Welcome to Litsy!

November is just around the corner, folks, and we‘ve got so many wonderful Littens to be celebrating then! What a great lineup of November babies! 🧡💛🤎

If you‘d like to be included on the Litsy birthday calendar (and of course you do! 😉), it‘s easy. Just send your birthdate and Litsy handle to litsybirthdays@gmail.com. The #birthdayfairies will send along some extra #birthdaylove your way on your special day. ❤️

I made my #bookspinbingo card this morning but then forgot to actually post it! 🤪
Hoping for a great month of reading! 🍁🦃🍂

This months #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo
How are we already almost done with this year???

My tbr for the month!!

It took me a while to put this list together because I kept having to change it - so many library holds and forgotten preorders coming in at once 😅
#BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

All ready for my monthly act of creating an awesome reading list for #bookspin and then abandoning it during the first week! ☺️🙃😋

#bookspinbingo

Cutting it close but I finally got my #bookspinbingo list done!
🍂🦃🍁

I have BIG plans for my November 2022 reading:

- LMPBC: The Measure
- MMD pick: Salty
- MMD flight pick: Home Cooking
- MMD flight pick: Parable of the Sower (re-read)
- BOTM 10/22: Hester
- PemberLittens: Jane Austen's Letters
- PemberLittens: The Heiress
- PemberLittens: Villette
- ARC: Earth‘s the Right Place for Love
- 4 Oldest TBRs making 2019 complete
- Newest purchase
- 5 Short audiobooks

#WishMeLuck #ReadStrong

The #birthdayfairies are harvesting a bounty of fairy dust in anticipation of all the wonderful celebrations taking place next month (including a couple of our very own)! 🥳🥳🥳 Look at that lineup of amazing Littens!

If you‘d like to receive some extra #birthdaylove on YOUR special day, it‘s easy. Send your Litsy handle and your birthdate to litsybirthdays@gmail.com. The fairies will do the rest. 😊🧚‍♀️

November babies, get ready! 🤎

Here‘s my completed books for November.

Read 14
DNF 1

And I got 2 bingos!!

November wrap up. I was so close to a bingo a couple of ways. But it was a good month and even made some headway on some books not mentioned here. #BookSpinBingo

My favorite reads from this month! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

Joining in on the #20in4 Readathon for this weekend, and adding Monday as a bonus. Today I worked on finishing The Woman in White; over the rest of the time I want to read Not Just Jane, finish the Tao of Pooh, and whatever else I can clear off my #BookSpinBingo board by the end of the month! Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 you‘re the very best of Littens!

Happy Birthday to our #LitsyLove twins: @curiouserandcurioser and @MatchlessMarie !! We hope you both have a lovely day filled with all the things and people you love! 💕😊🎶🎉☀️🍰🧁🎂📚🥮

#novelnovember

I haven‘t been able to participate in these the past few months, but I am ready this month. My goal will be to catch up on my library books. I have a couple of graphic novels and cookbooks to read through. Hosted by @Andrew65

Here's my November Bingo card. 🤗
@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

Book Spin: Native American read
Double Spin: Romance read

November #BookSpin 💛🤎💛🤎

Not doing so great for October, which is par for the course. Really would love to try and get a bingo, maybe the birthday month will be the one 🤷🏼‍♀️ #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

Wow November is coming fast, I finally made a full list of 20! Can‘t wait to read some of these! I had a hard time making a list cause I‘ve been mood reading a lot lately. #bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Presenting my November #BookSpin list!! I‘ve included my usual book club picks and a poetry selection, but the majority of the list is nonfiction from my TBR shelves, in anticipation of Nonfiction November. This includes two that have been lingering on my shelves since they were optional reading for my study abroad semester in Florence, Italy. In 1996. 🤣 I randomized the numbers this time for maximum serendipity. 😁

How wonderful! Even more reasons to be thankful!! These amazing Littens are celebrating in November…are you on the Litsy birthday calendar?! If not, it‘s easy to sign up and get some extra love on your special day from your Litsy family. ❤️❤️❤️

Send your (only your own, please) Litsy handle and birthdate to litsybirthdays@gmail.com . The #birthdayfairies will take it from there! 🥳🥳🥳

Tempus Fugit! November‘s already in the rear view mirror! I read 16 books last month & we all know that by “read” I mean I mostly listened to them as I only own books in the top row in treeware form. I LOVED the top row, I‘m happy to have library access for the bottom row and the books in the middle rows were all really good. No DNF‘s! The top left was my favorite & a reread and the bottom right my least favorite. Another really good book month 🤗

A few days late in posting but I managed to get 10 books read in November. Pretty solidly in the fantasy or historical fiction realm but that's okay; and one nonfiction book done. I passed the 110 books mark for the year too.
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I think my favorites were Black Sun and Dark Archives, both because they were something very different in my reading than the norm. There weren't any duds in the bunch though. One more month to go!

Lower reading numbers for me in November, but I don‘t mind, because there were some fantastic reads in there! Honestly, there was not a bad book in the bunch, even though Circe was not as much my cup of tea as I had hoped.

ALL of these were library books except my re-read of Anne. Hoping to get back to the TBR now that I‘ve dealt with the gigantic library pile situation! (Avert your eyes from the 4 library holds currently on their way...)

Loved Trust and Why We‘re Polarized. Really liked the new Hank Green book. Haaaaated United States of Anxiety

So many excellent books this month! White Fragility really touched me in a painful but good way. I was also really impressed by Joe Hill's collection of short stories. I was a little disappointed in Men Explain Things to Me and Patient Zero, but all the rest were really enjoyable reads that stand out.

#NovemberWrapup
Not my best month, but enjoyed most of what I read....
The Invisible Life, The Arctic Fury & Red, White & Royal Blue were unexpectedly my favorites.... Particularly as I‘m not much of a romance or fantasy reader..
Such a Fun Age made for a great Zoom bookclub pick...lots to discus!
I was most disappointed with Darling Rose Gold. Definitely kept me turning the pages, but the cycle of abuse left me feeling very sad, not ‘thrilled‘.

My reads for #november2020

All were never before read review requests.

#wrapitup #novemberwrapup #2020reads #mounttbr #gettingsmaller #daybyday #november2020reads #reviewrequests #allnewbooks #neverbeforeread #firsttimereading

#NovemberStats #NovemberWrapUp
#bookspinbingo #bookspin #doublespin

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Americanah

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Sea Wife

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beautiful Bad
The Gunners
Rules of Civility

⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Alamut

⭐️⭐️⭐️
Leave the World Behind
The Land Behind God‘s Back
Billiards at Half Past Nine

DNF
The Dud Avocado
Swing Time

Wow! Quite amazing! I read so many books in November. A lot of good ones as well 🥰

I can‘t decide what to read next, so I probably won‘t finish anything else today. November has been the best month all year, in terms of quantity with 15 books completed! As for quality, I enjoyed just about everything, which is always nice. Only two really let me down, and several surprised me by how good they were/how much I enjoyed them. 💖 #novemberstats #novemberwrapup (images in order books were read)

Thanks to @Andrew65 for another great mid-month readathon!

I met all my goals! And read most of Grunt, too. On to #FeastMode in a few days!

#NovelNovember

Woohoo! I‘ve met all my goals for #NovelNovember!! 🎉🎉🎉

Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting another great readathon!

Read 258 pages today, bringing my total pages read to 929!
#NovelNovember

Didn‘t get a ton of reading done today (just under 100 pages) but my total pages read is now at 671. I think I‘m in good shape to meet my goal!
#NovelNovember

Read 184 pages today, bringing my total pages to 573!
#NovelNovember

This was a little tougher than I expected! Can you spell November with book titles you have around the house?
Thanks for the challenge @EadieB !

Haven‘t done a #NovelNovember update yet, so here goes. I read Saturday and today, but didn‘t get any reading done yesterday. So far, my total pages read is 389! And I have a plan to read the specific books I want to get read during this readathon, so that‘s also something!

#SweetNovember @suvata @Eggs

Spell November with book titles.

Can you play?
@Kkecreads @BrenaJo @MilesnMelodies @camilla_788 @calciumkels @Ninja2020 @all_of_my_days @StaceyGlows @Trina_L @aditiee @KindleAddict @Barbie.Hudson @IheartYA @thrillersandwine @Lollymya @Coueriamb

Alright here we go @Andrew65 I‘m remembering to join a whole day late and I‘ve already finished 3 books hahaha. #novelnovember

Goals: read all the books hahah
At this point finish Cattywampus and probably finish like 10 other books because I‘m nutty. Maybe I can do more. 😂

@suvata #SweetNovember

Harder than I thought to do this without looking up titles lol.

@maich

Thanks for the tag @hermyknee

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Muse of Nightmares by Lani Taylor
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

#SweetNovember @suvata

@MidnightBookGirl @kimmypete1

#sweetNovember

Here‘s my stack:

Neverwhere
Obsidion
Vicious
The End of October
Mexican Gothic
The Book Thief
Earthcore
The Rising

@wanderinglynn Thank you for getting me off the couch for a minute. 😁 @suvata

Thanks for tag @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Join in on the fun @TheAromaofBooks @Laughterhp @Chrissyreadit

#sweetnovember

#sweetNovember

Thanks for the tag @Susanita 😘

Here‘s my stack:

N - Nemesis
O - On Poetry & Poets
V - the Veil
E - Etched in Bone
M - M is for Magic
B - the Bristling Wood
E - the End of All Things
R - Robert Frost‘s Poems

Have you played? @Addison_Reads @Mitch @TheSpineView and anyone else who wants to give it a go.

Fun game @suvata for #SweetNovember
Thanks for the tag @Susanita

I'm not home to make a book stack so I've used the blank template on the hashtag. I used all books (or stories) that I've read and enjoyed.

@Arvena @Catsandbooks @MySharonaK and anyone else want to play?

Joining @Andrew65 in #NovelNovember starting today. My goals: finish Jane‘s Fame, keep up with #PemberLittens reading Northanger Abbey, continue reading Harry Potter with the kiddo (so exciting to read it with her this first time!), finish Just So Stories, and read whatever the ebook is that‘s about to expire on Hoopla.

Glad to have a readathon right now as I‘m supposed to be getting extra rest, so it‘s a good excuse.

Keeping my goal simple with completing one audiobook and one physical book. So much going on right now, but I think I can achieve it! #novelnovember

Here are my goals for #NovelNovember. I kept them low-key! 😉
Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting!

Thanks for the tag @CBee , this was fun.

@BarbaraBB have you tried? 😊

#SweetNovember