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📚JULY 2025 Dusty Bookshelf Challenge:💈



Please post your shelves. NO COMMENTS in this thread please. You can add discussion comments after pairs are posted.

How It Works:
1) Please post up to 10 books that you would like to read this month.
*minimum 5 books.

2) CHOOSE TURTLE (one book) or HARE (two books) to indicate your reading speed so your picker will know whether to choose one book or two books.

3) An assigned person will pick ONE or TWO BOOKS (depending on the indicated reading speed) from your shelf.

4) BONUS BOOK: Specify "another book from my shelf" OR Pick a Genre and the assigned person will pick a book from that specific genre.

5) You have one month: JULY 2025 to try to read the chosen books. (*if you don't read your book(s) this month, it's okay because this challenge is for YOUR ENJOYMENT)

6) Please try to select for your pair ASAP as we all get excited and waiting is torture to some.


TIMELINE
JUNE 24-27th, 2025: Participants will post their shelves
*If you do not list a shelf, I will not pair you with anyone
***Cut off on JUNE 27th, 11:59pm (US Central Time)
JUNE 28th-29th: Pairs will be posted & then selection of the books and posting it for the person you are choosing for
*Again, as I said earlier, please try to select for your pair ASAP.

**JUNE 30th: Re-picks for those who didn’t get the pick

**MOD ASSIST: In addition to myself (Denise), the TCF Mods are also around for assistance.

PARTICIPANTS

Chelle_Rydz
Erica
Denise
Zuzana
Jennifer
Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)
Jamie
Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)
Elaine
☘KathyD☘
Susan A
Marty
Danielle Gypsy Soul
Karen ♐
Severina
Aspa
Jody
Chloe
Cathy
Michelle

PAIRS

✔️Chelle_Rydz picks for Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)
✔️Erica picks for Elaine
✔️Denise picks for Karen ♐
✔️Zuzana picks for Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)
✔️Jennifer picks for Zuzana
✔️Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) picks for Chloe
✔️Jamie picks for Chelle_Rydz
✔️Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) picks for Jamie
✔️Elaine picks for Aspa
✔️☘KathyD☘ picks for Jennifer
✔️Susan A picks for Danielle Gypsy Soul
*Marty picks for Susan A
✔️Danielle Gypsy Soul picks for ☘KathyD☘
✔️Karen ♐ picks for Cathy
✔️Severina picks for Michelle
✔️Aspa picks for Marty
*Jody picks for Severina
✔️Chloe picks for Denise
✔️Cathy picks for Erica
✔️Michelle picks for Jody

Re-Picks
✔️Denise picks for Susan A & Severina

Chelle's July 2025 Dusty Bookshelf-

Turtle 🐢 (1 Book, 1 Bonus)

Jaime picked for me -
with a bonus of

I picked for Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) with a bonus of




BONUS: Another from the above list, please.

This year's Dusting Progress -
(view spoiler)[
January - ✅ - Bonus
February - ✅ - Bonus ✅
March - Bonus
April ]✅ - Bonus
May - Bonus ]✅
June Bonus:
(hide spoiler)]

Erica's July Dusty Bookshelf

Speed: Hare plus a bonus from your list of favorites



I pick for Elaine and with a bonus of .

Cathy picks for me and with a bonus of .

Denise's July Dusty Bookshelf
Reading Speed: Hare



Bonus: Another from my list, please!


I pick for Karen♐: +
Chloe picks for me: +

Zuzana's July 2025 Dusty Bookshelf

speed: hare + bonus (another one from the list)



Picked for me: +

July Dusty



HARE!

Bonus -- pick a third book from my above list, please?

Turtle Please!



Bonus - pick from the list above...please

Jamie's July 2025 Dusty Bookshelf




Reading speed: HARE
Bonus: Please select another book from my shelf :)

~Jamie's July 2025 Dusty Bookshelf~

Speed: Hare



Bonus: Pick from this shelf please! :)

July Dusty Bookshelf

Speed: hare



Bonus: please choose another book from my list

☘KathyD’s☘ 2025 Dusty Bookshelf
reading speed — turtle


*for the bonus, please choose another from this list.

Susan A's 2025 Dusty Bookshelf

Reading speed: HARE
Bonus: Please select another book from my shelf

Marty's July Dusty Bookshelf

Level: Hare

I pick for Susan A:
Aspa picks for me:



Bonus: choose a book from the list above.

Danielle's July Dusty Bookshelf

Level: Hare



Bonus: choose book from list above

Karen♐'s July Dusty Bookshelf - Reading Speed - Hare

I picked for Cathy:
Denise picked and bonus: for me



Bonus Pick: Please pick another from my list above

Severina's July Dusty Bookshelf

Reading Speed: Hare (2 books)



No bonus book, please.

**
I picked for Michelle:
and bonus

JodyDenise picked for me:


ETA 06-30-25: A Land of Ash turned out to be an extremely short anthology that took hardly any time to read.
ETA 07-17-25: Finished Thirty Seconds to Midnight. Just not very good.

Aspa's Dusty Bookshelf (1 July - 31 July)



Reading Speed: Hare
Bonus Pick: Please pick another from my list above

I picked for Marty
Elaine picked for me

(view spoiler)[
Read:

DNFed:

Still in TBR:

(hide spoiler)]

Jody's Dusty Bookshelf Challenge (July 2025)



Reading Speed: Hare
Please also pick a bonus pick for me!

I pick for: (was too late to pick for Severina)
Picked for me: Michelle

Picks: & + Bonus:

Chloe's Dusty bookshelf

Reading speed: hare
Bonus: A book from this list please! :)

Cathy's July Dusty Bookshelf
Reading speed: turtle, no bonus



Chosen:

July 2025 Dusty Bookshelf
Reading Speed - Hare, plus bonus



Please pick bonus from above

Pairs have been posted here.

Please pick for your assigned partner by June 29th.

Re-picks for those who didn't get a pick on June 30th.

Karen♐,

my picks for you: &

Bonus:

Jamie (TheRebelliousReader),

my picks for you:

and ;

and for a bonus read: .

Have a fun July!

Elaine, I'm picking and for you with a bonus of .

Enjoy!

Chelle, Here are my picks for you:

and for your bonus read

Happy reading!

For Danielle Gypsy Soul
Level: Hare

and bonus:

Marty wrote: "Marty's July Dusty Bookshelf

Level: Hare..."

For Marty,
and bonus:

Have a great reading month!

Zuzana, I'm picking for you. Enjoy!

Thanks, Jennifer. I'm looking forward to reading these. Perfect for Jane Austen July.

Hi Michelle

I love the titles of these books so I'm picking them for you:


and I just picked Black Dagger Brotherhood 15 for you at Give Me Five, so I have to go with this one for your bonus pick:


Hope you enjoy them all!

Denise wrote: "Karen♐,

my picks for you: &

Bonus: "

Thanks so much!

Cathy, I chose . First of all I love the title and finally, the author's last name is the same as mine! Lol

Hope you enjoy!

Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) wrote: "Turtle Please!..."

Hi Sallie, I pick for you with a bonus of . I hope yopu love them,!
Chelle

Jamie wrote: "Chelle, Here are my picks for you:

and for your bonus read

Happy reading!"

Thank you Jaime! I'm looking forward to both of them! I especially want to finally read before the movie comeas out in August.

Denise, I pick for you...
and
because they sound really good!
With a bonus of:
because the plot sounds cool aswell.
Hope you enjoy these!
Happy reading 🙂📚

Jamie (awesome name, btw!) my picks for you are and . And for your bonus.

Happy reading!

Zuzana wrote: "Jamie (TheRebelliousReader),

my picks for you:

and ;

and for a bonus read: .
..."

Thank you!

Aspa, I’m selecting and with a bonus of . Enjoy!

Kathy

My pick for you is:

Bonus:

Hi Chloe - I hope you enjoy the picks -
My picks for you are: and
For your bonus pick:

Enjoy!!

(not sure what happened with the orig post i made but at any rate it's fixed now...so sorry for the delay)

For Jody:



Bonus:

Enjoy

Severina wrote: "Hi Michelle

I love the titles of these books so I'm picking them for you:


and I just picked Black Dagger Brother..."

Thanks!

Elaine wrote: "Aspa, I’m selecting ..."
Thank you very much!

Chelle_Rydz wrote: "Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) wrote: "Turtle Please!..."

Hi Sallie, I pick for you with a bonus of [bookcover:The First Gentle..."

thank you - cant wait to get started!!

Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) wrote: "Hi Chloe - I hope you enjoy the picks -
My picks for you are: and
For your bonus pick: [bookcover:The Knife of Never Letting..."

Thank you! 🙂

Jennifer...here are your July picks...sorry for the delay...happy reading!