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While I did not do as well as I wanted to with with my 2025 #Roll100 , I am proud of the progress I made from cleaning up my Kindle from all those stuff your kindle events. With that being said, I am taking a very similar approach this year. This time it includes books from the event as well as books I purchased and never read. Hoping to see even more organization to my Kindle by the end of 2026.

#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction

Read as my second #Roll100 December pick #73 Any Memoir/Biography & to fill a prompt in my Goodreads challenge. I wanted to like this book gor it to be funnier & more about actual cults. I just didn‘t get it or like it, especially the audiobook. I didn‘t know this comedian so I tried watching her special on Netflix & it didn‘t help me find her less annoying. I sped through the last third for the sake of the prompt.

I've joined #Roll100 for 2026. I'm using this list to focus on working down series that I need to continue or abandon, #AardvarkBookClub and #BOTM books that need to be read or passed on, and my #Netgalley backlog of books that need to be read and reviewed.

This is the year to get my TBR and physical books down to less overwhelming levels.

@PuddleJumper

I made this graphic this year so I could see visual progress of how I did reading #roll100 books. I didn‘t read everything on my list and I ended up changing out a few books on my list so I could read books for buddy reads I participate in. I‘m not going to be reading any more #roll100 books this year but I want to participate again next year.

I usually post this at the end of the month but I‘ve decided to go ahead and post how I did with reading my #roll100 picks. I did it. I read them. I just finished the Christmas devotional this morning on Christmas Day.

These are my #Roll100 reads from the second half of 2025. 15 of the 26 are from my shelves. So many had been languishing for years. This challenge helps me get to those books I was so excited about and yet…

Many thanks to @PuddleJumper for organizing! 😊

I‘m giving myself freedom for January as it is a busy month for work. I am once again doing #roll100 this year, it has really helped me chip away at my physical TBR - thanks @PuddleJumper for starting it!
I will also continue #bookspin #doublespin and #bookspinbingo - thanks @TheAromaofBooks for organizing every year!

#weekendreads

It‘s the home stretch! These are the four books I “have” to read by the end of the year.

📕A Fatal Grace for #OhCanada and #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

📗The Rathbones for #10beforetheend + it‘s on my #Roll100 list

📘I am not Sidney Poitier for #10beforetheend

📙Six Wakes for the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

Hello, fellow #wintercamplitsy campers! We know you like to see some of the ‘nearly-made it‘ books when it comes to camp voting!

The above 9 books are in order of voting, with The Road to Tender Hearts being the closest to making our top 3.

Interestingly, The Antidote was in the top 3 for the first half of voting, but fell away later on, whereas Good Dirt did the opposite.

What do you think of these - any you‘ve read or plan to read anyway?

My last #Roll100 book for 2025

I think Irving and I need to break up. After a passionate romance from about 1985-1999, we took a 20 yr hiatus and now things just aren‘t the same. This is the 2nd book published in the 21st century of his that I‘ve kinda hated. To be fair, we both have changed.

IMO this was a mess. Juan Diego is a writer in Iowa via Mexico. He remembers his past on a trip to the Philippines. Too scattered/unnecessary sex scenes.