“It's not what's under the Christmas tree that matters, it's who's around it." - Charles M. Schulz.

#Celebrate

#HolidaySetting

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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

Damoff also wrote The Bright Years

#SundayFunday

@BookmarkTavern

“Wondering what might have been is one of life‘s greatest burdens.”

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

I always enjoyed the author notes that Larson included in his books.

#HasAuthorNotes

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.”

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”

#Journey

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

Murakami‘s investigation into the gas attack in Tokyo‘s subway system in 1995.

#SetInLargeCity

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Lengthy but unforgettable

https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/22/brain-pickings-becoming-the-marginalia...

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

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

Completely clever and engaging!

#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

This love story was so well done.

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

#Decorate

#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

#Bookspin
#Doublespin
#Bookspinbingo

@TheAromaofBooks

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

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

“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

#weekendreads

@rachelsbrittain

“It‘s a birdhouse now.”

#FirstLineFridays

@ShyBookOwl

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

#Cookies

#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

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LitsyEvents

Please repost/tag and share 🩷

Big thanks to all our followers in 2025🙏🏻 - we love your posts!

Delightful 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

“Beat you to the turn!”

#firstlinefriday on Monday

@ShyBookOwl

A sweet story.

#middlegrademonday

@Karisimo @Daisey

Part of trinity falls romance series, this book is sweet and cosy. Shane is a widower with 2 children and hires a nanny at Christmas…

#SundayFunday on Monday

@BookmarkTavern

“Silly child, how can you imagine that this wooden doll from Nuremberg is really alive and capable of moving about?"

#Nutcracker

#DashingThruDecember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Monday and Happy Holidays🩵

1* sold the house
2* simplified my life
3* developed some healthy routines

What about you?

#majicmonday

@Eggs

We‘ve been conjuring up ❄️ snowflakes here. These are made with paper lunch sacks, brown or white.

#Craft

#DashingThruDecember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

What‘s your holiday book blurb?

Be sure to tag @AsYouWish

Mine: As a recovering perfectionist, I returned to my small town for the holidays, saved the Christmas tree farm, and fell in love with a genius wood-carver!

@Kshakal @kspenmoll @uncommonlycozies

MG story about Laney and Ben and a magical emporium with hidden wonders and curiousities - but also becomes an ‘off site‘ stopping place for you know who

#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025

@DieAReader @Texreader @BarbaraBB @Lauredhel

Nice twists! Did the audiobook while taking a long walk through the greenbelt.

#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025

@DieAReader @Texreader @BarbaraBB @Lauredhel

I read this perfectly delightful picture book with sumptuous illustrations to my 8 yo grandson this week, them we watched Sorcerers Stone 🎥

#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Pantone2025

@DieAReader @Texreader @Lauredhel