Welcome to Litsy!

My February #bookspin is ready! @TheAromaofBooks

Has anyone found their way over to Substack yet? I'm still figuring out how it works, but I made my first post! I plan on treating it like a book blog with longer form content. I'll follow anyone back who finds me over there. 🤗

https://open.substack.com/pub/rachelrencher?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&...

For the #AuthorAMonth folks reading Sayers: https://grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/show/imaginary-books/dorothy-imaginary

Something I can really sink my teeth into; has a good plot and great characters and is engaging. #sundayfunday

#25Alive
#guiltypleasure
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Who knew? 🤷‍♀️

#poetrymatters
#wall
@TheSpineView

This song. 😭

Boots new morning routine: paw at my face until I get up 😁 #CatsOfLitsy

February book list for #ReadYourKindle

@CBee

#Bookspin Feb
1. Saving Time
2. Humorless Ladies
3. Island of Forgetting
4. An Immense World
5. All the Devils
6. Sure, I‘ll Be Your Black Friend
7. The Prophets
8. Crossings
9. Kids These Days
10. How Much of These Hills
11. Greenwood
12. Swimming in the Dark
13. The Toronto Book Dead
14. The Cheese & The Worms
15. Reuniting with Strangers
16. Constant Struggle
17. Ordinary Notes
18. Coming Out
19. Some People
20. The House on the Cerulean Sea

Wanted to catch up on #LitsyLove during the #Sharreadathon

@sharread was such a great pen pal.

An #AuldLangSpine book, a #Roll100 book, and a just for fun book.

February #BookSpin #DoubleSpin

#poetrymatters
#lyricpoetry
#walk
@TheSpineView

Sorry if this song will now be in your head all day. 😂

If I chose In the Barn, I would rather be riding than reading. I'd rather go swimming if I was at the beach, and I think the cafe would be too distracting, so I'm going with Mountains.
Play along if you like!

#SaturdayChatterday @AllDeBooks

I plan to take it easy this weekend. I have been experiencing sciatica pain and it has put a cramp in my style. I have a follow up doctor's appt. on Monday. Medication only helped a little. I think they will send me for an MRI. I just want to find out what is causing it so I can get a treatment plan to feel better.

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Walk

Have a great day everyone x

#Roll100

🤓My February picks; 📚physical books from my shelves.

1. The Aeneid
2. The Bell Jar
3. The Catcher In The Rye
4. Dracula

I only read these 4 books. I think the most interesting books I read were The Iliad and The Aeneid. I listened to a dramatized audiobook of these stories and I liked taking in the stories that way because I felt like I was listening to plays and I like plays but I never understood what was going on and I don‘t remember anything that happened.

#threelistthursday

1. Took Mom out to dinner for her birthday 🎉
2. It was Restaurant Week and I had an amazing meal of Mushroom and Sweet Potato Gnocchi 🤤
3. Tea with friends ☕
4. My new standing desk 💻
5. 🐱 snuggles

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1 - not joyful, but a moment of pride and relief. When my community thought there was an active shooter at our high school, the law enforcement and emt barreled through barricades to get to the staff and students. After finding nothing, the students and staff were given trauma support and counseling.
2 - Onyx Storm
3 - mental therapy day
4 - got to visit my fifth graders today. They made me feel like a movie star ❤️❤️
5 - litsy bookmail

#5JoysFriday @debinhawaii

1. After what was to me one of the worst days in American history this past Monday, the sun did come out the next day. And the next... If you want to hear the best rendition of this song that I have ever heard in my entire life, here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyy4tYZFDc
2. Litsy and you Littens.
3. Matt. #always
4. Kate. #always
5. Pippa. #always

#poetrymatters
#wake
@TheSpineView

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

These items are just a few of my favorite winter things that make me happy when the cold sets in.

Here are my February #roll100 books!

Here‘s hoping I actually get to all of them!

8 years of Litsy!! That‘s wild!

Happy #litsyversary to my current #auldlangspine match too! @rachelsbrittain 🎉🎉

#litsyversary

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Got tickets to see Wicked in May! I want to read the book before seeing the musical!
2. A friend went to Hawaii and gave us some coffee as a souvenir
3. Going to Jazzercise class and dancing my stress away
4. I love to listen to these jazzy snoopy themed YouTube videos while I‘m working (eun.yeon)
5. Audio walks! Currently listening to The Storm We Made

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1) I froze a bunch of cookie dough around Christmas. Pulled some out this weekend and everyone was happy.
2) snow and berries from my walk
3) Look at where I found the cat sleeping yesterday
4) walking between matches at a tournament and found horses
5) illustrated Sense & Sensibility at night with mint tea and cookies is a balm

I‘ve been so motivated with my #2025OffMyShelf challenge, I created a part 2!

These prompts are a bit broader to allow for a variety of interpretations.

I‘ve also put the Part 2 Reading Challenge on Story Graph. The links for SG as well as a jpg or pdf version of the bingo board are on my blog: http://wanderinglynn.com/2025/01/23/2025-off-my-shelf-reading-challenge-part-2/

#2025OffMyShelf2 #OffMyShelf2

Thank you for the tag my dear 💕 @dabbe

I scored higher than I thought I would 28/100 28% thanks to school

3 faves
Don Quixote
Beloved
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

17 is actually more than I thought I‘d get. And that is only because of the high school I went to. We had extensive required reading lists.

Favorites-
As I Lay Dying
Brave New World
Dracula

On my TBR-
The Bell Jar

I did see the movies for Agnes of God and Emma. 😹
#tlt #threelistthursday

I have only read 8 of these. Some are on my TBR List, though.

#TLT #Threelistthursday @dabbe

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @Dabbe

My score was sad. I have read only 16/100. My favorites are:

1. All the Light We Can Not see
2. Dracula
3. All the Pretty Horses

#25Alive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Dreams

Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics 🎶

Now, I will be humming this all day.

I read most of these for school or because I thought I *should*, but these two I love.

#TLT

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
New Survey: AP Literature Free Response Titles List #1 (1970-2024)
I really needed a list to take me totally away from the crapola of this week in the USA.
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-ap-literature-free-response-titles-list-1
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading or a combo or whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!

A patron came in to pay for a destroyed library book (it had suffered significant water damage) with a comment that she‘d pay for it, if I insisted 😐

She paid for the book, I gave the book back to her and she was like 🤨 and I explained that it was too damaged to remain in the collection so she could take it or I could dispose of it. She took it AND THEN asked if the library bought books from Amazon because “it‘d be cheaper” 🤡 like no??

#25Alive
#celebrate
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#poetrymatters
#waist
@TheSpineView

Well done, Fox News. Well done. 😂

1 your perfect year
2 winther thaw
3 the vixen and the vet
4 unrequited
5 talon
6 saving grace
7 reaper
8 playing to win
9 one true love
10 night tricks
11 marked
12 lakeshore secrets
13 kentucky rain
14 just an illusion
15 in his kiss
16 hannah
17 georgia on my mind
18 falling for you
19 emerge
20 dead wrong
@TheAromaofBooks #bookspin

I did decide to go for a short walk but didn‘t listen to anything because the quiet was so nice. Missy loved the snow.

#25Alive
#favewinterfood
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

New England clam chowder. 🙂

#poetrymatters
#wain
@TheSpineView

Wow, January is flying by and it is time to nominate books for February. Please make your nomination in the comments. Hope everyone is enjoying January's book Red Shirts by John Schalzi. It is a classic. Let me know if want to added or removed from the tag list.

Happy Reading everyone!

@Larrken @bnp @Johanna414 @BookmarkTavern @JulesG @BookBelle84 @Readergrrl @CSeydel @Roary47 @LizPixie @Paperbackpirate @PageShifter @kwmg40 @majkia @BookWomble

I‘m always cold so I treated myself to an electric throw. I‘ve just tried it out and oh my my goodness, I‘m so toasty! Must getting old 😂

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is having a grand day! I will tag a few Littens to get us started; however, everyone is welcome to play.

My answers:
1. I dislike sitting all day. I prefer to move around especially with the lower back pain I have. I have tried standing desk and that is not a good solutions for me.
2. The first book that comes to mind is The Devil Wears Prada.

Play? @dabbe @eggs @read4life @debinhawaii @AnnCrystal @JulesG

Friends - stop and pray, send positive energy. Our local high school is on lock down. Rumors of active shooter. Nothing confirmed. Every mother's and teacher's nightmare. I don't have one there, but I do have past students. Mcdowell