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I read 29 books for 2024's challenge before I gave up. Some are prompts I didn't like & others I didn't get to. 😂

Non-traditional education could be any of the dark academia stuff? You have Babel right behind you, and I loved "A deadly education" series by Naomi Novik, and "The Betrayals" by Bridget Collins.

Have you ever seen the beat the backlist as that one as a reading prompt challenge is also really good 😊

I'm interpreting "oldest author" to mean the one oldest at the time they wrote the book. And I'm reducing the scope of "TBR" to mean the books I've chosen for the month. My unread physical TBR has thousands of books on it and I have thousands more digital books, so there's no way I'm sifting through all that for a prompt. Yet I am reasonably sure I have no running club, food truck, or soccer books. I did find a food truck murder mystery on Hoopla. And I'm told Fredrik Backman has a soccer book. But all of the running club books I can find sound absolutely painful.

Hi, where do you find this prompts??? 😅

"Can we just leave the robots out of this?" haha I agree. The prompts are quite interesting for sure! Fun fact - I used to be weird and read the last sentence of the book first, but I stopped when I realized that some of them have spoilers in the last sentence. I don't think that is a good prompt! I loved hearing you complain about these prompts xD I have Floating Hotel on my tbr which I think will count for space tourism

Your shelves are looking so good! 🥰 I love your new place!

Just had a thought about the prompt regarding reading a book based on the last sentence. Get someone to choose a book from your own books, get them to read the last sentence of the book and then they choose a book for you to read from their own impressions of the last sentence. That way it doesn't spoil the book for you.

There’s a non-fiction book called Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall, which is about ultramarathoners and I would absolutely read it for the Run Club prompt if I hadn’t already read it. 😅

It’s not really a running club but in Elevation ( Stephen King) there is a race , does it count 😅?

Can I ask what camera you use the quality looks so good!!!

Great camera set up!

This was one of my favourite boxes from Illumicrate this year

Hi dear Hope you are well. To become a professional TH-camr you need to provide a cover photo,country, email and details about yourself. Then you will be recognized as a professional. I am always ready to help you.

Spindle Manor, Tainted Cup and Silverblood are so good! The shelves are looking great!

Your laugh is so fun and contagious I love it!!!!

Beautiful background!!! I wanted to come and spread some positivity to anyone reading this comment. You are where you need to be. You are loved and you are worth it. To this beautiful booktuber you have gained a new subscriber out of me!!! Keep up the amazing content!!!

Have to finish it? I'm calling shenanigans on that - you never finished the book I gifted you. :(

When is Pickles and Mr Yowley getting their own channel?

I want to see MALEVOLENT ranting!!

Love Vinted! Great place for bargains

I read their post when they put it up and was like wait...what?? How is TWILIGHT even on there??? My best friend loved it but I could never get into it - I was more of a Fallen series kinda girl. Twilight shouldn't be in the top 10 of anything except cringe and for me horror - partly due to reading it and being subjected to the movies. Every. Single. One. I think they were pandering more to the YA readers, I've found most of their books in their usual monthly book boxes are geared more towards YA readers. How was The Dark Tower series not even included?!

yeah, this top 10 is questionable...

PICKLES

Glad you made it down to Kent in the end ! Now you know to get the train 😂

Also have Riley Sager on the tbr, heard his books can be miss or hit though. Hope his next one that you read works better for you.

Missed opportunity to tear pages out of each Lake book, and stick them together into a new Doctor Raekenstein chimera!

I was waiting on you to denude them 😂 I love using the book jackets while reading so I don’t get the covers too greasy. Never use the other kind of covers, cause I never take my books out of the house, only my e-reader. 😅 For the washi tapes, you can make a book journal! I’ve been doing that for a couple of years, as a creative outlet and to use some of the ungodly amounts of tapes and stickers I have. Unfortunately, I fell a bit out of it this year, and really miss it...

That book jacket is simply lovely 😍

Did both books have the same title font? The Ls on each of them looked the same

I have Priory of the Orange Tree on my shelf - it looks super intimidating but good to know that you enjoyed it Rae 😊

HI PICKLES! 🩷🩷🩷 Also your thumbnail cover image is EVERYTHING! 😂 Excellent haul! 💕📚📚📚

I got a nice hardcover copy of The Goldfinch but I’ve not read it yet. Should I read Secret History first?

Yes the jasmine throne!!! It’s amazing! And it is the illumicrate editions. Book 3 should be for sale in their site !

Oohhh I have wild and wicked things! Let’s buddy read this

I read and sometimes annotate my special editions.

I don’t know how much I love “SPIDERS IN SPACE” until I read Children of Time! 🕷️

I’M NOT SORRY 😂

You were right the Becky Chambers books are gorgeous. 🥰

I’m listening to this at work but I’m assuming all these books are stunning

God I love you 😂❤️

I want to develop my communication skills does books will gonna to help me

6:19 the cover of this is so beautiful

You ever get the feeling of deja-vu? 🤔😅 I'm hoping to read The Silverblood Promise before the year is out.

Digging Full-res Rae! Good to hear that Silverblood Promise is good vibes as I bought the hardback. Not sure when I’ll get to it though. I’m enjoyed Strange and Norrell.

Great video! Those books sound awsome~

@hardysbooks brought me here! Happy Reading 😎📚👍

I also really want to read The Shadow of the Gods! I've heard so many great things about it!

Okay, first of all I absolutely LOVE the energy of this video! 💕📚