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message 1: by Trisha (last edited Nov 26, 2024 06:38PM) (new)

Trisha | 1889 comments If you download the BOTM app on your smartphone and look under "bookshelf" there will be a yearly challenge.

If you can complete the challenge (by reviewing the books on BOTM), they will send you a free gift.

2020: was a candle.
2021: socks
2022: book nerd magnets
2022: 2nd prize: sword bookmark
2023: stuffed animal keychain (cat)
2023: 2nd prize Sword
2024: denim hat : "Reading is Sexy"
2024: 2nd prize: Sledge Hammer

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2nd Account:
2021: socks
2022: funny book nerd pad of paper
2023: first prize: stuffed animal keychain (pig)
2023: second prize: sword
2024: denim hat: "Reading is Sexy"
2024: sledge hammer


message 2: by Trisha (last edited Aug 20, 2025 09:52PM) (new)

Trisha | 1889 comments BOTM Annual Challenge: 2025
1st Prize:
Box:
2nd Prize:
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Account #1
2025 Challenge:
1st challenge completed: 6/25/25
2nd challenge completed:

BOTM 2025 Challenge:

Book Boss: 15/15
1. Blue Sisters 1/1
2. All We Were Promised 1/7
3. What Happened to the McCrays? 1/15
4. Definitely Better Now 1/22
5. Rental House 1/23
6. We Could Be Rats 1/31
7. The Dagger and the Flame 2/6
8. The Favorites 2/17
9. Husbands & Lovers 2/28
10. Water Moon 4/10
11. A Song to Drown Rivers 4/25
12. The Women 4/30
13. Deep Cuts 5/1
14. Broken Country 5/2
15. The Wedding People 5/4

Next: 25/30
16. Aftertaste 5/20
17. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 6/25
18. Home of the American Circus 6/27
19. Just for the Summer 6/28
20. Count My Lies 6/30
21. We All Live Here
22. The Love of My Afterlife 7/12
23. The Sun Was Electric Light 7/13
24. The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits 7/17
25. The Stolen Queen 7/29
26. The Fox Wife 8/15

Complete 3 of 6 Badges:

Debut Darling: 5/5
(Hardcovers only)
1. All We Were Promised 1/7
2. Definitely Better Now 1/22
3. Deep Cuts 5/1
4. Aftertaste 5/20
5. Count My Lies 6/30

Long Hauler: 4/4
(Hardcovers only)
1. The Dagger and the Flame 2/6
2. The Favorites 2/17
3. The Women 4/30
4. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 6/25

Hot Takers: 5/5
(Hardcover or audiobook)
1. Blue Sisters 1/1
2. All We Were Promised 1/7
3. What Happened to the McCrays? 1/15
4. Definitely Better Now 1/22
5. Rental House 1/23

Omnivoreader: 6/6
(Hardcover or audiobook)
1. Blue Sisters 1/1
2. All We Were Promised 1/7
3. What Happened to the McCrays? 1/15
4. The Dagger and the Flame 2/5
5. Water Moon 4/10
6. A Song to Drown Rivers 4/25


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Books to Read for challenge - Account #1:
These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown A Family Matter by Claire Lynch The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2) by Demi Winters Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2) by Kristen Ciccarelli A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young

2024: To Be Read 2025
Most Wonderful by Georgia ClarkPictures of You by Emma GreyThe Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1) by Demi WintersThe Bog Wife by Kay ChronisterThe Book of George by Kate GreatheadThe Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-JonesHera by Jennifer SaintThe Days I Loved You Most by Amy NeffThe Same Bright Stars by Ethan JoellaJoe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen FisherTable for Two by Amor TowlesThe Other Valley by Scott Alexander HowardNeighbors and Other Stories by Diane OliverHard by a Great Forest by Leo VardiashviliGood Material by Dolly Alderton

Read in 2025 - to be reviewed in 2026
Sky Daddy by Kate FolkAmong Friends by Hal EbbottRetreat by Krysten RitterFinding Grace by Loretta RothschildThe Love Haters by Katherine Center



message 3: by Trisha (last edited Aug 15, 2025 03:37PM) (new)

Trisha | 1889 comments Account #2
BOTM Annual Challenge: 2025
Prize:
Box:
2nd Prize:
Box:

2025 Challenge:

BOTM 2025 Challenge:

Book Boss: 15/15
1. The Teller of Small Fortunes
2. All the Colors of the Dark
3. The Rom-Commers
4. Five-Star Stranger 1/30
5. Isaac's Song 2/8
6. More or Less Maddy 2/14
7. The Lion Women of Tehran 2/24
8. The Thirteenth Child 3/31
9. Ruthless Vows
10. The Women 4/30
11. The Wedding People 5/4
12. Homeseeking 5/5
13. Phantasma 6/11
14. The Bullet Swallower 6/13
15. Black Woods, Blue Sky 6/30

Next: 20/30
16. Shelterwood 7/4
17. Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter 7/13
18. Wild Dark Shore 7/15
19. Fun for the Whole Family 8/5
20. The Great Divide 8/9
21. I Might Be in Trouble 8/10

Complete 3 of 6 Badges:

Debut Darling: 3/5
(Hardcovers only)
1. The Teller of Small Fortunes
2. Five-Star Stranger 1/30
3. Every Sweet Thing Is Bitter 7/13
4.
5.

Long Hauler: 4/4
(Hardcovers only)
1. All the Colors of the Dark
2. The Thirteenth Child 3/31
3. Ruthless Vows
4. The Women 4/30

Hot Takers: 5/5
(Hardcover or audiobook)
1. The Teller of Small Fortunes
2. All the Colors of the Dark
3. The Rom-Commers
4. Five-Star Stranger 1/30
5. Isaac's Song 2/8

Omnivoreader: 6/6
(Hardcover or audiobook)
1. The Teller of Small Fortunes
2. All the Colors of the Dark
3. The Rom-Commers
4. Five-Star Stranger 1/30
5. Isaac's Song 2/8
6. More or Less Maddy 2/14


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Books to read for challenge - Account #2

The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb The Summer We Ran by Audrey Ingram Silver Elite (Silver Elite, #1) by Dani Francis The Bombshell by Darrow Farr Passion Project by London Sperry The Names by Florence Knapp Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi Water Baby by Chioma Okereke A Season of Light by Julie Iromuanya Playworld by Adam Ross The House of My Mother A Daughter's Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

To Be Read in 2024
Where the Library Hides (Secrets of the Nile, #2) by Isabel Ibañez The Courting of Bristol Keats (The Courting of Bristol Keats, #1) by Mary E. Pearson Dearest by Jacquie Walters Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley The Demon of Unrest A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

Read in 2025 to be reviewed in 2026
Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake


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