Welcome to Litsy!

1) My faith which keeps my head above water during these times ( I am a Pisces so I have used the screen name drowning fish) 2) My mom and that she is doing good. The ENT finally cleaned out her ears! 👍🏽 but she still can‘t hear me which just proves she needs hearing aids. Please pray the insurance pays for them. TBH no one can hear me, lol I have a “very soft voice” like the “ low talker” on Seinfeld. The upstairs neighbors are already loud m

I found all of the #WickedWords this month!
@AsYouWish

More #20in4 Readathon progress!
Finished reading Funny Story. I'm so happy to have to make another post with more goals for Day 2 tomorrow!
@Andrew65

#LitsyLoveMembers , here is our December #LitsyLoveBingo card! 🎄 Have fun with it!

Don‘t forget to turn in your November bingo points to @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks , to be entered in the drawing for a “happy”. 🙂 (1 point for each bingo line, 10 points for a coverall)

For 2025, #LitsyLoveBingo will be an occasional pop-up event, rather than monthly. Keep your eyes open! 👀

#LL @Read4life @TieDyeDude @julieclair

Both. I like to have Eggnog during the holidays and Hot Chocolate during the winter and chilly autumn days.
Open presents on Xmas
I have a silver Star tree topper.
Ham on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day I make a big pasta dinner.
Travel for Christmas Eve, Stay at Home Christmas Day

#ThisOrThat #WinterGames2024 #EarlyBirdPoints
#ChristmasChapterChasers #XmasChaCha

❄️ Hot chocolate
❄️ Christmas Day except for my #jolabokaflod gift
❄️ Star except my current fake tree doesn‘t accommodate a topper. Maybe I need to buy a new one 😂
❄️ Turkey or ham. Some christmases my mom made both! Traditionally ham though
❄️ Stay at home. The only travel I do is locally to my parents‘

#WinterGames2024 #XmasChaCha @StayCurious

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

1. Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones

2. Currently reading Jamaica Inn. Can‘t really think of a specific song for this book. I feel like the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack would be suitable for this.

#Two4Tuesday

1. Frankie
2. Grinch diamond painting
3. New boots
4. Fun shirt
5. Turkey trot with @KLyn1
Thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii #5joysFriday

My final #BookspinBingo list for 2024. I have 7 #buddyreads to work through. I've left the rest pretty open for mood reading. It has been a very stressful year, and I want to finish it in a chilled mood. 🙃

I'm so looking forward to a relaxing family time, good food, good company, and obviously plenty of reading opportunities. ❄️📚 ❄️

@TheAromaofBooks

#20in4 Readathon progress!
Finished reading The Lager Queen of Minnesota, now to finish reading Funny Story.
@Andrew65

#5JoysFriday

1) Cornbread dressing! My grandma passed in 2006 and was bed ridden a couple of years before that. I‘ve spent the last 20 years trying to get her stuffing right and I nailed it this year. She was a handful of this, a pinch of that cook and all I had was an outline. It‘s a once a year labor of love. I think she would have been proud.

2 - 5) All the help I had in the kitchen everybody played a role, Pippen did great, food, pies, wine

Tagging everyone who participated last year in the #cloakanddaggerchristmas! Rae at @RaeLovesToRead has created a new challenge for 2024 for all us crime fiction lovers: #ChristmasCrimeChallenge ! 🎄💀🎅🏻🔪

Share your TBR and your review posts with Rae! I am already building my own pile of possibilities.

I‘m pretty sure this will also work as points for #wintergames participants. 👍

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

What a fun/funny list of this or that, 😂

1) I can live without potatoes as long as you don‘t take away pasta.

2) Rolls all the way, not a fan of pumpkin pie.

3) Be a dog trainer, a pug won this year so it could happen. 😁

Thanks for the fun as I was in my food coma last night @dabbe

NYT 100 Notable Books:

5 read, 1 DNF, 8 on my shelves, at least 21 I‘d like to get my hands on.

I do love all the lists we get this time of year even if I don‘t agree with all their choices. 💙❄️💙

If you enjoyed #cloakanddaggerchristmas and are sad it doesn't seem to be a thing any more, I've made an impromptu and last minute FESTIVE BINGO SQUARE for anyone who wants to join me on some murder mystery mayhem this Winter.

'TIS THE SEASON FOR MURDER MYSTERIES!!!! 🎄🎄🎄

@Ruthiella I know you did some prompts last year for us 💕💕

I'll hopefully make a vid this weekend with recs 😊

#christmascrimechallenge @LitsyEvents

Thank You @Andrew65 for this #20in4 readathon.

My low-key goal, twenty-minutes every four hours each day, or twenty pages into four of my current reads a day...I might swop this back and forth during the readathon depending on chance...would this be acceptable??

Happy you've returned to Litsy @Andrew65 🥳📚💫.

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

#5JoysFriday Joys 2 days this week!
1,3) Watching Macy‘s Thanksgiving Parade, a tradition.
2) Thanksgiving dinner!
3,4) Litsy! Andrew is back with a readathon! 💕💕. @Andrew65
5) Poe & me soon to sleep off Thanksgiving dinner!

#20in4 I'd like to get 20 minutes of reading every day. Everything is super hectic right now and I think a few minutes of calm would really help

I'm reading North is the Night which is an ARC and I think I'll find an easy holiday romance to read alongside it

@Andrew65

https://wapo.st/4fMyQHG

Significant overlap with the #ToB25 longlist. I've only read two of these (so far), and one of those was a DNF. What are your thoughts? Would you include different titles in a Best of 2024 list?

Being grateful for what I do and still have is the only thing keeping me from going even more insane about what might be taken away 😁😅have a great day!! 🙏🏽🫶🏽😊🩷🤗😉

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

I‘m a crafter, and I worked on 2 pieces for myself. I think they turned out great.

My sweatshirt yesterday for Thanksgiving!

1. My husbad, he drove me almost 2 hours for Culvers.
2. Katie the Cat - A true beauty and LOML
3. Coffee has been something to look forward to. And Starbucks has their Sugar Cookie latte!
4 & 5. Family & friends - I married into an awesome family! Last Saturday, @BookBabe2018 had her baby shower. The whole room sang HBD to me. It was her day, and she still found a way to make me feel special (& embarrassed) ILY!!
#5JoysFriday
@DebinHawaii

#20in4readathon

Hope to finish The Traitor Beside Me, Start Book and Dagger, & read at least 1chapter in the other 2 books.
#NFNovember #historicalfiction #spys

The #20in4 Readathon is back! I have no real goal for Day 1 other than to read as much of these as I can in between decorating my house for Christmas and watching football. 🎄
Thanks for hosting @Andrew65, and its great to have you back on Litsy!

Are YOU joining in the fun?

Thank you @Eggs and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the GREAT prompts all year!!

Can‘t imagine how much fun and brain work it takes. 😊

Thanks to you both.

🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄

Here‘s my TBR list for #wintergames2024 and #bookspinbingo!

#wintergames #earlybirdpoints #christmaschapterchasers
@TheAromaofBooks
@StayCurious

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#DAYSDEVOTEDTO
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: THANKSGIVING

A belated Happy Thanksgiving - hope yours was full of delicious food and wonderful family memories were made.

#20in4 is back!

My goal is to complete a few of the many, many books I am currently reading—3 completions with a stretch goal of 5.

I‘m overdue to submit a book review to my local independent bookstore, so item two on the list is to read the book this weekend.

I‘m not sure if I can reach 20 hours this weekend, so my goal is 10 hours, with a stretch goal of 20.

Welcome back, @Andrew65 !

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrated today!🍁🧡I had a nice quiet day of mostly napping & some reading & otherwise vegging. I‘ll be at work tomorrow-there‘s just too much to do to take it off, but Friday means it‘s time to list those 5 things big or small that brought you joy this week!

Tag your post with #5JoysFriday & tag me (& others to join the joy party). Tagging some friends to get the party started & of course, everyone is welcome!

🍁Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 I‘m full….

Happy Thanksgiving!! Love you all!! 🙏🏽🩷😊🫶🏽🤗

One month left! How are we all doing?

Next year's challenge is all ready and I'll be posting more information about that in December. The challenge is going to Alola, with many new Pokemon to catch

#GottaCatchemAll

Monsters smash outside the spooky season so here is #SeasonalMonsterSmash

It‘s monsters but make it festive!

@LitsyEvents

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

1. Hot chocolate
2. Christmas Day
3. 🌟
4. Indian food
5. Travel - I got snowed in for one Xmas around eighteen years ago and was bored to death

#wintergames2024
#earlybirdpoints
#christmaschapterchasers

@staycurious

My #ReadYourKindle list for December. Thanks for hosting, @CBee !

My Dad drove down for the day yesterday and helped me put up two of my new bookshelves. Now comes the hard part, deciding what to put where.

My Winter #CastTheDie list is ready! Lots of holiday reads to choose from in preparation for the #WinterGames ❄️🎄
@PuddleJumper @LiseWorks #HolidayBookDragons

Just trying to get a sense of what people are thinking or any shipping ideas in Canada for #StuffedStockingSwap? Doesn't sound like the Canada Post strike will be over anytime soon.

@Avanders

#5JoysWednesday Ok, I admit it felt like a Friday today-
Joys:
1,2: Just got in from in invigorating walk with my neighbor. The river near me was shimmering as the sun lowered in the sky.
3: Holiday mugs & cookies
4: Pink clouds at sunrise today
5: Em & Poe all snuggled together in their toasty “ mushroom “ that rests on a nice hot radiator cover.
Tagging: @Jari-chan @Gissy @kwmg40 @TieDyeDude

Went to visit the new location of the Barnes and Noble, and it‘s where the old Borders used to be! 🤣🤣🤣

Well, it‘s been that kind of year. 48 hours ago, we were celebrating my birthday. Now, I‘ve spent the past 24 hours in the hospital, after a nasty fall in the shower. Not the way I wanted to spend the day before Thanksgiving, but at least they‘re sending me home this afternoon. I‘m okay, just badly bruised and sore. Our son is taking over most of the holiday cooking duties. Oh, well, it will add to our family holiday lore😄

On Sunday our lives enter the last month of 2024! Thanks to everyone who played in November‘s challenge 🙏🏻 and kudos to our loyal followers throughout this year. Just post a photo of a book, poem, play, quote, or any image that matches the daily prompt💞

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@LitsyEvents

#ChristmasCheer Everyone is invited to play🥳

I‘m making progress on my #10BeforetheEnd pile. Five down and five to go. Hopefully I‘ll make it since I will have time off over Christmas. 🤞

#DaysDevotedTo #cake a 66 page booklet from my mom‘s collection!

Working on a stuffy for this weekend's Christmas market and contemplating my December tbr

Nearly finished!!!!! 😄😄

#10BeforeTheEnd update

7 down, 3 to go.

Announcing the 2025 #LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead lost!

Thanks to everyone who voted. I think it‘s a great reading list! As in the past, read each book at your own pace, with discussions at the month.

We had a tie in the voting, so I made Take the Mic a special discussion on January 20th.

If you are tagged, you‘re on the list for next year! If you would also like to be tagged, comment below!

Thanks for the tag @dabbe

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Favorites:
Turkey
Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Stuffing
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce (Homemade)
Mac and Cheese
All the Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream

Deviled Eggs (but not for Thanksgiving)

Late #ThreeListThursday #TLT