I started listening to this book today at the dog park with my dog. I‘m enjoying this book so far.

#readyourkindle

1. Meryl Streep. I‘ve liked a few movies that she‘s been in but my favorite movie she was in was It‘s Complicated. That one was funny.

2. Nicole Kidman. I‘ve liked the 3 movies I‘ve seen her in. The most recent movies I saw her in were Aquaman and then Aquaman 2. I liked her in those.

3. Renee Zellweger. I liked her in the Bridget Jones movies. My mom and I like those movies. They‘re so funny.

#threelistthursday

The first 6 highlighted books are books I just finished and I‘m making them Mood Reading prompts or I can make 3 of them Read Your Kindle prompts and 3 of them Mood Reading prompts. I can‘t decide what I want to fill in the blanks with but I don‘t have to decide right now. I have time to think about it. I like the idea of having both prompts since I have to fill in the first 6 blanks with books next month when I‘m setting up my list.

Here‘s how my bingo board is looking now. I‘ve finished all of my ARCs that I had to read this month. I don‘t know if I‘m going to get a bingo or not. I‘m going to start reading the trilogy on my #readyourkindle list and I‘ll see if I have time to read any of my #bookspin books. I‘ve earned 6 mood reads for my #bookspinbingo list next month because I read 6 ARCs this month. That‘s my reward for next month.

I finally figured out how to import my Netgalley Reading Journal to the Notability app and how to download the included stickers. I‘ve seen other people online with digital journals and I want to try it out too. I haven‘t done it before. The idea of setting it up is overwhelming me. There‘s so many tabs. I don‘t even know where to start. I will probably use this journal next year because I already have a physical journal I‘m using this year.

Yay! I‘m done filling in my Netgalley Tracker until the Fall when I‘ll probably get approved for more ARCs since I signed up for Fall 2024 ARCs from St. Martin‘s Press and all of their imprints. I‘m looking forward to reading what I want to read for a while instead of priority reads. I‘ve been reading ARCs since January and I need a break. The priority reads take up a lot of time.

Here‘s my review for a book I just DNF‘d. It‘s ridiculous how long the second chapter was. I was still reading the second chapter today at the park when I was walking my dog and the investigation for the murder is still going on so I decided that I had enough.

Release date: 4/29/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc #bookspinbingo #hailthebail

I found the Arrogant trilogy on Audible. There‘s an option to add the books to my library and I don‘t have to use any credits. These audiobooks aren‘t very long either. This is perfect timing because I‘m going to read this trilogy this month. This is on my #readyourkindle list. Having audiobooks for Kindle books helps.

1. More sleep. When I have to get up early the next day for an appointment or something that I have to do the next day, I stay up all night.
2. TikTok. I made my book account on there private because people posted mean comments on my book reviews.
3. Taking my dog for walks every day to a neighborhood park by myself. It only takes 9 mins to get there and get back home. I never used to exercise.

#wondrouswednesday

I did object writing recently in this journal I have with writing exercises in it. I struggled with this because I had to write just using the seven human senses: Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, organic (body), and kinesthetic (motion). I wrote about the night that my ex boyfriend broke up with me in 2013 and I filled up the 2 pages that are included. Maybe I should try free verse poetry instead.

#whatsnewwednesday

The chapters in this book don‘t have chapter numbers. Instead, they are labeled The First Day, The Second Day, The Third Day, The Fourth Day and The Fifth Day. I‘ve already read The First Day. Now, I‘m reading The Second Day. I‘ve been reading this chapter all night and I‘m still not done yet. Will this chapter ever end? If it doesn‘t end, I‘m going to DNF this book because this is ridiculous. It shouldn‘t take all night to read 1 chapter.

Lol. The detective is talking to someone else and then his phone started ringing. They weren‘t finished talking to each other yet.

Lol. The detective went to ring the doorbell at someone‘s house and his phone started ringing.

I just started this book. It‘s another Netgalley ARC. I‘ve been laughing since I started this book. Every time the detective in this book is talking to someone, his phone starts ringing and it interrupts the conversation he‘s having. When he answers the phone, he says to the person on the phone,”This really isn‘t a good time right now.” Why do people always call him when he‘s talking to someone else?

After I finished listening to the Long Shot playlist, I started listening to the Block Shot playlist at the dog park today with my dog. I‘ve listened to the first 5 songs and I haven‘t liked what I‘ve heard so far but I‘m going to keep listening. I like discovering new music.

#tuesdaytunes

I finished listening to the Long Shot playlist today at the dog park with my dog. I only had the last two songs to listen to. Kennedy Ryan made Spotify playlists for all 3 books in the Hoops series. I‘ve already read the books. I didn‘t like every song on here but it gave me a chance to listen to some new songs I haven‘t heard before.

#tuesdaytunes

Here‘s my review for a book I just finished reading. American History isn‘t my favorite subject to learn about but I ended up enjoying this book anyway. Will I read more books about American History? I don‘t know but I liked the musical Hamilton on Disney Plus because they made American History fun.

Release date: 4/22/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc #bookspinbingo

1. My mom is on a cruise this week so I have the house to myself and I‘m watching the dog. It‘s okay because I like being by myself. I‘m going to take my dog for a walk every day, watch a livestream tomorrow afternoon that I registered for, watch The Masked Singer on Wednesday night and read.

2. This picture that I‘m showing here is from my bedroom window today.

3. I live in TX,USA. It‘s cloudy and cool.

4. Tagged

#motivationalmonday

I read some more of this book tonight and I started coloring a new picture. I‘m using my Stylus Pen that I bought recently. I like it. I‘m having this book being read to me using Netgalley‘s Read Aloud feature. It‘s a robotic voice reading the book but it‘s great for nonfiction books. I was going to DNF this book but it‘s gotten good now. It‘s a nonfiction book but it‘s written like fiction.

#litsycrafters

Today, I‘m sharing my #weeklyfavorites. This week, I finished reading a nonfiction Netgalley ARC called Alien Earths about Space and finding life on other planets. This book is being released on April 16th. I enjoyed it which surprised me because I didn‘t like Science in school. I found Science boring in school but this book never felt dry or boring to me. This book got me interested in Science.

I started this book. I‘m not sure if I‘m going to like this book or not because I didn‘t like History class when I was in school. I thought it was boring. I still think American History is boring. This book is written like a fictional story. It doesn‘t seem like nonfiction. I‘m 60 pages into this but I don‘t feel invested yet. I‘m feeling bored. I‘m going to keep reading this but if it doesn‘t get better then I‘m going to stop reading.

Thank you for tagging me @Read4life

Photo 1 - I finished coloring this picture on Tuesday when I got home from my appointment.

Photo 2 - I signed up for St. Martin‘s Press‘s Fall 2024 books.

Photo 3 - I sent my name to Mars.

Photo 4 - I ordered a Stylus Pen and used it to finish coloring my picture.

Photo 5 - I signed up for a livestream event for the book Alien Earths. The author will be speaking. I‘m excited.

#5joysfriday

Here‘s my progress on my Netgalley Tracker. I have 2 more ARCs left to read. Yay! I‘m almost finished. Seeing this getting filled in with cute little stickers is very satisfying. The 3 stars over 2 of the books is the star ratings I gave them. I‘m interested to see if I‘ll like the last 2 books or not.

Yay! My Netgalley Shelf app is working again and someone from Netgalley responded to my email. She said that I couldn‘t sign in because of a temporary connection issue and to let them know if I still have any issues. All I had to do was complain. If I‘m having a temporary problem and it gets fixed, I say to my mom,”They fixed the problem. All I had to do was complain.” If you don‘t complain, nothing will get resolved.

I applied for the Macmillan Audio Influencer program and they rejected me and other people who applied. I‘m disappointed because I like their audiobooks but they said that everyone can apply again when they open applications later so maybe they‘ll accept me next time if I try again later.

1. Sixteen Candles

2. Pretty In Pink

3. Dirty Dancing

I was born in 1990 so I didn‘t see any 80‘s movies until later on. Every time I watch something on TV from another decade with my mom, I say to her,”This movie looks like it‘s from another decade.” And she says to me,”That‘s because it is.”

#threelistthursday

I was on my Netgalley Shelf app on my phone looking at the 2 ARCs I have to read next and the app started giving me issues so I closed out of it thinking that would fix the problem but it didn‘t. Instead, it created a new problem. The app signed me out and now, I can‘t sign back in so I went to the website and sent my ARCs to my Kindle. I‘ve sent Netgalley an email about it. Until I can sign back in, I‘m not going to use the app to read ARCs.

Here‘s how I‘m doing on #bookspinbingo so far. I don‘t have a bingo yet. I haven‘t even started reading the other books on my list because I have 6 Netgalley ARCs to read this month. I‘ve finished 2 and DNF‘d 2. I have 2 ARCs left to read. I‘m going to move on to the next ARC on my list.

I‘m looking at my Netgalley ratio again. It‘s still low. It‘s not where I want it to be but I‘ll get there. I DNF‘d a lot of the ARCs that I was sent. A long time ago when my ratio was low like it is now, I noticed that reading books from the Read Now section on the website really helped get my ratio up because I don‘t have to worry about my request being approved or anything so maybe I should read books that say Read Now or Listen Now on them.

Here‘s my review for a book I just finished reading.

Release date: 4/16/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc #bookspinbingo

I just finished reading this book and it mentioned at the end of the book sending your name to Mars so I decided to do it. It sounded really cool. I saw on my account that I‘ve sent my name to Mars before because the first time I sent my name to Mars was 2015 and the departure year was 2018 so this will be my second time. I don‘t know when they‘re going back over there.

1. 🤔🪐🔭

2. I don‘t know if I‘m going to love it or not because I thought World History and Social Studies was boring when I was in school and I never retained the information but I‘m going to start a book next about Charles Sumner who was a civil rights hero in American History. I don‘t know if we learned about him in school or not.

3. Danielle Steel. I like her writing.

#wondrouswednesday

I had my appointment yesterday at the IDD services office. I had to answer a lot of questions and take an IQ test. I have Autism which falls under the IDD spectrum. They told me that I qualify for services. After the IQ test, I was told that I‘m Borderline meaning that I don‘t have an intellectual disability but I also don‘t have the standard IQ of a person without Autism. That test was really hard but I tried my best.

#whatsnewwednesday

I just saw this email from St. Martin‘s Press for their Fall 2024 books and I requested books from all of their imprints. I requested whatever books they were offering. I wanted to take a break from reading ARCs and I‘ll get a break until the Fall. I‘m excited. I don‘t know what books I‘ll be accepted for. There‘s no guarantee that I‘ll be accepted for every book but I‘ll be happy with whatever I get.

1. Tomorrow afternoon, I have an appointment with the IDD services office. They want to talk to me about the services they can offer me. IDD means Intellectual and Developmental Disability. I have Autism which is a developmental disability. I‘m nervous about it but I plan to relax after I get home tomorrow.

2. Coffee

3. I use a bookmark

4. My current read is tagged in this post.

#motivationalmonday

I just started this book tonight and I like it so far. I‘m finding it very interesting. This is the first nonfiction book I‘ve read about Space. I don‘t know very much about Space but I don‘t feel confused listening to this and it doesn‘t feel like it‘s dry. I took a Science class in school. I don‘t remember what we learned about but I know that when I was in school, I thought Science was boring but now, I think it‘s interesting.

I‘m currently reading the tagged book because I have to review it for Netgalley and I just registered for the livestream event for the book. I just googled the book title and found out that this event will be happening. I‘m finding the book really interesting. I haven‘t ever read any nonfiction books about Space. I added the event to my Google Calendar. I‘m looking forward to this event.

I didn‘t know what books had an eclipse in them because I haven‘t read any. I searched on Wikipedia and it said this,”Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (1992) depict the solar eclipse of July 20, 1963.” They both sound interesting so I just tagged 1 of them. I haven‘t read either of these books but they‘re both on my Goodreads TBR. I‘ve read a few of his books and I‘ve enjoyed them.

#sundayfunday

Here‘s my review for another book I just DNF‘d.

Release date: 4/15/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc

I filled in 2 spots on my bingo board. I just started the next Netgalley ARC on my list. I tried reading the second Netgalley ARC but I couldn‘t get into it.

#bookspinbingo

Here‘s my review for a book I just DNF‘d. I was on the Canva mobile app designing my book review and I was having trouble copying and pasting my book review from Goodreads so I decided to just take a screenshot of it from StoryGraph instead. I don‘t know why the copy and paste function stopped working on Canva but I liked using it.

Release date: 4/9/24

#netgalley #netgalleyarc #bookspinbingo

Here‘s my progress for this Netgalley ARC I‘m reading. I‘ve decided that I‘m going to DNF this one. I thought I would like this book because it‘s set in Southeast Texas in 1999. I‘ve lived in SE Texas my whole life and I was in 5th grade in 1999. This book has 90‘s references so I thought it would be nostalgic for me to read. I like the TX setting, the audiobook narrator and the 90‘s references but I can‘t get into this book.

For my #weeklyfavorites, I‘m choosing the tagged short story that I just finished reading this week for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I liked this story and it‘s short. I also read a Netgalley ARC this week about Stoicism and it was interesting but it wasn‘t my favorite so I didn‘t choose that one.

I just finished listening to this week‘s short story “The Man With The Twisted Lip” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I‘m ready for our discussion. I‘ve been liking these short stories. The short stories don‘t take that long to read. I can read other books for a while and then come back to reading these stories.

Here‘s my 4 picks for April‘s #readyourkindle. Book 1 is a standalone romance. Book 15 is the first book in a trilogy. Book 19 is a forbidden romance between a boss and employee. Book 10 is the third book in a trilogy. The trilogy I‘m finishing this month will be the Arrogant trilogy by Winter Renshaw. When I finish this trilogy this month, I‘ll add 3 new mood reading prompts to my list next month.

I just got on the Fable app and saw this. This is so cool. It says this about me. I‘m interested to see what else it‘ll say about me as this year goes by because the books I read this year might be different each month.

1. Pride & Prejudice (2005) - I didn‘t like the book but this movie was really good. I enjoyed it.

2. Holes (2003) - I liked the book when we read it in my 7th grade English class and I enjoyed the movie. I‘ve watched the movie many times.

3. Les Miserables (2012) - I read the book and I enjoyed it but I enjoyed the movie more because it had music.

#threelistthursday