#12booksof2024 June favorite
@Andrew65

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm on the Orient Express #bucketlist
@Cupcake12

Wishing this was my current reality

I started this one this morning. I love Sundays. 🩷

#12booksof2024 Another Christmas tale read out of season 😄 May favorite
@Andrew65

I didn't care for this.There were about 1000 characters & we got the POV of at least half of them.There was no mystery as we were told from the beginning, & every step of the way, what the bad guy had planned & we knew how he was going to be stopped, as that was also fully telegraphed. This would have worked better if it wasn't a reunion of multiple characters from a couple different series. There wasn't time to let any of those characters shine.

I loved this Christmas caper. The locked room mystery, the cast of suspects, and the clues made for a fun story. The witty banter and the backstory between Maggie and Ethan really worked for me. I'll be looking for more by this author.

#12booksof2024 April favorite 🩷
@Andrew65

#12booksof2024 My favorite read from March
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#12booksof2024 February favorite @Andrew65

#12booksof2024 January favorite
@Andrew65

She sounds a pure joy to work for 🙄

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm excited to read this Christmas thriller because it sounds good but also because it's set in Colorado! Aspen, to be precise. I started it last night but fell asleep on approximately the 2nd page. I love the holiday season but end of year at work is exhausting. 😟
@Cupcake12

That's all 🤷‍♀️

These Christmas romances were sweet, entertaining, and just the right length. My favorite was Heiress Alone by Sophie Jordan.

#audiostitching this morning. I've got to get this finished! 😬

More of my Santa collection and a book I read last night.
I enjoyed this- and the end was very heartwarming which is good this time of year- but I had to overlook some things in order to do so. A soft pick.

I don't care about Spotify wrapped but I appreciate Goodreads giving allll the book stats 😊

I got up early to try to get some reading done but only got about 3 pages before the hubby got up, too, and started chatting. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Evergreen, New Hampshire (I admit when I saw on the blurb this was set in "Evergreen" I was hoping it was the one in Colorado. Oh well, I rarely read a book set in New Hampshire so that could be a nice change.)

I'm also finishing up The Christmas Book Hunt, which has taken me from London to Hay-on-Wye (bucket list!!) to Alnir to Edinburgh.

@Cupcake12

Silent nights have not been happening for me recently so I'm up early again this morning, looking for a little quiet time and starting on this novella. 😊

I was really enjoying this: the world with the holidays as kingdoms/ businesses is great; Coal is great, Hex is great, Iris is great, Kris is super great; the intrigue and the way Christmas was becoming corrupted was interesting; and the way Coal was trying to course correct was really interesting. Then it was just...over. Step 1 of his plan didn't blow up in his face- and Hex loves him back- so BOOM! The end. I wanted more of the resolution. ⬇️

My morning reading and a mug that knows what's what 🤶

Books, tea, and pajamas are the only choices for me. (I'd want to add chocolate though too)

Tonight I'm starting the tagged book and enjoying the heck out of my Christmas tree. I 🩷 Christmas 😊

I read the whole thing but can't explain why, even to myself. I did not like this.

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Yorkshire, as what's left of a rather horrible family gathers to play what promises to be a horrible game.
@Cupcake12

It's going to be a very busy day, so I'm up early, enjoying a bit of quiet while I can, and rereading a short romance from a Christmas book that was originally my mom's. 🎄
(I couldn't find this book in the database so I choose one with several of the same authors)

Now this book has filled me with sympathy for Mr Collins. What sorcery is this?!

My SIL and I went shopping in Castle Rock CO yesterday and found a cute little book shop, Sudden Fiction Books, where I found this sweet book to read with my grandbaby.

Current mood 📖 🎄

I‘m in Hertfordshire revisiting some of my all-time favorite characters and wishing I could give Mary a hug.

I haven't been great about actually *reading* my #BookSpin/ #DoubleSpin books for several months 😳 but I still 💜 #BookSpin day! Thanks for keeping this going, Sarah! @TheAromaofBooks

I was looking to see if a new Jane Harper might be in the works and found she hasn't updated social media since May 10. Google didn't give me any info newer than this either. Have any of you heard anything about her that I've missed?

Just yesterday I was wondering if Liz Maverick had a new holiday story this year and today it popped right up in my suggestion box! 😊
(Couldn't find this title in the database so I tagged the first one. I think.)

The tagged is my favorite of the month but The Nature Of Disappearing is a close 2nd.

It's time for Christmas mugs! 🎄
It's also time for Christmas books but I'm still working on this trilogy. 🤷‍♀️

First, I had no idea there were Nancy Drew cons!!
This is an affectionate and thoughtful article about Nancy's timelessness. #NancyDrewBR

https://lithub.com/among-the-sleuths-looking-for-answers-at-the-nancy-drew-conve...

#WhereAreYouMonday
It's the off-season in Maine, and a variety of unpleasant people are vacationing at a cabin resort. (I think I like the MC but everyone else is awful, which is apparently the point, but I'm not loving it. I feel like I'm about to DNF.)
Can't find in litsy database
@Cupcake12

This was pretty good, as her books tend to be, & introduces the 6 characters & their nemesis. 3 women & 3 men have been drawn to Corfu as they are fated to find the Stars of Fortune to keep them falling into the hands of an ancient, vengeful goddess who will use them to destroy worlds. The 6 characters have skills & attributes that will help them in the coming battles. The 2 whose romance is featured in this book are a seer & a wizard.

The weather is a little dreary but I'm spending my Saturday morning reading and observing the birds at my parent's cabin so I couldn't be happier. 😊🐦📖

In the present, recently elected congressman Harrison Leonard is poised to do great things when he starts receiving mail threatening to expose something in his past. In the past, Jake and 3 friends, including Andy Leonard, spend a week before going to college at his grandparent's lake cabin where a series of terrifying events changes them forever. This was a quick, entertaining read though Miss Bailey isn't sure she's impressed.

This book was a mess but the beginning was really promising so it kept me reading. I kinda wish I'd given up though.

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I'm in the Dolomites during an icy December and something monstrous is afoot
@Cupcake12

This was insightful and sad and funny and uncomfortable and hopeful. I loved it.

I'm spending the morning planning out my holiday baking; checking to see if there are recipes in here that I want to add to my usual baking plan. 🍪

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm back in Edinburgh with Inspector Tony McLean
@Cupcake12

I met my goal for the year 😊🎉

It's finally the weekend! Now I can read and enjoy the crazy snowfall we've gotten the last few days. 😊❄️

The author having one of his characters reading (and hyping!) one of his own books made me laugh