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Have you read something that you really enjoyed and want to give others a reason to try it out because it fits a square? Want to solicit help finding things to read that fit squares? This is a great place to do that.

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1 LGBTQIA+ Lead Supplementary, My Dear Watson A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words Award Winner Against the Odds
2 Revisiting an Old Friend Author from a Different Continent Weapon on the Cover Great Big Title Independent Author
3 Punctuated! We’re Putting the Band (Back) Together [FREE SPACE - Off Your TBR Pile] What’s in a Name? Late to the Party
4 Minority Author Rooted & Rising Free Read The Ink Is Still Fresh Putting the Pieces Together
5 Get Off My Lawn The Late, Great… Sufficiently Advanced Kintsugi Double Up, Double Down

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[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For the Punctuated! prompt... does '&' count as a punctuation mark? From what I can work out, perhaps not?

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I may have forgotten to check this thread for months... oops. Wasn't expecting a square clarification question in here.

I agree with Jaymes on both points. However, I believe I ended up deciding any typographical symbol counted when I was picking out books for Storygraph recommendations. (I probably should have changed the square description for clarity, mb.) Technically, they're not all punctuation, but Wikipedia seems to take the broader stance (which is where I figure most people would look up what counts), so why not?

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for getting back to me - in the end I used that square for 'Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death'. I think the punctuation there is unambiguous!

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds good to me!

[–] JaymesRS@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delay in responding, I’ve had a busy time with work recently.

  1. there are no bingo police, if you think you can make a well reasoned argument why an interpretation is correct, go for it.

  2. I would say the ampersand is a ligature not punctuation, but see 1.

[–] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks! Yeah I reckon you're right - and I wouldn't mind the challenge of finding something that fits :)