1. A lot of eating my feelings
2. Frankie
3. Journal with Anthony Bourdain quote
4. Book club with @KLyn1
5. Coffee
Thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii #5joysFriday
A Canadian friend of mine who is of Swedish heritage sent this to me. I have absolutely no Swedish heritage, but this is such an excellent word. I‘m sharing it with you, Sydney, because you do Weird Words Wednesday, but they‘re English words. I thought I‘d mix it up a little and send this on Friday. I don‘t know who else you tag when you do your weird words, but if you think they‘d be interested, feel free to tag them. Enjoy, my fellow Littens.
My #5JoysFriday
1) journaling with @TheBookHippie prompts 📘
2) Roses my husband got me 🌹
3) Poe snugging me 🐈
4) Another bookstore visit #Indie 📚
5) Snow this week ❄️
Is anyone else doing this challenge from Libro.fm? Not gonna say no to a free audiobook credit! (I presume it‘s running elsewhere outside the UK?)
Rather annoyingly someone phoned me (work-related 🤨) when I was driving home last night and I missed about 45 minutes of listening time.
Fortunately @TrishB and I are going to Stockport Noir Crime Literature Festival tomorrow which is 4+ hours of driving and listening for me. ☺️
#5joysfriday
💛 I‘m off work for 3 days!
💛 my special edition books of The Crowns of Nyaxia series and Addie LaRue!
💛 my fur babies
💛 my hubby/girls
💛 our health
1. The B&N.com preorder sale finally happened!! Yay!! Love having #bookmail to look forward to 🥰
2. I found an ARC of Anthony Horowitz‘s upcoming “Marble Hall Murders” and I can‘t wait to devour it!!
3. The houseplants that I divided and repotted last week are all still alive!
4. Looking forward to a low-key weekend that‘s not jam-packed with stuff to do
5. IT‘S FRIDAY!
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
Consider yourself tagged if you‘d like to share!
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
FEELIN‘ THE LOVE
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: A LOVE QUOTE
Happy #5JoysFriday 💛
1. Got to try Báhn Mì 🥪
2. It's starting to feel like spring
3. My results for BBC ADD are pretty clear and I got some medication to try
4. Random guy showing up in our store, wanting to take pictures of everything connected to HR Giger. And I happen to work basically next to his birth house 😁
5. Surprise book mail from @fabienne.luethi ❤️ including an extra box for Secco
@DebinHawaii
Another week has flown by & it‘s about time to start making your #5JoysFriday list & checking it twice (oh wait, wrong list…).💛
In any case, when it‘s Friday in your neck of the woods, post your list of 5 things big or small that gave you joy. Use the #5JoysFriday hashtag & tag me in your post. Use the background graphic as you like or use your own.
Tagging some friends to get things started, but as always, everyone is welcome to join in! 🤗
wanderinglynn, peaKnit, suvata, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, BarbaraJean, Kshakal, Texreader, Deblovestoread, Eggs, JenReadsAlot, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, Sace, TheSpineView, dabbe, Catsandbooks, Jari-chan, peanutnine, Lesliereadsalot, LiseWorks, julieclair, AnnCrystal
Posting my template for “Worst Read of 2025”. A dumpster fire felt fitting for the times and the theme of the template. 😅
Feel free to use! I also posted it to my IG (same username). I don‘t know which site would have better resolution. 🤷♀️
I made it on Canva, using a stock photo and then smoke and fire graphics layered on top; so I don‘t own any of it.
Going to start a new beanie while I try to decide which book(s) to start next
The Valentines are coming in ❤️❤️❤️
#ThreeListThursday
2 more than the last two weeks
Favorites:
The Poisonwood Bible
Much Ado About Nothing & Midsummer‘s Night Dream
All the Austens
@dabbe
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it‘s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. 
—Chris Van Allsburg
Thanks for the tag @dabbe
10/100
Favorites:
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
The Haunting of Hill House
Lolita
Last week‘s #ThreeListThursday #TLT
One of my favourite Aussie bands with a plea not to move to Melbourne (the place I‘ve lived almost my entire life, awkward).
I‘ve just noticed that they are coming to Melbourne in May but sadly I have conflicting theatre tickets 🫣 (I did see them last year when they toured with Lime Cordial so I‘m going to be brave about it)
https://youtu.be/24tCRxpsTpg?si=Z7joRAlIPXuzx1j0
lowkey the music video works as a tourism campaign for Brisbane
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-ap-
literature-free-response-titles-list-3
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading or a combo or whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
#TLT @dabbe
My Feb TBR...
3 new releases
4 book club picks
4 #readyourkindle #readyourebooks #readyourtbr @CBee
Ok, let's do this!
Happy birthday 🎊🎁🎈🎉🎂 @thereadingpal We hope you had a fabulous day!!
#LitsyLove
#LitsyLoveBirthdays
#LitsyBirthdayCrew
This was such a strong start for January! Let‘s hope I can keep up the energy! 🎉🎉 #MonthlyRoundup
Trying to get back in the swing of posting here on Listy again! These are the books I read in January. So many good ones this month!
Checked out these today! I just listened to a podcast episode about lunar new year food traditions, so this is good timing for the bottom book!
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-splendid-table-conversations-recipes-f...
I thought I posted this yesterday, but apparently not! 🤪 Once again in January, I didn‘t read any of the picked books. But later this month, I do expect to get to one or more of these as my physical book library is packed away.
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
FEELIN‘ THE LOVE
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: ROSES
Heading to my HAPPY PLACE.
St. John, USVI
I hope you all are well. Make it a great day, Littens.
My #ValloweenSwap arrived today. Thank you @CloakNQuill Can't wait to open it 🖤
@WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude
#1 Up and down.
#2 Anxious
#3 Reading when my brain allows me to focus and reorganizing my sewing room. Bought new hangers for my clothes so closet is next. Busy work helps calm me. Allowing Pippin to take me on a walk when weather permits and lots of play with toys when it doesn‘t. For a small dog he is strong!
@Kerrbearlib
Anyone else get a silly high and big grin from swapping out their Kindle stickers? lol
I love playing with the graphics on The Storygraph and Bookmory!
I completed 14 books in January, plus one carryover from 2024. Overall, a good reading month!
I‘m recycling January‘s #readyourkindle. Hope I do better in February. 😆
#readyourkindle #readyourkobo #readyourebooks #readyournook
My #ReadYourKindle picks for February:
10. We, THE DROWNED - Carsten Jensen
13. The Space Between - Larry Hinkle
20. Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time
- Angela Brown
6. Falling Down - Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
1. I feel like every week for the foreseeable future will feel like some sort of a dystopian tale…and I‘m more of a Catherine Morland than a Katniss-type heroine (unlikely heroine not from a dystopian realm vs a heroine who is). One day at a time…
2. Tired but here! Currently holding a cat, so I feel great!
3. I have a couple of book group meetings this week, so that will be fun!
#MentalHealthMonday
January Wrap Up 📚❄️
Was able to finish five books in December.
Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge
Finished three for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge
Finished one for #SeriesLove2025
Still in Progress:
The Dark Descent
Deep
Today‘s the day! Here are February‘s picks, friends. Have fun! #readyourkindle #readyourkobo #readyourebooks #readyournook
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
FEELIN‘ THE LOVE
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: LOVE IS BLIND
Aren‘t they sweet?
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