A bit late, but I had to post this lovely pick for December - a quiet book about community connections and the greatness of libraries: all very needed right now. (Honorable mention to Lonesome Dove, which I think is objectively better, but I needed this book more.) #12booksof2025 Thanks so much for hosting, @TheEllieMo !
I'm behind on posting because I flew home from Copenhagen on Monday and thanks to a missed connection in New York, I ended up on some extra flights to get me back to Nashville. 24 hours of travel plus a sleepless night prior to that meant I've been running on fumes ever since. I wish I were back reading by this perfect tree!
I think I'm the last person to read this and I avoided it for a long time, until I had to pick it up for a professional obligation. The writing is incredible and it was easily one of the best books I read this year. But I still never want to read it again. #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
It seems to be World Storygraph Day? I use it for different purposes than Goodreads so I'm active on both, but I'd love to connect with more people on SG - please add me!
A surprise hit for October! I read this for a book club and while the story was great and groundbreaking, I was reminded how much I love the writing style of the 1950s. #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
I've been visiting family in Copenhagen for the holidays and today it snowed. 😍 It truly doesn't get cozier than reading in a Danish winter. (Not pictured: candles, Legos, crosswords, hot chocolate) #hygge
A reread of one of the greatest mysteries ever written was an easy pick for September! #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
Playing with new graphics for this year! Everyone's pretty posts are giving me Litsy envy.
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It's interesting to see how posting in this format makes the reading year shake out: this didn't make my personal top 10, but it was still my favorite read of August. Still, it's a pretty solid mystery from the creator of Broadchurch. #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
A reread, but a necessary entry on this list as I worked on my complete Austen reread (plus the extras outside the novels) for #JaneAusten250. I didn't quite finish within the year but I will finish early in 2026! #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
An easy pick for June! Truly one of the strangest books I've ever read, but I was all in for this medieval sapphic cannibalism horror where one of the main villains is a crack in the wall. #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
This wasn't my favorite TJR, but it's very compelling and saved May from being pretty lackluster reading month.
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I'm not a big sci-fi person but I am a big history person so this book really worked for me! Plus anything set around Oxford is a yes. #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
It's natural that there will be a lot of Austen in my top reads list this year! #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
I'm trying to get caught up on a bit of Litsy stuff as I'm on vacation at the end of the year, and this sounds so fun! #12booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
Another night at #silentbookclub! Thank goodness for white noise apps - people are not silent tonight!
A bit late but here's my #bookspin list! I'm clearly so behind on both my Jane Austen project and #agathachristieclubR3 🤣
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I didn't do nearly as well at #hauntedshelf as I'd hoped, but it was really fun, especially as a first-time participant! I'm already excited for next year. Thank you @PuddleJumper for organizing!
This month has been such a whirlwind (my week off was at the expense of staying on top of an incredibly stressful time at work, so I paid for that last week), and being at #silentbookclub tonight is the cozy feeling of relief I needed. Books are the best.
@MatchlessMarie this is just the most incredible box of Halloween joy! I love that you featured your local bookstores so much. I've been dying to read your recommended series, and I love the variety of mystery with horror! Also you're so sweet to listen to my podcast! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
@MaleficentBookDragon #AHRS #AllHallowsReadSwap
@MatchlessMarie it's here!!!!! I'm so excited for Thursday!
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My cabin week seemed to fly by, which makes me sad, but I have one more night to be cozy. Joseph has perched on a pile of blankets and hasn't moved in hours. #dogsoflitsy
It's too cold today to sit outside but luckily it's cute inside and my goofy dog likes to be cozy. #dogsoflitsy
Back in one of my favorite places in the world (a picturesque cabin in Glenford, Ohio) and nothing to do but read and watch my dog try to police the squirrels. #dogsoflitsy
I *think* I've tallied up my points correctly for #HauntedShelf - not as terrible as I'd thought, but there's room for a lot more reading this week while I'm on vacation!
@PuddleJumper #RestlessSpirits
A terrible picture and the only Halloweeny sticker available, but my #AllHallowsReadSwap package is finally on its way! One of my books was indefinitely delayed and I finally had to resort to Amazon. 😡
@MaleficentBookDragon #AHRS2025
I didn't get any good pictures but I still wanted to record the amazing #silentbookclub I went to today, complete with adoptable rescue dogs! Needless to say, not a lot of reading was accomplished. ;)
It's taken me a minute to get into spooky reading this year (no time last week) but I had a lovely evening at #silentbookclub with this tonight. #hauntedshelf @PuddleJumper #RestlessSpirits
I think this is my final list for #bookspin #doublespin and #HauntedShelf. Heavy on the horror/mystery/dark academia, but Jane needs to stay in there too if I have any hope of finishing my goal for the year. I'm still trying to figure out #HauntedShelf since it's my first time, but it sounds fun!
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A blueberry and yuzu parfait is a surprisingly great pairing with Agatha Christie!
Not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. #dogsoflitsy
The people who invented Silent Book Club are my favorite.
I should have had soooooooooo many of these finished by now but my reading has been terrible all summer. Here's to good intentions?
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#bookspin is here (late) again! Last month was pretty terrible with reading due to work (as always) but I did go to a fun book-related conference! And brought home too many books. :/
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Look at me, on top of getting my #bookspin list posted this month! 😏
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I'm sooooooooooo behind on Litsy everything but for a good reason: May was packed with travel, and the most important part of it was visiting Jane Austen's House in Chawton. 😍😍😍 A true Janeite dream come true, especially in this epic 250th birthday year.
A pretty fantastic #bookhaul for #independentbookstoreday! I needed to buy enough to get a free tote. 🤷♀️
Gosh, this last week was an absolute mess, with one full night of multiple tornados and then two more toward the end of the week. I slept 16 hours on Sunday because I guess my body needed it! Now that I'm caught up on sleep, I can get caught up on Litsy too. Still finishing some lingering titles this month!
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I'm trying to deal with tornado watch anxiety by finishing up the #agathachristieclubR3 #christiecapers pick, and a cruffin doesn't hurt either.
pickI swear, I must have restarted this book five times and very nearly gave up on it, but I'm so glad I didn't! That's no knock on the book at all, it's just very detailed and that doesn't usually work for me on audio while I'm commuting. Once I figured that out and planned my listening time, I was hooked. (The narration is fantastic!)
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so-soI had to read this for a professional commitment and while it was entertaining (and narrated very well!), it stays completely surface level and I forgot almost everything about it as soon as it was done. It's better as a piece of narration than as a great memoir, if that makes sense
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Gah I forgot to post my #bookspin list at the beginning of the month! A lot of stragglers from last month that weren't finished because of expiring holds, so I'll be excited to have a cleaner slate in April.
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Joseph doesn't care that I'm trying to read a large annotated edition. He needs my lap more than the book does, apparently. #dogsoflitsy
This is my first #bookspin list in four years that hasn't been created entirely based on book committee responsibilities and I kind of didn't know what to do! Just....pick what I want to read? (Thankfully, I've overcommitted to various book clubs and professional commitments so it's still mostly assignment reading. 🤣 )
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panMeh. Admittedly, this isn't my kind of historical fiction at all, but I had a hard time caring about any of the historical sections and the dialogue at times read like the characters were quoting from a history book. It was heavy-handed in many ways, and I enjoyed the author's note much more than the rest of the book. I suspect that Lisa Wingate isn't an author for me.
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pickI'm often disappointed by psychological suspense even though I love the idea of it so much, and I thought this one mostly held up! The characters were well thought-out and I questioned everything and everyone.
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Four opportunities for #bookspinbingo and I still didn't make it! 🤣
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There are worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon.
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