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01 - January, Completed.My top 3 reads from November 2024, 4&5 star
1.
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - 2024, fiction, literary fiction
2.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta - non-fiction, politics, 2024
3.
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel by Ye Chun - historical fiction, fiction, 2024
Like4Like
1. (Tell Me Everything)
Shelf: 2024
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, Kirsten Miller, 2 Jan 2025
2. (The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism)
shelf: non-fiction
Secrets of the Octopus, Sy Montgomery, 2 Jan 2025
3. (Straw Dogs of the Universe)
Shelf: historical fiction
The Potter's Field, Ellis Peters, 5 Jan 2025
D1 - Your TBR
2. Series (maybe):
(Secrets of the Octopus)
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird, Sy Montgomery, 5 Jan 2025
D2 - New Books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, 2024)
Sandwich, Catherine Newman, 3 Jan 2025, pub. June 2024
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read a book from a series by a new-to-you author.
(The Potter's Field, Brother Cadfael)
She Who Knows, Nnedi Okorafor, 5 Jan 2025, She Who Knows #1
JANUARYMy top 3 reads from November 2024
Hello Beautiful fiction, historical fiction, audiobook, romance
The God of the Woods mystery, fiction, thriller
The Outsider horror, fiction, thriller, mystery
Like 4 Like
1. Hello Beautiful = historical fiction = The Secret Wisdom of the Earth ✔️
2. The God of the Woods = mystery = The Hangman ✔️
3. The Outsider = horror = Cursed Bread✔️
D1 - TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth added Apr 22, 2015
>>For Today I Am a Boy added Apr 10, 2015 ✔️
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, read the next book in the series
The Hangman
>> A Trick of the Light ✔️
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials
Cursed Bread (SM)
>> Mislaid in Parts Half-Known ✔️
TBR Bender (2025) - 02 - FebruaryCompleted
Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from December 2024 reads.
1. Finding Margaret Fuller, Allison Pataki, historical fiction, fiction, feminism
2.The Grey Wolf, Louise Penny, mystery, mystery thriller, Canada
3. The Music of Bees, Eileen Garvin, fiction, contemporary, nature
Like for Like (L4L)
Shelf 1: (Finding Margaret Fuller)
Shelf: Historical Fiction
The Booklover's Library, Madeline Martin, 3 Feb 2025
Shelf 2: (The Grey Wolf)
Shelf: Mystery
Below Zero, C.J. Box, 9 Feb 2024
Shelf 3: (The Music of Bees: A Novel)
Shelf: Fiction
Exile Music: A Novel, Jennifer Steil, 5 Feb 2025
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D.1. Your TBR
�5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(Below Zero, 400 pp.)
Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases, Simon Read, 11 Feb 2025, 480 pp.
D.2. new books
�1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Booklover's Library), pub 2024
The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali, 13 Feb 2025, pub 2024
�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
(Exile Music: A Novel, 432 pp.)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne, 6 Feb 2025, 218 pp.
FEBRUARY COMPLETEMy top 3 reads from December 2024
Playground science fiction, literary fiction, nature
My Name Is Lucy Barton literary fiction, contemporary, family
Stone Blind mythology, fantasy
Like 4 Like
1. literary fiction == Maureen✔️
2. literary fiction, contemporary, family == Banyan Moon✔️
3. fantasy == Weyward✔️
D1 - TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added
Weyward (added Jan 31 2022) == Amazing Grace Adams (added Feb 1 2022)✔️
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Banyan Moon == Water Moon✔️
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
Maureen (144) == The Famous (338)✔️
I finished January!B: My Books - November
-Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies - Parenting / Christian / Non-Fiction
-Death on the Nile - Mystery / Fiction / 2022
-The Princes of Ireland - Historical Fiction / Fiction / Ireland
C. Like for Like
�1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph Shelf: Christian Added: Aug 2024 Read 2/11
�2. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Shelf: Mystery Added: Jan 2022 Read 1/29
�3. And the Mountains Echoed Shelf: Historical Fiction Added: Dec 2013 Read 1/26
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)
�Dear Mr. Knightley (Added Dec 2013, using And the Mountains Echoed) Read 1/31
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)
To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo (using Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie) Read 2/15
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.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder - 351 pages (using A Severe Mercy, 240 pages) Read 3/8
Read: 6/6
I've completed January!My top 3 reads in November:
The Benefactress - Classics / Fiction / Germany / Humor / Audiobook
The Almond Tree - Historical Fiction / Fiction / War / Historical / Contemporary
A Master of Djinn - Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Fiction / Steampunk / Mystery
L4L
The Benefactress by Elizabeth von Arnim
Top shelf: classics
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Top shelf: contemporary
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Top shelf: fantasy
Options
D.1. Your TBR
Read: 6/6
I'm done with January!January
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 9/9
November Books
1. Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh
Shelves: Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, 2019
2. Shadow Fall by Laura Griffin
Shelves: Romantic Suspense, Romance, Suspense, Mystery, Laura Griffin
3. The Proposal by Mary Balogh
Shelves: Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Regency, Mary Balogh
Like for Like
✔︎ 1. Paranormal - Key of Knowledge by Nora Roberts
Read: January 5, 2025
Rating: 2.5 Stars
✔︎ 2. Mystery: Bad Liar by Tami Hoag
Read: January 20, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Historical - Who Cries for the Lost by C.S. Harris
Read: February 1, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. 50 Extra Pages (377+): Protect the Prince by Jennifer Estep (417 pages)
Read: January 25, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Date added (May 2022): The Cliff's Edge by Charles Todd (Added June 2022)
Read: January 8, 2025
Rating: 3.5 Stars
✔︎ 3. Next in series: What Cannot Be Said by C.S. Harris
Read: March 12, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
Options - New
✔︎ 1. Series w/New Author: A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane
Read: January 16, 2025
Rating: 1 Star
✔︎ 2. Publication Year (2024): People in Glass Houses by Jayne Castle
Read: February 15, 2025
Rating: 2.5 Stars
✔︎ 3. Title (Shelf-Lost): Hidden by Fern Michaels (p.7)
Read: January 18, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars
February Complete!February
Goal: 3 Books
Read: 9/9
December Books
1. Payback in Death by J.D. Robb
Shelves: Mystery, 2023, 2024, Romance, JDRobb
2. When Blood Lies by C.S. Harris
Shelves: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, 2022, Historical
3. A Very Bellamy Christmas by Minerva Spencer
Shelves: Historical Romance, Romance, 2024, Historical, Kindle Unlimited
Like for Like
✔︎ 1. Mystery - Fatal Reckoning by Marie Force
Read: January 24, 2025
Rating: 2 Stars
✔︎ 2. Historical Mystery - Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters
Read: February 7, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Romance - Key of Valor by Nora Roberts
Read: February 16, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
Options - TBR
✔︎ 1. Title Word: A Fatal Illusion by Anna Lee Huber
Read: February 27, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 2. Next in Series: A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
Read: March 22, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 3. Date added (January 2025): Crush the King by Jennifer Estep (Added January 2025)
Read: March 8, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
Options - New
✔︎ 1. Publication Year (2019): Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
Read: March 17, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
✔︎ 2. Title (Shelf - Guardian): Nearly a Lady by Alissa Johnson (p.8)
Read: March 22, 2025
Rating: 3 Stars
✔︎ 3. Series w/New Author: The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer
Read: March 28, 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
Completed March 2025B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from January 2025 reads.
1.
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak, historical fiction, literary fiction, fiction
2.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, Kirsten Miller, fiction, books about books, contemporary
3.
Brightly Shining, Ingvild H. Rishøi, contemporary, holiday, novella
C. Like for Like (L4L)
For each of Your Books, pick one shelf from their top 3-5 shelves.
Shelf 1: (There Are Rivers in the Sky)
Shelf: historical fiction
Read:
Where Lilacs Still Bloom, Jane Kirkpatrick, 14 Mar 2025
Shelf 2. (Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books)
Shelf: Humor
Read:
Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson, 9 Mar 2025
Shelf 3: (Brightly Shining)
Shelf: Contemporary
Read:
Sweetness in the Skin, Ishi Robinson, 7 Mar 2025
D.2. new books
�1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(Sweetness in the Skin)
Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman, Patrick Hutchison, 22 Mar 2025, both published 2024
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Nothing to See Here)
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, Dwight Garner, 16 Mar 2025
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
(Where Lilacs Still Bloom), 371 pp.
Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, 26 Mar 2025, 199 pp.
MARCH COMPLETEMy top 3 reads from January 2025
North Woods historical fiction, literary fiction, nature
Babylonia historical fiction, mythology, fantasy
I'll Come to You historical fiction, literary fiction
Like 4 Like
1. literary fiction, nature == Wild Dark Shore�
2. historical fiction == Learned by Heart�
3. historical fiction == By Her Hand�
D1 - TBR
1. Date: added in January 2025
By Her Hand == A Happy Marriage�
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
Learned by Heart == Haven�
4. Title: Using one of your books, read a book with an identical^ word in title
Wild Dark Shore == In the Beautiful Dark�
March complete!Goal: 3 books
January Books
1. Burnt Offerings
2. A Game of Lies
3. The Will of the Many
L4L
1. Horror - Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors 3/9
2. Mystery - West Heart Kill 2/22
3. Fantasy - The Lost Story 2/24
Options: D.1 TBR
1. Date - Brain Twister 4/1
2. Title - You May Now Kill the Bride 3/12
3. Pages - 352 + 50 = 402 - He Who Drowned the World 3/28
February complete!Goal: 3 books
December Books
1. The Navigating Fox
2. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
3. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
L4L
1. Novella - The Butcher of the Forest 3/7
2. Fantasy - The West Passage 1/24
3. Nonfiction - Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea 3/16
Options: D.1 TBR
1. Pages - 160 + 50 - Three Eight One 3/24
2. Date - added 24 Aug 2024 - The Last Hour Between Worlds 3/20
3. Title - "memoir" - Consent: A Memoir 4/19
TBR Bender - April 2025Completed 29 April 2025
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from February 2025 reads.
1.
Exile Music, historical fiction, music, World War II
2.
Crow Talk, nature, contemporary, animals
3.
The Lion Women of Tehran, historical fiction, historical, Iran
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (Exile Music)
Shelf: Historical Fiction
The Underground Library, Jennifer Ryan, 11 Apr 2025
2. (Crow Talk)
Shelf: Contemporary
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife, Anna Johnston, 8 Apr 2025
3. (The Lion Women of Tehran)
Shelf: Historical Fiction
The Turtle House, Amanda Churchill, 15 Apr 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: Using one of your books, read from closest date added.
(The Underground Library)
both added Dec 2023
A Wild and Heavenly PlaceRobin Oliveira, 16 Apr 2025
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Turtle House, 304 pp.)
Force Of Nature, C.J. Box, 20 Apr 2025, 385 pp.
D.2. new books
1. Date: Using one of your books, read a book published in the same year.
(The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife)
both pub. 2024
The Last Twelve Miles, Erika Robuck, 29 Apr 2025
TBR Bender ❱❱ January
❱❱ COMPLETE (finally)January - December 2025
My January TBR Bender (msg 16)
November Books
🔺Party of Two ❱❱ romance; fiction; contemporary; chick-lit; adult
🔺Fall Hard ❱❱ mm; contemporary; romance; mystery; amnesia
🔺Network Effect ❱❱ sci-fi; fiction; space; adult; space-opera
Like for Like
☑️romance ❱❱ Party of Two
🔺Christmas in Destiny ❱❱ 01.07 ★★★★
☑️mystery ❱❱ Fall Hard
🔺The Crawling Darkness ❱❱ 01.13 ★★�
☑️sci-fi ❱❱ Network Effect
🔺Passions in Death ❱❱ 02.22 ★★★★
Options - TBR
☑️Date ❱❱ Passions in Death ❱❱ added July 2024 ❱❱ Aug 2024
🔺Irish Rose ❱❱ 01.25 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Christmas in Destiny ❱❱ Destiny series
🔺Return to Destiny ❱❱ 03.14 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ The Crawling Darkness ❱❱ author initials ❱❱ JB
🔺Taking a Shot ❱❱ 02.03 ★★★★
Options - New
☑️Date ❱❱ Passions in Death ❱❱ published Sep 2024 ❱❱ published Oct 2024
🔺You Can Kill ❱❱ 01.18 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Christmas in Destiny ❱❱ author initial ❱❱ TB
🔺Fix Her Up ❱❱ 04.22 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ The Crawling Darkness ❱❱ 222 pages ❱❱ 298 pages
🔺Bound ❱❱ 01.29 ★★★★
TBR Bender ❱❱ February
❱❱ COMPELTE!!February - December 2025
My February TBR Bender (msg 11)
December Books
🔺Nobody's Perfect ❱❱ fiction; humor; romance; contemporary; chick-lit
🔺Shadowed Steel ❱❱ urban fantasy; fantasy; vampires; paranormal; romance
🔺The Woman by the Lake ❱❱ romance; romantic-suspense; contemporary-romance; mystery; contemporary
Like for Like
☑️humor ❱❱ Nobody's Perfect
🔺Bananapants ❱❱ 02.18 ★★★★
☑️urban fantasy ❱❱ Shadowed Steel
🔺Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors ❱❱ 04.06 ★★★★
☑️romantic-suspense ❱❱ The Woman by the Lake
🔺Exposed ❱❱ 02.23 ★★★★
Options - TBR
☑️Date ❱❱ Bananapants ❱❱ added Sep 2024
🔺Dorothy Daisy, A Fiona Gavelle Mystery ❱❱ 03.01 ★★�
☑️Author ❱❱ Exposed ❱❱ author initials ❱❱ KC
🔺Unlaced ❱❱ 04.25 ★★�
☑️Pages ❱❱ Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors ❱❱ 370 pages ❱❱ 502 pages
🔺What A Dragon Should Know ❱❱ 03.11 ★★★★
Options - New
☑️Date ❱❱ Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors ❱❱ pub Feb 2012 ❱❱ pub May 2012
🔺Karma ❱❱ 02.01 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Exposed ❱❱ new series Heart's Ease
🔺Against Her Rules ❱❱ 02.16 ★★★★
☑️Pages ❱❱ Bananapants ❱❱ 392 pages ❱❱ 35 pages
🔺Random Acts of Trust ❱❱ 02.28 ★★★★
TBR Bender ❱❱ March
❱❱ COMPLETE! I'm on a roll!March - December 2025
My March TBR Bender (msg 8)
January Books
🔺The True Love Experiment ❱❱ romance; contemporary; audiobook; books-i-own; adult
🔺Undone ❱❱ historical-romance; erotica; fairy-tale; fairy-tale retelling; ebook
🔺Bound ❱❱ paranormal; romance; fantasy; mythology; demons
Like for Like
☑️books-i-own ❱❱ The True Love Experiment
🔺Bride ❱❱ 03.18 ★★★★
☑️fairy-tale retelling ❱❱ Undone
🔺Tangled Up in You ❱❱ 04.26 ★★★★
☑️paranormal ❱❱ Bound
🔺Go Fetch ❱❱ 04.07 ★★★★
Options - TBR
☑️Date ❱❱ Bride ❱❱ added Jan 2025
🔺Hour of the Lion ❱❱ 03.31 ★★★★
☑️Author ❱❱ Go Fetch ❱❱ initials SL ❱❱ LS
🔺Undercover Love ❱❱ 02.20 ★★★★
☑️Title ❱❱ Tangled Up in You ❱❱ you
🔺If I Were You ❱❱ 02.24 ★★★★
Options - New
☑️Date ❱❱ Bride ❱❱ published 2024
🔺Back in the Saddle ❱❱ 04.21 ★★★★
☑️Series ❱❱ Go Fetch ❱❱ new series The Book Waitress
🔺The Book Waitress ❱❱ 03.06 ★★�
☑️Author ❱❱ Tangled Up in You ❱❱ initials CL
🔺Dirty Rowdy Thing ❱❱ 02.09 ★★★★
March TBR Bender 2025Read: 6/6
Complete 5/9/25
Top Reads from January:
* 4321 = Contemporary, Historical Fiction, America
* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue = Fantasy, Romance
* Beautyland - Fantasy
L4L
January book: 4321
�1. The Wishing Game - contemporary - 5/9/25
January book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
�2. Babel - Fantasy - 3/11/25
January book: Beautyland
�3. Piranesi - Fantasy - 3/17/25
D1 - TBR:
Pages: Piranesi - 272 pages
�4. The Leftovers - 368 pages - 4/30/25
D2 - new:
Author: The Wishing Game = M-S
�5. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear = S-M - 3/29/25
Series: Babel
�6. Deep Cuts - new author - 4/23/25
TBR Bender MayRead: 6/6 - Completed 5/15/25
Top Reads from March:
Babel - Fantasy, Hist. Fict., Dark Academia
Piranesi - Fantasy, Mystery, Mag. Realism
The Ninja Daughter - Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Like for Like:
Babel - Fantasy
�1. The Husbands - Fantasy - 4/21/25
Piranesi - Mystery
�2. Dark Pines - Mystery - 5/7/25
The Ninja Daughter - Mystery
�3. Sacred and Profane - Mystery - 5/8/25
TBR:
Date:Dark Pines (added Jan. 2025)
�4. Dungeon Master (added Jan. 2025) - 5/9/25
Pages: Sacred and Profane (374pp)
�5. The Line of Beauty (438pp) - 4/8/25
New:
Series: The Husbands (standalone)
�6. Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady (new author, standalone) - 5/15/25
February completed!My top 3 reads in December:
Jane Eyre - Classics / Fiction / Gothic / Historical Fiction / Literature
The Land Of Maybe - Travel / Nonfiction / Nature / Memoir / Denmark
Il giardino di Fuyang o Come si scrive amore a Panama - Panama / Short Stories
L4L
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Top shelf: fiction
The Land Of Maybe by Tim Ecott
Top shelf: travel
Il giardino di Fuyang o Come si scrive amore a Panama by Rosa María Britton
Top shelf: short stories
Options
D.1. Your TBR
Read: 6/6 - COMPLETED
April TBR Bender 2025Read: 6/6
Completed 5/22/25
Top Reads from February:
* Recursion
* Fuzzy Nation
* There Are Rivers in the Sky
L4L
February book: Recursion - Time Travel
�1. Here and Now and Then - Time Travel - 4/14/25
February book: Fuzzy Nation - Fantasy
�2. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Fantasy - 4/16/25
February book: There Are Rivers in the Sky - Historical Fiction
�3. Skylark Farm - Historical Fiction - 4/28/25
D1 - TBR:
Pages: Skylark Farm - 288 pages
�4. Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, And A Journey To The Ends Of The Earth - 368 pages - 5/22/25
D2 - new:
Series: Here and Now and Then - standalone
�5. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing - standalone, new author - 3/20/25
Author: The City and Its Uncertain Walls - H-M
�6. We Do What We Do in the Dark - M-H - 5/22/25
APRILMy top 3 reads from February 2025
The Things That Matter Most contemporary, australia
Victorian Psycho horror, historical fiction, gothic
Broken Country historical fiction, romance, mystery
Like 4 Like
1. Anything Is Possible DzԳٱǰ✔️
2. She's a Lamb! ǰǰ✔️
3. After Darkness historical fiction✔️
D1 - TBR
1. Date: added in same month
After Darkness added May 2015 == The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August✔️
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
Anything Is Possible == Oh William!✔️
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials
She's a Lamb! =MH= Days of Light✔️
Joyce January TBR Bender: COMPLETEDB. My Top November Reads
1. Nothing to See Here
2. Seventh Grave and No Body
3. DallerGut Dream Department Store
C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)
1. Fiction shelf-A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 2/15/25
2. Urban Fantasy - Chill Factor Finished 1/26/25
3. 2024 shelf- The Ministry of Time Finished 1/17/25
D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)
(view spoiler)
1. Title Word - using A Psalm for the Wild-Built - The Broken Mirror 2/26/25
2. Pages: using book Chill Factor has 337 + 50= 387 Hell Bent 481 pages Read 1/26/25
3. Author: using The Ministry of Time author has initials KB- Magical Midlife Madness by K.F. Breene Finished 2/6/25
6/6 books
Joyce's February TBR Bender: COMPLETEDB. My Top December 2024 Reads
1. The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan
2. Hidden Pictures
3. The Secret of the Old Clock
C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)
1. Romance - Full Tilt 2/21/25
2. Mystery -Manhattan Is My Beat 2/7/25
3. Classics- Red Planet 2/22/25
D1/TBR: (Use L4L books as starting point)
(view spoiler)
1. Date: using Full Tilt added June 2011 - Touched by an Alien Added June 2011
2. Title: using Manhattan Is My Beat - Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America 5/13/25
3. Pages - Using Red Planet 256 pages -Magical Midlife Madness 316 pages 2/4/25
6/6 books read
Joyce's March TBR Bender: Completed 6/6 BOOKS
B. My Top January 2025 Reads
1. Hell Bent 1/30/25
2.The Masked City 1/9/25
3.Strange Magic 1/9/25
C. Like 4 Like (numbers correspond with books as listed above)
(view spoiler)
1. January Book - Hell Bent
The September House - Horror - 4/19/25
2. January book: The Masked City
Moving Pictures - fantasy - 3/20/25
3.January book: Strange Magic
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Fantasy 5/8/25
D.2. new books
1. L4L book: The September House
Series - new to me author -The Husbands 3/31/25
2. L4L book: Moving Pictures
Pages #4 - Sparrow Hill Road 432 pgs 5/26/25
3. L4L book: Dungeon Crawler Carl
Date 2020 - The Shattered Sword 3/14/25
TBR Bender: May 2025Completed
B. Your Books
Pick your 3 - 5 top reads from March 2025 reads.
1.
The Jackal's Mistress, historical fiction, civil war, romance
2.
One Hundred Saturdays, nonfiction, history, memoir
3.
Chancing your Arm, ireland, contemporary, mystery
C. Like for Like (L4L)
1. (The Jackal's Mistress)
Shelf: historical fiction
Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen, 6 May 2025
2. (One Hundred Saturdays)
Shelves: nonfiction, memoir
The Bookseller at the End of the World, Ruth Shaw, 6 May 2025
3. (Chancing your Arm)
Shelf: Ireland
The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney, 3 May 2025
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
5. Pages: Using one of your books, read a book with at least 50 pages more.
(The Bookseller at the End of the World, 267 pp.)
The Bohemians, Jasmin Darznik, 13 May 2025, 368 pp.
D.2. new books
2. Series (maybe): Using one of your books, (for stand alone book) read another book by a new-to-you author
(Where the Sky Begins, Rhys Bowen)
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane, 1 June 2025
3. Author: Using one of your books, read a book from an author with the same initials (first & last only in a flipped position) - AS/SA
(The Irish Girl: A Novel, Ashley E. Sweeney)
The First Mrs. Rothschild, Sara Aharoni, 20 May 2025
TBR Bender - JanuaryRead: 6/6 - completed 5/31/25
Top 3 Nov. 2024
Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men - Short Stories, Crime
Gap Creek - Historical Fiction, Southern, Romance
In the Dream House - Memoir, LGBT, Queer, Horror
L4L
Controlled Burn: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men - Short Stories, Crime
�1. Die Trying - Crime - 1/22/25
Gap Creek - Historical Fiction, Southern, Romance
�2. The Kiss Quotient - Romance - 1/7/25
In the Dream House - Memoir, LGBT, Queer, Horror
�3. Somewhere Beyond the Sea - LGBT - 1/21/25
D1
Date: Die Trying (added Nov. 21, 2024)
�4. Crow Lake (added same month) - 1/27/25
Title: The Kiss Quotient
�5. Black Lipstick Kisses - 5/31/25
D2
Title: Somewhere Beyond the Sea (416pp)
�6. Shelf - "beyond" (p. 6) - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - 1/26/25
February Bender - DONE!Like for Like (L4L)
1. This Motherless Land - africa
2. Nothing More Dangerous - 2020
3. The Reformatory - 2024
4. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir - memoir
5. 5. The Frozen River - mystery
D. Your Options
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date: The House of Cross - added October 9, 2024
2. Series: The Dark Corners of the Night
3. Author: All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan
4. Title: The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
5. Pages: Deep Sleep - 365 pages
D.2. new books
1. Date (published in the same year): The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man - published May 23, 2023
2. Series: The House of Cross
3. Author (reversed initials): Deep Sleep by Steven Konkoly
4. Title word: All the Glimmering Stars
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/stars
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 Dark Corners of the Night - 364 pages
January Bender - DONE!The Mystery Guest - fiction
Into the Gray - mystery
A Killer Harvest - thriller
The Deceiving Look - 2024
D.1. Your TBR
1. Date added: Shadows of Pecan Hollow
2. Series: The Hunting Wind
3. Author: Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate
4. Title word: Now or Never
5. Pages: First Lie Wins - 340 pages
D.2. new books
1. Date: Shelterwood
2. Series: The Hunting Wind
3. Author: Now or Never by Janet Evanovich
4. Title: First Lie Wins
www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/first
5. Pages: Shadows of Pecan Hollow - 432 pages
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