#52 book challenge

[cu-taibhseil]

Happy New Year's!!!

Now that it's 2024, and we're all buzzing with newfound inspiration and excitement to go out and be better than we were last year, I am going to ask something of all y'all. Please keep that inspiration and drive going into the New Year! But...

If you're a witch, if you're Pagan, if you're Wiccan, if you're a person who loves monsterfucker smut, if you've been banned from Barnes and Noble, if you're someone who takes 24 credits a semester for some sort of classical literature degree, or if you're just a person who lives in a house made of books and are constantly having to replace your roof after a rainstorm...

Can we PLEASE stop using Amazon and the Kindle app to order our books?

Buy your books on Thriftbooks.com !

They are CHEAPER. Used books in good or great condition!

TB supports small bookstores across the U.S. (and maybe Canada), but by buying from them you're automatically supporting some local bookshop, even if you're not going there personally.

Every time you order you get points toward FREE BOOKS! And as far as I know the points don't expire! (Like right now if you use their app you get an additional 100 points.)

They usually have a wider selection of hard to find or out of print books, because they're coming from secondhand shops.

PLEASE give them a chance, and stop giving Jeff Bezos your money.

If this applies to you, then please consider making an account. Obviously if you HAVE to use Amazon, don't worry about it. But there's better options out there.

#personal #witchcraft #witchtok #witchblr #booktok #bookblr #thriftbooks #amazon #52 book challenge #reading

[delightingintragedy]

52 Book Challenge:

January

This month:

Total books: 1

Total pages: 306

Overall:

Total books: 1

Total pages: 306

February

This month:

Total books: 3

Total pages: 465

Overall:

Total books: 4

Total pages: 771

#riley cackles #reading challenge #book challenge #52 book challenge #2024 reading challenge #books #reading #bookblr #booklr

[iscahmckrae]

"Yet not one of us chooses to read those bloodstained columns aloud as we sit before the fire each night, knitting and sewing for "our" soldiers as though they are no more imperiled than a troop of neighborhood boys who set off on a camping trip without packing enough socks. Perhaps we are all trying to protect one another."

—Marmee—A Novel of Little Women by Sarah Miller

#because books #sarah miller #louisa may alcott #marmee #little women #52 book club #52 book challenge #quotations

[toontownfart]

#currentlyreading #52books #alexmichaelides

#currently reading #alex michaelides #the maidens #52 book challenge

[sol-fernan]

2024 Week #2: The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter

This short story collection took me way longer than it should have to read. It is only 149 pages but it took me 2 weeks to finally complete it. I thought I would be able to read this book like any other short story collection: back to back to back. But unlike Raymond Carver or Horacio Quiroga’s short story collections, this collection by Angela Carter was actually annoying (?) to read in the same way. Individually the stories shine, but altogether the themes are too repetitive. Every story is based on a fairy tale or folk story and every story involves reimagining that tale with a feminist slant. Ok, not a problem. But then every story also involves the same overt eroticism. Vaginas are “cunts” and penises are “virile members”. There are lots of waif-like virgins whose breasts have begun to “swell” and who have either just started to or are on the cusp of menstruating. Young girls have sex with beasts and werewolves in retellings of beauty and the beast and little red riding hood. And the sex is always used as a power play; the power of men over women in patriarchal societies or the power of sex-positive young women taking control of their own bodies. Again, individually each story is a good story. Carter is a fantastic writer, no doubt. But reading the same tropes over and over gets boring. Other themes are repetitive as well. The last three stories were all about werewolves. Flowers and songbirds are often used as imagery. The best stories in my opinion are The Bloody Chamber, the Courtship of Mr. Lyon, and The Lady of the House of Love. Definitely recommend those three. As for the rest of the book, this is a collection that should be picked up every so often to read a story or two. But trying to read the stories back to back actually diminishes the experience.

#52 book challenge #bookblr #dark academia #books #book reccs #reading #writer problems #writers on tumblr

[pleas3pretendimnothere]

Somehow i did it... I read 52 books in 2023!

Previously, i was reading no more than 10 books a year. not good when you have nearly 100 unread books on your shelf. It felt soooo good to read so much, really reminded me of my passions this year!

Favorite of the year was Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Unbelievably good! Honorable mention goes to Forsaken, which may have been the best bad book i've ever read.

#personal #reading #52 book challenge

[krutko-world]

I read 105 books in 2023. HA!

#52 book challenge

[theliterarymess]

So I’ve got my own little challenge to read at least 100 bombs from my physical TBR but there’s no time limit on that, so next year I will also be attempting The 52 Book Challenge! Let me know if you’re also taking part!

#shazzy’s literary mess #reading #reading challenge #52 book challenge #booklr

[catsbooksandbees]

“For everyone who deserves a better story than the one they have”

- Alix E. Harrow, “A Spindle Splintered”

#alix e harrow #alix harrow #a spindle splintered #sleeping beauty #retellings #fairy tales #booklr #currently reading #popsugarreadingchallenge #bookish #bookstagram #booktok #books and reading #book blog #book review #bookworm #52bookchallenge #books #52 book club challenge #52books #books books books #52 book club challenge 2022 #books & libraries #bookshelf #lgbt books #queer reads

[jeanasbooksnook]

The 52 Book Club: 2024 Challenge

I have decided to participate in the 52 Book Club 2024 Challenge. I don’t know that I will complete the challenge but I am going to give it a try!

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#2024 #Book Challenge #Reading Challenge #the 52 book club

[readerupdated]

Would you modify the reading challenge to better suit your needs and personality? Should it always be a year?

What about a week, month, season, or lifetime? What about pages, not books? What about reading speed?

(via Reading challenge 52, 3, 1000, or 77?)

#reading #reading challenge #reading challenge 52 #reading challenge 1000 #reading challenge 3 #reading challenge 77 #books #read more books #reader #reader updated

[elizabethgrofskyramos]

Creating my own 50 books in 52 weeks challenge. This past year has been super busy and somehow I didn’t make the time to do the thing I love to do most: reading for pleasure and writing. To be a better writer, I need to be a better reader.

I hope each book will fulfill one of the three goals:

1- Make me better/happier person;

2- Make my students better people (possible books to put in my classroom library);

3- Make me a better teacher.

I started the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Honestly, I was going to try to read 100 books in a year but I wanted to make the challenge realistic. I also take advantage of my Audible account, my Libby library card, Prime Reading, and Amazon sales. There’s a lot of drama about listening to a book vs. reading it. I support the idea of audible books. I got into the habit of listening to an audible while reading the book when I started doing that with my students. I wanted to get double the exposure to the story and also increase their vocabulary. Then I realized I wanted the same for myself. It’s not cheating, it’s devotion to making you better.

Worth the read. The attic scene blew my mind. The title explains the plot.

#grady hendrix #50 books in 52 weeks #book challenge #HappyMailIdeas.com

[childofsquidward]

Books I Read In 2022 (and by read I mean actually liked)

This Totally Bites! (Poison Apple #2) by Ruth Ames

What’s wrong? Well, you see, Mom, I think Great-aunt Margo is a vampire, so we should all start wearing turtlenecks. Oh, and we should hang garlic everywhere.

I have such a special place in my heart for this book because it was the first Poison Apple book that I read and it meant a lot to me as an awkward middle schooler to see Emma-Rose grow the way that she did because it made me believe that I wouldn't always be a hot mess. Also, I'm just a big fan of Ruth Ames' writing! The book had a pretty solid plot and I remember the ending taking me by surprise when I first read it. Emma-Rose is one of my favourite main characters, I think she's so cool and funny, and I know that her fights with Gabi were ridiculously dramatic, but that's how fights usually go in middle school. Overall, it still held up, but I could've used more scenes with Aunt Margo.

I am also once again asking for my Emma-Rose and Ashlee reunion novel.

#except i re-read it shh #books #this totally bites #poison apple #2022 reading list #the 52 bookclub march 2022 challenge #moodboard #aesthetic #childofsquidward

[leahkathryn5]

June reading roundup

Another month where I didn’t read as many books as I had hoped to but for good reason! Birthday month means a lot of plans and a lot of time otherwise spent doing other things. That said, the four I did read were well worth it though they definitely all followed a similar kind of theme of death, addiction and caring for others. This was unplanned but actually worked well to read amongst one…

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#52 challenge #books #reading

[sol-fernan]

#52 book challenge #bookblr #book reccs #writblr #writers on tumblr #writer problems #dark academia #books & libraries

[electricdragonsauthor]

Book of the week - and honestly one of the best I've read in a long while

#author #reading challenge #52 books in 52 weeks