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willaful
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Just the perfect #URC category for this. Do keep reading... it is so worth it!

#QueerBooks

Faranae 😎 very nice to see one of my templates in use! And good to know the book gets better. 2w
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Daisey
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Pickpick

Apparently, I‘m going through a contemporary romance phase. I saw a review of this book by @LibrarianRyan the other day, and made a snap decision to see if I could find a copy. It was absolutely a pure fluff read about a football player and a librarian who are long time friends. There‘s low drama and an emphasis on body positivity.

#audiobook

LibrarianRyan Yep!! I won‘t lie I read it for the title. 😁 1mo
willaful @LibrarianRyan If you feel like doing a challenge, @Faranae 's #URC has that exact prompt. :-) 1mo
Daisey @LibrarianRyan That‘s absolutely what caught my attention, and your positive review made it an easy decision. 1mo
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Faranae @willaful I saw the tag and thought “well, that's somewhat smuttier than willaful's usual URC fare...“. The URC *also* has “A book involving fowl“, although I really hope no one submits purely euphemistic chickens to it, or that will be an exclusively romance review post next year. 😂 1mo
willaful @Faranae I don't have anything for the fowl prompt yet! 🔔 1mo
Daisey @willaful @Faranae This one has a few real chickens and the rooster Luke Skycocker is definitely a key character! 1mo
willaful @Daisey Good to know. :-) 1mo
LibrarianRyan @willaful I can NOT add another challenge. 😁😁😆😆🤭🤭 1mo
willaful @LibrarianRyan relatable! 1mo
Faranae @Daisey That is a FABULOUS name for a rooster.

(Aside: I run the URC every year, but also the MRC, which is only 12 prompts, and the FRC, which is 25. Check them out sometime for next year maybe 😁)
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LibrarianRyan @Faranae I will. I do the BBRC every year. Its runs on a fiscal year rather then a calendar year. The goal is to read books in every age group (ie Birth and beyond).

Can I find your challenge on StoryGraph or just Listy>
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LibrarianRyan @Faranae you had me at Storygraph, Here is the current BBRC. The new one isn't loaded yet. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/d3cd2784-48d6-47f4-9a45-1743546... (edited) 5d
Faranae @LibrarianRyan I'll mark it on my calendar so I remember to give it a try! 😁 5d
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willaful
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A sweet memoir about immigrants from Vietnam pursuing the American dream, with memories, both good and bad, captured in the tastes of food.

In other words... It's “Dreamy steamy“! #FourFoursin24 perfection! 😁

Also book #4 in the #BookChain : title has few words than the last book. #BookSpinBingo : book stacked on Litsy.

This fits several #URC prompts, so we'll see where it ends up eventually.

Lauredhel Oh I liked this one too! 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 5mo
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Faranae
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens
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#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace #WinterGames

📖 What books do you enjoy this time of year? December is when I read piles of picture books to catch up on the ##URC.
📖 Do you have a preferred genre? Fantasy, queer romance, non-fiction...
📖 Do you have a traditional read? I used to, but then found the author is a bigot.
📖 What would you recommend? The tagged book is never a bad choice.

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @Alldebooks

AllDebooks Now I'm curious on your traditional read 6mo
TheBookHippie Ughh I hate that when you lose an author 😝🤦🏻‍♀️ I‘ve lost a few too. So unreal. 6mo
TheBookHippie I should take tagged book out- it‘s been a few years! 6mo
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Faranae @TheBookHippie I've been actively avoiding reading it on my stream because it seems like all the read-aloud streamers are doing it, too. Watching the Muppet version is a tradition though. 😁

At least with this author, it was only the one book I ever read and had never sought out his other books. It was a book gifted to me, so I'll keep the book for the note on the flyleaf and the memories of the giver.
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Faranae @AllDebooks The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans. He's also been accused of sexual harrassment. 6mo
TheBookHippie @Faranae I don‘t read him on principal and this doesn‘t shock me. 6mo
TheBookHippie @Faranae oh yes the muppets are life giving! 6mo
Faranae @TheBookHippie In fairness, I was given the book in 1995. 😅😆 Muppets are a much better tradition. 😁 6mo
TheBookHippie @Faranae 🤣🤣🤣🤣 6mo
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willaful
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Picture books, the last refuge of the desperate #URC participant. 😂 I really liked this though. It's imaginative and dryly funny and the author had feet on the ground.

Faranae This one is also in my TBR as a last resort for the work song prompt. 😂 I'm currently so mad because I just endured The Narrative of Arthur Gordan Pym of Nantucket and it does not contain a single shanty (not why I was reading it, but it would have been nice). 6mo
willaful @Faranae Did you give up on A Restless Truth?

I know I ran into another shanty scene somewhere recently, but it probably wasn't anything you'd want to read anyway.
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Faranae @willaful I haven't started it yet! It's lined up for the prompt, but it depends on if I managed to read it in time, given how many other prompts I still need to tackle. 6mo
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willaful
Shards of Honor | Lois McMaster Bujold
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Have read this many times and though I'm not thrilled with some of the directions Bujold later took this couple, I still love it.

#URC I actually think I could finish this bingo board entirely this month, except I'm saving two of the prompts for #wintergames .

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willaful
First Time for Everything | Mina V. Esguerra

“What was happening here? Love felt like a gift but she didn't know if she had room for it, where to put it, did she have to get rid of something to make space for it.“

willaful This is low-angst and low-plot--each almost trying to be lower than the other--so not really my cup of romance tea. I did enjoy reading a book set after lockdown in which people are still being careful, and the cultural immersion. (The author is Filipino, writing mainly for a Filipino audience, so nothing is explained.) And it's kind of nice that the main characters are in their early 40s and navigating love with being rather set in their ways. 6mo
willaful Read for the #URC prompt: “A book from a country you don't expect to ever visit.“ @Faranae 6mo
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willaful
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“For me, hope is not a metaphor; it's a lived practice. I don't have hope, I do hope. Hope for me is grounded in the reality that wondrous things happen alongside and parallel to the terrible. Every single day.“

This book was just what I needed to read right now.

For the #URC prompt “an anti-fascist“ book and also my #DoubleSpin choice.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 6mo
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willaful
The World I Live in | Helen Keller
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#URC prompt “blind author.“

I was reading There Plant Eyes for this prompt (I wanted fiction but couldn't find anything easily obtainable) and it gave me a yen to read this, a book which is largely a defense of a deaf-blind person's right to use language and have an imagination. You can feel Keller's frustration, even as she tries to maintain a positive outlook -- no one is interested in what she has to say unless it's about her disability.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 6mo
Faranae Even I resorted to Helen Keller for that prompt because I don't have time to go scaring up something else. Well, I used Lafcadio Hearn for the #FRC prompt, at least (he was fully blind in one eye and slowly lost vision in the other - his move to Japan was partly because he was no longer able to see well enough to draw the illustrations that kept his newspaper afloat). 6mo
willaful @Faranae GoodReads really let me down on this one. 6mo
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willaful
King and the Dragonflies | Kacen Callender
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A poignant middle-grade story that packs a lot into its short pages: grief, friendship, sexual identity, racism, abuse, toxic masculinity, and just a touch of the mystical. It's all so beautifully layered together that it never feels overwrought or didactic.

My first #BookSpinBingo . This would also work for the #URC prompt “Black LGBTQ+ author.“

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 6mo
Faranae Oh, good pick! 6mo
willaful @Faranae I thought they wouldn't work for the prompt, but I went looking through your blog and found them as a suggestion so that worked nicely. Think I'll have to find someone else for black and LGBTQ+ though, just for a change! 6mo
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