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I've added quite a few names to the list today - we are now up to 50 participants on BlueSky.
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I returned The Longest Con at noon, hold popped up 1 hr later, I finished it just after midnight. #booksky #nonfiction #polisky #52bookclub2025 prompt 3rd person POV

Joe Conason is scathing & everything he says is brutally true. Right-wing grifters have been scamming conservatives for decades.

Ashley Basile's review of The Spanish Daughter 3/5: While this book presents an intriguing premise with Puri disguising herself as her husband to investigate his murder, the execution leaves much to be desired. The non-linear timeline proved chall...

#52bookclub2025 Prompt: Includes Latin American History 📚💙 #booksky ⭐⭐⭐

Ashley Basile's review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4/5: This was a complex, thought-provoking read, and it left me with mixed emotions. It offers a compelling character study, particularly through its protagonist McMurphy and the narrator Bromden. Th...

#52bookclub2025 Prompt: Stream of Consciousness Narrative 💙📚 #booksky
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Ashley Basile's review of The Poet X 5/5: This free-verse novel kicked off my 2025 52 Book Club reading challenge, fulfilling the "told in verse" prompt. Initially apprehensive about this unfamiliar genre, I approached it with a mix of c...

#52bookclub2025 Prompt: Told in Verse 💙📚
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44. A celebrity on the cover From here to the great unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

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Prompt #44. A celebrity on the cover
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough #booksky #52bookclub #52bookclub2025

I have had this book for a year & a half. Now I have 3 days to read it for a book study group.

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#booksky #52bookclub2025 Prompt "author publishes more than 1 book a year" done

"All our conversations of technique, of rhythm and metaphor, ultimately come down to this—to the stories we tell, to the need to haunt, which is to say to make people feel all that is now at stake."

I am haunted.

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Prompt "published 2025" done

10th in her Wayward Children series is the backstory of Nadya, one of the children in the 3rd book, Beneath the Sugar Sky. There is much joy in here, & heartbreak. Seanan's fantasy isn't an escape from life, it's a dive to the heart of it.

#52bookclub2025 moving on to prompt "author releases more than one book a year" - taking liberties with that. Ta-Nehisi Coates also writes Black Panther & has released 2 issues of that in one year. I have to finish this book in the next 7 days, so I found a prompt it fit. 😀

#52bookclub2025 prompt "has an epigraph" done #booksky #scifi

Why I loved it: "This book is my kind of batshit. I threw everything I loved into it: heists and chaos and pretty dresses and saying the inside thoughts out loud and a little bit of social commentary and a little more chaos for fun."

Taking a break from the heavy stuff with How to Steal a Galaxy by Beth Revis #booksky #scifi

#52bookclub2025 prompt “has an epigraph”

“In lieu of an actual epigraph” Beth directs the reader to find Mary Oliver's poem “Wild Geese” & read the first line.

That 1st line: You don't have to be good.

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Finished 6th #52bookclub2025 prompt "I think it was blue"
The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice, by Dan Slepian

Dan's passion for humanity & for justice is as clear as the injustice he sparingly exposes. 5 stars times 5

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Finished 5th #52bookclub2025 prompt "celebrity on the cover"
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris

Went faster than I expected. 40% of the book is photos, notes & index. Published in 2019, it goes only up through her Senate years, covering issues she's passionate about.

Finished #52bookclub2025 prompt "found family" #booksky #scifi

Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com

A short, emotional read with a protagonist who reminds me a lot of a neurodivergent friend

Next book is nonfiction
Maid by Stephanie Land
"over a million sold"

3rd book of #52bookclub2025 finished: The Afterlife of Mel Caldera by Nadi Reed Perez
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I rated this 5 stars on Storygraph & I'm not the only one. Perez takes Mal through the stages of grief from the other side of death & makes it a healing journey for the reader.

2nd finish in #52bookclub2025
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The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

In the central empire, the rich hoard & overuse magic, causing magical storms & droughts in the outer islands.

The prompt: climate fiction

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First book finished in #52bookclub2025 #readingchallenge

On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy

A collection of articles by Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas published over 2022-2023.

"book with short chapters"

Good companion to Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

Who’s gonna participate?
Can’t wait for Pop Sugar to share the list! This is my favorite time of the year! 😃🙌🥳💃💃
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