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#OpeningDayQuestionnaire :) Yay!!! Go #TeamNutcracker !!! ❄️ #WinterGames

@Bookworm54 , @Clwojick , @StayCurious

1. 112 (it‘s all the audio and now I‘m getting into graphic novels)

2. 13 😊 Had a 13 reading challenge but I normally don‘t set specific # goals

3. Christmas Carol (it‘s tradition, used to read it with my grandma)

4. Coffee, peppermint, coziness

25 points game + 1 point participation ⛄️= 26 points

Running total: 26

I‘ve had my good cry while watching trashy tv & while I‘m still blue, I am feeling a bit better. Thank you so much to everyone that sent me such love on my last post. You guys are so awesome, my cup runneth over❤️❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❤️

#ThisOrThat #WinterGames 5pts #PointsTotal-33

Yay! Winter Games! #ReadNosedReindeer #WinterGames (26 points)

1. Around 82 (depends if novellas count. I say they do!)
2. To read 100 novels. Not going to quite make it, but doing well!
3. A Discovery of Witches. I've never read it and just picked it up on Kobo for $1.99!
4. Getting a Christmas tree, decorating the Christmas tree. Enjoying the Christmas tree.

1. 45 - although I change my Goodreads goal as I get close to it.
2. 46!
3. The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
4. The first snowfall.
#WinterGames #ReadNosedReindeer
(26 points)

@StayCurious @Clwojick

1. 256 completed books (hoping to finish 257 tonight!)
2. 250 books
3. The Wives (my December BOTM!)
4. Being cozy inside!!
#WinterGames #ReadNosedReindeer (26 points)

Okay #ReadNosedReindeer - your first mission, should you choose to accept it, is to answer these simple questions. That can gain you a whopping 25 points + 1 participation point for posting! What a great way to start the #WinterGames!

1. 165 so far🙌
2. 150 so I‘ve exceeded it already🎉
3. The Stupidest Angel audiobook. It‘s a Xmas tradition👼🏼
4. Misty mornings. Love them!🌬🌫Though it‘s a very hot summer here already with major bushfires🔥
25points #PointsTotal-26

#WinterGames #OpeningDayQuestionnaire #TeamNutcracker

1. Marbles. I had a container full of them🧿
2. Yep. Though Elastics were big when I was in primary school.
3. I loved Looney Tunes,especially Marvin the Martian & Foghorn Leghorn.📺
4. Double Vegemite sandwiches. Yum.🥪
5. No cafeterias in aussie schools, we had canteens where you bought your lunch if you had money, which I rarely did.
6. Walked. Not far to my primary school but my high school was a 1km each way walk every day🚶🏻‍♀️
#YourStory

I‘m just working out my score, hang on a sec.

95 points! Not bad, I do have two bags of library books right next to me so that was a bonus. No kindle, cup or shirt though. And most of my books are blue not green, what is it with the blue covers lately? How did you do?

#ABookishQuiz #justforfun

1. Scattergories and Catchphrase
2. Greece, Morocco, and then a return trip to New Zealand!
3. Really well, 160 books read. Finished all of Shakespeare‘s plays and I‘m almost at my goal to read 30 books from my own shelves.
4. The Name of the Wind (so long, but so good)
5. What‘s your favorite kind of pie? (Key lime for me!) #Friyayintro @howjessreads

1. I love all the people who love to read. That it doesn't matter if you are slow, fast, ⬇or inbetween. We all share a love for the written word.
2. What I am not interested in I just scroll past. Just because it's not my thing doesn't mean somone isn't into it. I will say a Pet Peeve is posts that are mostly hashtags #. Hash tags are great when they are specific, but lately we have people (probably from bookstram since that is a popular #)

1. Finding books I didn‘t know about, talking to people from all over the world who love books as much as I do.🌏
2. I don‘t think there‘s anything I dislike.🤷🏻‍♀️
3. Zoom in on pictures, larger word count, more stickers & frames!🖼
4. Every day usually, more than once.📱
5. Yes, I participate in all of them.📚
6. The above suggestions would be great, and to fix whatever causes it to go on the fritz on the regular!💁🏻‍♀️
#keeplitsyactive

#OpeningSurvey #Deweys24Hr #Readathon #DeweysOct
1. I‘m reading from Sydney, Australia🇦🇺
2. The Monster Of Elendhaven👿
3. I have a tub of Haagen Dazs Salted Caramel icecream.🍦
4. I‘ve been a reader for almost 45yrs & own over 1800 books.📚
5. It‘s my 5th ‘thon, I tried to get more sleep beforehand this time.😴

📚I joined Litsy 3rd June 2016
📚I saw a post on Facebook from a reading group I follow that talked about an “Instagram for books” I was sold!
📚Soooo much more! My TBR alone is desk stacks, three floor stacks, four table stacks, a large box under my dining table & a TBR cart!
📚Crime/Mystery/Thriller, SFF & horror
📚 @WanderingBookaneer @Cinfhen @Soubhiville @LibrarianRyan @LeahBergen @MrBook @LeeRHarry @BookishMarginalia
#WondrousWednesday

❤️Sydney Australia
🧡48
💛The Hubby! And gifts. Plus the library.
💚Married for 26yrs
💙Goddess🌟
💜I‘ve used Lizpixie over a variety of sites like Instagram & Twitter. My hubby used to say I walked like Tinkerbell(I walked like I was bouncing on my toes)so Pixie kinda stuck. Ironically because of my illness, I now walk like an elephant😩
#GettingToKnowYou

1. The Fifth To Die-J.D.Barker in print, The Search-Nora Roberts & A Fever Of The Blood-Oscar de Muriel on audio.🎧
2. 19 books,2 ebooks & 1 audiobook.I thought it was a lot but some Littens have totally outclassed me.Bravo👏
3. Keep picking up books and trying a chapter even if you don‘t want to.Force yourself to keep going till one clicks. Don‘t worry about TBR size or what you should be reading.Read what you want,when you want.
#WeekendReads

1. Wheel Of Time,SOIAF,The Dark Tower,Thomas Covenant Chronicles.
2. Silent Witness,The X-Files,Vera,Black Spot,Grimm, Shetland,Hinterland,The Umbrella Academy,SOA.
3. Nope. Australian🙋🏻‍♀️🇦🇺
4. Roast SpringLamb,baked potatoes,pumpkin,peas,beans, corn on the cob & Yorkshire pudding.Yum.🍖🥔🌽
5. My dad is where I got my love of reading from. We spent hours at our local library when I was a kid & we still discuss books in depth.
#FriYayIntro

Apparently I‘m a : Brilliant Checkered Mummy. What are you? #Scareathlon #TeamSlaughter 1point #PointsTotal-71

Another 1point for #TeamSlaughter in the #Scareathlon Most of these options are not really a thing in Australia, I don‘t know why it‘s never really been a big deal here, I missed out on so much as a child. #ThisOrThatHalloween #PointsTotal-68

😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎 #LitsyHumor

1. Just my own, Australia. Never been on a plane or cruise.🇦🇺
2. Mountains! The Blue Mountains are my favourite place to spend time, especially in winter🏔
3. Tasmania.🍎Or Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
4. Hard to choose, anywhere in the UK, NYC, Scandinavia or Tassie.🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇪🇦🇺

#WondrousWednesday

1. Our Souls At Night by Kent Haruf👵🏻👴🏻
2. The Princess Bride coz of the kid in his sick bed listening to his grandad read the story👦🏻📖
3. 🎵Wake me up before you go-go🎵

#ManicMonday

Celia, Poppet, Marco.

Too easy😕

As I finish my first book for #24B4Monday and #SummersEndReadathon I wonder if anyone counts this as reading time? I haven‘t in the past.

1. Space Unicorn Blues🦄💫
2. Super Health or able to Fly!🦅
3. Aries🐏
4. Reading, reading and reading!🤓
5. @MrsMalaprop @thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Lauredhel ♥️♥️♥️

#FriYayIntro

1. To read as much as possible & maybe knock off some more squares in my reading challenges.
2. Darkdawn!
3. Icecream
4. A cup of tea & solitude.
5. Yep. I‘ve always mixed genres so it comes natural. I also use different platforms a lot, audiobooks are great for when you‘re hands are busy or you‘re in bed & ereaders are great for both night reading & if you‘re out & about(saves carrying a stack!)
6. @Cinfhen @sisilia @TrishB
#SummersEndReadathon

1. Indoor, without a doubt 🛋
2. Coffee or tea. Can‘t be expected to play favorites. ☕️
3. Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff 🍑
4. I‘m certainly not saying 🤫
5. I‘m always right 😉

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Used to be outdoor, loved camping & bushwalking, now indoor due to illness😢
2. Milo!🥛🍫
3. New York City🇺🇸Or Scotland. Any part of Scotland.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
4. Black🖤
5. Yup!☺️

#FriYayIntro

Most of these are not readily available in Australia so I‘ll give my version!
1. Coke,though I don‘t drink soft drink much
2. ?? I‘ll go with Corn Flakes.
3. Thongs for sure. I‘m Aussie remember.
4. Lemonade
5. ?? Smiths Originals here in Oz.
6. Another ?? I have a weakness for Coco Pops though.
7. ?? Tater Tots are called Potato Gems here & waffle fries aren‘t very popular. I prefer French fries anyway.
#BBRCgettoknoweachother🇦🇺

1. It‘s closeness to both rivers & beaches. Plus the scent of eucalyptus & lemon myrtle & the sound of cicadas.
2. There‘s not a huge difference in temp between them in Sydney so I don‘t have an answer to this.🤷🏻‍♀️
3. The sun! Unless it‘s over 35C(95F)then I‘m inside in my ducted aircon.
4. My library. I don‘t leave the house much anymore😷

#humpdaypost

🦉Has to be Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone! Hedwig was my favourite character.
🦉The Sword In The Stone-Archimedes was my favourite movie owl until Hedwig
🦉Who Are You:The Who- Who are you, Hoo hoo hoo hoo

#ManicMonday #EmojiMadness

Happy Monday!

Does anyone know if there's a way to display your Litsy feed on a website? Right now I have Instagram embedded, but I'd like to have Litsy instead.

#LitsyQuestions #questions

1. Wisteria. My favourite part of spring is seeing the purple sprays of flower all over my carport🌸
2. All I‘ve read this June is the Wheel Of Time books!⏳
3. Chernobyl! The Hot Zone! Big Little Lies! West world! The Haunting Of Hill House! The Umbrella Academy! The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina! I‘ve spent a LOT of time watching tv lately. Can you tell?📺
4. Robert Frost. His nature poems are beautiful.🍃🍂🌳

#HumpDayPost

Borrowing from @MrBook to pose a question that‘s come to mind as we get ready to leave on vacation on Thursday: how do you manage your reading when you go away? How many books do you take? I‘m planning to take one physical book that‘s an #earlyreviewer book plus my overloaded Kindle. I have another hardcover in progress, but feel like that would be overload. What do you do?

#BookWormBingo got me thinking about movie adaptations versus books. I almost couldn‘t think of one. A close call was The Princess Bride because the movie is fantastic and very close to the book (which is always key for me), but the book was every bit as good. I finally realized that The Polar Express as a movie was much more enjoyable than the picture book on which it was based. Are there movies that you enjoy more than the book? Share, please!

1. It depend of my mood but also I like to read contemporary/romance during summer, mystery/thriller/horror during fall and winter and of course, I read a few Christmas books in December. 🎃👻☃️🎄🎅🤶

2. I don't use the bus or the train but I did read on the bus ride to school. 🏫📚

3. TV, music and people talking to me. 🖥🎶🤦‍♀️

4. Chai tea and crackers.

I tag all of you 🤗

📚I‘ll Be Gone In The Dark:Michelle McNamara-Reminds me of how the perpetrator would call his victims, sometimes years later. Sick bastard.
🎥Telefon:Charles Bronson & Donald Pleasance-“The woods are lovely dark & deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep”
🎵Call Me:Blondie-“Call me, on the line, you can call me call me anytime”

#ManicMonday

1. A Dance Of Dragons - Jon Snow being stabbed just blew my mind!
2. The Usual Suspects - That ending with Kevin Spacey. The man may be a dick, but he‘s a great actor. The first movie that made me speechless.
3. Gimme Head by The Radiators. - blew my tiny teenage mind in the early 80s, such a shocking little song! Any other Aussie remember it!

#ManicMonday

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Me and my bf at the dinner in Paris that was my Valentine‘s Day present 💝

2. If Beale Street Could Talk

3. Going to an anti-homelessness event, watching my neighbour‘s daughter for a bit tomorrow, some drinks with friends Sunday and barbecue and improv rehearsal bank holiday Monday

4. Grey and rainy - classic bank holiday weather

5. Idk, I‘m eating in London but it‘s gotta be something really cheap

1. My very cool grandson, Tavis. Rock on!🤘
2. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
3. Not much, just a fitting for my medieval dress for the boys wedding. Other than that just reading & still trying to recover.
4. Rain. Constant medium drizzle, which I love.🌧
5. Homemade chicken schnitzel & vegies. Yum. 🍗🌽

#FriYayIntro

1. Quincy M.E, Soap, Dukes Of Hazzard, M.A.S.H, Bionic Woman, The Streets Of San Francisco & Bewitched. Just to name a few!📺
2. Visit Scotland of course🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
3. Mostly by whim, I pick a book & read the 1st page. If it doesn‘t grab me I‘ll move on.
4. Kerry Greenwoods Phryne Fisher series. It‘s now one of my Top5 series of all time #phryneappreciationclub
5. HOW DO YOU ORGANISE YOUR SHELVES?-Alphabetical then Chronological.
#FriYayIntro

Thank you for the tag @mrsmarch 😘
1. Non-fiction, true crime, lit fic, mystery, fantasy
2. History & Poetry
3. Romance & Horror
4. I rarely think books turned into TV shows or movies are that successful. Game of Thrones being the exception. That said, I do enjoy seeing true stories come to life.
5. Haven‘t found one yet. I do want to find a romance novel, but I‘m afraid to commit.
6. Penance. I didn‘t loathe it but I didn‘t like it either.
7. ⬇️

#bookishquestions @Erofan thanks for the tag😘
1. Historical fiction and mysteries, cozy mysteries
2. Literary fiction. One of these days I may try a graphic novel.
3. Horror
4. Historical mysteries
5. Station Eleven. Way outside my comfort zone, but I loved it.
6. Drums of Autumn. I gave up on the Outlander books after that.
7. @mom2bugnbee @Crazeedi @Craftylikefox

1. Literary fiction and Sci-fi
2. Memoir
3. I don‘t go in for erotica...but that‘s pretty much it, I read all kinds of things
4. None, I‘d like screenwriters to come up with some of their own stuff instead of poorly adapting books I love.
5. Ummm as I said, I generally like most genres
6. The Dinner by Herman Koch

@mrsmarch @LazyDays

1️⃣ 🎶 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police and Tainted Love - Soft Cell. 2️⃣ 💫 ♎️. 3️⃣ 📚 Agatha Christie and Isaac Asimov started me on my life of mystery and sci-fi, respectively. Another author also struck a chord with me, but she‘s very divisive. #wondrouswednesday

Hey everyone,

Quick question! Just wondering what “movie based on a book” that everyone suggests? I currently have a week off, and the weather is not nearly as nice as I hoped, so I thought I‘d catch up with some reading and movies. I just realized I still haven‘t seen Everything, Everything and it made me wonder what else I‘ve missed or forgotten about. Send send me your suggestions!

1. A Little Life 📖
2. Jude ♥️
3. Voldemort 🧙‍♂️
4. My pillow - gotta be comfy 🛏
5. @TrishB @Cathythoughts @Cinfhen

@DannyHattan #WhatWouldYouDo
thanks for the tag 😊

I know I‘ve been largely away.. but wanted to respond to these questions — thanks @Gissy @Chrissyreadit and @Endowarrior21 for the tags!
Self-♥️
1. Massage!
2. Very organized 🤓
3. I‘m able to mentally process complex legal issues quickly ... did I mention 🤓?

🌎
1. Green Bay, WI and Chicago, IL
2. Far, far away... 😳
3. Foundryside: Tavania (fantasy)
4. ABQ: Green Chile & blue corn!

All the love to everyone — do one if you haven‘t already!

Calling all littens:

I need your help. I‘m looking for books that deal with rape in a sensitive way as well as the consequences. If the books touches on pursuing legal action or healing, you get bonus points.

Thanks.

Sooo I have a random question that is #Litsy related. If I review a book as “bail” does it still count as having been read? I need to know before I post a review for the awful book I‘ll be finishing tonight lol. I am not technically “bailing” on it because I am finishing all 400 pages, but wouldn‘t want to give it more credit than it‘s due 🤷‍♀️🤣