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📢 Please note that I've dropped the Saturday to make it a simpler hashtag. Saturday shall be known as Chatterday from now. 😅

Our first #Chatterday of 2025.
❄️ How were your holidays?
❄️ What's your mood today?
❄️ How are you coping with the short days?
❄️ Any good recommendations, books, tv, film, etc

@thebookhippie @Chrissyreadit @Sace @Soscha @dabbe @Cuilin @Eggs @TheLudicReader @TheAromaofBooks @Deblovestoread @DebinHawaii

Bookwormjillk Happy #Chatterday Holidays were okay- two weeks of guests made for a lot of work. I wisely took the 2nd and the 3rd off for recovery. A day of errands and prep today and then a mini road trip for my daughter‘s tournament tomorrow. Also my son gets his license so tomorrow so he‘ll be driving us there! 3mo

Sace My holidays were nice and low key. Thanksgiving is the big holiday for us. I‘ve been doing pretty well with the shorter days and my mood has been good. I‘m currently reading several books for Litsy challenges and buddy reads, but I‘ve managed to squeeze in a binge watch of The Night Agent on Netflix. It‘s really good! 3mo

Cupcake12 Christmas seems ages away! I‘m working 4 days in a row from today and the forecast for snow is 30cm tonight ❄️ 3mo

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TheBookHippie Finally snow and a bit of sun. I‘ve seen the sun maybe 3 times since December 🤯 not a fan. Hanukkah and New Years collided and the holidays ended so at last it‘s calm. Taking grandson round the corner today to our favorite thrift store, otherwise it‘s reading and warm beverages! The Six Triple Eight on Netflix is amazing. Daughter is still slow and sore but improves daily. (edited) 3mo

dabbe Warm and sunny here. #surprisesurprise Chores today and hopefully lots of reading. I chose too many wonderful buddy reads to be a part of, and I'm truly going to try and keep up. 🤪 3mo

Cuilin @dabbe Apart from the sunshine, same. Why do we do this? I just joined another today. 🤦‍♀️ 3mo

Cuilin @TheBookHippie Glad to hear your daughter is improving. 😊 3mo

Cuilin Indoor day, cleaning, tidying, knitting all while audiobooking. Black Doves on Netflix was excellent. (edited) 3mo

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤣😂🇫🇷♥️😘 3mo

Deblovestoread Holidays were different this year and a lot more work. Back home again with a few chores to do and some reading. So far I‘ve kept up on my daily journaling (word for the year is strength), will start Les Mis today and get caught up. On track with Lark Rise to Candleford and looking forward to Sense & Sensibility. No TV lately. 3mo

dabbe @Cuilin The #foma phenomenon I believe. At least it is for me. 😂 3mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie Glad your daughter is improving. ❣️🇫🇷❣️ 3mo

TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread are you reading with us? Did I forget you 😵‍💫😬 (edited) 3mo

Deblovestoread @TheBookHippie wishing your daughter a complete recovery 🩵 3mo

Deblovestoread I am but I don‘t think I decided until the last minute and didn‘t let you know. Plus I chose not to start til today…so you are good and I am slacking 😂 @TheBookHippie 3mo

TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread 🤣🫠 3mo

TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread let me know if you want to be tagged. 3mo

Deblovestoread Please tag me. I intend to be caught up today. Thank you 😘. @TheBookHippie (edited) 3mo

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk glad you had a lovely family holiday but a few days to yourself too. Good luck to your new driver x 3mo

AllDebooks @Sace Glad you had a good holidays. I'll have to check Netflix out. 3mo

AllDebooks @Cupcake12 it really does. We have a snow forecast tonight too. Stay warm ❄️💙❄️ 3mo

AllDebooks @TheBookHippie we're due snow too. Enjoy your time with grandson. I love a good thrift store find. Wishing your daughter a good recovery, it is going to take time recover from surgery x 3mo

AllDebooks @dabbe I hear you on the buddyreads. I've got 14 this month. 😅🫣 3mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin lol, I'm just as bad as you and @dabbe I'm too easily bewitched by books and FOMO 😅 3mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin I have that on my watchlist. 😊 3mo

AllDebooks @Deblovestoread I'm so excited for S & S, my favourite Austen. Love the Dashwoods. 3mo

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Holidays were fine, but i worked more than usual this year so it didn't quite feel like Xmas. Grandma was able to celebrate at home. They short days luckily don't get me down too much, but I am a fan of cozy twinkle lights over harsh overhead lights. We've been revisiting DCs Legends of Tomorrow, which is now complete, if you enjoy unexpected misfit heroes in bonkers situations who are sometimes morally gray. Otherwise, trying to catch up here. 3mo

dabbe @AllDebooks Holy guacamole, Batman! 🤩🤪😂 3mo

dabbe @AllDebooks I hear ya! 🤩😂🤗 3mo

mhillis I don‘t usually have much time to watch series, but during the vacation I found that Drops of God on AppleTV was very good! And it‘s based on a manga 🙌 3mo

AllDebooks @mhillis thanks, I'll check it out. 😊 3mo

kspenmoll Its Sunday but - I spent Saturday with my HS best friend. We laugh & laugh! 3mo

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dabbe

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#DaysDevotedTo
#hiking
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Spring hike in the White Tank Mountain Regional Park.

AnnCrystal 🤩👍💝. 4mo

IuliaC 👍😎🤩 4mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🧡🍁🤎 4mo

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dabbe @IuliaC 🧡🍁🤎 4mo

AmyG How lovely! 4mo

dabbe @AmyG It was ... and ... hot! #surprisesurprise 😂 🧡🍁🤎 4mo

AmyG Ha! Isn‘t it always hot? 4mo

dabbe @AmyG It's currently 59º, and we have the gas fireplace on! 😂 4mo

AmyG Ha! Enjoy it while it lasts! 4mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 4mo

dabbe @AmyG 🤩❣️🤩 4mo

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🧡🍁🤎 4mo

Eggs 🤎🥾💛 4mo

dabbe @Eggs 💛🤎🧡 4mo

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dabbe

Dissolution: A Shardlake Novel | C. J. Sansom

#2024Bracket #Bracket2024 #bookbracket2024
@CSeydel

Overall book from January-June: THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ... #surprisesurprise #sherlocked

July pick: DISSOLUTION by C.J. Sansom.

Can't wait to see how the rest of the year unfolds. 😊

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dabbe

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#MotivationalMonday
@Cupcake12

Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView! 😘
1. We keep putting it off, but we're washing those dogs! I also have a lunch date with my college roomie. #gochiomega
2. I actually just started it, TOM LAKE. I've never read anything by Patchett before.
3. Detective fiction. #surprisesurprise

ShelleyBooksie I'm with you on the detective fiction! 13mo

TheSpineView 😊🥰😘 13mo

dabbe @ShelleyBooksie 🤩😍😃 13mo

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Cupcake12 Good luck with the dogs 🐶 thanks for joining in x 13mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve heard that book is great! 13mo

dabbe @Cupcake12 Thanks; we'll need it! 🤩 13mo

dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I'm enjoying it so far! 😍 13mo

IMASLOWREADER at least you‘re doing something fun ive hot chores galore meh 🫤 13mo

dabbe @IMASLOWREADER Sorry to hear that; I got lucky this week. 💚💙💚 13mo

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dabbe

The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#TLT

1. Sherlock Holmes, of course. #surprisesurprise #iamsherlocked
2. Hercule Poirot. #lovethatmustache
3. Nancy Drew #thatwomancandoanything

Play? @Eggs @TheSpineView @The_Penniless_Author @AmyG @Cuilin @IndoorDame @TheLudicReader @Aimeesue @Bookwomble @TheBookHippie @Amiable @Read4life @CBee @Andrew65 @rwmg @tpixie @bthegood @AnnR @iread2much @Cupcake12 @peanutnine @mcctrish ... and anyone else who wants to play! (I ran out of room!) 😃

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 💜 🏷 14mo

CBee I‘d have to add Atticus Pund 😊 14mo

dabbe @TheSpineView 😘 14mo

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dabbe @CBee Oh, yes, those were fun! 🤩 14mo

The_Penniless_Author Thanks for the tag. 😀 14mo

IndoorDame It would be super boring for me to JUST repeat your list, so I‘m gonna have to go with Miss Marple for my Agatha pick 😁😘 14mo

dabbe @The_Penniless_Author 🤩 14mo

dabbe @IndoorDame #greatminds And I need more choices cuz I love Miss Marple, too! Thanks for playing! ❤️💜🩷 14mo

rwmg Only 3? Oh dear. In no particular order: Sir John Appleby, Wesley Peterson, Kate Shackleton. But ask me again next week and I might choose somebody else entirely 14mo

dabbe @rwmg Me, too! You've given me 3 new ones to add to my TBR. Thanks for playing! 🤩 14mo

iread2much Hmmm, I don‘t read a lot of mysteries, but maybe Will Trent (I really like the TV show but haven‘t read the books) Lady Sherlock (my favorite!), and Beka Cooper from the series by that name. She‘s not brilliant, but she‘s good 13mo

dabbe @iread2much Haven't read any of these--on the good ol' TBR! Thanks for playing! ❤️💜🩷 13mo

iread2much @dabbe thanks for the invite! 13mo

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Sarah83

The Postman Always Rings Twice | James M. Cain

Some #litsylove will be on its way tomorrow. The postman left a card for me today, so I will bring these ones to the post office, when I get my parcel. 💖

@BarbaraBB #1001bookswap #stdb2018
@Jess7 #bookmarkandgoodies
@CrowCAH #thereisalwaysmorepemberley
@ju.ca.no #surprisesurprise 😂😂😂

CrowCAH Woohoo awesome!!! The battle is on to see if your book will arrive to me before my Jane Austen Swap parcel or after (the swap box still hasn‘t arrived-trying not to panic lol) 7y

Sarah83 @CrowCAH you don't have me as match. In that case your box would be already at your place. 😉❣️ But I think it will take some time. In Germany is a holiday on Monday, so it will take a bit of time. ✊ 7y

BarbaraBB Yay! 😘 7y

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Sarah83 @BarbaraBB hope it will be at your place on Wednesday. 😉 7y

BarbaraBB Me too 🤞😀💕 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB I put some extras into the parcel aswell. Hope you like them. 💝 7y

BarbaraBB @Sarah83 you‘re too good! I am looking forward to it. Thank you so much! X 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB ❣️💖 thank you 7y

Jess7 Aww thank you!! 🤗🤗🤗 7y

ju.ca.no aah you were faster than me! I have something waiting to be mailed out as well, I will do it next week once I‘m back from France :) 7y

Sarah83 @Jess7 you're welcome 😊 7y

Sarah83 @ju.ca.no it's my turn. 😉 7y

ju.ca.no It arrived today- thank you❤️ I won‘t be home until friday night, I will open it then😍😍 7y

Sarah83 @ju.ca.no Sounds great. Your parcel isn't there @barbarabb 7y

BarbaraBB Not yet! 7y

BarbaraBB 🤞maybe when I come home from work! 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB just wondering, how long it takes. 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB still isn't there? 7y

BarbaraBB @Sarah83 No... but Monday was Pinksteren here, so maybe all mail has been delayed as a result? I am on the lookout, hopefully tomorrow 🙏 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB In Germany aswell.. mhm. As I send it as parcel without tracking I can't see, where it is. Can you remember how long your parcel was on its way? 7y

BarbaraBB Very fast, I think it took three days at the most. It‘ll be here today, I am sure! 7y

Sarah83 @BarbaraBB hope so. 😍 7y

Sarah83 Still not at your place? @CrowCAH @Jess7 7y

Jess7 I haven‘t received anything yet, but I‘m still at work if it was delivered today. 7y

Sarah83 @Jess7 in Germany were several holidays aswell. A parcel to the Netherlands, which normally should be there within two days, needed one week, so I don't get nervous at the moment. 😉 Hope it will arrive soon. 7y

Jess7 Omg! I had no idea you were mailing something from overseas!! I‘ve never mailed anything overseas! 7y

Sarah83 @Jess7 never realised that I write in German sometimes. 😉 Yes I am from Germany and maybe the letter is still at the toll. 7y

CrowCAH @Sarah83 nope, has not arrived. (The Jane Austen Swap package arrived first lol) 7y

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