Ebook free today. #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious

Ebook on sale today. #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious

#wintergames2021 #holidaylaughs #mistletoemaniacs

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXEMUOIFKJC/?utm_medium=copy_link

Ebook on sale today. A family flees the war in #Syria traveling across the Middle East and North Africa. Works for #readingasia2021 and #readingafrica2022. I‘ve got it lined up for January 2022 #foodandlit for #Egypt.

No. 10) All Littens make me smile! Here are some in the comments below.

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

#wintergames2021 #holidaylaughs #mistletoemaniacs

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Up next for #wintergames #mistletoemaniacs #teambook

For these readathons:
#litsyatoz #letterI #littenlistenaudioathon #averymerryreadathon #averymerrybingo #wintercosy #decemberchill

No. 9) Sadly, some Littens work over the holidays:

@TheAromaofBooks @Larkken @Allylu @ozma.of.oz and our host @Clwojick

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

No. 8) Loads of Littens send snail mail Christmas cards:

@CindyMyLifeIsLit @Emilymdxn @jenniferw88 @kezzlou85 @candc320 @TheBookHippie @Jerdencon @BarkingMadRun @AmyK1 @MidnightBookGirl @OriginalCyn620 @MoonWitch94 @MsRadioSilence @Julsmarshall @tdrosebud @Allylu @Bookgoil @Linsy @Read4life @Pageturner1 @DebbieGrillo @TheDaysGoBy @britt_reads @Inkblotsandcoffeestains @Allydanielle88 @Charityann

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

Leigh is a teenager whose mother commits suicide. 95% of the book is about Leigh‘s grief, anger, & attempts to understand why. She travels to #Taiwan to meet her mother‘s parents for the first time. It‘s an emotionally draining book, told by an angry teenager with attitude, who was like that before her mother‘s death. The main character isn‘t likeable. It had a magical realism angle, which was necessary to tell the story, but there were logical ⬇️

#wintergames2021 #holidaylaughs #mistletoemaniacs

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#wintergames2021 #festivephotochallenge #silverbells

#mistletoemaniacse 10 points for the photo, 5 points for books, 1 point for participation

Day three of Allen‘s short holiday story on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/CXBfTsnrA9U/?utm_medium=copy_link

I sure would like to find this place

#wintergames2021 #festivephotochallenge #redandwhite

#mistletoemaniacs 10 points for the photo, 5 points for books, 1 point for participation

Part 2 in Allen‘s short story on Instagram

I hit 300,000 Litfluence points! I meant to catch the even number so it must have happened after I went to sleep this evening. Anyway I‘d like to do a giveaway to thank all of my friends here on Litsy. But I‘d prefer to do it after all the season‘s swaps so I don‘t mess up someone‘s gift giving. So look for a post sometime in January.

Omg I just opened the surprise gift from @Kaylamburson and wow, a book very high on my tbr list!! Thank you so much! No I haven‘t read it so it‘s going on my tbr stack, but I will definitely pass on the #litsylove! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

(Question 7) If the empty boxes count, I give my cat Christmas presents! 😉❤️🐈‍⬛ but lots of Littens do give gifts to their pets:

@OutsmartYourShelf @candc320 @TheBookHippie @AmyK1 @OriginalCyn620 @JessClark78 @MsRadioSilence @Larkken @ozma.of.oz @Julsmarshall

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

(Question 6) I aspire to have an ugly Christmas sweater someday but until then, these are the Littens who‘ve confessed to owning one:

@Clwojick @Catsandbooks @kay.the.bibliophile @CindyMyLifeIsLit @jenniferw88 @Airykah13 @Nessavamusic @Jerdencon @AmyK1 @MidnightBookGirl @Traci1 @OriginalCyn620 @JessClark78 @MsRadioSilence @BeeMagical

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

(Question 5) Littens who share the same taste in books as me including historical fiction, thrillers, or nonfiction:

@TheBookHippie @MidnightBookGirl @MoonWitch94 @Julsmarshall @tdrosebud @Allylu @FantasyChick @Clwojick @Read4life @melissajayne @Doll8455

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

Which Littens inspire me to read? All of you!

But here are some (who may or may not be playing #wintergames2021):

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB @Butterfinger @Catsandbooks @BookishMarginalia @Soubhiville @Clwojick @Andrew65 @Crazeedi @TheSpineView @StayCurious @MoonWitch94 @TheAromaofBooks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @GingerAntics @Doll8455 @freeatlast1137 @TheBookHippie @Jari-chan @AnneCecilie and I could go on and on!

#mistletoemaniacs

Littens who also plan to read In a Holidaze like me: @Tracie1 @Larkken @BeeMagical @Linsy @Read4life

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

No Littens I know of share my favorite books that I listed but as I was reading posts from my fellow #mistletoemaniacs, I realized I missed a few:

@CindyMyLifeIsLit for Lonesome Dove. Yes!

And these Littens share books that have been past faves Rebecca and The Stand: @OutsmartYourShelf @kezzlou85 @BarkingMadRun

#wintergames2021

Littens who share my birthday month of June:
@OriginalCyn620 @Jerdencon @AmyK1 @Pageturner1

#wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs

All my holiday cards are ready to go to the residents of Magnolia New Albany. I‘ll mail them tomorrow. #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Celebrating my husband‘s birthday a day late and #foodandlit #Mexico a day late as well. But it‘s the best Mexican food in Texas right here in the heart of San Antonio

I‘ve got a good start on my cards to the residents of the Magnolia New Albany nursing home! #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#wintergames2021 #festivephotochallenge #redandgreen

#mistletoemaniacs 10 points for the photo, 5 points for books, 1 point for participation

Over on Instagram Sarah Addison Allen is telling a holiday story one day at a time starting with today. How cool is that y‘all?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8VyCgt6nX/?utm_medium=copy_link

My first Christmas read for #wintergames #mistletoemaniacs

Ebook on sale today. #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious

What a brilliant day. Look at all the #litsylove that arrived!! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Kaylamburson @Librarybelle @Kdgordon88

One more day to sign up for #wintergames here: https://forms.gle/8G1vWNSHPptZrvcE6

And for all our #foodandlit Littens, your hours reading for #foodandlit COUNT as a readathon for #wintergames! So you don‘t have to give up your book for the #Philippines for December to play.

So this is a reminder that the #Philippines is our last country this year!

Love this!

Here‘s a list of books in which Koko the cat solves mysteries. I‘ll have to see if I can find some.

Ebook on sale today. #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious

There are poems and excerpts and short stories in this encyclopedia of cats. As a result, I am reading for the first time Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story, The Black Cat. I can‘t say I care for it very much given the cruelty in it. There should have been trigger warnings, but I don‘t think such things existed in the 1990s when this book was compiled.

My son loaned me his books as I make my way through the 20+ hours of the tagged book (and hopefully the next 40+ hours of the next two LOTR books).

Wow! https://getpocket.com/explore/item/12-literary-plagiarism-scandals-ranked?utm_so...

I kept looking for Jojo Moyes whose Giver of Stars has been accused of plagiarism. More here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/tomiobaro/jojo-moyes-t...

Ebook free today. #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious

I‘m in the homestretch now for #litsyatoz. My last two letters A and Q are underway! Z got cut off. I read Zombie Party for scarathlon. Books in bold are wishful thinking to read by year‘s end. Not too shabby for having about a 3-month slump. But jury selection in my big trial starts this week, so how much spare time I‘m going to have is questionable. Hoping to win the trial first and foremost and if I can, meet most of my 2021 Litsy challenges.

Planning my December and all the readathons and challenges I‘m doing: #litsyAtoZ #littenlistenaudioathon #foodandlit #Philippines #authoramonth #readingasia2021 #wintergames for #mistletoemaniacs

I‘ve also signed up for #wintercosy and #averymerryreadathon and #averymerrybingo

I also hope to do some of the shorter readathons going on in the month.

The most fun we can have on Litsy, the Winter Games! Sign-ups close Dec 1. Sign up here:

https://forms.gle/8G1vWNSHPptZrvcE6

Thanks to @Clwojick and @StayCurious for hosting again this year!

I‘ve had this book, a perfect gift for me, since the 1990s and only now reading it. #litsyatoz is the perfect excuse! And who knew? It‘s the a-to-z‘s about cats!

The dedication.

Next up! Only two books left for #Litsyatoz—letter A is underway and now I‘m starting #letterQ. My cat is looking skeptically at it.

This is a sweet story of an orphan boy who becomes a bellboy at the London Savoy when he meets the beautiful Russian Prince Kaspar the cat. His adventures with the cat lead him to stowaway on the Titanic, “the only cat who survived its sinking.” Gorgeous illustrations. This is the British version and it‘s a gorgeous book. The book says it is for 7+ years, maybe so, for a child who can deal with a lot of death and sadness. #letterK #litsyatoz

Started this one today!

Ebook on sale today. #wintergamesreads

3 free holiday ebooks! #wintergamesreads @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @StayCurious