And tonight‘s final update, since I‘m on a roll for once, my next read. I‘ve got a feeling mystery/thriller might be my preferred genre this year. Any recommendations? I particularly enjoy locked room mysteries 🕵🏻

I ended up actually finishing this! And really enjoyed it. The plot was engrossing and I needed to know what would happen next.

Today, one of my students surprised me with two Rainbow Rowell books! With my name!! By far one of the coolest gifts I‘ve ever received. One of the student‘s relatives is good friends with the author! What a small world.

Borrowed from a friend. I‘ve been in such a slump lately; hopefully, this one hooks me.

Ready to go for January!! @TheAromaofBooks

Okay, I‘ve got my list! Mostly comprised of titles from last year‘s lists 😂 #bookspin #bookspinbingo

The last few months got away from me, and I didn‘t complete my challenge for 2021. However, I am feeling reinvigorated and am going to make an attempt to read at least 3 books this month. Might even make a bingo board 🤩

Bring on the spooky reading 🎃 #bookspinbingo

I didn‘t forget, just behind schedule! Trying to jump back into reading. Making my #bookspinbingo card next!

I‘ve been so indecisive lately about what to read next. I have a poll going in my classroom to have my students choose for me 😂 But I‘ve just been in a slump again. Going to try out October‘s book club book next. I also wrote my first blog post in a year (link in bio!!), so maybe I‘ll get back to book reviews again!? I love writing but always forget to post anything 🙃

School started and I got lost in the chaos for the past few weeks, but I‘m back to try reading this! Tiktok said it‘s confusing, and I love a challenge 😂 No #bookspinbingo for me for September, but I‘m going to try for next month!

My review of this month‘s #bookspin book that I can‘t believe I finished 🥳 already. Definitely a book I would have enjoyed more as a kid, if I could have followed all of the characters. Outdated language also took me away from the story. I‘m looking forward to my #doublespin this week! With cover illustrated by my fave Charlie Bowater 🥰

My August #bookspinbingo with #bookspin The Princess Will Save You and #doublespin The Westing Game (which I made great time with and finished!! A record for the month 😂).

This has been in my classroom for years (and I had inherited this well-worn copy). Finally reading it. I love a good closed room mystery. Not 100% sure if this counts as closed room, but close enough. It‘s okay, a little outdated perhaps. One I‘ve wanted to check off my list for a while though, and it‘s short! 😂

My August list! Trying to get some more YA in this month before school starts. If anyone has suggestions for grades 7-8 high interest books, please send them my way! Especially nonfiction and graphic novels, which my class library needs more of. #bookspin #bookspinbingo

I know there‘s a few days left, but I think this is as far as I‘ll get for my July #bookspinbingo board. I‘m very excited that I got one of the book spin books actually read 😂 I‘m hoping to make August a more consistent reading month since I won‘t be so busy with classes.

Tagging a random book because this one isn‘t on Litsy. I‘ve been reading romances lately thanks to about a million TikTok recommendations I‘ve come across, and I‘m about to start book two in this series. Witches, mages, demons, etc, very entertaining! Check TW from the author at the start of the book. The series (Emerald Lakes) is on Kindle Unlimited 😎

I‘ve never read a Hades/Persephone retelling, and I really loved this one. I will definitely read others in the series. And this was my #doublespin book! I finally finished one 😎 @TheAromaofBooks

Had a great 3 hour drive to start this yesterday, and I‘m really enjoying it so far. Hoping to finish at some point during my VA stay 😄

Airport reading 🥰 Flying to Charlotte, NC then driving to VA to visit my in-laws for a few days!

Here we go for July #bookspinbingo 😎
#bookspin - In Deeper Waters
#doublespin - Neon Gods

It‘s been a while, but now that I have free time, I‘m giving #bookspin and #bookspinbingo another go for July!

I loved The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and had been waiting for this book to come out. I got so distracted by life, I didn‘t realize it was out last October! Excited that I ran into it at B&N, on a “booktok” shelf of all things. I‘m flying to VA later this week and have plenty to read at the moment!

After seeing this book incessantly on TikTok, I finally gave in 😂 I don‘t know what I expected, but this wasn‘t as bad as it could have been. Very much an 18+ read. Check the TW. I don‘t know if I‘ll read any others in the series (I think there are 22 total!?) but I‘m thinking these might serve as a quick break in between longer books.

This was wonderful, not at all what I expected. If you read some Goodreads reviews, others mention how oddly this was marketed as a YA romance. There is some romance, but really the only YA part of the book is their age. I don‘t usually pick up space books (they stress me out!) but this has great twists and was totally worth the read. Brings up some great questions about life and our purpose as humans.

I haven‘t read a book since March (except for 3 rather lengthy HP fanfics I devoured in the past couple weeks 🤓) but I am here to say that I am on day 1 of summer break after the most trying school year ever, and I am ready to read through the piles of books that have been building up throughout my house 📚Cheers to summer reading! And being back on my favorite app.

I‘ve missed my book club meetings for the past couple months (in-person school has been a wild ride), and I realized today (ten minutes ago) that tomorrow‘s meeting is one I‘ve been looking forward to! So here I am, about to try and read this in a day 😂

Finally read this! I wouldn‘t call it a brilliant book, but the end did take me by surprise. I took March off from #bookspinbingo because I felt like trying to fill in my squares was stressing me out to the point I wasn‘t reading because I couldn‘t choose a book😂 but I‘m back in the swing of it and hoping to put together a list for April 🥰 And I‘m still ahead of schedule for the year so far! 📚📚📚

I couldn‘t find this book to tag - but I am loving paranormal and dark romances lately. This one is pretty predictable but I love a good shifter story. Any suggestions? I really know nothing about the romance genre or any subgenres. I saw Den of Vipers on TikTok and just jumped into the deep end 😂

I‘ve started giving friends and family a booklist for holidays, and wow did it pay off for my birthday 😍🥳 Feeling very grateful for this year, the last year of my 20s! And looking forward to lots of reading.

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I went in really disliking Nesta and ended up loving her journey. And of course I cried on and off throughout the last 200 pages or so 😂

We are ready (to probably cry a lot).

February has been very busy, but I‘m finally on my vacation week! Hoping to finish one more book tonight before ACOSF tomorrow. I don‘t know if I‘ll make it to 10 this month, but I‘m going to try! Also going to try and read a tbr instead of more random kindle books 🤦🏻‍♀️😬

Finished my #bookspinbingo card! Already starting with a free space 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Alright, for January I ended up reading 9 books, but only a few were on my #bookspinbingo list 🙃 Trying to hit at least 10 on this list for February.

I‘m still in a slump and cannot decide on anything!! If there are any good fantasy, historical, romance, YA, or any combination of those on Kindle unlimited (or any platform for that matter) that you‘d recommend, please let me know! I am desperate for something engaging from the first chapter 😬

Here‘s a cat in a basket because I have been in a reading slump after a great start to the year 🙃I did start this one the other day and hope to keep reading this weekend! #catsoflitsy

Random book tag to say - I am so excited for our Madam Vice President. I am thrilled that my students and my nieces will live in a world that reflects them a little more tomorrow than it does today. And I will be wearing my pearls during all of my Zoom classes tomorrow.

This book kind of felt like an early episode of Supernatural - especially with the big bad not having much of a resolution. Obviously this is the first in a long series... but I wasn‘t super impressed. I don‘t love second person addresses to the reader, and there were a lot of “you‘ll see later” moments. How about, show me now? 🤪 But I have the second book and do want to see if it gets better, so I‘ll keep reading for now! | ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I swear I‘m going to stop buying books 🤣 But I finally found this at my local bookstore and had to get it.

Any other remote teachers out there? I‘ve been remote all year and we are making moves to get in the building in the next few weeks. Still no vaccines. I am so overwhelmed at the thought of concurrent teaching. Trying to ignore all the stress while I still have time 😅 Starting this today.

25% in, not sure about this. I don‘t often read urban fantasy, & this one is pretty dated. Mentions of iPods and Internet cafes are a bit much for me😂 This book is making me realize that I must avoid this issue bc I prefer high fantasy or just older books without much tech. I‘m also not loving the verb tense? The character is telling the story from a year later, but some sentences are just weird. Along with all the cheese and pink nail polish.

I am on a never-ending quest to find series with great world building, preferably with Fae and magic of some kind. Just saw this on TikTok and it was available on Libby! And if anyone has other stand-alone or series recs, please let me know!!

Actually - I was going to start something new BUT why not reread a comfort book for the millionth time 🤪 My best friend finally got to the point in book 1 where she‘s interested and I can‘t wait for her to get to this one. I know many think this series is overrated but I just love it so, so much. The next in the series is coming out right around my birthday next month, so maybe I‘ll reread to prepare for that 🤔

The books I picked up yesterday. I hadn‘t heard about the tagged book, but I saw the cover and.. there was a cat! And it also sounds like a very cool concept. I‘m having trouble getting into Furyborn, so I might try it out tonight.

Also today (and yes my tree is still up 😂) my best friend and I exchanged late Christmas gifts - and she got me the mini books 😍 Will I ever read them? Probably not. Will I display them on a shelf and show everyone who walks into my house (eventually) how cute they are? 100%.

Ehem... remember when I wasn‘t buying any books this year 😅 I think I‘m going to have to say January doesn‘t count. I only got 4 though!

I really want to multitask and read about 3 other books at once 😂 but I am continuing with #bookspin 20 tonight and cannot wait for the weekend.

Eh. Kinda cute at times. Mostly predictable. I found myself skimming through paragraphs to get to something actually happening vs the protagonist‘s inner monologue. I didn‘t love the writing overall; I don‘t think I‘d look into the author‘s other works unless someone recommended something specific. | ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A shorter read in-between the series I have going on. A writer goes to his family‘s Vermont cabin to beat writer‘s block and starts to receive threats and a murder occurs. Bought on an impulse, interested to see how this one is.