#ChristmasCheer #Magical

#ChristmasCheer #Cheer

"The letter flutters on the desk, almost keeping time with the footsteps thundering across the floor."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 💕

#5JoysFriday

1. Discovered some really effective exercises for the knee pain that recently developed

2. 16 days of adult hiking and activities with my daughter since the Grand will be with her dad for his holiday leave

3. Ordered tickets for the Cripple Creek Ice Castle

4. Moved living room furniture into a new all book access configuration

5. All holiday shopping is complete

Onto another Jul-Dec #BookSpinBingo read. I highly doubt, at this late date, I'll blackout the board, but you never know 🤷🏻‍♀️

And that's a bail! Some interesting stuff, but a lot of stuff so over my head that I was just reading words with no meaning.

But, yay, got a bingo! 😁

#HailTheBail 🙌🏼

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader

#ChristmasCheer #Tree

Current read for a bingo

#BookSpinBingo

Fun little read about learning that not everything has to be secret because you're fine just the way you are.

December #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader

#ChristmasCheer #Wreath

#ChristmasCheer #Yuletide

#ChristmasCheer #Bells

#ChristmasCheer #Family

"Of course I have secrets."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#ChristmasCheer #CandyCane

#ChristmasCheer #Gift

Did a little Christmas shopping, and now to start December's #DoubleSpin 📖

Wow! A lot to digest; but one of the most powerful coming of age stories I ever read.

83/62

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#ChristmasCheer #Festive

#ChristmasCheer #Santa

#ChristmasCheer #Reindeer

#ChristmasCheer #Manger

#ChristmasCheer #Elf

The #Advent calendar I got for my Grand

#ChristmasCheer

Sat to start reading and found a nice little surprise inside 🤩🤩

Finished this over coffee this morning. The characters were not written like themselves. The story was ok, but it was very unstarwarsy.

82/62

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#ChristmasCheer #Lights

"General Han Solo stood at the command console viewport of the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser *Mon Remonda*."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#ChristmasCheer #Holly

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

I only scored 21/100 - I thought it would be higher 🤷🏻‍♀️

3 favorites:
🎅🏼 The Year without a Santa Claus
🥁 The Little Drummer Boy
⛓️ A Christmas Carol (with Alastair Sim)

Finally got all the Christmas #Decorations out of the crawl space so I can catch up on #ChristmasCheer

December #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin 😁

Starting Princess Leia this morning 📖

Interesting. A bit of a scary topic as it makes clear that we are woefully unprepared, at the present time, to deal with the results of expanding life expectancy.

81/62

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

2024 Reading Bracket

November favorite: Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across The Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg

I read 4 #BookSpinBingo books for 2 bingos in November

Total Read: 6

#BookSpin ✔️
Bingo 2
DNF 0
BookSpinBingo 4
#MountTBR 6

#ReadAway2024

"My father's father, Liang Shao Pu, lived to the age of ninety-three."

Started this book about the coming elder boom last night for #BookSpinBingo

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Solid Kinsella read to get me through the start of the holiday season.

80/62

#MountTBR #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#DaysDevotedTo #Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Litsy fam 🤎🧡🤎

#DaysDevotedTo #Cake

#DaysDevotedTo #Soup

#DaysDevotedTo #UniqueTalent

#DaysDevotedTo #Adoption

This cutie was rescued by my daughter and her fiancé last week.
We're so happy to have Mia join the family ?

Had some quiet time this morning so I got my December #BookSpin list together.

Diving into a relaxing, palate cleansing read

There was a lot of info here. Luckily, Goldberg writes in a very engaging, witty, and humorous way; other wise it would've read like a dry history text. The individual POVs from each side were interesting and enlightening and sometimes frustrating. Overall, a very worthy read.

This completed a second bingo for the month; yayyy!

79/62

#BookSpinBingo #MountTBR #ReadAway2024

#DaysDevotedTo #Go4ARide

Thank you @dabbe for the tag☺️ I skipped last week's #TLT bc dessert is really not my thing and my score was abysmal 😂

I've tried 35/73 for 48%

My faves:
🥚deviled eggs
🍠candied yams
🍞stuffing

And the whiskey-cranberry slushie is something I'd really like to try. Which also got me thinking to bring back Brandy Alexanders this holiday season 🥃🍸

#ThreeListThursday

#DaysDevotedTo #Television

This was an interesting history of reality TV

#DaysDevotedTo #GamesPuzzles