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@leslieearnest.bsky.social

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝟡𝟘 𝕠𝕗 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝📚
10 Books of my 12 Books Challenge
54 Books of my choice
8 Books with Book Club
18 Books for ARC review

A Witch's Guide to Magical Inçnkeeping
By Sangu Mandanna
4.25⭐️
*ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ʟɪʙʙʏ
*10.18.25
📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖

#12months12books12friends #2025readingchallenge #booksky #bookdragon

November 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #MattArmstrong

Title: Blood, Lloyd and Tears
Author: Matt Armstrong
Series: Noctis Investigations, 7
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Mood: Adventurous, Mysterious, Tense
Pace: Fast
Pages/Duration: 575
Rating: 4 stars
Quotes: “A gift is given, and freely accepted,” she sputtered. “What he did to me was forced. I had no choice. We had no choice.”

November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Natashawitch

@natashawitch.bsky.social

My #2025readingchallenge
52 #books for '25
📚💙
46th Read:Fermat's Last Theorm by Simon Singh

What a story to stretch brain muscles!
Andrew Wiles' consuming dream to prove Fermat's Last Theorm -from Pythagoras to the 1600s to elegant number theory
A 358yr compelling quest by high level mathematicians

November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM

Adventures of Momzilla

@leslieearnest.bsky.social

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝟠𝟡 𝕠𝕗 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝📚
10 Books of my 12 Books Challenge
53 Books of my choice
8 Books with Book Club
18 Books for ARC review

The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
4⭐️
*ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴀᴜᴅɪʙʟᴇ
*10.15.25
📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖

#12months12books12friends #2025readingchallenge #bookclub #booksky #bookdragon #bookish

November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Carla

@carla85.bsky.social

I have completed my challenge of 100 books!
#2025ReadingChallenge

November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Thexscha

@itspronouncedtessa.bsky.social

2025 - Book 85

Barbara Truelove
Of Monsters and Mainframes

app.thestorygraph.com/books/53b589...

5 ⭐

Murderbot but make it campy horror

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview

Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads:

5 ⭐

Immediately on the favorites list. What. A. Ride.

I want a sequel, but I don't want a sequel. The story is perfect as it is, but I could live in this world forever.

No notes, just gush. A bajillion out of ten, do heavily recommend.

November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Dina Wecker

@dinastar13.bsky.social

#140 Maddadam by Margaret Atwood. The 3rd in the series and brings the whole story back around. I really enjoyed this dystopia series. #2025readingchallenge #booksky

November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Thexscha

@itspronouncedtessa.bsky.social

2025 - Book 84

C.J. Powell
I Eat Mushrooms For Breakfast

app.thestorygraph.com/books/196ba5...

4 ⭐

Unexpectedly funny and unabashedly gross, that's how I like my SciFi

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #bookreview

Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads:

4 ⭐

Honestly very wholesome for a pretty teenage-boy-coded level of humor. I laughed, I cringed, I had a time.

There are insane twist, the heavy moral is even more heavily telegraphed and near the end it gets marginally preachy, but what a ride! The definition of a ROMP..

Not even that sophomoric, ramming-the-message-home, fully plot-redundant last chapter can dampen the mood. Read it and have a blast.

November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Natashawitch

@natashawitch.bsky.social

My #2025readingchallenge
52 #books for 2025
💙📚
45th Read:The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Could not put this down. What a brilliant, devious, tense thriller. Mariana is a believable relatable haunted central character. The menace of Greek mythology is integral & atmospheric
+ the twist blew my mind!

November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM

Thexscha

@itspronouncedtessa.bsky.social

2025 - DNF 9

Simon Jimenez
The Spear Cuts Through Water

app.thestorygraph.com/books/423e81...

Paused it back in September and couldn't find it in me to pick it back up.

DNF at 15 % - 80 pages

What's the literary equivalent of overacting?

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph #DNF

Screenshot of my reason to DNF the book on The Storygraph, which reads:

Did not finish: 15%

Second. Person. Perspective.

Absolutely not. NK Jemisin managed it (barely), but this is no Broken Earth Trilogy.

It's also desperate to be profound. Everything is sweeping, steeped in lore and tradition, positively dripping with drama. I got so bored.

November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #SarahLin #Cognosticon #JonathanDavis

Title: Depthless Hunger
Author: Sarah Lin
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Genre: LitRPG, Asian Myth & Legend
Format: Audiobook and Ebook
Mood: Adventurous, Tense
Pace: Slow
Pages/Duration: 759/23 hrs and 26 mins
Rating: 3.5 stars

November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #RylieDark

Title: Only Murder
Author: Rylie Dark
Series: Sadie Price FBI Suspense Thriller, 1
Genre: Thriller
Format: Ebook
Mood: Challenging, Dark, Mysterious, Tense
Pace: Fast
Pages: 176
Rating: 3 stars

November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Dina Wecker

@dinastar13.bsky.social

#139 Five Golden Wings by Donna Andrews. A Meg Langslow cozy. Her life has sure changed and I miss some of the old things like iron working. Also how does she have all.this energy?! ##2025READINGCHALLENGE #booksky

November 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM

Adventures of Momzilla

@leslieearnest.bsky.social

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝟠𝟠 𝕠𝕗 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝📚
10 Books of my 12 Books Challenge
53 Books of my choice
7 Books with Book Club
18 Books for ARC review

Project Tau
By Jude Austin
4⭐️
*ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴇʙᴏᴏᴋ
*10.13.25
📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖

#12months12books12friends #readingchallenge #2025readingchallenge #booksky #bookdragon #bibliophile #bookish

November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM

Adventures of Momzilla

@leslieearnest.bsky.social

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝟠𝟟 𝕠𝕗 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝📚
10 Books of my 12 Books Challenge
53 Books of my choice
7 Books with Book Club
17 Books for ARC review

Powerless
By Lauren Roberts
⭐️4.25
*ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ʟɪʙʙʏ
📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖📚📖

#12months12books12friends #readingchallenge #2025readingchallenge #booksky #bookdragon #bibliophile #bookish

November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM

Thexscha

@itspronouncedtessa.bsky.social

2025 - Book 83

Rebecca Ross
A Fire Endless
Elements of Cadence 2

app.thestorygraph.com/books/feb552...

4 ⭐

If you skip the squelchy bits, the romantasy aspect is very bearable.

#booksky #2025ReadingChallenge #TheStorygraph

Screenshot of my review of the book on The Storygraph, which reads:

4 ⭐

Cute. Adorable. A perfect fairytale, complete with A Big Message and clear goodies and baddies. Very cozy, very sweet.

Maybe a little predictable here and there, but with an intricate story, a well constructed magical system and a whole lot of heart.

I enjoyed myself immensely.

November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #ChrisLynch

Title: Return to Neverbury
Author: Chris Lynch
Series: Welcome to Neverbury, 2
Genre: Science Fiction
Format: Ebook
Moods: Dark, Mysterious, Tense
Pace: Fast
Pages/Duration: 223
Rating: 3 stars

November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #ChrisLynch

Title: Welcome to Neverbury
Author: Chris Lynch
Series: Welcome to Neverbury, 1
Genre: Science Fiction
Format: Ebook
Moods: Dark, Mysterious, Tense
Pace: Fast
Pages/Duration: 183
Rating: 3 stars

November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #AndyWeir

Title: The Martian
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Science Fiction
Format: Ebook
Moods: Adventurous, Funny, Hopeful, Tense
Pace: Medium
Pages/Duration: 384
Rating: 4 stars
Quotes: But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true. If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do.

November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #AngusWatson

Title: Gold Murder
Author: Angus Watson
Genre: Historical Mystery
Format: Ebook
Mood: Dark, Mysterious, Tense
Pace: Fast
Pages/Duration: 309
Rating: 4 stars
Quotes: A hurled insult only an insult if you catch it.

November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Raven

@ravenwood.bsky.social

#2025readingchallenge #reading #books #read #booklover #whattoread #whattoreadnext #booksky #GabrielLRathweg

Title: From Chef to Crafter to Conqueror: Book 6 - Expansion
Author: Gabriel L. Rathweg
Series: From Chef to Crafter to Conqueror, 6
Genre: Time Travel Fiction
Format: Ebook
Mood: Adventurous
Pace: Medium
Pages/Duration: 375
Rating: 3 stars
Quotes: Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.

November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM

Dina Wecker

@dinastar13.bsky.social

#138 Archnemisis by Merrisa Myers. Book 2 of the YA Renegades series. A bit too in the feelings...but that's YA for ya. I like the world of super heroes. #2025readingchallenge #booksky