Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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GarbAugust Gives Back! It's time for one of the best reading months of the year!!! Get ready for GarbAugust 4: The Final Chapter! Join in a fundraising effort for a great organization while getting a cool and very trashy and stylish t-shirt!

Pen AMERICA (from their website: "PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world."

pen.org

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White Font: bonfire.com/garbaugust-2

Weekly prompts:
Week 1 - 1st to 10th: Anything Goes
Week 2 - 11th to 17th: Shock Value
Week 3 - 18th to 24th: Cosy Trash
Week 4 - 25th to 31st: Apocalyptic Trash

Group Reads:
RIVALS by Jilly Cooper
ZOO by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

Created by: CriminOlly a/k/a Screamin' Creamin' Olly / @CriminOllyBlog
**watch Olly's announcement video here: youtu.be/ZeQL7VOO8ms?si=6d7vKT8wtbQcQxUW

Co-hosts:
Alex Unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge / @alex_unabridged
Ann Novella - Ann Poubella / @AnnNovella
Another Bibliophile Reads - Another B@@biephile Reads Playb0y for the Articles / @anotherbibliophilereads
Another BookTube Channel - Another Buttp!ug Canal / ⁨ @anotherbooktubechannel
Bad is Rad - Bad is Rad in Bed / ⁨ @badrad9226
Book Blather - B@@b Lather / ⁨ @BookBlather
Books Songs and Other Magic - B@@bs and Other Magic / ⁨ @bookssongsandothermagic
Cafe Cryptic - Bookbound Dild0 / ⁨ @cafecryptic
Fiberartsy - Fibertarty / ⁨ @fiberartsyreads
Katrina Brown - Kab0ner Grown / ⁨ @katrinabrown
Genre Books - Genres Gone Wild / ⁨ @GenreBooks23
Kelly Hooked on Books - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut/ ⁨ @kellyhookedonbooks4394
Michael K. Vaughan - Michael K P@/rn ⁨ @michaelk.vaughan8617
Michelle's Melancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia / ⁨ @michellesmelancholia
Obscure Book Adventures - Obscene B00bAdventures / ⁨ @ObscureBookAdventures
Randy Ray The Literate Texan - The Degenerate Texan / ⁨ @LiterateTexan
Raynor Reads Stuff- Raynor Wants it Rough / ⁨ @RaynorReadsStuff
Reading This Life - Sleazing This Life / ⁨ @M-J
Regina's Haunted Library - Rottena St Claire / ⁨ @ReginasHauntedLibrary
Roys Reads Anything - Roys Reads Anything (wink) / ⁨ @royreadsanything
Shelly Swearingen - Shall We Swing Again / ⁨ @Shellyish
Slime and Slashers - Slimey Splashers / ⁨ @MyNostalgicLife
The Bookish Knitter - The B0ndageKnitter / ⁨ @readingcategoryromance
The Bookubus- The B@@b Anu5s / ⁨ @TheBookubus

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