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HRCYED Gotta Catch ‘em All - 🐉 Dragon Recs

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Also this score 😍 LOVE!

#hrcyed #dragonbooks #bookrecs #bookworm #diversifyyourbookshelves

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HRCYED Gotta Catch ‘em All - 🌱 Grass Recs

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#hrcyed #bibliophile #bookworm #bookrecommendations #diversifyyourbookshelf

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HRCYED Hotta Catch ‘em All - 🔥 Fire Recs

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#HRCYED #bibliophile #bookstagram #diversifyyourbookshelf #bookrecs

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HRCYED Gotta Catch em All - book recs
🌊Water recs

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#HRCYED #bookrecs #bookish #booktok #diversifyyourbookshelves

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september 26’ Wrapped

Books:

Bad Words by Ríoghnach Robinson*
Partita by Barbara Kingsolver*
Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli
A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood*
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Got caught up on my gifted ARCs this month, and finally finished my second Steinbeck. Didn’t find any five star reads but four out of the five were four stars and all I plan to keep in my personal library.

*gifted - thank you to the tagged publishers!

Films & TV:

Slow Horses (TV) - did a rewatch to get ready for the new season, and three episodes into the new season, I’m still loving it
The Bear (TV) - Jay and I are trying to catch up
The Death of Robin Hood - gruesome, but I’m obsessed with Jodie Comer
The Little Rascals - introduced our girls to this old childhood fave
The Love Hypothesis- cute
The End of Oak Street - so bizzare!

Music:

Lost Weekend (the entire album) getting ready for Phoebe’s show this month (!!!)
Bottle by Remi Wolf
Rain by Lennon Stella
Chain Reaction by Matilda Mann

What was your favorite read or song or film from September??

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✨HRCYED3 check in✨
HRCYED is the brain child of @qwordyq

I’ve finished a category!! (But there are still multiple that I haven’t even started 😹)

(Consider this proof of life, I’m so absent lately) #hrcyed3

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Bullying your friends does work.

We’re attempting HRCYED which is the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do created by @qwordyq

We fill you in on where we’re at in the challenge on the latest podcast episode. Link in bio to watch or listen on Youtube, Spotify or Apple Podcast.

Are you attempting this challenge?

#leagueofreaders #blackbookstagram #bookpodcast #blackwomenpodcasters #hrcyed

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We really doing HRCYED ya’ll!!

This week, we give an update where we’re at in the challenge. You can watch or listen on Youtube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Are you participating in the challenge?

#leagueofreaders #hrcyed #blackbookstagram #podcastshow #blackwomenpodcasts

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August 26’ Wrapped

Books:

1. Country People by Daniel Mason*
2. Body Language by Meg Howrey*
3. Switzy by Emma Cline*
4. Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst
5. Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina
6. Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
7. The Singer’s Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
8. Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

Tried to catch up on my ARCs this month, and read three books for #womenintranslation month. Didn’t find any five star reads but the standout was definitely Switzy, I can’t stop thinking about that one.

*gifted - thank you to the tagged publishers!

Films & TV:

Sterling Point (TV) - really loved this sweet show
The Odyssey
The Drama
Station Eleven (TV) - favorite of the month
Tuner
Eternity

Music:

Rowing song by Lennon Stella
I know a place by MUNA
What if it’s right? by Gracie Abrams and Mumford & Sons
Badlands by Mumford & Sons and Gracie Abrams

A big Mumford & Sons month for me.

Memories:

Still participating in @qwordyq hardest reading challenge you’ll ever do, using @freshlyreadbooks cute bingo board. Having so much fun with this challenge.

Took two trips to the OR coast this month, one with friends and amazing food; another was our annual family trip where I got to fully embrace being auntie and cuddling two sweet babes. Attended my first farm to table dinner hosted by the best @erinehudson_ where the neighbors all made dishes from their gardens, the food and company was incredible.

What was your favorite read or memory from August??

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✨HRCYED 3✨
HRCYED is the brain child of @qwordyq Join us!
Thank you to @whatvivireads for creating templates (and edits, and edits). You rock!

This is the only check in that will have all the categories. Thankfully, Vivi created a great check in checklist for us so look for that to come.

This year the prompts *seem* easier at-a-glance but when you get into it a lot of them require the covers to match the prompt and that isn’t as easy. I’m attempting to do the harder (but not hardest) version and only use a book for one prompt. I’ve also chosen to do all 50 states. The expansion of DND and Pocket Monsters I will decode later if I’m going to do.
We had to chose a mash up from HRCYEDs 1 & 2 and I chose to do a genre challenge combine with the last 10 years.

Questions? Suggestions? Wanna play?
This runs from July 7, 2026 to July 6, 2027.

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Giving this a go this year after seeing @janagaton talking about it over on her channel!

The journal is made by @qwordyq and I believe you can get it directly from them, or you can get it on Amazon like I did.

Anyone else taking part in this?

#hrcyed #readingchallenge #hrcyed3 #bookish #bookstagram

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💫 Let’s talk about The Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do 2.0!

If you’re anything like me you love to gamify your reading and I because of that I have to introduce you to HRCYED!

This time last year I discovered this rather hard (it says it in the name!) reading challenge created by @qwordy and knew I had to give it a go! It’s got so many amazing prompts to encourage reading more diversely and expand your reading and although I do try to read diversely I definitely wanted that extra push.

Now I definitely went into this challenge with lots of blind ambition and a probably too much self- confidence but I actually managed to complete it!! I used lots of double ups which are allowed and stuck to all the other rules of no rereads or dnfs etc and honestly it was a definitely a challenge but I had so much fun! Swipe through to see what I decided to read for each prompt and let me know if you’ve read any of them. Part two will be up straight after this so that you can see the rest of the challenges too!

Have you tried the HRCYED before? Will you be joining me in completing HRCYED 3.0 this year???

🏷️ #HRCYED #ReadingChallenge #BookBingo

💫 Let’s talk about The Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do 2.0!

If you’re anything like me you love to gamify your reading and I because of that I have to introduce you to HRCYED!

This time last year I discovered this rather hard (it says it in the name!) reading challenge created by @qwordy and knew I had to give it a go! It’s got so many amazing prompts to encourage reading more diversely and expand your reading and although I do try to read diversely I definitely wanted that extra push.

Now I definitely went into this challenge with lots of blind ambition and a probably too much self- confidence but I actually managed to complete it!! I used lots of double ups which are allowed and stuck to all the other rules of no rereads or dnfs etc and honestly it was a definitely a challenge but I had so much fun! Swipe through to see what I decided to read for each prompt and let me know if you’ve read any of them. Part two will be up straight after this so that you can see the rest of the challenges too!

Have you trie

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