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CSeydel
Passage | Connie Willis
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On the 12th day of Christmas my true love read to me…

12 patients coding
11 feds a-tracking
10 Kansans grieving
9 scandals brewing
8 microbes spreading
7 mothers plotting
6 bots a-murderin‘
~ 5 ~ golden ~ rings ~
4 fungal nets
3 fishing boats
2 bureaucrats
And a desolate Scottish coast 🎶

#12booksof2025

Butterfinger Fun 12h
TheEllieMo Brilliant post ☺️ 12h
willaful fun! 11h
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Leftcoastzen Nice! 9h
Amiable Excellent!! 😄 8h
lil1inblue 🤩 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6h
Liz_M Amazing! 5h
KT1432 At first glance many of these could sum up the U.S. right now 😭 4h
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rachelsbrittain
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Working at a coffee shop this morning, but hoping I can squeeze in a few minutes of reading somewhere in there

kspenmoll I hope you love this book as much as I did! 22h
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Brooke_H
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Pickpick

A sad meditation on grief following Didion‘s husband‘s sudden death. Don‘t look for answers on how to move on. Very powerful. Read it slowly.

SamAnne Just started this one. 2d
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RebeccaRoo7
Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson
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It's been awhile since I've posted on here. School and work just have me incredibly busy. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season & their reading goals set for 2026. I've got 80 books to read as my goal.Setting a new reading goal is always so much fun for me! It's never knowing what 80 books I'll read that creates so much excitement. I've already completed one book 'Win, Lose, Kill, Die" by Cynthia Murphy.

#newyear #newbooks #goals #readKY

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kspenmoll
Gratitude | Oliver Sacks
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1) sunset this evening
2) New Year‘s Day dinner cooked by my husband with ham, mac & cheese,& collard greens & hoppin‘ John for a year of good luck
3) January hopefuls 😂😂
4) Trip to NYC via train to Morgan Library & Museum for Renoir exhibit
5) special golden spoon for stirring that first coffee of the day 3x clockwise while stating my positive intentions for the day

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝. 4d
DebinHawaii Lovely joys! 💛💛💛 The sunset is gorgeous 🌄 & I love the spoon! 3d
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PatriciaU
Denial of Death | Ernest Becker
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My library haul today minus The Repair Shop: Behind the Scenes which the hubs promptly grabbed. Some fluff evened out by the meaty Ernest Becker.

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Susanita
Memorial Days: A Memoir | Geraldine Brooks
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This was my favorite read in September. I won‘t have a favorite for October. #12booksof2025

kspenmoll Loved this book 4d
TheEllieMo This sounds sad and emotional but also good. 4d
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booklover3258
A Stone for Sascha | Aaron Becker
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Pickpick

Interesting wordless picture book about a girl who finds a golden rock and we learn the history of where that golden rock originated and what it went through to get to her hands. Beautiful illustrations.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
Wrap-Up List | Steven Arntson
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My Bookish Goals for 2025

✔100 books - I read 199
✔50K pages - I read 64,229
💀25% NF - I hit 24% which is a bit shy but I am still happy with it!
✔50% not US - I did 53% and read from 64 different countries!
✔12 Chunksters - 15

It is always so fun to look back at what we accomplished even if we just missed out goals, at least we tried!

dabbe #welldoneyou! 🎉🥂 5d
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CSeydel
Passage | Connie Willis
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December‘s winner is PASSAGE by Connie Willis.

This isn‘t my favorite Willis — not even top 3, honestly — but it was still entertaining and thought-provoking and full of all the Willis-isms we have come to expect. Speaking of which, I kept having to remind myself when it was written, since people kept getting “busy signals” when they tried to call each other, which is super anachronistic even for 2001 (sorry Connie).

CSeydel Oh yeah and my 2025 winner is (no surprise here) 6d
Amiable “Challenger” was my bracket winner in 2024 and “Hellhound” won it all in 2023! I‘m so glad I didn‘t have to choose between them like you did! 😀 (Although if I did, I think “Hellhound” would come out on top.) 6d
CSeydel @Amiable It was a coin flip for sure! 6d
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