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read good 🍄

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 1/12

1. january: ann-uary


2. february: fever-uary


3. march: book adapted into an oscar-nominated film
1991 winner - best actress 2007 - best writing nominee

4. april: women's prize winner


5. may: may-gical realism


6. june: reading shame forgiveness month
Dracula

7. july: read a work in translation

8. august: booker prize nominee

9. september: a short story collection


10. october: ug-tober


✅️ 11. november: no-paragraph-break-vember


12. december: indie-cember

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🎬 meet me at the movies 🎥

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

[n e w - h o l l y w o o d]

1. the godfather - organized crime

2. in cold blood - b&w cover

3. the graduate - age gap

4. star wars - in space

5. grease - opposites attract

6. a space odyssey - robot

7. jaws - sea creature

8. rocky - mc overcome obstacles
9. the french connection - set in france

10. butch cassidy & the sundance kid - 6 word title

11. the exorcist - horror

12. the producers - con man

13. the pink panther - pink cover
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14. charlie & the chocolate factory - childhood fav
15. the dirty dozen - # in title
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b o o k e m o n

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

🍄monthly bookemon🍄

《january》- pacifier - read a middle-grade book
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《february》- blood - book with vampire
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《march》- fan - book you know nothing about
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《april》- tree sap - beloved book
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《may》- yoga mat - relaxing book
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《june》- mirror - use personalized method of choosing book
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🌤seasonal bookemon☃️

❄️❄️snow (january-april) - require 2 items combo
#1: telescope - night sky on the cover
✅️ christmas tree - a sparkly cover
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#2: ✅️ knitting needles - share craft project on discord
✅️ shovel - 500+ page book
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#3: ✅️ lantern - read the entirety of a 250+ page book in a cozy spot
✅️ fireflies - a bright cover
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🌸🌸petal (may-august)
#1: hoop - sport

pansy - flowers with at least three colors on cover


#2: pillow - 'sleep/night/dream' in title

daffodil - chronic illness/disability


#3: cd - music
tulip - 'flower' or name of flower in title



🐔🐣 chicken 🐣🐔

✅️ jan ✅️ feb ✅️ mar ✅️ apr
✅️ may jun



☕️ pick a teacup ☕️
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b o o k e m o n

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 35/76 (42+34)

✅️ seeds - two 'e' in title

bread - comfort read
carrot - nonfiction

✅️ slime - 50% green cover

✅️ lizard - reptile on cover yikes

✅️ fungus - title starts with 'f' ends with 's' use **⛺️**
bow & arrow - on cover

legendary necklace - (1/4)
✅️ • necklace

• earring

✅️ • ring

• nose ring

fern - nonfiction about nature/ climate change/ environment
(fiction)
✅️ hand buzzer - an anti-villian

✅️ log - 3 trees+ on cover

phone - audiobook
✅️ pearl - read 250p+ book beside a body of water

✅️ clam - read 2 books same week w/ pearl on cover use **🎒**
magic wand - read these 3 prompts within 3 months (1 fairy godmother) (1 fairytale retelling) (1 involving wishes)
✅️ • fairy godmother **☂️**
• fairytale retelling

✅️ • wishes

✅️ tiara - royalty

ladder - hierarchy system

catnip - book with cat

sunflower - 50% yellow on cover

ant - less than 100 pages

rubbish bin - professor merb fav

legendary sword - 6 retellings 250p+ within 6 months **👒 & 🩰 & 🔦**
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✅️ hammer - a tool on cover

✅️ ball - toy on cover

volcanic rock - 6 books from 6 book clubs in 6 months **🛌**
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lollipop - colorful cover

✅️ bomb - a hard hitting book

teddy bear - a happy book
✅️ dagger - a weapon on cover

chicken - orange/yellow + black + white on cover every month
✅️ ufo - finish 400p+ in one day

✅️ moon rock - alien

steak (1/3)
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✅️ worm - misunderstood character

peach - plus size mc

✅️ bone - bone on cover

✅️ fossil - a historical read

✅️ flashlight - bright cover

perfume - read romance book

coat hanger - an outfit that you like on a cover

✅️ milk - set on a farm

teacup - pretty cover

✅️ cute potion - zoologist recommend

✅️ acorn - a popular book

✅️ cog - something round on cover

krill - a crustacean on cover

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b o o k e m o n

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

🍄adventure bookemon🍄

g o - s o u t h:
+ comfort mindy -> a happy book
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+ call professor merb -> an intimidating book
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+ to put friendship badge -> star-crossed lovers/feuding families
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+ to learn lesson -> book that will teach you something
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🌹🥀 what’s in a name 2024

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 0/6

1. double letters:

2. nfl team: saints, titan

3. natural disaster:

4. virtue:

5. shape:

6. footwear:

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🎧 the listener 🎧

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

listened: 29/50

÷ j a n ÷
1. open throat | pete cross 💯
2. my year of rest and relaxation | julia whelan 💯
3. galatea
4. study for obedience | sarah bernstein 💯
5. simon sort of says | will collyer
6. pachinko parlor
7. indigo ridge | vanessa edwin 💯

÷ f e b ÷
1. no one belongs here more than you | miranda july
2. i'm a fan
3. how i won a nobel prize | lauren fortgang 💯
4. the trouble with happiness | stine wintlev
5. cold enough for snow
6. jillian | halle butler

÷ m a r ÷
1. penance | george weightman, hollie-jay bowes
2. and then i woke up | graham mack
3. thornhedge | laurel lefkow
4. all of us strangers
5. sea change | jeena yi 💯

÷ a p r i l ÷
1. brooklyn | niamh cusack 💯
2. a certain slant of light | lauren molina 💯
3. the disaster tourist | natalie naudus
4. soldier sailor | simone collins 💯
5. we are all completely fine | tavia gilbert 💯
6. out stealing horses | richard poe

÷ m a y ÷
1. the thursday murder club | lesley mansville 💯
2. the guest | carlotta brentan
3. to be taught, If fortunate

÷ j u n e ÷
1. notes on a scandal | jilly bond 💯
2. swanna in love | sophia amoss
ordinary human failings | jessica regan 💯
no fixed address | nissae isen 💯
ghost forest | pik-shuen fung
and i do not forgive you | chelsea stephens
i love you so much it's killing us both | trei taylor 💯
crampton hodnet | kristin atherton
the happy couple | ayoola smart, bert seymour
of paupers and peers | stevie zimmerman
what katy did | karen savage
the idiot |
sin | diana rigg 💯
the door | sian thomas
the blue castle | barbara barnes
the labors of hercules beal | fred berman
the eyes and the impossible | ethan hawke
walking on the ceiling | mozhan marno!
the hearing trumpet | sian phillips
thirst for salt | madelaine lucas
mercury | maria liatis

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a year in aeldia

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buddy reads

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finish line

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 4/

[I]
✅️ 13. rick riordan, the last olympian
she wore her orange camp t-shirt and… god I feel modern tonight
6. ursula k. le guin, the wave in the mind
people who deny the existence of dragons are often… ex-wife | happy all the time

[II]
5. min jin lee, pachinko
history has failed us, but… here is the beehive
✅️ 6. daphne du maurier, rebecca
last night I dreamt I went to…the pachinko parlor
✅️ 9. marcel proust, swann’s way
for a long time, I went to bed… exalted

[III]
4. yann martel, life of pi
very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at… scenes of a graphic nature
10. kate chopin, the awakening
there was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of… the diver's clothes lie empty | an ex-wife

[IV]
2. bts, butter, 2021
smooth like butter, like a… sin
9. eminem, lose yourself, 2002
his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are… completely normal
9. eminem, lose yourself, 2002
his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are… remarkably bright creatures

[V]
✅️ 9. like a cat on a hot tin… the country will bring us no peace | i laugh me broken
10. your guess is as good as… an ex-wife

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asian


tvd

middle grade may


misery may

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translated






4&5 mrs march
You too can have a body 304
Swanna 280
Now in november, deep water 304
lost on me, book of mother, walking on ceiling 224
Cassandra 256 264
Hearing test 176
Sin 164 136
For lucy 306 308
Post traumatic 320
Aunt crete 125 112

119 thighgap

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*dnf* dagger

#1: 352p ✅️
#2: 336p ✅️
#3: 321p ✅️

369p
275p

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read your bookshelf 2025

Beauty
Size
Time
Flowers
Favorite
Birds
Royalty
Space
Travel
History
Food
Frosty

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🌈 c o l o r s ⛱️

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what's in a name 2025

Cardinal direction


Wanderlust


First & last name


Alliteration


Deity



Crime

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🎭 MFL- flowers on the cover
🎶 The Great Comet - Historical Read
🎭 The Sound of Music- Favorite Genre
🎶 Hamilton - A hyped book
🎭 A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder - Murder Mystery
🎶 Something Rotten - Shakespeare Retelling
🎭 Little Shop of Horrors - Paranormal
🎶 Back to the Future - Futuristic book
🎭 Falsettos - Family Saga
🎶 Rock of Ages - Genre Blend
🎭 Into The Woods - Fairytale Retelling
🎶 Chicago - Female Villain
🎭 Sweeney Todd - Read A Horror/Thriller/dark romance
🎶 Rent - At least 2 points of View
🎭 The Notebook - Read a book with time travel
🎶 Next to Normal - Mental Health Rep
🎭 In The Heights - BIPOC author
🎶 Wicked - A Popular Book
🎭 Heathers - Yellow/green/ red on the cover
🎶 MG - Friend Group
🎭 The Prom - LGBTQ + book
🎶 Matilda - A book about Books
🎭 Dear Evan Hansen - Social Media Scroll/poll pick
🎶 School of Rock - MG
🎭 Grease - Read a Romance
🎶 Hadestown - Read a Mythology Retelling/ a book with mythology
🎭 Be More Chill - A YA Novel
🎶 Waitress - Food on the Cover/part of the plot
🎭 Les Miserables - Translated
🎶 The Phantom of the Opera - Classic
🎭 The Lion King - Animal on the Cover/ Pet in the Book/ Animal POV
🎶 Anastasia - A book with Royalty
🎭 The Secret Garden - A book with a disabled character
🎶 Suffs - A Book with Feminine Rage/Feminist Retelling
🎭 Death Becomes Her - A Book with a Love Triangle/RH/Why Choose

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