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📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien 📖 Wide Sargasso Sea #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Dominica
🎧 Unstoppable Us

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa
📖 To Have and Have Not
🎧 The Feast of the Goat #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #FoodAndLit #DominicanRepublic
🎧 Middlemarch #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

Various plans for listening did not come to fruition, so I‘ll work on that in the upcoming week. Meanwhile, I finished a couple books and downloaded a couple more for February.

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I finished two really good books early this week, but have been floundering since, trying to find something that grabs me. Recipe is good, but I know the story from watching the TV series multiple times, so I keep mentally comparing the two. It‘s distracting. Same with The Distant Echo audiobook. I picked up Come As You Are on impulse. It‘s fine, so far, but not demanding to be finished. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #bookreport

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—read 21 books this week (2 out of 9 forecasted; 2 print, 3 ebooks, the rest on audio; no 5⭐️, but still mostly fun reads)
—📱 Scarlet Angel because this series is ridiculous, but addictive 😂
—🎧 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
—📖 in between print books at the moment

#loveathon #loveathon2023 #fabulousfebruary

Here‘s my book report from the last two weeks- three I finished before my trip even began. Not much downtime but I did manage to listen to two audios and I read two books. Nothing outstanding but I think I was experiencing sensory overload & my concentration was pretty lax. I have TONS of photos to share but I‘m trying to do so sparingly.

First weekend off in a LONG time, so first #bookreport also in a long time!

It looks like I‘ve read loads, but a lot of them are really short.

Sigh, Gone is one of my faves of the year so far, and I was surprised to enjoy Babel.

The bottom 3 are ongoing; will probably finish Elena today. One True Loves is on audio for #aam, and just started Really Good, Actually, which seems sharply funny so far.

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Enjoyed the Hendrix and the latest visit with Allon.
Scouse Brows is a collection of Liverpool based poetry that will probably be a mystery to anyone not very familiar with Liverpool.
Currently reading Elena.

Not a bad start to this new year! Might be my best reading month in quite a while.

Favorites of the month: Lessons in Chemistry and Tender is the Flesh

Only 2 finished this week. Both were ok reads. I‘m bouncing around my 4 current kindle books. I‘m still pretty early in The Rabbit Hutch but it‘s promising. I should make good progress today in Peach Blossom Spring.

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—read 20 books this week (4 out of 9 forecasted; 1 print, the rest on audio; 5⭐️ for The Circus Train)
—📱 Christmas Baggage still
—🎧 The Hellion & Meant to Be #kindleunlimited
—📖 Orange, Vol. 1

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🎧 Bambi #ChildrensClassicRead2023
🎧 The Passion of New Eve

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 #Clarissa
📖 Wide Sargasso Sea #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Dominica
🎧 Middlemarch #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 I decided to wait on Parade‘s End and will listen to my February #FoodAndLit choice, The Feast of the Goat, first.

I thought I read more this week. NBD, but I have no idea where my week went. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Spare was okay, Breath was great, and Triptych took me longer than it should, but was still good. Bridge of Spies is narrated by Jonathan Keeble, so I started it for Libro‘s audiobook challenge. Looking forward to another week of better balancing reading with non-reading things that bring me joy. #bookreport

I took a long trip on the Metro to see my friend, but instead of catching up on my reading I listened to podcasts and looked out the window. Nonetheless I did get some reading done the rest of the week.

Finished The Lost Boys (see post yesterday)

I‘m up to the pandemic section of The Sentence, and there‘s also a little bit of reading symmetry as the MC is trying to find copies of Braiding Sweetgrass for the store‘s curbside pickup.

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Been the usual chaotic work week. Feel like I‘ve squashed reading in around the margins!
Finished The Violin Conspiracy and the Patchett and enjoyed both.
Currently reading The Diamond Eye and whilst I would never revel in a war situation, I can always read about a bad ass, warrior woman!

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🎧 Nine Pints
🎧 Soldier Boy
🎧 Sisterhood of Sleuths
📖 H(A)PPY

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 #Clarissa
🎧 Bambi
🎧 Middlemarch

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Start Wide Sargasso Sea
📚 Start another audio, considering Parade‘s End but not sure about starting another long book

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—read 16 books this week (3 out of 9 forecasted; 9 #BOTM for #BacklistReadathon; all on audio; 5⭐️ for Spells for Forgetting, Just Like Magic, A Flicker in the Dark & On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor)
—📱 Christmas Baggage still
—🎧 The Circus Train #bookspinbingo
—📖 Monster, Vol. 7

#joyousjanuary

It was another mixed bag of a week, during which I accomplished some reading.

Finished Monkey God. I have THOUGHTS but overall I enjoyed the book.

I‘m enjoying Nine Liars but am annoyed that Stevie is so thoroughly leading her friends astray.

Trying to savor this reading of Violin Conspiracy but need to finish Sweetgrass once and for all. Some road trips may be in order.

OTOH, The Sentence needs sit-down time for physical copy.

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Loved my reread of Ausma‘s book for book club, but Shit Cassandra Saw ended up being #moremehthanyeah. Dipping in and out of Bosnia, and I may end up bailing on Spare. My interest is waning. Started my reread of Vicarage for #goldenagecrimeclub. I‘m addicted to the Will Trent TV show, so I figured it was time to read the books. I‘m less the 50% into anything, so I probably won‘t finish anything today but we‘ll see. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #bookreport

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Enjoyed Essex Dogs and The Darkest Evening but absolutely loved When Women Were Dragons ❤️
Started another Myron this morning.

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—read 17 books this week (3 out of 9 forecasted; 3 ebooks, the rest on audio; no 5⭐️, but still had some fun reads)
—📱 Christmas Baggage because I can‘t stop reading Christmas books
—📖 Monster, Vol. 6
—🎧 Spells for Forgetting #botm #bookspinbingo

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📖 Amari & the Night Brothers
📖 Remedy
🎧 The Sentence #AuthorAMonth #LitsyBookClub
📖 Gabriel‘s Gift

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 #Clarissa
🎧 Nine Pints
🎧 Middlemarch

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

Today I went to a craft show on the other end of the county, and since I was already halfway there I continued on to the bookstore. I saw a fellow book club member, and we had a nice chat. We were both there to pick up next month‘s selection.

This week I finished two books and made progress in others.

For the #joyousjanuary readathon, I‘ll finally start The Sentence, since I‘ve been carrying it over for weeks now!

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Not a bad week…a couple of books finished for challenges and an ARC reviewed only a couple of days late. I should finish all but War Posters this week.

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2023 is starting off strong! All the books I've read so far are four and five stars.
I'm really enjoying my reread of the Little House series! Thank you to @megnews for hosting this #LittleHouse read-along.

I honestly tried with the Erdrich and the Marra but this is the year I #HailTheBail - wayyy too many books I want to read to force myself to read/ listen to something that isn‘t working for me. Touch was #MoreMehThanYeah but the others were all fantastic, especially my two memoirs! Enjoyed both on audio very much. Still loving the #SundayBuddyRead @TheBookHippie
Hope everyone is having a pleasant day😄💖

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Loved all I‘ve read this week 😁
Just started Essex Dogs this morning.
Said to my daughter did she have any plans today and she said to finish my book, that‘s my girl ❤️

My #BookReport for Jan 1-8
📔A Merry Little Meet Cute 3⭐️
🎧Before I Let Go 5⭐️
📔The Kaiju Preservation Society 4⭐️
🎧The Hacienda 4⭐️
📔Parallel 4⭐️
🎧Sign Here 4⭐️
🎧My Heart is a Chainsaw 5⭐️
📔Fullmetal Alchemist Vol 10
🎧A Hard Day for a Hangover 4.5⭐️
#WeeklyForecast
In Progress:
📖Intersect 50%
Up Next:
🎧A Caribbean Heiress in Paris, Ship of Magic
📚Kaikeyi, In the Lives of Puppets
My winter break is ending so slower reading coming.😫

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📖 Across the Pond

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation
📖 Remedy
🎧 Middlemarch
🎧 The Sentence #AuthorAMonth #LitsyBookClub

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Start Clarissa
📚 I‘ve got big plans for January, but so far I‘m off to a slow start.

Looking forward to another year of tracking my reading with these weekly updates!

Enjoying a nice, eclectic mix of reads this week and trying to balance reading commitments while still enjoying reading. I fully expect to slow my pace in the coming months. Secondhand Spirits was fun. Quarantine was emotionally draining, but good. Unquiet Dead is a reread for book club and Bosnia War Posters is nonfiction that coordinates with Khan‘s novel. Stardust is just because and narrated by Himself. #bookreport

Good week of in-office PT and two books finished. Very slowly but steadily I‘m getting back into the swing of things.

Turns out it‘s easier to see what books you‘ve read for the year on Goodreads if you set a goal, so I set a goal of twelve books. So there!

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The dreaded work came back, I did a 3 day week that contained 3 weeks work, not much reading was done.
DC was amazing
Call to Arms a good series read.
Hopefully finish Daisy today, ok thriller nothing outstanding so far.

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🎧 Alone
📖 Crashing in Love
📖 Letters from Father Christmas
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
🎧 Ground Zero
📖 Suite Francaise

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Start Middlemarch & The Sentence
📚 More YA & MG reads

Follow up doctor visit went well, and I feel like I can start easing myself into a routine again. Just in time for a new year!

But first, let‘s close out this week/month/year. It‘s possible I will finish another book today, but it won‘t be one of these. Or I might just write in my BuJo.

Meanwhile, I checked out Botanist‘s Guide from Libby for one of next month‘s book clubs, and I liked it well enough to go ahead and finish it.

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Finished The Murder Book- love this series.
Bournville was a good family saga/social history commentary.
The Weight of Blood was a good Carrie retelling.
Ginger and Me was a sad book, but a great debut and an author to look out for.
Just started Lean Fall Stand and will be rushing to finish today!
Happy New Year all ❤️

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📖 Blaming
📖 A Christmas Memory
🎧 Just Like That
🎧 Rescue
📖 The Shadow Prince

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation
📖 Letters From Father Christmas
📖 Suite Francaise

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & probably pick up another audio

Hubby is working today and won‘t be home until later, so I had planned to work on journals and get caught up with podcasts/audiobooks. Instead I alternately read and napped while watching NFL Red Zone!

While I only finished one book, it was a pretty good week. I‘m getting around a little bit more easily, and I haven‘t been bored. We had a great book club meeting for A Fatal Grace, and a friend stopped by bearing chocolates.

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Happy Christmas Eve! Technically I haven‘t finished anything but I Hate Fairyland this week, but I‘ll finish the Goldin before bed and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse will be my Jolabokaflod read later this evening, so I‘m claiming both. As expected, it wasn‘t a great week for reading, but Bailey‘s biopsy results were great - no cancer - and she‘s healing beautifully, and I‘d give up reading for that news any day! #bookreport

So surprised to still be discovering “new” books this late in 2022 🤗🤗🤗I actually enjoyed all 5 that I read as well as the audio I‘m currently listening too. This was a great reading week💙!
Sending Holiday wishes out to everyone ❤️💚❤️ Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah 🕎

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Already having to check what day it is!
Shadow of the Gods was great fantasy.
Loved the new Penny.
Have enjoyed the story collection in German Christmas- will finish this off with good timing today.
Enjoying being back with Tom Thorne in The Murder Book.
Whatever anyone is doing or celebrating this weekend, have a good one ♥️

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🎧 The Reader
📖/🎧 Christmas with Anne #KindredSpiritsChristmas
🎧 The Eyes of the Forest

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation
📖 Blaming

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & start whatever else catches my attention, probably some Christmas stories.

My big news this week: knee replacement surgery! I took a book with me, but it sat in my bag. Now I‘m home and healing and sometimes reading.

Fun fact: when I first read A Fatal Grace, I also finished it on December 17. Now I have to pivot quickly and jump to The Madness of Crowds for one of my book clubs.

I got a little further into The Last Chairlift, but it went back to Libby for the next eleven weeks.

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I finished 6 this week, which surprised me…I felt like I had no time to read but that 11 hour 14 minute daytime flight gave me plenty of uninterrupted time 😉LOVED Cyclorama the rest were all ok, nothing great. Manhunt was disturbing 😳 Book of Goose is another #ToB23 shortlisted novel - too soon to have an opinion

A better week this week, reading-wise, and I‘ve actually had a day off today, after 3 weeks of working 7 days. 🎉

The top row is the books I finished in the week, the two #ToB books will be reviewed shortly.

I‘m not hating The Passenger (yet!) but not really sure what‘s going on. Just started listening to Dinosaurs, which I think I‘m going to like. A German Christmas is making me feel very festive!

As expected, I read very little this week. Bailey had X-rays Monday to make sure her heart wasn‘t enlarged so she could handle anesthesia and then had surgery to remove a tumor on Thursday. I started library books, then switched the the Goldin ARC, but even that was too much for my brain. Sleeping on an air mattress in my living room with Bailey is not conducive to rest, so I doubt I will finish anything this weekend. #bookreport

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Peace was a good read.
50 words for snow was fantastic and I was reading as it was snowing!
Euphoria- bailed. Not reading anymore fictional novels based on Plath.
Brother was a small sad book about poverty and racism 💔
Just started Unlikely Animals.

#WinterReadathon #BookReport for Dec 4-11:
🎧The Well of Ascension 5⭐️
📔Vinland Saga 2 5⭐️
🎧The Heiress Hunt 3⭐️
🎧The Holiday Trap 3.5⭐️
📔The Plight Before Christmas 4⭐️
🎧Tread of Angels 3⭐️
🎧The Witch‘s Heart 4⭐️
#WeeklyForecast
In Progress:
📖Headcase 10%
🎧When You Wish Upon a Duke 24%
📖Witch Hunter Atelier 2 40%
The Reluctant Countess 30%
Up Next:
The Duke & The Lady in Red
Treasure

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🎧 Villette #PemberLittens
📖 The SnowQueen #ChildrensClassicRead2022
🎧 This Close to Okay

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖/🎧 Christmas with Anne #KindredSpiritsChristmas
📖 The Dogs - reread in hibernation
🎧 The Reader

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads & start whatever else catches my attention.

It wasn‘t the best week for football, futbol, or reading.

Not the best week but still managed to finish 4 books. I LOVED Ocean State & wish it would have made the #ToB23 short list. Blame was good, I really enjoyed Diamond Eye on audio & thought Human Blues had potential but was just too long.

#BookReport @Cinfhen

Finished:
All is Calm; All is Bright 3🌟
Jotham's Journey 5🌟
Pearl Harbor Christmas 3🌟
Once Upon a Wardrobe 4.5🌟
The Christmas Eve Promise 4🌟

Current read-alongs
#LittleHouse @megnews and #KindredSpiritsChristmas @BarbaraJean

#WeeklyForecast
Coming up: The White Christmas Inn