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January reads

Happy Birthday @JamieArc !! You are our first #LitsyLove birthday this year and we hope you have a wonderful day full of people and things you love!! 🥳🎉🎂📚🎶💕💕 #LitsyLoveBirthdays23 #LitsyLoveBirthdays #LitsyLoveBirthdayCrew

With the new year being busy I forgot to post my #bookspin list! So excited for a new year of reading 🥰 @TheAromaofBooks

Here‘s my #bookspin for January! Really looking forward to kicking off the year with good books!

My January #bookspin list! Fingers crossed I do better at actually reading my #bookspin and #doublespin books in 2023 than I did this year 😅 I don‘t really know what I‘m in the mood for, so I chose a random array of recently acquired books, book box books and titles that just jumped out at me after perusing my shelves. Fingers crossed January will be off to a good start! @TheAromaofBooks

Since I‘m still out of town for the holidays, my #BookspinBingo list is a bit vague. Excited to tackle #MountTBR again this year. @TheAromaofBooks

This is an incredible story about the Crosswhite Family who escaped to freedom, only to face the same cruel men a few years later—but when that time came, the town‘s many abolitionists stood up and said no, you are not taking them back. Birds aren‘t the only ones who can fly🪶

#todayinsj Adam Crosswhite (pictured here) was a slave who escaped from Kentucky and lived in Marshall, Michigan with his family. On January 27, 1847, his former owner sent slave catchers to get him from his home, but white residents of the town blocked them from entering and enabled Adam and his family to flee to Canada. After a few years, they returned to MI.

This book tagged is a children's book about the Crosswhite family.

I forgot to post this earlier - in case anyone new to Litsy wants to play along! And thanks everyone for all your great posts so far!

Also I'd like to reach out for suggestions for next month's photo challenge. I've got quite a few ideas written down already but would love some suggestions from you guys!