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Length & Publication date
◈ an audiobook between 3-4 hours
◈ an audiobook between 4-5 hours
◈ an audiobook between 5-6 hours
◈ an audiobook published in March
◈ an audiobook published in April
◈ an audiobook published in May
Authors, Narrators & Characters
◈ an audiobook with a male and a female narrator
◈ an audiobook with full cast (abridged/dramatized or unabridged)
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in March
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in April
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator or character who was born in May
◈ an audiobook where the narrator's or author's or a character's name can be connected to spring (e.g.: name of a flower, April, May, etc) in any way
◈ an audiobook with the author's or narrator's initials in the word SPRING EQUINOX
Genres and Shelves
◈ an audiobook with MPG Religion
◈ an audiobook with MPG Music
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf Dance
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf: Spring OR from FLOWER
Series
◈ an audiobook you have already listened to
◈ an audiobook 3rd in a series
◈ an audiobook 4th in a series
◈ an audiobook 5th in a series
Covers
◈ an audiobook with green cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with blue cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with pink cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with green letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with blue letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with pink letters on cover
◈ an audiobook with a flower(s) on the cover
◈ an audiobook with the moon on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a (part of a) garden on the cover
◈ an audiobook with any item related to gardening on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a bike on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a bird on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a kite on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a clover(s) on the cover
◈ a book with a sheep on the cover
Title
◈ an audiobook with the letters BLOSSOM in the title (they don't need to be in order)
◈ an audiobook with a title starting with a letter from DAFFODIL
◈ an audiobook with the word WATER(s) in the (sub)title or series title
◈ an audiobook with the letters CHERRY in the title (they don't need to be in order)
Plot & Text
◈ an audiobook set at least partly in springtime
◈ an audiobook featuring any kind of holiday that is celebrated during the spring months (Holi, Nowruz, Easter, Passover, Songkran, Las Fallas, Spring Equinox, etc)
◈ an audiobook where a character is falsely believed to be dead
◈ an audiobook where someone takes a walk
◈ an audiobook with the word EGG(S) mentioned in the text
◈ an audiobook featuring someone searching for something
◈ an audiobook with any type of bird mentioned in the text
◈ an audiobook where someone is freed from something (your interpretation)
◈ an audiobook where the word FESTIVAL is mentioned in the text
◈ an audiobook where some kind of gardening activity is done or with a character who likes gardening
◈ an audiobook where the characters go on a picnic
◈ an audiobook where a character does some house cleaning
◈ an audiobook where a character climbs a tree
◈ an audiobook where a character paints something (can be a painting or a wall, etc.)
◈ an audiobook with the word "KITE(s)" in the text
◈ an audiobook with the word "CLOVER(s)" in the text
Setting/Tags
◈ an audiobook set in Ireland or tagged Ireland minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Israel or tagged Israel minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Thailand or tagged Thailand minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Iran or tagged Iran minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in India or tagged India minimum 5x
◈ an audiobook set in Japan or tagged Japan minimum 5x
Where flowers bloom, so does hope ...
~ 🎧🌷📗The Spring Season Audiobook Challenge 🌷📗🎧~
In the Northern Hemisphere we are preparing for spring: time to get outdoors, do some gardening maybe and listen to audiobooks. Challenge Tasks are there to boost your reading and get you in the mood.
Duration: 1 March - 31 May
Rules & How to:
Option 1- Voices of Spring
►Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
►You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
►You are allowed to use 1 audiobook to cover 3 tasks.
Option 2 - Dances with the Daffodils
►Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
►You may read as many books as you want for the chosen tasks
►You are allowed to use 1 audiobook to cover 2 tasks.
Option 3 - The Constant Gardener
► Pick a level and choose your audiobook tasks
► You may read as many books as you want for each chosen task.
► 1 audiobook 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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It's time to nominate books for our BotM in April 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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1. From Sand and Ash
2. The Glass Castle
3. Day
4. The Buried Giant
5. Good Gifts: A Christian small-town romance Series: Brenner Falls
6. Mary Jane
7. The PROX Transmissions
8. The Book of Azrael
Christine wrote: "
"Hi Christine,
this is the 2024 thread.
Please click on this link to post your reads in the 2025 thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the March Books of the Month here:
❎ March 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the February Books of the Month are The Wedding People by Alison Espach and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
🔖 The Wedding People - discussion here
🔖 Crying in H Mart - discussion here
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♒💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♒
🗓️📚The 2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge
February
Info & details can be found here
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📘 Challenges Links
General Challenges
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! 📚
2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge - FEBRUARY
📖If you are using the a copy of the Mastersheet, you can either copy the January tab and rename it February or you can simply continue listing your books on your current tab.
📙Looking forward to see what books you'll be reading in February.
Book #2 of the February 2025 Book of the Month is Crying in H Mart
by Michelle ZaunerThe New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity in the wake of her loss.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band – and meeting the man who would become her husband – her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.
It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
Book #1 of the February 2025 Book of the Month is The Wedding People
by Alison EspachA propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Task Set 3 - Task 12 the wording has been slightly changed:
12. a book where the publication date AND/OR the page number contains at least three from these numbers: 1,3,7,9
It's been also updated under the Task List and on Tab 3 of the Master Sheet
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Task Set 3 - Task 12 the wording has been slightly changed:
12. a book where the publication date AND/OR the page number contains at least three from these numbers: 1,3,7,9
It's been also updated under the Task List of the thread
All about the Tolkien Reading Challenge
and on Tab 3 of the Master Sheet
Nominations updated to here
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in March 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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1. The One Man
2. Forgotten Country
3. All Creatures Great and Small
4. Britt-Marie Was Here
5. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
6. Once There Were Wolves
7. The Spear Cuts Through Water
8. The Three Lives of Cate Kay
9. Margo's Got Money Troubles
📔 Master Sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
‼️PLEASE USE THE LINK ABOVE TO MAKE A COPY FOR YOURSELF.‼️It is set to "VIEW" for all with the link.
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@ALL who'd like to use a tracker spreadsheet:
- Click on the link, it will open, it is set to "view only".
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
It has 3 tabs with 3 different options.
To copy:
- open the link
- click on the arrow next to the tab name you'd like to use (January 1/ J 2 / J3)
- from the small window that opens select the option "Copy To"
- select option "New Spreadhseet"
- when you see the message "sheet copied successfully" click on the link "open spreadsheet".
- you have your own copy now. The only thing you need to do is in the top row to click onto "untitled spreadhseet" and change the name to your own choice.
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Also, if you have any questions, you are welcome to post them here.
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - HOLIDAYS and JANUARY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
Wishing You All Happy Holidays & New Year! 🎉🎆🎇
📈 Looking back to 2024, what were your favourite/most memorable reads? You can share them with us here: Top of the Books - your Bookchart for 2024
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You can vote for the February Books of the Month here:
❎ February 2025 Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the January Books of the Month will be We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
🔖 We'll Prescribe You a Cat - discussion here
🔖 A Little Life - discussion here
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♑💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♑
🗓️📚The 2025 Monthly Reading Tracker Challenge
If you'd like to record your books either in the thread or on a sheet, please check out the details here: January
💍💍On 1 January 2025 The Tolkien Reading Challenge starts. You can join any time as an individual player or as part of a self-organised team. All details can be found here: A Long Expected Party
🃏🃏 our annual UNO Team Challenge will start on 1 Feb 2025. More information will follow towards the end of December.
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📘 Challenges Links
POPSUGAR 2025 Reading Challenge
Baby, it's cold outside or Winter is coming...
Hello January Challenge
General Challenges
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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Housekeeping
📒 If you are new to our Group, please drop by to say hello here: introduce yourself or if you'd like to connect to other members, pop into this thread: Goodreads Friends.
Please do not create separate threads for these purposes! Also, no author self-promotion or book promotion outside the dedicated folders, please!
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
Nominations updated to here
One of our January 2025 Book of the Month is A Little Life
by Hanya YanagiharaWhen four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
One of our January 2025 Book of the Month is We'll Prescribe You a Cat
by Syou IshidaA cat a day keeps the doctor away….
Discover this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats in the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation.
Tucked away on the fifth floor of an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can be found only by people who are struggling in their lives and who genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take” their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, and occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.
Throughout these pages, the power of the human-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a middle-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a hardened handbag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha learns to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic’s patients grapple with their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self-discovery, and newfound hope.
