ANNOUNCEMENTS The first team readathon of 2025 will begin this month, starting on February 21st and ending on March 2nd. Sign-up in this thread now until February 13th.
Did you know you can sort your books in a number of helpful ways? Click “My Books� at the top of the page to view all books on your shelf. On the left, you will see a list of all your shelves, which you can view individually. You can sort each list by author, title, date added, date read, number of pages, ratings, and so much more! This is a great way to browse through all your books!
GROUP READ Our February theme is Time and our group read for this month is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, the story of the Buendia family that chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."
CHALLENGES February brings two new monthly challenges with the theme of Time, and we will also continue the first-quarter challenges with the theme of Sadness.
Monthly challenges Racing Through Time is an open challenge to read books with time related title words, or books with timepieces on the covers. Time Warp has prompts based on the Rocky Horror Picture Show song lyrics. You may also time travel through different decades or centuries if you’d prefer.
Quarterly challenges Sad Songs is a prompt-based challenge that will inspire you to sing the blues. Embracing the Blues is an open challenge where you choose your blue adventure. Whether you spell it out, find blue covers, titles, or a mix of everything—it's up to you!
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about these year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members� suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for February, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for March TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Happy February!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The first team readathon of 2025 will begin this month, starting on February 21st and ending on March 2nd. Sign-up in this thread now until February 13th.
Did you know you can sort your books in a number of helpful ways? Click “My Books� at the top of the page to view all books on your shelf. On the left, you will see a list of all your shelves, which you can view individually. You can sort each list by author, title, date added, date read, number of pages, ratings, and so much more! This is a great way to browse through all your books!
GROUP READ
Our February theme is Time and our group read for this month is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, the story of the Buendia family that chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our March book with the theme of Food, as well as nominate a book for April with the theme of Games!
CHALLENGES
February brings two new monthly challenges with the theme of Time, and we will also continue the first-quarter challenges with the theme of Sadness.
Monthly challenges
Racing Through Time is an open challenge to read books with time related title words, or books with timepieces on the covers.
Time Warp has prompts based on the Rocky Horror Picture Show song lyrics. You may also time travel through different decades or centuries if you’d prefer.
Quarterly challenges
Sad Songs is a prompt-based challenge that will inspire you to sing the blues.
Embracing the Blues is an open challenge where you choose your blue adventure. Whether you spell it out, find blue covers, titles, or a mix of everything—it's up to you!
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about these year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members� suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS
Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for February, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for March TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS
Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
1Q84
The Art of War
The Door-to-Door Bookstore
A Girl Called Eel
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Meursault Investigation
Orbital
The Seven Year Slip
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
And we are starting or continuing these books that are part of a series:
Alex Cross #3: Jack and Jill
Asian Saga #6: Whirlwind
Bethel #1: The Year of the Witching
Cotton Malone #4: The Charlemagne Pursuit
Dreamsongs #1
Joe Talbert #2: The Shadows We Hide
Kay Scarpetta #4: Cruel & Unusual
Matthew Shardlake #6: Lamentation
The Murderbot Diaries #1: All Systems Red
TrilogÃa del Baztán #0: The North Face of the Heart
Wonder #1
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. Please stop in and introduce yourself or say hello to our new members!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, bailey, Sunny, Blagica, and Lisa.