Today we watched a new Xmas film- 8 Bit Christmas. Set in the late 1980s it gave me the nostalgia hit I love at this time of year. I‘m too hungover to read much today (a rare night out last night!) so this is how I‘m getting my points today! #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers
Today‘s entry to #uglychristmassweater competition was gatecrashed by Fox. Every time I tried to take a photo of mine he jumped in with his 😂 not as ugly as yesterday but this was my first ❤️ #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers
I missed the exact 10,000 mark but Wow! I‘ve made it to 10,000 😍⭐️😁 (I realise for lots of my Litsy friends this is a very low number but I was stuck in the 6000s for a long time so I‘m excited).
1- birthday buddies with @Hansarjohnson
3- @DebinHawaii Let it Snow is on our TBR
4- @LibrarianRyan always inspires me to add books to my TBR!
5- @Roary47 I like mysteries and thrillers too
6- @mdm139 is a fellow ugly jumper owner
7- @Pigpen_Reads is a fellow pet spoiler
8- @Laughterhp sends snail mail like me
9- @mrsmarch as a fellow full time mum I agree we are definitely working!
10- @StayCurious #wintergames2021 makes me smile 😊 thank you
pickI didn‘t love all of this audiobook but I did love the story about Sedaris‘ time as a Macy‘s elf and the live section and those alone are enough to get me to recommend this book. It was funny, sad, whimsical, melancholy and often just plain strange! And it got me into the holiday spirit as my first completed ok of #wintergames2021 #teamgamesleighers #WGwordsearch 300 (then I stopped counting) Points total 326
#wintergames2021 #WGwordsearch #teamgamesleighers
Tonight Teddy and I read this book for bedtime (it‘s Christmas books from now until 2022) and it wasn‘t me 13 Santa and 2 Christmas word search finds! @StayCurious can I use children‘s books as holiday reads? I don‘t want to get it wrong! 😊 If so this little book earned my team 176 points (I think!) 🎅🏻
#wintergames2021 #FestivePhotoChallenge #teamgamesleighers #redandgreen
When you are looking around for ideas for your first photo challenge and realise your son has helpfully put his green lizard on your red TBR Christmas pick! This is the physical book I have first up to read in December straight after I finish one of my #booked2021 prompts. Book themed photo entry- 15 points woohoo!
Getting in there early with my first of many ugly sweater contest posts!! This is my brand new pride and joy Ghostbuster Christmas jumper. Isn‘t it gloriously ugly!!! Sky definitely thinks so! #teamgamesleigher #uglychristmassweater #wintergames2021 11 points!
pickBook 28-2021: This has been on my audible TBR for a long time. I finally got round to it thanks to #booked2021 #bakedgoodoncover. I found large parts of this book interesting & yet I kept drifting off & missing bits so I wasn‘t totally gripped. There was some beautiful descriptions of food, places and people and I will need to transcribe some recipes! I wish she had gone a little deeper on some of the family dynamics but still ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 1/2
Here it is! On the bottom we have cooking and crafts, then we have library books including Sugar Cookie Murder which is fictional WITH RECIPES (bring on the points! 😁) and also my most anticipated read & then on top three books I picked up at the charity shop yesterday including the tagged book which is one of our Buddy reads! Like it was meant to be! I am ready! Printing my bingo cards now! Let‘s go #teamgamesleighers #wintergames2021🎄 ⛄️ 🎅🏻
Ooh!! My #bestof2021swap and #littlechristmasswap parcel have arrived! 🎄 And it‘s not even December! So organised and Sooo long to wait! I‘m going to have to hide them from myself to stop temptation! 😁 I‘m so excited! Thank you gift sender!!
I try so hard to resist buying more books when I take things to the charity shop. And I fail. Every. Single. Time. 📚 📚
Tonight has been Christmas pudding night so I‘ve had 7 hours of audio cooking and audio cleaning, listening to the tagged book. The pudding has a slightly unusual ingredient as I have run out of sherry, brandy and plain rum so coconut rum came to the rescue! Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the US 🦃 xx
I went book swap shopping today at my favorite indie bookshop in Hove. I had so much fun browsing and picked up my fave free book mag and a new loyalty card ☺️ Just need to finish buying chocolate now! So much fun buying for fellow book lovers! #littlechristmasswap #jolabokaflodswap #bestof2021swap
Eating homemade slow cooker lentil and bacon soup (let me know if you would recommend any slow cooker cook books) and doing some Litsy snooping whilst I finalise what to get my Xmas book swaps! (Their taste is too good bag now I just want all the books they want too!) 😂
I need to start getting through my TBR- especially my kindle one. I do way too much late night kindle shopping 🤫 So I‘m hoping that @PuddleJumper #roll100 can help me this year!!
Calling all crafty Littens - @curiouserandcurioser and @Catsandbooks are starting #LitsyCrafters in 2022 and it looks like a fun way to connect with out creative crafty people 😊 go to the original post for more details
I‘ve decided to join in with my weekly forecast for the first time. I‘ve been struggling to get my head into books this week so I‘m hoping putting my intentions out into the universe will help! Plus my husband is working away for the next week so there will be less distraction 😂 I‘m continuing to read everything apart from the tagged book
As well as #booked2022 I think I‘m going to up my game next year and try #authoramonth too. It seems like a great way to discover some new authors, gets some books off my TBR pile and read outside my normal. @Soubhiville please can you add me to the tag list 😊
Edging ever closer to completing #booked2021 with this for #bakedgoodsonthecover prompt and crossing another one off my audible TBR to boot! Starting this one in glorious November Sunshine on the beach ☀️
In case you haven‘t seen it yet there‘s a new place to keep track of all the swaps, readathons and buddy reads across Litsy- @LitsyEvents 😍😍😍
pickBook 28- 2021 Thank you so much to @rockpools for suggesting this book. It was absolutely fantastic. Magical, mysterious, compelling, beautiful... I could go on. I‘m afraid to say too much as this one definitely has to be discovered for itself. I would love to know more about Clarke‘s process in imagining and writing this novel. It is so masterfully done. And to top it off it fulfills my #booked2021 #musicalinstrumentonthecover prompt 😁
Very excited to have received my #bestof2021 match this evening 😃 I‘m already deep into planning my parcel! Thanks for organising @candority
so-soBook 27- 2021 As I started listening to this novel I was excited by the premise and where the story was going but it didn‘t really deliver in the end for me. I thought it would tied up in a more satisfying way. But it got me through a night with a tummy bug and for that I am very grateful!
Last weekend my phone turned into a Neon flashing mess out of nowhere. Thankfully I got it fixed yesterday but that was a loonnnggggg week without Litsy, audio books, podcasts about books ahhh 🙀 It‘s good to be back!! I‘ve missed you all, hope you had a good week reading?
so-soBook 26 - 2021 I couldn‘t quite get into this book. I didn‘t give it up but I felt impatient with it. The characters weren‘t very likable, and it felt as if the author had had lots of good ideas but couldn‘t cram them all in so left faint outlines of all of them instead of really focusing on a couple and giving the story weight. It was hard to know what was unreliable narrator and what was bad editing at times.
I‘ve just signed up to this lovely sounding swap 😊 to open on New Year‘s Day #bestof2021 @candority I‘m excited to share some of my favourite things that have got me through this tricky year!!
Starting my push towards finishing #booked2021 in earnest with this one by Dr Oliver Sacks, who I would say, along with the patients he talks about, is the main character. I think this year it is so important to remember that mental health doctors are key workers too.
I have 8 prompts left to fulfill for #booked2021 (eek) but I am determined to get there. This will be the first time I will have managed to complete a reading challenge, which is definitely in part because of the wonderful encouragement of @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage & @4thhouseontheleft and the lovely community around this challenge. These are the physical books I have which leaves me with 4 still to find! Musical instrument cover rec anyone?
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
HAPPY BONFIRE NIGHT EVERYBODY! 💥 🎆 🎇 🔥
We‘re enjoying some quiet fireworks with ear defenders in our garden. I‘ve just been telling the boys about the way we used to make Guy Fawkes out of highly flammable clothes (shell suits for example 😳) to throw on the bonfire mid blaze back in the 80s 😂
Accidentally made too much hot choc for the kiddos after school today... oh well I guess I better drink that then ☕️ I promise there is a beverage under all those marshmallows!!
Oh god I haven‘t even finished #booked2021 yet and now I‘m thinking about #booked2022 🙀 Focus Gemma focus!!
so-soBook 25-2021: I love Liane Moriarty and I went to a talk with her about this book when it came out but only just got round to reading it for book club and... I was so disappointed. I thought it had real promise to begin with but the characters never developed beyond surface level and the story just seemed to dwindle and die about two thirds in. The characters were being used as a device to move along the story but the story wasn‘t worth moving 😞
pickBook 24-2021: I loved this book and I‘m so glad I listened to the audio version as I simply couldn‘t do the verse justice with my brain. The characters had depth, the relationships felt real, it was a pleasure to listen too although the story itself was filled with sadness and loss. Thank you to #Booked21 for helping me discover another gem I probably wouldn‘t of alone. #latinexauthor
@AbigailJaneBlog wow I loved all #HHS gifts so much! I‘m afraid the decorations were immediately nabbed and put up by the kids. They are awesome. My favourite is the trick or treat heart 💜 so pretty! As per your instruction no chocolate has been shared with children (or husbands) 😂
Thank you so much @AbigailJaneBlog for my amazing #HHS books!! It has been a crazy Halloween weekend with 3 overexcited, over sugared little boys but I‘ve already managed to get a few pages of The Ghost of Marlow House in and I‘m going to read My Heart is a Chainsaw for one of my #booked21 prompts. They are excellent choices! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! 🧡🖤🧡
Eeek!! @AbigailJaneBlog thank you so much for putting so much care into how you wrapped my #HHS gifts! Just taking them out of the box has been a joy. Unwrapped photos to follow!!
Happy Weekend to you too @MicheleinPhilly from Fox and Sky. Love a weekend #dogsoflitsy update!
A little bit later then planned due to ill kids but my #HHS box is winging it‘s way to it‘s new owner and I was particularly pleased with how all the wrapped parcels looked in their Halloween colours this time 😊 It will be there by Tuesday so only a few days for my match to sit and stare at it... at least that‘s what I always do when my package arrives! 😂
Next up for #booked2021 is my #latinxauthor book prompt. I‘m so glad I decided to go audio on this one as they narrator does a fantastic job- much better then my own brain voice could do! I‘m only a little way in but it‘s a bit like Shakespeare, after a while you forget it is in verse and get drawn into the story.
so-soBook 23-2021 OK so I have big feelings about this book. I‘m a psychotherapist so I guess I would. I don‘t actually know where to begin... the practice is so unethical and dangerous that I am astounded this man has been allowed to continue his work. I feel heavy with the undue harm he has most definitely done to clients. And for what? An experiment? Financial gain- the realizations the author comes to in this book could have been done safely and ⬇️
Waiting on one last thing to arrive for my #HHS parcel before it gets posted. Luckily I‘m only posting within the UK this time so I‘ve got time. We are definitely getting into the Halloween mood here now we‘ve been to pick our pumpkins 🎃
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