Much belated #whartonbuddyread post...

I feel like this one landed oddly for me. I think I'd have preferred it either pared right back to a short story, or else fleshed out and all the themes and threads elaborated into a novel. But still an interesting read.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

2. I've wanted to read it for ages! Didn't get to it right away and then it got buried in my ebook tbr... Finally noticed it again and read it in a day, loved it.

Still working my way through my July #doublespin (tagged, enjoying it when I pick it up but not always feeling a push to) but excited for August picks!

I'm still going with my Libby wishlist for my #BookSpin list, when the numbers are called I filter to available now and count down. So fun to see what comes up.

Thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks!

So I finished the tagged short story collection a few days ago (July #BookSpin!) and really enjoyed it, best ss collection I've read in a while. Literary but genre-blurring. But I guess I *really* liked it cause last night I dreamt I found a Kim Fu book that I hadn't read yet and was so happy. Haha thanks, subconscious. Now I have her only backlist that I haven't read on my Libby wishlist.

(fledgling robin in our backyard pic just cause)

I spoiled myself so thoroughly today 😊 #bookhaul

And I absolutely couldn't walk away without that mug 😂😂 even though I have way too many mugs already (or not enough cupboards?)

I'm a bit late but thanks for the tag @Andrea4! #wondrouswednesday @Eggs

It'd be a used bookstore, heavy on the scifi and fantasy, as many shelves crammed in as possible. Background music sure, coffee or food... Maybe not. But maybe sell some crochet items or cards. Might have to have a bookstore cat or dog too. As for a name... Names are hard, I have no idea!

Last year I did terribly with #BookSpin picks and pretty good with #roll100 and this year so far seems to be the opposite 🤷‍♀️

@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

Sorry I've been so absent here! This year is flying by. Here's a picture of my days right now... My 9 month old is very much in the phase where every stack must be unstacked and every container dumped. And she's pulling up, so the bottom 2 bookshelves don't stand a chance 😂 #raisingreaders

#roll100 2022 wrap up! I read at least one pick 10 months, and all picks 5 months. I'm calling that pretty good!
My 2023 list is still my ebook tbr, but thanks mostly to #roll100 it now only goes to 92! And of course one of Jan's numbers was higher... So I decided 92-100 are freebies (unless/until I acquire more books) and I can fill it with any ebook tbr read. First up for this year, some sci-fi. Looking forward to it!

Thanks @PuddleJumper! 😁

Filtering my Libby wishlist to "available now" and counting to the #BookSpin numbers gave me LeGuin non-fiction and a new to me author I've been wanting to read. Very excited for both!

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks!

I haven't read my #BookSpin picks in months... My bookspin list was print tbrs that I wanted to get to, but I'm reading hardly any print these days, ebooks and audio are easier right now. So for Dec I'm switching it up. My Libby wishlist is equally out of control, so when the numbers are called I'll filter it to "available now" and then just count down the list to whatever is called.

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks!

And with that I'm done #fourfoursin22! Thanks for a fun challenge @Lauredhel!

Another challenge catch up post. I finished this back in the summer, as my daughter is now 5 months... Time's going fast! Also why I haven't been as active on here. Anyway I recommend this as a pregnancy reference book.

#fourfoursin22 incubator @Lauredhel

Challenge catch up post. Read this a while ago for #fourfoursin22 aromatic, cause of the title. Turns out the title didn't have much to do with the story but I enjoyed this romance anyway! Especially the Ontario setting, always fun to read a story set places you know.

@Lauredhel

Oct #roll100 picks! All the Birds in the Sky and Gardens of the Moon - that's 6 and 71 for me... I do have a book for 100, but I messed up and put the 2nd in a series, when I haven't read the first. Plus it's a Brandon Sanderson and the odds of me reading 2 Sanderson books even by the end of the year are not high 😅
So I'll focus on the other 2 picks, and if I have time catch up Too Like the Lightning and Unspoken Name from previous months

#fourfoursin22 circumference (the cover art) @Lauredhel

I do enjoy a good gothic creepy house with secrets book. I'm also late to Schwab's work, this is my first book of hers. Won't be the last!

#fourfoursin22 embroidery (the title) @Lauredhel

I enjoyed this! It's been a while since I've read alternate history, so that was fun. A different portrayal of Marie Antoinette than I've encountered before (not just cause of the magic). If you like magic with your historical fiction, I recommend this.

#fourfoursin22 volunteering (one of the main characters volunteers at a charity shop) @Lauredhel

The Flatshare is still my favourite of O'Leary's books, but this was good. I'm always interested to see what O'Leary writes next. I think I was just in the mood for more of a romcom right now, which isn't the book's fault at all.

#fourfoursin22 automotive (despite the title, the majority of the book takes place on a road trip) @Lauredhel

Very much enjoyed this enemies to lovers, forced proximity romance.

I'm a terrible #whartonbuddyread participant, as I didn't have time for the discussion last weekend and now I've ignored the schedule and finished it. Really enjoyed this one!

Also, fairly sure whoever did the cover for this ebook edition didn't read the book... Who are those girls supposed to be? Presumably one is Undine, but the other?

#roll100 is really helping me knock down my ebook tbr! August picks are great - a Cat Sebastian romance (❤️), a novella, and a short story collection. I didn't wait for the month to start once the numbers were called so I've already finished 2 and have the 3rd started. Then I'll catch up some from previous months.

@PuddleJumper

I felt the need for a #selfcare #bookhaul and chapters obligingly had a buy 3 get the 4th free sale last weekend, so these pretties came home with me 😍
Super excited for all of them, and yes that's a bookmark sticking out of Eclipse the Moon already.

#fourfoursin22 unorthodox (taking this prompt as unconventional/unusual... I'd say a romance where one of the people is trapped in an enchanted sword is unusual) @Lauredhel

I've wanted to read this for ages and I'm so glad I finally did cause I loved it. Great standalone fantasy romance. I liked the romance but also loved the worldbuilding and secondary characters.

April #doublespin done! @TheAromaofBooks

A good vampire book, I enjoyed it. It's no fault of the book that I hibernated it for like a year... Glad I finally picked it back up and finished it. (sadly this doesn't even begin to catch me up with #BookSpin, but hey, it's something)

Finished this ahead of the #whartonbuddyread so won't say too much here. I liked this one - solidly in the middle of her books we've read so far for me, not my favourite but I liked it more than a couple of the others. Love her writing.

(challenge catch up post, I finished this in May)
#fourfoursin22 canonical - a classic @Lauredhel
#roll100 - April and May

My #roll100 list is my kobo ebook tbr, but when I started the copy of this I had, I realized pretty quickly it was abridged. So, deleted that one and got a copy from the library instead. Either way, another one off the tbr! Can't say it's one of my favourite classics, but parts were interesting.

(challenge catch up post, I finished this in May)

#fourfoursin22 renewable - a library book @Lauredhel

Really enjoyed this one! My first time reading Mihalik, and if my library had any others on Libby, I'd prob already be reading them. I'll keep an eye out.

I'm excited for the June #BookSpin picks! I've got Hidden Cities, which is great cause I'm already reading it and it finishes a series, and The Hundred Secret Senses which I'm really looking forward to.

Once again I'm doing the bingo with my monthly tbr.

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks! 😁

May wrap up. Didn't read my #BookSpin or #doublespin (again) but I did get a bingo!

For #20in4 I got about 12 hours. I only finished 1 book during the readathon, but then finished 4 the next day that were all almost finished 😅

And I still have too many books on the go...

@TheAromaofBooks

I'm in for another #20in4 readathon! Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 !

I'll try and get the 20 hours, and 3 books finished. Up to half an hour so far, finishing up this week's section of the tagged for #whartonbuddyread

Thanks for the tag, @Amiable 🙂
#thoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

1. Reading, yoga, cross stitch, getting lots of sleep...

2. Bought myself the supplies to start a new cross stitch pattern and I'm soo excited about it

May #BookSpin plans! Overall the theme this month for me is catch up 😅

My #BookSpin this month is Stone Angel again, so I'll definitely try to get to it this time. And my #doublespin is the 3rd book in a series, books 1-2 were pulled in March and April. So I'll try to catch up that series completely.

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks !

A slightly late April #BookSpinbingo wrap up... Once again, I knocked off quite a few books without reading my #BookSpin or #doublespin or getting any bingos. #failingsuccessfully ! @TheAromaofBooks

The May #roll100 numbers gave me 2 new series starts, and Gulliver's Travels again (which is handy since as predicted I haven't started it yet). So I think May's focus will be catching up the books I still have unread from earlier months, and then if I still have time, start a new series. They might get pushed to the summer sometime.

Thanks @PuddleJumper!

#fourfoursin22 alternating (alternating povs) @Lauredhel
2nd #roll100 done for April

Loved this one! (have I read a KJ Charles that I haven't loved?) great m/m historical romance.

First #roll100 book done for April.

I enjoyed these short stories and discovering another older #CanLit author I hadn't encountered before. The stories did get sort of same-y (themes, style, predictable after a few), but I only read one or two a day so I didn't mind that as I probably would have if I'd read this straight through.

#fourfoursin22 diplomacy (full of political intrigue, the main chars are ambassadors, envoys, etc) @Lauredhel

Definitely not a standalone book, but if you read book 1 and liked it then I think you will like book 2 as well. I sure did. Like the first book, lots of importance on language and with a lot to say about dominant cultures, colonizing empires, identity... One of my favourite books so far this year.

#BookSpin day! Thanks @TheAromaofBooks 😊

I didn't get to my #BookSpin burning bridges in March, but the next book was called this month, free falling. So that will be my next series to focus on. And my #doublespin Fevre Dream has been in hibernation for ages, so I'm glad it got picked for me to get back to it.

Once again I'm doing the bingo with my monthly tbr list too.

#fourfoursin22 unstoppable (series title is Unstoppable) @Lauredhel
March #roll100

This was a fast, action-packed YA sci-fi. Very enjoyable!

(unrelated picture of crocuses in my garden because it's snowing again today and just look at that cheerful yellow)

#fourfoursin22 familiar (a reread) @Lauredhel
February #doublespin done @TheAromaofBooks

A reread of book 2 so I can read book 3 and finally finish this series! I'm using it for the "familiar" prompt bc it's a reread, but aside from the first few chapters, I remembered very little of this... Anyway I enjoyed it again and this time I won't wait 10+ years before reading the next book!

I managed to read an awful lot from my March #BookSpinbingo board, without reading my #BookSpin or #doublespin or getting a bingo... #skills

Excited for April's numbers tomorrow!
@TheAromaofBooks

#20in4 wrap up

I read for 10h15m and finished 2 novellas. Got up to 75% in the tagged audiobook, 30% in my ebook and have only 100p left in my print book. So pretty good progress, and hopefully I'll finish all 3 of those before the end of the month.

Sleepy cat pic just cause #catsoflitsy

A small #20in4 update, but mostly an excuse to show off my new #audiostitching project. New-ish, this is almost 3 weeks of work. I'll be doing it for a while but I love it so that's ok.

I'm at 4h45m for the readathon so far. Definitely won't hit 20 hours but I've got 2 novellas finished, and up to 50% in the tagged audiobook.

It's #20in4 time again!

My goals are to hit 20 hours (who knows, maybe this time I'll make it) and finish 4 books. And make some good progress on my cross-stitch and the tagged audiobook.

Thanks @Andrew65!

#roll100 picks for next month! I'm intrigued by the 3 rolls, gonna try picking 2 and using the 3rd as a stretch goal/bonus.

49 - Thanks for Listening, a short story collection I got cause I needed one story from it for a course I took. Glad for the push to read the rest of it.
100 - The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, my newest ebook acquisition and one I was gonna dive into asap anyway!
3rd in comment ⬇️

Thanks @PuddleJumper 😊

#bookhaul! I am sooo excited for all of these! I'm still working my way through the Nebula finalists but as soon as I finish that, I'll be diving into one of these.

Mid-month #BookSpinbingo update... Making good progress! Largely thanks to a bunch of quick reads from the library that I stuck in all the free spaces, but I'm feeling good about this month.
I should go for the tagged book next since it's 19, one of this month's numbers and all I need for a bingo, but... I probably won't 🙃

Also yay for using up planner stickers I never use haha

@TheAromaofBooks

Finished for #whartonbuddyread

I'm still giving this one a pick, but I think it's my least favourite Wharton so far. I never seemed to really invest in the characters or the plot... Not sure how much of that is my mindset and being busier/distracted right now though. And I still enjoy her writing.

Woohoo, I finished the ornament finally! On to the next #audiostitching project - and the next audiobook too, as I also finished the tagged one.

A very solid batch of stories; I enjoyed almost all of them.

This was one of my #roll100 picks from January - I'm almost caught up!