Here are the next two books in my bookish holiday calendar! I'm not crazy about the dark color they went with for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I like navy blue, but this is just a little too dark I think! However I am absolutely obsessed with how beautiful Dracula is! The colors and the detail on it look fantastic! 😍💕📚
Day 17: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Day 18: Dracula
MY JOLABOKAFLOD PACKAGE ARRIVED TODAY! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 It's going to be soooooooo hard to wait until Christmas Eve to open it! 🤭💕📚
@MaleficentBookDragon @Scochrane26 #jolabokaflod #jolabokaflodswap
Starting this one tonight! ❤️💚❤️💚📚 I'm super excited about it!
Okay, when I opened book # 16 for today, I squealed with excitement! Mansfield Park is my absolute favorite Jane Austen book! And I love the color also! 🩵🩵🩵
❤️ Book 15: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
💚 Book 16: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I'm behind on posting these, but here are books 12, 13, and 14 from my bookish holiday calendar! 🤭💕📚
❤️ Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
💚 Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray
❤️ The Hound of the Baskervilles
We got a bit of snow today, so it seemed like the perfect time to start this chilly thriller! 🩵❄️🤍
Days 9, 10, and 11 of my bookish holiday calendar! 🥰❤️💚❤️🎄
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Yesterday my town held its annual holiday celebration! There was a Christmas market, a parade, and a tree lighting ceremony! 🎄🎅🏻⛄ I got to be a part of the parade and the library even decorated our book bike to look like a snow globe! It was so much fun! Of course I was reading my current Christmas book while waiting for the parade to start! 🤭💕📖
My latest book ornaments from my holiday calendar! 🥰📚
Day 6: Frankenstein
Day 7: The Iliad
Day 8: Les Miserables
IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE AND IT'S MASSIVE! 1329 pages and I'm beyond excited! 💕📚
This book marks the end of the current story arc, so I'm sure there will be many surprises and twists along the way! It's been 10 years since I started reading this series, and part of why it's so special to me is because I have read each book with my bestie, Dave! @DaveGreen7777
'Life Before Death
Journey Before Destination
Strength Before Weakness.'
My three day weekend starts today! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Of course I had to kick off the excitement by making a trip to my happy place! 🤭📚🩷
Eeeeeeeeek! My Book of the Month Box arrived yesterday! 🥳🎉 I'm going to try to read both of the holiday books before christmas, but I still have a few other holiday books to finish so I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it! Either way, I'm super excited about my picks! #botm
This is the next Christmas book I started reading the other day! I wasn't sure what to expect, because I have never read anything by this author before! But so far it is delightfully sweet and hilarious! ❤️💚❤️💚
pickOkay, I went in not expecting a whole lot from this one except some holiday cuteness, but I ended up absolutely LOVING it! It is definitely sweet, but also really fun and hilarious as well! There are so many silly Christmas puns! 🤭❤️💚❤️💚
I DID IT! I FINALLY COMPLETED MY REREAD OF THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE SERIES! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 I reread books 1-4 plus the two novellas! And it's perfect timing because book 5 comes out on Friday! I'm SO excited! 💕📚
Day 2 of my bookish holiday calendar from Litjoy! Great Expectations! 😍💚💚💚
Happy December! 💚❤️💚❤️
Here is the first mini book ornament from my Litjoy Holiday Calendar!
We got some snow today! 🤍🩵❄️🩵🤍 It was at least a couple inches!
I picked up this special edition of Icebreaker the other day! I couldn't resist those sprayed page edges!
A very happy Thanksgiving to all the littens who celebrate! ❤️🦃❤️
This year, as always, I'm especially thankful for my friends, my kitties, my sweet & supportive hubby, this wonderful bookish community, and BOOKS! 🥰💕📚
Did I also make a quick bookstore stop on my lunch break today? YOU BETCHA! 😂💕📚
Look, despite my life being full of chaos 99% of the time - the one thing I am SUPER organized about is holiday stuff! 🤭🎄 So that being said: my #jolabokaflodswap package has officially been shipped out today! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 BOOYAH!
#jolabokaflod #jolabokaflodswap @MaleficentBookDragon
So I splurged a little bit this year and bought the mini book advent calendar from Litjoy! 🤭💕 Each day in December you open a tiny package and get a mini book ornament! I'm so excited to start!
It has turned out to be a perfect Saturday! It's cold and gloomy outside, which is perfect reading weather! I'm starting this fun holiday book, have plenty of snacks and tea, and two out of my three kitties have joined me for some cuddles! 🤭💕📚 #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #jupiterjazz
I'm not really a Murakami fan, per se. The only book I've read by him thus far is Norwegian Wood, which I did enjoy! But his newest book apparently deals with a library, and I couldn't resist that! 🤭📚🩷
Okay, so I'm on page 300 of my Rhythm of War reread, and considering I have the whole rest of the month to finish it - I think it's safe to say that I'm in the home stretch! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 There are a couple of touch and go moments there, where I was unsure about whether I would really be able to finish rereading this whole series before the next book comes out in early December! But I've totally got this! 💕🥳 And it has been such a fun adventure! 🥰
I have always been of the opinion that it's never too early to put up your Christmas decorations! So this weekend we got the tree up and it's looking great! ❤️💚❤️💚
I've been revisiting manga series that I loved back in the day, to see if they hold up still! Right now I'm reading Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing, and my nostalgic heart thinks they're just as good as ever! 💕📚
I saw this book in the bookstore the other day and could not pass it up! Look at how gorgeous the cover is! And the page edges! 😍 So pretty! And it's also not a book I have ever heard of before! Apparently it's a fantasy romance, and I'm excited to try it out!
Got done work early today, so I decided to stop by my local bookstore for some bookish joy, followed by an egg & cheese croissant sandwich and jasmine tea! 🥰🩷📚 Super yummy! 🤤 I needed this after such a crappy week! Happy Friday, littens!
"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?"
"It's the next one. Always the next step."
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I'm almost done with my Stormlight Archive reread! I just have to finish this last book! I'm really excited about Book 5 which comes out early next month! The quote above is one of my favorites from the series, and has brought me a lot of comfort this week.
Today is a really hard day. 💙
So I'm trying to find little glimmers of joy where I can. For example - my #botm box arrived today, filled with fantasy goodies!
I started using Litsy daily right after the 2016 election, because I was feeling scared and sad and needed a community. Despite how devastated I'm feeling today, I'm really glad that Litsy is here and that we all have each other! 💕📚
It's election night and I'm feeling super anxious! Anyone else? 😵💫 Curled up with Rumpel and reading T.J Klune's new book, because his writing always makes me feel like I'm being wrapped up in a warm hug! 💕📚 #catsoflitsy #rumpel
Happy Halloween, Litsy family! 🧡🎃🧡
I hope everyone had a great day filled with spooky vibes, lots of treats, and of course - a ton of reading! 🤭 I finished Incidents Around the House by Malerman today and WOW. It was probably one of the scariest books I have ever read! 😱 It was absolutely the perfect book to finish on halloween!
WOW! The November Book of the Month choices dropped today and I'm absolutely floored with how many awesome fantasy choices they had! I think this might be the first month ever that I've been able to fill my box with just fantasy releases! 🥰💕📚 What did everyone else choose? #botm
Happy Halloween Eve! 🧡🎃🧡
I'm starting this today, and I'm really really excited about it! I love all of Josh Malerman's other books, so I have high hopes for this one! Apparently, two of my co-workers couldn't finish this because they thought it was too scary! 😱
Been fighting off a nasty cold for the last few days and it finally caught up with me today. Ugh. 🤧
Luckily, the special editions of Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust arrived today which helped to cheer me up! 💕📚
Okay, I just finished book two of this series and they are so much fun! Such cozy and sweet books! 🍁🍂 I'm really looking forward to jumping into book three soon! 📚💕
Last night my library hosted an author program which featured Wade Rouse, aka Viola Shipman! 💕📚 I got to run the whole thing which included facilitating the event, handling the Q&A portion, and the best part of all - getting to go out to dinner beforehand with him and his lovely husband! It was an absolutely magical evening!
I saw this online and thought it was a fun prompt!
For me, it would definitely be some of the Fear Street books by R.L. Stine. I remember not sleeping for days after I read 99 Fear Street! I recently revisited the series and couldn't stop laughing! It was so corny! 🤭
Here me out....
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Yes, I absolutely bought this minotaur romance book! DON'T JUDGE ME, OKAY?! 😇 In my defense, look at how gorgeous it is!
"I always think that the quickest way to understand someone is to look at what's on their bookshelves."
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There was definitely a chill in the air today - it's finally starting to really feel like fall! 🎃🍁🍂🍄
