#Bookspin #Doublespin May 2025. 🐞

Can‘t decide, so I‘ll just read them all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

#Roll100

This month I‘m catching up on #Roll100 #Bookspin and #FoodAndLit (although I added two books for April‘s Food & Lit country because I couldn‘t decide). And one of the books on my list was picked as a nod to the birthday I‘ll be celebrating in a couple of days. Any guesses which book and how old I‘ll be?

I‘ll jump in…

1. I didn‘t have a good day. 1st day back from Spring Break. My boss can barely hide his contempt for me, and it‘s absolutely exhausting to be so hated.
2. Negative for sure.
3. Yes, but I‘m noticing that it doesn‘t matter. I know so many people who have to document every single thing they do online, and, if you DON‘T, they assume that you‘re a loser with no life.

Sorry…needed to vent. Thanks for the safe space. ❤️

You can‘t have the good without the bad.

This was my book for 1932 for the #192025 challenge.

My Litsy app is fixed!!! (After I uninstalled it and reinstalled).

So…Here‘s the quote I was trying to post.

Testing…is anyone else unable to add photos to their posts?

#BookspinBingo March 2025. The tagged book is my #FoodAndLit Ireland pick.

My #Bookspin list for March. The tagged is my #Bookspin, and my #Doublespin, It Can‘t Happen Here, may be too much right now.

I‘ve been out of town, so I‘m just getting around to planning out my month of reading.

#Bookspin #Doublespin

I‘m tempted to give this a lower rating, but I realize that wouldn‘t be fair. B/C while I hated everything that happened in this book, I think that that was exactly the author‘s intention. I don‘t have a sister, & don‘t know any serial killers (that I‘m aware of), but I related to the narrator, who lives in the shadow of her beautiful, enigmatic, dangerous younger sibling, & their relationship reminded me of many past friendships-minus the murder.

I received this book as a gag gift ages ago, but I actually didn‘t hate it. Some of it definitely didn‘t age well (her successful partnership with K-Mart, her praise of Diddy and Jared from Subway, and her friendship with a certain someone whose name I refuse to speak or type). And I had to wonder what her staff REALLY thought of her opinion of herself as a leader. But I absolutely would recommend this to someone looking to start a small business.

#BookspinBingo January 2025

#Bookspin #Doublespin January (and my new 2025 tracker that turned all my hair gray trying to make).

January #Roll100

First #Bookspin list of 2025!

#Roll100 2025

Happy New Year, Litsy!

I‘ve still got 3 hours left, but I‘m calling it on my 2024 reading challenges. Still no Bingo, and I didn‘t finish all my #Bookspin & #Doublespin picks, but at least I met my 2024 book goal. Even if I did have to pad it a bit today with some kids books, including the tagged, which I picked thinking of the meme at the bottom - this year has been ROUGH, including some bad news that I got just today. I need a break in 2025

Girl, same.

(Hugs to anyone else who‘s missing someone this Christmas ❤️❤️❤️)

Finally made it through the 1920s for #192025. I think the tagged book was definitely my favorite (but I also really liked Lady Chatterly…🌶️🌶️🌶️)

I absolutely hated the first 3/4 of this. Part of the problem was that I looked up July‘s Instagram before I started reading, and could not separate the author, who I found to be a self-indulgent exhibitionist, from her main character. However, it was very well-written (although it dragged in parts), and the stuff about aging resonated with me.

When I first read this, I gave it 5 stars. Age & wisdom have bumped it down to 3; it‘s not nearly as funny as I remember. Maybe it‘s because I‘ve seen the movie too many times, where the mom is redeemed just a little, I felt ZERO sympathy for the Mrs. X in the book. My heart breaks for that little boy (& the dog). I hope he gets a happy ending in the sequel
And this line hit like a punch in the gut. I have felt exactly that way in my own career.

I found out today that I had access to the paid version of Canva through work. *HAD*, as in past tense, because the contract expired or some sh*t. Oh, well, I guess it‘s good that I don‘t know what I‘m missing.

Last Bingo board of the year! I know I say this every month, but December 2024 REALLY is the month I get a Bingo. 😂

#BookspinBingo

My last #Bookspin list for the year!!!

This is a pretty sad interpretation of a Canadian poutine (frozen French fries, instant gravy, and mozzarella because I couldn‘t find cheese curds ANYWHERE). But I‘d definitely be interested in trying the real thing if I ever make it to Canada. 🇨🇦 #FoodandLit

Ugh, rich white men 🙄

That‘s it. That‘s the review.

This was my #Bookspin for November

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone by!

#Roll100

#BookspinBingo November 2024!

Just under the wire…
I think the tagged book seems fitting for the end of Daylight Savings Time this weekend. Very much looking forward to that extra hour. #bookspin #doublespin

I really thought I had posted this already, but I guess I was about as good at posting in October as I was at reading. Since I finished a big, fat zero books during my favorite month (and because I‘m feeling super into sugar skulls right now - check out my Paint & Sip creation from last Saturday!), I‘m sticking with a spooky/Dia de los Muertos theme for November. Thanksgiving is just gonna have to wait. #Roll100

Watching Jeopardy from a few weeks ago, and I learned that this gentleman is the husband of Bonnie Garmus, who wrote Lessons in Chemistry. I may owe her an apology for saying that her characters didn‘t seem realistic. I can DEFINITELY picture this guy asking someone to pass the sodium chloride. 😜

October has been SCARY busy, but not in the fun way I'd prefer. It's been way too work-y and family emergency-y, and not enough spooky books and movies. And it feels like every time I do open a book, my eyes want to close. Hopefully I'll be able to find some time to squeeze it in. #BookspinBingo

Finally have some time to get my #Bookspin list done. Only a week late, NBD.

#CasttheDie

Better late than never, right?
#Castthedie

Two of my October #Roll100 picks are pretty perfect for Halloween.

This book is giving me both the heebies AND the jeebies. Setting it aside for a couple of hours to watch a less creepy movie (Poltergeist). 👻

I‘ve already finished one book in September. Which is one more than I finished in August. So, I‘ve got that going for me. In my defense, today was my first day off work since July 28th. Here‘s to a much better month of reading (and relaxing). #BookspinBingo

For no reason whatsoever, I chose an Italian cooking theme for this month‘s #Bookspin.

I‘ve been wanting to read August‘s #Bookspin for a long, long time (and it gives me an excuse to reread Jane Eyre ❤️).

My #Doublespin is yet another short story collection in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Forgot to post my August #Roll100 picks. I had already read 29, so I subbed it for my next #192025 read.

@PuddleJumper - I know you picked the red dice because of how hot it‘s been. I hope putting them in the pool helps cool things off a bit! 😎

I really resisted the urge to do a Halloween-themed Bingo board (because, as we all know, Halloween starts July 5th). But as many spooky books as there are on my list…it might have been appropriate.

#BookspinBingo

My July wrap-up. I started out 🔥… but quickly fizzled 💨

#BookspinBingo

I‘m not sure if I want summer to end, or if I just want school to start so that my apartment complex pool won‘t be full of a bunch of kids all day.

I‘m not sure how much reading I‘ll get done in August, since I don‘t have a day off all month (I think my boss at second job hates me 😕). But as usual, I‘ll give it the old Back-to-School try.

#Bookspin

Look, I found the perfect place to live!

(If only it wasn‘t WAAAY above my price range 😩)

Between Ned, Nat, Nan, Dan, Dick, Dolly, Demi, Daisy, it was was really a challenge to keep up with all the characters.

Fortunately, I have practice. On one side of my family we have a Jerrie, Mary, Terry, Sherrie, Shari, and Shelley.

I missed the #CampLitsy discussion of this one, because I really struggled to get through it. For a book subtitled “A Novel of Food and Murder” (two of my favorite subjects), I was SO bored. It may be partially my fault for expecting more of a murder mystery, suspense aspect, so I was disappointed when that wasn‘t there. And the food descriptions were redundant and felt forced. Overall not a fan. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I still can‘t get over A Farewell to Arms featuring so prominently on my shark-themed #Bookspin lists. 🤣 I‘ve been laughing about that all day. I hope my sick sense of humor isn‘t offensive to anyone. I blame working with desensitized firefighters.
Anyway…here‘s my very extra #BookspinBingo board.

My #Roll100 is another short story collection that includes another Sookie Stackhouse story. My #DoubleSpin is my June #FoodandLit pick (oops 🤷🏻‍♀️).

I updated all the books on this list that I have finished, and, well, if this was baseball, my 0.357 batting average would be considered excellent. Book reading is measured the same as baseball stats, right?

July‘s #Roll100 picks look like an emotional roller coaster.