The Bookish Books Reading Challenge is hosted by Susan @ BlogginBoutBooks.com, please click the link to find out more and sign up for the challenge!

About the Challenge

This is a laidback challenge designed to encourage the reading of all those bookish books that are still lingering on our shelves and TBR lists. Any book counts as long as one of its main themes is books (reading them, writing them, hoarding them, stealing them, eating them, burning them, decorating with them, organizing them, sniffing them, selling them, etc.). Any book that is essentially bookish in nature counts. All formats are acceptable. Since this challenge isn’t about pages read, length doesn’t matter either. Picture books are totally fine.

Levels

Because it wouldn’t be a challenge without a *little* bit of pushing, she created some levels just to make it more fun:

Toe in the Door: 1-10 books read

Picking and Perusing: 11-20 books read

Lost in the Stacks: 21-30 books read

Living in the Library: 30+ books read

My Goal

I am going to shoot for the Toe in the Door level. This is my first year doing this challenge, so we will see what happens. I have a very good feeling I will ace this challenge, wish me luck.

My Progress

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My Reads

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They didn’t want her gone.
They wanted her ruined.

Rowyn learned early how to survive by staying invisible.
Quiet. Careful. Forgettable.

But at Lockridge, invisibility is an invitation.

They see her softness as something to press into.
Her body as something to comment on.
Her silence is consent.

What starts as cruelty turns ritualistic.
What should break her begins to change her.

Because Rowyn is done begging to be left alone. And the boys who made her their game are about to learn something dangerous.

She was never made to bend. She was made to break something back.

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 Beneath Her Sins from @sk_pryntzauthor

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 Self ouchie MMC/FMC
 False Prophet
 Yakuza
 Female Chastity belt
 Seduce a priest.
 Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned
 There will be tears
 Familiar friends

Jedidiah:
I was supposed to walk away clean.
One dead man. One tempting woman.
And a whole lot of blood on my hands.
I never asked to be her savior. I damn sure wasn’t looking to be a priest. But penance tastes better than prison, and hiding in a collar kept my past where it belonged—six feet under.
That is…until she showed up.
In my church.
On her knees.
Now the woman I saved is playing the saint, whispering scripture while dragging hell back to my doorstep. I recognize her but I can’t prove she’s the devil sent to damn me. But my body can. Every taunt of her wicked words pulls me deeper.
The worst part?
I want her to ruin me.

Sayuri:
He was my salvation.
And my destruction.
He killed my husband and vanished, leaving me to take the fall.
For years, I dreamed of finding him. Not to thank him.
To burn him. Break him. Watch him bleed like I have all these years.
Now I have found him again, preaching sermons in some forgotten little church, while hiding behind stained glass and God’s mercy like it could save him. I’ve joined the flock. Become his disciple. Learned every way to tempt a priest into sin.
But I wasn’t ready for this man.
Not his hands.
Not his guilt.
Not the way he says my name like a confession.
I came here to destroy him, to show him the darkness he thought he could outrun…so why am I feeling the burn of the flames meant for him?