Welcome to Litsy!

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@Deblovestoread @Blerdgal_fenix @mcipher @candc320 @TheAromaofbooks @Andrew65 @5280reader @Kay.the.bibliophile
#SantasBookshELVES

Good game, @Eggs thanks for this one!

1. As a child there were actually two books: The Secret Garden, & The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. I couldn‘t choose between them if I tried!

2. When I turned 7, My dad & I starting taking walkabouts around towns we‘d visit, usually towns he had lived in. Ones that have special meaning to him. I learn so much about his life from those walks.

3. Oct. 7th crawling through an archeological site in Eqypt.

1. Anything chocolate and coffee
2. Rosemarys Baby and Stephen King books
3. After watching Wicked a few times #teamwickedwitch
4. Ted Bundy
5. Chaotic, contradictory, complicated 🥸

Really anything can be bookish if you overthink it enough 😜 Other things I like are puzzles, stickers, pens, funkos, enamel pins, mugs, reading lights, etc. While I am intrigued by booksleeves, I‘ve never tried them before. I try my best to stalk and find things based on my victim‘s interests hehe. I‘m in my hurty 30‘s so I also love bath bombs/salts/bubbles, face masks, etc. #LittensWantToKnow

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

1. Snap from my last trapeze class! 🤸🏼‍♀️
2. Kindness and a good sense of humor 🤗
3. Walking over sewer grates 🕳️ What if they don't hold?? 😳
4. Portland, Oregon. My boyfriend and I have been planning a vacation there for almost 2 years now. It keeps getting postponed for various reasons, most recently covid 😞

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1. Peanut was my nickname as a child and 9 is my favorite number. It's been my go-to username for years.
2. I love reading with my boyfriend on opposite couches in our sunny den 🌞
3. The Phantom Tollbooth, it was so whimsical!
4. 2 people, me and the bf, 4 cats 🙀 and 1 doggo 🐾

#AllAboutMe

1) Changed recently from Readage to Pages For Breakfast (my blog names); Pages For Breakfast because I'd rather read than eat!

2) SAHM and lovin it

3) Not much has changed, honestly. Just reading more and living life

4) One book I'm currently reading: "The Tudors" by G.J. Meyer

5) Just keep swimming...

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Special education teacher
2. Ellie Alexander and Amy E. Riechert
3. One cat... chewie
4. Projects around the house and reading of course
5. Bad attitudes
6. Anything bookish
7. Painting and scrapbooking
8. Anything broadway
#litsylovegettingtoknowyou @TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1.Librarian
2. I have no favorite author.
3. No pets, but my bf has a cat 🐈
4. Ordering Overdrive books for patrons and social media! Also just watched Star Trek First Contact last night.
5. Lip smacking.
6. Owls.
7. Coloring.
8. Mogli (similar to Enya)
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie

#LitsyLoveGetting2KnowU
1)Special Education Teacher 13 years.Prior:Hospital Blood Lab Assistant,Medical Assistant,Daycare Director, Paraprofessional.
2) can‘t choose
3)Our precious Emily Dickinson & Edgar Allan Poe cats.😻😻
4)long distance teaching,meetings with staff, walking, family walks, TV, reading, decluttering,
Talking with sibs & friends.
5)students not picking up after themselves!
6) Shells, rocks, bookmarks

#20ThingsAboutMe
Great idea from @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Some obvious, others less so, some trivial and random (kinda like me)

• Getting To Know You 2020 •

1. Stay-at-home Mama
2. Cat: Milla
3. Fave Genre: Fiction
4. Fave Author: John Irving
5. Fave Bookish Item: None
6. Almost never, but I have
7. Coffee
8. Yes, I keep a record of the books I read
9. Fave Color: Blue

@TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. High school English teacher
2. ZuZu, she's a nine year old shih tzu
3. Historical Fiction, and Fantasy (love it when the book is both)
4. Deborah Harkness
5. Loads of bookshelves
6. Sometimes
7. Coffee
8. Yes. I have a pinterest board for every year from 2011 on.
9. Lilac

#gettingtoknowyou2020 @TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Admin assistant + freelance mapper/writer • 2. Not yet. Hopefully in 2020! • 3. Fantasy and romance • 4. Hafsah Faisal, Tasha Suri, P Briggs, Laini Taylor, Kristin Britain... • 5. Books? Also quilts and a crackling fire w/ good friends. • 6. Yas! It feeds my soul :) • 7. Tea, please! • 8. Only on Litsy. • 9. Shades of red or green.

1. Librarian
2. A cat (she won‘t let any other animals in the house)
3. Fiction in general (depends on my mood)
4. Neil Gaiman
5. Booksleeves
6. No
7. Coffee
8. Yes!!
9. Black

#Gettingtoknowyou2020

1) Library technician

2) 4 black cats - Lucy Fur, Whiskers, Dieter, MacGruber

3) Horror

4) Stephen King

5) Books 🤷🏼‍♀️

6) Nope

7) Coffee, all day, every day

8) Yes, Goodreads. Considering an alternate format this year.

9) I like hot pink.

@TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#gettingtoknowyou2020

1. Teacher/Teacher Librarian 29 years 🤯
2. Dog (Lily) and two kitties (Sadie & Pouncer)
3. Cozy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Memoir
4. Too hard!!!
5. Bookish T-Shirts
6. Sadly no, but one day
7. Tea
8. Yes! Love looking back over my year in reading.
9. Deep red

#gettingtoknowyou2020 #litsylove

@TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Teacher to 12 2 year olds!
2. A cat and a dog
3. YA
4. Jodi Picoult Karen M. McManus
5. Bookmarks and book sleeves
6. No
7. Neither only drink water
8. Yes
9. Pink and Purple

#gettingtoknowyou2020

🤓 Anything savoury, salty, or vinegary. 🤓 Yes because I can‘t drive and read at the same time 🤓 A friend‘s wedding 🤓 Zero because no one ever gives out salty treats on Halloween 🤓 All shades of blue 🤓 #friyayintro. 🤓@howjessreads

#gettingtoknowyou
💗Fresno,California
❤turning 30
💛overnight stocker/wal-mart
💚single
💙she/her(creepy one)
💜Bookful - thought of I have full of books to be read lol thought beautiful then book / ful Bookful.
#Litsy #nowyouknow

1. An hour from everywhere Ohio
2. 40
3. I sell tractor parts to angry farmers.
4. I've been married to @cobwebmoth for 17 years.
5. He/him, hey you, many more names I can't post on Litsy. 😀
6. TK-421 is an ill fated storm trooper from Star Wars. I forgot to add the hyphen. @TK-421 did it the correct way.
#gettingtoknowyou @JoScho

Doing this for my new #lmpbc group!
1. Wisconsin
2. 32
3. Working in criminal justice.
4. Married 6 years to the man I‘ve been with 11.5.
5. She/her
6. I joined Litsy within the first 3 months or so therefore it‘s a cool story!....... it‘s my name 😂

Central Scotland
Just turned 50 earlier this month
Run my own pet care business.... So walking doggies, tickling cats and occasional feeding giant African snails!
Been with him 21 years so daily eye rolling 😉
As long as it isn't 'it' we're all good
I'm Ali and my dad used to sing the Ali Bali Bee song to me when I was little (is that just a Scottish song??) + 146 is my house number

#gettingtoknowyou

1. Philadelphia, PA! Cheesesteaks, Rocky, and water pronounced the correct way.
2. 34 years old. Birthday is April 11th!
3. I typically read over my lunch breaks as a Kindergarten teacher - luckily I frequently use the wonderful (and free) Libby app!
4. Happily living in our house of one year with my boyfriend of five years.
5. “She” is fine by me.
6. I‘m very simple...

#GettingtoKnowYou

❤️ Hurricane, West Virginia
🧡42
💛Project Manager....need a side hustle for books though
💚married
💙He
💜just “call me Ishmael” favorite line from one of my favorite books

❤️ Omaha, NE
🧡 38? Yes, 38. I forget sometimes.
💛 I‘m a Registered Dietitian
💚 Married for almost 4 months
💙 She/her
💜 My first and middle name

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️West Michigan 🌷🚣‍♂️

🧡By birthday, 57. Physically, I feel much younger most days 😅 40ish 😁 Mentally/intellectually, I feel like I have lived several lives so, much older!
💛I built and steward 2 little free libraries so I get a lot of books through them. I love my local library for hard copies & audiobooks & I use NetGalley frequently for digital arcs.
💚 Widowed 7 1/2 years ago.
💙 She/her/Mom/Nonnie/Boook Fairy
💜 After my LFLs

Texas
45
Nurse
Female
Native new Yorker
#gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Texas 😊 🧡 31
💛 I am a pharmacy tech in a very busy pharmacy 💚 Married almost 7 years 💙 She/Her/Mom/Queen 👑 💜 I‘m a mom...and I read....soooo. Yea 😂🤷‍♀️. #gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Coastal North Carolina, USA
🧡 33
💛 This year, I‘m reading from my home library; my work is mostly domestic, volunteer, and child-centered with a dash of aspirational writing
💚 Married for 12.5 years
💙 she/her
💜 My best friend‘s nickname for me, Sar (rhymes with Tsar), my middle initial (E), and a combo of my maiden name initial (S) with my married name (Moore) which evolved into our family nickname of “S‘Moores”

#gettingtoknowyou

Thank you for the tag @jenniferw88

❤️ Wiltshire, England
🧡28
💛I‘m a Financial Data Processor
💚Married to my best friend
💙She/her
💜I‘m a Hufflepuff and a HP nut so Hufflepuffle was the first thing I thought of!

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Winnipeg, Manitoba
🧡 46
💛 I support people with disabilities
💚 I‘ve been married for 20 years
💙 she/her
💜 I‘ve lived on the prairies all my life

#gettingtoknowyou

Thanks for the tag @jessinikkip and fun idea @JoScho !

❤️ Syracuse, NY
🧡 32
💛 I analyze 🧬 in a crime lab...and do a lot of overtime !
💚 Engaged for about 3 more weeks, then we are “almost eloping” at Niagara Falls
💙 she/her
💜 it‘s the name of the road I live on + a nod to the TV show Lost, which I was obsessed with back in the day 😂

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Nashville suburb
🧡 37 ... for 3 more weeks
💛 I‘m a stay-at-home-parent with a husband who does not keep track of my book buying (thank the gods) 😆
💚 married for 17 years
💙 she/her
💜 my first and middle names: Brittany Brooke

Thanks for the tag, Jesse! @jessinikkip
#gettingtoknowyou

Tagging @kaysworld1 @cobwebmoth @CallMeIshmael if you haven‘t participated yet and would like to.

❤ Reading, UK
🧡 23
💛 Just started a new support team job closer to home, was in a catering company in London
💚 Single Pringle
💙 She/her
💜 Had to break away from the old ciaraaawrrr handle I used for everything else and at least pretend to be a grown up 🦖

❤️ Just outside Myrtle Beach, SC
🧡 32
💛 I‘m a practice coordinator for an internal medicine group at one of our local hospitals- I buy my books used and swap with others on bookcrossing.
💚 Single
💙 The female ones
💜 I didn‘t come up with it, my mom did 😉 - it‘s my name.

#gettingtoknowyou

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Zurich, Switzerland
🧡 43
💛 hubs, Kindle Deals, charity shops, giveaways
💚 married for 22 years
💙 she/her
💜 it‘s my name 😊
(I‘m BookishExpat everywhere else, because I‘ve been an expat for 25 years and I am indeed bookish 😄)

For no other reason than I like doing these things,
❤️Gloucester, UK
🧡51
💛I work as a Financial Controller for a family-run builders‘ merchant
💚I think you‘d call it Living Apart Together; I spend 3/4 days a week with my partner.
💙She/her/hers
💜It‘s been my Twitter handle for 10 years; it‘s my nickname plus the name of my cat.

Tagging a few followers @AppuNthebooks @Viji @royallyregan93 @PageTurner789

#Gettingtoknowyou

#gettingtoknowyou

🦊 Dorset, UK
🦊 29
🦊 No job, Amazon/Waterstones & charity shops
🦊 Single AF!
🦊 She/her
🦊 It's my first full name followed by the initial of my surname and my house number.

Tagging @Hufflepuffle @erzascarletbookgasm @kaysworld1

❤ I live in a small town in Virginia
💗 I am 28
💛 A lot of free ARCs. Right now I work only a couple days a week at a gas station.
💚 Engaged to my best friend @anewton91
💙 He or they
💜 Its a combination of my name's and last initial. Not super creative.

#Gettingtoknowyou

Tagging 3 new followers and any others you want: @TheReadingMermaid @Lena_Moore @whippoorwill815 @britt_brooke @Eggs @JoScho

I‘m enjoying reading these so I thought I‘d join in!

❤️ Between Mountain View and Volcano on Hawaii Island (the Big one)
🧡 43
💛 I own a flower farm and am trying to build the business, so mostly through the library and savings at the moment.
💚 Eloped earlier this year
💙 The female ones
💜 Hooked on Books was my favorite used bookstore growing up in Colorado Springs. And they‘re still going strong!

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️Richmond, VA, USA
🧡38
💛I‘m a library lover, so most of my reading is free/I work as an attendant/respite worker for two autistic teens to pay the bills
💚Partnered
💙she/her
💜I like owls, my name is Elizabeth. I use it on all social media (let‘s be Insta friends!)

@JoScho

#gettingtoknowyou @JoScho

❤️ Georgina, Ontario 🇨🇦
💗 Turning 34 in November
💛 Library and book buys
💚 Single
💙 they/them - thou/thee
💜 A custom blend of Aloe Vera, Poe's Annabel Lee, and Shakespearean gender-non-specific pronouns 🌿💀

❤️Right outside Orlando, Florida ☀️
🧡35 😱
💛Kindle deals, library, BOTM 📚🤓🤑
💚Currently on my 2nd marriage 🤨👪
💙She/her 💃🏻
💜I was mildly obsessed with Justin Timberlake at the time I created my Litsy account, and number 47 is the jersey number of one of my favorite baseball pitchers (Tom Glavine) 😍⚾️😬

#gettingtoknowyou

❤️ Sonoma County, Northern California, USA
? 23 years. My birthday is in January
? Audiobooks, beanstack, bookly
? Single. Just looking for good ol fashioned friendship
? She/her/hers
? I'm a millennial, RIGHT BEFORE gen Y, but I was raised on old entertainment instead of mainstream and socialized with adults more than kids my age, hence "old school'
#gettingtoknowyou

#gettingtoknowyou
❤️ Silverdale, WA (across the Puget Sound from Seattle)
🧡 43
💛 attorney for a government agency
💚 single
💙 as long as its grammatically correct and consistent, I don‘t care
💜 my blog (wanderinglynn.com)

#gettingtoknowyou
Not sure who started this one, but I like it!

❤️ Saskatchewan, Canada
🧡 33
💛 I have a boring office job, which pays my taxes, which support my local library, which is where I get most of my reading material!
💚 Spinster
💙 She/her
💜 From my blog, created to review two hundred books (hecto being the prefix for hundred in the metric system). Now I use it online for any book related account.

❤ New Brunswick, Canada
🧡 47
💛 I teach High School English so I can read and call it work!
💚 Happily hitched
💙 she/her
💜 I didn't know enough about Litsy to realize not to just use my actual name. 🤷‍♀️

#gettingtoknowyou