Welcome to Litsy!

I did a good job at reading my own books this month! Just two from the library, the rest all came off my TBR.

Haven was the best of the month, but I also really liked My Year of Meats, Sea of Tranquility, We Carry Their Bones, and What Strange Paradise. I think they were all picks but one. (Sad Janet)

#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks

My previous read reminded me that I still had this memoir on my shelves. Agatha Christie writes of the time spent with her archaeologist husband on digs in Iraq and Syria in the years before WWII. It‘s incredibly witty!

See, @Tamra ? I‘m really trying to #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks. 😆

I got my local library card today. I feel like it was a good way to celebrate being here 4 weeks! My one reading goal this year is to #readmyowndamnbooks, but of course I had to check a couple out as well.

Cerulean Sea was on their $1 paperback FOTL shelf, and I couldn‘t resist. I loaned out my original copy and it never came back to me. I‘ll definitely reread it at some point!

Both of the other authors were at #TXBookFest last year 😁.

#Bookspin remains my favorite monthly challenge, helping me choose a couple of the books off my shelf and library holds lists.

I actually started Starter Villain yesterday, so that‘s perfect! And my #Doublespin in January is Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, which I‘ve been wanting to read since the year I saw the author at #TXBookFest.

Thanks Sarah @TheAromaofBooks for continuing to host!

#readmyowndamnbooks 😆😁📚

First #bookspin list of 2024! This year I‘m going to keep unread titles from each month on the list to carry over to the following month, so hopefully I‘ll get to all of them before the end of the year. New strategies to #readmyowndamnbooks 😆😁📚. I‘ve had some of these for years.

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

“Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoe box.”

I love Sy Montgomery‘s nature writing, and I‘ve had this book on my shelf for at least a year. Time to read about a good good pig 🙂❤️📚.

I‘m pretty proud of myself for this stack of August‘s #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks! I‘ve got two more I‘m reading right now but I think chances are slim that I‘ll finish them before the end of the month.

So many great books in this bunch! My fave is The Overstory, but I also loved Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Demon Copperhead, Dragon Haven, and Cassiel‘s Servant. Really there isn‘t one bad book in the lot though. 📚🙂🩵

Y‘all. I only estimated by counting one shelf and multiplying by how many TBR shelves I have. It‘s around 300 unread physical books. I know we all have our own gauges, but that feels like a ton to me. Soooo… I‘m initiating a book buying ban (with the exception of what I‘ve preordered already and my Libro.fm and Aardvark subscriptions.)

Definitely time to concentrate on #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks! (Not sure who started this hashtag, but I love it.)

Cute MG graphic novel featuring a kid detective and friend who take down the school bully - with some unexpected help. #bookspinbingo #bingo #readmyowndamnbooks

The stacks for my #DecemberTBR & #WinterReadathon!

The left are book box books that have arrived recently. The middle is all my #pemberlittens reading that I‘m behind on (with the exception of the Heiress) so that stack is my goal for the Winter Readathon - I solemnly vow to catch up on #janeandtheexcellentreadalong! The right is some leftovers and a few books as I continue my quest to #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks.

Gonna be a busy month!