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My February wrap up. 📚❄️

Finished three for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge

Translation: Tinder. Attacks, inroads, remains

Ever since I've hit my teens, my parents told me to read Meienberg. Now I've adopted this book from my mum and so she finally made it possible for me to read something by Meienberg.

And I totally see both my parents in these texts. Essays that are anti-war, pro humanism and really cynical. My dad met Meienberg in Zurich once and had a couple of beers with him. I'm not surprised they got along.

Any YOU have read?

All were good, and all are reviewed on my blog!!

@viola_shipman
@reneerosen_
@annierainsbooks
@sarina.bowen

Progress so far on my 2025 Title challenge. Just finishing Icebound. Don't have any books with a J or a K, so I will have to come back to them later in the year when I hopefully find them. Had Four Ruined Realms on F, but moved it to the Number slot for now. Trying to do it going down the ABCs, with special exceptions on books I really want to read, such as Onyx Storm and Sanctum of the Soul.

#2025TitleChallenge

My New Year Kindle Challenge accomplishments 🙂 I think I‘m doing pretty good. I‘ve read a lot more but this is just my Kindle. Happy Sunday and Happy Reading to everyone! #NewYearKindleChallenge2025 #KindleChallenge #ReadingGoals

Really bad writing can sometimes be amusing in a Mystery Science Theater 3000 way, but a bad story really annoys me.

I‘ll bail in a heartbeat if the story is so bad that I don‘t even care what happens.

#sundayfunday

#FebruaryChallrngeWrapUp

Two more books off my *indle and even better no additions. One book each for my #Roll100 Both were ok not fantastic.

#WickedWords

From Dust to Stardust: Ballroom, Candlestick, Library
From The God of the Woods: Guests
From Black Woods, BlueSky: Yellow

@CBee @PuddleJumper @AsYouWish

Not as good as January. It was a busy and not great month, I was reading a couple of pages every day.

Good books this month though! That was positive

I also got Plus for my birthday 🤣

#MonthlyWrapUp #PuddleJumperWrapUp

🤓Ok here is hoping I can pick up the slack I have been feeling lately. I went a little easy on myself with my choices this month and picked things I knew I would mostly likely fly through 😜

#readyourkindle #readyourebooks #readyourtbr @CBee

#CoverStories
Day 1. 2 similar covers
#2SimilarCovers

Another heartfelt story by one of my favorite authors. Alison Ragsdale captures your heart with her stories. They are always so realistic that I wonder if she has lived it or knows someone who has. Her books always make me shed tons of tears.

Full review: https://lsmoore49.blogspot.com/2025/03/my-husbands-child-by-alison-ragsdale.html

@alisonragsdalewrites
@bookouture

I don‘t usually do an offical TBR, but I‘m giving it a try for March.

#BookSpin & #DoubleSpin picks for March! These have both been on my bookshelf for quite awhile. @TheAromaofBooks

These are also the first #ReadOrDonate and #OffTheShelf books for the month @julieclair @Librariana

Love the gown covers of the Selection series-

#EveningGown #CoverStories

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🩶🤍

Here‘s my TBR and Bookspin Bingo list for the month!

#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks

Another good book week...hope you can stop by.

@clarelesliehall
@brilabuskes
@margiezablefisher
@emajincomics
Patricia Grandy
@simonandschuster
@williammorrowbooks
@sibyllinedigitalfirst
@partnersincrimevbt

#BookReport #WeeklyForecast
I updated my spreadsheet for the new month and forgot to keep a note of my starting position for the week 🤦‍♀️. So these are approximate figures…

Eurotrash 103pp
Death in Daylesford 89pp
Dead Sweet 94pp
Polo (audio) 43%
Before We Say Goodbye Finished
Bonfire of the Vanities c60pp

Plan for this week is to continue with the ones I haven‘t finished, and add Before We Forget Kindness

#FebruaryWrapUp

#NetGalley #ARC

Black Woods, Blue Sky
The Lost Passenger

#TOB25

Beautyland
The History of Sound

Fir #ReadYourKindle2025 my February Reads
I only got the I-70 Strangler by Ruth Canton read. Hope to do better in March!

@CBee

#ISPYBINGO board for February

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks

February #Bookspinbingo board.

@TheAromaofBooks

February Wrap-up
13 books read!

5⭐️
The Writer by J. D. Barker and James Patterson (J. D. Barker)
The Devil at His Elbows by Valerie Bauerlein (Libby)
The Naxi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (Netgalley)

4.5 ⭐️
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo (Audio/Libby)
The Day The World Came to Town by Jim DeFede (Libby)
Would You Rather? By Zeitgeist (Zeitgeist/Netgalley)

4⭐️
Framed by John Grisham (Libby)
⬇️

I love supporting my favorite small, romance bookstore, Heartbound Book Shop. ❤️ I wonder what I got?

Met this sweet local romantasy author, Madeleine Eliot, at a brewery. I got her dual book set on sirens. I'm looking forward to reading these!
*author is not on the data catalog

#bookspin and #bookspinbingo for March: books set in Ireland, books by women, and books gifted to me in past years by Littens (thanks to swaps and such) because it‘s my birthday month. @TheAromaofBooks

My library checkouts for today. I told myself I was going to go inside, turn in one book, and not check out anything else…that didn‘t work! I‘m currently on a stack of five other books, one of those titles I just started today. The two graphic novels on the bottom of the stack shown here, I have no idea what they are about… But they‘ve just now become available again, and the art intrigues me. Black Phillip vibes!

Got a #bookspinbingo at the 11th hour last night. I‘ll be spending the rest of today on the couch reading toward March‘s books because I ran a 10 mile trail run this morning with 1500 feet of elevation (which probably means nothing to most of you but it was *hard*—and beautiful and made me feel super accomplished but I may not walk again for days!). I‘ve definitely earned my couch time! @TheAromaofBooks

#notbookrelated just goofing around- How long has this emoji for a hearing aid been here? I know I am not here much but yikes!! lol 😂🦻🏽just in time to tease my mom! She has only had hers about a month.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
Even though I‘m not consistent with my five joys every week, it is one of my favorite Litsy events.

1. My husband (always)
2. Warmer temperatures and sunshine ☀️
3. Litsy (always)
4. My reading journal.
5. Reading (which is why I‘m a little less active lately)

I skipped last month‘s #aardvark picks, but I made up for it this month!

🍀 HAPPY MARCH!! 🍀

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#COVER STORIES
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: 2SIMILARCOVERS

I found this on Goodreads at this person‘s account in a discussion group: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/37852776-hayley

Discussion group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/22633107-38-39-two-books-with-similar-cover...

#5JoysFriday

1. My boys…always!
2. Medications. Between Xander and Zeke, I have a small pet pharmacy at my house.
3. Vet care. I visited the vet 3 times this week (Xander twice and Zeke once). They cut me a break with the most recent visit. And, my vet truly cares.
4. My parents. They brought me a meal and have helped me pick up medications and cover the costs of one of the visits.
5. Litsy. It has been my saving grace this week.

🌸 My #Bookspin #Doublespin list for March 🌸
@TheAromaofBooks

Very excited about this month's picks!
All the best with moving, Sarah! 🤞

My February weekly Favorites. I honestly don't know how a lot of you can pick a monthly favorite, I struggle enough to pick one a week

#weeklyfavorites

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/01/books-picked-me-up-on-bad-days-how...

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1) Ice fishing date last weekend even though we caught 0 fish
2) We‘re getting 6 eggs a day right now and one of our new chickens just started laying pink eggs!
3) I recently learned how to make hashbrowns from a potato and I‘ve made it 3 times this week I love it so much
4) We waxed our snowboards for some slushy warm weather riding I‘m really looking forward to tomorrow
5) I‘ve been very grateful for my house lately

Wow! 9 years! 🤯 happy litsyversary to everyone else celebrating!🎉

1. Vacation day
2. Fun day and great magnet from @KLyn1
3. Frankie
4. Coffee
5. A bit warmer weather this week
Thanks @DebinHawaii @Kshakal #5joysFriday

https://youtu.be/7xvHgxRPXt4?feature=shared

Probably should have waited until morning to upload, but I'm impatient! Haha.

Female authors for the TBR 🔥🔥🔥🔥💕💕💕💕

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. My Canadian Forest track on my BetterSleep app. My jaw immediately unclenches when I turn it on 😆
2. Started a very funny, quirky mystery called “Three Bags Full” 🐑💚🐏
3. Warmer weather this week, opened all the windows in the house to air out 🌬️
4. Successfully transferred my old iPhone 11 data to my new iPhone 16 💪 No crying or stress!! Woo!
5. -See Below-

Not just today .

1*. The shrubs outside my window are blooming with delicate flowers
2* Little Bear likes to hug the kitty-cat
3-4* Read 2 more books in the No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency series
5* my dryer of 14 years bit the dust; the new one arrived yesterday

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Jumping back into this fun challenge after a break. For me it has now changed to #readyourkobo

This is my list for March 2025, wonder which will come up in the draw @CBee

#readyourkindle #readyourbooks

#FeelinTheLove
Day 24. Lonely
#Lonely

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛 My joys this week:

1) meeting with my bestie ❤️
2&3) travelling with @VaniBarelyReads ❤️
4) browsing the toy store with @VaniBarelyReads
5) actually feeling alive in the evenings, instead of just being dead 💪

Tiny bonus: two times of gender euphoria 🏳️‍🌈

@DebinHawaii

#5joysfriday
1)sunrise through the trees
2) two communities of support & strength: My HS students & circle of staff
3)libraries
4) Year of Wonder- starting my day with a classical music piece
5) always coffee! And stroopwafel!!