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Books, sports, trying to get through my day. Also romtenkey at the other place. She/Her.
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Book: Where You’re Planted by Melanie Sweeney
Bingo Progress: 5/25 Complete
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November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Book: The Muse of Maiden Lane by Mimi Matthews
Bingo Progress: 4/25 Complete
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November 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Book: Dirty Dancing at Devil’s Leap by Julie Anne Long
Bingo Progress: 3/25 Complete
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November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Book: Pugs and Kisses by Farrah Rochon
Bingo Progress: 2/25 Complete
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November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I have pictures!! I did find a few random ones with a fiction/author label but mostly it was only genre ones. Interestingly, though there were horror/mystery/fantasy/scifi spine labels there was NOT a romance one. Now, I was at a branch that didn’t have a romance section or MMPB but still.
Cover of a section of shelves books showing spine labels. Spines of Nora Roberts and Jd Robb books on a library shelf.
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Book: Ruthless Love by Selena Sanders
Bingo Progress: 1/25 Complete
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November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I have been working on this bingo board all year and I am finally close enough to done to start posting! #RomBkBingo
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November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I made myself this bracelet for a romance event, which I felt compelled to share given the discussion.
Bracelet with yellow heart beads and letters spelling out she shoots him, with an art card in the background
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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And that is officially blackout!!! #FallIntoLoveBingo
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November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Square: Your Idol
Book: The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts
Bingo Progress: 25/25 Complete
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November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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This is written about songs but so easily could also be about how romance novels should work.
Screenshot from There’s Always This Year that says “It should be made clear that begging and apologizing are two different things. They perhaps live in the same apartment building, and when done at the right temperature, they can be” Photo of text from There’s Always This Year that says “heard through each other’s walls. Sometimes one may invite the other over, but the invitee can very easily either outstay its welcome or leave far too early. apologizing is for the humbled; begging works best if the humility has yet to set in. This is, often, what makes begging such a unique vessel for this brand of song—and I must admit—why it makes sense that men have the most prominent hold on the genre. This can be a tender, thoughtful, self-reflective mode of tune, but so often; the begging is about both refusal and entitlement, which I suppose seems nefarious ok it’s surface, though I am committed to seeing the usefulness in this type of refusal, at least to a point.
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Book: The Last Word by Katy Birchall
Bingo Progress: 24/25 Complete
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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Book: Field Rules by Carla Luna
Bingo Progress: 23/25 Complete
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November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Square: Jane Austen
Book: The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
Bingo Progress: 22/25 Complete
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Square: Black Love
Book: Only for the Week by Natasha Bishop
Bingo Progress: 21/25 Complete
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November 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Book: Give Me Butterflies by Jillian Meadows
Bingo Progress: 20/25 Complete
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November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Book: All About Passion by Stephanie Laurens
Bingo Progress: 19/25 Complete
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October 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Book: Breakout Year by KD Casey
Bingo Progress: 17/25 Complete
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October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Book: Love at First Sighting by Mallory Marlowe
Bingo Progress: 16/25 Complete
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October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Square: Audiobook/Graphic Novel
Book: Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
Bingo Progress: 16/25 Complete
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October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Book: On a Wild Night by Stephanie Laurens
Bingo Progress: 15/25 Complete
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October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Book: The Three Night Stand by Roxie Noir
Bingo Progress: 14/25 Complete
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October 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Book: The Spire by Kate Canterbary
Bingo Progress: 13/25 Complete
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October 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Book: The Cornerstone by Kate Canterbary
Bingo Progress: 12/25 Complete
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October 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Book: If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia
Bingo Progress: 11/25 Complete
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October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM