📚 tagged
🖋 Eowyn Ivey
🎞 Indiana Jones
🎤 INXS, Chris Isaak
🎶 Iridescent (Linkin Park), Iris (Goo Goo Dolls), I Want to Break Free (Queen), I am a Stone (Demon Hunter) I Don‘t Love You (MCR who I get to see tonight🙌🏼) It‘s Beginning to Get to Me (Snow Patrol)

BookReport: while some of the tagged book was a bit over the top, some of it was quite profound and I was fully invested in the characters and their journeys. Proceed with caution if you or some you love has had a cancer journey. Glad to be back to Maisie Dobbs.

@MaleficentBookDragon I‘m running late with Under Lock. Will have it out to you by week‘s end. Sorry!

Even though September was a weird reading month I still managed to finish 14 books and had 1 DNF. 6 audio books, 6 kindle books and 2 physical books. Best of the bunch were Nightcrawling, Maps of our Spectacular Bodies and The Wicked Fate. Only stinker was A Secret Sisterhood and the DNF.

On to October….

I‘m so glad to be rereading Northanger Abbey with the #PemberLittens. I love my fancy Folio Society edition and think Val McDermid hits the nail on the head in this first paragraph of her introduction.

Best of September:

Nightcrawling: I was blown away by this book. To be so young and write a book that has hope in despair and moments of joy in hard living. It was hard and gritty and lyrical. One to watch for sure.

I‘m Glad my Mom Died: I had never heard of McCurdy before this book and can‘t imagine growing up as she did.

Here‘s my #BookSpinBingo list for October. Lots of buddy read and challenge prompts.

Looking forward to the 2nd @TheAromaofBooks

1) I do although I don‘t read much from that period
2) I loved the tagged book about Jesus and have loved mythology retellings by Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes and Pat Barker.

Want to play? @AmandaBlaze @Ddzmini @AmyK1

#Two4Tuesday

#Roll100 October

Hoping to read at least two of the three. The tagged book and The Ex Hex.

📚 Tagged, Home (Marilynne Robinson), Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi), The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
🖋 Hosseini, Khalid, Herbert, Frank
🎞 Harry Potter and Hocus Pocus
🎤 George Harrison
🎶 Happy Birthday (Concrete Blonde) Hey Ya (Outkast) Hate Me (Blue October) Heart‘s Content (Brandi Carlile)

#manicmonday #LetterH @CBee

📚 Tagged and Murder on Sisters Row
🫖 Iced tea with lunch
🎶 Two concerts: MCR and Elton John, a weekend at my dad‘s to celebrate his 84th birthday and a weekend cat sitting for my daughter. All in October. November I‘ll be recovering from all the traveling.😂

#BookReport. Only finish of the week is the tagged book. Fast read for a chunkster. 3.75 🌟 Didn‘t have much free time and settling on something still seems to be an issue.

#WeeklyForecast: I will likely finish Maps of our Spectacular Bodies on audio and another in Victoria Thompson‘s Gaslight series. Beyond that I haven‘t a clue.

Today is my #Litsyversary and earlier this month I caught the rollover to 50K. Thanks to all Littens everywhere.

@lele1432 Kaleah, thank you so much for this wonderful box of goodies….sorry the coffee didn‘t make the picture. I went to make a cup before taking it. The candle smells lovely, the scarf is beautiful, the bookmarks are so me, and I‘m so excited for these books! Think I‘ll have a little chocolate with my coffee. Such a lovely way to start my day!

#FFFS #FallingforFallSwap. Thank you for kicking off swap season and hosting @Avanders 🍁🍂

I‘m out of town all week but my husband kindly took these to the post office yesterday for me.

LMPBC GroupB The Vanishing Half is on its way to @Saknicole due to arrive in approximately 10 days @Catsandbooks @HufflepuffGirl90

#HauntedHollowSwap is on its way to @Insightsintobooks due to arrive Friday. @wanderinglynn

📚 tagged and The Great Believers
🖋 Yaa Gyasi
🎞 Grease 📺 Glee
🎤 Green Day
🎼 Good Times Roll (The Cars) Good Riddance (Green Day) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John) Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel‘s

#ManicMonday #LetterG

I think I‘m over my little reading blip. Nightcrawling was hard but not bleak. The writing was excellent as was the audio. 4.5🌟 I enjoyed The Vanishing Half for #LMPBC 4 🌟 The JA mystery was better than the first and I was glad to be reunited with Quan & Justyce. Secret Sisterhood was meh. I think this is my plan for the upcoming week but who knows if that‘s what will stick.

Please check your email and let us know you received your match.

@Bookgoil @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

For most of #SuperSeptember I will be visiting family so won‘t have a lot of dedicated reading time. I am only packing 2 physical books but taking a fully loaded kindle and audio library just in case. All but The Night Always Comes are for buddy reads, etc.

Love this laid back readathon hosted by @Andrew65 What will you be reading?

I‘ve read some amazing books this year.

Nonfiction: tagged, All the Young Men, Ten Steps to Nanette

Fiction: The Mercies, The Dance Tree, The Seed Keeper, Fresh Water for Flowers. Also, Unlikely Animals and Mary Jane, both on audio which I suspect added to their charm and made them top reads.

#Littenswanttoknow

Would you like to share your top reads so far @Cinfhen @Andrew65 @TheLudicReader ?

📚 Tagged
🖋 Jasper Fforde
🎞 Fiddler on the Roof, Four Weddings & a Funeral
📺 Friends
🎤 Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner
🎼 Fear - Blue October, Father and Son - Cat Stevens, Funhouse - Pink, Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

#MANICMONDAY #LETTERF

After finishing Haven last Sunday I could not settle on a book so I turned to old friends with the Winspear. I took a half day Friday and caught up on buddy reads and picked The Vanishing Half back up. Thankful it seems to have been a few days of meh rather than the beginning of a true slump.

Hey #LitsyLove! Signups for our fall swap close on Monday. Come join the fun!

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Bookgoil

My #FallingforFallswap has arrived. Now to wait…

Thank you @lele1432 💜

Gratitude post: I love summer but it with it comes fire season. The top picture was taken approximately 2 years ago at 8 15 am. We woke up and thought we had landed in hell. It was the eeriest experience. We have been warned all week that the conditions yesterday and today could be the same, but this morning there is only some haze with little smoke smell. Praying for my fellow Oregonians who are experiencing more immediate danger.

Tagged book is on my TBR shelf. Tolstoy knew where happiness can be found. This perfectly lists some of the things I am most grateful for.

#Gratitude

I am having a hard time concentrating on books this week…started Horse on audio but set it aside, started The Vanishing Half but haven‘t picked it up in 3 days.

I did start Finding the Mother Tree for #NaturaLitsy this AM and I think it will stick. Also started the tagged on audio which is the next up in a favorite series. I find revisiting familiar characters and place a good place to go when I can‘t settle into a book.

My Halloween aesthetic leans to the cute and cozy with a little Disney.

#HHS22 #HauntedHollowSwap

1. Black cat
2. No favorite but I like witchy stories
3. I‘m a big scaredy-cat
4. Monster Mash
5. Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice, Halloweentown

#HauntedHollowSwap #HHFS22

📚 Tagged, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, East of Eden
🖋 Erdrich, Louise
🎞 Enchanted April
🎤 Elton John
🎼 Empty Garden - Elton, End of the Line - Concrete Blonde, Everybody Hurts - REM

#manicmonday #letterE @CBee

#HHS22 #ThisorThat

All my books this week were good. I liked the found family aspect of Basket Case but won‘t continue with the series. Bayron‘s poisoned heart duology is a big pick. I wish Jeanette McCurdy a lifetime of well being and happiness. She deserves it after the childhood she endured. Loved The Girl of Ink and Stars.

I‘m not sure I will continue with Bittersweet but may pick it up again. Same with The Promise. Right book, wrong time.

I don‘t reread often but the tagged book holds a special place in my heart so I reread it once every year or two.

#Littenswanttoknow

The 2nd day of the month is my favorite! #BookSpinDay

Thank you, Sarah!

Last month I got more bingos than ever, this month 16 books read and no bingos. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I did get both #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin read and one of my #Roll100, Hidden Valley Road, read.

Favorites of the month were The Dance Tree, The Colony, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, HVR and Rogues.

Two birds, one stone:

#Littenswanttoknow. #indeliblemoments #childbirth Midwives has been on my paperback tbr for years

With 4 months to go….Favorite fiction so far is tagged and non-fic is Ten Steps to Nanette.

#2022 reading bracket

Hey #LitstyLove members,

Do you need another fall swap? Of course, you do! This swap is open to #LitsyLove members only. Here‘s the sign up link:

https://forms.gle/vnfnNQ65PaiufR3j7

From Peter Pan. I actually have a similar version of this as a tattoo. It was a reminder to have faith in those who love me, trust in knowing what is best for myself and to never forget to find the magic.

#Littenswanttoknow #FavoriteQuote

#BookspinBingo #September Looking forward to the drawing on the second.

Sarah, I did update the Google doc with my new name. Thank you for reminding me!

Lots of outgoing mail today:

#FFFS due to arrive 9/1 @Avanders

#LMPBC Group B due to arrive 9/12 @Saknicole I will try to get the next one read and on its way to you earlier this round.

#LMPBC Group M due to arrive 9/7 @MaleficentBookDragon

And some #LitsyLove letters.

I saw @Crinoline_Laphroaig post earlier today about this book and how beautiful the cover is. Imagine my disappointment when I checked out Amazon to get my own copy. Thank goodness for Book Depository! 😊

📚 Tagged
🖋 Emily Dickinson
📺🎞 Downton Abbey
🎤 Death Cab for Cutie
🎼 Disenchanted - MCR

#ManicMonday. #LetterD

I have used kdgordon88 from my very first email address which was joint with my husband. I finally decided it was time to do something different. I apologize to all the hosts of buddy reads, challenges etc that I participate in and that you so kindly tag me on as I‘m sure it‘s a pain but I hope you don‘t mind too much. It feels good to be more me. Tagging those I can remember. Sorry if I miss you!

#LitsyLove

I have used kdgordon88 since our first computer and aol email account from the 90‘s. K is hubby, D is me, last name and the year we married. I have often thought about changing it but it seems like such a hassle. I think the time has come. Starting tomorrow I will be @ deblovestoread .

#littenswanttoknow

BookReport: Best of the week are the tagged book and the two non-fiction books. I enjoyed the Ivey on audio. Both it and Beasts have been on my TBR for years so it feels good to move them off the piles. HMD was ok, it really lagged in the middle.

WeeklyForecast: Of my 4 current books I‘m still not sure about The Promise. I felt seen on the first page of Bittersweet so it might be a winner. Today is all about Basket Case.

Join @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for #Littenswanttoknow See her original post for today‘s questions.

Reading gives me a worldwide view, introducing me to people and places I might not otherwise experience. It helps me understand my personal world and it provides the best escape when I need one.

I come from a family of readers so it has always been a part of my life. I read every day, sometimes a few pages and sometimes a whole book.

This book was a so-so read for me. Unfortunately, it‘s been awhile since I read it so I can‘t tell you why.
Challenge complete.

Thanks Misty for hosting #AlphabetGame! It‘s been fun.

Getting ready for September with the 3 rolls for books hanging out on my kindle. Hope to get at least the tagged book read.

How can it be the end of August already? These are my current in progress books that I intend to finish by the 31st. Also hope to read The Promise by Damon Galgut. Thanks for hosting a readathon to help keep me motivated @Andrew65 I‘m shooting for 20 hours over the 6 days.

Kindle deal for a 2023 #SundayBuddyRead selection with @TheBookHippie

This is my favorite of his books based on his life growing up in Dublin. This tells the story of his mom pre-marriage and kids.

#AlphabetGame