Now launching the #FourFours #readingchallenge for 2025! #FourFoursin25 is a flexible year-long challenge.
Easy: Pick 1 word; match theme, event, character, cover pic, or vibe. So for 'Frisco Disco, you might read a book set in SF. Picket Cricket might suit a book featuring a cricket match.
Hard: Both words. So for Yellow Cello - maybe a yellow cover with a a cello player MC.
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And here's what I'm using for #BookChain #Bookchain2025 if anyone wants it @TheAromaOfBooks
Just sharing this little cover grid for #LitsyAtoZ if anyone wants one.
#LitsyAtoZ2025 @TexReader
OK y'all... I'm doing more #readingchallenges next year than ever before. So this post is me officially giving myself permission to double-dip, triple-dip, even quadruple-dip in any and all challenges. Mkay?
My husband and I had to go into the city to do a thing at the Apple Store. “Let‘s just drop in and say hi to Stefen at Stefen‘s Books, we don‘t need any more books but you know we‘ll just have a look”.
#bookhaul
Today in "lauredhel is picky about gratification novel lettering again ": ok, at least they picked a typeface, but why an uneven baseline one? Gah.
I can't believe it - I finished every single prompt for I Spy for 2024, even the bonus ones. This is a colossal challenge and so much fun. Thanks @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks. #ISpyBingo
And with a stethoscope on the cover of the Rez Doctor, that's #ISpyBingo finished for 2024!
@Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
This starts like a contemporary realistic family story about a girl who goes to stay with her Nainai who runs a boba cafe… but it quickly turns into a fantasy/monster story. Fun so far.
On my hook : Sempervivum Shawl in alpaca silk #litsycrafters
These Enola Holmes graphic novels are very cute, though I am annoyed by the tiny lettering.
And that's June finished #ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
Just “Luck“ and Stethoscope to do for a full sweep for the entire year, including bonus cards! And I have books lined up for both of those.
And I'm done! #artgallery #WickedWords
Thanks for the challenge @AsYouWish
December is for lightweight reads! Romance and dogs, what's not to like?
On my hook : Graphite Mandala, sized up for a little floor rug. #litsycrafters
Sounds sticky.
This YA fantasy-horror graphic novel had really enjoyable art and great action, but was perhaps a bit thin on the plot and character development side of things.
#FrozenSick progress - I'm finished! H6 went straight
to K2 and I was done :O @Puddlejumper There's another one, isn't there?
Cherries, coffee in a Calamityware cup, crochet, and a Crazyboy comic
#graphicnovel #coffeeandbooks #booksandfood
pickThe Woman in Black is a spooky, sad ghost story with an amazing sense of place.
#Christmas #WickedWords @AsYouWish
#rockingchair #ISpyBingo @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
I made some really good reading challenge progress with this one slim book! I give myself permission to double-dip in December's #WickedWords @AsYouWish ... so here it is, both #office and #necklace found in Number the Stars.
This 1989 book has been on my TBR forever, so it definitely qualifies as a Book I've Been Ignoring for #FrozenSick. It's also got a Star of David on the cover, completing December for #ISpyBingo, yay! @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
I Am Ruth Bader Ginsburg - has a gavel on the cover! This was a tough prompt to fill, so I turned to junior nonfiction. It's a cute, informative little book.
And that's August of #ISpyBingo done.
#ISpyBingo2024 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
And here's a blank template for #FourFoursin25
@thebacklistbook @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16 @willaful @bekakins @ImperfectCJ
@litsyevents
Now launching the #FourFours #readingchallenge for 2025!
#FourFoursin25 is a flexible year-long challenge.
Easy mode: Pick 1 word; match a theme, event, character, cover pic, or vibe. So for 'Frisco Disco, you might read a book set in SF. Picket Cricket might suit a book featuring a cricket match.
Hard mode: Both words. So for Yellow Cello - maybe a yellow cover with a a cello player MC.
Comment for an add to the tag list!
@litsyevents
Banned Book Club, set in 1980s Korea, feels more relevant than ever. Do not normalise autocracy.
And with that #lighthouse in the background on the cover, and featuring heavily in the book, I've also ticked off the last square in #RippedBodiceBingo for 2024.
I re-read this #childhoodfavourite via audiobook. While the Anne series was never unfeminist, Anne's House of Dreams is where Montgomery started to lean in a little on the social commentary about how women were misused by men.
And that's my No Shame Reading Challenge done for 2024!
#NSR24 #NoShameReadathon24 @Nessavamusic
I've finished #fourfoursin24 after a four month hiatus between prompt fills!
And I've just about finished finalising the prompts for next year's #fourfoursin25 - so stay tuned, and let me know if you'd like to be added to the tag list. #readingchallenge #readingchallenges
I was re-reading Anne's House of Dreams for Childhood Favourite and Lighthouse prompts in other #readingchallenges, but there it is, finally, my last prompt fill for #fourfoursin24 ! Yay! #garretparrot
Guess which book has a ski hill on the cover? This Gen X ski-resort romance does! And that's a full house on March #ISpyBingo #ISpyBingo2024
That's eight months completely full, six prompts to go in the monthly challenges and 3 in the bonus challenges.
@Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
This graphic novel had some spookiness, but there was an overall cosy vibe. Onward to the D1 square of #FrozenSick but I'm not 100% sure what “Newest“ means - newest book on my TBR?
@Puddlejumper
This is a gorgeous sapphic YA romance graphic novel. A Black disabled cosplayer and a Latina bisexual cooking fan who is mourning her mother bond over a manga book club and a quest to obtain all the manga books in an out-of-print series. The disability rep is fantastic and the character and relationship exploration is nuanced.
#FrozenSick @Puddlejumper
My first #FrozenSick entry! @Puddlejumper
Come As You Are could have filled either prompt, since it's set in a Montana ski resort. But I've chosen to Explore The Town, because I'm just that kind of adventurer. Off to D3!
#readingchallenges
OK people, the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is ready! This is a challenge based on the seasonal trend colours from Fashion Weeks.
Please note there are TWO grids - for London (blue border) and NY (green border). Later, two more grids will be released for the autumn/winter trend colours.
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. That's it, you're done.
(and yes, White Grape was in both!)
@litsyevents
OK people, the #Pantone2025 #readingchallenge is ready! This is a challenge based on the seasonal trend colours from Fashion Weeks.
Please note there are TWO grids - for London (blue border) and NY (green border). Later, two more grids will be released for the autumn/winter trend colours.
To play, just find a colour in a book cover, then plonk the cover into the grid. That's it, you're done.
(and yes, White Grape was in both!)
@litsyevents
Library pickup today - a high school Twelfth Night retelling graphic novel.
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
And here's my November roundup for #WickedWords @AsYouWish
Every one is a graphic story this month! Gay time travel romance, Ohio cult horror, a graphic memoir by a Wuhanese-American, true crime nonfiction, and a charming spooky graphic novel with a Ghibli vibe.
so-soThis didn't quite know if it wanted to be porn, a sweeping time travel story, or both, but either way it was a little too hot-mess-y for me. Not terrible, not great.
It did finish off #WickedWords for November, though! #turkey @AsYouWish
@thebacklistbook @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @lizpixie @AbigailJaneBlog @CoffeeNBooks @ReadingRachael @mcipher @AbigailJaneBlog @PageShifter @Jas16 11m