I‘ve received my ARC for the tagged book from The Smuthood PR. The deadline to turn in my review to The Smuthood PR is on or before July 18th. After I write my review for The Secret Of Chimneys by Agatha Christie and post it online then I need to start this book next. I‘m going to be reading on my Kindle this month but I have to take breaks. Last month, I had to stop reading because my eyes were hurting after reading for 3 hours with no breaks.

I downloaded this book tonight from Chasing Books PR as well as the book Wrangled Love by Ann Einerson that was sent to me from The Smuthood PR. This one doesn‘t have to be read or reviewed right now. They have the ARC of book 2 right now but I‘m not signing up. I‘m going to be reading 2 ARCs this month and I don‘t know what else I‘ll be accepted for because I signed up for ARCs from Chasing Books PR and The Smuthood PR.

Yay! I just got approved for this ARC. I‘m excited about this book because of the couple this book is following. Now, I have 2 ARCs to read. I‘ll be getting one from The Smuthood PR and I‘ll be getting this one from Chasing Books PR the day before my birthday. Trick Play by LA Shaw is not on Litsy so I‘ll be posting my review under the tagged book by Eden Finley.

Today‘s haiku is inspired by this information I just saw on Facebook about Dolphins.

Dolphins get high off of Pufferfish
How did they know to do this?
I thought animals didn‘t know how to get high

#haiku #haikuhive

Here‘s my July #readyourkindle picks. #10 is one of the books from the #naturalitsy buddy read. I‘m hoping to read 3 of the books from the reading list this month and maybe read the July book if I have time. I‘m trying to catch up with the buddy read. The last 3 picks are Kindle Unlimited prompts. I have 20 books checked out on there right now to read. 20 is the limit you can check out but I haven‘t had time to read them.

Here‘s my progress on #30booksin3months. I completed the first row. It‘s interesting that I started and finished the first row with Agatha Christie books. I just finished the Agatha Christie story from June.

Here‘s my July #readyourkindle list.

These are my July #roll100 picks. #64 is the June #LSFBC pick that I didn‘t get around to reading. #84 is the next book I‘ll be reading for #naturalitsy. I‘m working on catching up with the buddy read. #46 is the next short story I‘m reading this month for the #christiescapers buddy read.

Here‘s my July #bookspinbingo board. My theme for my bingo board is July 4th so I chose a July 4th background.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo July picks. My #bookspin is the short story we‘re reading for #christiescapers this month. My #doublespin is the July book for #naturalitsy. I don‘t know if I‘ll get around to reading it because I‘m still behind on the #naturalitsy buddy read.

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo list for July. July is my birthday month. July 9th is my birthday. I‘ll be turning 35.

This is the leader of the #whimsicalreadsbookclub. Did she block me? I went to her profile to see if I can find out what we‘re reading this month and this is what I saw when I went to her profile. What did I do? All I wanted was to participate in the book club. If she wanted me to leave then she should‘ve told me what I did wrong and then removed me. Does it have to do with my review I wrote for When The Tides Held The Moon? This is so hurtful.

Yay! I was approved for this ARC from The Smuthood PR this month.

I‘m tagging today‘s haiku under this book I read about Capybaras. I saw this picture of a Capybara and a Cat on Facebook and I wanted to write a haiku about it.

A Capybara and a Cat
They look like they‘re best friends
Very different animals but it‘s so cute to see this

#haiku #haikuhive

I had a bad dream last night but it felt real. My ex boyfriend Tanner appeared in my dream last night and we talked. This is how our conversation went. I woke up with my heart racing after this. I was typing out all of this dialogue today from last night‘s dream that I had and my hand started shaking. This is the hand that has the hand tremor. My hand is still shaking.

#whatsnewwednesday

I made more progress in this book tonight. I have 2 hours and 39 minutes left. This is June‘s story.

#christiescapers

Since I started participating in the #noplacelikeholmes and #christiescapers buddy reads, I realized that I like classic murder mysteries. They don‘t have any sex or blood or bad language. The characters are just solving a murder. I find it very refreshing from other mysteries and thrillers I‘ve read before. I read 1 Nancy Drew book a long time ago called “The Hidden Staircase” and I enjoyed it.

This is a picture of David Muir. Today‘s haiku is inspired by him. I like watching ABC World News With David Muir on TV. He always ends his show with a feel-good story at the end so you‘re left feeling like there‘s at least some hope in the world. He wasn‘t on last Friday night and I said to my mom,”David isn‘t on. Where is he?”

David Muir
My favorite ABC World News anchor
I watch him every night from 5:30-6:00 PM CST

#haiku #haikuhive

Here‘s how I did on my June #roll100 picks. I read 2 out of 3 book club books. The only one I didn‘t get to read was the book for the #LSFBC and I wanted to read it. I just didn‘t have time but I want to read it in July.

Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo board.

Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo June picks. I started Royal Assassin for the #realmofelderlings buddy read but I only read the prologue. I feel like I didn‘t have time to read very much of this book. I didn‘t read the book club book. I want to read it but I will read it another time. I don‘t have time to read it right now.

Here‘s how I did on my #bookspinbingo list. I didn‘t get to read all of the book club books I wanted to read but I did read 2 of them. I was thinking I could participate in more than 2 book clubs this month because they were all reading books I wanted to read but I didn‘t have time. I didn‘t get to read the #LSFBC book this month and I wanted to. I started the #christiescapers book but I‘m not finished with it yet.

Here‘s how I did on my #readyourkindle picks in June. I read 3 out of 4. The only thing I didn‘t get to do was mood read a book from Kindle Unlimited.

Here‘s how I did on my #readyourkindle list in June. I started Royal Assassin for #realmofelderlings buddy read but I only read the prologue. I finished a series for #serieslove2025. I read some of the books on the #naturalitsy list. I started the short story for #christiescapers but I didn‘t finish it before the end of the month. I read the short stories for #noplacelikeholmes and I read the #whimsicalreadsbookclub book.

Here‘s my June reading wrap-up from StoryGraph.

The first book was a book I read for the #naturalitsy buddy read that‘s about insects. The second book is a #whimsicalreadsbookclub we read in June. It‘s a cozy fantasy book. The third book is a dark romance ARC I read for The Smuthood PR. The fourth book is the short stories I read this month for #noplacelikeholmes. These are all very different books. I like to read different books or I get bored.

#weeklyfavorites

I‘m not finished with this book yet for the #christiescapers buddy read so I‘ll be finishing it in July. I have 4 hours and 19 minutes left.

Here‘s my June Book Haul. I started writing down my Stuff Your Kindle books in my Novelly Yours reading journal and then I decided I didn‘t want to finish writing the rest of them down but I figured out that I ended up getting 153 free Kindle books during Stuff Your Kindle Day. I had to make an Instagram reel just to show all of my Stuff Your Kindle books because I went crazy but at least they were all free books.

#bookhaul

I just looked at my inbox and saw that I‘ve been accepted into the 2025 Sourcebooks Audio Influencer Program. I‘m happy about this but I forgot that I signed up. Do I deserve this opportunity? Am I taking this opportunity away from someone else who deserves it more? I‘m behind on reading ARCs and I haven‘t caught up yet but maybe I‘m not the only one who‘s falling behind.

I wanted to share this group text that I‘m in with my mom, my brother and my sister in law because I thought it was funny. It was about this picture that I took with my brother and sister in law but none of us remember where the picture was taken. Lol.

I saw this story today on Facebook when I was scrolling through my newsfeed and it inspired today‘s haiku.

Doodlebug the baby kangaroo
holding on to his teddy bear for comfort
because he lost his mama

#haiku #haikuaday #haikuhive

Happy Cancer Season! It‘s also the start of celebrating the July birthdays in my family. I guess my mom‘s boyfriend is part of my family too because him and my mom have been together for years.

My birthday is July 9. My sister-in-law‘s birthday is July 25. My mom‘s boyfriend Donnie has 2 daughters named Ashlee and Sydney. Donnie‘s youngest daughter Sydney has her birthday on July 26 and my mom‘s birthday is on July 30.

This haiku is about what I saw in my backyard today. The blue jay flew off when I opened the door and I saw a lizard in the grass panting like he was scared to death. He was fighting for his life trying to keep from getting eaten. Poor baby. This picture of the Blue Jay is from Google.

Blue jay fighting with a lizard
The fight ended with the lizard panting in the grass
The lizard won the fight because he didn‘t get eaten

#haiku #haikuhive

After reading this book, I learned what a Jacob‘s Ladder piercing is. The main male character has one. It‘s a piercing that‘s done on the underside of the penis. A guy can choose to have one piercing down there or multiple ones but the piercing resembles a ladder. I had to Google it because I didn‘t know what it was. I‘ve never heard of it before. Why would a guy want to have that done? That sounds like that would hurt.

I just started this week‘s short story for the #christiescapers buddy read. I like it so far. I won‘t be finished in time for the discussion on Sunday but I hope to finish this story before the end of the month.

I just finished reading this week‘s short story for #noplacelikeholmes.

Here‘s my review for this book that I just finished reading. This book is not on Litsy. I‘m supposed to turn in my review on or by July 1 to The Smuthood PR and I just submitted my link to my review before the deadline. I really didn‘t want to ask for more time to finish this book and get it reviewed and now, I don‘t have to. Yay!

#arc

I just finished reading Filthy Little Regrets and I see at the back of the book that more books are coming in this series which is great because I really liked the side characters in this. I‘m looking forward to reading the next 2 books. I don‘t know when they‘re coming out. It just says coming soon. I want to read Pretty Little Threats.

This haiku is dedicated to my backyard wild birds and squirrels. I fed the birds and put out peanuts for the squirrels yesterday and put in fresh water in the bird bath yesterday and today. My birds and squirrels are having a party outside today in my backyard. They‘re happy.

Birds and squirrels having a party in the backyard
Taking baths, drinking water, scarfing down the food
like they haven‘t been fed in 4 or 5 days

#haiku #haikuhive

#chatterday

I got really far in this book tonight while doing laundry. I wish I could‘ve kept on going but I had to stop because my eyes started hurting. I need to rest my eyes. I had 3 hours left in the ebook and now, I have 21 minutes left. I just have the epilogue left to read now. I didn‘t know reading ebooks for a long time without taking breaks causes your eyes to start hurting. I only took a break to do laundry and that was it.

I‘m reading this ARC and I just learned about a piercing on the male genitals mentioned in this book called a Jacob‘s Ladder. I thought,”What is that?” And I just googled it and I thought,”Doesn‘t that hurt guys to have that done?” The male main character in this book has that piercing. I‘ve never heard of this before. It‘s amazing what you can learn from reading books.

This month is almost over and I just looked at the reading schedules for #christiescapers and #noplacelikeholmes and I saw that I need to start reading the short stories for both buddy reads while trying to finish the ARC I‘m reading for The Smuthood PR. I have to post my ARC review by July 1 so I only have 4 days left to finish reading my ARC and 3 hrs left in the book. I can probably finish my ARC tonight because I usually stay up late.

1. I watched this show about wild cats on the Kanopy app.
2. I watched Remember The Titans. I saw it when I was a little girl but I forgot that I‘ve seen it.
3. I finished my chicken salad from last night and had some tuna fish salad with it.
4&5. I reapplied for St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers Program after being in it for years and I got rejected but at least I get to read ARCs for The Smuthood PR and Chasing Books PR.

#5joysfriday

I took the #threelistthursday quiz on a Friday and I wanted to share my thoughts about the movies I watched from the Summer Movies list.

My score was: 25 of 100 - 25% so I did better this time.

This haiku is dedicated to the chicken salad I had for dinner last night that my mom brought home from Chicken Salad Chick. She brought it home before and it‘s really good. I still have some left over from last night. It‘s called Cranberry Kelli. My name is Kelli.

Chicken salad from Chicken Salad Chick.
They named it Cranberry Kelli and it‘s really good.
It has to be because it‘s named after me.

#haiku #haikuaday #haikuhive

I‘m enjoying this book. I have 3 hours left in the ebook. This dark romance book has the enemies to lovers trope. I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a romance novel with that trope in it before but I like what I‘ve read so far.

I lost my spot in the 2025 St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers Program but I‘ve been a member of the Celadon Readers Program for years. They haven‘t made me reapply. They just ask me to update my information I gave them when I applied so they can keep their records updated. Celadon mentions you‘ll be considered for approval if you have a lot of followers. I don‘t have a lot of followers but they accepted me into their program.

I journal. I don‘t journal before bed every night if I don‘t have anything to write about but recently, I reapplied for the St. Martin‘s Press Early Readers Program after being in their program for years and they rejected me. I wrote about it in my journal. It ended up being a 3 page journal entry. I realized what bothered me the most was that they never used to care about how many followers you have and now, they do.

#journaling

Today, I posted my second haiku and I like haikus. They‘re fun. It didn‘t take me very long to write the one I just posted. The challenge seems to be with haiku trying to figure out what topics to write about and keeping it to just being 3 lines without ruining the structure of the haiku. Usually on #whatsnewwednesday when I‘m talking about what‘s going on with me, I have a lot to say.