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Stina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Stina Branson
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Villains & Vengeance: A Sirens Benefit Anthology
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2017 Fifth Annual Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries (Battle of the Bards, #5)
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2014 Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries (Battle of the Bards, #2)
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2016 Fourth Annual Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries (Battle of the Bards, #4)
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Calliope issue #60
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Let's Read with Allison in 2026
Allison's annual challenges always have some interesting prompts, and this year I got off to a good start. This is a book-a-week (on average) challenge, so no doubling up. Allison provides free printables on her blog, including an option to read for specific prompts each month. (I just jump around all year.)
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Stina’s Recent Updates
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The 52 Book Club's 2026 Reading Challenge
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The April Mini-Challenge was to complete the three "real" prompts from April Fool's Day.
1. A rhymeless word in the title - Monster Blood 2. Author's p ...more " |
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My Fair Lady: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1):
"Around the Year in 52 Books 2024: 16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
This book is essentially a series of 6 vignettes. Six different people find the Kamogawa Food Detectives, a father and daughter who own a small obscure res" Read more of this review » |
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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Poor Richard's Almanack
― Poor Richard's Almanack
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
― The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.”
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
― Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
Challenges from Exploding Steamboats
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This group is for readers interested in any of the reading challenges run by Chris L. Pontius (AKA Stina Branson) over at the Exploding Steamboats blo ...more
Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge
— 42993 members
— last activity 1 hour, 17 min ago
This group is for people participating in the Popsugar reading challenge for 2026 (or any other year). The Popsugar website posted a reading challenge ...more
GenreLand
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This public group is an extension of a small, private group that met throughout 2017 to participate in their local library's GenreLand reading game. T ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Literally Dead Book Club
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— last activity Feb 18, 2026 12:04PM
A mostly monthly book club (February-November) focused on thriller/mystery/horror hosted by BooksandLala and a rotating set of wonderful co-hosts! li ...more
The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge
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This group is for those participating in The 52 Book Club's annual challenges! With 52 unique prompts released each year, the goal is to diversify our ...more
Better World Books Reading Challenge
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— last activity Jan 30, 2019 02:53PM
Welcome to the Better World Books Reading Challenge Group. This group is place for anyone taking on the read challenge to share their progress, make r ...more
75 Books...More or Less!
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Welcome to a friendly corner of Goodreads! We began the challenge of reading 75 books a year several years ago . . . since then, many of us have gotte ...more
Trail Head Book Club
— 10 members
— last activity Jun 03, 2021 09:39PM
The book club of the Trail Head Community in Fort Collins, Colorado.
#Ampersand2019 reading challenge
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— last activity Sep 14, 2019 05:48AM
A place for people to discuss their plans and progress for the #Ampersand2019 reading challenge created by Sarah from Commas and Ampersands. The cha ...more
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Cathy (cathepsut) wrote: "Hi Stina, thanks for the friend request. Are you still on bookcrossing?"Yes, though less active and rarely on the forums. I need to get back over there more often now that the site is a little more mobile-friendly.
Hi Stina, thanks for the friend request. Are you still on bookcrossing?
Glenn wrote: "Isn't it odd how we've stayed "friends" from one NaNoWriMo writing session?"It helps that you have really good taste in cars and post lots of photos on Facebook. :-)
Isn't it odd how we've stayed "friends" from one NaNoWriMo writing session?
Hi Stina,Thanks for befriending me here on Goodreads!
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