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THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
This newsletter comes a bit early as I will be travelling at the very end of the month.
It has also been posted under this folder.
You can vote for the December Books of the Month here:
December 2024 Poll: vote here
If you want to join this month's discussions, the November Books of the Month are Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Intermezzo - discussion here
The Spellshop - discussion here
What's new?
From 1 November, a new seasonal Audiobook Challenge will be launched: Baby, it's cold outside or Winter is coming...
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, please!
📕 2024 buddy reads are in 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.
📘 Challenges Links
NEW Audiobook Challenge
Baby, it's cold outside or Winter is coming...
General Challenges
UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
Seasonal Challenges
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
TASKS in Categories
Length & Time
◈ an audiobook between 11-12 hours
◈ an audiobook published in December
◈ an audiobook published in January
◈ an audiobook published in February
◈ an audiobook published* in 1972 (coldest winter in Canada)
◈ an audiobook published in 1963 (coldest winter in Hungary)
◈ an audiobook published in 2008 (coldest January in Japan)
(original publication date)
Authors & Narrators
◈ an audiobook narrated by the author
◈ an audiobook with 1 narrator
◈ an audiobook with 2 narrators
◈ an audiobook with full cast (abridged/dramatized or unabridged)
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator who was born in December
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator who was born in January
◈ an audiobook with an author or narrator who was born in February
◈ an audiobook where the narrator's or author's or a character's name can be connected to winter (e.g.: Noel, white, snow, candy, January, etc) in any way
◈ an audiobook with the author's or narrator's initials in the word HOLIDAYS
Genres and Shelves
◈ an audiobook with MPG Classic(s)
◈ an audiobook with MPG Romance
◈ an audiobook with MPG Cosy Fantasy
◈ an audiobook with MPG Mythology
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf: Winter OR Winter Holidays
◈ an audiobook from the Shelf: Family
Series
◈ a standalone audiobook
◈ an audiobook 1st in a series
◈ an audiobook 2nd in a series
◈ an audiobook 12th or higher in a series
Covers
◈ an audiobook with a white cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with a pink cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with a red cover (over 50%)
◈ an audiobook with candle(s) or fairy lights on the cover
◈ an audiobook with cake on the cover
◈ an audiobook with a snowy scene or related activity (skiing, tobogganing, skating, etc.) or object on the cover
◈ an audiobook with any piece of warm clothing on the cover
Title
◈ an audiobook with a title that can be connected to winter in any way
◈ an audiobook with the letters CHAMPAGNE in the title (they don't need to be in order)
◈ an audiobook with a title starting with a letter from SOLSTICE
◈ an audiobook with the word WINTER in the (sub)title or series title
Plot
◈ an audiobook featuring snowfall or any kind of snow-related activities (eg skiing, snow fights, tobogganing, skating, etc)
◈ an audiobook featuring any kind of holiday that is celebrated during the winter months (Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Valentine's Day, etc)
◈ an audiobook featuring a new beginning (your interpretation)
◈ an audiobook where something comes to an end (your interpretation)
◈ an audiobook featuring someone receiving a present
◈ an audiobook featuring someone baking cake
◈ an audiobook featuring someone going on a date
◈ an audiobook featuring a professional player of some winter sport
Setting
◈ an audiobook set in Sweden or Finland
◈ an audiobook set in Norway or Iceland or Denmark
◈ an audiobook set in Alaska US or Canada or Russia
◈ an audiobook set in one of these countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
◈ an audiobook set in any country in the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Yemen)
Baby, it's cold outside or Winter is coming...
~ ❄️🎧📘The Long Winter Season Audiobook Challenge 📘🎧❄️~
On the Northern Hemisphere we are preparing for the winter season: time to get cosy and read books, or in this case: to listen to them. So get out the blankets, light a fire/candle, pour yourself your chosen beverage to keep you warm and put on your headphones. The Challenge Tasks are there to boost your reading and get you in the mood.
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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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Duration: 1 November - 28 Feb (any year)
Rules & How to:
Option 1- Winter Wonderland
►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- The Snow Queen
►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 - A Song of Ice and Fire
► 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:
Nisse: 1-5 books
Jack Frost: 6-10 books
Tengliu: 11-15 books
Nane Sarma: 16-20 books
Yuki-onna: 21-25 books
Amarok: 26-30 books
Ymir: 30+ books
One of our November 2024 Book of the Month is The Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Spellshop
The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love.
Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite.
When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy—and very handsome—neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she’s fed and to help fix up her new home.
In need of income, Kiela identifies something that even the bakery in town doesn’t have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries.
But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela risks the consequences of using unsanctioned spells and opens the island’s first-ever and much needed secret spellshop.
Like a Hallmark rom-com full of mythical creatures and fueled by cinnamon rolls and magic, The Spellshop will heal your heart and feed your soul.
One of our November 2024 Book of the Month is Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the November Books of the Month here:
November 2024 Poll: vote here
If you want to join this month's discussions, the October Books of the Month are When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker and Funny Story by Emily Henry
When the Moon Hatched - discussion here
Funny Story - discussion here
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, please!
📕 Upcoming 2024 buddy reads are in 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.
📘Links to our Challenges can be found in this folder.
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
Rebecca wrote: "Can you start getting books that are free with an Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription? I can't afford to buy these books every month, and they are never available at the library."Members are free to nominate books of their choice (avoiding book promotions).
If you nominate one that is on kindle unlimited and it comes out as a winner of the poll, then it will become one of the book of the month reads.
However, we do not limit member's choices to specific availabilities of one source or another.
Besides the BOTM reads, you can also request buddy reads if your choice does not make it as BOTM.
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
This newsletter will also be posted under this folder.
The Nominations thread for the October Books of the Months is still open, if you'd like to suggest books we could read. A maximum of 10 books will be accepted. Before nominating a book, please check out the rules in the thread.
If you want to join this month's discussions, the September Books of the Month are The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.
The Midnight Library - discussion here
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - discussion here
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, please!
📕 Upcoming 2024 buddy reads are in 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.
📘Links to our Challenges can be found in this folder.
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - AUGUST NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
Time to vote for the September Books of the Month here:
September 2024 Poll: vote here
If you want to join this month's discussions, the August Books of the Month are Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan and The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown.
Lies and Weddings - discussion here
The Book of Doors - discussion here
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, please!
📕 Upcoming 2024 buddy reads are in 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.
📘Links to our Challenges can be found in this folder.
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
One of our August 2024 Book of the Month is The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?
In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door .
What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.
But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.
Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons - a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .
Because some doors should never be opened.
One of our August 2024 Book of the Month is Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisticated, and thrillingly plotted story of love, money, murder, sex—and the lies we tell about them all.
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, has a problem: his family fortune, the legendary Gresham Trust, has been depleted by decades of profligate spending. While magazine covers and Instagram stories display impeccably designed manors and shiny new yachts, the secret reality holds nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to seduce a woman with money, thereby securing the family's precarious financial future.
Should he marry Solène de Courcy, a French hotel heiress with honey-blond tresses and a royal bloodline? Should he pursue Martha Dung, the tattooed venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or should he follow his heart, betray his family, squander his legacy, and finally confess his love to the literal girl next door, the humble daughter of a doctor, Eden Tong?
When the Gresham family descends on the Big Island of Hawaii to host a veritable who's who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs for the wedding of the decade, Rufus must merely flex his famous abs to bewitch the heiress of his choice. But instead a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials, and the Gresham family's plans—and their reputation—go up in flames.
Can the once-great earldom rise from the ashes? Or will a secret tragedy, hidden for two decades, reveal a shocking twist? Spanning the black sand beaches of Hawaii, the red city of Marrakech, the Los Angeles bachelor pad of a billionaire playboy, and the inner sanctum of England’s oldest family estate, Lies and Weddings reveals an enthralling family saga that is as scandalous and satirical as it is full of heart.
THE PERKS OF BEING A BOOK ADDICT - JULY NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
Some of you have raised the issue of not being able to read these newsletters when broadcast as a message, so from now these newsletters will also be posted under this folder.
In the July poll we had a tie for 2nd place, so Someone Else's Shoes will be one of the July BoTMs, while
Lies and Weddings will be one of the August BoTMs. But you can still vote for the other August BoTM.
You can find the poll on the group home page or vote through the link below.
August Poll: vote here
If you want to join this month's discussions, the July Books of the Month are Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes.
Six of Crows - Six of Crows - discussion here
Someone Else's Shoes - Someone Else's Shoes - discussion here
A Bit of 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, please!
📕 Upcoming 2024 buddy reads are in 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.
📘Links to our Challenges can be found in this folder.
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
As Six of Crows was already BoTM in 2016, according to the Group Rules this will be the 2nd and last time it could be nominated/chosen as BoTM again. Happy reading!
Hello!Some members let me know that while they get the newsletters in messages, they are not displayed properly, so they cannot read them..
To try and circumvent this, besides broadcasting the newsletters to all members as usual, I am also going to post them here.
Hope this helps. :)
Melinda
Nominations closed.
Nominations updated to here. :)
NOMINATIONS
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in August 2023. 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 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 self-promotion.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. I want to make sure I 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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