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#DecemberDreams Day 1 #Advent

I like HP advent calendars, as well of those with chocolate, tea, coffee or food treat

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Every year my sister and I make each other an advent calendar! These year she did a book theme for me. #excited !!!!

Every year my sister and I make each other an advent calendar! These year she did a book theme for me. #excited !!!!

So excited to start this Book Lover's advent calendar today!! #advent #DecemberDreams
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#WinterGames #ReindeerGamers @LiseWorks #DecemberDreams @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #day1 advent. My girls and I always have a chocolate advent calendar.

This Trader Joe‘s has been a hit with my little Nola. Kind of surprised because she can be real picky lol

One of my holiday traditions is doing an advent calendar. This year it‘s a bookish themed one.😄🎄🎁 #wintergames2021 #mistletoemaniacs @Clwojick

Who‘s got the best mom? I got the best mom! She sent me a ‘mARTvelous women‘ advent calender through the mail 😍 or should i say ARTvend calendar? Sorry for the bad puns, it translates more smoothly in german.

A friend just dropped off an early Christmas present! I was so surprised because I'd just seen this advent calendar here on Litsy! Check out the wine glass too! 🥂

#WinterGames #TMSkellington
@Crimson613 @StayCurious @Clwojick

I dispose this is my advent calendar. I‘ve had it forever. I managed to loose 2 magnets in my last move. But it‘s accurate today.

#wintergames #teamelectricsex
#festivephotochallenge

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This is an advent calendar idea I found and might try out next year. 24 books or magazines to read, one for each day in December

#wintergames #AdventCalendar
@LibrarianRyan @Clwojick @StayCurious

This is the advent calendar that I opened every Christmas growing up. I cant believe that this calendar has last more than 30 years and is still in such great shape. #WinterGames #FestivePhotoChallenge #TheFilthyAnimals

Until I‘m able to run some errands tomorrow, this is acting as my advent calendar! It‘s my “Year of True Crime” calendar I got from #FountainBookstore and it‘s almost through BUT Page-A-Day Calendars has one for 2020! On that note, as someone not yet old enough to drink (TWO MONTHS GAH!!) and who hates milk chocolate, any advent calendars I should look into getting?

#wintergames #teamfestivus #festivephotochallenge #adventcalendar

Here‘s Day One of #FestivePhotoChallenge .... #AdventCalendar 🎅🎄 My Nana gave me this years ago & I think of her each time we set it up. #WinterGames #TeamNutcracker @Bookworm54

This #AdventCalendar holds mini wine bottles. I‘m totally down for this. #WinterGames #TeamElectricSex @LibrarianRyan @StayCurious @Clwojick

My kiddos sure love their #AdventCalendars! My 15 year old still reminds me. Trying to avoid all the extra candy around so we went Lego/Funko route this year. So great for getting them up out of bed on cold, dark winter mornings!

#FestivePhotoChallenge
@Crimson613 @Clwojick @StayCurious
🎄#TMSkellington

#festivephotochallenge #wintergames #adventcalendar for the pups lol @Cleanglass @StayCurious

Day 1 of #FestivePhotoChallenge I have never had or done an “Advent Calendar”, but I look at them every year and this one always catches my attention.

#WinterGames #MerryReaders

Day 10 & 11 catch up! So much family in town 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
Teal tote and pink wallet 📚😍
Bonus white chocolate dipped peanut butter ritz 🍪🍫
#bookishcalendar #onceuponabookclub
#twelvedaysofbookclubmas

My daughter‘s advent book today is a Disney Princess Beginnings (Aurora) chapter book. She read it from the library about six weeks ago, but now it‘s hers. She was so excited she squealed! And now she‘s flopped on the sofa reading it, and I have to be mean mom and make her get dressed and start lessons.
#hermamaschild

I had to make a BN run to flesh out the book advent calendar for my daughter (and ended up with extras, plus some on the way if Book Outlet ever gets a move on - hello Christmas presents!), but now we‘re set to start tomorrow!

O Henry‘s The Gift of the Magi is the first short story I remember reading (and loving) as a kid so this was the perfect cap to a really fun seasonal reading experience for me. I‘m definitely ordering this again next year. And since I came to the party late this year, I still have 13 treats to enjoy in the days ahead. Thanks for putting this back on my radar #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth and inspiring me to order this year! @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Technically the last of my short story Advent calendar, but since I ordered it and received it midseason, I have 14 more stories ahead of me. #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Number 24: Tripping Sunny Chaudhry by Rachel Lyon. You can‘t go home again, but who wants to. #ssac2017

I love that the author sandwiched Bruce Springsteen between Saul Alinsky and Steve Biko. Well played. #ssac2017 @Booksnchill @ReadingRover @Suelizbeth

Numbe 23: How to be a Slut by Rebecca Schiff. A funny how-to. #ssac2017

Settling in with a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Yes, that Nathanial Hawthorne. A really nice surprise as yesterday‘s story was very of today in time and place. I hope there are no moms in this tale who are forced to wear The Scarlet Letter 🙃#ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Number 22: The Christmas Banquet by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Besides the fact that he‘s dead, Nathaniel Hawthorne is the last author from whom I would expect a cheerful Christmas story and he does not disappoint. #ssac2017

Number 21: The First Day of Winter by Rebecca Rosenblum. Dad, daughter, Christmas shopping, lunch, and the awkwardness that is family. #ssac2017

Number 20: The Game of Smash and Recovery by Kelly Link. A sci-fi story about a ship that is stranded and doesn‘t know it and then does know it and leaves with its cargo of...what??? #ssac2017

Despite being on my to-be-read list for years, I‘ve never read anything by Kelly Link. That‘s about to change. I think I‘m gonna need more Rolos. #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Tree-side reading of tonight‘s story. #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Number 19: The Friend by Lindsay Hatton. Bridges, weather, faith, pine needles. Who‘s to say what‘s real and what isn‘t? #ssac2017

The box says to open a new story every morning. I‘ve been cracking them open in the evening so it seems appropriate to read my next story while having breakfast for dinner 🙃#ssac2017 #bookandtea @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Yes. It‘s number 18: Chemistry by Martin MacInnes. A rather George Orwellian take on the perfect relationship. #ssac2017

Not intentional but the colors of my evening cocktail nicely compliment my evening read. On a side note, Trader Joe‘s Winter Wassail is 💯 #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Number 17: Last Woman by Carleigh Baker. A woman writing about being alone to write while playing a post-apocalyptic video game. “...more memoir than fiction.” I like her clean writing style. #ssac2017

This one got a bit of a reread this morning after I read the author interview. The power of denial and the fact that ultimately, what‘s kept in the dark will come to the light. #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @Booksnchill @ReadingRover

Number 16: Tremendous Machine by Salvatore Scibona. I‘m not afraid to admit that this one baffled me and was kind of a snooze. I guess it‘s not my style. It‘s about a piano? #ssac2017

Story Time/Tea Time #ssac2017 #tea #bookandtea @Suelizbeth @ReadingRover @Booksnchill

Number 15: The Journal by Ken Liu. This is like a nightmare. The alphabet gone rogue and trying to escape from a woman in a relationship with no communication. It would drive anyone round the bend. #ssac2017

A weird and satisfying tale about finding one‘s place in a world where people have their own dark and selfish plans for you. Nice (though late) start to my #ssac2017 reading. @Suelizbeth @ReadingRover @Booksnchill

Number 14: Eva by Deborah Willis. A little girl. A rare condition. A misguided philanthropist. A sudden, unexpected life of freedom. #ssac2017

It‘s here!!!! #ssac2017 @Suelizbeth @ReadingRover @Booksnchill

Well, here we are, at number 13: Secondary Memory by Danielle McLaughlin. I think I‘ll be a little more aware of and careful with my laptop. Sentience and past lives? Eerie but funny. #ssac2017

Number 12, halfway done: Souterrain by Maggie Shipstead. This is the longest short story, yet. It is an intricately woven, densely interconnected short story about life and death in Paris. Souterrain means underground, and there is so much under the ground of this story. I love it, most of all of them, so far. #ssac2017

This is the 11th short story: Skinks by Brent van Staalduinen. A tragic story from an unaware child‘s point of view. #ssac2017