ReadingAfrica2022 too but I‘m always happy to #doubledip 😇

1st quarter #booked2022 - Finished 6 from different seasons and only two were on my original plan. 😂😂
#1-Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit (surprisingly good)
#4-Issac‘s Storm by Erik Larson (better than expected)
#6-Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (exactly as awful as anticipated)
#8-Moneyland by Oliver Bullough (okay)
#12-Cruel is the Night by Karo Hamalainen (#LMPBC)
#13-The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya (CM Library Community Read)

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😁Hi #Booked2022 friends!!
Hard to believe, but it‘s time to fill out the forms for #FirstQuarterDrawing🎊📚

You have until Midnight April 3 to submit all books read between Jan 1-March 31🧭

https://forms.gle/dccxLGKSdpfxVPc26

🌻You must use the above form to enter drawing but PLEASE share your reads on Litsy too!

We ♥️seeing your posts
@4thhouseontheleft @barbarathebibliophage @Cinfhen

😁Hi #Booked2022 friends!!
Hard to believe, but it‘s time to fill out the forms for #FirstQuarterDrawing🎊📚

You have until Midnight April 3 to submit all books read between Jan 1-March 31🧭

https://forms.gle/dccxLGKSdpfxVPc26

🌻You must use the above form to enter drawing but PLEASE share your reads on Litsy too!

We ♥️seeing your posts
@4thhouseontheleft @barbarathebibliophage @Cinfhen

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft #booked2022
Seven so far…. From all different seasons! I actually really enjoyed all of these, except bibliolepsy was well written but surprisingly not my thing….📚🤷‍♀️

I completed the first quarter of #Booked2022. I am still enjoying this challenge a lot!

1 About religion: Priestdaddy
2 Title repeats itself: What is the what
3 Set in China: Land of big numbers
4 Weather term in title: The boy who harnessed the wind
5 From a black owned publisher: Baho!
6 About a non-patriarchal society: Wij zijn licht (Dutch)

SO to @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft for all the work! 😘

😁Hi #Booked2022 friends!!
Hard to believe, but it‘s time to fill out the forms for #FirstQuarterDrawing🎊📚
You have until Midnight April 3 to submit all books read between Jan 1-March 31🧭 use link below to enter:

https://forms.gle/dccxLGKSdpfxVPc26

🌻You must use the form for drawing entry but PLEASE share your reads on Litsy too!
We ♥️seeing your posts

Visit @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage and @Cinfhen for more info

This review is for the graphic novel or illustrated version of Booked. As with Alexander‘s Crossover, it‘s about much more than sports. In this one, Nick deals with some difficult situations while also playing soccer. He has a great support system in his family, best friend, and the school librarian. There are also a lot of literary references and interesting vocabulary with definition footnotes.

#NetGalley #MiddleGrade #BookedGraphicNovel

In 2022, I‘m going to focus my #bookspin and #doublespin efforts on the books that are 1/2 finished and have been skipped over (for what feels like) many years! I love a list!

And with these books read in the second half of the year…. I‘m all done with #booked2021
Thank you so much for organizing this fun challenge… can‘t wait to start on 2022!

I‘m done!
I‘m in the process of trying to switch over from Goodreads to StoryGraph, and actually having some luck now that they have an app. 🤞🏼 for next year to be properly recorded on StoryGraph. In the process of switching I realized one of the things I really like about StoryGraph is the way they record challenges, and I found that really helpful for finishing up #Booked2021 That‘s one of my goals for #WrapItUpReadathon completed!

Yay!! I‘m finished with #BOOKED2021!!! I loved this challenge. It pushed me out of my comfort zone and led me to genres I never knew I would enjoy! Thank you to all of the hosts. I‘m ready for 2022!

#Booked2022 My #Autumn choices:

19 dark academia: In the Freud archives
20 a coming out story: At swim, two boys
21 hopepunk: The Anthropocene reviewed
22 mythology retelling: A thousand ships
23 adapted for small screen: Vanity Fair
24 MC living with aids: Splendor

#Booked2022 My #Summer choices:

13 includes a recipe: Green fried tomatoes at the…
14 set in Canada: The tenderness of wolves
15 involves an exploration: An African in Greenland
16 about sisters: The Makioka sisters
17 new in 2022: The trees
18 set in a hotel: The diver‘s clothes lie empty

#Booked2022 My #Spring choices:

7 about a royal: She would be king
8 written by a journalist: Blood river
9 author born in Africa: We need new names
10 own prompt (Dutch): Dit is mijn hof
11 nautical: And the sea will tell
12 murder mystery: The Aosawa murders

I‘ve finally come up with my plans for #Booked2022. They will no doubt change completely but I think it‘s fair to assume a lot of them will be used for #ReadingAfrica2022 as well.

Here are my #Winter choices:

1 about religion: Matrix
2 title repeats itself: What is the What
3 set in China: Land of Big Numbers
4 weather term in title: Empire of the Sun
5 black-owned publisher: Baho!
6 eco-feminist: Wij zijn licht (Dutch)

Lastly, #Fall #Booked2021 Another list with some hard prompts!
#19-Dark Academia: The Secret History
#20-a coming out story: Fun Home
#21-HopePunk: We Set the Dark on Fire
#22-mythology retelling: The Witch‘s Heart
#23-adapted for small screen: Lost Girls
#24-MC/Author with AIDS/about the AIDS epidemic: Nobody Ever Said AIDS

Initial proposed list for #Booked2022 #Summer
#13-include a recipe: The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
#14-set in Canada: The Matchmaker‘s List
#15-involves exploration: The Arctic Fury
#16-about sisters: The Once and Future Witches
#17-New in 2022: Sloth Sleeps Over
#18-set in an inn, lodge, or hotel: Jamaica Inn

#Booked2022 #Spring These were a little less challenging, except I got stuck on the difference between a journalist, contributing writer, etc.
#7-about a Royal: The Summer Queen
#8-by a journalist: Evicted
#9-Five Nights Before the Summit
#10-Make Your Own Prompt “Related to things I make (quilts)”: Quilt or Innocence
#11-nautical novel: The Deep
#12-murder mystery: The Decagon House Murders

I‘ve got my list together for #Booked2022 #Winter. For the record, some of these were really hard! I‘ll be interested to see how close the reality comes to this, because it will change. 😂
#1-about cult/religion: Behold
#2-repeating title: The City & The City
#3-set in China: The Firemaker
#4-weather term: The Storm Runner
#5-Black-owned publisher: Sweet Dreams Young Savage
#6-non-patriarchal society: Herland

And finally #fall ideas for #booked2022 💕📚

#summer #booked2022 ideas…. Subject to many changes along the way…. 😉💕📚

And the planning continues…. Spring for #booked2022 is looking like this so far…. Obviously subject to MANY changes! 😉

Started some #booked2022 planning…… which of course means these are all likely to change! 😉📚

Summer 2021 is complete (I read four of these this quarter. The others were completed earlier). I actually only have three prompts left on the Fall list and I will have finished the entire challenge. I‘m really excited about that!

#booked2021