And thank you @JessieKB for this wonderful box of Christmas cheer!! I loooove moose munch, the tea smells amazing, and I love Lindt truffles! The socks are so cute and I can‘t wait to wear them (today), and I‘m so excited to read these books!! The tagged being particularly timely 😘.

I also love the themed wrapping!! Thank you so much; I love it all!! ♥️♥️🎄✨☃️🧦♥️♥️ #StuffedStockingSwap #sss

Yay!! #StuffedStockingSwap #sss opening day!

Thank you @MrsGagnonreads2024 for this lovely package!! I‘ve been wanting to read this book for so long, the book sleeve is ✨gorgeous✨, I love both bookmarks, the candy sounds soo yummy!, and the ornament is perfect for our tree!! Thank you so much!! ♥️♥️🎄☃️🧦♥️♥️

I listened to this 2nd in the series and *quite* enjoyed it. I actually thought this was better than the first and am very much looking forward to the 3rd! 😄 I liked the story, the family, the magic, and the, er, tension. 😉 4 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also received my #StuffedStockingSwap #sss package from @JessieKB today - yay!! Can‘t wait to open! (Also, adorbs box!!) 🎄☃️❤️👏🏼👏🏼

Received one of my #StuffedStockingSwap #sss packages! 👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you @MrsGagnonreads2024 - I can‘t wait to open it!! 🎄☃️❤️

Also, look at this adorable Christmas house craft @Malachi made! 😍😍

Aaaand also a pic of the super awesome nightmare before Christmas advent calendar his auntie got him for Christmas 🥰♥️

Hope you‘re all having a nice December! ☃️💙

This week I wanted escape… but couldn‘t. So I caved & opened your gift @AmyG - thank you so much!! I can‘t wait to read this book, the cozy additions are perfect, I love that frame for me & buggy… and I already drank the mocha cocoa .. w/ some marshmallow liqueur 🫢🤤😴 Thank you for this spot of joy!! ♥️♥️

We also had our #reallifebookgroup book exchange & I scored this Picoult! 👏🏼👏🏼

Also spotted: this $400 deco in the wild 😳 (yes, TJX 😜)

Found! In my favorite new/used bookstore, this creepy sounding novella — anyone read it?

Also, mailed the last of my Christmas packages tonight! Two to the in-laws and one to my #NaughtyListHolidaySwap secret recipient !
🖤👹😈🤡🖤
@WildAlaskaBibliophile

Hi all! Just checking in re #stuffedstockingswap #sss - I‘m tagging some folks in the comments who I don‘t have notice yet of packages shipped. If you‘ve already mailed and let me know and I just missed it - sorry! please let me know again. 🤗

Finished tagged #RealLifeBookGroup⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lovely & lyrical & I liked the intertwining stories. But while I understood why some things weren‘t wrapped up, I still missed a cpl ribbons. 🎀

Listening to Villain, 9th of my #tenbeforetheend #10beforetheend

And Pic of sisters & @Malachi & I last wknd 🥰

Also, mailed #coffeebeanbookclub #cbbc for Dec - @Mommamanzi it d/n have the next book bc I don‘t have it yet, but 👇🏼 (see comments for rest)

Oh @AardvarkBookClub you temptress.
I added, removed, added different ones… and settled on a selection that may be a little less typical for me… but just as exciting. 🤩 #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub

Also we decorated our tree today! @Malachi helped a lot!! 🎄♥️

And I mailed out 3 more swap packages:
Both of my #jolabokaflodswap packages and my #LittleChristmasSwap package. 😅💌📦📚💝
@MaleficentBookDragon @bookish_wookish

Picked my #botm #bookofthemonth books & am getting the challenge reward too! Picked 1 for Dec & added from a prior month - sounds interesting!

Also, rec‘d this pkd @AmyG , but no tag — #jolabokaflodswap? Either way, thank you!! 👏🏼👏🏼♥️

And sent my 2 #StuffedStockingSwap #sss packages on Wed! (1 big size and 1 small size) I believe they‘re both set to arrive Monday!

Finalizing the rest of my winter swap packages and will send those soon! 😄

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍁🦃♥️

Started the tagged… finally!! I have wanted to read this for so many years. Of course, it is delivering in ♠️♠️♠️ already!

Also excited to learn that #Belletrist‘s book this month is Darkly!! Super wanted to read that too.

Also, buggy lost his THIRD tooth this month!! 😍

Aaaand just showing off my perfect (it turned out so well this year!!) pumpkin pie with pecan streusel. 🤤

♥️🦃🍁♥️🦃🍁♥️🦃🍁♥️🦃🍁♥️🦃🍁♥️🦃

And here‘s my #naughtylistholidayswap aesthetic…. I like it dark & creepy. 😈

A soft pick (tagged) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lyrical, pretty to ponder, & great potential for the story b/t Angel & Demon. Ultimately fell a little flat for me.

Soft pick for Gold Hills. Again, such pretty writing, & fascinating story & characters! I don‘t know if it tried to do too much in too few pages, but it wasn‘t as strong as it could have been. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pram - a quick audio creature feature ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Next: audio Apprentice & paper Cemetery #reallifebookgroup

I thought… it must have the right ending…
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Next up & primed for #hyggehour #hyggehourreadathon: City in Glass 🏙️

Holy Swap Season Batman!

I think these are all of the litsy swaps that still have active signups! 👏🏼❤️❄️🤍📦💙☃️💝

See:
 @LibrarianRyan for #HolidayCardSwap (cards)
@MaleficentBookDragon for #Jolabokaflodswap (1 book + chocolate, 12/24 open)
@CarolynM for #AussieSecretSanta (Aussie Littens)
@bookish_wookish for #LittleChristmasSwap (1 book + treat; 1/6 open)
and
@WildAlaskaBibliophile for #NaughtyListHolidaySwap (diff sizes; 12/28 open)
🤗🤗

Read in 1 day! Quick, tense, techie, and manages to work in some very interesting and thought provoking relationship ponderings. Really enjoyed this and so nice to read a book so quickly again! 🙌🏼
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And with that, I‘m halfway done with #tenbeforetheend #10beforetheend 😅

Starting The Unraveling next….

Finished! It was really good. I very much want to read the next one. I really liked the characters, the town, and even the “love interest” won me over (a *little*) by the end. 😉 A solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

But as indicated in my prior post, I need a real break from cozies for a beat. So starting William…

Welp.. I still think I can probably finish the #10beforetheend #tenbeforetheend - but I had to replace 2. I think I‘ve read all the cozies I can read this year, save maybe 1 more if I need to for #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub

Reading the tagged. It‘s good. I can tell. But the last several cozies have dragged for me & I think it‘s because I need… let‘s say, less predictability. So. 2 cozies replaced with: The Unraveling & The City In Glass.

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My progress on #10beforetheend #tenbeforetheend

Finished:
Thirsty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and fun!
What My Bones Know ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Trust ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🤷‍♀️

And reading:
The Body in the Bookstore (#cbbc)
How Much of These Hills is Gold (#reallifebookgroup)

Matches sent!

Let me know if you haven‘t received yours or if there are any issues.

#StuffedStockingSwap #SSS
🎄❄️🩷

Hi all - perhaps some holiday cheer?

Last day to sign up!

Sign up by 11/6
Matches sent by 11/8
Shop by 12/5
Open on 12/15

Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/b6D58KQQbxkD3SVdA

#StuffedStockingSwap #SSS

Ooooooh @MaleficentBookDragon 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you, this is so sweet of you!!! The tea smells amaaaaazing, I can‘t wait to have some! And all the goodies are perfect for the foggy, chilly, snowy days we‘ve been having! Also, these books!! 🤌🏼🫶🏼

And of course that platypus is adORBS, and will find a place of honor next to the latte friend you made me, on my desk at work. 😍😍 Thank you!!! ♥️♥️

Also, happy Election Day, all! Go vote! ❤️🤍💙

Well, I filled my #aardvarkbookclub box, I added 2 for #bookofthemonth #botm (bog wife being one I‘d missed last month), and yes, I sucke… er, *subscribed* to botm‘s volume 0 set. Bc. I… had to? 😳

And then I also joined #belletrist 😨🫣 (paired w Tertulia, a book coop)

Good times…. 😁🥰😎

Ok folks, it‘s on!

Sign up by 11/6
Matches sent by 11/8
Shop by 12/5
Open on 12/15

Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/b6D58KQQbxkD3SVdA

#StuffedStockingSwap #SSS

Tagging some folks who‘ve expressed interest/may be interested.

What do we think? Is there an appetite for this? Open date: 12/6? (St nick‘s day, a holiday celebrated in WI, half of MN, and by 1 person in NM 😜) or 12/15?

I‘m thinking small to smallish, with smallest being just 1 book, and biggest being … 3 books + 3-5 goodies?

#StuffedStockingSwap #sss

Aaaaand some other books I acquired last month.
😳🫣🤫🫥🥸😶‍🌫️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#bookhaul

@LeslieO !! I love this #HauntedHallowSwap #hhs24 package!! These 2 books are perfect for the season and my mood!! The journal is so cool! And I love the dancing skeletons 😂. Also, that boot deco is so cute, those junior mints are my faaave, and the little mint tin is adorable! Thank you so much!!
🖤☠️♥️👻🎃💚💀💜

And thank you @wanderinglynn for hosting this every year!! ♥️😘

Ooohmygosh @Jadams89 !! You picked the perfect books for #AllHallowsReadSwap #ahs24 !! I‘m so excited for both of these - a full novel by Malfi, & the 2nd: that title! Also, prefect candy!! I love the s‘mores marshmallows!! & that key lime bar is soooo yummy! (Yes, I‘ve already tried both 🥸) And of course, a giant Kit Kat bar is 🎉. Love that card too! Thank you!!

And thanks to @MaleficentBookDragon for always hosting one of my favorite swaps!

Thank you soo much for sending such a perfect (tho unnecessary 😉) #AllHallowsReadSwap pkg @AmyG !! I‘m sooo excited for these books, there was so much candy (& such variety!!), the coffee smells soo yummy & I love the socks, the amaze-bates motel notepad, & stickers! 😍😍 Oh & did I forget to mention the best. bookmark. ever? That clown bookmark is so perfect for me!! Thank you so much for your always generosity & sweetness & thoughtfulness!!♥️♥️

Here‘s my #TenBeforetheEnd #10beforetheend

Includes: #RealLifeBookGroup picks, #SeasonalCozies picks, #CoffeeBeanBookClub #cbbc picks, and even my current #audiobook #earreading (tagged). I … think I can… 🚂🚂🚂

#HyggeHour #HyggeHourReadathon

Bugga‘s costume this year (a *spider* monkey 😉), this stupid good Apple soda, my #RealLifeBookGroup book for … October (🫣), my #CoffeeBeanBookClub #cbbc for Oct/Nov, and my beautiful book sleeve from #fffs @PatriciaU 🥰😍

A perfectly October Hygge Hour! 🤗♥️

Ooooh thank you @BarkingMadRead for this perfect #ModernWitchSwap #MWS package!! I was *just* looking at the tagged book yesterday, covetously, and now I have it!! I‘m so excited for both reads - excellent picks! And I love the pouch, stickers, & bookmarks, and can‘t wait to eat those gummies & drink the yummy cocoa! Thank you!!! 💚🪄💜🔮🖤🧙🏼‍♀️💚

And thank you @BookwormAHN for hosting such. Fun swap!!

Received this month‘s #coffeebeanbookclub #cbbc!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you @Callemarie for all the fun Halloween goodies!! Look at all those pins/buttons & stickers! I love the mug with a hat that comes off!! And the decoration and the pouch!! 🧡🖤🧡 And of course the chocolate raspberry coffee smells divine. 🥰🥰 Can‘t wait to read this month‘s book!
Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️

(Also, @Malachi wanted to be part of this pic ☺️)

‘Morning all!

Finished my trip and returned to 2 Litsy packages! 👏🏼👏🏼 one is #AHRS #AllHallowsReadSwap and the other… I‘m guessing #HHS? #HauntedHollowSwap #HHS24 @LeslieO ?

Also audio-read Starter Villains on my drive - it was good! Fun, not *exactly* as I‘d have liked. 😜 But ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

And started and aaalmost finished the tagged… just about an hour left!

Happy fall weekend! Hope your weather is crisp!
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On the backside of my long trip, where I also got to visit my old stomping grounds (college). I‘m now in Joplin and continuing to enjoy the amazing fall colors in the Midwest (which my camera in no way captures 😜).

And received a lovely surprise from @MaleficentBookDragon — thank you!! 🤗♥️🥰 Super excited to read this, and t‘is the season!
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This one is a soft pick for me. Just… I don‘t know, lacking in some way. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also listened to This American Ex-wife (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) and Death in the Stacks (2.5-3 ⭐️s) (Oct #SeasonalCozies selection) on my drive up nort‘.

Also started Starter Villain (long drive!) - good so far! Seems to be veering off course a bit though…

Still (slowly) reading Bogus Bookseller (Sept Seasonal Cozies pick).

Bonus pic: me in northwoods with new Wisco hat 😊

I‘ll tell you…

I am *so* happy that we‘re in the right quarter, the right season, the right month. 😌🍁🍂♥️

Taking a bath w my new pedi (the toe color was on special request from buggy 😏), drinking this amazing new sparkling water (so. good.), and reading my September (🫣) #SeasonalCozies read.

I‘ll be in bed early tonight so I can get an early start on my drive 🚗 tomorrow! 🌌

#hyggehour #hyggereadinghour #hyggehourreadathon

I can‘t even. What am I supposed to do with selections like these?! Full box again…

#aardvark #aardvarkbookclub

It‘s time 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Oooooh my goodness @PatriciaU !! I‘ve been spoiled in cozy perfection. Thank you so much!!! The books are perfect choices, I can‘t wait to eat those nuts 🤤, the socks are soooo soft, buggy already stole the cocoa ornament 🤭, the tea selection (!!), the book sleeve is 💯, & the notebooks, stickers, scarf, bookmarks, & chapsticks!! 🤎🧡💛 And the apples were spectacular 🍎♥️. Thank you so much!!!

#FallingForFallSwap #fffs

It‘s that time of month again!!
#BookoftheMonth #botm

#spookyseasonforthewin

If I had my old house and l my old bookshelves, I‘d definitely have ordered a full box this month….

It‘s weird reading about a 45 yo woman w a 7 yo who sets out to transform herself on a long solo road trip… while being a 45 yo woman w a 7 yo about to take off on a long solo road trip (tho mine was planned months ago…😜).The book is bizarre, well-written, intense, a little crazy, & quite good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also, showing off our holiday pillows as the correct seasons settle in…

And sending #AllHallowsReadSwap #ahrs pkg tmrw! (Early bc of road trip)

It‘s almost open day for #FallingforFallSwap #fffs!
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If you haven‘t done so already, let us know you‘ve received your package! ♥️

Oh! Also, I‘ve sent #MWS #ModernWitchSwap #HHS #HauntedHallowSwap and #cbbc #CoffeeBeanBookClub !! Folks should be receiving packages today through Tuesday. ☺️💌💌

New books! (Upper left - another ThriftBooks “splurge” ;)), noting that I‘m *behind* on my September read for #SeasonalCozies (upper right), geared up for October, nonetheless (lower right), oh and received my #MWS #ModernWitchSwap package already!! 😯😯

Oooh and received my #AllHallowsReadSwap #ahrs match! 👏🏼👏🏼 The season has begun in earnest! 🎃👻💀

Progress! 🤓

Finished Bulletproof ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I think they‘ve found their old spark again, or maybe it was the heavy nod to Only Murders 🤔☺️

Murderous Christmas ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 A cozy cozy! I‘ll definitely go back to read the 1st!

Listening to Mad Love on audio - a relatively quick murder mystery w a full cast. Def recommend so far!

Bubba & I are listening to the Zoo on road trips 🤩♥️

The tagged is for #reallifebookgroup… interesting so far! 🫢

Happy Fall y‘all!! 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

And happy #AutumnComfortSwap #acs open day!

Thank you @KadaGul for this perfect book selection and all the fall goodies!! 🤗💌 I love both pouches, and I can‘t wait to use the masks, all the yummy smelling teas, and the cocoa!!
♥️🍁🍂☕️🫖🍂🍁♥️

And thanks @thebacklistbook for hosting! 👏🏼👏🏼

Last weekend to sign up for @MaleficentBookDragon ‘s annual #AllHallowsReadSwap #ahrs !!!

Sign Ups are open until Sept 23rd
https://forms.gle/NjSo5bQdggXXGzc3A

Books update 🤓

Still finishing Sept‘s #cbbc, but up next is the tagged (a 2nd‘ary choice for #reallifebookclub) then the Cleo Coyle, my Sept #SeasonalCozies selection. I‘ve been meaning to check out their other work for a long time & I‘m finally doing it!

I also happen to be listening to their 20th (!) in the Coffeehouse Mystery series - definitely one of the better ones! ☕️🩸

Also rec‘d my #fffs package! Thank you @PatriciaU -I‘m so excited!!

Here‘s my #halloweenaesthetic 🦇👻💀🎃🩸

At least, it‘s some of it. I have pretty broad tastes 😁
#hauntedhollowswap #hhs24 #hhs @wanderinglynn
#modernwitchswap #mws @BookwormAHN
#allhallowsreadswap #ahrs @MaleficentBookDragon

Enjoying high tea by myself, a break from the hustle and bustle, while reading the next #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub book ☺️😌

Also, mailed my #FallingForFallSwap #fffs 🍁🍎🍂 and #coffeebeanbookclub #cbbc ☕️🫘📖🩸 packages to ✨mystery recipient✨ and Nicole! (In that order 😉) Both scheduled to arrive Thursday…

Yay!! #CoffeeBeanBookClub #cbbc time!
Thank you @Callemarie for sending these books & yummmmmmeeeee coffees!! ♥️☕️📖♥️☕️📖