I got this book in July 2022 and have been wanting to read it since!
☘️ Happy St. Patrick‘s Day @BookmarkTavern !
#SundayFunday
I got this book in July 2022 and have been wanting to read it since!
☘️ Happy St. Patrick‘s Day @BookmarkTavern !
#SundayFunday
👰🏻 This story takes place on a small Irish island where an extravagant wedding is about to take place. The only problem is that by the end of the night someone winds up murdered.
🤵🏼An excellent mystery that I could not stop reading after the first twist, & there are a lot of twists. My photo is from Wednesday night when I read with Nova past my bedtime to finish. Taken at La Posada in Winslow, Arizona.
☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️
#DogsOfLitsy #reesesbookclub
It‘s the middle of March so that means time for my tbr stack. 😅
📋 Currently reading The Guest List by Lucy Foley for the February #keywordreadingchallenge (guest)
🐈⬛ If It Bleeds by Stephen King for the #LosersClub
🐈 tagged for book club
🪯 Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal for the March #keywordreadingchallenge (story)
2 #reesesbookclub books and 2 books with cats on the cover - should be a good month.
#tbr #Marchtbr
I mailed my #naturalitsycardswapspring cards today! I planned to send them earlier but parent/teacher conferences and report cards got in the way.
I got my first one from @dabbe ! Thank you! ☘️
Thank you for organizing us @TheBookHippie !
I read some excellent books in February! This infographic doesn‘t show the one I spent half of the month reading, The Essex Serpent, because I finished it on March 1st.
I also dnf‘d a book for the first time in years. I watched the documentary instead. It was for book club!
Reading time was down due to getting sick 3 times. Lots of naps.
#bookly
I was initially drawn to this book because of the beautiful cover but luckily it‘s also fantastic historical fiction.
Taking place in the late 1890s, we meet newly widowed, Cora, who is ready to embrace her new freedom and, inspired by Mary Anning, explore the world around her. Tales of a killer sea serpent are at the center of the story. There were so many characters I grew to love.
Read if you like strong female mc bucking the norm.
🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉
I was so close to reaching my #FabulousFebruary #20in4 Readathon goal!
219/251 pages
Falling asleep during a readathon is my downfall too often.
But I loved this book and the motivation the readathon gave me to read a little more every day!
Thank you @Andrew65 !
#bookly
#20in4 #FabulousFebruary update!
I‘ve read 128/251 pages so far with Bombadil‘s help.
I‘m going to make it @Librarybelle and @Andrew65 !#LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
#DogsOfLitsy #TomBombadil
He‘s back! @Andrew65 won‘t let anything stop him from getting a Readathon going for us each month! Thank you! 💙
My #20in4 #FabulousFebruary goal is to finish The Essex Serpent just in time to discuss it with the #LiteraryCrew.
I have 251 pages to go and my Bookly app predicts I need 7 hours to do it.
A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
#LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead @Librarybelle
With help from Nova!
A young dog walks in front of a book under the warm desert sun. 😂
#DogsOfLitsy
Almost every year I go to a local book sale with my friends on half price Sunday. We get up early to wait in line, shop till we fill our baskets, and then get lunch. The best part is all of the money goes to charity!
This year I got 31 books for $55 (2 gifts and 2 magazine style books not shown)! 💙📚🦉
The left side is books by favorite authors and from my wishlist. The right side is impulse purchases - oops!
Now where to put them…
#vnsa
Currently reading This Changes Everything and feeling like my book club hates me. Over 400 pages of doom ahead of me I‘m afraid. Not like it‘s not important, but it‘s what I already know. Why did everyone vote for this?!
But on a sweeter note…it‘s Nova‘s first photo bomb. I‘ll never be mad at a cute dog photo bomb.
💙🐕
#DogsOfLitsy
I finished this series today and I loved it! I really could not imagine an ending I would like because I loved and hated the main character, but somehow Mr. Goldberg pulled it off. There were lots of great twists at the end as well.
Read if you like dark humor, rooting for the antihero, Jewish characters, Bruce Springsteen, or a new type of mob man story.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I finished a series for #serieslove2024!
😎 Photo with my friend & Tod, AZ 9/20/23
It‘s a leap year so that means extra time to meet reading goals, right?
✡️ Gangsters Don‘t Die by Tod Goldberg - almost done with this trilogy! #serieslove2024
🇵🇸 Power Born of Dreams by Mohammad Sabaaneh for Palestine
📋 The Guest List by Lucy Foley for #keywordreadingchallenge
🐍 TheEssex Serpent by Sarah Perry for #literarycrew #buddyread with @Librarybelle
☁️ This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein for #bookclub
#tbr #februarytbr
Lots of 4 star books last month but I am loving Gangsters Don‘t Die! I hope I can finish it this weekend.
#bookly
🧨 Yesterday I finished reading Elevation. This little book was very quirky - made me think of this author called Richard Bachman. If Thinner and The Long Walk had a sweet baby this might be it.
No horror. No N words. A lesbian couple. I recommend it for the feel good vibes.
🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Thank you for hosting this #LosersClub buddy read @BarkingMadRead !
🙌 My library hosted a fun reading challenge in 2023! I didn‘t get a blackout but I filled 2 complete rows.
✅ I used one copy for tracking prompts completed, and another for photos of the books I read for the prompts. I loved using my book stamps and washi tape for this challenge.
#LitsyCrafters @Catsandbooks
#BookJournal #justreadppl
I hope everyone had a #JoyousJanuary! I did!
My goals from 1/13-1/21 were:
✅ finish The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda - 90 pages
❌ finish The Book of Delights by Ross Gay - 119/255 pages
❌ start Elevation by Stephen King - 16/30 pages
🟰 225/375 pages
Thanks again for hosting @Andrew65 ! 📚
Today I met my first #JoyousJanuary goal and finished this book (with Nova‘s help). I read it with my sister and we both liked it.
It took a little while for me to get into this mystery, but the multiple twists at the end of the story made it worth it.
Read if you like an unlikely detective, or summer resident/year long resident class struggle stories.
♾️♾️♾️♾️
#ReesesBookClub
#DogsOfLitsy
Happy 1st Day of #JoyousJanuary everyone!
My goals are:
🕵🏻♀️ finish The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda - 90 pages
😊 finish The Book of Delights by Ross Gay - 255 pages
🏔️ start Elevation by Stephen King - 30 pages
🟰 375 pages
Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 !
I would like to thank my fellow Littens for your book recommendations, book warnings, challenges, swaps, games, quotes, likes, comments, and pet pictures!
#litfluence
I‘m almost done settling up my book journal for the year. This page is dedicated to #SeriesLove2024.
I‘ve finished 2 books so far this year that completed 2 series.
I stamped an orange book for the last book in the series. When I finish a series I color in the rest of the line with a brush marker.
Thank you @Andrew65 and @TheSpineView for hosting again this year.
Thank you @Catsandbooks for keeping #litsycrafters going.
#bookjournal
This month I hope to read:
🏔️ Elevation by Stephen King for #losersclub
☺️ The Book of Delights by Ross Gay for book club
🌊 The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda for #keywordreadingchallenge
✔️ Kill Joy by Holly Jackson for an alphabet challenge - done and finished a series for #serieslove2024!
🦷 Sharp Teeth by Toby Harlow - already changing my mind…
#januarytbr #tbr
I hope my #naturalitsy #midwintersolace card swap friends are still enjoying the winter solstice! I‘m still enjoying my cards, the goodies, and the good wishes you all sent!
This is the last batch I‘ve received! I hope I got them all! Thank you @Debs @jenniferw88 @Chrissyreadit @kspenmoll @Texreader @Blerdgal_Fenix @Captivatedbybooks @Sarahreadstoomuch @quietjenn @JamieArc !
I‘ve been wanting to read Audre Lorde for a long time and now I‘ll definitely be reading more by her.
✅ memoir
✅ coming of age
✅ lgbtq author
✅ Black author
✅ 1950s New York
Thanks again for hosting #12booksof2023
@Andrew65 !
Also my favorite for the year!
✅ science fiction
✅ fast paced
✅ unique
#12booksof2023 @Andrew65
This book covers a year of eating locally grown or sourced food, but I think a lot of people thought like me, Ok, but what happens in winter?!
Read if you‘re curious!
#midwintersolace #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88
I got to meet this author for the second time in September, and his brother had a book to promote too. Very funny to watch them together and I of course had to buy both of their books.
This one is second in a series and one of my most anticipated books to read in 2024 is the conclusion.
✅ Jewish author
✅ snarky humor
✅ dark humor
✅ rooting for the bad guy
#12booksof2023 @Andrew65
Thank you everyone! I have had so much fun playing #WinterGames; I only wish I had more time!
First ✔️: 284 points
Second ✔️: 1,276 points
Total 🟰: 1,560
Thank you especially to @BookwormAHN for cheerleading the #GhostsOfXmas on!
#dogsoflitsy
I read 40 books in 2023 and these 15 were my favorites.
Top Row: Nonfiction/Memoir
Middle Row: Fiction
Bottom Row: Science Fiction/Horror/Middle Grade
If I had to pick just one favorite I would say…Project Hail Mary!
Another great year of reading!
Happy Reading to all in 2024!
Finished in September but I read it for a big chunk of August so I‘m counting it here!
✅ Black history
✅ biography
✅ US history
The Summer Wives was a birthday gift from my aunt in 2022 and what a great gift!
✅ historical fiction
✅ Montagues and Capulets romance
✅ seaside summer home
#12booksof2023 @Andrew65
My favorite book read in June was Wool! Definitely need to continue the series in 2024.
✅ dystopian
✅ mystery
✅ fast pace
#12booksof2023 @Andrew65
🐻 Pajamas
👀 Stay up!
🥂 champagne
🛋️ couch
👠 slippers
🥳 Since 2001 my typical New Year‘s Eve is with my friend Stephanie in some capacity. This year my husband has to work at 3:30 am New Year‘s Day so we got dressed up & had dinner at 4:15 pm. 😂
🐕 Since 2011 we haven‘t stayed out late because we are needed at home to console our dogs during the fireworks which go all night. 🧨
Happy New Year @BookwormAHN & #ghostsofxmas! #wintergames
Saw this on morelandmelanie‘s account on Instagram 😂
#wintergames #ghostsofxmas #holidaylaughs
Somehow I managed to finish this book despite this dog demanding many snuggle breaks.
Even though I‘m not a big romance reader I enjoy this series for the humor and meaningful sub plots. This one tackled the school to prison pipeline.
And just when I thought I finished the series, there‘s one more now. 🤬😂 Sorry #SeriesLove2023.
💙💙💙💙💙
#ghostsofxmas #wintergames #20in4 #dogsoitsy
@Andrew65
May was so good I can‘t pick just one!
I read Lessons in Chemistry after the author came to my local bookstore. What an incredible woman, the story follows suit. Fun fact, she hates the cover! It‘s misleading, I agree.
The Wind Through the Keyhole was my final stop on my Dark Tower journey. Just a character from the series telling stories. But wow.
The final book I read in May was Becoming by Michelle Obama & it was also 5 stars amazing!
Part of a favorite:
HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL
I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy…
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let‘s be honest, I like
that they‘re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart…
#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #poetry
Photo: Flagstaff AZ 2019
I‘m going to join @Andrew65 for the #YearEnd #20in4 #OutWithTheOldInWithTheNew reading challenge.
My goals by Sunday:
🥳🥳 finish Party of Two - 8 chapters
🧛🏻♂️ read Bite Me by Christopher Moore - 25 chapters
👻🎄 score some points for #ghostsofxmas in the #wintergames
My goal by Tuesday:
🔪 read Kill Joy by Holly Jackson - 12 chapters
🟰 45 chapters
Wish me luck!
Angie Thomas came to our local independent bookstore in April. She is a treasure, and I loved this book too!
✅ middle grade
✅ fantasy
✅ girl power
✅ BIPOC main character
✅ adventure
#12booksof2023
@Andrew65
This was my favorite book read in March.
✅ historical fiction
✅ girl power
✅ horses!
✅ found family
#12BooksOf2023
@Andrew65
My favorite book of February was also read with my book club.
✅ science fiction
✅ dystopian
✅ connectivity
#12booksof2023
@Andrew65
Catching up with #12booksof2023!
I read this with my book club and I loved it, even though we didn‘t realize this was a sequel.
✅ girl power
✅ historical fiction
✅ set in a bookstore
Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 !
1. My favorite read of 2023: Project Hail Mary
2. Least favorite: Death Comes for the Archbishop
3. NYE we are having an early dinner with friends because my husband works at 3:30 am Monday.
4. No Boxing Day celebrating for me 🥊
5. We had a green Christmas. The weather has been beautiful lately so I was not disappointed. We walked the dogs around our neighborhood to look at the lights. This is a picture of our neighbor‘s house.
#ghostsofxmas
Time for my #DashingDecember Readathon wrap up!
My goals:
✅ 👻 finish The Haunting Season with my #naturalitsy group
❌ 📚 read 2 more books
(I read PART of 2 more books 😂)
✅ 👻🎄 score some points for #ghostsofxmas in the #wintergames
✅🎄 get the tree up
That was fun and motivating @Andrew65 ! Thank you!
#wintergames #photochallenge Day 4: Santa!
🎅🏼 Well I thought I knew him! This Santa seems like a grinch, and his pirate buddy too. ☠️
🎄 Taken while driving around with my husband looking at Christmas lights the other night.
#ghostsofxmas 👻🎄
#holidaylaughs
#selfiescavengerhunt in front of your Christmas tree 🎄 Taken after we finally got the tree up last Sunday.
but also
#christmasornamenthunt ornament that is bookish 📚 The book stack ornament is from my sister.
#Wintergames
#ghostsofxmas 👻🎄
#selfiescavengerhunt reading by the glow of Christmas lights 🎄
We had a rainy day Friday so I had to read under a quilt with my new reading buddy, Nova.
Ok not much of a selfie, but my knees are holding the quilt up, I promise. 😂
#wintergames
#Ghostsofxmas 👻🎄
#dogsoflitsy
#selfiescavengerhunt with a loved one
My husband and I went for a little sunset hike with our dogs on South Mountain the other night because of our lovely weather.
#wintergames
#ghostsofxmas 👻🎄