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BarbaraBB
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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Meg, Helen and I are so glad you are as thrilled as we are about #CampLitsy24: 74 people voted, which is a new record!
@Chelsea.Poole was it so CLEAR that Clear would be one of the selected books 🤣? You were right: it will be our first June read, followed by Butter. We hope you‘re happy with these first books!
I‘ll be your host in June & will get back to you with the reading schedule. Tomorrow check Meg‘s thread: she‘ll announce the July reads!

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ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB Excited! Getting on those library lists! 8h
Prairiegirl_reading This is great! I already got Clear just because of the long list! I‘m excited to read it! Thanks for taking the time to encourage me to join! 😊 8h
BarbaraBB @Prairiegirl_reading And there‘s more to come. We‘ll be reading some great books and it will be so fun to discuss them during Camp! Glad you‘ve joined! 8h
sarahbarnes Very excited for these choices! I just learned that a friend‘s daughter was the editor for Clear so now I‘m even more excited to read it. 8h
batsy Nice! Very keen to read both 😍 8h
Leniverse Oh! Yes, super happy. I voted for both of those, and I'm especially looking forward to Clear ❤️ 8h
BarbaraBB @Leniverse Did I tag you twice again?? 8h
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes @batsy @Leniverse Glad you like them! We‘re happy too! Littens do have great taste 😀 8h
RaeLovesToRead Ooh! Not surprised by Butter... not investigated Clear yet though! 💕💕 8h
Leniverse @BarbaraBB Yes, you did 😂 8h
ImperfectCJ I didn't have the bandwidth for voting this time, but I'm totally comfortable having put myself in y'all's capable hands. 😀 Quite excited to read these! 8h
TheBookHippie I‘m in for Clear. 🙃 8h
Kitta So excited for these! I voted for Clear so glad to see it up there 8h
BarbaraBB @Leniverse 🤣 I‘m sorry! 8h
BarbaraBB @ImperfectCJ I missed your votes but you are right, you will enjoy the books votes for! 8h
BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie 👍🏽👍🏽 8h
BarbaraBB @RaeLovesToRead It‘s a short one. I read an earlier book by the author and that one was very readable! 8h
BarbaraBB @Kitta Glad you like them! 8h
Deblovestoread Excited to read both of these! 8h
BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread Yay! I thought you would! 8h
TrishB Brilliant ❤️ look forward to it. 8h
monalyisha Hooray! Thanks for all of your work! 8h
julesG This is what I like about Camp Litsy, it drags me out of my comfort zone. 😉 I had neither book on my radar; well, apart from the nominations. 8h
TheBookHippie @julesG SAME!! It‘s never a book I‘d read 😅 8h
JamieArc Woohoo 🎉 Glad for an excuse to hit the bookstore this weekend to pick them up! And looking forward to what @Megabooks has for us tomorrow! 7h
Suet624 Thank you so much!!! 7h
CBee Thank you ladies ♥️♥️ 7h
jlhammar Yay! I already have Clear and Butter sounds great. Can‘t wait! 7h
kspenmoll Thanks! 7h
Caroline2 Yay! Very happy these two got selected. Can‘t wait!! 😃 6h
AmyG Ooooooo thank you! So excited! 6h
youneverarrived Fab! Look forward to reading them ❤️ 6h
BarbaraJean So excited!! Clear was one of my top choices, but I marked Butter with an “eh” ranking 😂 I‘ve put it on hold anyway and will give it a shot if I can get it in time! 5h
Megabooks Clear just came in at the library for me!! 3h
peaKnit Got my holds placed! 2h
KateReadsYA Yayyy! I voted for Clear. I've placed my hold at the library (: 2h
Soubhiville Woohoo! Can‘t wait to read with you all! 1h
BarbaraBB @TrishB @monalyisha @julesG @TheBookHippie @JamieArc @JenReadsAlot @Suet624 @CBee @jlhammar @kspenmoll @Bookwormjillk @Caroline2 @AmyG @youneverarrived @BarbaraJean @peaKnit @KateReadsYA @Soubhiville I was out tonight, it‘s our King‘s Night, a big celebration where I live, and when I came home I read your reactions and they warm my heart! Looking forward to Camp with you all🤍 5m
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BarbaraBB
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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🚨This is a reminder for anyone who still wants to vote for the #CampLitsy24 books. We‘re closing the voting tomorrow at 9 AM BST (3 AM CDT) and will announce the first two winners (our June reads) later tomorrow. So if you still want to vote, this is your call🚨

Meg, Helen and I do have an idea about who the winners will be and we are thrilled to share them with you 💃💃

In the comments you‘ll find links to the longlist and the voting form!

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TheBookHippie My wallet and I are ready. 👀🤭 1d
Sapphire @TheBookHippie 😎😛🤠 1d
Jess Just in time for Independent Bookstore Day. Can‘t wait to see what I‘m buying! 1d
ChaoticMissAdventures Oh my thanks for the reminder!! In my brain I thought I had the weekend. Getting on this! 1d
Kitta I‘m so excited!!! 1d
Prairiegirl_reading Yay!! In time for independent book store day! I‘ve got a plan to hit three store ma and then get my hair done. 🎉 1d
JenReadsAlot Oh I'm excited!! 1d
Chelsea.Poole Any hints about *CLEAR*winners? 1d
Bookwormjillk What?? So excited 🥳🥳🥳 1d
Bookwormjillk @Chelsea.Poole ha! 1d
Flaneurette I voted! Thank you for organizing all this! 1d
Caroline2 Soooo exciting!!!! 👏 🥳 1d
youneverarrived So excited to find out 😁 1d
squirrelbrain CLEARly no hints here @Chelsea.Poole 🤣 1d
squirrelbrain Oh, good news about independent bookstore day, although we won‘t be announcing the August books until Sunday. @jess @Prairiegirl_reading (edited) 1d
squirrelbrain Thanks for your votes @Flaneurette ! 1d
JamieArc Can‘t wait! 🤩 1d
Deblovestoread So excited! 1d
TrishB Exciting ❤️ 1d
TheKidUpstairs So excited for another great year of camp! 1d
Laughterhp Oo so excited!! 1d
julieclair Woo hoo! Can‘t wait to see the winners! 1d
RaeLovesToRead TOO EXCITED 1d
Ruthiella I voted (I think?). I will check! 1d
Hooked_on_books Ah, teasing us by trickling out the results, I see! Devious! 1d
CatLass007 I read some excellent books with y‘all last year and I had only just come back to Litsy after a long hiatus. My favorite was Bandit Queens and I hope the author is working away at her next book. I learned a lot from Hijab Butch Blues and enjoyed Lamya‘s story. I wish them well. I didn‘t care for Yellowface and it seemed like there were others at Camp who felt the same way. I still don‘t understand how it became such a big hit. I didn‘t (cont)⬇️ 1d
CatLass007 vote last year so I think I‘ll just trust the judgment of my fellow campers again this year. 1d
CBee Yayyyyyy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 22h
BarbaraBB @CatLass007 we do hope and are fairly sure we‘ll read another bunch of great books! 19h
BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books Haha, yes 🙌🏽 19h
AmyG Awesome! 19h
KarenUK I‘m so excited to see the winners…. So many choices it was hard to pick! 9h
BarbaraBB @KarenUK I hope you‘ll like the winners but I am pretty sure you will! 8h
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Soubhiville
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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I am amazed at all of the nominations for #camplitsy this year. This was a really tough decision, and there are so many more I‘m just as interested in reading. But after spending an enjoyable afternoon reading as many blurbs as I could, I wound up voting for these 6. I wonder if any of them will wind up on our camp roster. We‘ll see!

Thank you so much to our hardworking hosts!

Bookwormjillk I have high hopes for Bear! 3d
Soubhiville @Bookwormjillk me too, Disappearing Earth was just so good. 3d
Megabooks I‘m hoping to see Phillips at Parnassus in July! Nice choices. Thanks for voting! 3d
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JamieArc Bear feels likely to make the list. It got one of my votes too! 3d
BarbaraBB Great choices. I want to read Bear too. And Plaka! And A Woman of Pleasure and The Alternatives! (edited) 3d
Caroline2 Great choices! I want to read Bear too. 😃 2d
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DebinHawaii
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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Well that was difficult! (I mean that in the best way!) 😆 Just picked 6 books off the long list for #CampLitsy24
So many great books to pick from & so many I wasn‘t familiar with-which is kind of the beauty of it. Can‘t wait to see what‘s picked!

Check out @BarbaraBB ‘s posts for the list & voting link if you haven‘t yet & want to get your vote in.

Thank you @BarbaraBB @Megabooks & @squirrelbrain for all of the work that goes into camp!🏕️

Megabooks You‘re welcome! So glad you loved the longlist too! 5d
Prairiegirl_reading The longlist really blew up my tbr but making my picks was fun! 5d
BarbaraBB All those books I hadn‘t heard of yet made my head spin 😀 5d
squirrelbrain Such a great longlist! 5d
SaceReads I‘m looking forward to seeing the results. If I may, I will be a lurker. 😊 5d
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JamieArc
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You know it‘s serious work when I pull out my computer for Litsy. Worked on my shortlist for #CampLitsy24 and my votes are in! It was hard to narrow down. I‘m curious what the shortlist will be!
Mad props to whoever prepared the spreadsheet - that made it much easier!

Megabooks That would be @squirrelbrain !! She‘s amazing at spreadsheets!! Glad you enjoyed pursuing it. 😁 5d
squirrelbrain You know I love a spreadsheet @Megabooks ! 🤣 Off to check out your votes now, Jamie, and add them on to my *other* spreadsheet! 5d
BarbaraBB Helen is a real spreadsheet 🧙 wizard! Thanks for joining Jamie! 5d
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Prairiegirl_reading Can I still join? I‘m not 100% clear on how it works and am reluctant to join because of that but also always regretful when it‘s actually happening. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 5d
JamieArc @Prairiegirl_reading After we all vote, our Camp Litsy Counselors will announce the 6 books that we will be reading together this summer. 2 books each month. They will post a schedule, and there will be questions each week for us to discuss. You can join for as many or as few as you like. If you check out @LitsyEvents you can find the list of all books submitted to choose from as well as a link to a form for your 6 top choices. 5d
JamieArc @squirrelbrain I love a good spreadsheet too 🤓. I appreciated how easy it was to copy from the master list into my own spreadsheet! 5d
squirrelbrain Of course you can still join in @Prairiegirl_reading ! As Jamie said, check out either @LitsyEvents or @BarbaraBB for the long list of books to choose from, and the voting form. Once the 6 books have been chosen, you can join in buddy reads of some or all of them - it‘s all very flexible! 5d
squirrelbrain You should see my spreadsheet that minters the voting, Jamie! I keep sharing updates with @BarbaraBB and @Megabooks - I get so excited by it! 🤪 5d
JamieArc @squirrelbrain I can only imagine 😂 5d
monalyisha I grabbed my laptop, too. 😂 5d
yourfavouritemixtape Haha, I did the same! Can‘t remember the last time I logged into Litsy via computer-browser :) 4d
youneverarrived Just done the same 😂 4d
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LitsyEvents
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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Original post https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2726565

#CampLitsy24 longlist!!
Although we limited the amount of nominations to 4 this year, we still have an extensive list of over a 100 books!
List
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1iQ7oQlt8wDxGcYpALoW0aPaCQXD-SeMQ/edit?usp=docsli...
Vote
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetrJPkP9fSZSNIy-KnMrx-OhqbKlz_EJ2LVjQe...

Megabooks Thank you for sharing both links!! 5d
BarbaraBB Thank you so much 😊 5d
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JenReadsAlot
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I'm so excited to see what gets picked! @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @squirrelbrain

BarbaraBB Me too! So many good ones!! Thank you for joining and sharing 🩵 5d
Megabooks Me too! Thank you for voting! 5d
squirrelbrain Thanks for voting! It‘s exciting watching the results coming in. 😃 5d
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BarbaraBB
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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#CampLitsy24 (post 2 of 2)

Here's the voting form: https://forms.gle/4yfU4GWC3YA5cuBb6

Take your time and please vote for the six books you‘d want to read this summer.

We'll get back to you with the results next weekend, so you'll have plenty of time to get copies of the chosen books before we read them in June, July and August. We are so looking forward to going camping and reading with all of you!! 🏕️ 📚

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Texreader Where can we find the list of books? 5d
BkClubCare @Texreader List is on her previous post 5d
BkClubCare This is a tough assignment! 🌟 5d
Texreader @BkClubCare I didn‘t get the previous post. @BarbaraBB Please resend. 5d
BkClubCare @Texreader - or? And I‘m just hoping to be helpful here! 🤗 You can go to her post thread and you will see it? But yes, I am sure she will tag you on that post when she can 🥹 It‘s a long list! Good thing we have some time to study 📖 5d
TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB please check my note on my submission. Thx. 5d
GatheringBooks Thank you! Voted! 💕💕💕 5d
jlhammar Well that was a fun way to spend a Sunday morning. Voted! Thanks so much. Can't wait to hear what our picks will be. 5d
Kitta Voted!! 5d
BarbaraBB @BkClubCare It is! Hope you enjoy it! 5d
BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie Understood! We‘ll disqualify it for #CampLitsy2024! @squirrelbrain @Megabooks 5d
BarbaraBB @GatheringBooks @jlhammar @Kitta happy you‘re in again! 5d
TheBookHippie @BarbaraBB Thx so much. I appreciate it greatly. 5d
BarbaraBB @TheBookHippie Of course!! We weren‘t aware of it! 5d
AmyG Thank you all so very much. I am very excited for camp. Seems like yesterday we were doing this! 5d
Jess Voted! Thanks! 5d
CBee Voted! Thank you, @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks ♥️♥️♥️ 5d
BarbaraBB @AmyG That‘s true, time flies! 5d
BarbaraBB @Jess @cbee Thank you! 5d
kspenmoll Done!!! 5d
squirrelbrain @jess @cbee @Nessavamusic @TEArificbooks - thanks all of you for voting. We‘ve just heard that one of your nominees, Murder Road, is a future #sundaybuddyread so we‘re taking it off our list. Would you like to pick another book instead? Just tag me on here, no need to fill in the form again. And I‘m sure @TheBookHippie would love to join in with her buddy read of the book in July! 5d
TheBookHippie @squirrelbrain All are welcome to read with me in July ! 5d
squirrelbrain @kspenmoll - thanks for voting! See my post just above about Murder Road - would you like to pick a different book? Just let me know on here. 5d
Jess @squirrelbrain thanks for the heads up. How about Clear as my 6th pick instead. Thanks. 5d
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Thanks Helen 💕 5d
Meshell1313 Just voted! So many great books! 📚 5d
CBee @squirrelbrain I‘ll pick Whale Fall 😊 5d
BarbaraBB @Prairiegirl_reading There you go 💕 5d
Sapphire Voted! 5d
Prairiegirl_reading @BarbaraBB thanks again!! 💜 5d
Prairiegirl_reading I voted!! 5d
TEArificbooks @squirrelbrain how about The Teacher to replace Murder Road 5d
sarahbarnes What an impossible feat! A great list. 5d
BarbaraBB @Prairiegirl_reading Glad you‘re joining! 5d
Bookbuyingaddict Thanks ☺️ so much looking forward to the buddy reads 5d
BarbaraBB @Bookbuyingaddict You‘re very welcome! We‘re happy having you! 5d
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes Loved your votes 🤍 5d
CarolynM My votes are in. Thanks Barbara, Meg and Helen😘😘😘 5d
LeeRHarry Difficult choices were made! 😊 looking forward to seeing which books are chosen! Thanks for organising 💕 just realised that one of my picks Hagstone isn‘t on the list so could you replace that with Whalefall please? 🙏 (edited) 5d
julieclair Voted! This list was so good that I ended up choosing only 1 of my own submissions in my final 6 choices. Thanks so much for hosting camp again this year!💙 4d
Readerann Alas, I shall just be lurking. New house, daughter‘s wedding, and lots of travel = a summer reading snippets about what others are reading. 🫤 4d
KarenUK Voted! Wow, so many great choices! 💕 4d
BarbaraBB @Readerann You‘re very welcome to lurk if you find the time! You sound real busy with great things 🩵 3d
BarbaraBB @KarenUK Glad you‘re in! 🤍 3d
peaKnit Voted! Thank you! 3d
Karisimo ✅ done! 3d
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BarbaraBB
Let's Go Camping! | Jan Mader
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#CampLitsy24 (post 1 of 2)

Drop all your plans for today 😀 because here is the #CampLitsy24 longlist!!

Although we limited the amount of nominations to 4 this year, we still have an extensive list of over a 100 books 📚 🙌🏽

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iQ7oQlt8wDxGcYpALoW0aPaCQXD-SeMQ/edit?us...

I‘ll upload the voting form in a separate post immediately after posting this one

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TrishB How exciting 😁 6d
julesG Wow! That's a lot of books to choose from. 6d
squirrelbrain So exciting! Can‘t wait to see the votes coming in! ❤️ 6d
Bookwormjillk BRB calling in sick for work tomorrow. Thank you hosts!! 6d
batsy Exciting! An intense couple of days of book research ahead 😆 6d
BarbaraBB @julesG @Bookwormjillk @batsy Yes this is gonna take some time 🤸🤸🤸 5d
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain You‘re the best! That longlist with Litsy url‘s is awesome!!! 5d
jlhammar Wow, this is going to be tough! 5d
Deblovestoread So exciting! 5d
Suet624 Jeepers! 5d
BarbaraBB @Texreader Here is the longlist! 5d
Texreader Thanks!! 5d
BarbaraBB @Prairiegirl_reading Hi! here is the longlist if you want to join. I‘ll tag you in the voting form too. 5d
kwmg40 Thanks for compiling the list! It's going to be difficult to choose. 5d
BarbaraBB @kwmg40 It is… so many good ones! 5d
squirrelbrain @BkClubCare @ChaoticMissAdventures - hi both - just checking in to see if you‘d had time to think about your Camp nominations yet. Nearly everyone has voted now and it‘s very tight at the top and we feel that your votes might make all the difference. 😁 (edited) 3d
BkClubCare @squirrelbrain -oh! Working on it now!! I was traveling and then thrust into “life/work” without breathing space. I will vote for my original 4 so only have to pick 2!!! 2d
squirrelbrain Thanks @BkClubCare - saw your query about Sipsworth - it‘s not out in the UK until 18th July and we try to ensure as many Littens as possible can take part. 2d
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Karisimo
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My #camplitsy24 nominations are:
~Murder Road by Simone St. James
~Family Family by Laurie Frankel
~Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray
~The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

@squirrelbrain @megabooks @barbarabb

squirrelbrain Thanks for nominating! 😍 1w
Lesliereadsalot Family Family is a good one! 1w
BarbaraBB Wow, they all seem so good!! 1w
Megabooks Nice choices!! 1w
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