Life has been really busy, but I read a lot more holiday reads than I have in previous #WinterGames Thanksgiving for the fun #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

My chunkster of the year with my personal challenge. 🥰💛

2✨ This book should not have taken me as long as it did. It was one of the first books I read in 2024 and the last book I finished. Set as a five books by five different authors I wanted to give each story a chance. ILove was probably my favorite out of each one, but they all were not bad. Being so short with a fantastical world in each world building and being longer to explore is my main issues with all the short stories. First giveaway of 2025!

3✨ Finished this story as I repaired my kiddos panda from a vicious loving dog attack. We have two sisters who don‘t see each other much because of their life choices after their mothers loss with cancer, and their brothers depression. Meeting for the holiday when one sister is in bed rest for her pregnancy. Loved the ending. 🥰🐼❤️‍🩹

Audio repairing one of my kiddos Christmas stuffies the dogs decided was a chew toy. In the new year I‘m going to need to master an invisible stitch and train my puppies better in knowing what is a chew toy and what isn‘t. (For the record none of their chew toys are stuffed animals). Suggestions?

3✨ Another mystery solved! Nancy went under cover in this one, which was a fun twist. Her client is using a third party man to sell some of her books, but he is saying they are not selling well. There is also a possible counterfeit statuette maker. Nancy had her work cut out for her in this one. #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle

This is my #Roll100 books for January. My list this year is to hopefully clear out some shelf space from books I was gifted and haven‘t read yet. @PuddleJumper

3✨ This was a bit less on the danger side. We deal with a child abuse case, and kidnapping. One character thinks he‘s above American laws. Very interesting story. #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle

3✨A coming of age story, family, and relationships. This had a lot going on, but it was an enjoyable read.

Now that I finally reviewed all the books I‘ve been reading it‘s time to clear out some books! #OutwiththeOldinwiththeNew I‘d like to catch up on my missing 2 #NancyDrewBR , finish Mansfield Park, and the last 4 Christmas stories I have from my library. Ambitious yes… but we will try!

2✨ I didn‘t know this was a series when I started it. It filled in a lot of background information so I didn‘t notice. With this in mind my review will not be a fair judge on this book. I like the idea of a B and B series and will try to read the rest of the series to see if my views change. #HolidayBookDragons

3✨ I didn‘t mean to start with the fourth book in the series, but it was able to recap pretty well through the story. While there are spoilers I feel like I can read the previous books still. It has a Dog Man format and feel to it where the secret agents all wear tactical vests.

4✨ I‘m so glad I finally got to read this one! (Library hold took forever!) I didn‘t like all the stories, but each one gave pretty memorable chills. My favorites were the longer stories of Danny‘s Dream and the Rattlesnakes. #LosersClub @BarkingMadRead

3✨ This one started out strong for me and then started to drag. A teacher getting out of a long relationship going no where takes a job as a nanny to twins of a rich and busy family. There is instant connections between the family and her, and the awkward uncle has caught her eye. I really liked the ending as well. #HolidayBookDragons

4✨ An instant love story that I actually liked (normally not a fan). We have a traveling nurse going home for the holidays because of her sister‘s wedding. There is a lot of baggage here to unpack, but the charming friend of the groom is just the distraction that is needed. Super cute! #HolidayBookDragons

3✨ I‘m not an instant love fan, but it was a cute story. My favorite part was the meddling older women with the cute shirts. Plus you can‘t go wrong with beautiful locations and cultural traditions in the mix of a love story. 🥰💛 #HolidayBookDragons

4✨ I‘m always a fan of a hate to love story, especially based in London. We have the two lead POVs in this story with American, Claire, and London native, Liam. Who are finding a way to survive their baggage and their growing infatuation with each other. #HolidayBookDragons

Hello Littens! One of my challenges for 2025 is reading through the Doctor Dolittle Series. With 12 books it will be a one book a month format. If anyone would like to read along with me I‘m going to set it up in Fable, but have a monthly discussion at the end of the month here for anyone participating. 🥰💛🩺🐾 #DolittleDiscussion @LitsyEvents

Audio crafting a mini bookshelf today. 🥰💛

4✨I‘m always a fan of a hate to love story, especially based in London. We have the two lead POVs in this story with American, Claire, and London native, Liam. Who are finding a way to survive their baggage and their growing infatuation with each other. #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

3✨I finished my first Book Nook while reading the tagged. It had multiple points of views on different walks of life. They did grow through the story, but man it took them forever to do that growing. There was a mother daughter relationship that I related to, but all the conversations were on a repeat. “You hurt me, you were the mom,etc” several times. As it did with all the other conversations. #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

I got spoiled in book shelf decorations this year. 🥰Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates. I hope everyone is having a great day relaxing and enjoying the day. 🎄💛

I‘m actually really proud of my icing for Santa this year. The green is cinnamon, and the red is peppermint! They taste really good! 🤩 F did a great job of icing and selecting the best ones too. 🥰

We did our family tradition of making gingerbread houses with the kids last night. S had a lot of help from her Aunt while I was making icing. 🥰💛

Monica is soo ready for a lazy reading day. Thank you so much @staci.reads and @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting this years #jolabokflod (she was sniffing the chocolate too much so the other one is not pictured 😅)

4✨ This is my first read of this book, and I have to say that it gave me peace many times. If you are familiar with the Holy Bible it has different stories that are based in the America‘s following the same teachings, covenants, and providing hope. I struggled with all the names, and understanding the language. It could be repetitive at times stating the same phrase in many verses. Overall, glad I tried it out.

4✨ It started out pretty slow, but man when it got going! There is a lot of detailed gore, young vampires that can‘t control themselves, and old vampires that we are not super clear on their motives. There was moments where is was unhappy with our mains decisions, but when you are so thirsty I guess thinking straight is on the back burner. #FableBuddyRead @Littlewolf1

3✨ This was a pretty cute rom com Hanukkah story. A well loved author passes away before her last book is finished. The worn down by grief heir wants to finish it for his loved one, but needs help. Bringing in help from the publishing company helps in more ways than expected.

3✨It took me a long time to sit down and review this one. The mystery was intriguing. We have a murdered body that disappears with no trace! The sexual parts of this book were a bit much. It seems like everyone is rushing her with her relationship. There was also a pretty heartbreaking section. #SeriesLove @Andrew65

Danny‘s Dream was a pretty good story. Didn‘t want to stop that story. 🤩

Audio crafting instead of my normal Saturday chores. 🥰💛 I love having break when I can actually relax.

This was a challenging semester. Yesterday was the last day and I didn‘t have many students, but the ones I had were great! I had one stay with me for the last three classes of the day, with permission from her other teachers so she could read the tagged book in the corner of my room that has cushions. We build Lego in AP, and two even brought their grade to passing. Now time to relax and read! 🥰

🤭🤣 #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

I‘m not expecting any other book mail so this should be my #jolabokaflodswap2024 @MaleficentBookDragon Yay! 🎉 I think I tagged the correct person to thank. 🥰💛 For the record your handwriting is gorgeous! 😍

@MaleficentBookDragon I am showing that it was delivered to my person, but I‘m not sure they got it. I‘ve been checking their posts and haven‘t seen the confirmation yet. Hopefully, it got to the right place. 😭🙏🏼 #JolabokaflodSwap2024

Friday was a hard day teaching. I had two seniors pick up their bags and just leave. Very disrespectful and a little hurt because I care too much, but still have to muscle through one more week. A little retail therapy did help. I just need some words of encouragement, prayers, and good vibes my way if you have a chance. 💛

My person should get their #Jolabokaflodswap2024 gift by Thursday. @MaleficentBookDragon when they see it they can take it out of the mailing package I wrapped the book and treats. 🥰

These decorations at winter formal be amazing guys! 😍☃️

Winter formal chaperone tonight. 💛👑 This time it‘s all our local high schools at our county fairgrounds.

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My oldest is 7! 🤯 The time really does fly! For F‘s birthday I got her a sticker pack of one of her favorite creatures axolotl‘s and she gave me this one. “It has glasses and reads too Mama!” 🥰💛

My babysitter wasn‘t feeling great so I got to stay home and hang with baby E. We watched a lot of Christmas shows 🤭🎄🎅☃️ 2 episodes of Christmas “Is it Cake”, “Meet Me Next Christmas”(Had Pentatonix 😍), “Hot Frosty” (Must watch!!), “El Camino Christmas” (Hubby Pic!). Then went to S‘s Christmas program from her Preschool. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

4✨ I could be wrong, but I‘m pretty sure this is one of the “Stuff My Kindle” ebooks that I got because the title excited me. I‘m so glad I took the chance because I‘m adding more titles by this author. I found myself softly smiling as I read the atmosphere and silly moments between characters. While the dialogue I felt was a little clunky and conversations between characters a little odd I completely enjoyed this book.

5✨This was the book I needed in this series. While I like the love story of Feyre, the love story between Nesta is my favorite! I‘m a hate to love type of romance reader though. So glad I re-read the series to finally read this one. 🥰 #SeriesLove @TheSpineView @Andrew65

I read a lot of good books this month. I really needed the lighthearted, historical romance this month.

I don‘t think that the tagged is a bad book. Just not for me so it probably will not be the worst book of the year.

My bracket up to date. I struggled between Schizo, Lethal Licorice, and When Calls the heart. However, the tagged may have my heart this year. We will see how November plays out.

3✨ This gave me a magical kids Nanny McFee vibe. I really enjoyed the homeschool witches, secret society aspect of this book. The characters were easy to like and the world building had a lot of interesting elements that could be explored more.

DNF- I felt really confused and couldn‘t keep the storyline straight. I did make the assumptions that were listed in the overview and wasn‘t engaged enough to continue. If you read this I suggest being able to give it time. Right now for me I didn‘t have that time and patience. #FableBR

3✨I had to stop and start this one a few times. We learn a little about Malayan culture when our MC accidentally ends up with a severed finger after a dance. Needing to return the finger so the owner could be whole in death was a main drive, although a lot more happened. The relationships were interesting, but overall it was a pretty good read. #FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks Malaysia 🇲🇾