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i know i've barely been on here this year, and partly that's because of a new full time job--but also, i'm starting to think that there's no healthy way for me to be on social media rn. The infinite scrolling opportunities work too well for my anxiety/obsessive thoughts, and as much as i miss the good parts, if i cant separate out the bad it's not worth it for me right now. Hopefully i can figure out a way to come back eventually, because I really like having a community to talk about books with! But at least for a while, i'm gonna keep deleting the app from my phone unless there's a specific post i need to find.

writing a whole post feels melodramatic to me lol but i wanted people do know i do miss y'all!

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I loved the storied life of aj fikry! it's been a while since i read it but it was such a sweet book

Congrats on your bingo! and good luck going for the full blackout!

Backlogbooks Bingo Update #2

It's the end of the second quarter and I have a bingo in the middle column! I'm aiming for a blackout so I will continue the challenge over the rest of the year. Here's the wrap up for the last three months:

2002: The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot

2003: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Free: The 13 Problems by Agatha Christie

2009: Heaven by Meiko Kawakami

2011: Theft of Swords by Micheal J. Sullivan

2014: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

2017: Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins

2018: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren (reread)

bingo update #1

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love the progress!! I dont have recs off the top of my head, but if you go through the challenge on storygraph here you can click on specific years to see what other people are reading and get some inspiration

I decided at the start of the year to do this backlog books bingo challenge, and then promptly forgot about it - but I just went through the books I’ve read this year and have realised I’m actually quite close to some bingos!

I’d love to spend the rest of the year actively trying to tick off some more of these boxes, maybe even go for a full bingo card? if anyone has any recommendations for books published in the years I have yet to tick off, I would love to hear them!

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currently reading the boy next door by meg cabot (2002) and got a donald trump jumpscare lol 😂

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just because you can physically read a smaller font doesnt mean you have to. if you have the power to make the font bigger on your computer, or use a magnifying glass, or check out a large print book, you can. test it out, and if it gives your eyes relief, start adding it into your daily life

large print is for everyone, give your eyes a break

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i have listened to the second to last episode of the silt verses and i am in shambles

and now?? i have to go to work??? when he was a milkman and she was a ballerina????

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something something jonathan finding comfort in a symbol that he was taught to see as idolatrous something something finding comfort in other people’s faith without being swayed to convert because we dont all have to believe in the same thing for our beliefs to have power something something “for your mother’s sake”

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to all the warriors who will feel pressured to shave their legs now that it’s warm enough to wear shorts… HOLD THE LINE!!!

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love seeing this progress!! what's your favorite book been so far?

Backlogbooks Bingo Update #1

2025's first quarter is over so I wanted to post an update! I've ticked off seven prompts for the Bingo Challenge and they were all great reads:

60s: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

70s: The Shining by Stephen King

80s: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

2005: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

2012: Wonder by R. J. Palacio

2015: Rush by Emma Scott

2016: The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza

I'm aiming for a blackout but at this place it's doubtful. I should be able to get bingo by next quarter! 📖

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help out a curious indie author who often feels like she's throwing marketing spaghetti at the wall!

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honestly reading all of my fiction tbr last year has been so freeing when it comes to buying books. like first, it gave me a really good sense of what books i want to buy vs the books i want to check out from the library. and second, i feel no guilt when buying books, because i've only got like, four fiction books that i havent read yet (and i just started one of them!)

idk, i'm really enjoying browsing after my book clubs and taking recommendations from the guy who runs the club (with the bonus of supporting a local bookstore, which means i'm *basically* doing a good deed)

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Hey hey, as a librarian, can I just say don’t pace yourself at the library. I get a lot of customers saying “oh I shouldn’t get too many books out at once” but like you should!!!! Max out your card, take everything we have on a subject you’re interested in, make a book fort in your home. We love that shit! It doesn’t matter if you read them or not; just take them for an adventure and bring them back whenever they’re due!

For public libraries, one of the ways we secure funding year to year is lending. Governments don’t want to fund more books if they’re not being used and the way we measure use is by issues. Regardless of whether you read it or not, whether you have it for a day or a month, if you issue it to your library card, we get the stats! It makes the library look good!

Help your local library; get books out even if you know you can’t read them all!

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(can never be un-haunted) is doing something to my brain chemistry

(quote from Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin)

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in general i would like the font to be bigger lol

It's not, like, a Problem(tm) for me yet, but I do notice how much less my eyes strain when reading on my ereader with the font size turned up

I would probably check out more of the large print books in my library, but obvs the general demographic for that collection is different so a lot of the books i want to read arent available (though i am gonna make it a habit to at least check, especially with newer books because i feel like there's some more variety rn)

Weekly Bookish Question #431 (March 2nd - March 8th, 2025)

Do you have any opinions on fonts used in books (got any favorites? fonts you hate?), or are you fine with whatever?

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February wrap up! Wild to see so much more nonfiction than fiction, but it was a good reading month overall!

I'm also so far keeping up with my goal to keep notes/informal reviews of the books i read, which i'm hoping will eventually translate into more content here lol

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okay i cant find the post but @libraryspectre you being the first person to reply to this with recs reminds me of the post that talks about having specific mutuals for different topics and you being the secretary of horror fiction lol

anyone have body horror novel recommendations? trying to build a list because i've been craving them lately

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anyone have body horror novel recommendations? trying to build a list because i've been craving them lately