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message 1: by PAS, Moderator AC (last edited Jun 30, 2025 07:48PM) (new)

PAS (Mods) (pasmods) | 870 comments Mod
This is the thread for August. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from June 2025 reads.

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves (aside from "to-read", "currently-reading"). (they may end up being duplicated if you are a genre reader).

You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).

D. Your Options

For this section, you may choose to either read purely from your TBR or new books* or BOTH! There are separate tasks as per below options:

*the definition of new books here is quite liberal; it could literally be a new book you've brought home or newly published book which you've put on your TBR last year or new-to-you... whichever works for you

Each of the books you read for L4L are to be used as starting point for each of below prompts (ie. 1 book cannot be used for more than 1 prompt per option).

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages


message 2: by PAS, Moderator AC (last edited Jun 30, 2025 07:51PM) (new)


message 3: by Meg (last edited Aug 12, 2025 08:22PM) (new)

Meg (megscl) | 1073 comments AUGUST TBR BENDER
BEST BOOKS OF JUNE
1 A Language of Limbs queer, LGBT, historical fiction
2 Nesting ireland, contemporary, literary fiction
3 Always Home, Always Homesick nonfiction, memoir, biography

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1 A Language of Limbs == historical fiction, LGBT== Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
2 Nesting == contemporary, ireland, literary fiction == Water
3 Always Home, Always Homesick == memoir, nonfiction, biography == You Could Make This Place Beautiful✔️

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert == March 2025 == The Underworld

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Water == Earth

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
You Could Make This Place Beautiful == The Beautiful Mystery

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.


message 4: by LynnB (last edited Aug 25, 2025 08:43PM) (new)

LynnB | 1769 comments TBR Bender - August 2025
Completed 25 Aug 2025


B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from June 2025 reads.
1. Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
historical fiction, mystery, thriller
Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
2. Seeds of Fate, Sarita Dasgupta
India, short stories, family
Seeds of Fate by Sarita Dasgupta
3. Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks
memoir, nonfiction, grief
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves
1. (Small Mercies, historical fiction)
The Book Club for Troublesome Women, Marie Bostwick, 10 Aug 2025
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
2. (Seeds of Fate, family)
Good Dirt, Charmaine Wilkerson, 11 Aug 2025
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
3. (Memorial Days, nonfiction)
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Kate Moore, 19 Aug 2025
The Woman They Could Not Silence One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
✔1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added.
(Good Dirt, both added Sept 2024)
The Spoon Stealer, Lesley Crewe, 16 Aug 2025
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe

✔3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
(The Woman They Could Not Silence, Kate Moore )
The Curse of Braeburn Castle, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 25 Aug 2025
The Curse of Braeburn Castle (Heathcliff Lennox #3) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Book Club for Troublesome Women, both pub. 2025
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler, 12 Aug 2025
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler


message 5: by Bea (last edited Jul 03, 2025 01:46AM) (new)

Bea | 5296 comments Mod
TBR Bender - August 2025

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 top reads from June 2025 reads.
1. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey - Memoir, Nonfiction, Scotland
2. The Warsaw Anagrams - Historical Fiction, Mystery, Holocaust
3. The Vaster Wilds - Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nature

C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves.
You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).
1. Scotland: Letters from Skye
2. Holocaust: Suite Francaise
3. Nature: The Overstory

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
The Overstory - added to TBR 4/28/20
The Stationery Shop - added to TBR 5/1/20

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
She also wrote: The Fires of Autumn

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole - initials = JB
The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.



message 6: by Joanna (last edited Jul 25, 2025 05:59AM) (new)

Joanna (walker) | 618 comments TBR Bender August
Read: 4/6

Top 3 June Reads:
* Flashlight - Japan, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
* Slut Lullabies - Short Stories, Feminism, Sexuality, Contemporary
* Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

L4L:
Flashlight - Historical Fiction
✅1. The Monsters of Templeton - Historical Fiction - 7/21/25

Slut Lullabies - Short Stories, Contemporary
✅2. The Seduction - Short Stories, Contemporary - 6/16/25

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Nonfiction
✅3. I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays - Nonfiction - 7/5/25

TBR:
Author: The Monsters of Templeton (L-G)
4. Rocked (L-G)

Series: The Seduction
✅5. The Seduction Series: Parts 1-4 (will finish out the series by listening to parts 2-4) - 6/27/25

Pages: I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays - 176pp
6. The Orchardist - 426pp


message 7: by CassieV (last edited Jul 04, 2025 05:39PM) (new)

CassieV | 258 comments August Plan

B: My Books - June
1. The New Whole30: The Definitive Plan to Transform Your Health, Habits, and Relationship with Food - Cookbooks / Nonfiction / Health
2. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - 2024 / Mystery / 2025
3. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret - Mystery / 2024 / Christmas

C. Like for Like
1. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Shelf: Health Added: Jun 16, 2024
2. The Ministry of Time Shelf: 2025 Added: Mar 31, 2024
3. Trust Shelf: 2024 Added: Oct 19, 2022

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)
Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy (Added Mar 15, 2024; using Ministry of Time)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (same author as Anxious Generation)

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts (using Trust)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

Read: 0/6


message 8: by Lauren (last edited Sep 02, 2025 09:47PM) (new)

Lauren (laurenjberman) | 1223 comments August
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 3/9

June Books
1.A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Shelves: Mystery, Historical Fiction, 2023, Cozy Mystery, 2024
2. Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan
Shelves: Mystery, Thriller, 2023, Crime, Series
3. All Our Tomorrows by Catherine Bybee
Shelves: 2024, 2025, Romance, Kindle Unlimited, Series

Like for Like
1. Historical Fiction - God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen
✔︎ 2. Crime - Her Mother's Grave by Lisa Regan
Read: September 2, 2025
Rating: 4.5 Stars
3. 2024 - A Deceptive Composition by Anna Lee Huber

Options - TBR
1. Date (June 2024) - The Shop on Royal Street by Karen White (June, 2024)
2. Series: Her Final Confession by Lisa Regan
✔︎ 3. Pages (424+): Passions in Death by J.D. Robb (448)
Read: August 20, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars

Options - New
1. Publication Year (2021): Tell No Lies by Allison Brennan
2. Title (Shelf-Grave): My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni
✔︎ 3. Series: The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green
Read: August 8, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars


message 9: by Tien (last edited Sep 05, 2025 09:08PM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9032 comments Mod
My Top 5 reads & shelves
Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba : fantasy, 2024-releases, sapphic, lgbtq, dnf
Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi : historical-fiction, japan, fiction, war, historical
Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado : thriller, crime, mystery, audiobook, fiction
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong : fantasy, 2025, physical-tbr, cozy, 2024
Master of Iron by Tricia Levenseller : fantasy, young-adult, physical-tbr, romance, 2022

Like 4 Like

Top Shelf: fantasy
🗸 Book 1: The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw -Read 09/06

Top Shelf: historical
Book 2: A Heart Divided by Jin Yong

Top Shelf: mystery
Book 3: The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

Top Shelf: young-adult
🗸 Book 4: Once a Villain by Vanessa Len-Read 08/18

Top Shelf: romance
Book 5: Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan

D.1. Your TBR (all these books are on my TBR)
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw >> add Jul '25 >> The Ex-it Strategy: A Second Chance, Reality TV Romance by L.V. Oaks -Read 08/06

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author
A Heart Divided by Jin Yong >>> A Past Unearthed

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer >> MM >>

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)
Once a Villain by Vanessa Len >> Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain #3) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

🗸 5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan >> 176p + 50p = 226p >> The Farm by Jessica Mansour-Nahra (316p) -Read 08/31

D.2. new books
🗸 1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
Once a Villain by Vanessa Len >> pub 2025 >> The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura -Read 08/22

🗸 2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
A Heart Divided by Jin Yong >> On Thin Ice by Allison A. Andrews -Read 08/31

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position)
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan >> ST >> TS >>

4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw >> Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1) by Alice Oseman
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer >> 432p >> 2xxp >> Eternity in Kyoto by Héctor García (256p)


message 10: by Marina (last edited Sep 05, 2025 09:22AM) (new)

Marina (sonnenbarke) | 1513 comments August

The Scapegoat - Fiction / Classics / Mystery / Gothic / Historical Fiction
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Historical Fiction / Horror / Fiction / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Demoni, mostri e prodigi. L'irrazionale e il fantastico nel mondo antico - Mythology / Nonfiction / Greek Mythology

L4L

The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
Top shelf: classics
Book #1: Armadale - read 27/08

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Top shelf: science fiction
Book #2: One - read 04/09

Demoni, mostri e prodigi. L'irrazionale e il fantastico nel mondo antico by Giorgio Ieranò
Top shelf: mythology
Book #3: The Bear and the Nightingale - read 31/08

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added (could be the month and even if it was a new book you read/added in January 2025, read another book you added in January 2025)

2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or (for stand alone book) read another book by the same author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)

4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to be super strict here, it could be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar nature (eg. monster - monstrous is acceptable)

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.

Read: 3/6


message 11: by LaurLa (last edited Aug 02, 2025 05:48AM) (new)

LaurLa | 1385 comments TBR Bender ❱❱ August
August - December 2025

My August TBR Bender (msg 11)

June Books
🔺Shadow Magic ❱❱ urban fantasy; fantasy; womens; paranormal
🔺Unlikely Story ❱❱ romance; contemporary; chick lit; enemies to lovers; new york
🔺The Hippopotamus Pool ❱❱ mystery; historical fiction; egypt; adventure; mystery thriller

Like for Like

Here Kitty, Kitty (Magnus Pack, #3) by Shelly Laurenston Flirting with Disaster (Jackson Girl's Night Out, #2) by Victoria Dahl My Runaway Heart by Miriam Minger

☑️paranormal ❱❱ Shadow Magic
🔺Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ 07.02 ★★★★
☑️romance ❱❱ Unlikely Story
🔺Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 07.05 ★★★★
☑️historical fiction ❱❱ The Hippopotamus Pool
🔺My Runaway Heart ❱❱ 07.11 ★★★

Options - TBR

Seeing Red (Seeing Red, #1) by Sidney Halston Whiskey Chaser (Bootleg Springs, #1) by Lucy Score Shadowboxer (Tapped Out, #1) by Cari Quinn

☑️Date ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ added April 2013
🔺Seeing Red ❱❱ 07.09 ★★
Author ❱❱ Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ initials SL
🔺Whiskey Chaser
Pages ❱❱ Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 381 pp ❱❱ 432 pp
🔺Shadowboxer

Options - New

Wounded by Jasinda Wilder Three Broken Promises (One Week Girlfriend, #3) by Monica Murphy Hunter's Season (Elder Races #4.7) by Thea Harrison

☑️Series ❱❱ Here Kitty, Kitty ❱❱ new series/author ❱❱ Wounded
🔺Wounded ❱❱ 07.04 ★★★★
Author ❱❱ My Runaway Heart ❱❱ initials MM
🔺Three Broken Promises
☑️Pages ❱❱ Flirting with Disaster ❱❱ 381 pp ❱❱ 102 pp
🔺Hunter's Season ❱❱ 07.10 ★★★★


message 12: by Amy (last edited Aug 05, 2025 07:20PM) (new)

Amy | 2241 comments August

C. Like for Like (L4L)

1. Strangers in Time - historical-fiction
Broken Country - Completed 7/11/25

2. Demon Copperhead - favorites
The Painted Bird - Completed 7/27/25

3. King of Ashes - thriller
Whistle - Completed 7/12/25

4. All the Colors of the Dark - mystery
Survivor In Death - Completed 7/10/25

5. Lethal Prey - 2025
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club

D. Your Options

D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Whistle - added April 22, 2025
The Body on the Shore - added April 5, 2025 - Completed 7/6/25

2. Series: Survivor In Death
Origin in Death (next book in the series) - Completed 7/11/25

3. Author: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston - author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position) - Completed 7/26/25

4. Title: The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club
The Book Woman's Daughter - same word in title (BOOK)

5. Pages: The Painted Bird - 234 pages
Hang on St. Christopher - 296 pages (at least 50 pages more) - Completed 7/5/25


D.2. new books
1. Date: Whistle
The Drowning Game - both published in 2025 - Completed 8/1/25

2. Series (maybe): Broken Country - stand alone book
The Things We Didn’t Know (debut novel) - Completed 7/31/25

3. Author: Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb
Cold Evidence by Robin James - same initials (first & last only) in a flipped position - Completed 7/24/25

4. Title: The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club - shelf with a word in title - CLUB
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/club?pag...
Harlem Shuffle

5. Pages: The Painted Bird (234 pages) -
first number of pages is that of your book's last number of pages
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir - 400 pages - Completed 8/5/25


message 13: by Joyce (last edited Jul 04, 2025 02:01PM) (new)

Joyce (eternity21) | 726 comments Joyce's August TBR Bender:

B. My Top June 2025 Reads

1. New York to Dallas
2.System Collapse
3.Dead Lines

C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)

1. JUNE book-New York to Dallas
2. JUNE book-System Collapse
3. JUNE book-Dead Lines

D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)
(view spoiler)

1. L4L book-
2. L4L book -
3. L4L book -

D.2. new books
(view spoiler)
1. L4L book-
2. L4L book -
3. L4L book -


message 14: by Susan (last edited Jul 12, 2025 05:15AM) (new)

Susan | 3753 comments Mod
AUGUST

My Top 5 Reads in January & shelves:
Muse of Nightmares: fantasy, young adult, romance, fiction, audiobook
Leviathan Wakes(The Expanse #1): science fiction, fiction, audiobook, fantasy, space
Stay(Aud Torvingen #2): mystery, fiction, LGBT, Queer, Lesbian
Night Study (Study #5): fantasy, young adult, magic, romance, fiction
Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate #1): science fiction, space opera, fiction, space, audiobook

Like 4 Like : a book on one of the 3-5 top shelves
Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Leviathan Wakes)
Book 1: The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Velocity Weapon)
Book 2: The Final Gambit OR Scavenger Door

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Night Study)
Book 3: Rip Tide

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Stay)
Book 4: The Nature of the Beast

Top Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... (Muse of Nightmares)
Book 5: The Word is Murder

D1 Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your [Like 4 Like] books, read from closest date added
Rip Tide, added 2/8/17
Stay, added 1/22/18 - fin 6/16

2. Series: Using one of your books, read the next book in the series or another book by the same author
The Nature of the Beast
A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in the same position)
The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, Samit Basu
Flood, Stephen Baxter
The Windsor Knot, S.J. Bennett
Dead Scared, Sharon J. Bolton

4. Title:Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
The Word is Murder (murder)
Murder at the Country Club BTM Aug
Murder in G Major BTM Aug

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
The Final Gambit, 400 pages


message 15: by Nat (last edited 10 hours, 36 min ago) (new)

Nat | 170 comments Goal: 3 books
Read: 4/6

June Books
1. The Curse of Chalion
2. Paladin of Souls
3. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

L4L
1. Fantasy - The Tyranny of Faith 8/13
2. Fantasy - Ordinary Monsters
3. Politics - Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS 7/11

Options: D.1 TBR
1. Series - The Trials of Empire
2. Author (JM) - Women! In! Peril! 7/28
3. Title - The Blackhouse 9/5


Christina (AKA Babbling) (babblingbookreviews) | 147 comments August

0/6

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from June 2025 reads.
1. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura 13 June 2025 ★★★★ Magical Realism, Japanese Literature, cats
2. The Red Heart of Jade by Marjorie M. Liu 18 June 2025 ★★★★ Paranormal Romance, Dragons, Shapeshifters
3. Guilty as Cinnamon by Leslie Budewitz 22 June 2025 ★★★★ Cozy Mystery, Contemporary, Culinary

C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. Magical Realism: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
2. Dragons: Flashfire by Deborah Cooke
3. Contemporary: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Flashfire (Dragonfire, #7) by Deborah Cooke Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

D.1. Your TBR
1. Author: ST, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle|
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
2. Series: Dragonfire #7, Flashfire
Dragonfire #8 Ember's Kiss by Deborah Cooke
3. Title: Romantic, Romantic Comedy
Dead Romantic by Ruth Saberton

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne Ember's Kiss (Dragonfire, #8) by Deborah Cooke Dead Romantic by Ruth Saberton


message 17: by Jayme(theghostreader) (last edited Aug 27, 2025 04:49PM) (new)

Jayme(theghostreader) (jaymetheghostreader) | 1278 comments This is the thread for August. Some of the instructions are posted below as well for your ease of reference.

B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads
from June 2025 reads.
Foundation
Intrigues
Changes
You will read a book from each of these shelves (preferably those already on your TBR).
Once Upon a Summer Day
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series
or (for stand aloney book)
read another book by the
same author
Magic's
Pawn

Sword of Ice and
Other Tales of
Valdemar

Sun in Glory and
Other Tales of
Valdemar

Winds of
Fate

Exile's
Honor
08/10/25
Exile's Valor
A Study in Sable
Completed 08/27/25
One Good Knight completed 08/18/25
Miss Amelia's List
3. Author: Using one of
your books, read a book from an author with the
same initials (first & last
only in the same positi

4. Title: Using one of your
books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
^we're not going to
super strict here, it could
be exactly identical, found intact or just of similar
nature (eg. monster -
monstrous is acceptable)
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book
with at least 50 pages
more.
By Any Other Name
She's a Mad
Hatter


2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read
abook from a series by a new-to-you author OR (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author

3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book
from an author with the s
Same initials (first & last
only in a flipped position)
4. Title: Using one of your book titles, read from a shelf with a word* in title
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/[INSERT WORD IN TITLE HERE]
*word cannot be articles, preposition, or connective

5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book where the first number of pages is that of your books
last number of page


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