Welcome to Litsy!

#MidwinterSolace #LitSolace

Happy Winter Solstice to you all 💙❄️💙

I plan a day of last-minute gift grabbing before settling down to wrap them all tonight. What are your plans? 🎁

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

So it's time for another Readathon for #WinterGames24 Dec 20-23 #WinterSolticeReadathon. This is my favorite time of year cause after winter comes, the days start to get longer. Please tag us with your reads and count 10 pts for every hour read. @StayCurious #HolidayBookDragons #XmasChaCha

Next up...no way I will finish by Dec 21st.

Timeline Readalong - Elfrida vs The Toaster.

I love how Rosamunde Pilcher takes everyday life and turns it into a story. Elfrida wanting to buy a toaster but worrying about the cost. You see how her decision to move to Scotland affected her finances.

Pages for reference:
Hardback (Flowers in the Snow Cover)pgs 153 - 174
Paperback (Red Coat Cover)pgs 229 - 262
Kindle (Snowflake)pgs 173 - 197
Audio - Chapter 9

#RosamundePilcherForEverySeason

December Seasonal Readalong has reached the heart of the story. We've met all the characters and they will be coming together in Scotland.

From here it's easy to keep up. I updated my previous post, mostly for my refrence for next year. There are a few days between 1st Friday in December and today's reading.

December 8:
Kindle - pgs102 - 172
Paperback - pgs 129 - 228
Hardback - pgs 89 - 152
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#rosamundepilcherforeveryseason

'AT seven o‘clock on the first dark Friday morning of December'...Time to resume the Seasonal Readalong. Page numbers depending on editions:
Kindle pgs 73 - 82
Red Coat Cover pgs 93 - 105
Flowers in the Snow Cover pgs 63 - 72

Today's date changes yearly. Heart of the story begins on Dec 8th. I'll update pages as I move along the Timeline.

If you're reading another edition, I loved to know what it is. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

#rosamundepilcherforeveryseason

My #NaturaLitsyWinterCardSwap cards for American Littens were mailed today!

❄️💌📬🐌

#naturalistywintercardswap #wintersolstice
@TheBookHippie

Just a sampling of cards that I dropped off today at the post office. Thanks again for organizing this, Christine! 💙❄️💙

#wintergames2024
#holidaybookdragons @StayCurious @LiseWorks
#holidaytradition +25 points (20 for tradition + 5 for post)
#holidaycraft +20 points (15 for craft [I designed card] + 5 for post)

Going all out on the holiday books for December‘s #Bookspin

#naturalitsywintercardswap cards went out in this morning's mail! ❄️💌📫 @thebookhippie

This morning I've been working in my kitchen. Getting ready for the Holidays. Lovely to take a break and finish November section of Winter Solstice. I'll set it aside now and in December will read along the Timeline.

"Nothing much seemed to have changed, except that most of the trees had shed their leaves and there was a definite wintry feel to the air." ??➡️?❄️

#rosamundepilcherforeveryseason

Goal for today: color and assemble the remaining pieces of these cards for #litsylove and #naturallitsycardswap

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

From @thebookhippie
LAST CALL❄️✉️❄️

#naturalitsywintercardswap
Winter is almost here! As such we are having a nature & winter themed card swap.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScym1-U4N6b1acAPYQt_OGTljnhBhsOc9BBD_YN...

A jolly Christmas but not a chick lit read in the middle of monsoons ⚡️

W for A to Z challenge!

Unfortunately I think my challenge ends here since I cannot find books with X, Y or Z. Please help!!

A beautiful December #sunset outside my former office. #luckyinlove

Last book of 2023! I hadn‘t read Pilcher before and didn‘t realize I started with her final novel. It‘s a bit too long and some of the main characters‘ emotional reactions (particularly to deaths) were a bit unreal to me. And two of the side characters are flawed almost to the point of being villains. But despite these issues, I really enjoyed reading this found family story set in Scotland. The ending was quite lovely.

@TieDyeDude Thank you so very much for this #Yuleswap package! I love everything! Sorry for the delay in posting. I opened it yesterday morning, and then the day got away from me. I can't wait for tonight when I'll get the simmer pot going, put on these amazingly comfortable slipper socks, and dive into one of these books. I'm excited for both, so I'm not sure which I'll start with. @BookwormAHN @wanderinglynn thank you so much for hosting ❤️

Pretty cover!

#wintergames #photochallenge #decemberdreams #wintersolstice #candycanecrushers

#wintersolstice #decemberdreams @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @StayCurious

#wintersolstice #decemberdreams @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Day 17 of the #wintergames Photo Challenge - Winter

Today, I‘m sharing this ebook on my Kindle that I haven‘t read yet. I also bought the Audible book with it. This book has the word Winter in it. It sounds good.

#GhostsOfXmas

❄️ A perfect read for this season. Cozy and heart-warming, even if a bit too perfect. Will definitely read another Pilcher. “The air was cold, but the sun beamed down upon them, and in the shelter of the house there was no breath of wind.”❄️

Seven minutes until #hyggehour begins. Got my cosmo, my S. Pellegrino to stay hydrated, my cactus rose to look at, my Pippa behind my chair, the fireplace ablaze, and a book to read. I feel so blessed to have the time to do this. 💙❄️💙

#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace
jenniferw88 Chrissyreadit AllDebooks thebookhippie

#midwintersolace #naturalitsy
I enjoyed Winter Solstice - the sugar sweet of the stories of people coming together and making their own “family” and traditions in the Scottish Highlands. I just discovered there is a film adaptation, now I have a mission to find it ❄️

This one set in Scotland is so cozy- the perfect book to read by a warm fire!

@BookmarkTavern #sundayfunday

Repost for @jenniferw88

LAST 5 DAYS TO SIGN UP! #naturalitsywintersolsticeswap

I realise the form has the same question twice. The second time, it is asking whether it's OK to send you gently used books.

@AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @LitsyEvents

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lWdqht2b3C-eaVKprHxpLCspSjjuLIu0WK4yyNt473E/edi...

I kept comparing this one to Binchy's A Week in Winter, but this one didn‘t hold up. So much could have been edited out for a stronger story, instead we limp along with these wounded creatures. I loved Coming Home & Shell Seekers so maybe my expectations were too high.

“You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambience of their own home. Seen their furniture & their books & their manner of their lifestyle.”

#naturalitsycardswap has my creative juices flowing. I haven‘t had my stamps out in a decade but I‘m feeling some #midwintersolace 🌲 🍁

December! Happy to learn we'll do this next year too!

#Bookspin #Doublespin

@TheAromaofBooks

Well it suddenly became winter here again recently and our kitchen got a much needed (literal) whitewash because it was a terrible orange that we decided we couldn't live with for the next few years. So splash on the paint!
This was a cute story, predictable and probably unlikely in many of the outcomes but perfect for a cozy, wintery read and full of loveable characters.

1. My fireplace! Reading by a toasty fire is the best!
2. I have to agree with @Andrew65 , the tagged book is such a cozy read!!!

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

1. Not a great fan of Winter, hate cold and snow. But enough of Mr Grumpy Pants. Favourite thing of Winter the sound of silence and the view after snow has fallen, and tucking up in the warm to read.

2. The tagged book, a great story set in the highlands of Scotland.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

One of my favourite #Wintery Reads, set in the highlands of Scotland.

#JanauryJazz @Eggs @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

Solstice fire tonight. Super happy that we weren‘t in charge of the fire this year so we didn‘t have to stick around and put it out 😁

I've been looking to start a new tradition with wishes for the new year and I found this one that combines it with the winter solstice! ❄️

#midwintersolace #naturalitsy #wintersolstice

Happy Winter Solstice!
It‘s my 37th wedding anniversary 💞
My lovely husband is cooking supper, and bought me both Kaluha and Bailey‘s Irish Cream!!
In other news, our computer system was down today at work, so we had to close up at noon. AND it still isn‘t working, so we‘re closed tomorrow as well. So I‘m on VACATION until Jan 3!!
Our computer system at work has crashed