We’re close to halfway on the official clock and I’ve been absolutely heart eyes emoji about the community online today. While many of you are marching (I wish I could be with you), lots of you are reading and talking and cheering each other on and I am here for it. Keep going, guys, you’re doing great!
I’ve seen lots of great readathon TBR stacks in my feeds, and now I want to see another kind of photo. We’ve already done shelfies, but this time I want to see your best spine poetry. Construct your best poem from book titles on your shelves, take a photo, and post a link to that photo and the resulting poem in a comment below. (Add punctuation as you see fit.) Here’s mine:
Hold still
Pretty is another day in the death of America
Half wild monstress, I see you.
Give me your best stanza and I’ll pick a prize winner for this challenge at Hour 24 at midnight ET tonight.
We’ve got another prize winner to announce, from Hour Twelve’s feminist challenge.
Nephele
And four more door prize winners too!
Kayci G (@theruralreader on Twitter)
Maggie Stewart
Shana (@sfox414 on Litsy)
Christine @Buckling Bookshelves
Congrats, winners, and don’t forget to head to the Prizes page to pick your winnings!
24in48 Readathon 
Here’s my take
To all the boys I’ve loved before
We were liars
Furiously happy
It ends with us
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk, passing difficult women.
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Here I stand,
The silent wife; the stranger; the shadow queen.
Remember to love me.
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Will you won’t you want me?
The outcasts apologize, apologize,
Heartsick & dismantled
Niks_Nook’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/bWd6aTV1alYx
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http://booksandbooksohmy.blogspot.com/2017/01/24-in-48-readathon-hour-eighteen.html
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Feminism is for everybody
Women who run with wolves
Wild feminine
I am not a slut
I am an emotional creature
I am that girl
Becoming myself
What will it take to make a woman a president?
That takes ovaries!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPi3l–gsNP/?taken-by=kimmychronicles
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The noise of time
devoured
a boy called Mouse.
Forbidden memories:
the wind in the willows…
All the birds in the sky:
the shadow of the wind…
The darkest part of the forest:
the watcher in the shadows…
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Here’s mine:
The Snow Queen,
Dead by Midnight
Buried Prey
Deeper than the Dead,
I Knew You’d Be Lovely
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There is a Carnival Evening of
Shared perhaps by all The World’s Wife
Or Possibly by Elizabeth and Robert Browning
Evidence?
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It’s also the midnight here and I need to sleep! I’ve done about 3 hours of reading today, the plan is to fit a he’ll of a lot more in tomorrow! Goodnight all.
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I posted it on Litsy as GraciousWarriorPrincess.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BPi46y9gptV/?taken-by=kaylaraeintheway
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Here’s mine:
A sound among the trees echoes in every heartbeat,
Leaving secrets until the dawn
And here’s the link to the picture on twitter: https://twitter.com/PiperFarr1/status/822951429048532992
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The witch’s daughter
She walks these hills
All through the night
Very far away from anywhere else
Happy to be here:
The last town on Earth
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bookish_wookish’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/WlphSTNLbEdz
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My spine Poetry is
Nightmare Hour A Monster Calls
A Dark Dividing, This Savage Song
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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=603693663160881&substory_index=0&id=455154651348117
#spinepoetry for #24in48 #readathon.
I’ll translate it:
A good summer:
one love,
the umperfect marvel,
happiness
and other extremely important little things.
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Kalalalatja’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/akI4TXptVmlp
My go at some book spine poetry:
Fragile things
Catching fire
Sweet home, fun home
A portable shelter
A little life
The history of love
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Link to my post and photo: https://mobile.twitter.com/reviewsandRaTs/status/822953896956071936
Poetry:
Girls in the moon,
Speaking treason fluently,
This savage song: Listen to Me, You Will Know Me.
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Here’s a link to mine: http://wp.me/pur67-7v
She’s come undone:
I know this much is true.
Things fall apart east of Eden.
Story of a girl
Living by fiction.
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The Matriarch, Undine
Gone with the Wind To the Lighthouse, Where Angels Fear to Tread…
And the Mountains Echoed Her Fearful Symmetry
https://relevantobscurity.com/book-challenges/2017-challenges/24in48-winter-2017-readathon-121-2217/
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I posted mine on my blog.
http://sammylblog.blogspot.com/2017/01/hour-9-update.html
City of Glass
Throne of Glass
Scarlet The Last Star
Left Behind
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My post is on Instagram: iceangel9
Lovesick, by gaslight
the Queen of the Night fell
under the wide and starry sky.
Let’s pretend this never happened.
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On litsy @carbail
When rain falls
Hush
What remains
America
The Lightning Queen
Making Things Happen
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Yamich49’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/VDdodVR0QWw1
“There Was A Country,
Stupid White Men
Against Our Will: Americanah.
Behold the Dreamers,
Dreams of Trespass.
The Revolution Starts at Home,
Woman at Point Zero
The Woman Warrior.
Everything is Illuminated.”
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My spine poetry is:
Dear Mr. Knightly
No Regrets felt by
A Full Blooded
Invisible Man
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This is my all time favorite prompt of readathons!
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https://instagram.com/p/BPi9qWYgQlr/
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Posted on Litsy and Twitter as @ebooksandcooks with the hashtags #24in48 and #spinepoetry
I can’t figure out how to post a picture here!
My poem
I’ll tell you in person
What Alice forgot
Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen
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My poem
You
The Girl on the Train
Heartless
Until The End
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My first attempt at spine poetry. Hope the link works! http://litsy.com/p/Q1JWRlRndUhs
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I don’t know how to get a link from Litsy but my poem and pic are up there and tagged @DebinHawaii.
The Wonder:
The odds of you and me, the girls,
searching for John Hughes the whole world over.
The shape of things to come, in the blue hour.
A pinch of love before the fall.
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Alicia’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/NkpXeW4xbUlR
Everyday
American Gods shiver
Dreamland, symptoms of being human
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On Litsy: @swishandflick
I’m traveling alone,
The queen of the night,
All the ugly and wonderful things pull me under.
Woman with a secret, I let you go…
Before the fall.
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My attempt!
“Star-Touched Queen,
Of Fire and Stars.
Holding up the Universe,
Illuminae dark places.”
I’m thinking of all the women (QUEENS!) fighting for our rights. All the women marching today to bring light to all the dark places in the world… all the women who in a way… are holding up the universe. ♥
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Here’s my first attempt at spine poetry!!
Lucky you: You will know me,
The wonder,
All the ugly and wonderful things…
I see you.
Litsy link: asiriusreader’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/RXNOUGJURVcw
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Well, that showed up weird above. Can’t figure out how to delete, but here’s a better link: https://www.instagram.com/p/BPjCyv2D_30/?taken-by=jmillwanders
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Conleyheather’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/NGNLTFpyWWw3
Now & then,
something borrowed
the outcast, the elegance of the hedgehog
to kill a mockingbird,
as I lay dying
a long way down of mice and men
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Priceless hope was here
From places no one knows.
So what’s the difference?
Now with a fierce and subtle poison,
Unbroken things fall apart.
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Lesser apocalypses:
New York
Lights out, city on fire
Brave new world
NCNY’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/ZFg5VDBhYzBQ
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What teachers make:
Heartless,
Hidden Figures
Posted on Litsy (@Bookworm83)
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Posted on Litsy @CaitMobley
Where’d you go Bernadette?
The most dangerous place on earth, and every morning the way home gets longer and longer.
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Here I Am
The Mothers
The Sisters
The Untethered Soul
Daring Greatly
Sleeping Giants
(Loving Sleeping Giants btw!)
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Posted on Litsy (http://litsy.com/p/ZUFEdkFzdUZV) and Instagram as @katedensen:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPjFMBGhWal/
Girls on the verge–touched with fire–
Get in trouble
(in the company of men)
After dark.
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posted the picture and the spine poetry on Litsy: @ValerieAndBooks
‘Tis the story of a marriage
Wildly romantic great expectations:
A reliable wife.
Marry me, not now but now!
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Like many others, my first attempt at spine poetry can be found here:
Litsy – @librariana
http://litsy.com/p/SERmUGZTNXNa
Everything I never told you
everything, everything
every last word, spilling open.
Hold still.
I’ll give you the sun.
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My name is Lucy Barton.
The girl from everywhere, girl at war.
All my puny sorrows, at the edge of the orchard.
Lola’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/VVl1N2NaOVNB
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Jessmarie’s post on Litsy
http://litsy.com/p/U3hnbE5rMDhT
I am Malala
The giver, the lucky one
Legend
Behold the dreamers in order to live ❤
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