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Welcome to the Group, Anu!
APRIL NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the May Books of the Month here:
❎ May2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the April Books of the Month are The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole
🔖 The Glass Castle - discussion here
🔖 The Book of Azrael - discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
You still have time to join the
🍀🌷🍀 Spring Seasonal Challenges 🍀🌷🍀
🎧🪻Audiobook🪻🎧
Spring Season Audiobook Challenge
📘🪻Freestyle🪻📘
Spring Season Freestyle Challenge
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
A Long Expected Party for individual readers or self directing teams
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🌸 Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
This newsletter has also been posted under this folder.
Book #2 of the April 2025 BOTM is The Book of Azrael
by Amber V. NicoleWorld Ender meets Ender of Worlds...
A thousand years ago, Dianna gave up her life in the deserts of Eoria to save her dying sister. She called upon anyone who would listen, not expecting a monster far worse than any nightmare to answer. Now she does what Kaden asks, even if that means securing an ancient relic from the very creatures that hunt her.
A King thought long dead and long forgotten.
In the old world his name was Samkiel. In the new world it is Liam, but one title remains true throughout time. He is the World Ender, a myth to his enemies, a savior and King to those loyal to him. After the Gods War, he locked himself away, hiding from the world. He denied his crown and responsibilities, leaving the very ones who needed him most to deal with the fallout of the death of their homeworld. Now an attack on those he holds dear sends him back to the one realm he never wished to visit again and into the sights of an enemy he thought imprisoned eons ago.
Now enemies older than time must put aside their differences and work together in hopes of saving both their world and every realm in between.
Book #1 of the April 2025 BOTM is The Glass Castle
by Jeannette WallsThe Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
Nominations updated to here.
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in May 2025. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again. Ineligible books: (view spoiler)
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
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NOMINATIONS
1. The Edge of Lost
2. All Creatures Great and Small
3. Murder at Haven's Rock
4. Wild Dark Shore
5. Held
6. Cloud Cuckoo Land
7. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
8. The King's Messenger
9. Sons of the 43rd: The Story of Delmar Dotson, Gray Allison, and the Men of the 43rd Bombardment Group in the Southwest Pacific
10. Sharp Objects
MARCH NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the April Books of the Month here:
❎ April 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the March Books of the Month are Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy and Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
🔖 Once There Were Wolves - discussion here
🔖 Margo's Got Money Troubles - discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
🍀🌷🍀 Spring Seasonal Challenges 🍀🌷🍀
🎧🪻Audiobook🪻🎧
Spring Season Audiobook Challenge
📘🪻Freestyle🪻📘
Spring Season Freestyle Challenge
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🍀🗓️📚The 2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge
March
Info & details can be found here
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
A Long Expected Party for individual readers or self directing teams
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2025 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🍀Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
This newsletter has also been posted under this folder.
2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge - MARCH
📖If you are using the a copy of the Mastersheet, you can either copy the January tab and rename it March or you can simply continue listing your books on your current tab.
📙Looking forward to see what books you'll be reading in March.
Book #2 of the March 2025 BOTM is Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi ThorpeA bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.
Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion—fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she’s turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who’s struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.
Book #1 of the March 2025 BOTM is Once There Were Wolves
by Charlotte McConaghyFrom the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands.
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?
Propulsive and spell-binding, Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves—if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.
Tammie wrote: "Q about task: A book containing illustrationsThe Ministry of Time has 1 illustration at the front of the book...a map of the expedition that's likely referenced a few times in th..."
Yes.
Nominations updated to here.
Tammie wrote: "Task - Sword or shield or piece of armour on cover
Would the robot on the cover work for armor/shield?"
It can be accepted. :)
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TASKS in Categories
Length & Publication Dates
◈ a book between 300-399 pages
◈ a book between 400-499 pages
◈ a book between 500-599 pages
◈ a book published in March
◈ a book published in April
◈ a book published in May
Authors & Characters
◈ a book where the story is switching between 2 POVs at least
◈ a book with an author or character who was born in March
◈ a book with an author or character who was born in April
◈ a book with an author or character who was born in May
◈ an audiobook where the author's or a character's name can be connected to spring (e.g.: name of a flower, etc) in any way
◈ a book with the author's initials in the word SPRING EQUINOX
Genres and Shelves
◈ a book with MPG Religion
◈ a book with MPG Music
◈ a book from the Shelf Dance
◈ a book from the Shelf: Spring OR from FLOWER
Series
◈ a book which is a reread for you
◈ a book 3rd in a series
◈ a book 4th in a series
◈ a book 5th in a series
Covers
◈ a book with green cover (over 50%)
◈ a book with blue cover (over 50%)
◈ a book with pink cover (over 50%)
◈ a book with green letters on cover
◈ a book with blue letters on cover
◈ a with pink letters on cover
◈ a book with a flower(s) on the cover
◈ a book with the moon on the cover
◈ a book with a (part of a) garden on the cover
◈ a book with any item related to gardening on the cover
◈ a book with a bike on the cover
◈ a book with a bird on the cover
◈ a book with a kite on the cover
◈ a book with a clover(s) on the cover
◈ a book with a sheep on the cover
Title
◈ a book with the letters BLOSSOM in the title (they don't need to be in order)
◈ a book with a title starting with a letter from DAFFODIL
◈ a book with the word WATER(s) in the (sub)title or series title
◈ a book with the letters CHERRY in the title (they don't need to be in order)
Plot & Text
◈ a book set at least partly in springtime
◈ a book featuring any kind of holiday that is celebrated during the spring months (Holi, Nowruz, Easter, Passover, Songkran, Las Fallas, Spring Equinox, St. Patrick's Day, etc)
◈ a book where a character is falsely believed to be dead
◈ a book where someone takes a walk
◈ a book with the word EGG(s) mentioned in the text
◈ a book featuring someone searching for something
◈ a book with any type of bird mentioned in the text
◈ a book where someone is freed from something (your interpretation)
◈ a book where the word FESTIVAL(s) is mentioned in the text
◈ a book where some kind of gardening activity is done or with a character who likes gardening
◈ a book where the characters go on a picnic
◈ a book where a character does some house cleaning
◈ a book where a character climbs a tree
◈ a book where a character paints something (can be a painting or a wall, etc.)
◈ a book with the word KITE(s) in the text
◈ a book with the word CLOVER(s) in the text
Setting/Tags
◈ a book set in Ireland or tagged Ireland minimum 5x
◈ a book set in Israel or tagged Israel minimum 5x
◈ a book set in Thailand or tagged Thailand minimum 5x
◈ a book set in Iran or tagged Iran minimum 5x
◈ a book set in India or tagged India minimum 5x
◈ a book set in Japan or tagged Japan minimum 5x
Where flowers bloom, so does hope ...
~ 🌷📗The Spring Season Freestyle Challenge 🌷📗~
In the Northern Hemisphere we are preparing for spring: time to get outdoors, do some gardening or nature walks, then relax and read some books. Challenge Tasks are there to boost your reading and get you in the mood. Any book format is allowed.
Duration: 1 March - 31 May
Rules & How to:
Option 1- Voices of Spring
►Pick a level and choose your book tasks
►You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
►You are allowed to use 1 book to cover 3 tasks.
Option 2 - Dances with the Daffodils
►Pick a level and choose your book tasks
►You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
►You are allowed to use 1 book to cover 2 tasks.
Option 3 - The Constant Gardener
► Pick a level and choose your book tasks
► You may read as many books as you want for each chosen task.
► 1 book covers 1 task only.
Levels:
Spring Flower Fairy: 1-5 books
Amu Nowruz: 6-10 books
Persephone: 11-15 books
Zephyrus: 16-20 books
Ēostre: 21-25 books
Yarilo: 26-30 books
Ala: 30+ books
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This challenge was created with the help of and under the Creative Directorship of Karen ⊰✿, whose audiobook challenges at the NBRC Group have been the source and the inspiration. 🥰
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