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melissajayne
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I have created a reading challenge for 2026 on Storygraph. I realize that it is early, but I know that some of us are starting to think ahead to 2026. If you wish to join and track, you can join here: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/8b28b048-64a8-48c1-a17e-55df0d7...

I look forward to seeing you there. #readyourshelves2026

mcctrish 🙋🏻‍♀️ 1d
Enchanted_Bibliophile I'll definitely be joining you, I have way too many books on my shelf that I haven't read. 1d
Suet624 I have a storyGraph account. I‘m curious about this challenge. Do I have to add the 25 books that I want to read now or can I just add them after I‘ve read them? (edited) 1d
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melissajayne @Suet624 I just add them as I read them. 1d
TheBookgeekFrau I just sent a Storygraph friend request and am about to join this challenge 😊 23h
PuddleJumper I'm in! Thanks 13h
ferskner Oh my gosh yes please. 3h
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melissajayne
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My #weeklyfavorites for the week

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4⭐️ Really enjoyed it and am looking forward to reading the other books in the series. #2025 #fiction #romantasy #fantasy #romance

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The Lost Ones | Sheena Kamal
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐️ It was ok; wished it had been a bit longer. #2025 #fiction #bookclub #mystery #suspense #thriller

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The Secret Keeper | Kate Morton
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5⭐️ I really liked this one. It was a #bookclub pick for one of my library book clubs. Even though I knew the twist, I still really enjoyed it. #2025 #mystery #historicalfiction #fiction

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐️ Felt that some sections were way too long and could have been easily made into another chapter; wish that there was a character list that I could refer to as I wasn‘t too sure of all the relationships that the characters had with each other. I can see why it was shortlisted for the #bookerprize & won the #gillerprize and the #governorgeneral in 2016

#2025 #fiction #china #historicalfiction #bookclub

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The Secret Keeper | Kate Morton
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Definitely was my favourite this week. #weeklyfavorites

Read4life 👻🎃👻 1w
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5⭐️ I really enjoyed this book. I am so glad my friend Alison picked it for our book club. Having read The Hobbit a couple of times really helped me enjoy the book more. #fiction #2025 #highfantasy #literaryfantasy #fantasy #classics

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Diavola | Jennifer Thorne
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I never really read horror but am looking forward to this one for my #bookgang readalong #sundayfunday

BookmarkTavern That has a fantastic cover! Thanks for posting! 1w
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I‘m sitting in a local coffee shop reading ACOTR and I am wondering how you would design a coffee shop. Would you want spaces where someone could read for hours on end and be comfortable, where the music would be barely noticeable? Or would you want high turnover? I‘m curious as to what you say.

ChaoticMissAdventures Good coffee, good people, plenty of seats. That is what I look for in a coffee shop myself. From years of retail I have an aversion to "comfy" (cloth) furniture - it is disgusting, people are gross. So I would probably only have wooden seats, but those can be comfortable if you get good quality! 1w
Tamra I‘m not a big coffee shop patron, but definitely music unnoticeable with art & books. 😁 1w
CindyMyLifeIsLit Therein lies the rub! As patrons, we want that comfortable setting that lures us to hang out for hours; as proprietors, a table monopolized for hours with only 1-2 drinks sold per person during that time means lower profits which endangers the existence of the business. My son owns a small coffee shop where space is at a premium. He would love to have a larger shop where there was room for people to linger for hours, but is not quite there yet! 🤞 1w
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Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel
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#weeklyfavorites

I really enjoyed the book

Read4life 💙📚💙 2w
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien
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Will be finishing this during #fridayhappyreadinghour.

mcctrish Excellent plan 3w
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October, October | Katya Balen
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My #roll100 selections for October.

PuddleJumper 🙌 🙌 3w
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Readathon: Occasional List : Geleentheidslys | Gauteng (South Africa). Education Media Service
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Saw this and this is definitely doable.

My plans are to finish the books that I have on the go at the moment. #turnthepage

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4.75⭐️ I really liked this book and was quite surprised that I did. I‘m no ballet expert but it seems like it‘s pretty accurate. I also liked the background of the height of the #coldwar rather than #wwii. I am really curious as to what next this author produces. #2025 #historucalfiction #russia #unitedstates #fiction #literaryfiction #family #rivarly

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#weeklyfavorites

I heard about this on an episode on What Should I Read Next in March. Really enjoyed it. Review coming forth.

Read4life 💙📚💙 3w
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien
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#weekendreads
Do Not Say - didn‘t finish last weekend, but got most of it done, so I‘m just going to read a few chapters over the weekend

Secret Keeper - hope to read a bunch more

Maya & Natasha - finished the book Saturday afternoon

Fellowship and Rust & Stardust - hope to start @ least 1 of them on Sunday

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Read this during #fridayhappyreadinghour Mostly drank water (sorry for the low lighting; it was late and I had just turned off most of my lights)

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Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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Really enjoyed Girl, Woman, Other #weeklyfavorites

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It was between the tagged book and the first four books in The Babysitters Club that were my favourite books as a kid. Read those series more or less between grade 2 and grade 6. I read the Ramona books simply because it was the same name as my maternal grandma‘s. #sundayfunday

BookmarkTavern I loved these books too! Thanks for sharing! 1mo
PaperbackPirate The Babysitter‘s Club! 💙 1mo
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My plans for my #weekendreads

Broken Country - almost completed; am really liking the book. *completed*

Do Not Say - want to at least get a good portion of the book completed so I don‘t have to read too much on Monday.

The Secret Keeper - will read if I am feeling like I need to switch up things with Do Not Say.

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Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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4⭐️ Really liked this book; it was really well paced, had very interesting characters that were compelling in their own way. Had a bit of an issue with the last two chapters in that I felt that they were both a little too long. #2025 #fiction #bookerprize #feminism #bipoc #intersectionality #literaryfiction

kspenmoll Me too! All that! 1mo
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Mehso-so

3⭐️ I really tried to understand what this book was about and while it was an interesting read, I really didn‘t understand it. I am really interested to hear what others in this #Canadianlit #bookclub I am a part of will think of the book. #2025 #fiction #sciencefiction #speculative #historicalfiction #fiction #canadian #mexico

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Whale Fall | Elizabeth O'Connor
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4⭐️ I was quite surprised by this book and liked the descriptions of life in this remote Welsh fishing village prior to WWII. Read for the #literarycrew #readalong. #2025 #literaryfiction #historicalfiction #fiction

Librarybelle I was very surprised by it too. Glad you liked this! 1mo
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau | Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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The only book I completed this week #weeklyfavorites

ChaoticMissAdventures I enjoyed this, but I think the reviews had been not great and so my expectations were low. 1mo
Read4life I keep debating if I should read this one or not. 💙📚💙 1mo
melissajayne @Read4life I tend to err on the side of caution when I feel like this, unless it is a book club read 1mo
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4⭐️ Really enjoyed this book and I am kinda glad I read it after all the hype had died down to read it. Looking forward to the next book in the series. #2025 #fiction #historicalfiction #literary #friendship #comingofage

ChaoticMissAdventures Yes! So much hype. I read it a few years ago and gave it a so-so but I wonder if I would like it better now 1mo
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4.5⭐️ I really liked the book and it really lived up to the hype. I thought it might be a bit too schmaltzy, but I really liked how the characters were drawn and felt like the story ended well. #2025 #fiction #contemporary #wedding #literaryfiction

ChaoticMissAdventures I thought it was fun and super unexpected! That first scene of her in the dress in the lobby has really stuck with me. 1mo
dabbe We have football on, too! 😂🤩😂 1mo
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Working on all of these this weekend. Am almost done with The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. #weekendreads

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4⭐️ I really liked this book, but I would have liked more explanations about how to challenge some of the more negative emotions. #2025 #nonfiction #psychology #mentalhealth

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5⭐️ I really enjoyed this light #christmasread. #2025 #mollythemaid #fiction #mystery

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Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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Perma-tanned billionaire 😉😆😂

Sparklemn Perma-Cheetos 😜 1mo
melissajayne @Sparklemn Yep 😂😝 1mo
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My final #weeklyfavorites for August was The Wedding People.

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Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
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4 ⭐️ Really enjoyed this book #2025 #fiction #contempoary #friendship #family #animals

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Whale Fall | Elizabeth O'Connor
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• Whale Fall - I‘m about 1/3 into the book in a little over an hour of reading and am liking it so far

• Daughter of Dr. Moreau - book club read; really don‘t like speculative fiction so this might be a slog

• Girl, Women, Other - another book club read; maybe the audiobook I requested becomes available?

• The Secret Keeper - another long book and book club read
#weekendreads

melissajayne • As Bright as Heaven - in case I want 2 read something I want 2 read instead of the 3 bookclub books that I should be reading instead 1mo
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4.75⭐️ I really liked this book and I can see why so many people have really liked this book. #2025 #memoir #autobiography #nonfiction

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A really good week of reading. Got three books completed (middle row). Working on the ones on the top row (almost done My Brilliant Friend), but think I may pause on Atlas and return my library copy and work some others I could put on the top row and also start working on those on the bottom row (I have a number of books in addition 2 the 2 on the top row that I‘m currently reading). #bookreport

Bookbuyingaddict Great 👍 selection Iv just finished the wedding people and loved 🥰 it 2mo
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Read this amazing book for #hyggehourreadathon on Sunday.

Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛💛 2mo
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#weeklyfavorites I will post a review sometime this week.

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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
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4⭐️ Really enjoyed the murder-mystery within a murder-mystery. This was a #reread for me. #2025 #bookclub #mystery #fiction #historicalfiction

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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
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Worked on the tagged book during the 8-9 pm hour and just continued on reading #hyggehourreadathon #hyggehour

AllDebooks I really enjoyed this. The tv series is good, too. 2mo
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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
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These are the ones that I intend to read this weekend #weekendreads

BiblioLitten Loved loved Magpie Murders! 2mo
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Before Dorothy | Hazel Gaynor
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#threelistthursday #tlt
1) The school library. It was the place that I discovered some of my favourite books. Jane Eyre, Jacob Have I Loved, etc. it was also the place that I felt the safest @ school.

2) My three bookclub friends. It was the place where I met my longest friends, almost 30 years ago.

3) My English and socials/history classes. Also discovered some of my favourite books in those places. ⤵️

melissajayne All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities 2mo
dabbe Yay to school libraries being safe havens for so many of us. L😍VE that you still have your bookclub friends, too! Thanks for sharing. 💛🤎🧡 2mo
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Before Dorothy | Hazel Gaynor
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4⭐️ Really enjoyed this book. Even though it felt like it dragged in places, the story kept moving forward and I felt like I understood Auntie Em more. #2025 #greatdepression #historicalfiction #1920s #fiction

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Mehso-so

3.5⭐️ It was a well told story that was very cute to read. My issue was that there wasn‘t a way of really knowing where one was, whether one was in the more contemporary storyline or the flashback. Overall a pretty solid story. #2025 #bookclub #canadian #fiction #wwii #greatdepression

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Before Dorothy | Hazel Gaynor
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#whereareyoumonday While the book takes place in 3 different places, most of the story takes place in Liberal, Kansas

SilversReviews I enjoyed this book. 2mo
melissajayne @SilversReviews I just finished it on Tuesday afternoon and I really enjoyed it. 2mo
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4.5⭐️ Really liked this book despite its horrific history that it deals with. I would have loved to rate this book much higher, if only the author had included an author‘s note at the conclusion of the book. I can guarantee you that most Canadians don‘t really know about the Duplessis Orphans. #2025 #canadianfiction #fiction #quebec #historicalfiction