Whoo-hoooooo! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Nothing makes a long day better than some book mail! I ordered them last week and they arrived today! I'm super excited about both of these! 💕📚 I can't stop chuckling over the tagged book's title! 🤭

Thank you so so SO much for the gift card, Scott! 🥰 @vivastory

Also, one of my co-workers who is a huge Gaiman fan, like me!, gifted me this and I still don't have words to describe how much I love it! 💕📚🥹 It's my first autographed Gaiman book, and I'll be honest and say I never thought I would be lucky enough to own one! 😭

My coworkers also gifted me a copy of their favorite book, with a message inside talking about why it was their favorite! 🥹📚 I really loved this idea, and thought it was very special! Here are a few of my favorite!

Today is the last day of my birthday vacation week! I go back to work tomorrow, and I'm feeling a little bittersweet about it! I love my job so much, but it has been really nice to be able to relax and read all week long and not deal with patrons! 🤭💕 Some of my coworkers were kind enough to throw a little party for me this week, and they got me this AMAZING bookish cake that I wanted to share with you guys! 🥰💕📚

May the 4th be with you! 💚💚💚 Happy Star Wars Day, littens!

I've been totally blessed with another perfect day to read outside and spend most of the day at the park again! ☀️🌿

I'm totally obsessed with this book! The writing is really incredible, and you can definitely tell that the story was inspired by that Slenderman case from a few years ago! I was obsessed with that case, and followed it pretty closely, so this book is really hitting a sweet spot for me! Has anyone else read it yet?

Has anyone else read Knausgaard? If so, what do you think of him? This is the first book I started of his, and almost immediately I fell completely head over heels in love with his writing! It's just so... beautiful! I don't even know how to describe it, but it's just absolutely mesmerizing! 💕📚

Unfortunately, there is something that happened within the first 20 pages that almost made me put the book aside 👇🏻

Another gorgeous day of being able to read at the park! ☀️🌿📚

For dinner last night we went to my favorite restaurant so that I could get chicken hibachi! It was super delicious, as always! 🤭 I brought this book and read a little bit during dinner - I'm trying really hard to read this slowly to make it last, but it's so good I can't help but fly through it!

HUZZAH! The May Book of the Month choices are live! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Lots of exciting books this month, here is what I chose! What did everyone else pick? 💕📚 #botm

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 It is an absolutely gorgeous day, with lots and lots of sunshine! Currently, I am at the park with a little picnic lunch, and of course a book! I couldn't ask for a better day! 💕📚

Okay, littens - I'm so so super excited to tell you that my week-long bookish birthday vacation has officially started today! 🥳🎉 My birthday is tomorrow, and I always love to take a week off so that I can relax and read as much as I want, and of course run around the woods too! 🤭💕📚 I'm so excited!

I also just realized I forgot to post a picture of my Independence Bookstore Day haul! 😱 I tried to rain myself in a little bit, but as usual when it comes to books I was unable to do so! 🤭💕📚

Eeeeee! My bestie Dave sent me some beautiful birthday gifts which just recently arrived! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 These books look so exciting, and I can't wait to start them! Thank you so much, Dave! I'm so grateful everyday for our friendship! 💕📚

PS - there were also some EXCELLENT Orphan Black Funko Pops too, but I couldn't fit them in the picture! 🤭

Thank you so very much, @DaveGreen7777 ! I love and appreciate you more than words can ever say! 🥰

HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 It was a busy day today, but I made sure that I stopped at my new favorite indie bookstore! They had lots of fun freebies, and of course I did not leave empty-handed! 💕📚 Did anyone else go to independent bookstore today?

Trying to get in as much of this book as possible before I have to go to work today! Oh my goodness, I'm absolutely loving it so far! 🥰💕📚

New books! New books! New books! Happy Pub Day to these beauties! Of course, I am EXCEPTIONALLY excited for the new Emily Henry book! From what I've read, the main character is a librarian! 🥰💕📚

My April Owlcrate book arrived! 😍 This cover is EVERYTHING! 💕📚 #owlcrate

Rumpel is such a good little helper! 😻 I'm training her to help me sort books! But of course she's more interested in getting a treat afterwards! 🤭💕📚 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #rumpel

Yes! This is exactly what every fantasy book that is part of a series should have in the beginning! Now I don't have to worry about going back and rereading the first book again! Who else wishes more fantasy books had this? 🥰📚💕

After a few days of non-stop rain it was finally sunny and beautiful yesterday! I took advantage of the beautiful weather to read outside at the park for a bit. Everything is starting to bloom and blossom! ☀️🌿📖

Happy Friday, littens! 💕📚

I just adore Mary Oliver's poems! Her writing is so beautiful!

Bookstore Bliss! 💕📚

The second book store I visited yesterday was Pages, which is also in Detroit! It is a small store, but what they lack in size they make up for in content! They had so many fantastic books and also lots of bookish goodies! Shirts, tote bags, mugs, tea, bookmarks, pins, and socks! 🤭 And the best part of all is that there is a bookstore cat that lives there! Her name is Pip and she's so sweet! 😻

I went on a little bookstore adventure yesterday! My first stop was John King Books, in Detroit, which is the hugest used bookstore I have ever been to! 😱 It was absolutely fantastic! 💕📚 Have any other Mitten Littens visited this store before?

My Book of the Month box arrived! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I'm not sure which one to start first! #botm

Happy Leigh Bardugo Day to all who celebrate! 🤭💕📚 My copy just arrived in the mail and I can't wait to start it tonight!

This newest addition of Mrs Dalloway that I have gotten might just be my favorite one yet! 🥰📚💕

One other bookstore I visited this week in Columbus has been Prologue Books! They're definitely a much smaller store than The Book Loft, but what they lack in size they make up for in selection! I found a couple books I had never even heard of before that looked absolutely amazing! Plus they had so many great t-shirts, tote bags, and other bookish goodies! 🥰💕📚

The best part of getting to meet this author, was that we also received an advanced readers copy of her new book coming out soon! 😱 It looks amazing! 💚💚💚

Eeeeek! 🥰💕📚 My bookish heart is bursting with joy!

I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Rainbow Rowell at PLA this week! 🥰 She gave a talk and then signed books, and she was absolutely amazing! Very kind and down to earth, and absolutely hilarious! Now I know how she writes such funny dialogue in all her books! 🤭💕📚

Okay, so we have already established that I have picked up many MANY books so far at this conference! But I really wanted to highlight the ones I am the most excited about! 🥰📚💕 #bookhaul

I think....I may have reached bookish Nirvana! 😱 This is my first time at a really big Library Conference, and I had no idea that SO many publishers were going to be here, and that they were ALL going to be handing out multiple free books! Almost all of them are advanced reader copies! (ARCs) Most attendees accumulated a dozen or two. I went for the gold medal and have picked up 113 new free books! I'm honestly still in shock! 🤭📚💕 #bookhaul

Did I go a little bit crazy at the bookstore?! Maybe! Was it worth it?! MOST DEFINITELY! 🤭💕📚 #bookhaul

Pure bliss is discovering bookstores! 💕📚

If you ever find yourself in Columbus Ohio, make sure you visit The Book Loft! It's a bookstore I discovered tonight and I'm excited to tell you that it had 32 rooms of books! 32 ROOMS FILLED WITH BOOKS! 😱😱😱 I seriously thought for a few minutes that I had died and gone to heaven! 🤭📚💕

I just arrived in Columbus, Ohio for a library conference! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I will be here until Friday afternoon, do you think I brought enough books with me?! 🤭💕📚

I may have gone a little overboard with my Book of the Month choices for April! I got five! Yikes! 😱 In my defense though, April is my birthday month so one of them was free! 🤭💕📚 What did everyone else pick this month? #botm

Happy Easter to my Litsy family! 🩷💛🩷💛

I hope everyone is having a very nice day so far! I worked yesterday, so I'm grateful for the day off today to just be able to relax and read! Nick gave me a lovely basket filled with candy and most exciting of all - BOOKS! 🥰💕📚 I have been eyeing this series for a while, so I'm excited to start it! I think it's quite spicy, so YAY for that! 🤭

I hadn't heard anything about this book until a couple of days ago, and then I was desperate to start reading it immediately! So of course I ordered it, because I have no shelf control! 🤭💕📚 Apparently it's a thriller/mystery that has a lot of the same elements as that Slenderman incident a few years ago! 😱 I was weirdly obsessed with that case, so I am really excited to jump into this! Has anyone else heard of this one? Or started reading it?

Eeeeeeek! March Goldsboro book arrived and it's totally EPIC! 🤩 #goldsboro #goldsborobooks

There are about a hundred other books I SHOULD be reading today - but all I've wanted to do was finish my reread of this book! 🤭💕📚 #catsoflitsy #rumpel #littenkitten

Where did all this snow come from?! 😱❄️❄️❄️

Curled up with Jazz, catching up on a bit of reading before work today! 😻💕📚 #jupiterjazz #catsoflitsy

I really love being a librarian! 💕📚 Some days are better than others, obviously, but on days like this I am just filled with bookish joy! ☺️ The Throne of Glass series is super popular, and I'm always replacing the library copies with new ones, usually one at a time as they get worn out - so I just ordered a brand new complete set for the library! They arrived today, and I'm so excited to see them! Now they all match, and look so lovely! 😍

LOOK WHAT JUST ARRIVED! 😱 I'm really excited to read this! Her first book, Ace of Spades, was absolutely phenomenal! So I have really high hopes for this one! ☺️📚

Happy St Patty's Day! 💚☘️💚

This isn't really a holiday I typically celebrate, but I do like to use it as a time to think about some of my favorite Irish authors! James Joyce immediately comes to mind, as well as Tana French and Douglas Stuart. But this year I especially want to highlight Paul Murray, whose work I have completely fallen head over heels in love with over the past few months! 💕📚

Who are some of your favorite Irish authors?

Ooooooh, my March Owlcrate book has arrived! The cover and page edges are so gorgeous! 😍📖 #owlcrate

My three day weekend started today! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I've got tons of reading planned! And of course lots of tea and snacks! 🤭 It is sunny today, which is super nice! And even though it's a little bit chilly, reading at the park has been the perfect way to spend this Friday! 💕📚