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Chronicling things that I do - mostly reading! 📚CompSci/NLP 👩🏻‍💻
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Book Club: @book.dragon.alliance (DM to join)

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🐲📖Calling all Book Dragons📖🐲

It's time for end of year bingo! Need help tackling your end of year goal? We got you!

6 wing leaders
4 teams
4 artist drawn dragons
Endless book recs
And lots of fun!

To pick your dragon and join a team (spots are limited) DM @book.dragon.alliance and let us know you want to play bingo!

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✨🃏 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐜 🃏✨

The veil thins, and the deck does not lie. For this collaboration, a coven of readers has gathered to divine the shadows between the pages. We shuffled the archetypes of destiny, ruin, and rebirth, pairing each Tarot card with a protagonist carved in its exact image.

Some characters walk willingly into the light of The Sun, while others teeter at the edge of The Tower, waiting for the stone to crumble beneath their feet. Each slide holds a card, a specific reading vibe, and our hand-picked recommendations to match your destiny.

✨📖 🔮🌛🃏 💜 🃏🌜🔮 📖✨

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞!

Featuring book recommendations from:

@storyseeker_42
@between.the.sheets.books
@dima_does_life
@plottwistandapassport
@jody.lovesbooks
@shanabooknerd76

QOTD: Which card calls to your soul & which archetype haunts your current read? Whisper your fate in the comments below.

✨🃏This collab is brought to you by @novelidea_collabs — for more collabs, bookish challenges, and themed stacks, come join us!🃏✨

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💕📚 It’s time to celebrate our BOOK BOYFRIENDS! 📚💕

October 3rd is National Boyfriend Day, and we’re celebrating the best kind of boyfriends… the ones who live between the pages! 😍📖

Come join us and the other bookstagrammers as we show off our favorite book boyfriends and the books that made us fall for them. ❤️

Want to see even more swoon-worthy book boyfriends? Be sure to check out my fellow bookstagrammers’ posts below! 👇
@cleancozyreads
@readbythisgirl
@dima_does_life
@reidbarnaauthor

Rhysand from the second he chose to appear in Chapter 20 of ACOTAR has my love 💓 Well, and of course Mr.Darcy!

QOTD: Who is your favorite book boyfriend?

Now grab your favorite books, pick your ultimate book boyfriend, and come join the fun! Whether he’s a broody bad boy, a cinnamon roll, a protective alpha, or the guy who makes you believe in happily ever after, we want to see him! 💕
There’s no right or wrong way to create your stack—just have fun, get creative, and show us which fictional man has your heart! 🥰📚

🍂📚 If you want to join the fun, come join @book.stack.collabsandmore

#bookstackcollabsandmore #BookstackChallenge #NationalBoyfriendDay
#BookBoyfriend #BookBoyfriends

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💕📚 It’s time to celebrate our BOOK BOYFRIENDS! 📚💕

October 3rd is National Boyfriend Day, and we’re celebrating the best kind of boyfriends… the ones who live between the pages! 😍📖

Come join us and the other bookstagrammers as we show off our favorite book boyfriends and the books that made us fall for them. ❤️

Want to see even more swoon-worthy book boyfriends? Be sure to check out my fellow bookstagrammers’ posts below! 👇
@dima_does_life
@readbythisgirl
@booksbitesbetablockers
@cleancozyreads

💥 I’ve written a few great boyfriends. Starting with my billionaire Bryan from my very first serialized story to Ashton (pictured above) who honestly doesn’t start out great to my beloved mafia boss, Benedetto, who I will start sharing more about soon. The one trait they all have in common is that once they commit, they fully commit and are devoted. And it’s so much fun watching them grow into amazing book boyfriends! ❤️

QOTD:

Now grab your favorite books, pick your ultimate book boyfriend, and come join the fun! Whether he’s a broody bad boy, a cinnamon roll, a protective alpha, or the guy who makes you believe in happily ever after, we want to see him! 💕

There’s no right or wrong way to create your stack—just have fun, get creative, and show us which fictional man has your heart! 🥰📚

🍂📚 If you want to join the fun, come join @book.stack.collabsandmore #bookstackcollabsandmore #bookstackchallenge #nationalboyfriendday #bookboyfriend #bookboyfriends

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🦁 September Shelf Safari 🦁

Thanks so much to @dima_does_life for the tag!

Shelf Safari is a bookish scavenger hunt with prompts inspired by holidays and observances! Here are my findings for September's prompts:

🏙️ International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies: Thrill of the Chase by Kathryn Nolan

📚 International Literacy Day: Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay

⚖️ International Day of Democracy: Nothing is Wrong and Here is Why by Alexandra Petri

☮️ International Day of Peace: Octopus Moon by Bobbie Pyron

🤟 International Day of Sign Languages: The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

🌉 World Tourism Day: Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

🍲 Food Loss and Waste Day: Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

🌏 International Translation Day: Confessions by Kanae Minato

If you're seeing this, consider yourself tagged in the challenge!

⁉️ QOTD: What's your favorite holiday read?

#shelfsafari #septembershelfsafari #scavengerhunt

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“𝙈𝙖’𝙖𝙢, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣—𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙪 𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨.” 🤫 Tell that to my entire bookshelf, because for National Coffee Day, we are asking the real, pressing question: Are you ordering a beverage, or are you ordering a character trope? Let’s be honest, your coffee order says a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 about your taste in fictional men, so we are matching our absolute favorite book boyfriends directly to your daily caffeine fix. ☕️

Swipe through to see which mug—and love interest—claims a permanent spot on your TBR pile! 👉

Featuring book recs from:
☕️ @jocey_reads
☕️ @ashley.the.bookworm
☕️ @dima_does_life
☕️ @campbellbookworms
☕️ @shopthebookhive
☕️ @authorpoojha

QOTD: What’s your coffee order? Do you prefer it iced or hot?

☕️This collab is brought to you by @novelidea_collabs – for more collabs, bookish challenges, and themed stacks, come join us!☕️

#NationalCoffeeDay #BookBoyfriends #CoffeeAndBooks

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@Chapter.Chatter.Collabs presents to you our collab with the theme: Precision, Control & Intellect.

Some characters don’t leave things to chance.
They calculate, strategize, and know exactly when to make their move. Today we’re celebrating the brilliant minds, careful planners, and characters whose precision or control makes them impossible to underestimate. ♟️📚

🧠📚🎯♟️✨🔍

Stevens, the butler at the heart of The Remains of the Day, is the epitome of control. He runs Darlington Hall with absolute precision. But everything Stevens calculates keeps him from seeing the one thing he should have acted on.

🧠📚🎯♟️✨🔍

See who everyone else has making their next move:

♟️ @alexsbookseason
🎯 @dima_does_life
🧠 @spinesnlines

❓Is main character of your current read controlled or chaotic?

📸 Check out the hashtag #precisioncontrolintellectchapterchattercollabs
Want to join in on future collabs? Follow and DM @chapter.chatter.collabs 💙✨

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Three for Thursday:
#OldSkoolChallengeClub

🎲Cluedo🎲

The second challenge I decided to do for this week's #oldskoolchallengeclub is the #cluedostack (or flatlay) set by Dee @chapter1.page1.

I haven't played the boardgame at all so I don't know how challenging it is but this is my very first attempt at doing the bookstagram version and I had fun coming up with different scenarios.

🎲Cluedo #1

Who did it?
The Maidens (Alex Michaelides)

Where?
The Last Labyrinth (Gwendolyn Womack)

With what?
A Chain Of Pearls (Raemi A. Ray)

🎲Cluedo #2

Who did it?
The Spy (Paulo Coelho)

Where?
Hall Of Mirrors (Roxanne Lalande)

With what?
The Golden Hairpin (Qinghan Cece)

🎲Cluedo #3

Who did it?
Neferura (Malayna Evans)

Where?
The Pharaoh's Tomb (Lyndee Walker and Bruce Robert Coffin)

With what?
Cleopatra's Dagger (Carole Lawrence)

⁉️ What does your Cluedo scenario look like?

🏷️ Tagging a few friends and if you do try it don't forget to tag @oldskoolchallengeclub.

#oldskoolchallengeclub #cluedostack #HereForTheFunNotTheNumbers #bookstagram #bookstagramcommunity #bookstagrammer #bookreadersofinstagram #bookstagramflatlay
#bookstagramchallenge #bibliophile #booklovers

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Pumpkin spice is the flavor of the season, which means my personality is now 40% cozy reader, 40% latte foam, and 20% pretending I do not need another fall-themed book.

🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧

Here are the books I’m dying to read this fall 🍂

🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧

Give me a candle, a blanket, a pumpkin spice latte, and a book with an unnecessarily dramatic story, and I will be unavailable until further notice.

Now go sprinkle a little fall magic on your feed and check out my friends’ posts for even more cozy, bookish goodness!

🧡 @nikki_loves_to_read
🧡 @dima_does_life
🧡 @starryeyedelise
🧡 @wordsandash
🧡 @thenovel_hound
🧡 @deannaturnsthepage
🧡 @s_cathartes

🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧

⁉️QOTD:🚨What is top of your fall tbr?

🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧🎃🍂☕️🥧

This collab is presented by #ThiccBookCollabs

To join in on future collabs or for more info, follow @ThiccBooksCommunity or reach out to one of our admins listed below:
@Thiccbooksandthiccthighs
@Nikki_loves_to_read
@Stephs_bookery

Special shoutout to our Member of the Month:
@shesbetterat40

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We saw different iterations of this challenge from a few bookstagrammers, and we had to do our own!

Turns out, the @book.dragon.alliance team agrees on a LOT, but also has different opinions on quite a few topic!

❓QOTD: This or that? Let us know!
Physical vs eBooks vs Audiobooks?
One book at a time vs Multiple books?
Vampires vs Fae?

Meet the @book.dragon.alliance Admins and Mods:
Admins:
Thalia (@mamas.reading.corner)
Dima (@dima_does_life)
Mods:
Kait (@kaitsbooknook_)
Erin (@bookdragonerin)
Nicola (@tartan_teapotsandbooks_croft)

And if you would like to join us for collabs, bingo games, and fun book club reads, make sure to follow and DM @book.dragon.alliance 🐉

#BookDragonAlliance #ThisOrThatChallenge #TeamPost #BookDragons

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@chapter.chatter.collabs presents to you our collab with the theme: Lessons Between Lines 📖✨

Sometimes a book leaves us with more than just a good story.
A character might change the way we see something, a quote might stick with us, or a fictional journey might teach us something we didn’t expect. Today we’re celebrating all the little lessons we’ve found between the lines. 📚💭

📖📚✨💭📝🤍

Sharing 5 of my most favorites here... quotes that made me pause, thought about life, and helped me in learning life's lessons. Tell me which one is your favourite.

📖📚✨💭📝🤍

See what everyone else found between the lines:

📖 @tbrandread
💭 @dima_does_life
✨ @booked_with_taylor

❓QOTD - Tell me a quote that stayed with you.

📸 Check out the hashtag #lessonsbetweenlineschapterchattercollabs
Want to join in on future collabs? Follow and DM @chapter.chatter.collabs 💙✨

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🎲 GAME SHOW STACK 🎲

We’re going old school today with @hook.me.a.book’s #gameshowstack challenge! I’m going to be honest…I thought this was going to be harder than it was. I set myself the goal of finding six titles I have read that would make good game show titles. Welp, I found six books I read in the last month 😂This truly was so fun to think about, and the blurbs for each “game show” were a blast to write.

Want to try out this challenge? I’d love to see! Give me a tag so I can show your post some love. I’ve tagged a few friends, but as always, no pressure!

⁉️What was your favorite game show to watch as a kid, or your favorite to watch now?

‼️I loved Wheel of Fortune as a kid. Any game with words is a winner for me. We also loved Family Feud and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire! Now, if I’m watching a game show, it’s Jeopardy. I like to feel smart when I get an answer right 😂

#gameshowstack
#oldskoolchallengeclub

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