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What are you reading for #CasttheDie ?

You can pick whatever number you want or read all 3!

Roll 1 = 19
Roll 2 = 10
Roll 3 = 18

I read this solely for @Faranae's #URC and it was a pleasant surprise! I loved reading about women pilots in WW2. (My late mother-in-law took flying lessons back then but her instructor made a pass at her and she quit. 😡 She would have enjoyed this.)

The modern day part of the story was a bit goofy, but satisfying. Sookie is a middle-aged Southern housewife who's long been under the thumb of her domineering, narcissistic mother. cont.

I just finished this graphic novel, which has something crossed out on the cover - so it's the very last prompt fill for the Ultimate Reading Challenge for me! #urc2025 #URC @Faranae

And it also just happens to be my final book to complete my Goodreads challenge target.

Exploring the Open library carousel for the #URC, I was happy to find this charmer from James Stevenson that I'd never seen before. (Though I was also tempted by “Enjoy Amazing Halal Sex!“)

Grandpa's grandchildren had a miserable first day at school, so he tells them about how awful his was! I love how young Grandpa's drawn in his little suit and mustache.

#JustOneMoreChapter #HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#Chocolatiers #OneSnackToRuleThemAll

I don't get the hype. The translation was clunky, & it's repetitive & overexplained. Every single story involves women sacrificing themselves and their own lives & interests for others.

I guess that's what I get for breaking my guideline by reading a male author who doesn't come very highly recced by people I trust. And for reading SF by a non-SF author.

It did fill the swap shelf prompt in #urc2025 #URC though! @Faranae
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This was a rather lovely little graphic novel set in a magical Benin-inspired fantasy world.

With Okupe being Nigerian, that's a wrap on the Formidable Reading Challenge! #urc2025 #URC @Faranae #frc #frc2025

I've put all the other prompts into a grid for the Ultimate Reading Challenge - and have only three to go there.

Hey #QueerBC peeps, May is almost over so here are some discussion questions for our author Neon Yang! (Formerly known as JY Yang.) Answer any or all if you're so inclined!

I liked this even more than Paladin's Grace, because the characters are such delightful gentle giants.

More at my blog: https://willaful.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/tbr-challenge-paladins-strength-by-t-k...

#SeriesLove2025
#URC rodent on cover. (The main one -- this is an alternate.)

A quiet book about a quiet man. Bookended by a year in his old age, we examine different eras of Bob's life. I think Patrick deWitt is one of the finest modern authors, so I really enjoyed reading this novel, but I think I lost the thread when it flashed back to Bob's runaway. Still, Bob is probably one of my favorite main characters I've read about in a while.