* We’re excited to announce our new Game Section. Our first game is a Word Chain Game (Book Edition). There is also a thread to offer up your gaming suggestions. Let’s have some fun!
* Our Through the Decades readathon has come to a close. Visit the Readathon WRAP UP & AWARDS to see the teams’ accomplishments.
GROUP READ Our August theme is Sunflower, and our group read for this month is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, a cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory.
CHALLENGES We’re excited to introduce new monthly challenges for August’s theme of Sunflower and we are continuing our third quarter challenges with the theme of Anger.
Monthly challenges Here Comes the Sun is an open challenge to read books that feel like summer and sunshine!. Van Gogh for It! is a prompt-based challenge based on the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh.
Quarterly challenges Rage on the Page is an open challenge to read books with anger in their themes or titles, or with red covers. Recreational Anger features prompts based on movies from a variety of locations, times, and genres.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for August, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together! You can also sign up for September TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Happy August!
FROM THE MODS
* We’re excited to announce our new Game Section . Our first game is a Word Chain Game (Book Edition). There is also a thread to offer up your gaming suggestions. Let’s have some fun!
* Our Through the Decades readathon has come to a close. Visit the Readathon WRAP UP & AWARDS to see the teams’ accomplishments.
GROUP READ
Our August theme is Sunflower, and our group read for this month is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky , a cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory.
You can join the discussion or post your review of the book!
You can also vote for our September book with the theme of Whimsy, as well as nominate a book for October with the theme of Superstition!
CHALLENGES
We’re excited to introduce new monthly challenges for August’s theme of Sunflower and we are continuing our third quarter challenges with the theme of Anger.
Monthly challenges
Here Comes the Sun is an open challenge to read books that feel like summer and sunshine!.
Van Gogh for It! is a prompt-based challenge based on the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh.
Quarterly challenges
Rage on the Page is an open challenge to read books with anger in their themes or titles, or with red covers.
Recreational Anger features prompts based on movies from a variety of locations, times, and genres.
Yearly challenges can help you reach your reading goals for the year in 2025. Check out A Guide to the 2025 Yearly Challenges to learn more about our year-long challenges!
Do you have an idea for a new challenge? Please let us know! Most of our quarterly and monthly challenges grow from our members’ suggestions. We would love to hear your creative ideas!
TBR TWINS
Share a book with an online friend while knocking off a read from your TBR list!
If you’ve signed up for August, find your TBR Twin here. Please reach out to your twin and choose a book to read together!
You can also sign up for September TBR Twins here, and we'll pair you with someone to read a book with next month.
BUDDY READS
Let’s read some books together! Buddy reads are a great way to read and discuss a book together with fellow group members. Feel free to join any discussion, even if you didn’t sign up!
We are reading the following stand-alone books:
Dark Matter
Fayne
The Great Alone
I Know This Much Is True
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Migrations
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Not Quite Dead Yet
Oil and Marble
The Poppy Fields
The Quiet Librarian
The Secret Life of Sunflowers
The Younger Wife
And we are starting or continuing these books that are part of a series:
Alex Cross #9: The Big Bad Wolf
Bernie Sanders Mystery #1: Feel the Bern
Charlie Parker #4: The White Road
A Chocolate Covered Mystery #1: Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates
Cotton Malone #9: The Lincoln Myth
The Daevabad Trilogy #2: The Kingdom of Copper
Elantris #1
Hannah Swensen #1: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Hawthorne & Horowitz #1: The Word is Murder
The Hunger Games #1
Kay Scarpetta #10: Black Notice
Lucas Davenport #6: Night Prey
Molly the Maid #3: The Maid’s Secret
Moloka’i #2: Daughter of Moloka’i
If you would like to join any, please follow the link and let your buddies know you will join the read! Would you like to suggest a future Buddy Read or join a future one? You can sign up on our current Buddy Reads - Sign Up thread.
Finally, welcome to all of our new members! We can't wait to get to know you. Please stop in and introduce yourself or say hello to our new members!
Happy Reading, everyone!
Winter, SarahKat, TerryJane, Carri Carey, bailey, Blagica, Theresa, JennH, and Susan