Welcome to Litsy!

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView and @Eggs

#wonderouswednesday

1. Lilacs bring back the memory of growing up on the farm
2. I remember hanging out with my dad and grandpa all summer long

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView and @peaKnit

#wonderouswednesday

1. My dad and my grandpa… I spent so much of my time with them when I was little and they both showed me what it was like to work hard for what you wanted
2. My mom… as I have gotten older, she has become one of my best friends!

@Mommamanzi @Pageturner1 @KateReadsYA

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

Hay ride
Pick apples
Nature walk
Bonfire
Curl up with a book
Caramel apples
Chili and cornbread
Pumpkin spice

@Mommamanzi @Pageturner1 @KateReadsYA

🍁Weird, weird, and weird - I try to be myself and not worry about how I'm perceived

🍃Knowledgeable, friendly, helpful (and whom are we kidding: weird; it's not bad being weird 😜)

🍂 A mix of Max, Ms North and Ms Sykes from The Chronicles of St Mary's series, but also a bit Peter Grant from The Rivers of London series

#WondrousWednesday

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView @Eggs

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

#wonderouswednesday

Not be able to taste
Know when I die
See into the future
Passion
Summer
Fly

@peaKnit @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Winter
City
Broccoli
Beach
Soda
Pancakes
Evening
Sandwich
Dessert
Non-Fiction
Gum

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #wonderouswednesday

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

Summer
Country
Broccoli
Mountains
Juice
Pancakes
Morning
Entree
Dessert
Fiction
Mints

@Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. It‘s my name… I know, so original… lol
2. Drive… I only listen to audiobooks in my car
3. Spare by: Prince Harry

@Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Spoiled
2. Character
3. Romance
4. Historical fiction
5. First book

@Mommamanzi @Pageturner1 @KateReadsYA

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I don‘t think so…
2. I would like to be seen as kind, caring and a good friend
3. @JenReadsAlot funny and always there if you need her

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1.🐉⚠️🌶️
2. Wildfire by: Hannah Grace
3. Kristin Hannah, Ellie Alexander, Rebecca Yarros

@Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA @Pageturner1

Thanks for the tag @DieAReader - this is a tough one. 1) Paperback. 2) Yes. 3) Science Fiction. 4) Yes. 5) I love the taste and smell of coffee but it doesn‘t treat my gut well at all anymore. But I also love tea so I‘m still getting my daily caffeine hit. 6) Physical. 7) Audio. @TheBookHippie @StayCurious Wanna play?

1. Got to be assertive and advocate for what's right! No matter how many people get mad at you!
2. Psychotherapist mainly working with substance use clients
3. Work in a bookstore
Thanks @Kshakal @Eggs #wondrousWednesday

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. That the kids that need the most love will ask for it in the most unkind ways
2. High school sped teacher
3. Stay at home cat mom 😺

@BethM @peaKnit @JenReadsAlot

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Brut… it is the cologne my dad always wore
2. Lilacs…. It reminds me of springtime at my grandparents house
3. The smell of rain… it is a reminder to me that everything can be washed away

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I sent valentines cards to my 3 nieces
2. I believe in soulmates but I don‘t think that they have to be romantic soulmates… some souls are meant to find each other and that may just be in a friendship capacity!
3. Good food and lots of time to read!

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi

Thanks for the tag @peaKnit and @Eggs

1. I love world war 2 historical fiction
2. Santa and company by fern Micheal‘s
3. I am not sure if it is the longest I have read but the 7th Harry Potter book has to be up there at 784 pages

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

#wondrouswednesday - Thanks for the tag, @Kristy_K 🙌🏼💜

1. Yes! I set a goal of 40 and am happy to have passed that with 64…and still a few days left in 2023. 😉
2. Lessons in Chemistry & Tranny - but my other reads we‘re strong at 4 ⭐️ (The Man Who Died Twice & All That is Wicked). December was good.
3. I want to finish the Thursday Murder Club & then dive back into A Series of Unfortunate Events & Three Pines.

1. Holiday Wassail, I brought it to the office with cookies for years and it became my signature 🥳
2. Definitely “Rockin‘ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee, it just sticks 🎄
3. Enjoy my Christmas Tree lights in the dark often, snuggled under a blanket with knitting or a book.
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe

Thanks for the tag @JenReadsAlot @Eggs

#wonderouswednesday

1. Christmas lights
2. My dad, he loved Christmas and I would give anything to spend one more with him
3. I usually put up all of my holiday decorations around my house first and then the tree a couple weeks later!

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

1. Some decorations but no tree
2. All the lights!
3. Oh holy night
Thanks @Kshakal @eggs #wondrouswednesday

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Become a teacher, lose 150 pounds, I am a good friend, I have completed over 50 races in adulthood, going after what I want even if it makes me uncomfortable

2. Finish my reading goal of reading 125 books and get my craft room organized (it is a disaster right now!)

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #wonderouswednesday

1. Number the stars by Lois Lowery and the babysitters club
2. I loved our Christmas tradition of going and cutting down our Christmas tree every year… thinking about it brings a smile to my face!
3. When I got tickets to see mean girls in November!!

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I feel like I have a lot of balls in the air right now and am not sure any of them are the best
2. I would love to meet my great grandpa (technically I have met him but I was a baby) and I would love to ask him about his time as a bootlegger
3. I love to be able to bring out the best in my students!

@Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA @Pageturner1

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I grew up on a dairy farm so I was in the barn since the time I could walk… my first official job was at a hotel in college
2. I guess my side hustle would be working at the winery
3. I try really hard but I always take school home with me… even in the summer I am constantly thinking about my students

@Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA @Pageturner1

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

🍏I love to go the orchard during the fall
🍎tired
🍏Montana sky by Nora roberts and kissing kosher by Jean meltzer

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

🐦 I love going to movies
🐤 I have always loved shopping!
🐧 I enjoy both and feel like it is necessary to have a good balance of the two!

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

1. Legally Blonde
2. A Tourist's Guide to Love
3. Peace ☮️

@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

1. Elf
2. Book Club the next chapter- prepping for my trip to Italy
3. I wish for kindness and acceptance
Thanks @peaknit @Eggs #wondrouswednesday

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #wonderouswednesday

1. Albus Perceval Wolfrick Brian Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
2. I could pee on this and other poems by cats

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi

Thanks for the tag @peaknit #wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Once Upon On A December by: Amy E. Riechert
2. I am a fast reader so probably a couple of weeks
3. The fact that I lost 150 pounds

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi

#wonderouseednesday @Eggs

1. Doing a little Christmas in July reading
2. Mad Honey by Jodi Piccoult
3. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (not that it was bad, it just wasn‘t my favorite)

@BethM @peaknit @JenReadsAlot @KateReadsYA

🏛 After all the Greek Mythology I've read, I can't think of any place I'd rather go than Greece.
📚 No I wouldn't, but I would recommend the 2 books before that, they were both 5 🌟 reads.
🕷 I started Spider-Man: The Venom Factor last night.
@Eggs #wonderouswednesday

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView #wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I honestly don‘t know… I believe that books come into our lives when they are meant to
2. Anything by Kristen Hannah
3. Ellie Alexander (she seems so fun)!

@JenReadsAlot @peaknit @BethM @KateReadsYA

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. I would have to say that it is probably the grapes of wrath
2. If it is a solid series that I enjoy, I would be down for as many as it takes to tell the story
3. There have been several cozy series that I found to short!

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi @Pageturner1

1. Minnesota
2. Often in the woods or somewhere rural. A little hardscrabble struggle is always a win.
3. Any place where Sarah Addison Allen tells a story or Hogwarts is fun!
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs thanks for the tag @Kshakal you may have inspired a margarita! 🍹

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Liverpool
2. I love any place that an author can make come alive on the page
3. Hogwarts

@BethM @peaknit @JenReadsAlot @KateReadsYA

1. Walking or meditation
2. Chocolate 🍫
3. Historical fiction
Thanks @Kshakal @Eggs #wondrouswednesday

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Working out
2. Desserts
3. Historical fiction

@JenReadsAlot @BethM @peaknit @KateReadsYA

Thanks for the tag @Eggs #wonderouswednesday

1. Getting to spend time with my niece over the weekend!
2. Watching several of my students struggle with their mental health
3. Kind, funny, book nerd

@Pageturner1 @KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi

Thanks for the tag @JenReadsAlot

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Yay… If they add to the story, if not, nay
2. Maps, pictures
3. Comfortable chair/couch, cozy blanket, roaring fire

@KateReadsYA @Pageturner1 @Mommamanzi

1. Yes on prologues and epilogues
2. If it a long book or a complicated plot, a list of characters
3. Spring and Fall outside on the deck; Summer and Winter the couch

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

1. Epilogue
2. Pictures
3. Comfy chair with a beverage
Thanks @TheSpineView @peaknit @Kshakal @BethM @RaeLovesToRead

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Fall, I don‘t really snack when I read, pink, small town, coffee, a tie between uno and sequence

2. Someone else‘s shoe by Jojo Moyes

@Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA

Fall! Popcorn or gummy bears. Purples. Irises. Historical London or spooky houses. Peach mango Body Armor. Mass Effect trilogy or Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West for video and Trivial Pursuit for board.
2. Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne then I‘ll start Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen!
#WondrousWednesday

#wondrouswednesday @eggs

1. The 3Es: Education, empathy, and entertainment.

2. Girly Drinks has been on my list for a while now. I might finally read it, but I've been very wishy-washy in my rading lately.

3. I was blown away by Becky Chambers' novella To Be Taught, If Fortunate. I need to prioritize reading The Long Way

Thanks for the tag @Eggs and @JenReadsAlot #wonderouswednesday

1. Relaxation
2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3. Tessa Bailey

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi

1. I read book after book so I don‘t think I have ever had a book hangover…
2. How readable it was? How much I liked the characters? Would I read it again or read more of it??
3. No but I will have the tv on in the background sometimes

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

@KateReadsYA @Mommamanzi

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1. Colleen Hoover
2. The love hypothesis
3. Science lab gets steamy

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

Thanks for the tag @peaknit

1. Probably Ellie Alexander, I will read anything she writes!
2. My library room in my house
3. Sometimes, depending on my schedule!

@Mommamanzi @KateReadsYA