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#DoYou10Q? Rosh Hashona through Yom Kippur, September 22 – October 2, 2025 (#Jewish New Year High Holidays), Read, Respond, Review, Forecast

#DoYou10Q? Rosh Hashona through Yom Kippur, September 22 – October 2, 2025
(#Jewish New Year High Holidays), Read, Respond, Review, Forecast 

You don’t have to be Jewish or celebrate #Jewish High Holy Days (Rosh Hashona, Jewish New Year’s, and Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement”) to want to spend some time considering your life and your goals/ accomplishments each year. I was raised Jewish, but I am a practicing #Buddhist.

Again this year, the group running this event (http://www.rebooters.net/) has offered new AND the usual questions.

Do You 10Q any dates

It’s free! http://doyou10Q.com and #DoYou10Q are the connection points.

Check out any local Partners with 10Q: http://doyou10q.com/partners: Reach out to Josh Kanter, Reboot’s outreach and partnership manager, at josh @ rebooters DOT net or (go to the site for his phone number (in the USA)].<

You can respond to all 10 Questions from September 22 – October 2, 2025, online, and have them put into the “vault” for yourself for next year’s reflections.

10Q: “Reflect. React. Renew. Life’s Biggest Questions. Answered By You.”

The title and all the info, below, come from the 10Q site. Visit! Sign up! Do it!
http://doyou10q.com/

“Answer one question per day [or more than one per day, if you have some to catch up on] in your own secret online 10Q space. Make your answers serious. Silly. Salacious. However you like. It’s your 10Q. When you’re finished, hit the magic button and your answers get sent to the secure online 10Q vault for safekeeping.

“One year later (September 21, this year), the ‘vault’ will open and your answers will land back in your email inbox for private reflection.

“Want to keep them secret? Perfect. Want to share them, either anonymously or with attribution, with the wider 10Q community? You can do that, too.

“Next year, the whole process begins again. And the year after that, and the year after that.

“Do you 10Q? You should. If you have, already, enter the “giveaway” by sharing one or more experiences and using the hashtag, as directed:


Click here to get your 10Q on.

10Q begins September 22, and goes for 10+ days
http://doyou10q.com/

How do you want to 10Q? It’s up to you!

My responses from last year included:

2.

Is there something that you wish you had done differently this past year? Alternatively, is there something you’re especially proud of from this past year?

Your Answer:

I am very proud of becoming an on-site grandmother in Seattle/Burien for my now 18-month-old granddaughter and a support for my son and his wife. I gave them the gift of a date night (FIRST ONE since the birth) this past weekend, for her 41st birthday, and now they want to do that monthly or even more often. I already come weekly, every Friday, to babysit while my DIL attends professional meetings and catches up with her work-life. So glad and grateful to be here. My granddaughter knows me, loves me, is excited to be with me, and doesn’t even miss her parents much while I’m there. Fantastic!

7.

How would you like to improve yourself and your life next year? Is there a piece of advice or counsel you received in the past year that could guide you?

Your Answer:

Want to obsess less, perseverate less, be less attached to the wrong person/circumstances.
Also, keep losing weight and getting healthier, recovering from trauma, swimming.

L’Shana Tova!

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The Booker Prize Long List for 2025

The Booker Prize Long List for 2025

Mazel Tov and Congratulations and etc. to all those chosen. Best of luck to them all!
“This year’s selection, which was chosen from 153 submissions, celebrates the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.

“For the first time, the shortlist of six books will be announced at a public event, to be held at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London on Tuesday, 23 September 2025. The six shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book.

“The announcement of the winning book  will take place on Monday, 10 November 2025 at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London. The announcement will be livestreamed on the Booker Prizes’ channels. The winner receives £50,000.”

Longlist
with links to each book blurb and author bio

Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

Flesh by David Szalay

Endling by Maria Reva

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

Audition by Katie Kitamura

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Flashlight by Susan Choi

One Boat by Jonathan Buckley

Universality by Natasha Brown

The South by Tash Aw

Love Forms by Claire Adam

For all the information about the judges, the entire process, past winners, the book covers and more, go to: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2025