Welcome to Litsy!

I did decide to go for a short walk but didn‘t listen to anything because the quiet was so nice. Missy loved the snow.

#25Alive
#favewinterfood
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

New England clam chowder. 🙂

#poetrymatters
#wain
@TheSpineView

Wow, January is flying by and it is time to nominate books for February. Please make your nomination in the comments. Hope everyone is enjoying January's book Red Shirts by John Schalzi. It is a classic. Let me know if want to added or removed from the tag list.

Happy Reading everyone!

@Larrken @bnp @Johanna414 @BookmarkTavern @JulesG @BookBelle84 @Readergrrl @CSeydel @Roary47 @LizPixie @Paperbackpirate @PageShifter @kwmg40 @majkia @BookWomble

I‘m always cold so I treated myself to an electric throw. I‘ve just tried it out and oh my my goodness, I‘m so toasty! Must getting old 😂

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is having a grand day! I will tag a few Littens to get us started; however, everyone is welcome to play.

My answers:
1. I dislike sitting all day. I prefer to move around especially with the lower back pain I have. I have tried standing desk and that is not a good solutions for me.
2. The first book that comes to mind is The Devil Wears Prada.

Play? @dabbe @eggs @read4life @debinhawaii @AnnCrystal @JulesG

Friends - stop and pray, send positive energy. Our local high school is on lock down. Rumors of active shooter. Nothing confirmed. Every mother's and teacher's nightmare. I don't have one there, but I do have past students. Mcdowell

Ooops….I may have just brought another book 📖 🤪

Nabbed from FB.

#Wail. #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

How I'm handling today. 🩶🖤🩶

#25Alive
#fvwinterdrink
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Hot buttered rum. I have this rarely, but when I do ... sheer heaven. 😊

#poetrymatters
#wail
@TheSpineView

#weeklyforecast

Finish:
The Fate of the Day by RickAtkinson( 100 pages left) (Goodreads )
Cold as Hell by KellyArmstrong (Netgalley E-ARC)
The Woman at the Front by Lecia Cornwall (Goodreads)
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore (LibbyApp Auto)

Hope you are all well 👍🏻

#weekendreads
@rachelsbrittain

A little of each one each day. My brain so far hasn't imploded ... yet. 😂

#25Alive
#AuthorYouLove
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A different take. My two favorite cartoonists AND authors of all time. It's not just their drawings that move my soul but their words as well. 🩶🖤🩶

Mountain Bean Dream by HM Shander, part of The Coffee Loft Series is full of cute puns. Molly and Jeremy's story is so cute and I love their interactions with each other. This was a really cute story and a sweet love story.

Book 6/100 of the year.

Mountain Bean Dream by HM Shander, part of The Coffee Loft Series is full of cute puns. Molly and Jeremy's story is so cute and I love their interactions with each other. This was a really cute story and a sweet love story.

Book 6/100 of the year.

Wishing you a very happy birthday 🎊🎈🎉🎁 we hope you have a fabulous day!! @MsRadioSilence

#LitsyLove
#LitsyLoveBirthdays
#LitsyLoveCrew

#25Alive #AuthorYouLove

My kind of day ❤️

#poetrymatters
#wagon
@TheSpineView

Hope you all have a lovely weekend ❤️

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Going to a writing group meeting at a bookstore
2. Homemade focaccia
3. Wordle! Every day my friend and I send each other our results and it‘s so fun to stay in touch this way. Even better I was able to solve all of them in 2 or 3 guesses this week!
4. Finished teaching for the semester. I loved listening to all the students‘ final presentations
5. Yummy bar of oatmilk chocolate from a friend 💛

Thanks to everyone who entered my #49bdgiveaway
I wish I could send everyone a book. 📚 And I wish you all a great reading year.

I decided to draw 3 names & the winners are:

@CrowCAH
@Butterfinger
@Scochrane26

🎉🥳

Please email me your mailing address - lynn@wanderinglynn.com

1. My cats Boots & Lorelei
2. My husband Justin
3. Borrowing an adult coloring book kit from the library
4. Long talks with friends
5. All the wonderful like-minded people on Litsy

#5JoysFriday

Really tough week emotionally. It's nice to think back about the small joys. 💙
1. My friend's two kittens being funny and cute
2. My own sweet cat
3. My meditation circle resumed after three weeks off for holidays+blizzard
4. My friend gave me a self care card deck
5. Sauna time

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

#5JoysFriday #
1) Em-cat
2) COFFEE
3) Libby
4)beef/mushroom Shepards pie for dinner Wednesday
5) #hyggereadathon last Sunday

#5JoysFriday
@debinhawaii (thanks for the tag! 🩶🖤🩶)

1. The Wolf Moon on January 13th.
2. Last week with President Biden. 😭
3. Matt.
4. Pip.
5. Kate.

All are tagged.

#5JoysFriday

1. It‘s my birthday week ♑️ & I love a good giveaway
2. My Italian visa arrived super fast & on my birthday #birthdaymagic
3. @PuddleJumper is hosting a Robin Hobb bookclub ❤️📚
4. I‘ve deleted all my Meta accounts including IG. 🎉 I‘m on Bluesky as wanderinglynn - https://bsky.app/profile/wanderinglynn.bsky.social - and BSky will soon be launching Flashes, a photo sharing site.
5. This kitten. He‘s the bestest. 💜🐱

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Two Cup Friday!
2. Homemade banana bread
3. Puppy Breath
4. Bella snuggles
5. Lunch out with friends

Play? @bthegood @bethM @read4life @Kadagul

So true ❤️

#5joysfriday
@DebinHawaii

Help! Goodreads is totally messing up my books read count!

If I read a book on my kindle, it‘s counting the book twice! I don‘t have the setting turned on where it automatically updates my goodreads when I start and finish a kindle book.

It‘s only doing this on the challenge side when I finish a kindle book.

I don‘t know what to do to fix this…

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
I‘ve been down and out this week with a pinched nerve happening at the same time as returning to office, but there were still joyful moments.
1) we‘re actually getting winter this year!
2) cats helping put Christmas away and sleeping in the sun
3) a beautiful sunrise
4) ice on the Potomac River
5) love my doctor- she always listens and tells me my weird symptoms make sense 😂

My 3 favorites from this list are:

1. Holes (I read this book in 7th grade English class and this was my favorite book that we read that year. I liked my teacher. She was actually my English teacher in 6th, 7th and 8th grade. One day, I found her on Facebook and we‘ve been Facebook friends since then.)

2. The Graveyard Book (I really liked this one.)

3. The Girl Who Drank The Moon (I also really liked this one.)

#threelistthursday

#TLT @dabbe

I‘ve read 26 of them. 25%

Three favorites:
1. The Giver
2. Number the Stars
3. The Bridge to Terabithia

🎉 ~24 hours left to enter! 🎉

To enter, repost this and tag one book on your wish list. Tag me & use the #49bdaygiveaway

Open internationally. Closes at 2000 EST on Friday, January 17. I‘ll draw a name and send the winner the book they tagged.

These are all favorites from my youth, except for When You Reach Me, which I loved as an adult.

#TBT @Dabbe

#poetrymatters
#waffle
@TheSpineView

My daughter just given me some books she‘s finished reading. My TBR list has just got a bit longer 😂

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe

I have only read 15 of the 104. My rank is 39 of 149.

My favorites are:
The King of the Wind
The Giver
The Graveyard Book

Want to play? @JessClark78 @cupcake12 @PageShifter @Susanita

@dabbe Thanks for the tag 💕

I read 8/104 8%

3 faves:
Sounder
Bridge to Terabithia
King of The Wind

3 I want to read:
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Julie of The Wolves

#ThreeListThursdsy #TLT

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Waffle

I think I can live with my result.

I try not to be too political on here, but one of my favorite authors, Silas House, current Poet Laureate of Kentucky, shared this on fb last week. Written by one of his friends, I feel it speaks to a lot of our feelings.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
New Survey: All of the Newbery Medal Winners from 1922-2024!
1. Take the survey: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-full-list-of-newbery-medal-winners
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list, 3 you think should have been on the list, 3 you'd like to read ...
4. Tag a few!

Wanna play? @TheBookGeekFrau @TheBookHippie @TheLudicReader
CONSIDER YOURSELF TAGGED! 🙂

Creepy👀 I‘m already conscientious about locking doors at night, but this short story takes any form of vigilance to the next level.

As Mrs. Grayson continued to follow her nightly ritual of locking her doors and windows, I wondered if her obsession was more a sign of her growing short-term memory loss. Was there really a thing outside trying to get in?

I could see how the conclusion could be interpreted more than one way. Made this story a hit!