pickAs 3 tweens work to dam up a trickle of stream into a water pond, they begin to see wildlife and wild plants return to the area 🦆 🐿️ 🦢
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026
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pickMiss Maple rescues seeds, watches over them throughout winter, then takes them to a place that needs plants and lets them sprout there 🌱🌿
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026
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pickWe all have wishes for Christmas but not everyone is lucky enough to get what they wished for. This is a story of miracles and redemption in a community where wishes may actually be necessities 💔
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026
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“…home isn‘t always a place. Sometimes it‘s a person.” A Maplebridge friendship and romance between widowed teacher Ben and Hannah, a cafe owner, who has returned to her hometown
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026
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Lighthearted small-town holiday romance about second chances, healing, and finding home where you least expect it.
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026
@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB
pick“Great tragedies don't ask for great heroes—they ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing.”
Clever and heartbreaking dual timeline novel set in Paris mostly underground in the catacombs (which necessitated a deep search into Paris catacombs). Vivid and satisfying.
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026
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“For years, librarian Clara Jameson has built her life around stories—everyone‘s but her own. Then Nathan Cole, her best friend and the boy she once almost loved, returns to town…”
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026 #Series2026
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pickLatest Mickey Haller (Lincoln Lawyer) mystery/courtroom drama revolving around the criminal aspect of AI.
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026
@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB
Light-hearted Christmas romance I started before the holidays and finished after. A surprise gift of a puppy brings love to Libby and Seth
#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026
@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB
"Is it not cruel to let our city die by degrees, stripped of all her proud monuments, until there will be nothing left of all her history and beauty to inspire our children?” JK
#NF
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“It's not what's under the Christmas tree that matters, it's who's around it." - Charles M. Schulz.
#Celebrate
#HolidaySetting
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This one was hard to put down but not among, say, top 5 of the year. (I read a lot of Christmas cozies and Christmas romance in December). And now we reach the end of our #12BooksOf2025
Thanks for hosting @TheEllieMo ❣️
“If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is the essence of liberation. That is, freedom begins the moment we forget ourselves.”
Newbery Medal winner for 2024
#StickerOnCover
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Happy First Monday of the New Year!
My top 3 were: Finding Grace, The Bright Years, and Wild Dark Shore
Everyone‘s invited to play 🥳
#majicmonday
@Eggs
I always enjoyed the author notes that Larson included in his books.
#HasAuthorNotes
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
#Journey
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Murakami‘s investigation into the gas attack in Tokyo‘s subway system in 1995.
#SetInLargeCity
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me 🎶
#TitleBasedOnSong
#Celebrate
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Thank you to our loyal followers who posted for our challenges during 2025! We look forward to your brilliant posts in 2026 🫶🏻
Happy New Year everyone 🥂🍾🎊🎶
#Celebrate starts tomorrow January 1, 2026
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
December/AllYear reading/listening wrap up
#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Series2025 #Bookspin #Doublespin #Bookspinbingo
@DieAReader @Texreader @TheAromaofBooks
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” -Proverbs 25:11
#Silver
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“When Tom arrived home, the whole house was silent, yet everything spoke. It was as if the house had been burgled but it wasn‘t the contents that‘d been stolen, it was the context.”
A page-turner, emotional and eloquent ❤️💔
#12BooksOf2025
@TheEllieMo
“Heartwarming tale of a photographer's unexpected Christmas with her grumpy boss after a puppy delivery sparks a connection.” -Amazon
Still trying to finish up a few #ChristmasRomance stories that were free on Kindle.
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Happy Monday! I am savoring these last few days of 2025 and looking forward to a nice chilly wintry week.
I do not celebrate NYE (too peopley) but I like to chill with family and play games or watch movies on NYD. In the new year I plan to live purposefully with gratitude, and also celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸 What about you?
#majicmonday @Eggs
Chili, BookmarkTavern, MissHel, tpixie, AileenRR, CarolynM, kspenmoll, Kshakal, AnneCecilie, Gissy, JessClark78, Kerrbearlib, TheBookgeekFrau, TheEllieMo, Darklunarose, Doll8455, ncsufoxes, LiseWorks, sherrisilvera, Meshell1313
This may be the best book of my 2025 reads.
#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern
“This is what makes us sublimely human, isn't it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another.”
#12BooksOf2025
@TheEllieMo
“You can't be everything to everyone else. So, just focus on being the best you can be to you and
yours.”
This book was a Christmas gift from @SarahBradley 💖
#PictureBook
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“We do not have to rely on memories to recapture the spirit of those we have loved and lost – they live within our souls in some perfect sanctuary which even death cannot destroy."
The inescapable #Remembering
#DashingThruDecember
1-daughters
2-sons-in-law
3-grandsons
4-granddaughters
5-with me all in the same dwelling and sharing a meal at one big table💖
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
“Our visible life is the aberration. It represents our complete ignorance of reality".
#12BooksOf2025
@TheEllieMo
These ladies are formidable but in the kindest and most diplomatic way!
#12BooksOf2025
@TheEllieMo
“The best presents are the ones you don't expect.”
#FaveChristmasBk
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
#Red
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish.”
#Bells
#DashingThruDecember
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
January is 9 days away! Please join us for the next photo challenge:
#Celebrate
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Big thanks to all our followers in 2025🙏🏻 - we love your posts!
pickDelightful stories! One of which is when Matthew surprises Anne with a new dress with the popular puffy sleeves 👗
#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ
@DieAReader @Texreader
I swear it was Friday just a moment ago…
1*Sunday brunch at Jack Allen‘s
2*paper snowflakes
3*my granddaughter and her husband
4-5 and beyond* I made a list of Christmas books to read-I‘ve read 4 so far
#5JoysFriday on Monday
@DebinHawaii
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