#bookspin for December. Feeling like I‘m coming out of the wicked slump I‘ve been in! I chose some titles from new year who dis lists and threw in some Christmas titles since I‘m really trying to get in the spirit this year. We‘ll see how it goes.

Over the last while I have been binging Rupaul‘s Drag Race. Basically, if it doesn‘t involve drag queens my brain can‘t handle it. So when this was an audible deal I thought “Graham Norton, the drag race judge?” (I know he does lots of other things but…) Low and behold, it‘s that Graham Norton. I had no idea he writes fiction! I was very impressed and I will read more. This is the first book in a very long time that I couldn‘t put down.

#sundayfunday
1. I have been in a book club with my mom for almost 20 years.
2. We choose books by suggesting books we want to read, not ones we have already read and recommend. I like this because then no one gets their feelings hurt by bringing something they love that others end up hating. One I really loved was Water for Elephants. Also Ragged Company.
3. The conversation is most often more interesting when we don‘t all love something IMO.

If you liked A Man Called Ove you will probably enjoy this one. I liked Ove more but this is still a pick for me. It kept me reading which is saying a lot these days! #bookspin

I have been in the worst slump lately! I haven‘t even been able to put a book spin list together. But I‘m going to go with this. #bookspin #doublebookspin

I feel like I have been so busy lately! While I have been reading it‘s been very random. I couldn‘t even put lists together the past couple months! Feeling ready today! I have two weeks off work at the end of the month so I‘m hoping to make a good dent in this pile. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
#bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

I loved this!! Richard Wagamese is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors. This starts out with a very graphic bull riding accident and then a rape and I almost DNF‘d it. I decided to try again and then I got sucked in right away. I would recommend the print version as opposed to the audio though because it changes perspective without any heads up and was a little hard to follow at first.

This is such a sweet story!! I loved it. It gave me Be Frank With Me vibes, which for me was a good thing. This is a total #blameitonlitsy 💜

I‘m rating this a pick even though I didn‘t love it. I had very high expectations with this one because I really liked the Flatshare and I LOVED The Switch. Addie and Dylan are no Eileen. I don‘t like to judge based on what a book ISN‘T and what this is is a light, mostly fun summer read. It‘s better than a so-so but not a rave.

Dog stole my reading spot. Too cute, can‘t move. #dogsoflitsy

1. Grandma, mom, husband and dog.
2. I think beauty is a soul thing.
3. I wouldn‘t. If I had unlimited money I‘d retire.
3. It‘s absolutely Saturday, but Friday night steak night with my husband is pretty good too.
#wondrouswednesday

#Two4Tuesday
1. I LOVED the tagged book. I had never heard of it before someone in my irl book club suggested it. It‘s definitely a favourite of this year and also on my all-time favourites.
2. We‘ve had many great discussions. I think Water for Elephants was a good one. A book none of really liked but the discussion was great was Fishbowl. I would recommend The 57 Bus because it has so many interesting aspects for discussion.

This was so fun for this bake off lover!! Lately I‘ve binged 10 seasons of the British and four of the Canadian and I was missing it. This is so well done!! It‘s hilarious and it just hit the spot for me right now!
I think Mary Berry would say it‘s scrummy!! 😄
And the Canadian female judge might say it‘s beautiful in her ridiculous Moira Rose unidentifiable accent. But I digress.... it‘s cute, fun, and funny. 💜

Colour coordinating the closest little free library! I thought it was a pretty stack, totally unplanned! And then I realized that my little stack matched the #lfl itself! A bit of bookish serendipity maybe? Of course, I tidied it up while I was at it. 😉

I listen to the get booked podcast weekly so when Amanda went on about The Switch I thought it sounded like something that I wouldn‘t normally read but my pandemic brain said YES! And I loved that one. When she recommended this as a read alike I thought PERFECT! I guess September pandemic brain and April pandemic brain are different because I hated this one. I have nothing good to say about it.

I‘m giving this a pick but I didn‘t love it. It is problematic AF but it also has great character development and strong sense of place. And then it‘s insanely long which it didn‘t need to be IMO. I laughed in a lot of places but I hated the ending!!! However I‘m sure it will be one of those books I‘ll remember for a long time. Struggling to put a star rating on this one.

#thirstythursday @mandarchy
Coffee is life. I am one of those people, I can‘t go without it. Always dark roast and black, hardcore!
Then when it‘s wine time it‘s red wine 95% of the time. The occasional craft beer, never hard stuff.
Trying to drink water in between.
Consider yourself tagged if you‘ve gotten this far 😄

1. I‘m going to have to say Dumbledore. I really thought she was going to bring him like a Phoenix from the ashes, oh well. 😢
2. I have a bad habit of not remembering the endings of books or movies. 🤦🏻‍♀️
3. I am surprised how much I am enjoying Lonesome Dove! I always put off the chunksters but this was my choice for this year.
Thanks again for the tag @mandarchy

1. When they call you a terrorist just really stuck with me. Also I have to add that Mariah Carey‘s bio was so fun on audio.
2. I haven‘t read enough of James Baldwin but I think I would call him a master.
3. I don‘t think I have one. I‘m not sure I‘ve read more than one book by a non-fiction author. 🤷🏻‍♀️It‘s more about the topic for me when I read nonfiction.
Thanks for the tag @mandarchy

1.I don‘t read along but sometimes if I have to have a book finished by a certain date then I will get the audio and paper and interchange.
2. When I was commuting I always listened to either audiobooks or podcasts. I enjoy being able to do something else while I read, cooking, crafting, puzzles, driving.
Thanks for the tag @Come-read-with-me

This month‘s theme is Spring Cleaning! I have to get my “currently reading” shelf organized!! These are books I‘ve started and don‘t want to DNF but I just never finished for whatever reason. #bookspin #doublebookspin #bookspinbingo

There are some good nuggets in this but overall I found her obnoxious. When I rated it 2 stars I went back and read some reviews on GR. There I found a five star review from Glennon herself. She gave herself a five star rating on goodreads, therefore proving my point.

This month‘s theme is books I bought during Covid 19 restrictions. 😞
It‘s been a year. And it‘s been forever. And this isn‘t all the books I bought. 🤣🤣
#bookspin #doublebookspin

Sadie would like to know how she was supposed to tell the difference between love your pet day and every other day. 😄😍💜🐶

I wasn‘t feeling well yesterday so I didn‘t get very much reading done. Feeling better today and definitely not leaving the house!! Hopefully I can get this one done while I do a huge pile of laundry.
#bookspin
@TheAromaofBooks

This book broke my heart!! Five alarm snot bomb for sure. Not something I would typically go to in the middle of winter but it was so good! Totally character driven, multiple points of view, non-linear, and beautifully written and reflective. Right up my alley!

Sticking with a theme. February is Black History Month so all Black authors. #bookspin #doublebookspin
@TheAromaofBooks

I just recently finished binging all the seasons of The Crown and I LOVED IT! When I saw this was on sale at Libro.fm I grabbed it. I‘m only 10% in and enjoying it but something today struck me so funny. The word scone. I was brought up to pronounce it “scawn” and I always thought that people who said “scown” where pretentious and snooty lol! I don‘t know how old I was when I found out it‘s just the one is Scottish and the other English. ⤵️

I‘m having a hard time sticking with any one book and finding myself starting everything and not finishing anything so I think I‘ll sit out for December. BUT I wanted to thank @TheAromaofBooks for doing #bookspin! I‘ll be back in 2021.

Thanks for the tag @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira
1. This weekend involves reading plans but it‘s not Thanksgiving! (as you Canadians know) My pre-45/pre-pandemic plans would have been Black Friday shopping but this year is staying home due to tight Covid restrictions as I live in a province where people refuse to follow the rules and the numbers are the worst in Canada 🙄😤
2. Usually somewhere around the 23rd but maybe not at all in 2020 ⬇️

No better time then now, I suppose. Way to go America!!!!

I haven‘t been at all successful in October but I‘ll keep trying for November! #bookspin #doublebookspin #bookspinbingo

This one is just fun! Mariah reads it herself and sings a fair bit so if you are a fan definitely get the audio. Her writing style is overly dramatic but really I think that fits her perfectly. Perfect recovery book for me after the goldfinch.

Great book, great deal!!!

Well if this isn‘t 2020 I don‘t know what is. September was nothing but five stars reads for me. Followed by October and what is potentially my most hated book of all time!!! I finished it and I‘m glad! I have nothing good to say about this one. I‘m especially irritated with the casual use of the “r-word” not once but twice! If you are an author and words are your business pick a better word! 😡

Angie‘s book club tip #1 don‘t ever suggest a book that is sooooo long! People won‘t appreciate you for it.

Ok #pemberlittens help me decide which of these three I should read. I am having so much trouble deciding on what to read next and I‘m getting overwhelmed to be honest. So what is really happening is that I‘m not really reading anything!
😩🤦🏻‍♀️ I need help!!!

I originally planned spooky reads for #bookspin but I wasn‘t really feeling it so this one is a mix of fall, spooky, witchy, and one about Thanksgiving since we do that in October in Canada.

September wrap up. I got into a bad slump where I couldn‘t get into anything I tried! I managed to finish five books but the odd thing about September is that all five were five star reads for me! I don‘t think that has ever happened! Pride and Prejudice was so much fun-thank you @sprainedbrain and all #pemberlittens!

Also, if you haven‘t checked out They Called Us Enemy you might want to check it out. It‘s outstanding!

Look what finally came in the mail today!!! From my secret copy on Etsy. 😍

Is anyone else trying out Storygraph for tracking? For now I‘m trying it along with goodreads but I don‘t really use that for anything but tracking. I‘d like to stop using it eventually. This is very different and I‘m still figuring it out but this part is cool. They track your reading by mood. Also the recommendations are interesting and more personalized than goodreads. Also you can export all your GR data if you want.

I picked this after Amanda Nelson from the Get Booked podcast raved about it. I loved it! It is adorable and Eileen is such a great character! I laughed out loud in public! 🤣🤣🤣

Ok 7% in and I‘m bawling. No one warned me and I can‘t!! 😭😭😭

Covid restriction buying 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚
I‘ve only read three of them. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
#tbr

Check out this beautiful book!!! Gorgeous cover and the wood grain edge! 😻 I love it when publishers put in that little extra effort!
#tbr

I could actually relate to Darcy in this chapter! 🤣🤣
I‘m loving doing a chapter a day!
#pemberlittens

#bookspin #doublebookspin
Stargirl being 1 and The Most Dangerous Place on Earth being 20. I chose books set in schools, libraries or bookshops and I had so many that I had a hard time narrowing it down to 20. My tbr is completely out of control. 🤦🏻‍♀️

If you like a book that is big on plot just keep moving, nothing to see here. The main character, Micah, was somewhere in between Don Tillman from the Rosie Project and Ove. A man stuck in his routines but not quite as curmudgeonly as Ove. This was my first Tyler and won‘t be my last. 4 ⭐️

I had no idea what this book was about, went in totally blind. Also had never heard of Diane Chamberlain. I pretty much finished this in one sitting which hasn‘t happened to me for years. You really have to suspend belief but that‘s ok, this one is a super quick read while still having emotion. Perfect for summer. This picture is my dog (Sadie) in the trailer we bought yesterday. I thought I‘d share since it‘s #nationaldogday #doublebookspin

A bit slow but I finished it. I would read more from this author even though I didn‘t love this one. It did have a strong sense of place which I really like. Now on to #doublebookspin.