BacklistReadathon

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#BacklistReadathon for 2024. 30 books read, 6, DNFd.

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic year!! I really fell off the bandwagon with this challenge 😂 5mo

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willaful

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@TheAromaOfBooks @clwojick will there be a #BacklistReadathon for 2025? I'm trying to figure out if I need to save spaces in my bookspin bingo list.

TheAromaofBooks I am not planning to host that challenge this year, and Cassandra is busy with her baby 💕 💕 💕 so she hasn't been very active on Litsy lately - I don't think she's going to host any challenges this year. So it's up for grabs if you want to host it!! 😂 5mo

willaful Oh gosh, I don't know if I'm up to the responsibility! 😂 I'll think about it. 5mo

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kwmg40

A Question of Blood | Ian Rankin

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A very good installment in the Inspector Rebus series, in which Rebus investigates a school shooting that involves a family connection.

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks
#ChristmasAtoZ #letterQ @TexReader
#ChristmasCrimeChallenge (thriller) @RaeLovesToRead
#BookSpinBingo #BacklistReadathon @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
#SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

kwmg40 #gottacatchemallwinteredition (hot) #FrozenSick
This book satisfies my final prompt for #gottacatchemall “Corsola: Grey cover“ (mostly grey anyhow), and I've now caught them all! @PuddleJumper

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TheSpineView Well done! 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 5mo

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Andrew65 Love this series and really need to get back to. I‘m on about book 14. 5mo

bookaholic1 This is such a great series 5mo

Zuhkeeyah Congrats on catching all the pokemon! 5mo

kwmg40 @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks Thanks! 5mo

kwmg40 @Andrew65 @bookaholic1 I agree. I've been reading this series mostly in order so far, though I've had to skip a couple that weren't easily accessible to me, and I appreciate the development of Rebus's character and his relationships with those around him. 5mo

kwmg40 @Zuhkeeyah Thanks! I really enjoyed the Pokemon challenge this year and look forward to the 2025 challenge. @PuddleJumper 5mo

Andrew65 @kwmg40 Definitely an interesting character. 5mo

PuddleJumper I've updated your graphics thingy - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ob9B6xEtuHlKAYrSRzkI_vDCx81Ji-1l?usp=sha... 4mo

kwmg40 @PuddleJumper Thank you! 4mo

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OutsmartYourShelf

All of a Winter's Night | Phil Rickman

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This penultimate (for now) book in the series examines the dark side of....Morris dancing. Yes the traditionally twee pastime involving dressing in a costume, with bells, & banging wooden sticks together! I might have been more incredulous had I not read a book earlier this year (or last year) about the old practice of wassailing & its more sinister side.

OutsmartYourShelf Merrily is still dealing with the coterie of modernisers within the Church who want to root out anything 'medieval', including Deliverance aka exorcism. Elsewhere her daughter Jane continues to not return her boyfriend's calls or texts & then worries (not irrationally) that he may have moved on. 3.5🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2232459413
Read 9th-15th Dec 2024

3630 points (including 291 words found) 5mo

OutsmartYourShelf #WinterGames2024 #XmasChaCha #ChristmasChapterChasers @staycurious #Readaway2024 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @andrew65
#Adventathon @BookmarkTavern
#AVeryScaryChristmas #AVeryMerryBingo @Jadams89
#WinterClearDown #WinterCosy #FrozenSick (D4 to F3 - Read next in a series) @puddlejumper #BacklistReadathon @clwojick @TheAromaOfBooks
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView #ReindeerReadathon (Donner & Christmas Lights)
#52BookClubReadathon2024 5mo

willaful I actually have a friend who does Morris Dancing! I hope she never reads this. 😉
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DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 5mo

TheSpineView Fantastic!🤩📖📚 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo

Andrew65 Excellent 🎄☃️🎅🏼 5mo

BookmarkTavern Congrats! 5mo

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kwmg40

The Truth | Terry Pratchett

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Pratchett's satirical look at news, politics and “the truth“ seems frighteningly representative of today's world, despite the fact that it was written a quarter-century ago and involves some hilariously ridiculous situations.

#OokBOokClub @julesG
#BacklistReadathon @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
#SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

TheSpineView I felt this book aged well. 5mo

julesG @TheSpineView Shockingly so. 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo

Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 5mo

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willaful

An Almost Perfect Christmas | Nina Stibbe

Slight but fun collection of memoirs and opinion pieces about Christmas, with a few darker-edged short stories that have more... ahem... meat on their bones. The tale of sweet Timmy the Turkey is hilariously awful, as is a descent into madness caused by a Christmas lunch. As an American, I enjoyed all the British-isms.

#WinterGames Team #XmasChaCha
#GingerbreadJourney
#ChristmasAtoZ Letter A

Texreader, Bookwormjillk, StayCurious

Texreader Reminder each short story counts as a different letter since each one counts as one book for #wintergames! 5mo

willaful @Texreader ?!

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willaful I knew I was forgetting something: #BacklistReadathon @TheAromaOfBooks @clwojick 5mo

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Bookwormjillk 🦃🦃🦃 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo

willaful @TexReader Wait a minute, does that mean each story counts for individual readathon points too? 😯 5mo

Texreader @willaful yes!! 5mo

willaful @Texreader Ay caramba! I've been shortchanging myself. 😂 5mo

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willaful

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Still reading Jonathan Strange... and listening to Thank You for Listening. So didn't exactly get a bingo. Pretty good month though.

#BacklistReadathon:
“Metal Like Blood in the Dark” by T. Kingfisher
“Glamour” by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

#TBRTarot book, S for Shaina: Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan

Clwojick, CBee, TheAromaofBooks

CarolynM Are you enjoying Thank You For Listening? I had a good time with it. 5mo

willaful @CarolynM Yes, just haven't had much time for listening. 5mo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fabulous month!! 5mo

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OutsmartYourShelf

Kindred In Death | J. D. Robb

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Captain MacMasters & his wife return from their vacation & find the body of their 16-year-old daughter. Brutally assaulted & murdered, Deena went through hell before she died, & her parents want Lieutenant Eve Dallas as lead. As the team start to look for the perp, he seems to be one step ahead: fake ID, avoiding CCTV, uploading a virus into the victim's security system, & it looks as if Deena may not have been the only victim he has lined up.

OutsmartYourShelf Another one in this series that I have supposedly already read but don't remember a thing about it. I'm beginning to think someone used that flashy thing from 'Men in Black' on me. It's a good book in the series but if this was a TV show I would say this is more a filler episode than one that significantly moves the narrative on. There's a little lighter fare with the wedding of Eve's friends, Charles & Louise, & she juggles the case with her 6mo

OutsmartYourShelf duties as Louise's Matron of Honor. Finally, I know she is not the main character, but sometimes I'd like Peabody to have the chance to shine a bit more. 4🌟

TW: if sexual assault is a trigger for you, then please note that the details on this & the injuries left are rather graphic so please be aware of that.

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/570431312
Read 20th-25th Nov 2024 6mo

OutsmartYourShelf #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#BacklistReadathon @clwojick @TheAromaOfBooks
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView 6mo

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo

TheSpineView Awesome! 6mo

DieAReader 🥳🥳Excellent!! 6mo

Andrew65 Brilliant. Another popular series 👏👏👏 6mo

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Lauredhel

Reading Challenge | Lesley Yates

I've signed up for three 2025 #readingchallenges already, and it's not even December! #WickedWords is a given of course if it's running, #ISpyBingo I very much enjoy, and I like the look of the prompts for #booklistqueenchallenge25 too. And I'll be running Four Fours again, hashtagged #fourfoursin25 this time.

What are you thinking of signing up for? Or running?

#readingchallenge #2025readingchallenges

Lauredhel @TheAromaOfBooks @asyouwish @thebacklistbook @clwojick @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16
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Lauredhel Oh and we totally should do Pantone again #Pantone2025 @PuddleJumper @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @IndoorDame @Eggs @mariaku21 @Enchanted_Bibliophile @Itchyfeetreader @AmyG @peanutnine @BookwormAHN @OriginalCyn620 @Librariana @EmilyCGreene @julieclair 6mo

OriginalCyn620 I totally dropped the ball with this year‘s Pantone challenge, but if it comes back for 2025, I will do better! 🤪 6mo

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PuddleJumper I completely forgot about the Pantone challenge. #Roll100 #GottaCatchemAll #QueerBC will continue in 2025. I've also got a prompt maze #FrozenSick which is a whenever thing and #ReadYourDamnDanmei I think that's all 6mo

Lauredhel @OriginalCyn620 I've just starting yoinking colours for a #pantone2025 colour chart, so if no one else steps up to do it, it will still be happening! 6mo

Lauredhel @PuddleJumper OMG so many to explore! 6mo

Jas16 I think that 2025 is going to be a challenge free year for me. 6mo

Lauredhel @Jas16 enjoy your reading! 6mo

AmyG I am only doing a challenge that requires books I own. It‘s out of control over here. 🤣 So….Bookspin, Author-a-Month if I have the author, TBR Tarot. My only exception to my rule is the Sunday Buddy Read. 6mo

Enchanted_Bibliophile Another one on my 2025 list 🤩 6mo

Born.A.Reader @AmyG that's the one I need to do. My owned TBR is soo out of control 😅 6mo

thebacklistbook I'm doing a few challenges. For next year I'm still plugging away at read the world, the owls, #fictionaltraveler , and #tbronly2025, I am still deciding about #frozensick . I am of course running my #yuletidereads starting December 21. 6mo

willaful Definitely doing BookSpin , QueerBC, and adding Roll100 this year. I love Four Fours! Will continue #BacklistReadathon and #TBRTarot if they're on. And finishing up #192025!

@Jas16 Do what makes you happy! 6mo

willaful Oh, I forgot @Faranae's #URC. 6mo

Faranae @willaful 😭How could you forget my URC? (😆) 6mo

willaful @Faranae I know! I've got a list a mile long of possible prompts! 6mo

mariaku21 I'm always game to do Pantone reading @Lauredhel amongst any others but I'm not thinking about 2025. I still have books this year 😭🤣 6mo

BookwormAHN I'm not sure how many challenges I'm doing now. I host #StarWarsBuddyRead and I've joined #BookSpin with #ReadOrDonate plus #TBRTarot #LosersClub #AuthorAMonth and a few others however I'd Iike to Pantone again since I usually can match the books I'm already reading and don't usually have to look to hard for them. 6mo

Lauredhel @Enchanted_Bibliophile Cool, I haven't seen many others doing Booklist Queen's challenge on Litsy!

  @TheBacklistBook Just added #FictionalTraveler to my list. The more the merrier, I can always trim later if I'm not managing.

  @willaful #URC I have not heard of before *scuttles off to join* @Faranae   

@mariaku21 @BookwormAHN I'll be organising #Pantone2025 over the next week or so. Stay tuned   6mo

TheAromaofBooks Lots of fun challenges in this thread!! I'm already entangling myself in way too many buddy reads as usual 😂 I'm especially excited about once again trying to read all of Agatha Christie's books in published order, this time lead by @Librarybelle I'm also finishing her #192025 challenge. #ISpyBingo will be back, and I also do my personal challenges of trying to read the USA and read at least one book from every year of the last 100 years. ⬇ 6mo

TheAromaofBooks I'm also joining @julieclair 's challenge for #FictionalTraveler as well as whichever #GottaCatchEmAll region @PuddleJumper chooses - plus #Roll100 !! I'm interested in the Pantone Challenge which I did in 2023 but not last year, so I'll keep my eye out for that one as well!! 6mo

Lauredhel @TheAromaofBooks I'll add you to the pantone tag list 6mo

julieclair @lauredhel I‘ll add you to the #FictionalTraveler tag list! Glad you‘re joining us! 6mo

julieclair I‘m doing too many, but I can‘t resist! Several of the ones already mentioned here, as well as #LiteraryCrew with @Librarybelle , #BookedInTime with @Cuilin , #LittensLoveRomance with @StayCurious , and #RandomClassics with @TheAromaofBooks . 6mo

julieclair I‘ll be hosting #FictionalTraveler , #ThematicCozies (will post about that soon) , and continuing #ReadOrDonate for 2025. 6mo

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willaful

Little Stranger | Sarah Waters

Oooo, so dark and creepy! It starts off cozy and then turns on you. A very disturbing read that has many possible interpretations.

#BookSpin #BacklistReadathon #10BeforeTheEnd Number 3

Clwojick, TheAromaofBooks, ChaoticMissAdventures

TheBookHippie She writes so well!!! 6mo

ChaoticMissAdventures I love Sarah Waters! If you don't follow YouTuber Simon Savage he is interviewing her in January and having a read along of a couple of her books. Glad you enjoyed this one ✅ 6mo

willaful @ChaoticMissAdventures Thanks! 6mo

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Ruthiella I absolutely love the ending in this book- so many ways to interpret it. 6mo

willaful @Ruthiella The last line is incredible! 6mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo

Kimzey Spoooky photo! Love it! 6mo

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