Thoroughly enjoyed this. Not as much as I did Carry On, mind you, but the bar was set a tad high for any second book, Rowell or not. Also cannot believe we're being blessed with a third Snow-book, what a time to be alive 💃

This was darn good but my biggest take-away was that Doodle is great, Doodle is the best, I need an entire novel of Doodle, everything Doodle, from Doodles perspective. Do I have a crush? Heck yes I do. Doodle for president.

This week's late #bfc check-in features me, a magpie/trash collecting Parkrunner (see hand full of bits of shiny trash) at last week's event, looking mighty trashed (heh) on the home stretch. Did less well on some goals this week than I would've liked, but I'm absolutely on track with my book goal and I'm super excited about that 💃💃 Tagged is my current read which I'm enjoying immensely 😍

It's been a hot minute since I hated a character as much as I did Susan, but nevertheless this was pretty darn good. Austen is a lot more fun than I though. 😂

First week of #bookfitnesschallenge round 3 is over and for once, I did well on all my goals. Except for stretching. Gotta get better at that. Idk why that's always the goal that's difficult for one.

#bfc @wanderinglynn (also hi Lynn, the book you sent me from R1 made it! Thank you so much ❤️❤️) @AprilMae

I'm not entirely sure what I just read, but Lumberjanes are always a delight so it's okay. They're forgiven for how bizarre this was.

One of my goals for this round of #bfc was to go to a Parkrun. Guess what ya girl did today?? Social anxiety has kept me from going until now, but I decided to just.. do it. And they were all SO NICE. A kind Parkrunner I've never met before paced me and I got a new 5K PB of more than a minute and a half. Can't wait for next Saturday 😂 I'll be back later with my first check in, but I just couldn't contain the excite. Had to yell about this 😂❤️

Currently rage-quitting putting together Ikea furniture for a friend, thought it would be a good time to shout my #bfc goals to the world: 50K steps, exercise 5 hours/week, stretch x4 and 9 books. Oh, and go to a Parkrun. I've been procrastinating on that for absolute ages, but nows the time. Can't wait to get on with this round! 💃💃💃

Gosh, I can't believe we're already at the end of this round of #bfc. It didn't go quite according to plan fitness wise for me, but I made and exceeded my reading goal, which is quite enough for me. Super ready for next round where I might actually be able to do fitness things! 😂💃💃 #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

Been focusing on not melting in the heatwave and healing my wrist (there's progress!) all week, which has resulted in a lot of reading and not so much exercise. Am well on track to meet my book goal of 8 and possibly exceed it💃💃 #bfc #bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

It's 800 degrees outside. In the evening. I'm melting. Even hiding indoors is terrible. I need a fan. 😎😎

I'm not much of a re-reader, but with Wayward Son coming out soon and me only remembering that I enjoyed this four years ago I thought I might as well. Turns out it's still great!💃

The heatwave has arrived. Went for a walk after dinner when it wasn't 30 degrees out, just to feel like I've done something today. It's too hot 😒😂🔥
Got my stitches removed yesterday but apparently they'd been useless and the wound opened up again, so I'm still not allowed to do any #bfc exercise 😩 I am, however, absolutely /crushing/ my book goal, which I'm super excited about! Here's to flesh vessels doing their jobs just for ONCE 🥂

#24in48 Hour 30 Challenge: Middle grade/YA books. Two of my favourite genres (been leaning towards MG this year) for the adventures, the kindness and the realness of the characters. Love love love the Aru Shah-books and I'm so happy it's a quartet.

I've been a passenger on the Struggle Bus this week - pictured is a snapshot of today. So bad. My wrist isn't improving as fast as I'd have thought it would, and I'm starting to notice some muscle atrophy in my arm and that's really messing with me? Idk. I've focused all my energy on getting back on the meditation wagon and have thus far managed 5/7 nights, which I'm super happy with! 😄😄

Finished the tagged book which was DELIGHTFUL and I'll be yelling about it sooner rather than later, but for now, a break. I've had many breaks already, as you can tell from how little reading-time I've had, but alas. Coffee, then deciding between another netgalley ARC or Aru Shah. ☕💃#24in48

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(this is so strange and wonderful and guys, GUYS, THE ART gosh it's so pretty) #24in48

Starting #24in48 a bit late (I like sleeping, sue me!) with my Serial Reader-title. I need all the coffee to deal with this rambly, gory mess before 10am ☕😂

This is such a delightfully sweet graphic novel featuring a Chinese-American hard-of-hearing witch and her Chinese-American non-binary werewolf best friend turned partner and a whole bunch of magic and sorcery and just.. queer witchy stuff. The art is so pretty, the story is sweet (so many fuzzy feels, ah) and just everything that brings me joy and happiness.

I've been mostly flowing the doctor's orders to not antagonise my wrist all week, so not a lot of general physical fitness has been going on. Did manage 43K steps, though, which baffled me. Returned to guided meditations at bedtime, a practice I loved last summer but stopped doing for some odd reason, and it's just the most calming thing. ALSO finished two books! 📚❤️ That's it, that's my week. 😂 #bookfitnesschallenge #bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

Still trying to figure out how to stay active for #bookfitnesschallenge with the limitations surgery threw at me, but everything's getting easier real fast, so it's progress. I'm doing a lot of random dancing for now 😂 Roamed the city for 5 hours today while my mum had surgery (we're a sorry lot tonight 😂) and got 10 km in, so a cat and a good book is order. Hope you're all having a great Thursday ❤️❤️

This was recommended to me as "something a bit like Red, White & Royal Blue" but all they had in common were royals and queer folks. At 50% the two mains had had maybe four interactions and they hated each other, and then suddenly they were all over one another. Chemistry? What chemistry? It was cute, I enjoyed it, but it had it's shortcomings.

Pictured is the welcome-home committee when I returned from the one run I've been on this week ❤️ Overall it's been decidedly not good on the fitness part, but much better on the reading. I've spent so much time fretting and anxious about ganglion-surgery on Monday, exercise has been replaced with anti-anxiety cross-stitching and audiobooks 😟 Idk what to do about post-surgery goals, but we shall see. Onwards and upwards! 💃💃

I take back what I said when it was boiling hot, this was a delight. Yes, I had to get used to the accents, but looking back it couldn't have been done in any other way. Adored it.

Just trying to stitch and listen to my audiobook but nooo, this big fella wants attention and I'd better give it to him or else. 🙄 Cats. They tolerate us. 😂 #audiostitching

Week 1 done! #bookfitnesschallenge
I surprised myself when I tallied up my numbers this morning. I may not have finished any books, but I'm halfway through the three I've got going, so I'm on track! Thought I was going to get a headstart on W2 by running this morning, but at 7am it was 25 degrees out, so I went back to bed... 😂😂

#bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

(you'll never meet someone with as many pictures of bees on their phone as I do. never.)

Help. Did anybody get through the audio of this? I'm 10% in and the narrator is driving me mad. The accents are a biiit too much and I get that distinct voices are good, but here they're just.. obnoxious. But there's a 16 week wait on the ebook and I kinda like the characters and I just want to know if I'm in a mood because of the weather or if the narrator is actually super annoying.🤔

It's 5000 degrees outside but that shan't stop me from taking a #trashwalk. The harvest was blessedly small tonight, distance considered: two ice cream thingies, a beer can and a (hidden) corner of a candy wrapper. Dare I hope people will #stoplittering? 🙏

Hope you're all having a great Tuesday!

#bookfitnesschallenge #teamlitnfit

One of the pros to working at a gym is access to fancy weights than can tell you about the general state of your body. I tested before the first round of #bookfitnesschallenge and again today, and turns out the weight I've put on during #bfc is pure muscle. Bless this challenge for motivating the heck outta me! 💪 😄😄
Celebrating with an ab-workout (laughing is a workout, pass it on) provided by the tagged book, which is a GEM. 💃💃

I joined the #WizardsUnite fun. Can't seem to do anything because nothing happens in the countryside (???) but feel absolutely free to add me. This might be fun. I used to love Pokemon Go, do hope this is somewhat similar! 😂 (no, for real, what's this about? Is it literally Pokemon Go but with Harry Potter?)

Ready for Round 2 of #bookfitnesschallenge! Lowered my book-goal to what I managed during round one on the off-chance that I nail it so I can feel super accomplished 😂 💪

#bfc #bfcr2 @wanderinglynn

Final check-in for #bookfitnesschallenge reveals that I did surprisingly well on my "50K steps/week"-goal, in the sense that over the 6 weeks I totalled 305K. That's... baffling. I also learned that limiting myself to only counting running and gymming as "exercise" is annoying so I've switched it up for round two. Book goal? Not hit. Missed by 1 ?This has been so much fun and I can't /wait/ for more of it in the next round!

#bfc @wanderinglynn

This is the most wholesome thing I've read in a while. Aster, a 13-year old boy in a world where boys become shapeshifters and girls become witches, is much more interested in witchery than shifting, and his family is noooot about that. Cue bad things happening to bad people and good people being good and everything being great, just.. gosh darn I loved this ❤️

Historical fantasy with a hint of something vaguely supernatural, The Grace Digger follows 12-year old Cap Cooper in 1875 Ohio when he is roped into a body snatching ploy by his father. There were things I didn't care for in this one, but at the same time I kind of liked it? It's pretty important to suspend disbelief a lot, but if you do it's a fun story. Decent, but no masterpiece.

A delightful graphic novel loosely (oh so very loosely) based on Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Mary, Queen of the Sea gives us Margaret, a young girl raised by nuns on an island convent, and the actual adventures she can have in this faraway exile when not only one, but two possible friends arrive, including the standoffish Eleanor, who's been shoved off the throne by her sister. Adored this.

Did surprisingly well this week. Am still a bit behind on books (mostly due to DNFs 😒) but will catch up during the last week! Also, today's update is featuring my adventures in plant parenthood. My Dieffenbachia got a haircut. A big one. Hoping just a few of the stragglers will root 🌿🌵🌱😂

#bookfitnesschallenge #bfc @wanderinglynn

Insert pterodactyl-screech here because I /LIVE/ for tea dragons. The Tea Dragon Society is an all-time favourite of mine and I've been waiting for this for 84 years and I'm /so excited/. AH!!

The weather is a meanie. It's either rainy and windy or sunny and hot and neither are conditions I work well in. It's been a horrible week for activity. There's a run hidden last Friday which didn't make it onto the June-page, but other than that it's not been looking good. Did do Blogilates twice to make up for it all, though, and am feeling those sore muscles. Come at me, week 5!

#bookfitnesschallenge @wanderinglynn

Happy election day, fellow Danes! Time to overthrow the government! ?
It's like 200 degrees outside today, so no running. Decided to return to a tried and tested success, Blogilates. I am now dead. My arms are shaking. Did half the Leg-work out and what I could (due to evil wrist) of the "Arms and Back" of the 28-Day Sculpt and it was just as heart rate-rising as running tbh. My poor triceps are /dying/ Bless Aila for the snuggles tbh. #bfc

A graphic novel loosely based on Little Women (or so I'm told, I'm the local heathen who hasn't read Little Women), Little Witches follows the March sisters during a few weeks where mysterious things are happening in their little town and they're trying to solve the ~mystery~ of it all. It's a fun little book, but very predictable and it felt kind of flat. The art was nice, though!

Settled in for an afternoon of handball on TV and this one for the breaks. Hope you're all have a great day ❤️

Week 3 of #bfc was off to a slow start and barely made it - the weather and deadly illness (it is not deadly and it's barely illness, but I am very dramatic) but a stop to all my running dreams, and I just baaaarely got my 50K steps. Am on target book wise, though! On to the next one! #bookfitnesschallenge

@wanderinglynn

I am an inherent trash-picker-upper and have no qualms chasing candy wrappers flying about in town, but usually I only run along the local forest trail and don't see much of the ground. Now, with #bookfitnesschallenge in effect, I'll sometimes go for a walk - and tonight, I picked these up along about 1 km of trail. ONE. KILOMETER. OF FOREST. TRAIL. Why are people like this? At one point I bent down to pick one up and when I stood up, a (cont 👇)

Went on a rainy walk with the tagged audio (I'm having the hardest time telling the difference between the twins but I think I'm getting the important bits of plot? Maybe?) and made very intimate friends with this branch of a half-fallen tree whilst busy making sure I wasn't stomping on any snails 🐌 #audiowalk #bookfitnesschallenge #didnotstomponanysnails #worthit

This was such a fun book - I completely lost track of the plot when it was nearing the end but it doesn't matter, not one bit, it was /hilarious/. And strange. And magical. And good.

It's been a bad week, steps-wise and I only managed one out of two runs, but at least I went to the gym thrice? And finished a book? 💪💃

In other news I'm having surgery in my wrist soon-ish (on an as of yet undetermined but nearby date) and have been told that exercise is out of the question for at least two weeks. What do?? 😂🙄🤔

ALSO, great work everybody! You're killing it and I am SO PROUD of you! 👏💪❤️❤️
#bfc @wanderinglynn

"Ten out of ten would eat cheesybugs again"

I love everything about this book, but especially how ridiculously funny it is.

I present to you, my hack-job of a #bookfitnesschallenge tracker. Whatever works! 😂 I succeeded in both going to the gym and running x2, and passed my 50K steps by Wednesday. This is where I thank you all for existing because I hate it when people know I've failed myself and not done anything healthy so I kinda have to. Thank you lots and lots ❤️❤️
According to my maths I've racked up 26 points, but how to do numbers tbh 🤔😂
@wanderinglynn

Meh. Meeeeh. I kept reading because I kinda like the 'verse and I /really/ liked the first book, but if this hadn't been a sequel I wouldn't have read past the first 50 pages. I'm glad I read it, but I wouldn't do it again. If that makes sense? Idek anymore.

Finished this gem today and I'm still reeling because it's just.. so simple, but yet /so good/. Balm for the soul. *finger kisses* Genuinely cannot do anything but recommend the audio of it, but I'm like 99% sure it's an absolute joy in any way, shape or form. It's so refreshing to read about young adults who are responsible and don't just.. run off and do whatever they want, damn the consequences. Emoni was such a joy. Gosh, how I love her. ♥️

How I love reading all your #bookfitnesschallenge posts! Best motivation ❤️ As predicted, I'm having a hard time meeting my running goal (x2/week) but just left the gym for the third time this week. No running yet. I hate running when it's windy almost as much as I hate treadmills.. 😂 😂

Am also loving this book. Elizabeth Acevedo could narrate the phone book and I'd listen to it. The main character continues to be amazing. Yes, good ❤️