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Reminder 🚨 You have a little over a week to read all the masquerade fics and try to guess who's who!

There's stories about:

detectives

kissing frogs

mysteries

zombies

domestic husbands

smutty good times

chess

high school

college

meet-cutes

meet-uglies

and everything in between

...all written by some of your favorite fandom authors and some new faces! (Including 3 fic club admins! and art by 1!). And go look at the incredible art that has cute kisses, board games, holiday moments and more!

Get kudos-ing!

Congratulations to all the longlist authors. Our favorites include Colum McCann, Hilary Mantel,, Kiley Reid and Anne Tyler. As always some are not available in the US at the time of the announcement.

The 2020 longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:

Author (country/territory)            Title (imprint)

Diane Cook (USA)                           The New Wilderness (Oneworld Publications)

Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) This Mournable Body (Faber & Faber)

Avni Doshi (USA)                             Burnt Sugar (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)

Gabriel Krauze (UK)                        Who They Was (4th Estate, HarperCollins)

Hilary Mantel (UK)                          The Mirror & The Light (4th Estate, HarperCollins)

Colum McCann (Ireland/USA)     Apeirogon (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia/USA) The Shadow King (Canongate Books)

Kiley Reid (USA)                              Such a Fun Age (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Brandon Taylor (USA)                    Real Life (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)      

Anne Tyler (USA)                            Redhead by The Side of The Road (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)

Douglas Stuart (Scotland/USA)  Shuggie Bain (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

Sophie Ward (UK)                           Love and Other Thought Experiments (Corsair, Little, Brown)

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I learnt one awesome thing while reading a book i.e. I am having great potential, but my mind plays a vital role in bringing it out! The only way I can exercise my mind is by studying & observing.

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I’ve been feeling a little bit down lately and not reading quite as much. I’m in need of some focus, so it seemed just perfect when I stumbled across another readathon I could join.

I’m going to join in on the 20th Bout of Books running from Monday-Sunday August 21-27. Here’s the gist of it from the source:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 21st and runs through Sunday, August 27th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 20 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

This is only the second readathon I’ve done (and just a month since the previous one - I’m on a roll). I’m working on my list of books to tackle that week (which I will post here), but I think a lot of it is simply going to be me finishing things I’ve abandoned during this mini-reading slump the last couple weeks.