FEBRUARY PROMPT:

Now that we know why your character came to Bibliothecary Town, where are they setting up their house:

• Forest - your character sets up a cabin in the woods: read a book featuring a forest

• Beach - your character sets up a bungalow on the beach: read a book you consider a "beach read"

• Riverland - your character sets up a houseboat on the river: read a book or genre known for having twists and turns

• In Town - your character sets up a flat above the local general store: read a book set primarily in a city

You can access the character sheet to edit via Canva:

Here is your character sheet - click here to access a template that you can make changes to yourself for your character.

(Note: If you are reading this later: you can still catch up! You don't have to read a prompt each month, that's just how they are being released. You can catch up on prompts at any time, you just can't use the same book for multiple prompts!)

xoxo Sam

Originally posted on Patreon January 3, 2025:

Hi everyone!

For this year's reading challenge, we will be building our own cozy game character! Think Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, etc. though not necessarily a farm sim. Your reading choices over the next year will build a character from a cozy game. You'll choose their house, how they decorate, what they do in the town, their backstory, etc. And there will be seasonal events like in most cozy games which will be a readathon, readalong, reading sprints, etc - those events will be decided closer to when they come out but expect seasonal fun.

Here is your character sheet - click here to access a template that you can make changes to yourself for your character.

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In Canva, you can make edits to this such as the character image (I just added a random one as a placeholder) as well as changing up colors, etc. You can even make your own character sheet if you don't love this one and share it in the Discord for others to use - this is just a baseline for you to work from so you see the vision!

If you are familiar with cozy games, most of these prompts will be known to you as we are going off of classic cozy game archetypes. The prompt selections will also be based on those classic archetypes to keep things easy and nostalgic :)

You'll also notice that there are event prompts - these are optional but we will be having little mini-events seasonally in addition to the prompts here.

JANUARY PROMPT:

Your character has recently arrived in Bibliothercary Town to start a new life. We need to know your character's backstory before they came to town:

• Recent breakup - your character needs a fresh start after lost love: read the book you've most recently added to your TBR (physical or virtual)
• Fleeing capitalism - your character hates their current desk job and is looking for something new: read a book from a genre you aren't familiar with/don't read often
• Inheritance - someone in the family recently passed away and left your character a home in Bibliothecary Town: read a book recommended by someone you know
• Returning to hometown - your character grew up in Bibliothecary Town and is returning after time away: re-read an old favorite

I hope you enjoy this year's readalong! Please remember that if you create challenges for this to track your reading elsewhere that you make the challenges private as this is a challenge exclusive to The Bibliothecary.

(Note: If you are reading this later: you can still catch up! You don't have to read a prompt each month, that's just how they are being released. You can catch up on prompts at any time, you just can't use the same book for multiple prompts!)

xoxo Sam

Hi friends

If you've been following my witchcraft content for a while, you may have heard me mention Psychic Witch. It's a very popular witchcraft book that came out a few years ago, and while it is a book for beginners, it can be overwhelming because of the sheer amount of exercises that it includes. These exercises by themselves are fairly straightforward, but they all build on each other and there are a lot of them. As such, even after 3 attempts on my own, I have never finished reading this book. I never find the motivation by myself to do all the exercises and keep at it. Plus there's a lot of cool ideas and concepts to discuss in this book, so I thought it would be the perfect book to do a readalong for!

Now, as I mentioned, there is a lot of interactive content in this book. So this readalong will take place from February 2025 to roughly August 2025, depending on if we need to extend some weeks. I've laid out all of the timing for reading and discussing so that we should have plenty of time to engage with the material on our own and discuss it.

Each month, I will post the schedule for reading and which exercises to do. There will be a channel in the Discord (join if you haven't already) where we will discuss week to week, and then we will have occassional scheduled live chats as well as an end of book discussion.

This book is available on audio, which may be helpful to have a copy of in addition to a print format, as many of the exercises are meditation based so it's helpful to not have to read something while trying to focus on a meditation and instead have someone walk you through it. There's also the option to record yourself reading the exercises to play back later, if you don't have access to the audiobook.

So without further ado, here is the schedule for February:

We will start the week of Imbolc, as that is a holiday about following the light, setting intentions for the spring, and starting something new :)

FEB 1: FORWARD & INTRO

FEB 10: CHAPTER 1: THE POWER AND THE SIGHT

FEB 17: CHAPTER 2: MEDITATION AND RELAXATION

• FEB 17-24: Exercise 4-7
• FEB 24-MARCH 3: Exercises 8-11

Let me know if you have any questions about the readalong! I'm really excited about this project :)