Behold! My watch list and tbr for #scarathlon. The first 13 books on the tbr are also counting for #castthedice with @PuddleJumper with A Life With Ghosts being my lucky book! #TeamCreepinItReal @StayCurious
Enjoying this gorgeous Michigan Thumb evening with a fire, a new book, and a hot cider spiked with some good whiskey.
Hoping to finish this fun read while the kidlet is getting his braces put on! Between this and the pup getting spayed the other day it‘s been A Week for us 😂.
Just picked up our Freya girl from the vet after being spayed so relaxing and recovering (and lots of reading for me) in our future!
Fighting a sinus infection but have our 5 month old puppy Freya sprawled over my legs and a good book in my hands so life is still pretty good!
Went to go run errands this morning and when I started our pickup it let me know one of our tires was slowly leaking air 😩. Hoping it‘ll just be a patch job, I REALLY don‘t want to buy a new tire right now since they aren‘t that old. Thankfully I brought a book to distract me!
(Hope it‘s ok that I play! But I love this idea!)
Thank God It‘s Friday by Ice Nine Kills (honestly all of INK‘s horror/slasher movie themed songs are legit)
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eHkHIGGcGatFhhqeuRWFN?si=SOYmvWb7TmCo-aKXPG5jJg
Hey I‘m back everyone! It‘s been a crazy, no good summer for me after getting back from TX. My paternal grandfather died extremely suddenly at the beginning of July and it triggered a terrible reading slump for me as I‘ve been struggling to deal with the manner of his death and my grief. Here‘s hoping a fun, fluffy book while the kidlet is at swimming lessons will help!
Starting our drive back home to Michigan tomorrow (with a pit stop in Iowa at my mom‘s to pick up our dogs) finally! Had a really fun time here in Texas but 2 months is WAY too long to live in a hotel room and be away from home. Seriously going to miss having a drink with a good book by the pool though…
They finally got the pool fixed at the extended stay hotel we‘re staying at while my husband is in Laredo for work so can read poolside again!!
Mine and Bean‘s airplane reads! Finally landed in Houston but still need to catch our connection to Laredo to meet up with the husband.
80 degrees today on Michigan‘s thumb coast so enjoying my back deck with my current read and my all time favorite hard cider!!
It‘s snack time! Having some garlic salsa and some sour cream that has been mixed with Tajin seasoning plus some super addicting chocolately popcorn. #EasterOMC #EasterOMCphotochallenge
My TBR for the #EasterOMC readathon! I need to read The Night Watchman for my IRL book club but the rest are just for fun! #EasterOMCphotochallenge
I‘m super excited to join in on this marathon on Easter weekend! It‘ll help me get through a chunk of my library checkouts 😂 #EasterOMC
Ok Litsy friends! We are going to be in Laredo for nearly 60 days late April to mid june for my husband‘s job so looking for book suggestions that are placed in TX. I like cozies, historical fic and historical mysteries, and romance the most! Also looking for suggestions of fun things to do with an 11 year old! 2 months is a long time so will definitely need ideas 😂
Headed into Dearborn today to visit The Henry Ford to see the visiting Scooby Doo exhibit! I‘m ridiculously excited since I‘ve been a pretty hardcore Scooby fan since I was a kid 😂. A good mystery is the perfect read for the ride there!
So my husband is a huge scotch, Irish whiskey, and bourbon fan so for this #internationalwhiskeyday here‘s a photo of the bottom part of our living room liquor cabinet which is actually an old bourbon barrel! He says his favorites are Lagavulin scotch and most bourbons and Irish‘s. My favorite drink is my Bloody Mary recipe if I want a mixed drink or Blake‘s peach party hard cider!
For #nationalpuppyday here‘s a pic of my sister‘s 14 year old rat terrier/chihuahua mix Tinkerbell! She‘s an old lady but still a tiny puppy due to her size. My sister also wants me to make it clear that she was 7 when she named her dog as a puppy so no judgement 😂.
The tagged series! My auntie bought them for me in the mid 90s and I LOVED them. I‘m sure there are earlier ones but these are the ones that really stick in my mind. @ozma.of.oz #sundayfunday
Being a wrestling mom means being at a tournament 2 hours before it even starts for weigh ins and warmups. Thank goodness for books! Almost done with book three for the #BacklistReadathon and have book four in my bag! @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
1. Basil from The Great Mouse Detective, Meg from Hercules, and Belle!
2. The tagged would be super neat I think! Honestly I just really want a movie version 😂
Started my first read for #BacklistReadathon while at the vet with poor Roxie who developed an ear infection ☹️.
Waiting around for A‘s first wrestling tournament to start! He‘s all weighed in and practicing with his dad on the mat to burn off the nervous energy. Going to be a long day with lots of matches so glad I brought a book along to read between his turns on the mat.
Fall! Popcorn or gummy bears. Purples. Irises. Historical London or spooky houses. Peach mango Body Armor. Mass Effect trilogy or Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West for video and Trivial Pursuit for board.
2. Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne then I‘ll start Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen!
#WondrousWednesday
Behold! My Murder, She Wrote shelf and my plans for next week‘s #BacklistReadathon! Obviously won‘t get to all of them but hope to make a good dent.
Mysteries, especially historical ones! The tagged is the first in probably my favorite book series ever. A historical mystery series that follows Sebastian St Cyr, Lord Devlin as he solves murders in Regency London. Sebastian and his eventual wife (enemies to lovers trope!) are one of my favorite literary couples of all time.
Hair stylist reading! It‘s been almost a year since my last cut/color and I‘m in desperate need.
Me? Participate in another reading challenge? It‘s more likely than you think! I own three books of Fiona Davis‘ that I haven‘t read yet so that‘s who I‘m going to focus on for this #backlistreadathon. This is a double win as it will also help me work towards my goal of reading more of my own books this year 😂
pickSecond book for #JumpStart2023 down! This book was so cute but with some of the best depiction of depression/weight of having to live up to a family name I‘ve ever seen. Honestly gave me a lot of Check, Please vibes! Also covers “a borrowed book” prompt for the #NoBuyChallenge2023 and FOUR prompts for #ReadySetRead2023 (a debut, sports romance, LGBTQ+, author‘s name has initials)
What I‘m hoping to read for #Jumpstart2023! All of them work for prompts for different reading challenges that I‘m doing! Even Switchboard Soldiers which is delightful since it‘s for my IRL book club so I have to read it anyway 😂.
Well, wasn‘t planning on spending my NYE afternoon at the urgent care but here we are. 2 hour wait for my kiddo to be seen for an ear infection. Started complaining around 11 that his ear was a little sore and quickly devolved to nearly in tears pain 3 hours later. Thankfully had this book and another stacked on the island to read tonight so it was an easy grab out the door.
Getting my reading journal together and found the cutest seasonal gnome paper for my pages for #ReadySetRead2023 with @Clwojick
Hitting a bit of a wall with reading this December! I‘m loving this so far but have been SO busy getting ready for Christmas that have barely had time to read and haven‘t felt a lot of motivation 😩. Thank goodness my kiddo is in an orchestra rehearsal for the next 90 minutes so I can use that time to read for #WinterReadathon!
It‘s National Mutt Day so here‘s my rescue mutt, Roxie! We adopted her when she was 3 in 2019. The shelter said she has lots of different breeds and called her a “Heinz 57” 😂. This was taken at Christmas last year with her and my son in their traditional matching holiday jammies! #WinterReadathon
The #ChristmasTree at my grandma‘s! I can‘t wait to get back home to Michigan Sunday and start decorating my own tree! #WinterReadathon
So I‘m still in Iowa on vacation until the 4th so I don‘t have my full #WinterReadathon TBR but here are a couple of the holiday reads I‘m hoping to get to that I did bring with me plus the book I‘m reading that I‘ll finish tomorrow!
And that‘s all she wrote on #scarathlon2022! I had some awesome luck with my books this last week with the word search…lots of murder equals lots of words apparently 😂. Thank you SO MUCH to our awesome hosts and to the #teamslaughter fearless leader @Clwojick for another amazing year!! #spookoween #31by31 #pointsathon #20in4
Ready for trick or treating/handing out candy! Happy Halloween Litsy friends!! 🎃 👻 🧟♀️
Carved pumpkins this afternoon! Another check on my (and my son‘s) bucket list! #scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick
Totally in on this #20in4 readathon! Am hoping to read 20 hours over the 4 days and get those points in for #Scarathlon2022! But still have to carve pumpkins and binge watch some Halloween movies so here‘s hoping.
Week 3 points! Got some truly amazing reading time in this week, but not a lot of movie watching so have a lot to do between now and Halloween! #Scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter #spookoween #31by31 #pointsathon
Here‘s my most used and abused Halloween playlist! Full disclosure: I‘ve been building this playlist for over 2 years now and I start listening to it the day after Labor Day 😂 #FearfulFall
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zfhxdnaov3CIz7MXNabK5?si=MWffRbn-T-6-vgkH9tIO...
Here are my #FearfulFall pics! All from Halloweens past along with a trip to the apple orchard from a couple years ago! 🧡🖤 🎃
It‘s my son‘s Halloween party today for his homeschool gym & swim group at the Y so that means 2 hours of reading time for me! This should be a gold mine for word search words! #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon2022 @Clwojick
Week 2 total of 6583 points! LOVED this week‘s game! Only had 10 hours reading time for the ‘thons but watched a lot of tv/movies since I had to work on a paper for the class I‘m taking this semester. It‘s done though so next week should have even more hours! #TeamSlaughter #Scarathlon2022 #spookoween #31by31 #pointsathon
The best part about a Saturday fiddle club rehearsal for my kiddo is the hour and a half uninterrupted reading time I get waiting!
