Almost half of 2025 is gone, I really need to start getting serious about my StoryGraph and BookCrossing challenges, and to read more books from little free libraries. That's why my list has a lot of TBD spaces, to be filled as I go.
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My May stats
7 books read
one #BookSpin: Plain and Simple by Sue Bender (Apr)
two #DoubleSpins: Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Apr) and House of Night Legacy by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast, and others (May)
no #BookSpinBingo
2 #Roll100
May: Letter Slot by Owen King
May: Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
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My April stats
8 books finished
no #BookSpin
no #DoubleSpin
1 #BookSpinBingo
4 #Roll100:
April: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
April: Pride and Publishing by DeAnna Julie Dodson
April: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
March: Just Shoot Me Dead by Anne R. Tan
My March #BookSpinBingo
9 books read
#BookSpin: February: Ushers by Joe Hill, March: Tales In Time by Peter Crowther
#DoubleSpin: March: Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
no #BookSpinBingo
#Roll100 March: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
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My February #BookSpinBingo: not very happy, better next month, I hope
7 books read
no #BookSpin
no #BookSpinBingo
#DoubleSpin: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
#Roll100 Feb: Bombshells: United, Vol. 2: War Bonds by Marguerite Bennett, Sandy Jarrell
#Roll100 Feb: Caution! Inflammable! by Thomas N. Scortia
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January wrap up
Finished both the #BookSpin (Tangled Up in Murder) and #DoubleSpin (The Mistletoe Mystery) and got 2 #BookSpinBingos. Also got all my #Roll100s (Saga, Vol. 4, The Mistletoe Mystery and The Nosy Neighbor).
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“Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.“
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“When you venture out into the world, you learn to trust your judgment.“
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My January #BookSpinBingo board, still very vague and undetermined, I will add the titles as I go. Thanks again @TheAromaOfBooks and @PuddleJumper for continuing with these challenges in 2025!
#Roll100 - caught up with a lot of missed reads: The Sirens of Titan (Aug), The Prince of Mist (Sept), The Last Flight (Nov), Early Riser, Birds of Prey: Black Canary and Saga, Vol. 3 (Dec).
Didn't finish all the spins for the year, just the December ones:
- #BookSpin: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- #DoubleSpin: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
One #BookSpinBingo 🎉and... #bracket2024
Happy New Year!
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Here is my list for... December already!? 😬
Thanks for continuing to do your challenges, @TheAromaOfBooks and @PuddleJumper!
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This month I tried to focus on #BookSpin and #Roll100 debt, and I think I did OK.
Spins: Letters, To The Men I Have Loved by Mirtha Michelle Castro Mármol (Nov #BookSpin); D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber (July and Nov #DoubleSpin)
#Roll100: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Nov); Spy x Family, Vol. 4 by Tatsuya Endo (Apr, Sep); D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber (Apr); House of Blades by Will Wight (Nov)
My #BookSpinBingo November board, with plenty of colors that plainly show all my #BookSpin and #Roll100 debt 🙂
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October update
One #BookSpinBingo 🎉
Finally got to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern which was my August #BookSpin, and Sept and Oct #DoubleSpin. This shows that if I wait long enough, I can finish one book and claim it for a lot of spins 😉
And one #Roll100, an Oct pick: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
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Not much to report for September, just one #Roll100 September pick: Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke, but at least I got a #BookSpinBingo 😁
Still working on my October #BookSpin list
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Yay, just finished one more book, that gave me a 2nd #BookSpinBingo this month!💯
Other than that, just the August #DoubleSpin: Grave Descend by John Lange and unfortunately still way behind with my #Roll100 reads. Maybe September will be better.
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My August board, kinda open, TBR choices to be made, when I get to them🙂
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July wrap: a couple spins and rolls, plus one #BookSpinBingo
Crank by Ellen Hopkins: July #BookSpin
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie: #Roll100 June pick and June #DoubleSpin
Spy x Family, Vol. 2 by Tatsuya Endo: #Roll100 July pick
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My July list
Thanks @TheAromaOfBooks and @PuddleJumper for suggestions about making a more “mode-oriented“ reading list.
Not a lot of reading done in June, most notable: Death Without Company, a #Roll100 June pick and A Burning by Megha Majumdar, my June #BookSpin.
I am in process of organizing my TBR shelves and there are so many books that I'd like to get to that July will more than likely be an impulse read kind of month. Hopefully I'll have a better idea by the time the #BookSpin draw takes place.
Attached my Top read 2024.
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My May update:
- #BookSpin: The Dysasters: The Graphic Novel by Kristin Cast and P. C. Cast
- #DoubleSpin: Gone For Good by Harlan Coben
- May #Roll100 pick: The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson
One #BookSpinBingo
April wrap-up
@TheAromaofBooks Finished both my April spins: The Guest (#BookSpin) and A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World (#DoubleSpin).
Also finished a couple older spins: Murder at the Royal Ruby (March #DoubleSpin) and The Missing Children (Jan #BookSpin).
A couple months too late finished the Jan #RandomClassic: Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And got a #BookSpinBingo. 😀
Until done with my May list, here is the April final #BookSpinBingo board.
March wrap-up
@TheAromaofBooks Finished my March #BookSpin and got a #BookSpinBingo but no #DoubleSpin: The Backbone of the World Stephen Graham Jones
@PuddleJumper Did better with my #Roll100 picks:
- The Undead Pool Kim Harrison #Roll100 March pick;
- Still Life Louise Penny #Roll100 February pick;
- Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky #Roll100 March pick.
Until done with my April list, here is the March final #BookSpinBingo grid.
A few days late, hope it still counts 😉
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Not many February achievements: finished the #BookSpin (Foundation) and the #DoubleSpin (The Tale of Despereaux) and one #Roll100 Feb pick (Shades of Milk and Honey), but no #BookSpinBingo.
Attached my March list, hope to get to read more next month.
“How does the man make checkered shirts and pastels look good?“
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#BookChain @TheAromaOfBooks Didn't do very well this month, hope for a better February
Also my top read for the month: Hell is Empty by Craig Johnson
@TheAromaOfBooks The tagged book got me a #BookSpinBingo, also finished my January #DoubleSpin: Westlake's Cops and Robbers🎉 Too bad I couldn't also finish the #BookSpin, I won't even try though, I need to catch up with Uncle Tom's Cabin, I'm way behind.
@PuddleJumper Very happy I got all #Roll100 picks for January: Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates, Strange Attractors stories by Jaine Fenn and another Longmire story: Hell is Empty by Craig Johnson💯
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December recap:
- 2 #BookSpinBingo
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: #castthedie
- The Way of All Fish by Martha Grimes: #Roll100 Mar, Apr #BookSpin and May #DoubleSpin
- Mars vol. 13 by Fuyumi Soryo: Dec #DoubleSpin
- Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings by Lydia Sherrer: Dec #BookSpin
Also, finished my 2023 #ReadingBracket.
Missed 2 of my #Roll100 picks this year, which I call it good enough 😉
“If you ask six different monks the question of which godly domain robot consciousness belongs to, you'll get seven different answers.“
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“Simon sat on a park bench in Central Park--in Strawberry Fields, to be precise--and felt his heart shatter.“
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In totally unrelated news: I finally finished #BookChain 2023 edition. Thank you so much, @TheAromaOfBooks! 😬
My December #BookSpinBingo list, top highlighted 12 being my #castthedie list.
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November stats: finished 10 books, one of them being the November #DoubleSpin (The Angel Maker by Alex North) and got one #BookSpinBingo.
Still working on some spins and #Roll100 reads from past months and on my December #BookSpin and #castthedie lists.
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October wrap-up: quite a few short reads but I'll take the bingos anyway😁
@PuddleJumper #Roll100 picks
- Jan: Mars 11 by Fuyumi Soryo
- Feb: Parable of the Sower Graphic novel
- June: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- July: In Bloom by Paul Tremblay
- Oct: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
@TheAromaOfBooks Oct #BookSpin: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky and 2 #BookSpinBingo 🎉
Due to a StoryGraph challenge I finally got to read a book by this great writer. Had no idea what to expect going in, just what a friend told me: it is dark. Dark? Extremely dark! It's the darkest dystopian book I've ever read: kept hoping things are getting better, but did they ever? What made the book bearable were the Earthseed verses at the start of each chapter, bringing some hope.
Definitely a pick!
@PuddleJumper alt #Roll100 October pick
A visually stunning graphic novel about love, family, and witchcraft, a delightful story that celebrates diversity and inclusion. Nova is a deaf witch who uses hearing aids and non-verbal spells, and Tam is a bisexual werewolf. The two girls fall in love as they work together to save their town, and their relationship is one of the highlights of the story. And more, Nova has two grandmas in a relationship with each other, too.
Loved it!
I'll be traveling quite a bit next month so in addition to some books I really want to get to, I added a lot of random reads to the list, since I may pick up books here and there on my trips.
September was pretty good for my reading, got 2 #BookSpinBingo and read both spins and a few #Roll100 picks:
- The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint: Sept and August #Roll100;
- Me, Antman and Fleabag (tagged): June #Roll100 and Sept #BookSpin;
- The Witcher: Of Flesh and Flame by Aleksandra Motyka: Sept #DoubleSpin.
Big thanks to @TheAromaOfBooks and @PuddleJumper that are pushing me to read more with the BookSpin and Roll100 challenges.
