I started the short story I didn‘t read last week for #noplacelikeholmes. I started it last night before bed. I‘m almost done. I have chapters 6 and 7 and the epilogue to read now. While listening to the short story, I finished a Cross stitch picture I started and then colored these pictures on some color by number apps I have.

I‘m subscribed to Apple Music and this is just some of my Favorites that I added on Sunday night. I ended up with 387 songs and I still want to add more. My music taste is all over the place. I‘m stressed out because I have a lot going on at my house right now and it‘s throwing off my routine so listening to the music and favoriting the songs made me feel better. It‘s been a while since I‘ve sat down and just listened to music.

#tuesdaytunes

I‘m subscribed to Apple Music on my phone and I discovered that if you‘re subscribed to Apple Music, you can Favorite Songs and it makes a playlist of them and automatically adds them to your device without having to buy the song so I did that on Sunday night and listened to some songs I added and I added my iTunes library to Windows Media Player. I listened to 1 song by Brokencyde and some other songs on my computer.

#tuesdaytunes

1. Stressed out. There‘s a leak in my shower coming from my shower bench. My mom has a leak in her shower and the water heater needs to be fixed because it‘s banging around up in the ceiling.
2. Yes. All I listened to last night was music. I actually listened to a song last night where the guy was screaming more than singing.
3. I like Linkin Park and heavy metal music. It makes me feel like I‘m not alone.

#mentalhealthmonday

I made more progress in this Netgalley ARC I have on my #roll100 list. I was supposed to read it before it was published but I didn‘t so I‘m reading it on Kindle Unlimited. I‘m still reading this book and journaling along with it when the blank journal pages come up. I‘m doing stream of consciousness writing along with this book. I think the journaling is helping. I probably won‘t finish this book before the end of the month but I‘m enjoying it.

I need to read this week‘s short story from Sherlock Holmes for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I haven‘t read it yet because I was busy downloading my Kindle books from Amazon but I‘m done doing that. I started on Wednesday and I finished downloading at 4 AM on Saturday. I have 3,000+ books so it took forever and I didn‘t feel like dealing with it but I didn‘t want to lose my ebooks. I got finished before February 26.

I‘m currently reading this book for the #realmofelderlings readalong and I haven‘t made any more progress in the book. I like what I‘ve read so far. Maybe next month, I‘ll finish this book or at least make more progress in it. It takes me a long time to read big books over 500 pages and I think all of the books in this series are over 500 pages.

I just finished adding the Kindle files into a folder on my computer I created just for books and it didn‘t take me very long to do at all because I just selected all the files at once and moved them to the books folder. Now that they‘re on my computer, I could move them to another e-reader or just keep them on my computer. I would recommend downloading your ebooks from Amazon while you can because on Feb 26, you won‘t be able to.

I just finished downloading all of my Kindle ebooks to my computer. I had 2 ebooks that I wasn‘t able to download for some reason. They probably deleted them from their website and I deleted some that I wasn‘t going to reread. I have 3,454 books. I started downloading all of them on Wednesday and I just finished downloading all of them on Saturday at 4 AM. I‘m glad that‘s done. All I have to do next is put them in a folder on my computer.

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-changes-licensing-text-when-kindle-bo...

I‘m not buying ebooks or audiobooks from Amazon anymore. I‘ll buy ebooks or audiobooks somewhere else or directly from an author‘s website. They don‘t want us to own our ebooks and I don‘t think they want us to even own our audiobooks so I‘ll either borrow books from Libby or Kindle Unlimited.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/alternatives-to-amazon-for-books

Libby is a good alternative. I used Thrift Books before. I haven‘t tried the other ones mentioned here but they sound good. After finding out that we don‘t actually own our ebooks or audiobooks and that we‘re just purchasing a license to access the content, using Libby or Kindle Unlimited is starting to sound better to me. If I want to own something then I‘ll buy it.

Here‘s my progress on this book. I didn‘t journal when I woke up so I decided to do a journaling thing I‘ve heard about called Night Pages where you write 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing before bed so I did that. It doesn‘t have to be pretty or perfect. It can just be random thoughts that don‘t make sense, you can rant or whatever you want to do. I have enjoyed journaling along with this book and I‘ve highlighted a lot of passages.

Tonight, I downloaded more of my ebooks from Amazon. Earlier from 7-9 PM, I worked on this and stopped on page 74. I had to update my software on my computer but then tonight from 11:30 PM-2 AM, I downloaded some more and I stopped on page 100 out of 142 pages. I‘m stopping tonight and I‘ll start again tomorrow.

I‘ve made a lot of progress on downloading more of my ebooks to my computer. I downloaded books for 5 hours and 30 minutes tonight and I‘m still not done yet. I have 3,529 books. I made it to page 58 out of 142 pages of books on my Amazon account. I stopped on page 58. I have until Feb 26 to download my ebooks. I‘m stopping tonight and starting again tomorrow. My hand is tired.

I read some of this book today and journaled when I woke up today and just finished journaling before bed and now, I‘m laying in bed on my phone so I‘m going to try to get some sleep.

Tonight, I started downloading my Kindle books to my computer. I have 3,000+ ebooks on my Kindle. I downloaded 500 books. There‘s only a few days left until Amazon turns into a paid library where they can edit books and remove books whenever they want to. I feel better already that I‘m taking control over my ebooks so the books will actually belong to me and when they‘re all on my computer, they can‘t mess with them or take them away.

I‘ve decided that I‘m going to download my ebooks because on February 26, Amazon is becoming a paid library. If we don‘t download our ebooks to our computers then Amazon can take them away from us. I don‘t want to lose my books. They‘re mine. I paid for them. I have 3,000+ ebooks on my Kindle. I was just talking to my mom about this and she told me that I can just save them as files to my computer and that I don‘t even need a USB drive.

I saw this post in a Facebook group I‘m in about the change from Amazon happening on February 26. This is the second part of it.

I saw this post in a Facebook group I‘m in about the change from Amazon happening on February 26. This is the first part of it.

#whatsnewwednesday

I wanted to share some things I highlighted from this book I‘m reading called “My Healthy Noggin” by Bokinia Colbert. These 5 things I‘ve highlighted are some things to think about for today. It‘s making me think.

I read some more of this book. I journaled before bed last night and then today when I woke up. I slept through the night last night after I journaled and I played a guided sleep meditation on YouTube when I went to sleep last night. I didn‘t wake up during my sleep once. I usually wake up more than once while sleeping but that didn‘t happen last night. I think the journaling helped. My mind wasn‘t racing at all when I got in bed last night.

I was reading the book My Healthy Noggin by Bokinia Colbert this afternoon. I highlighted these journaling prompts that the author says to incorporate into journaling along with this book. I could do the visualization exercises, the self reflection prompts and gratitude journaling or I could continue doing the stream of consciousness writing like I did today. I don‘t think there‘s a right or wrong way to start journaling.

I just read more of this book this afternoon. There was another empty page for journaling along with this book and I just did some journaling after waking up this afternoon. It turns out that I had a lot to say about Amazon but I feel better. I think I needed to write about it because I stayed up all night last night worrying about it. I‘ve learned that this is part of having Anxiety. If I worry about something, it keeps me up at night.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/download-your-kindle-books-asap-before-amazon-kill...

Wow. I didn‘t know Amazon did that. I‘m not switching to another e-reader because I‘m happy with what I have but this makes me look at them differently so basically, none of us have ever owned our Kindle books. We‘ve only been buying a license to rent them this whole time. Is Amazon trying to become a paid library?

https://www.howtogeek.com/kindle-discontinues-download-transfer-via-usb/

Ok. I get it now. Amazon wants us to only use their e-readers. Well, this doesn‘t affect me because I‘m not switching to another e-reader. I like my Kindle. I‘m happy with it. It works well for me. I don‘t see any reason why I should switch to something else.

What‘s highlighted in purple is what‘s standing out to me in the article I just shared a link to. We don‘t actually own our digital content that we pay for. We‘re just buying a license to rent it. I‘ve heard that it‘s always been that way. Why didn‘t anyone tell me this? I just found out about this and I‘m trying to process it.

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transf...

I just found out about this. I‘ve never used this feature. So basically after Feb 26, you won‘t actually own your Kindle books. We‘re just going to be buying a license to rent our books and I guess that means if they remove the ebook from their website then you lose the ebook. I wonder if they‘ll start doing this on Audible too.

I just started this book. I like it so far. It has journaling prompts. It mentions stream of consciousness writing which I‘ve done before and I just did my first journal entry along with this book. Taylor Bradshaw (a folk musician I listen to) made a book of creative exercises and I did them. Stream of consciousness writing was one of the exercises. He said he learned about it from a book he read called “The Artist‘s Way” by Julia Cameron.

For #whereareyoumonday, the tagged nonfiction book I just finished is about the ocean. I really enjoyed this book.

1. I woke up tired today but I took a quick shower before dinner tonight and I don‘t feel tired anymore.

2. Not very well. I keep waking up so I don‘t feel well rested. I‘ve been getting 8 hrs of sleep or less but I feel better with 9 hrs.

3. I don‘t know. Everyone sleeps differently. I‘m a night owl. I feel like listening to guided sleep meditations on YouTube helps me sleep but I don‘t always do that.

#mentalhealthmonday

Here‘s my review for this book.

#roll100

Here‘s how I did on the #valentinesdayreadathon.

1. I finished a 3 book series for #serieslove2025 which was my goal for this readathon.

2. After I finished a series then I decided to start the tagged book because it‘s one of my #roll100 books and I wasn‘t in the mood for another romance novel. I haven‘t written my review for it yet because I just finished it but I enjoyed it and I‘m looking forward to reading my other #roll100 books now.

After I finished reading all 3 books in the Fueled Obsession series by Amanda Heartley last night, I decided to start this book. I wasn‘t in the mood for another romance novel. I like this book so far. It has spells, invocations, mythology and watercolor images of ocean life. My zodiac sign is Cancer so I‘m a water sign. I‘ve always liked the water. I won‘t be doing the spells or invocations but I think the mythology is interesting.

#roll100

For #weeklyfavorites, my favorite for the first week was Piranesi. This is considered a fantasy but it felt like I was in a dream. I never understood what was going on but I enjoyed the writing.

My favorite for the second week is a bad boy romance series that I just finished reading tonight. It‘s a romance between a race car driver and a nurse. I really liked this series. It took me from Feb 9-15 just to read all 3 books.

Here‘s my review for this book series. I finished this for the #valentinesdayreadathon and finished this book series for #serieslove2025. I won‘t be reading another series this month because it took me a while just to read these 3 books.

#kindleunlimited

I crocheted this rose. This is only my second time making a rose but I used thread and a smaller hook. I kinda had a hard time seeing the stitches but I think the rose turned out good in the end and it‘s a good way for me to practice the pattern for the rose. I kept looking at it and thinking that I messed up on crocheting the petals but my mom said that the stitches look consistent.

#litsycrafters #crochet

1. The Backstreet Boys were on the Today Show this morning. I recorded it and watched it tonight because I don‘t get up early.
2. I crocheted a rose.
3. My oracle card from my Unicorn oracle deck
4. My mom got me a stuffed animal and some chocolate for Valentine‘s Day
5. Taylor Bradshaw (an independent folk musician I listen to) set up his private discord group and I introduced myself to everyone in there.

#5joysfriday

I just found out about the #valentinesdayreadathon. I‘ve decided that I want to participate in it. My only goal is to finish this romance book series that I started reading this week. This is a bad boy romance series. It‘s a romance between a race car driver and a nurse. I‘m enjoying it so far. I‘m now reading the 3rd and final book. If I end up finishing this book series before the end of the readathon then I‘ll start another book.

1. Romeo & Juliet - I liked this one. I listened to this on an app called Librivox back in 2018 that has only classics but I prefer to use Libby or Audible to listen to classics now.
2. The Secret Garden - I liked this book when I read it.
3. Where The Crawdads Sing - I read this book in a real life neighborhood book club I used to be in before the pandemic happened. This book was okay but I didn‘t really like it that much.

#threelistthursday

I‘m reading this book for the #realmofelderlings readalong and it‘s good so far. I‘m going to come back to this book but I want to take a break from this book for a while and read a bad boy sports romance series that I have chosen on my Kindle to finish this month. I enjoyed the first book in the series but I never continued with the series.

1. I bought a rope basket at Costco to put my stuffed animals in.
2. My oracle card this week from my Unicorn oracle deck.
3. I picked up my new eyeglasses today at Costco. My prescription only changed a little bit but not that much.
4. Post Malone Oreos were released this month so we bought some at Costco today. They‘re good.
5. Before my mom and I left Costco, we bought their $1.50 beef hot dog with a drink. It was good.

#5joysfriday

I just started this book. I only read the first chapter and it was interesting. I don‘t feel invested in this story yet but I‘ll read at my own pace and keep going. My plan is to read some of this book while I‘m reading other books. It‘s been a long time since I‘ve read a fantasy series. My first fantasy series was A Song Of Ice And Fire and my second fantasy series was Lord Of The Rings.

#realmofelderlings

1. Middlemarch - I read this a long time ago for a readalong I participated in on Instagram. I didn‘t like this book. I thought it was boring.
2. 1984 - I read this book during my Senior year in high school and wrote a book report on it. I didn‘t like this book. I thought it was boring.
3. Pride And Prejudice - I didn‘t like the book. I thought it was boring but I enjoyed the 2005 movie with Keira Knightley in it.

#threelistthursday

Here‘s my review for this book. This is the February pick for the No Shelf Control book club on Fable.

I‘m going to be participating in the #realmofelderlings readalong hosted by PuddleJumper. I just finished a book club book I was reading and now, I‘m ready to start this book next. I won‘t finish it this month but I want to at least start it. This kinda sounds like A Song Of Ice And Fire because ASOIAF has a bastard named Jon Snow and this series has a bastard named Fitz and both series have kingdoms and knights and things like that.

Here‘s my #roll100 picks for this month. #6 is Sea Magick. It‘s about the sea and casting spells. #60 is a book about Jews and Pigs. #42 is a book about our brains. #82 is about a book about black fashion designers. I preordered the audiobook for the book about Jews and Pigs. I‘ll be reading that when it gets published but not this month. I will be reading these other books this month though. These are all Netgalley ARCs.

I finally read Part 1 of this week‘s short story. I didn‘t realize that it was already time to start on it. I enjoyed the first part of this story but it took me longer to get through it because there were 7 chapters to listen to and they‘re not short chapters either. I think the chapters are about 20 or 30 minutes long. I started this first part yesterday and only had the last chapter to listen to today. Now, I‘m caught up.

#noplacelikeholmes

Here‘s my #bookspinbingo board for February. I decided to go with a Valentine‘s Day theme. For the free spaces, I decided to add some different images to them. The images I chose were: Cupid, a teddy bear, gnomes, a box of chocolates and a heart with an arrow through it. I like my background and what it says too. It says,”You‘re really cute no matter what. Don‘t let anyone tell you any different, okay?”

Here‘s my picks for #bookspinbingo. #4 is my #bookspin pick and #10 is my #doublespin pick. My #bookspin pick is going to be Assassin‘s Apprentice by Robin Hobb for the #realmofelderlings readalong. I don‘t think I‘ll finish it this month because the audiobook is 17 hrs but I want to at least start it. My #doublespin will be a series I‘m finishing on my Kindle but I will be able to finish the series that I picked.