Day 23 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is this thing that has a sticky adhesive on the back of it so I could stick it to something and it has a pocket to put something in. I don‘t have any idea what to use this for or what this thing is called.

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so I‘m adding it under the Xmas tag.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo, #wintergames

☑️ 2 hrs of reading (It only took me 2 hrs to read this.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (This psychological thriller is set during Christmas.)

#kindleunlimited #christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Day 22 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a mini notepad.

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so I‘m adding it under the tagged book.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo

☑️ 2 hrs of reading (It only took me 2 hrs to read this.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (This psychological thriller novella is set during Christmas.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha #kindleunlimited

I saw this today in a Facebook group I‘m in. I‘ve never tried reading my height but I like the idea. However, I don‘t know if it would work for me because I read more digital books than physical books but maybe it could work if I‘m only reading books physically.

I‘m in Taylor Bradshaw‘s Facebook group. He asked this question and this was my response. I‘ve used writing as a way to help me deal with my ex boyfriend breaking up with me and I‘ve used it to help me deal with a toxic online friendship that ended but I‘ve never used it to help me deal with losing a pet. Writing has always helped me because I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

Day 21 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is this pin that you can put on your shirt. It‘s cute.

I read this week‘s short story “The Missing Three-Quarter”.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #bookspinbingo, #noplacelikeholmes

☑️ 1 hr of reading (This short story only took 1 hr to read.)

☑️ TBR Read (The short stories from Sherlock Holmes are on my TBR for this month.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I noticed this on my Kindle app. I never used Kindle Vella. I don‘t know if I would have liked it or not so I won‘t miss it when it leaves. I thought about using it before but I heard that you have to pay per chapter to continue reading the stories and I lost interest in trying it out after that. I don‘t want to pay per chapter. Amazon said they‘re closing Kindle Vella because it hasn‘t caught on like they hoped.

1. I got some holiday stickers from my #adventcalendar.
2. The neighbor‘s cat has been visiting my mom and I.
3. I went for a walk this week and I had my dog‘s collar in my pocket. My dog Toppy passed away on 10/25. It was muddy on the path I walked on and I got mud on my leg.
4. I got some pre-approved Dec ARCs
5. I got new music from Taylor Bradshaw. I own physical CDs of his music but I don‘t own them digitally.

#5joysfriday

I made a playlist for the book “I‘ll Be Alone For Christmas” by Kristin Mulligan since it has Christmas songs in it. I just finished the book and I really liked it.

Link to playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Lh7EOQwW2J2AJlEZCCgdI?si=Yahce0SLQCWhBlgTBmI6...

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so I‘m adding it under the tagged book.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo

☑️ 3 hours of reading (The book took me 3 hrs to read.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It‘s set during Christmas and during winter.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha #kindleunlimited

Day 20 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a bookish ornament. I‘ve never had one before.

Here‘s my review.

#hailthebail

This is what I‘m currently reading and my reading buddy. He‘s the neighbor‘s cat. His name is Sky but at our house, we call him Tom. My mom and I feed him when he visits us so I guess he‘s our cat too. He never went home last night. He stayed inside all night and I put him outside before I went to bed so he could use the bathroom and he was outside today when I got up and I fed him. He went home after that and then he came back again hungry.

1. Peanut Butter Cookies
2. Iced Oatmeal Cookies
3. Rice Krispie Treats
4. Gingerbread Cookies
5. Sugar Cookies
6. Snickerdoodles
7. M&M Cookies
8. Chocolate Chip Cookies
9. Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
10. Thin Mint Cookies

#threelistthursday

Day 19 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is some holiday stickers. They‘re very cute. I like stickers. It‘s going to take me a while to use them up because there‘s a lot of them in here.

#whatsnewwednesday

Day 18 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is book darts.

I‘m participating for the first time in #roll100 next year. I‘ve decided that I want to use this challenge to tackle my Netgalley TBR. It‘s out of control. After my dog passed away on October 25, it only got worse because I added more books on to it. I haven‘t made my list yet but I still have time. I‘m hoping this will motivate me to read my Netgalley TBR because I haven‘t been in the mood to read any of the books on there.

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so it‘s being added under the tagged book.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #bookspinbingo, #readyourkindle, #wintergames

☑️ 1 hour of reading (I read this book in an hour.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It‘s not a Christmas book but it‘s set during the winter and has polar bear shifters.)

#kindleunlimited #christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so it‘s being added under the tagged book.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #bookspinbingo, #readyourkindle

☑️ 1 hour of reading (I read this book in an hour.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It‘s not a Christmas book but it‘s set during the winter and has polar bear shifters.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha #kindleunlimited

Here‘s my review.

This book counts for:

☑️ 3 readathons - #wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo

☑️ 1 hour of reading (It only took me an hour to read this.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It‘s not a Christmas book but it‘s set during the winter. It has polar bear shifters and the book cover made me think of winter.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Here‘s my review.

This book counts for:

☑️ 2 readathons - #wintergames, #bookspinbingo

☑️ 6 hours of reading (The audiobook is 6 hours.)

☑️ Holiday or winter read (It mentions a ski trip and it mentions the family celebrating Christmas but it‘s not a Christmas story. The book cover kinda has Christmas or Winter vibes too.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Taylor Bradshaw released a digital discography of all of his albums available to download yesterday and I bought it. He said this in an email yesterday,”PS. Listening to those old demos last night had me cracking up—I can‘t believe I said some of those raunchy lyrics out loud 🤣”. Lol. I‘m looking forward to listening to the albums again.

#tuesdaytunes

Day 17 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is these tags.

For #weeklyfavorites, the first book I‘m sharing is set during the winter and a group of people stay at a cabin in the mountains and one by one, they all disappear. This was a good book. My heart was racing while I was reading it.

The second book I read is a story about a child that gets abducted. This book was good. My heart was racing while reading it and I was rooting for him hoping he would return back home to his family.

Day 16 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a keychain.

Day 15 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a pencil eraser.

Here‘s my review. This book isn‘t on Litsy so I added it under another book by this author but I haven‘t read the tagged book. The Asylum is my first book by this author.

This book counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#wintergames, #bookspinbingo & #readyourkindle)

☑️ 1 hour of reading (This book only took me an hour to read.)

☑️Impulse Read (This is what I was in the mood to read.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Tonight, I just finished another book so I‘m posting my #wintergames points for weeks 1 & 2. This is how I did.

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Day 14 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is coasters with recipes on them.

1. On Thurs night, the neighbor‘s cat came back to our house. He was hungry so we fed him. Tonight, he came back again because he was hungry so we fed him. He hurt his leg on Thanksgiving weekend and the neighbor had to keep him inside but his leg is feeling better now. Tonight, he wanted to get in our laps. He‘s a very loving cat.

2,3,4&5 - I listened to Taylor Bradshaw‘s live albums and watched his concert films.

#5joysfriday

Here‘s my review. This book is not on Litsy so I‘m adding it under another Miguel Estrada book that I read and enjoyed.

This book counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#readyourkindle, #wintergames & #bookspinbingo)

☑️ 1 hour of reading (This book only took me 1 hr to read.)

☑️ Impulse Read (I was in the mood to read this.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Here‘s my review.

This book counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo)

☑️2 hours of reading (The audiobook is 2 hours)

☑️Holiday or winter read (This book is set during the winter and at Christmas)

☑️Impulse Read (This is what I was in the mood to read. It‘s set during the winter but it‘s not overly Christmassy.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Here‘s my review.

This book counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#wintergames, #bookspinbingo, #readyourkindle)

☑️3 hours of reading (The audiobook is 3 hours)

☑️Holiday or Winter Read (This book is set during the winter and at Christmas)

☑️Impulse Read (I was in the mood for this type of book. It‘s not overly Christmassy.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I finished this week‘s short story “The Golden Pince Nez”.

This counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#bookspinbingo, #wintergames & #noplacelikeholmes)

☑️ 1 hour of reading (The short stories in this collection are usually 1 hour.)

☑️TBR Read (I have to read it anyway because I‘m participating in a readalong of Sherlock Holmes.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

#wintergames #photochallenge

This is a picture of my #adventcalendar. I ordered it from Thrift Books. This is my first time doing this. I‘ve been enjoying opening the gifts each day. This might be a fun tradition to do each Christmas.

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

Day 13 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is temporary tattoos. They‘re cute.

1. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - *NSYNC
2. Mistletoe - Justin Bieber
3. Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters
4. Little Drummer Boy - Pentatonix
5. Do They Know It‘s Christmas? - Band Aid
6. Christmastime Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio
7. Christmas Canon - TSO
8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 - TSO
9. Last Christmas - Wham!
10. Carol Of The Bells - TSO (I wish this one was on the list.)

#threelistthursday

Day 12 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a coffee cup sleeve. I‘ve only seen coffee shops use these for hot drinks but I‘ve never used one before. I went to Google and asked what the sleeve on a coffee cup is called and it said,”Some other actual terms for it are coffee clutch, coffee cozy, Java Jacket, and paper zarf.”

Here‘s my review. The audiobook is really good. The man narrating this audiobook did really good. He has the perfect voice for this type of book.

This counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo)
☑️2 hours of reading (The audiobook is 2 hours.)
☑️Impulse Read (This isn‘t a Christmas book and it‘s not set during the winter. It‘s just what I was in the mood to read.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I got my merch from Taylor Bradshaw today. I like his merch. It includes the live albums, some birch leaf necklaces made with real birch leaves, hand pressed flowers, a hand written letter, hand written lyrics, hand written set list, a post card and a free guitar pick because I joined his post Thanksgiving livestream. I don‘t have a guitar and I don‘t know how to play but who knows? Maybe I‘ll buy a guitar one day.

#whatsnewwednesday

Day 11 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a bookish sticker. I like stickers. I like using them to decorate homemade cards. My favorite type of stickers are the ones that come with address labels that I‘m not going to use. I cut the address off and just use the little image and then at the bottom of the card inside, I line the images up and stick them on there and it makes a nice little decoration at the bottom of the card.

Here‘s my review.

This counts for:

☑️3 readathons (#wintergames, #readyourkindle, #bookspinbingo)
☑️6 hours of reading (The audiobook was 6 hours.)
☑️Impulse Read (It‘s not a Christmas book or a book set during the winter. It‘s just what I was in the mood to read.)

#christmaschapterchasers #xmaschacha

I listened to Taylor Swift‘s album that she released this year. I borrowed it on Hoopla. I didn‘t like it that much. I didn‘t like her last 3 albums she released and I didn‘t like the re-recorded albums either. Her last 3 albums were: Folklore, Evermore and Midnights. I‘m so disappointed. I like her older music better because it was more happy and upbeat.

#tuesdaytunes

Day 10 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is gift tags. They‘re really cute. I like them. These will come in handy when my mom and I are wrapping presents at our house. There‘s also a lot of them here so it‘s going to take a while for us to use them all.

My mom and I decided to make a little display in the living room for our dog Toppy right after she passed away. Our display has Toppy‘s ashes with her picture on it, her paw print with her name on it and some of her favorite toys that she liked playing with. Something I‘ve started working on is writing down some happy memories of her because it was recommended in an article I read online.

10/1/13 ❤️10/25/24 (R.I.P. Toppy!)

#petsoflitsy

Day 9 - #adventcalendar

My gift today is a magnet with cats on it. I wasn‘t sure if that‘s what it was at first until I looked on the back of it and then stuck it on the refrigerator and then took it off of the refrigerator. I don‘t know which way the magnet should be facing. It would probably look fine either way but I‘ve never had a magnet like this.

Here‘s my review. I‘m going to count this book for #readyourkindle. This was my first book from Miguel Estrada that I read. I have 2 more of his books on my Kindle and if I don‘t like those books either then I‘m not going to read anything else by him.