I‘ve read quite a few seasonal picture books earlier this month but I loved this one using Dracula to teach about the importance of blood donation! Also behold the power of chocolate! #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #LitsyBloodDrive #BookSpinBingo

I love how much this character hates salad. 😄 I don‘t have a lot of experience with quinoa but I thought I would give it a try. Not sure what he was on about it‘s pretty great. 🥗 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #TrappedInASpookyHouse #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #PumpkabooHunt #BookSpinBingo

I was hoping that the weather would be less hellish by now before getting this in the mail but alas… I will be dropping off my #AllHallowsReadSwap #AHRS package either tonight or early tomorrow. So it should arrive Thursday sometime. Yes I went a little overboard but I do what I want. 👻 🍫

Correction: it‘s due to arrive on Friday.

Ok maybe one more lol #FirstLineFridays #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

#FirstLineFridays #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Yoinked from IG. Who else is hoping to get to House of Leaves this month? 😂 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Took my October #BookSpinBingo board out for a walk today in the crisp 89° weather ? I think this is the first month this year where both picks are actual books and not just challenge or format placeholders.

October TBR

I have 23 unused Free spaces so far this year so I added some back. No freebies left behind 👻
#BookSpin #ReadYourKindle #TrappedInASpookyHouse #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

September wrap up and I was able to squeeze in a #BookSpinBingo. 🎉 Not bad since most of these were read in the last half of the month after settling up with my last place after moving out. I still have unpacking to do but I feel much less stressed now and am ready to get back to reading again. #TurnThePage

Last book I read in September would be a fitting #HauntedShelf rec although not in the traditional spooky season sense.

The darkness drops again! There is quite a bit of humor in this book about Gerald whose consciousness gets trapped inside of Slack leaving his body behind. I think the format of this book solely in the form of Slack chats lends itself to a lighter mood, but this really is a horror book. ⬇️

TBR for #TurnthePage. Tagged book is giving Murder She Wrote vibes and is set in Maine.

September #BookSpin / #BookSpinBingo /#ReadYourKindle

Going to try to sprint the last week of this month to get my reading rhythm back.

Super late getting my #BookSpinBingo August wrap up posted since I finally unpacked my printer. Only read 2 books because moving took most of my energy and focus but both of these were great. The tagged book will surely make you feel great about your failed relationships too 😂 This is also proof that DNFs are not always forever. I came back to this book 4 years after shelving it in “library purgatory”.

So yesterday I went to donate platelets (my first time) and I overheard this lady raving about this book to her friend. I wanted to piggyback on their conversation so bad but I didn‘t want to be a creep 😅 Anyways I think I am moving this one up my TBR I‘ve had it on there forever. Also the cover matches my bandage 😄 #LitsyBloodDrive #AVL25

Very niche post but I never know exactly how many Littens who follow me are also in San Antonio. 👀 This book club is just now trying to get off the ground. I hope it works out because I need more book nerds in my life offline 😄 This was taken from IG https://www.instagram.com/p/DOb8l0RDmTh/?igsh=cDRxODJvejhuMDQ5

PS it‘s the Folklores on N. New Braunfels ☕️ 🕸️

Oh no the cursed hand of balderdashery has dropped some books in front of your dwelling. Reading your way out is your only hope! Have fun!!

#TrappedInASpookyHouse

Who‘s ready to spooky dissociate from *gestures wildly*? There‘s still time to sign up for #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders ⬇️

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Saw the adaptation on Monday. If you‘ve read the book I highly recommend not googling anything and going in blind so you can be surprised by the movie ending. Enjoyed is probably not the right word but I think this adaptation was really well done.

Your heart will be afloat too 🤣 Going through a bunch of old paperwork and found this bizarre precious moments Valentine clown

No I haven‘t fallen off the face of the earth I‘ve just been moving… still 🥴 But I finally got to listen to this cast audio version of Angels in America which was fantastic. I see a subscription to National Theater at Home in my future. Maybe a reward for when this moving nonsense is behind me. 🙃

August #BookSpin / #ReadYourKindle lists and #BookSpinBingo board.

Ehh I read more rental listings in July than books and two of these were rereads. 🫣 Here‘s to a better month. August is gonna be a busy month of moving and getting settled in the new place. #BookSpinBingo

Donation was successful on Thursday at work. Donating blood is a great Sumer-ween activity 😄🦇🅰️➕🩸 #LitsyBloodDrive

I love this @TieDyeDude !! I actually just signed up for a blood drive at my work happening on July 16. So I‘ll be participating early. I am using this donation to determine if I can be a candidate to donate platelets in the future. This time of year is when shortages tend to happen. Please donate if you can! #LitsyBloodDrive

Been decluttering preparing to move and I came across this coloring book from when my kid was in his Peppa era. Don‘t come for my poor coloring skills lol but I couldn‘t help but wonder what “book with a blue cover” mummy pig is reading and when might the title slip her mind? 🤔

It‘s a somber day for the US, but especially for the Texas Hill Country. San Antonio (where I live) recently experienced a flood related tragedy. Seeing it happen again so soon is heart wrenching. 💔

July #BookSpinBingo 🎆

Surprised that the BookSpin pull was an actual book since my list this month is mostly free spaces. Going to try for a blackout because I‘d like to stay far away from doomscrolling the rest of the month. I‘ve seen enough 🫣🔥

The ethereal look of this cover is what initially drew me in to want to try this book. A lot of the details are left intentionally ambiguous and the art does a lot of the storytelling, allowing for reader interpretation.
This is a book that will make you want to start again as soon as you finish to see what you might have missed the first time around. This would be a great book to prompt discussions and the artwork is chillingly beautiful. #ARC

June reading wrap up and first #bookspinbingo of the year!! 🙌 Favorite reads were Fahrenheit 182, We Could Be Rats, and Trumpets of Death which was an ARC I received that comes out in August. I still need to get a proper review out, but it‘s a graphic novel to watch out for! 🍄

This book has been on my shelf forever. It was a so so read for me. As the title suggests there is a lot of killing in this book. The main character it a hitman who unwittingly is called to do a job outside of protocol and chaos ensues. Ended up being a read AND donate. I dropped it off at a little free library near me and swapped it for this Encyclopedia Brown book. #ReadOrDonate #EBBR #ISpyBingo

#SundayFunday

I recommend this one a lot. It‘s existential and heartwarming. One of the most wholesome books ever. Will stay with you for a long time. 👽 🦔 🐌 🥹

July #BookSpin is pretty much going to be a FREE for all. I rolled over unused free spaces from the beginning of the year to July. I‘ll do the same in December. No freebies left behind!! Trying for some #ChristmasInJuly shenanigans as well. I found some holiday kindle books on the recent Stuff Your Kindle Day so those are on my #ReadYourKindle list for July too. 🎄☀️

Immediately thought of Vlad from The Bromance Bookclub especially with Teddy narrating 😂

Picture it, the SAPL 4:42. I‘m minding my business picking up my Firestarter adaptation hold 🍿 and then whamo I see this beauty and couldn‘t just leave her there. I really hope it‘s good 😄 🔪 🍰

I‘ve been decluttering / organizing and finding this bookmark in this book cracked me up so much 😆

First time getting a skip the line notification from Libby. This was on my #AuldLangSpine list and I have had it on hold since January. Yes, January. I realize I could have started it anytime via KU but Troy Duran is worth the wait 😍 🎧

This book is kind of pissing me off because it made me remember how I waited for hours outside in the cold for a ticket to the Blink 182 Pop disaster tour with Green Day (2002) only to be prompted by youth group guilt to give it away 😒. See also exhibit B: proximity of my Enema of the State and Good Charlotte self-titled albums to my Brio Girl novel 🤣

Sadly, same. 😂

#IcedTea #JuneSpecials I‘m suddenly parched reading this line 😂

So I ran out of cookies and I realized I hadn‘t put my review up here! Book 2 of the Sweet and Stocky series finds Havelock “Locky” Sorensen unexpectedly let go from his accounting job with well padded redundancy payout. His roommate Kai lovingly strong-arms him to take a risk and pursue his dream to open a night time bakery. Kai connects Locky to small business project manager Benedict Owens to get started. ⬇️

#DarkAndStormy #JuneSpecials

#Whisk #PoetryMatters

I initially got this to try listening with my son to see how he‘d do with an audiobook that didn‘t accompany a shorter picture book. It didn‘t hold his interest beyond the first chapter (but I think it would have been different if Libby had a whispersync feature like Kindle/Audible does). Normally I would DNF a book I intended to read with him when he loses interest, but I thought the sound effects were really cool and kept going with it. ⬇️

#BestFriends #JuneSpecials

#Whirlwind #PoetryMatters

When the stars align and your ebook is ready at the same time as your audiobook. 🩷🩶

⭐️⭐️⭐️ June‘s #DoubleSpin

Leah‘s daughter returns home after being gone for 5 years living on a cultish commune with her batshit father.

I think this book‘s WTF-am-I-reading-page-turn-ability helps to gloss over some of the flaws of this book. Ex: The daughter in this book reads like a 13 year old during a time where she is written to be 18, plotholes, flat writing at times, etc.

#ReadYourKindle #LetterF #LitsyAtoZ 7 prompts for #ISpyBingo

#Whir #PoetryMatters

#Prairie #JuneSpecials

#Whip #PoetryMatters