For now I‘m avoiding any of Stephen King‘s pandemic-related books. This one will hopefully make this 5 day quarantine a little more tolerable. 24hrs in and I‘m starting to lose it. Thanks Covid. 🙄 🐉 📖

When we got married 3 years ago today, we got all sorts of interesting marriage advice. My advice to you unmarried littens is to marry someone who won‘t take it personally when you‘d rather focus on your book than on them. My other advice is to go follow my hubby Matthew, @GrizzVarela on the account he started after our date tonight. The tagged book is one we got inspiration from, in writing our personalized vows.

My third and fourth King books, both about pandemic-like events. Can you tell it‘s been on my mind more lately? Is it safe to go “back to normal life” yet? 😷

Only book lovers can really appreciate how exciting this sight is. My new book fits easily all the way inside my new purse, without concerns about damaging the book or anything else in the purse. I broke the zipper on a brand new purse, trying to cram a book into it a few months ago. 🤦‍♀️ This purse is otherwise much larger than I really need, but this discovery makes me want to keep using the purse anyway. 📚 🤓 👜 🥰

Thank you so much @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for this sweet holiday surprise and to everyone else who has sent me such sweet holiday cards. Work has kept me extremely busy over the last few months, so I‘m way behind on responding to anything, but I received several and loved every one of them. 😘

I love spotting random number sequences! I just realized my litfluence is exactly 3,456 today. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that your litfluence seems to grow faster, the longer you have the app? It seemed like the first 1,000 or so took forever. Now the number seems to grow a little every few days.

This title and the bright cover caught my attention at the bookstore today. This and another purchase called Breakfast With Buddha are the latest additions to my TBR list. 😄

I‘ve talked a bit lately about wanting to venture into reading mystery novels. I guess my husband (who has never been able to hold onto a gift until the occasion it was for) has been listening more than I give him credit for. This picture doesn‘t do this book justice at all. It‘s gorgeous! 🕵️‍♂️🤩

Thank you so much @Beatlefan129 ! Between myself, my husband, and my neighbor, the chocolate is already gone. She and I have shared books and had great discussions about them. I think this book will be the next one we read together and discuss. Merry Christmas Eve to all of you 🥰

Mystery is one genre of books I‘ve always struggled with. I love a good detective/crime drama on Netflix, but I have a harder time finding books that don‘t feel predictable and get boring quickly. I haven‘t started this book yet, but it will be my next attempt. I‘m in desperate need of a book I can‘t put down! What other mystery authors can you all suggest?

Thank you Sarah Ramsay from Littleton, CO. I couldn‘t find her Litsy handle so if anyone knows who she is, please help me make sure she sees this. @MaleficentBookDragon do you know who this is? #jolabokaflodswap I‘m so tempted to open it early. Work (retail leading up to the holiday) is obviously getting insanely busy. Chocolate and a book sounds like total bliss right about now!

Hi @wen4blu Here‘s confirmation information for the book and chocolates swap with the name I can‘t spell 🤣 As you can see, the book and chocolate will be delivered separately. I‘m not sure why or how to change that. Just wanted to give you a heads up. @MaleficentBookDragon thanks for putting this swap together. I think it‘s the same one I joined last Christmas and really loved it. 📚🍫🎄🥰

In the middle of my marriage, when I was above all Hugh‘s wife and Dee‘s mother, one of those unambiguous women with no desire to disturb the universe, I fell in love with a Benedictine monk. @ShyBookOwl

I strongly disagree with the choices of casting for the movie. Robert Pattinson and Reece Witherspoon should not play the main love interests in this story. That being said, I really enjoyed this revisiting of a book I loved in high school.

Major score from the Little Free Library near home. I‘ve formed a habit of checking it every day on my way home from work. Most of the time I‘m able to walk away empty handed. This needed to come home with me. I haven‘t spotted a copyright date on it, but it‘s definitely old and well-loved. 👯‍♀️😍

This series seems to have a major following in every book lovers‘ group I‘m in, so I‘ve finally decided to check it out for myself. #acotar

@LauraBeth We finally made it to the post office to pick this up. I started the other puzzle, using my puzzle board on the floor. Just before I took this picture, my dog got startled and ran over that puzzle. All of the pieces are in tact, but it‘s mostly a start over. 🤦‍♀️ Maybe I should take the hint, start this one instead, and not leave it on the floor this time! I tagged the first story I spotted in this picture. @rather_be_reading

Thank you so much @LauraBeth ! I‘ve been counting down the days, and then almost forgot today was opening day for the #puzzleswap @rather_be_reading

After reading and absolutely loving The Book of Longings, I‘ve decided to delve into other books by Sue Monk Kidd. The tagged book is one I read long ago and loved. I‘m not usually one to reread books. Now I‘m buying and rereading books, and dreaming of completely filling my bookshelves. My current read is also one I read long ago and loved. I blame (and thank) Litsy for this new habit. 🤣🥰📚

Thank you @LauraBeth 🥰 The box wasn‘t quite taped completely closed so the note and receipt slipped out, where I found the word “owl”. Opening day can‘t come soon enough 🦉

Happy puzzle building @LauraBeth . Thank you @rather_be_reading for coming up with the idea and planning this fun #puzzleswap 🧩

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
#FirstLineFriday @ShyBookOwl

I hope you‘re all enjoying your Wednesday evening as much as I‘m going to enjoy this. I really need proper wine glasses. These medal cups are pretty much unbreakable. As you can see, the same can‘t be said for the paint on them ?‍♀️ Also, I love Terra Sávie Rosé. It has taken a while, but I‘ve definitely found my favorite to enjoy at home ?

Can someone teach me how to blur out the rest of a page, so I can highlight a quote? The paragraph that starts with “Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I‘d choose the corn.” is what I wanted to highlight. After about a half hour of fussing with different settings on my phone, I gave up and I‘m posting a pic of the whole page. 🤦‍♀️

This is easily the best book I‘ve read this year. I‘m really going to miss Ana, Yaltha, Tabitha, Diodora and so many other amazing characters in this story. I‘ve promised two of my neighbors that they could borrow my copy, but I‘d definitely love to reread it later ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The bookmark I‘ve been using for The Book of Longings was brand new and in perfect condition when I started the book. I‘m now in the last 50 pages or so and it‘s well…not. That being said, it was time for some new ones that will hopefully last through more than one book. These are locally made, which made them even more appealing to me, using strips of brightly colored fabric laminated to make them a little more durable 😍

*I have no idea what this book is. I just tagged the first one I could find that had the word “working” or “job” in it.*

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@TheAromaofBooks I won‘t be done with either of the books I‘m reading now in time to join #bookspinbingo in October, but maybe in November. I‘m just excited to finally understand how it works! I tagged this book because it‘s so far outside of what I usually read, which I think is part of why I‘m excited to read it. It‘s also one of the few books on this list, that I don‘t think I‘ve already posted about at some point. Haha

It‘s finally cold enough for evening tea again! This beautiful tea cup and diffuser from @aroc has been in the box on my shelf since I received it a few months ago. Look how pretty that SweetTart tea mix is! (Don‘t worry. I put the cap back on it after taking the pic). 😍

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a37752588/all-the-light-we-cannot-... I guess it‘s time for that reread I‘ve been meaning to do! 🤯

These are the only souvenirs I‘ve purchased on this trip so far. Not sorry at all. I loved The Bookish Life of Nina Hill and have been searching for more books by Abi Waxman. I think I read Water for Elephants when I was a senior in high school back in ‘06 and LOVED it. My mom tried to dissuade me from buying a book I‘ve already read. It‘s not something I do often, but I‘m excited about this one 😊

I‘m on a ladies‘ trip with my mom and sister. Our air b&b has an adorable “Take a book. Leave a book” shelf and mom thinks I should read this because it talks about God. Have any of you read it?

This is an author‘s quote, not something that‘s in the book, but I just came across it and love it.
“There is nothing so painful to the human mind, as a great and sudden change.” - Mary Shelley.
Also, this is the version I‘m reading. Old English is hard to follow because there are so many words we don‘t really use anymore, but it‘s kind of adding to the experience!

Favorite fruit - pluot (delicious hybrid between a plum and an apricot.
Book I‘m Anxiously Anticipating - The next in the Outlander series, even though I‘ve got several books in the series to read before I‘m ready for that.
Today I‘m grateful for - the fact that we were able to easily find a new home for our puppy. It was sad to let her go, but it‘s for the best.

Rosé Friday with my neighbor ladies got cancelled at the last minute, so I‘m sharing it with this one. I get the wine, snacks and book. She gets most of the couch. It‘s a deal we made a long long time ago, and I wouldn‘t dare break it now.

I love finding my own name in books. Especially when it‘s spelled the same way my parents decided to spell it when they named me.

“They‘re even led by a woman, Skepsis, and there‘s a great reverence for God‘s female spirit. We prayed to her by her Greek name, Sophia.”

I tried to think of other want/need things to spend birthday money on, but let‘s not kid ourselves here. Goddesses was already waiting for me on hold at the bookstore and, after loving The Green Mile as much as I did, I decided to try another of King‘s non-horror novels. 🥳 📚

I‘ve read four chapters since yesterday, so I‘m obviously enjoying Frankenstein much more than I have in my previous attempts to read it. I have noticed one recurring thing that‘s started to get on my nerves. Mary Shelley seems to have really liked the word “ardour”. I‘m enjoying it for the fact that it‘s not a word I knew before reading this book, but there are so many other words that mean “passion/enthusiasm/focus/hard work”.

I started Frankenstein for the second or third time a few days ago, during a frustratingly sleepless night. I just opened it and realized I never saved my progress. Guess I‘ll have to restart it one more time. I‘m feeling a bit “blah” today, so spending some time on the couch with a classic book, a flannel blanket, pj‘s and a leftover piece of birthday cake sounds just fine 😊

She‘s almost 8 months old and still has a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep if she can‘t have at least one paw on me. Looks like I‘m not going anywhere for a while. I guess I‘ll just have to sit here and read for a bit while she sleeps. Oh darn…😜

“I am Ana.” I‘m only 10 pages in and I already really love Ana. Her relationship with her aunt, is the sort of relationship I hope to have with my nieces and nephews as they grow up. @ShyBookOwl

1. Finally finding doctors who are listening when I say something is wrong with my hips (long story).
2. When summer ends 😜 3. I‘ve started several books over the last few days. If, by some miracle, I‘m able to finish at least one of them, I‘d like to start The Book of Two Ways. @MoonWitch94

This is the third book I‘ve received for my birthday (the first two being from #Litsy users.) Absolutely no complaints here. I‘m also expecting (because it happens with every special occasion) a gift certificate to the local bookstore, from my mother in law. I may have done some pre-shopping at said bookstore today 🤫

I just finished The Green Mile last night, which I enjoyed much more than I thought I would. I‘m ready to let go of the intensity of death row and serial killers, and move onto something much happier, about a man who “likes me just the way I am.” #MrRogers #Wontyoubemyneighbor?#Letsmakethemostofthisbeautifulday

Puppy rarely stays still for very long, but we‘ve recently discovered that she loves the blanket on my lap. That being said, my only real goal is to finish the last 100 pages of The Green Mile, with her by my side. I‘m not usually one to reread books, but I might just do that with this book.

Most of this is on the trading doc too, but that doesn‘t seem to be getting a lot of attention in the last week or so. Would anyone like to take any part of these stacks off my hands and off my shelf?

Thank you so much @Lovesbooks87 . The decision of what to read next just got a little harder! This, and so many other Jodi Picoult books, are so far outside of what I usually read which is exactly why I‘m excited to read it. 😊

Thank you so much to @Mynameisacolour for this sweet early birthday surprise! I was expecting a book from the trade, which also came today just adding to the fun, but didn‘t recall trading anything else. It crossed my mind that this might be a birthday surprise but, just in case it was another trade book, I decided to open it so I could promptly send out a thank you so much 🥰

My birthday is coming up on September 2nd, and I‘m strongly considering getting a tattoo referencing my favorite children‘s book (or a few other things). I found this pic online and love it. Hubby doesn‘t like it, but he also doesn‘t love this book as much as I do. What do you all think? I‘m a bit sad we can‘t comment with pics, because I‘d love to see everyone‘s literary tattoos.