Thanks @Eggs for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 📚☺️👍💝.
1- Finished in Sept. yet was mainly an Aug. read.
2- Paper. I fav. the trade-paperback. While for a long time I did not care for hardback, do not seem to mind anymore. Just like the feel and smell of real books. Cannot read digital, aside from short research info. & articles. Cannot focus long. Even on my own work, screen reading is difficult time. Audio is not easy to find.👇
Spooky Decorating Time! 👻🎃🥳💝.
My mom brought these whimsical Day of the Dead Disney fluffs home the other day 💝💝.
We begin midway and through the end of Sept. with our spooky Decorating. And really go all Spooktacular in Oct. Including beginning our Día de los Muertos alter 💝.
#californiananncrystal
Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card and thanks for the tags @TheSpineView & @PageShifter ☺️😉👍💝.
1- 3-4 PJs to Day Wear. Day Wear to House Wear. House Wear back to PJs.
2- The tagged book. Read the first two in the series a few months ago (the graphic novel versios).
#Two4Tuesday
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This scene just made me laugh 😂. Poor Dr. Watson, how could he not have realized, or even guessed at who the mysterious stalker could be! LOL 😂
#HauntedShelf & #Spookoween.
For my book recommendation, Gothikana by RuNyx.
A bit on the too spicy side.
Read this year and the story has remained with me. Absolutely loved this book.
Not really scary, more mysterious.
@TheSpineView
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#gothikanareviewedbyanncrystal
#HauntedShelf & #Spookoween
My top of the list TBR pile!
Just interesting reads, there is no way I can read all of these by Halloween 🤔... I am such a sluggish reader these days 😂.
I want to begin part two of my Riley Thorn Mysteries & The Spellshop some time during the magical season of Autumn... probably Nov.
Want to focus on spookier reads in Oct. 📚👻😉💝.
@TheSpineView 😉👍.
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I've joined the #Spookoween Readathon! Hosted by, @TheSpineView.
Like with #HauntedShelf, I will probably be low-key on my participation...👀😉.
Thank you @TheSpineView 📚👻😎👍.
Thank you @BookmarkTavern for creating this fun play-card.
When I was younger, I usually read 3 books at a time.
Then that changed into just 1 book at a time, which lasted for years until I became a Litten and had a chat with @dabbe that made me wonder if I could get back to reading more than 1 book at a time.
Now I'm back at my usual 3 reads 📚🥳💝 & been attempting four.
Still haven't regained my speed...was a faster reader when younger!
Just joined #HauntedShelf, hosted by @PuddleJumper!
The link below will take you to @PuddleJumper original post where you can sign up if you want to join on too!
I will probably be low-key on my participation...👀😉.
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2771648
Spooky 📚👻😎👍.
Thank You @PuddleJumper & Thanks @dabbe for the tag on this Litsy event.
Movie night was grand 🎬👻☺️. Since it is Hispanic Heritage Month (which is part of our heritage), we went with La Llorona! Oh, too good 😎👍.
It would be a great addition to the series if they would make a movie about why Rafael Olvera left being a priest.
🎬💝.
bailedWell, this was the shortest read of the year 😂.
This had such promise! Alternative Realities, a strange mystery, a strange young woman with interesting abilities...
The book even begins with a sneak peek scene of a seance!
Then the first two chapters begin with the “details“ of how the main character's sister is tricked into being kidnapped and gruesomely tortured to death.
👇
Thank you @debinhawaii for creating this fun play-card and for tagging me 😎👍💝.
1- Aside from a few exceptions, the last few times out and about were nice. I mean the people were nice again. Like my neighborhood's mood has been uplifted...like people are less stressed and more hopeful 💫.
2- It's Friday the Thirteenth! Always a fun day 👻🥳!
3- Scary movie night, it's a tradition for Friday the 13th. Not sure what we're watching yet 🎬🤔. 👇
The Devil's Race By Avi
#devilsracereviewedbyanncrystal
Gothikana by Runyx
#gothikanareviewedbyanncrystal
And Boogeyman by Jeff Mariotte. Never reviewed... should read it again to give a fresh review 🤔.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
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Thanks @dabbe for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 👻📚😉👍💝.
Had a fun time re-discovering the tbr spooky books in my library while considering titles to submit.
Two that I submitted were read years ago, one of which began my reading love.
The third was one I read this year & has gone onto my list of favorites.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
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Thank you @Eggs for creating this fun play-card 😉👍💝.
1- I've visited some interesting National Wonders/places/buildings in my California (& there's still a bunch on my “must visit“ & “must revisit again“ lists).
Outside of my state, one of the places that has intrigued me since learning about the history of the place, is Chaco in New Mexico. I have a crazy dream that the place should be rebuilt to its former glory. I know, wacky me.👇
This was such a lovely and whimsical read.
The story was told from two POVs, Reyna's and Kiantha's. Swops back and forth with each new chapter. I had expected that I was going to enjoy Kiantha's POV best, since she is the Mage. Yet, I came to like both characters equally as the story unfolded.
It was nice that Reyna and Kiantha were already in a relationship when the story began, allowing... 👇
Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card & thanks for tagging me 🏷️😊👍💝.
1- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens was always fun. Was able to view The Gutenberg Bible when they had it exhibited.
2- 🤔 not sure I've read a book that is largely focused on a museum. The Bookwanderers by Anna James had a museum that was kinda in the background of the storyline🧐.
#Two4Tuesday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thanks @dabbe for creating this fun play-card, and for the tag🏷️😉👍.
20/50 · 40%
Reverend Harry Powell: The Night of the Hunter
Count Dracula: Dracula 🦇💝.
Annie Wilkes: Misery
#TLT
#ThreeListThursday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thank you @Eggs for creating this fun play-card 😉👍💝.
1- When I'm working on a project, and that moment when it begins to come together 💫💝.
2- When I bake or cook and my family tells me that it came out deliciously amazing...this makes me feel like a sorceresses 🪄🥘🥧😋. Yeah, I'm wacky like that 😂.
3- tagged book, which I bought to celebrate my first year a Litten 📚🥳💝.
Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, @Read4life, & @TieDyeDude for creating this fun play-card, and thank you @Eggs for the tag ☺️👍.
I love the tiny house movement, and would one day like to try and live in a tiny house...which is almost laughable with all the books and craft supplies that I have 😂🤔.
#WhatsNewWednesday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card and thanks @Eggs for tagging me 🏷️😊👍💝.
1- Depends on what kind of strength I need. Family, faith, garden, music, sometimes self- reflection...etc.
2- I want to say Batman. Yet, the tag book was interesting. The main character, Gemma does what is best not only for herself, but for her family and best friend.
#Two4Tuesday
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I'm into Chapter 28 now, just been wanting to show off how well my upcycled bookmark matches this story 🏷️📙💝.
Not sure where I saved this from. I try to upcycle tags from items I purchase, or fish them from our recycling bin whenever the family tosses out tags. Although, my mom also saves some for craft projects.
#tomesandteareviewedbyanncrystal
Curiosity has finally gotten the best of me. I've had this forever (my favorite of the stories).
I have the bad habit of not reading the original book if there are movies or TV series versions available...allows me to spend more time reading the books that haven't been, or have yet to be, made into movies or TV series. Not a rule, just normally the case.
Finally going to check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing style. 🖋️🔍🧐🔎📓.
Thank you @debinhawaii for creating this fun play-card.
1- It's a long weekend 🥳📚.
2- Been neglecting the garden. My mom and I were able to spend two days this week tackling the more difficult of the to-dos 🌱💝🌞💝. Nice.
3- The tagged book has just rekindled my love for dragons 🐲💝.
4- My state (California) has finally closed the plastic bag loophole 💕🐢🐟🐠🐡🦈💝.
👇
Thanks @dabbe for creating this fun play-card, and for tagging me🏷️😉👍.
🎶🎬💝.
37/100 · 37%
Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins
Singin' in the Rain - Singin' in the Rain
#TLT
#ThreeListThursday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Hi, this post is not meant to be offensive to any Republicans or Men 😉.
August 26 is Women's Equality Day
While I don't consider myself a feminist, I guess that I kinda am...
When I was a kid, I told myself that as soon as I was able to vote, I would register under the Green Party.
When that time came, I realized three facts.
1- My county (Los Angeles) hadn't had a female mayor (at the time). Karen Bass officially took office in 2022. 👇
Thank you @BookmarkTavern for creating this fun play-card.
I've only seen the TV series, although these are on my short list of TBR must buy one day books (I have a long list too...a very long list 👀😂).
While the whole storyline doesn't take place “in“ a casino...it does revolve around a new casino from the very start to the conclusion (at least the tv series does).
#SundayFunday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Found this old advertisement in an album while listening to music.
Only weighs five pounds and records/plays a whole 70 minutes of sound on one tape!
🤖🎙️One way to hide from A.I. 🤔🥺🤨😂.
🧐 Not a bad price, wonder if the company still has some in stock 😂.
#californiananncrystal
Purchased this to celebrate my first year a Litten 📚🥳.
This was a fun, magical read... absolutely loved this book.
There are a some interesting “guest star“ appearances in this book (fictional characters).
I wanted to share a clip of nearly every page...since that would be seriously illegal 😂LOL, I settled for one of the illustrations.
Although this is a series, the story can standalone.
Thank you @debinhawaii for creating this fun play-card.
1- Got to see the movie, BumbleBee. Can't believe I watched a Transformer movie (my brother was a fan...I never was). When I saw the Volkswagen bug, I couldn't help be reminded of my love for Herbie, The Love Bug...must admit, that I now love Bumblebee too!
2- Found part four of a book series that I'm loving (still reading through the first book). Riley Thorn Mysteries. 👇
Thanks @dabbe for creating this fun play-card, and for tagging me 😉👍.
54/100 · 54%
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins
Over The Rainbow from The Wizard of OZ
Born To Be Wild (Never watched the Easy Rider movie).
🎶🎬💝.
#TLT
#ThreeListThursday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Book Number Four in the Riley Thorn series!
Didn't expect to find a copy! usually the big box stores don't follow with series releases (or I miss the release date and they sell out!)
Still reading my way through the first book in this series, yet I'm already a fan.
Happy Dance 💃🥳📚.
#RileyThornreviewedbyanncrystal
Thank you @Eggs for creating this fun play-card and for tagging me 😊👍.
Notes:
1- Both. I have the bad habit of not reading the original book if there are movies or TV series versions available...allows me to spend more time reading the books that haven't been, or have yet to be, made into movies or TV series. Yet, I tend to like novelizations...🤔
5- Depends what I'm working on...✏️🖊️✒️🖋️
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Thank You @TheSpineView For Creating This Play & Share Card and thanks for tagging me 💝.
1 - Nearly never drink alcohol. Organic Orange Juice is a favorite.
2 - Masters of Death
Olivie Blake
#Two4Tuesday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thank you @BookmarkTavern for creating this fun play-card.
📚 Both 1st person and 3rd person. Equally.
🤔 Although, I do enjoy when I come across a prologue in the third POV and the main story in the first POV.
#SundayFunday
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thank You @monalyisha For Creating This Play & Share Card.
1- It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough.
2- They say the first of my kind was a woman named Alasdair, a human raised by hawks.
3- A boy went missing the night of the storm.
4- I remain committed to my goal of saving humanity from itself, but my latest efforts are meeting with mixed results.👇
Thank you @Eggs for creating this fun play-card, and for tagging me 😎👍.
☁️🌧️❄️Winter
🌱Country
🥦Both🟩🟩🟩
🏖️Both🏞️🗻
🥤Juice
🧇Waffles
🌆Hours between evening and dawn🌇.
🥪Sandwich
🥝🍓🍒🍊🍎🍐🍏🍍🍉🍇🍍🍌Both🍰🍨🥧🍪🍩🧁
🪄📚Fiction
🆒Mints
#WondrousWednesday
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This wasn't in the Litsy database...I had to add. #addbooks2Litsydatabase
These were micro-short-stories.
My favorite was, “ The Sea Sends Word“ where a message in a bottle saves the day.
I didn't plan on reading the plays...glad I did, there were some real gems there.
These were just fun...some strange, some spooky, “mostly“ all interesting.
Thank You @TheSpineView For Creating This Play & Share Card and thanks @Eggs for tagging me.
1- I will tell you this instead (something that I don't usually share), I name my mobile. My current one I've named “Mobile Mystique.“
2 - You know, I've never actually (completely) read a digital copy of a book 😳. I've read some short stories from free magazines, web-comics...and my own work (if that counts here).
Thank you @debinhawaii for creating this fun play-card and thanks @Eggs for tagging me.
1 - Went out to storage and found four interesting books from my big brother's library.
2 - We're not into sports, yet my mom enjoys watching the Olympian interviews and keeping track of medal count. My mom then updates me. We are always proud of our American Olympians.
3 - Ghosts from CBS announced this week “emersive experience events“ in October, 👇
Ever since reading my brother's “Dick Tracy“ book, I've been meaning to get myself out to our storage and check out some of his other books.
Today, I decided to make the time and I found these four gems from one of my brother's boxes of things.
Thanks @TieDyeDude, wouldn't have done this today if not for your #AKbirthday 😎👍.
Happy Birthday 🥳🎂. Hope you're having a grand day 🍰💫.
Thank you @dabbe for creating this fun play-card and @Eggs for tagging me 😎👍.
I'm terrible. Love, love, absolutely love music 🎶💝...yet, I am not great with the names of artists and I'm worse with song titles.
Was afraid I would total at two 😂...happy and surprised with a total of 24/100 · 24%.
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Dancing In The Street - Martha and the Vandellas
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
Thank you @Eggs for creating this fun play-card.
1- I usually have about 10-15 minutes during per day to read. Then I normally read about 30 minutes to two hours (give or take) before bed each night. Roughly around, 25-65 pages per day.
2 - Normally, I won't finish a book that gives signs of being a disappointment. However, I recently read two books that I really should have quit reading. 👇
Thank you @debinhawaii for creating this fun play-card and thanks @Deblovestoread for tagging me.
1- Wonderful that U.S.A. was one of the countries involved in the Historic prisoner swap 😢🙏🥲.
2- Caught an episode of Captain Planet this week. Haven't seen this show since elementary age. The foundation of the show's storyline always stayed with me, yet the episode was like brand new. 💍🌎💍🌏💍🌍💍🎬💍. Hopefully I can catch more episodes🤞. 👇
Liked that this was about a Mage and a Knight. There is something about these two character types that I've always liked coming together as a couple.
While I am only on chapter 16...so far, really interesting.
Love how magic is woven into this story. Kianthe's connection, and the way the power works.
Do wish that it was this easy to open a store.
It is downright tedious in modern day County of Angels (Los Angeles county, CA).👇
Thank You @TheSpineView For Creating This Play & Share Card
- WOW, just realized we haven't been to an amusement park in over a decade!
- Always have a book with me. Would freak out if I didn't 😂.
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal
#WondrousWednesday
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#tomesandteareviewedbyanncrystal 17h