pickMay was all about The Ravenhood series for me. I finally read the trilogy, plus the tagged book which is the first of a legacy spin off of the original series. So hard to nail it down to just one. 🌧️ 🥹 #12Booksof2024
pickAbsolutely adored this cheeky frog‘s wisdom. 🐸 🍄
Finished 12/27 +5 Word Search Words.
#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 #SugarRush Tree for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter L for #ChristmasAtoZ. Xmas Tree for #ISpyBingo. Tree for #ChristmasCheer. Book you received as a gift prompt for December 2024 #TBRTarot prompt.
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pickOne of my kiddo‘s Christmas presents from the grandparents. Was actually a 2 in 1. I was very full of Christmas cheese when we were reading this but my son was adamant that we finish reading before taking a nap lol 😴
Finished on 12/25 +6 Word Search Words. #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 Ice for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter I for #ChristmasAtoZ. Stripes for #ISpyBingo. Cheer for #ChristmasCheer.
pickMy son is obsessed with spotting these guys all over town so I got him his own for Christmas that came with this little booklet going over the history of these things. Finished 12/23. + 1 Word Search Word #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #SnickerdoodleSprint Gold for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter W for #ChristmasAtoZ. Different levels for #ISpyBingo. Jolly for #ChristmasCheer.
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pickMatthew Prince creating events in his head in times of stress reminded me so much of Jenna Hunterson from Waitress creating a new pie in her mind. 🥹 Was really sad that there wasn‘t a recipe in the book for the chai cookies with eggnog icing. I want to make them so bad. I really loved the focus on mental health in this one around anxiety. And Matthew‘s mom can get stuffed. ⬇️
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Mooncakes was my #12Booksof2024 pick for April. It was also an #AcquiredViaLitsy2024 read that was received from #BasicWitchSwap from @tdrosebud in 2022. 🖤
It‘s that time of year again where we are feeling really good about the coming year‘s reading goals! I will be hosting / attempting Acquired Via Litsy in 2025, now with a less annoying hashtag! 😄
#AVL25
#12Booksof2024 BB flippin‘ Easton 🙇🏻♀️ Loved this one and will not be surprised if the sequel shows up later on this challenge. ☘️
#12Booksof2024 My review for this one pretty much sums up why Mother Faker deserves the top spot for February:
“I‘ve found it. The perfect book. Should probably come with a warning for single moms. Read at your expanding heart‘s own peril 🥹🥰”
(I really need to finish this series in 2025)
#12Booksof2024 I read a lot of 5 ⭐️ reads in January but The Bromance Book Club has also been the series I have recommended the most this year. 🌼 💛
pick+ 390 Word Search Words.
#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #SnickerdoodleSprint #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Wreath and another bingo line for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter J for #ChristmasAtoZ. Candy Cane for #ISpyBingo. Wreath for #ChristmasCheer. Blind Date for #ItsATrope. I found Art Gallery, completing December‘s #WickedWords (lobster was also in this book in case my last lobster post didn‘t count 😆)
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As we start making plans for 2025, check out this #AllergicToChunksters challenge @julieclair will be hosting next year. See her original post for the StoryGraph link if you‘re into that! 💚
pick+ 75 Word Search Words.
#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Mistletoe for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter S for #ChristmasAtoZ. Neck Tie for #ISpyBingo. Holly for #ChristmasCheer. Grumpy/Sunshine for #ItsATrope. I found Necklace for #WickedWords
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pick+270 Word Search words. #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Free Space and a bingo line! for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letters H for #ChristmasAtoZ. Eyes #ISpyBingo. Reindeer for #ChristmasCheer which is perfect because I think my favorite part is Blitzen‘s love for weeing and pooing on unsuspecting ppl lol 🦌 💩
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Not sure if this gets #WickedWords credit, but I just noticed that the Wombats album coming out on Valentine‘s Day has a final track called #Lobster. 🦞 Looking forward to this release so much. The 3 singles already out from it are 🩵🩵🩵
-I‘m Sorry I‘m Late I Didn‘t Want to Come
-Blood on the Hospital Floor
-My Head Is Not My Friend
#WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons
Last night I went to a Queer Crafternoon event hosted by one of our local SAPL branches. I love this idea! It was my first time. I got to make 2 holiday crafts (my poinsettia needs a little more work) and we got to listen to part of the tagged book while we worked. Also the author is local to me. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons
I just realized I made this a few weeks back but never posted it. I am looking forward to #AuldLangSpine 2025. I marked out books I‘ve read already. These were all 4 or 5 stars books for me 🤩. ✨ = most likely to pick up in January and 👀 = I will definitely be reading 🤣 Thanks for the list @Marmie7 and our fearless leader @monalyisha for being our gracious host!
Midway check in for #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 6,255 points. 📖 🐉 🎄
Made my first bingo line of #WinterGames2024 for #ISpyBingo #HolidayBookDragons Pardon my hexxus X‘s
panDecided to combine this series into 1 post. Total of +221 Word Search Words. I have ranked the series on a scale of 1 being Winter Wonderland ❄️🥰 and 5 being I miss who I was before I read this. 🫣😅
But even the lowest ranked book I am glad I read because it led me to the 1 ⭐️ Goodreads reviews which made me laugh so hard 🤣 And it‘s too bad my least favorite story had my most favorite narrator of the bunch (Connor Crais). ⬇️
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pickFinished on 12/7. Another impulse Disney graphic novel. I think Turning Red was a slightly better adaptation but it was still very good. +8 word search words. Candle for #AVeryMerryBingo and #ISpyBingo. Gift for #ChristmasCheer #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #WinterGames2024 #GingerbreadJourney #HolidayBookDragons
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pickFinished on 12/6. +19 Word Search Words. Snow for #AVeryMerryBingo Monster for #AVeryScaryXmasBingo Letter F for #ChristmasAtoZ Santa for #ISpyBingo Festive for #ChristmasCheer #HolidayBookDragons #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #WinterGames2024 #Adventathon #GingerbreadJourney
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We went to the park today and I noticed this leaf that looked like a Christmas tree 🍁🌲Currently reading the tagged book. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons
Kiddo picked out the Emoji Movie from the library. Wasn‘t expecting it to open with the Christmas tree emoji 🎄😄 #wintergames2024 #holidaybookdragons
pickAnother 5 ⭐️ read from Benjamin Stevenson! I love this series / writing style so much. +129 word search words. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #BookSpinBingo #LetterE #ChristmasAtoZ Different Levels for #ISpyBingo Promise for #AVeryMerryBingo #Adventathon #LittenListen Seasonal for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge Gift for #AVeryScaryXmasBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #Lights #ChristmasCheer
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Some holiday shows/movies we‘ve been watching this week. #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024
pickThis book was so cute and made me think of all you #LitsyLove littens 🥹 +22 word search words. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #BookSpinBingo #Christmas #WickedWords #LetterM #ChristmasAtoZ Movement for #ISpyBingo Friends for #AVeryMerryBingo #Adventathon #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024
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Ok so maybe technically not a Christmas show 😜 but I loved this line from the Season 1 finale. I got the Peacock Black Friday deal where you get the whole year for $20 so I am finally watching this series after reading the Bill Hodges trilogy last year with #LosersClub. So far I‘m really enjoying this adaptation. #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024
We were watching A Pink Christmas yesterday morning and I forgot all about “Swifty‘s Messenger Service” 😂 🎁 #holidaybookdragons #wintergames2024
14 books read in November. My reluctant reader actually asked to read us the Turning Red graphic novel twice! #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024
I have my activities for the “til you wobble” part of the day ready to go 😅
🩵 59 pages left of RTSA
🥂 I hope to start First Wives Club in honor of it being Operation Hell‘s Fury Day today
🧛🏻♂️ ‘Salem‘s Lot in progress on Kindle for #losersclub
Happy Thanksgiving from behind one of my new Zenni pairs! 🤓
This is probably going to be my favorite nonfiction book of the year. Extremely relatable for depressives and not in a sugar-coaty way which is super refreshing.
The end of an era. I finally updated my used and abused #mysapl library card yesterday and got a new number. I‘ve had the last one burned into my brain for the last 12 years. The new designs are really cool too.
Litsy database is sadly lacking in Kayley Loring books. 🎻
My most anticipated read for December is A Very Snowed in New Year which is the *tentative* end of the Very Holiday series. ⬇️
Here‘s a Painting with a Twist Painting I did about 5 years ago. Who doesn‘t love a holiday hedgie?
Hot Chocolate or Eggnog
Hot chocolate. I like eggnog but I am Scott Calvin about cocoa.
Open presents Christmas or Christmas Eve
My son and I do our Christmas on 12/24 and then do Christmas with my family on 12/25.
Star or Angel topper - Star 🌟
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Registered for #AuldLangSpine. Creating my list had me thinking that was this year?? It‘s been a long one, folks 😅 This is such a fun challenge to do each year and @monalyisha is a great matchmaker! I recommend signing up especially if swaps seem intimidating to you. It‘s a neat way to find books that you didn‘t know you needed.
‼️Littens who print as a part of their bookish activities‼️ Please send me your printer recommendations. I currently have an Epson XP 4105 that is making me batty. I‘ve had it for 4 or 5 years and am about ready to set it on fire 😂 I‘m hoping Santa might send me a new one this year. 👉👈I mostly use it for my BookSpin bingo tiles. 🖨️ 🔥
pickWe made it folks! Went slightly off course with this graphic novel I had to read my son who has been Turning Red obsessed lately 😍. Maybe I have 2 years left of correlated years to hours birthday challenges left in me, yet! Thanks to everyone who joined! And thanks for the birthday wishes! It really is a marvel that we get to exist at all and I‘m glad to have made it through another year. 🩷 #NFN #NonfictionNovember #36by36
Half Price Books haul from yesterday. I‘ve been meaning to read First Wives Club for years and now she‘s mine! I also found some Bailey School Kids books. Some years ago I recollected the original series, but now I need the super specials, the Jr. series, and (not pictured) the Bailey City Monsters series too. I used to own more of these but I‘m sure they got cleaned out when I first went away to college a lifetime ago 💔 Ooh and book lights! 🤩
pickI hope everyone enjoyed pickle day yesterday! I finished Part of Your World which I enjoyed despite the act 3 break up. My Libby hold for Reasons to Stay Alive actually ended before I got to finish it (this always happens to me because I am always reading too many books at the same time 😅) but I was able to get a print copy from my library that I will finish today. #36by36
pickDidn‘t make a #36by36 update yesterday, so here‘s a twofer. I finished The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows on Monday. Nick Allen would love this book. 🖊️ I am glad I read it and am actually surprised that these are not “actual” words because I have found myself relating to so many of these, some frighteningly specific to my own experience. I hope to own it at some point in print because a lot of these concepts deserve further introspection. ⬇️
Yesterday was full of bowling and Mario Kart as Sundays tend to be 😄 So I didn‘t finish any books but I am halfway through The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows which I am enjoying as much as everyone who has recommended it thinks I will! I also found a Kensington edition of Pucking Wild at my library so I started Tess and Ryan‘s bonus epilogue yesterday too. 🥹 Almost to the midpoint of this challenge. #36by36
pickFinished the tagged book yesterday. It was kind of a cross between One Last Stop and What If It‘s Us with fairy tale references throughout. I did feel a little shameful about the potential plot twists I was cooking up in my brain that didn‘t end up happening. Afterward I felt like bad Amanda those characters would never!! 😆
Starting day 3 of #36by36 with just over 13 hours. Hoping to get to 16+ hours by the end of the day. ⬇️
pickFinished Pumpkinheads finally while waiting for my earbuds to charge. This panel cracked me up. 😅 I think I‘m going to need to find some frito pie and caramel apples today. 😋 #36by36 #ReadAway2024
Starting Day 2 with just over 8 hours in for #36by36. The goal for today is to finish The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers and Pumpkinheads. I actually didn‘t realize a pumpkin embroidered jacket was going to be a plot point in the first book so this kind of reminds me of the #ThingsInCommon challenge that @Clwojick did last year. It‘s so fun when you find links between reads.
