This probably isn‘t a book I would have chosen for myself, but that‘s part of why I love swaps, book clubs and Litsy in general. I found all but one of the characters to be pretty likable and liked how it all came together in the end but wasn‘t predictable. #lmpbc @vonnie862 @suvata @Bookwormjillk

Sunday goals include finishing the last 80 or so pages of America for Beginners by Leah Franqui and starting The Measure by Nikki Erlick. I‘m mostly sharing this picture because I wanted to show you all my new bookish mug. This is the first one I‘ve found without going online. Now I “need” to find more. 🥰

Many of the books I read make me dream of going to well-known places. This book has me thinking seriously about planning a trip to Corning, NY to visit The Corning Museum of Glass. This floor to ceiling sculpture stands in their visitors center. What random places have books made you want to visit?

Thank you @vonnie862 ! I‘m way behind on reading America For Beginners, but I really want to finish that before starting this. It sounds so good though! @suvata @Bookwormjillk #lmpbc

Family vacation to June Lake, CA. 18 degrees. Snow covering half of the windows. They chose to take my nephew skiing for the first time. I chose to sleep in and enjoy the cozier option. 🥶

I said book, dog-child said belly rubs. We agreed I could have one hand for each, and she fell asleep within seconds. Oh the sweet life of a very old, very demanding, very loved reading buddy. #lmpbc @suvata @Bookwormjillk @vonnie862

This has been on and off of my TBR since it came out. Hubby promised to buy me a book since he needed to pick up one while I was at work. I was able to convince him to wait, but he kept his promise of buying the book. 2 trusted bookish friends have recently said it was better than All the Light We Cannot see, so I decided to see for myself. ☁️

This week‘s book purchase. I‘m trying to keep myself to a limit, but I‘m at least up to several purchases a month. It‘s so much shorter than I thought it‘d be!

I‘ve reopened a StoryGraph account under the username smalldog_bigbooks19 which I really should change my Litsy username to as well, since we just have the one small dog now and I still love big books. Happy new year from said small dog, 17 year old Carla. This is the guilt trip I get when I pick up a book or my phone instead of giving her attention. She‘s now napping in front of the heater. All‘s well in her world. Please follow me on StoryGraph!

YA just isn‘t my thing. I tried because it was for the #litsymarkuppostalbookclub. This is the second book in the club that I haven‘t really loved. The first was my own, so I felt like I had to finish it. Starting the third today, and hoping to enjoy it more. @vonnie862 @Bookwormjillk @suvata

I‘ve been really wanting to start the new year with a new book. This one came at the perfect time! Thank you @vonnie862 #lmpbc #round16 #groupC @suvata @Bookwormjillk

One of the reading challenges I‘ve seen a lot recently is to organize your books alphabetically and read them in order. I need books with titles that start with C, J, Q, X, Y and Z. Whatcha got for me?

Bookish gifts are some of my favorite kinds. @AFrostCauseReads thanks for joining me in our own Jolabokaflod swap, after I missed the sign up date for the one here on Litsy. Bookmark from my 4 year old nephew, with help from my sister. We live by the same motto: READ ALL THE BOOKS!!

Just like I do for most special occasions (and sometimes just because) the only Christmas gift I gave my 4 year old nephew was a new book. As a person with an outwardly visible physical disability, I love sharing books with him that feature a person with a disability where the story isn‘t completely based around the person‘s disability. This was a very cute one. Merry Christmas everybody. 🥰

I‘ve been trying to get my husband to pick a book for me, instead of just giving me gift certificates, for years! Supposedly The Magicians is a must read for those who enjoyed Harry Potter. I loved Harry Potter when I was 12, but tried rereading it recently and just couldn‘t. I‘ve decided to check out The Magicians, just because I‘m so happy my husband finally chose a book for me. 🪄

I walked into the bookstore with the intention of using a book credit (which I did) and buying books as gifts. Yea…that part didn‘t happen. 🤦‍♀️

My mom is absolutely where I got my love of books and one of my most dependable sources of good book recommendations (when I can keep her from giving away the end of the story). I already knew about Jolabokaflod and love the idea of starting that tradition together. Shipping chocolate to Hawaii might not be the greatest idea, but I‘m hoping to at least swap books with her this Christmas. 🥰

Today has been a good day. I found a new stylist I can trust with my wild curls. The salon just happened to be next to the cutest, tiniest used bookstore I‘ve ever seen so of course I had to check it out and buy the first 3 books in this haul. And of course I had to stop on my way home and buy 2 more books at my usual spot. It‘s been a bit of an expensive day, but I don‘t regret any part of it.

Thank you @vonnie862 My brain is a little fried from working corporate retail on Black Friday, but I plan to start this when it recovers enough to follow a story. #LMPBC #GroupC @suvata @Bookwormjillk

Does anyone else feel compelled to buy certain books when you come across them, specifically because you remember seeing someone significant to you reading it years ago? I swear I remember seeing my mom read this when I was a fairly young child. I didn‘t even know what it was about until I found it on Pongo Books about a month ago, but I recognized the cover immediately when I saw it.

@Bookwormjillk @suvata @vonnie862 #LitsyMarkUpPostalSwap This is a cute story and, as you can see by all of those paper clips, I did have a lot to say as I read it. Maybe it‘s because I‘m also reading and much more interested in Fairy Tale by Stephen King, but I felt myself getting bored several times with this one. Revisiting characters from Waxman‘s other books was fun. This one was just ok.

Who else here is a chronic series starter and not finisher? Here we go again. 🧙‍♀️ 📚

Definitely not a club any of us would join, but the bright books on the cover caught my attention and the story sounds cute. Bonus: It contains actual book suggestions!

I found books 1-4 of this series in the Little Free Library that‘s dangerously close to my house. I‘m there way too often. The back of this book says it‘s book 1. Internet says there‘s another before it. So which is it? There was another book 1 in the LFL, but the summaries on the back were identical.

I‘ve reach a new level of book nerd. I‘m on Chapter 15 of Fairy Tale by Stephen King using the Books app on my iPad, and my husband just convinced me that I needed a physical copy of it as well. This feels slightly unnecessary but, in his words “You never know what might happen with a digital copy”. 🤨

@mom_of_4 @Bookwormjillk @vonnie862 I‘m really looking forward to my second round of #litsymarkuppostalbookclub #round16 #groupC Would either of these work for all of us? I‘ve definitely got several more options. Just wanted to see if either of these would work before taking a bunch more out.

I love coming home to sparkly pink packages on my doorstep. Especially when they contain a book I‘ve been looking forward to rereading, to see what new friends thought of it. @Jerdencon @suvata @IndoorDame I‘d love to do another swap like this!

I love building relationships with bookstore employees and taking their suggestions when I can‘t decide how to spend a gift certificate.

If you had told me just a few years ago that I‘d become a big #StephenKing fan, I would never have believed you. Eye of The Dragon is the only one of his books that I‘ve DNF‘d and I assumed just by the title that this one would be similar. I assumed wrong and in this case I‘m perfectly fine with that. Also, I‘ll be heartbroken if anything happens to the dog. The fact that there‘s a dog in the story is part of what drew me in.

Hubby “scolded” me for buying another book from Amazon instead of waiting until our local bookstore had it. I‘m only a little bit sorry because it got bent almost in half in our mailbox. 😞 Any thoughts on this book and the rest of the series?
#knowledgeiscarnage #theatlassix #series #newyorktimesbestseller

I had originally planned a much more #bookish tattoo for my birthday. Plans had to change when my artist cancelled 24hrs before my appointment. While it wasn‘t my original plan at all The Order of the Phoenix was a great book and I‘m absolutely in love with this abstract beauty now perched on my arm forever.

My mom is terrible at “summarizing” books she suggests. If she can manage to not give away the ending, I can usually guess just using the information she gives me. She did well enough on this story to actually pique my interest and even inspire a Google search to see if the story is based on real people. I also just noticed the review from the author of Water for Elephants and I loved that book.

I have no idea how to plan a swap, but I have an idea. Each participant would start with book 1 of a series on their TBR list, share their thoughts as they read it, then pass it to the next participant. By the end, each participant has read book 1 of a few different series and decides if they want to continue on their own. Inspired by a swap I did with @suvata @Jerdencon and @IndoorDame . I‘d love help with the planning if anyone is interested.

I‘ve heard so many good reviews about this book. When I saw both of these being sold together, I decided to check them out for myself. I didn‘t notice until I set the books down to take this picture, that there‘s a third book to be released right around my birthday! 😍

Do college level English courses always choose depressing memoirs as their required reading? This one is about an illiterate prison inmate stuck in solitary confinement. 🥺

I‘ve decided to at least put a hold on my #botm subscription for now, but I couldn‘t ignore this pretty cover. Tbh, I‘m not even completely sure what it‘s about. I was just attracted to the cover. 🤦‍♀️

I needed something “fluffy” after a “ruff” day at work. (I think that‘s the end of my terrible puns.) I‘ve only read the first few pages while enjoying a glass of rosé and some calamari by myself at a local favorite restaurant, which probably also contributed, but I started to feel better. ❤️

I remember reading and absolutely loving Wicked when I was in high school. Watching the play is still on my bucket list. In the meantime, I think I‘ll enjoy this retelling of the story of Cinderella and try to track down the Wicked series to reread.

I finished it less than 30 minutes ago and book hangover is already picking in. This isn‘t one I would have chosen if it hadn‘t been sort of chosen for me as part of this swap, but I really enjoyed it. Now it‘s time for a break from historical fiction for a while. @suvata @Jerdencon @IndoorDame

I really hope I‘m not wrong in thinking this book, which has been on my TBR list since it‘s release, is one of the required textbooks for the College Composition course I‘ll be taking in the fall.
This also happened in my first college level English class, in which The Glass Castle was our textbook. I had already read it at that point and was not at all upset about reading it for a second time and getting to discuss it in class. 🤓📚❤️

I love a good book dedication. This one says: “For the many weird and wonderful thespians whom I have had the good fortune to call my friends. (I promise this is not about you.)” 🎭. This has been on my TBR list for a while. I even have the audio version of it on my audible.com account. I ordered a physical copy of it as well a few days ago from Amazon, instead of from my local bookstore, and my husband is making me feel so guilty!

@Jerdencon Yay!! I‘m debating starting this one before work, but I should probably do the responsible thing and save it until I get home tonight. Booo!! I don‘t know much of anything about the Romanov family, and I‘m looking forward to learning (even if it is a fictionalized version). @IndoorDame Did you have a chance to read this book? I don‘t see any notes from you in it. #lmpbc #GroupA #Round12 @suvata

@suvata I just brought the book to the Post Office. Estimated delivery date 6/22. Tracking number 9549 0101 4222 2165 0116 34
@Jerdencon @IndoorDame I can‘t believe we‘re almost done with this swap! It‘s been so fun and I‘m really looking forward to getting our own books back and reading each other‘s comments. 🥰

Thought all of you word nerds would appreciate this. The tagged book was the first I could think of that sounded appropriate. 😄

Of all my recent online book purchases, this is the one I‘ve been looking forward to the most. #broadway #autism #disabilityvisibility #representationmatters

I‘ve been wanting to get a Wonder Woman tattoo and a literary tattoo for a long time. This image has me playing with the idea of blending the two into one tattoo 🤩 Tagged is the first Wonder Woman comic @GrizzVarela bought me. 100+ pages and I read it in one sitting.

The call letting me know this book was available to pick up, came while I was in a daily morning meeting at work. It took everything in me to focus on what my manager was saying about daily goals and other only somewhat important announcements, then I had to get through my whole work day before the book could be picked up! Being an adult is hard sometimes. 🙄

I receive an average of 2-3 books in the mail every month. Book of the Month is the one I look forward to the most. I‘m looking forward to reading this, and have promised a Peter Pan obsessed family member that I‘d pass it on to her as soon as I finish it. 🧚‍♀️

@Jerdencon @suvata @IndoorDame Look what was waiting for me when I got home from work!! This is the one I‘ve really been looking forward to. I can‘t wait to get started! 🤗 #LMPBS #groupA #round14