I‘ve been reading this book for a few months now, and am still only halfway through, but I am enjoying it so much! It requires my large outdoor table for note taking, googling, and beverages. Also, I finished a wonderful YA book this morning. A solid 💛💛💛💛💛 for The Astonishing Color of After.

I feel blue. No idea why. A little bit of a book hangover maybe? IQ was great! I‘ll miss Isaiah, but only until next week when I buy the next in the series. No need to fret, there are 2 more Joe Ide IQ books already out. MEANWHILE... Big Steve will help me to RELAX!!! (Ren & Stimpy reference). Reading outside this late afternoon, but a breeze kicked up, so I threw my robe on over my shorts until dinner time. 🌤🌬🍷📚

It‘s hard to eat greasy, delicious bacon and crumbly, warm blueberry muffins while you read! #BookNerdProblems

This one is for my fellow 80‘s music fans! 4AD is the record label best known for Cocteau Twins, early Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil, et al. Much like certain book publishers, once you got one 4AD pressing, you went crazy and got as many as you could! I have quite the collection myself, but never enough. I am taking copious notes and making playlists. 600+ pages of musical memories and behind-the-scenes info. 🎶⚜️🖤

I am enjoying this Sunday on my deck. Finished 2 books this morning and plan to finish these 2 this afternoon. I have my vegetable starts ready for planting, but will likely wait until tomorrow to tackle the garden. Must read... 🍅🍓🌶🤷‍♀️📚📚📚📚

#BookHaul #BookMail #TBR Here is a photo of my latest & greatest acquisitions. The tagged book is my second-ever Goodreads win. Don‘t Kill Him is Sheela‘s book (from Wild Wild Country). So excited!

This was a welcome surprise in my over-wintering greenhouse. One random stalk with these gorgeous blooms that my GardenAnswers app identified as Delphinium aka Larkspur. I guess a bird dropped a seed in this pot of dirt last fall. 🌸☀️📚

Hooray! I set up my whole outdoor living room yesterday and my much-preferred sunshine reading commences today. Happy Earth Day to all.

I can almost feel the humidity and smell the ocean from these 2 tropical reads as I huddle under the blankets on my couch. Moloka‘i has been in a #TBR stack of mine since 2008. I didn‘t realize the tagged book is set in Micronesia until I started it. Of course that is clearly stated on the back cover, but once I know I want to read something, I just grab & go without looking! Keeps things exciting.

This is one of 4 #tbr shelves in the house. They all look like this. Sigh. Wait, I mean yay!!! Never a dull moment. If you look carefully, you can see the tagged book toward the top right. It‘s getting read right now! There is a loose book buying ban at this address ‘til further notice. 😜📚📚📚

Snow day!!! ☃️❄️📚🥂I‘m always off on Mondays anyway, but chores and errands are canceled! I am enjoying this series so much. Perhaps Scythe a tick more, but still. 😍👍

It keeps ~almost~ snowing today. Cold, obvs. Monday is a regular day off for me, so it‘s extra quiet being a US holiday. I have 4 books going, but I‘m enjoying this mysterious thriller under a blanket with earl grey tea. Likely to finish it this afternoon!

Wonderful to come home after a long day in the kitchen knowing I could open my #cupidgoespostal package. New books, new treats, and a new Litsy friend! Thank you so much @lizzlehuff !! ❤️😍💃🥂👠💖📚📚📚I‘ve been looking forward to both these books and chocolate is a must after a busy day. BeBop and I will be curling up straight after dinner.

BeBop says hi @TricksyTails !! ❤️
We are an iPhone house
I like pecans in cookies
The tagged book is my #currentread. Thank you @Laalaleighh !! A load
of friends and family travel to Singapore for a wedding. I am learning lots of Cantonese phrases and about Peranakans cuisine.
Sports? I watch lots on tv; never been an athlete.
#HumpDayPost
#LetsMakeTricksySmile

Running around all day with housework, errands and such. It‘s been unseasonably warm here in the Sierra Foothills of Northern CA. In an effort to conjure up a wintery feeling, I turned to the darkness of Joe Hill. Thanks in advance for the nightmares, Joe! 😬🤡😈👁🔪🖤

January wrap-up. Since I was in Mexico for 2 weeks, I read a bunch of things that had been languishing on my kindle app. I loved the tagged book and can‘t wait to read the next in the series, The Dazzling Heights. I‘ve only got 150 pages left in Shantaram, but won‘t make it tonight. 3 books going currently, so starting February off in good shape.

Currently winging its way eastward! #CupidGoesPostal

Look what I got for my birthday! The complete set of The Books of Blood by Clive Barker. The first book is signed and the whole set was published by Subterranean Press. We saw it months ago at the soon-to-be-closed (if it hasn‘t already) bookstore I love in Berkeley, CA called Dark Carnival which I‘ve posted about before. My guy bought it, stashed it, and I was able to totally freak out!! Such a wonderful addition to my Clive Barker collection.

This was waiting for me when I got home from Mexico! I don‘t know who it‘s from though. More than 2 weeks to wait! #CupidGoesPostal ❤️💖❤️💖

Thanks for tagging me @DiruVamp ! Sorry this is a few days late...
1. Winter:couch Summer:porch
2. Always a bookmark themed to current read
3. Like to stop at chapter, but dogs, phones, dinner...
4. Always water, sometimes wine or tea
5. Classical internet radio
6. 3 or 4 books possibly going at once!
7. Reading everywhere
8. Silently
9. Never
10. Like new
11. Never
11. @Crystalblu

I read this in just over 2 days! I‘m still in Mexico and kind of all partied out, so I‘m partying with my Kindle app. Can‘t wait to see what kind of dreams this one will give me tonight. Not strictly horror, but definitely scary and twisted. Very vivid as well, especially because I‘ve watched and read a lot of psychological thrillers over the years, so I could really “see” these characters.

Hello #LitsyFamily! I am once again in San Miguel de Allende visiting g my aunt for her 88th birthday. I only travel with my Kindle and have been reading a lot. I brought along this journal and just started it this morning. WiFi is spotty, but my local cantina has it, so a margarita, a pen, and I‘m all set. It‘s very cold nights and mornings, but during the day I can stroll, stop, and read.

Good morning all! I am starting this #chunkster which has come highly recommended and has been languishing over a year in my #TBR. No longer! Also, I‘ve retired my last notebook of “books read”. Finally ran out of pages after 11 years. New notebook/new year. 🎊📚

I did it! 3 hours to spare. Also completed #LitsyAToZ within the 100. 🤘Have been off Litsy these last few days bc...READING, but now back. Happy New Year #LitsyFamily.

And now-the reveal...
Oh m‘gosh-so awesome!!! I am so stoked. I wanted ALL of these! Absolutely amazing. The Big Steve frame note is going by my bedside! I had picked up and then set down this edition of Fantastic Beasts-that‘s some ESP on your part, Scott! Thank you, thank you. Completely wonderful.

First the gorgeous wrapping paper...
Candy!!!!!

You guys, in the catering kitchen we are doing 18 events in the next 7 days. And THEN the pop-up retail bakery starts for 5 full days. And THEN I‘m off for 10 days. Will I finish 4 books by the end of the year to complete my challenge? Who knows... Meanwhile yesterday, on my one day off, I grabbed up the last Obama picture book, WHILE also wearing my Hermione coat—books printed on the inside lining. See you all on the other side!!

This one‘s for you @TricksyTails And anyone in or visiting the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego! 📚📚📚📚

I am enjoying this historical fiction about a number of people, including Jesus, doing their quarantine-a forty day fast in the desert for prayers and reflection. Reminds me a bit of The Red Tent or The Robe. I, on the other hand, am doing the opposite by indulging in a large glass of egg nog! 🎄#HolidaySpirits.

It‘s here! Thanks @vivastory ! Can‘t wait ‘til the21st. 🎄☃️📚#SSGP #wintersolsticebookexhange #secretsantagoespostal

Today‘s ThriftBooks #bookhaul! Some of these have been on my wishlist more than 10 years. I loved the Shogun miniseries when I watched it in the ‘80s. My mom had a well-worn paperback back then, but I never got to read it. I bought a hardback in the ‘90s-turned our to be only vol.2. Finally I have my own hardback edition, 1975, complete with cool bookplate from original owner. Saving this #chunkster for next year.

On its way to YOU! 📚🎄❤️🤶☃️

Brunch! #LitsyAtoZ

Happy Thanksgiving #Littens! I am cooking all day after cooking in the catering kitchen the last 7 days in a row. I personally made 90 pies! I‘m in pjs all day though-probably through dinner🤩. This Hedricks gin box is actually full of craft things and treats for #bookmarkswap and #SSGP. I‘ll be creating like mad the rest of the weekend! Love to all #LitsyFamily.

BeBop and I are so excited to find out our match tonight!!! Well, me more than she it seems. At any rate, here‘s to #SSGP 2017!! Thank you #LitsyFamily for starting off the holidays with love, warmth, and kindness. 📚🤩🎄❤️😍Special thanks to our hosts and extra love to Gloria and PR.

1.) Hazel from Watership Down
2.) The Secret Garden
3.) December
4.) dog mom to BeBop (pit lab mix 12yo)
5.) no children
6.) soft scarves, citrus candles, cute stickers
7.) 2 or 3
8.) paper
9.) The Christmas Party-Yogi Yorgensson
10.) I am a chef by trade
11.) both
12.) both
13.) SF Giants
14.) PASTA
15.) I‘m to gushy to meet authors. 😍☺️
#SSGPThisOrThat

Finally here! That seemed like an extra-long wait. #Bookmail #BotM

1.) sage & lavender
2.) Nice, genuine people
3.) Moby Dick, The Stand, Watership Down, The Robe
4.)psychological thrillers
5.) lying; passive-aggressive behavior
6.) General Hospital fan since 1979!

#GiftSwapSurvey

1.) December/Capricorn
2.) Bring it on!
3.) Gryffindor; Buffy/Angel; Lock, Shock, & Barrel; Studio Ghibli; Sanrio; Funko Pops
4.) I collect vintage children‘s books (pre-1975)
5.) same handle on GR; unspuncapricorn on LibraryThing
6.) nothing I can think of.

#BookmarkSwap

Well, there‘s comfy and then there‘s cramped. I think the clicking of the space heater is freaking BeBop out because she generally prefers her own chair. 👽🤷‍♀️#DogsofLitsy

Taking a break from outside winter prep work. All my flowers and herbs on the deck have to either go in the greenhouse or the compost bin before we drop below freezing. Now taking a well-deserved break with this mystery/thriller, a gift from the lovely @BekahPat Thank you again! I am really enjoying it.

Home from work earlier than I expected today-in time to join #LitsyPartyOfOne! Relaxing with a local black IPA with a name akin to the subject matter of my #currentread 🖤🍺Ms. BeBop in the background #dogsofLitsy

A million thanks @BekahPat !! I absolutely love my gifts. I don‘t have any of the books and the the pumpkin spice caramels are amazing!! I ended up working all through Halloween and then got a terrible cold, so I apologize for the delay in posting. I am thrilled to feel better and dive into these very special goodies. You‘re the best!! 👻🎃❤️👍

Headed with my crew to a special screening at our local theater. Pre-gaming with a cocktail before the popcorn!

Good morning! I‘m setting up my outdoor reading situation for the day. We‘re having a heatwave of sorts, so it‘s off the couch and back to the porch rocker. I did very well last weekend during the ‘thon, so I went to the bookstore and I thought, you know, why not? #bookhaul #CantStopWontStop

Many of us have read this, but I wanted to add my admiration and accolades, and to share this passage from the conclusion which I plan to print and hang up

Back at it! Slower start today what with brunch and mimosas, but 10 hrs yesterday and 5 books down, not too shabby. #readathon #deweysreadathon

A gloomy start to the has given way to warm sunshine, so we took this party outside! A brief break for housework and 2 books down #readathon #DeweysReadathon

I am magically off today, very rare for me on a Saturday, so I signed up quick-style for #deweysreadathon! Put together a manageable stack, since I finished 2 books yesterday. #MountTBR was wide open! Books, coffee, dog, background music, all check & double-check! See you all later today! 📚☕️🐾🎼😍👍

Ok, this books gets a serious “WTF am I reading?!?” A mash-up of House of Leaves and Amityville Horror. I‘ve got an 85 lb. dog pressed against me, a glass of great wine, and (contraband) BBQ chips to comfort me. Only on page 93, but this will be finished tonight (the book, not the chips) followed by a late night Friends marathon until I calm down.