This book is really good, but I have to take it in really slowly - a hard balance to strike when I'm assigned 3-4 chapters a day for my intensive course. 😅 Listening to the audiobook and then rereading in the print book has been helpful for engaging deeply - although, audiobookers be warned, there are a lot of meaty footnotes left out! #DoubleSpin

A very mixed bag, and I would only consider it worth a read if you have a connection to Berkeley! As someone who's been in Berkeley for a few years, it was a fun way to encounter familiar places (like Moe's Books and Indian Rock!) and think more about what makes Berkeley, Berkeley. Also, it was easy reading at the end of long days of studying! 👍

Working hard at taking care of myself while making it through this intensive course! (And loving this course reading so much 😍) (Featuring two of my favorite MochiThings notebooks and the only highlighter I'll use in books!)

I decided to start my year off with #SerialReader and chose this book because I remember enjoying the only Agatha Christie I've read: And Then There Were None. Also, this genre seems like a good vibe for a book I read in daily snippets on my phone! 👍 @SerialReader

I've been spending more time with prayer+devotional journaling lately, and this little book has been lovely so far. ❤️

I gathered my lists of books read this year into 1 list today (52 books total) and then chose my top 10 (listed here in the order I read them)! Although I didn't read as many books this year as in the past, there were so many good ones that it was really hard to pick only 10 - and technically I cheated by including 2 series 😅 Anyway, these were all amazing and I'd recommend them! 😊 (And if you've read them, I'd love to hear your thoughts!)

I'm ready to jump back into #BookSpinBingo in January 2022! 🎉 Since I don't have much time to read but want/need the motivation of a bingo board, each of my books gets 1-4 squares depending on how hard I think it will be to finish it. Whatever my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are, I will try to finish those books in their entirety. (If both numbers are the same book, I'll think of a plan B) I'm excited for the new year of reading! 😊 @TheAromaOfBooks

I've been trying to do a bit of reading before bed each night, after I've put away electronics for the day, and short stories have been working well for that! I usually read about one and then go to sleep. 😂 This collection has been fun because I live in Berkeley right now! 😊

POV: you figured out something big about yourself this fall 😅 With so much of my reading attention oriented toward graduate school or my new diagnosis, I dropped off the face of Litsy, but I'm hoping to ease back into it and maybe join a couple reading challenges for next year! 😊

Finished in time for a great book club meeting! Really readable and written with a lot of heart and historical research. If you're interested in how the intersection of sexism and racism has impacted Black women in the US historically, and especially the ways white women and feminists have excluded Black women, this is an accessible start!

#DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter #BirthdayBash @TheAromaofBooks

Happy Birthday, @TheAromaofBooks ! I hope you're able to squeeze a bit of reading in. I'll mostly be reading these 3 today. The left 2 are for seminary and the right is for book club (which is meeting today! I'm almost finished! 😅) #BirthdayBash

#Scarathlon2022 #TeamSlaughter #Week2 cumulative point total is 483! I've been doing well getting in a bit of fun reading every day. Although I didn't finish any books this week, I'm now over halfway through a few books! Making progress on my #BookSpinBingo too. 😊 @Clwojick

Week 1 of #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter - 226 points, I think! I realized some of my reading counts for #BookSpinBingo but not for #BFC21, so I had to separate out my point tallying. I've done really well making time for little bits of reading for fun! And I'm halfway through the tagged and loving it. I think it'll count as a theme read? Because of Dune trying to solve the mystery of the syndrome. And it's my #BookSpin! @Clwojick

This week's death class reading is just this book in its entirety, and we're going to Fernwood Cemetery tomorrow as a field trip! Thankful that this is such a quick read, I've barely had any time to work on it this week. 😅 Should have this book done for #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter and #BookSpinBingo by tonight/tomorrow morning! 👍

I've made a good start on the #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter #BuddyRead while cooking/cleaning/walking, and I'm enjoying getting out of my comfort zone with it. It's a great brain break from graduate school reading! Eager to piece together what's going on with Laura. 👀

I forgot to post this, but I did okay with September's #BookSpinBingo! Finished my #BookSpin at least. 😅 I kept my #DoubleSpin on my board for this month and will hopefully finish it in October! @TheAromaofBooks

@CounterfeitNickel and I did a dinner + used bookstore date last night and picked up this beautiful book, then read it together last night. The illustrations are gorgeous, the pages are thick and textured, and the story (a take on a 12th c. Persian epic) magical and weird. Glad we bumped into this! I'd like the read the translated original next. Off to a good start with my #BFC21 goal of reading for fun and my #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter reading!

I didn't keep up with #BFC21 well last month. This time I've made a little tracker on the same pages as my #BookSpinBingo and #Scarathlon2021 tracking, and I've kept my goals simple: Read for fun and practice good sleep hygiene (especially taking time to wind down instead of staying up late studying and then tossing myself into bed immediately, that doesn't work for me as an adult like it did as a teen) at least 21 days each. 👍 @wanderinglynn

This'll serve as both my #BookSpinBingo list and my #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter TBR for October! I'm having a hard time reading anything that isn't required for seminary right now, so I've divided most of the other books into halves or thirds to encourage myself to at least make some progress! Really looking forward to October and hopefully being on Litsy more. 🥰 @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick

Working on my #BookSpin in a park in Palo Alto, California! 😊

Going to join in very gently with #BFC21 for the month! I'm setting 2 habit intentions, with my goal being 21 days for each. With my third year of my Master of Divinity starting next week, I want to be intentional about making space for reading for fun (with my eyes or ears). I also want to explore yoga and see how that sits with my body and spirit. Thanks, @wanderinglynn , for running this. ❤️

Let's go!! Excited for September's #BookSpinBingo. I've already started my #BookSpin (tagged) and I'm excited for the prompting to finish it! (Hopefully before classes start next week?) And the #DoubleSpin is good prompting to finish the series and get to talk about Summer with my partner's mom! 😊 @TheAromaofBooks

I'm ready for September's #BookSpinBingo! Split a couple tough reads into multiple slots again (notably the tagged), and included some slots for seminary assigned reading - I think I'll have enough reading to finish a couple books in September. 😅 Classes start next week, and I plan to read lots before then! (And play Stardew Valley lots 😅) #BookSpin #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

Here are my final results for #BookSpinBingo! I finished 5 books in August. I didn't get to my #BookSpin at all (maybe next month I will - I'm keeping it on my list!) and I met my goal with my #DoubleSpin (reading half of the tagged). I had two 5 star reads: A Psalm for the Wild-Built and You Are Your Best Thing, and I think the tagged will be 5 stars too! Good month. ❤ #AugustWrapUp @TheAromaOfBooks

Trying to finish up a few more books before posting my #BookSpinBingo results for August! This one is so absolutely delightful. 🥰

Today is my 5 year #Litsyversary, and I just finished this little book in Yosemite, on the porch of the hotel my partner and I are staying at. ? What a strange and compelling fever dream of a book, capturing Shepard's last days in a kind of "autofiction." Makes me a little curious to read some of Shepard's other work! But barely a pick for me, 3/5 stars, just didn't *love* it.

Over these 5 years, I've always come back to Litsy. Love it here. ❤️

I'm not feeling well and I'm done with my hospital chaplain internship, so it's time to get cozy with my new Switch and the manga of my favorite anime.💛 (On my #bookspinbingo card too!)

#BookSpinBingo really said “Continue your James Baldwin kick that began with #AuthorAMonth, Katie!“ and I shall listen. Both my #BookSpin and my #DoubleSpin numbers are .5 of their respective books, because my brain is tired and I read Baldwin's essays very slowly. 😅 @TheAromaofBooks

I'd like to join in this month @TheAromaofBooks ! 😊 I've included some books I'm already reading, and I've double-listed books that I think will be hard for me to finish. I'm thinking each half of those books will qualify for 1 bingo space if that's okay? I finish my hospital chaplaincy internship on Friday so I should have more time and energy for reading and Litsy soon! 👍 #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #BookSpinBingo2021

My #20in4 #Readathon went well! I finished 2 audiobooks, started listening to The Weight of Ink in addition to reading it in print, and read a few pages of A Psalm for the Wild-Built with #Pippin at my side on my one day off. I haven't had much energy or time for reading in print, but my commute gives me 3 hours of reading time a day! I got 10 hours in this readathon. 😊 #20in4Readathon @Andrew65 #DogsOfLitsy #BostonTerriersOfLitsy

#20in4 #Readathon starts today and goes thru Tuesday! Thank you, @Andrew65 , for hosting. 😊 I'm gonna try to make some progress on all these books I'm #CurrentlyReading. I don't know how much time I'll have, especially since today I'm chaplain on-call at the hospital, but at least my commute gives me about 3 hours of audiobook time each day! I'll definitely finish the tagged, and it'll definitely break my heart. #20in4Readathon

When you can't pick just one book for a video call reading date 😍 (I ended up reading from the tagged for this particular date!) @CounterfeitNickel

Have any of y'all read The Weight of Ink? It's my church's book club pick for August, which will be the only meeting I've been able to make since 2019 and will be the only one I can make for the foreseeable future. I'm reading it mostly to connect with them!

@underground_bks You convinced me! (Not that it took too much convincing 😉) When I got off for the day at the hospital, I went back to that indie bookstore and got myself this gorgeous Becky Chambers book, and some tea and a pastry for dinner at the attached coffee shop! A lovely way to end my day. 🥰 #BlameItOnLitsy #BookHaul

A recent gift from @CounterfeitNickel , perfectly timed with my current Baldwin phase and July's #AuthorAMonth being Baldwin! On this Sabbath day of rest before a busy work week, how delightful to curl up with this lovely edition that feels so nice in my hands, in this perfect reading chair. 😊 I'm starting at the beginning, with Notes of a Native Son!

Pure joy 🥰 #DogsOfLitsy #BostonTerriersOfLitsy #Pippin

Squeezing a couple minutes of reading the tagged while chaplain on-call at the hospital. Someone brought these flowers from their garden today, so I'm enjoying sitting by them and taking a breath after a busy 10.5 hours on-call. 🥰

A #PetPeeve for me: authors not giving citations or a bibliography in nonfiction work! Especially in something like this book, which introduces socialism. I would love some endnotes and a bibliography + further reading/learning list! 😤

My ❤️ @CounterfeitNickel loaned me this & told me to read it! PROS: Very easy, accessible read. Snarky, conversational tone. Solid little intro! CONS: Katch *intentionally* avoids giving citations or a bibliography, which is particularly frustrating in an introductory book. Generalizes a little too much about socialists (a really diverse group!). BOTTOM LINE: worth a read if you're interested in socialism or want to talk to people about socialism!

Finished the second in the trilogy with some honey vanilla chamomile tea this afternoon. 💕 Solid middle book! It's so interesting to see how Lilith's hope is working out from the first book, and to think about what I would do in the situations these humans, constructs, and aliens are put into. Freedom, identity, consent, assimilation, resistance, violence, connection... Much to think about. Writing is not beautiful, but simple and easy to read.

My urge to listen to some James Baldwin-themed audiobooks this month during my #audiocommute coincided unexpectedly with Baldwin being July's #AuthorAMonth! I finished my reread of The Fire Next Time, and now I'm onto The Fire This Time. Then Eddie Glaude's book, which is subtitled "James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own." I've been meaning to read the latter two for a while! Then maybe more Baldwin himself? ? @Soubhiville

Take breaks when you can. Rest matters. ❤️ After work yesterday I tucked myself into a corner by the window in Panera and read while slowly eating dinner. 🥰

Sunday afternoon reading 🥰 Excited to have my hands on the new Jhumpa Lahiri! My mom got it from the library and handed it to me after she finished it. I'm 18 pages in and it's glorious so far!

One of my favorite things: sitting incorrectly in a chair, curled up around a good book! ? "Compulsory sexuality" is an important addition to the conversation about sexuality and sex, inspired by Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." Ace (asexual) discourse has a lot to offer to understanding the full range of human sexuality and desire better!

Another virtual reading party with my love. 🥰 2 very good books being read! @CounterfeitNickel

Easy morning manga reading after a night of ministry and very little sleep. I love this ministry of presence as a chaplain at the hospital. ❤️

I have today off before my 12 hour overnight on-call shift at the hospital, so I'm taking it easy and resting up! Had a little virtual reading party with @CounterfeitNickel on the porch in which we did more quote-sharing than reading. 🥰

When you're not ready to pause your audiobook so you sit in the car for a few minutes listening before you go into work 😍 #audiocommute

*Trying* to read some while I'm the chaplain on call at the hospital.