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Sorry I've been MIA.This year was rough all around & it took a toll on me mentally. I took a step back from alot of things I love because of pain, sadness & being tired. It wasn't intentional, it just sort of happened. So as much as I hate New Year's resolutions, I decided to do the things I love again. Reading, Journaling, & Art took a backseat in 2022. This year, they will be driving me back to my old self. Happy New Year's everyone!

First #listylove of 2023 all ready to head to the mailbox tomorrow! Here is to another great year of Litsy friends and great books!

Yes, a few that I‘ll post about later. But the big one is no buying new books until my owned and unread books has been cut in half!

That‘s 136 physical books. We‘ll see how that goes!

#SundayFunday Happy New Year! Here‘s to a year of good reads, good food, and good friends.

Happy new year you guys! #2023

Everything starts today!! Happy New Year! What am I doing posting? I should be reading!!! Let‘s go! 😊🎆💕📚🎉🎶

Happy New Year!!

Here are the ratings I gave each book I read in 2022. I think the 5 star ratings and 3 star ratings are about the same. I liked a lot of the books I read but I also thought that some of them were mediocre. I only rated 1 book 1 star. I‘m not going to enjoy every book but that‘s okay. That‘s part of being a reader.

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Here‘s more of my reading stats from 2022.

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This is all the books I read in 2022.

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Today, I‘m sharing my 2022 reading wrap-up along with reading stats.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🍾🎊🎉 #happynewyear

Hello and Happy New Year to all my wonderful Litsy pals! Love you all to pieces!❤️🥳❤️🥳❤️🥳!
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Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a 2023 full of good books! I enjoyed seeing my year in review from Goodreads and look forward to many happy hours of reading in the new year! 🎉📚🥳

Happy New Year 🥳
Wishing all of you a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year 💙

I think Emerson said it best…for ANY day of the year.

Wishing all my amazingly wonderful Litsy friends a very happy, healthy and blessed 2023.

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*Image courtesy of Etsy

💜🪩🍾🥂HAPPY NEW YEAR LITTENS 🎆

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Not my best reading year - life was just busy. Good news is that I didn't read many bad books, evident by the fact that I bailed on only one. (I'm not shy to bail on books.) I had six five-star books (I'm stingy with my stars) and a whole lot of four-star. Looking forward to starting fresh tomorrow & being more active on Litsy in 2023!

My resolutions for this year. Gotta deal with my unread books.

A very happy new year to all Littens. May 2023 be a more serene, more happy, mor fulfilling year, full of more books than you can ever read (which is never the case, right? 😂)

And a special wish my #FellowshipOfTolkien partners in crime, @Daisey @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN
I hope to spend a lot mor time with you in 2023 walking the paths of Middle-earth 😜

Not the best reading year I have had, but there were some really good ones in there. My favourite was A Fine Balance, suberp storytelling. Happy New Year ✨✨ #2022WrapUp

Happy New Year 🎊

2022...
...42 Books Read

Still to reach 52. 2023?!?

Favs this year: Empire of the Vampire, The Plot, A Flicker in the Dark.

Guilt Anxiety Chutzpah AKA my life now 🙃

IYKYK 😂😅

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Happy New Year to all my lovely Litsy friends. I will recall the year soon with my memory jar. I notice it‘s not as full as last year. I‘ve read 81 books 1 more than last year. Only 26 were Aussie this year.
I‘m looking forward to lots of reading in 2023.
Love to you all for a happy and healthy year ahead.
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To all my wonderful friends on Litsy. Thank you for being you ❤️❤️❤️

For the first one I need a third option: up late 🙂

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HAPPY NEW YEAR #Thisorthat

Thank you for the tag @catsandbooks
I'm afraid my partying days are over. I'm all about cosy, comfortable celebrations with my loved ones now. I'm planning a delicious early dinner followed by games, drinks, snacks and so many laughs. It's all about making memories with my teens before they fly the nest.
What are your plans?

🐕 Our dog, Caprica, is terrified of fireworks, so that limits what we can do on New Year‘s Eve. But scaredy dog or not, now that I have a few more grays, dressing up and going out to the bars until the wee hours just isn‘t as appealing as it used to be.
🪩 Happy New Year Littens!
🐈‍⬛ Thanks for asking @Catsandbooks ! 📚
#ThisOrThat
👉 Consider yourself tagged if you want to play along.

New Year #thisorthat

All are welcome to play! 🎉

Leila i combined your #NewYearsThisorThat with my New Years aesthetic 🥳🥸
Feel free to grab the this or that from @Catsandbooks and or share your aesthetic 😘

Up all night = 12:02 am 😅
Nice early meal then snacks
Games and movies afternoon
Nighttime is music til the ball drops 🪩
Pick a word for the year

Everyone play!!! #thisorthat

A New Year's "this or that" I made ✨

All are welcome to play! Please tag me and share! ❤️

Tagging some people to start things off?

I figured I would sync my Goodreads shelves in preparation for #AuldLangSyne, but it added my To Read shelf to my Read list!

@monalyisha - Sorry if I made things harder! I‘m trying to correct but I have a huge TBR shelf!

@monalyisha - I've sent in my #auldlangsyne registration. I'm excited!!

I made this for my Goodreads group reading challenge next year, what do you think?

Detective: Book with a mystery.
Rainbow heart: LGBT+
Rabbit: Animal on the cover
Audiotape: Audiobook or book in a genre you don't usually read.
Knot: Book with a twist.
Record: Before you were born
Castle: Fantasy, Romance or Castle on the cover
Ufo: Spaceship on the cover/Aliens.
3 Books: Your physical bookshelf
Many Books: Part of a series.
One Book: standalone.

Sorry guys that we are late on the challenge this month. Life just keeps getting away from us. Hope you have fun with the #RoaringWolf challenges for the new year and they fit your already established lists. 💛 Please feel free to join even if I didn‘t tag you. Just read a book that fits the prompt tag myself and @Littlewolf1 for a chance at a prize. Open internationally the gift will just be different. 😊💛

My final points for the #WinterGames and team #MistletoeManiacs.

Happy New Year, my friends!! 🎉✨

@Bookwormjillk thank you for the #bestof2021swap package. I haven‘t read either book & looking forward to trying the chocolate. Thank you for the thoughtful package. @candority thank you for hosting!

https://youtu.be/5rRqOoduiSc

The guests, and the books they‘ll be reading early in 2022:

Anna Baillie-Karas

Permafrost by S.J. Norman

Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing

Rónán Hession

Kin by Miljenko Jergović
Russell Scott Valentino (Translator)
(a pseudo buddy read with Shawn)

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

Dorian Stuber

The Pilgrimage series by Dorothy Richardson

Devil House by John Darnielle

Happy New Year! Today I am grateful for you all as well as this wonderful place!

As my kids used to say, “Happy New You!”

Happy 2022!

Yup
#WinterGames2021 #teamgamesleighers #holidaylaughs

#holidaylaughs #teamgamesleighers #WinterGames2021

Whenever I am feeling put upon by the deliberate ugliness that surfaces in the world and is promoted by the news, I turn my face to Litsy. Here I am quickly reminded of warmth and decency. Here I am made drunk with kindness and generosity. Here I find fact of another reality.
I exhilarate with the freshness of you and the constant indication of HOPE and POSSIBILITIES for this place we call home.
I thank each of you for that. Happy New Year!✨

Happy New Year everyone!
I‘m keeping my overall reading goal a little lower this year because I believe that school and work will keep me quite busy this year.
How many books are you hoping to read this year?
And if you want to be friends on GR -
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5253545