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This haiku is about what I saw in my backyard today. The blue jay flew off when I opened the door and I saw a lizard in the grass panting like he was scared to death. He was fighting for his life trying to keep from getting eaten. Poor baby. This picture of the Blue Jay is from Google.

Blue jay fighting with a lizard
The fight ended with the lizard panting in the grass
The lizard won the fight because he didn‘t get eaten

#haiku #haikuhive

This haiku is dedicated to my backyard wild birds and squirrels. I fed the birds and put out peanuts for the squirrels yesterday and put in fresh water in the bird bath yesterday and today. My birds and squirrels are having a party outside today in my backyard. They‘re happy.

Birds and squirrels having a party in the backyard
Taking baths, drinking water, scarfing down the food
like they haven‘t been fed in 4 or 5 days

#haiku #haikuhive

A children‘s novel full of wonderful illustrations of Wander, a wolf, journeying over a thousand miles in search of a home.

I enjoyed this book immensely.

#unreadshelfchallenge

January Stats
~20 books
~3 fiction
~1 memoir/graphic novel
~15 mystery
~1 children‘s book
#auldlangspine #sundaybuddyread #ChristieCapers #DorothySayers #AuthoraMonth #NDBuddyRead #FoodandLit #EGHSBuddyRead #Graphicnovel #MLK #readyourkindle #Libby #audiobook #ThematicCozies #animal #booksintranslation #serieslove2025 #Jumpstart2015

#Libby #catsinthestacks #ThematicCozies2025 #Animal
University librarian & archivist Charlie Harris is tasked by the Mayor Lucinda Long of Athena,MS, with preserving & substantiating Civil War diaries of a Long ancestor,in hopes their publication‘s content will boost her son‘s bid for state senate. Suddenly several professors & citizens demand to peruse the diaries asap.A murder puts the breaks on any such inquiries.So Charlie & his loyal 🔽

This was a sweet cozy mystery. It was fun to be part of the animals‘ woodland world, and the mystery kept me guessing. First in a series, and I will read more.

Like several other Littens, I chose this book as my January #ThematicCozies #Animal pick.

Thank you, @Chrissyreadit for sending this to me as a swap gift! 💙

#AVL25
#SeriesLove
#offtheshelf2025
#ISpyBingo
#Pantone2025 #Crocus
#LitsyAtoZ2025 #S

#weeklyforecast
Row 1: #sundaybuddyread #nunlit #nunlitquarterly #naturalitsy
Row 2: #readyourkindle #ThematicCozies #animal #serieslove2025 #EGHSbuddyread #readyourkindle #Libby
Row 3: #fictionaltraveler #APlaceYouLove #CapeCod

#bookreport #January12to18 #2025#
Row1: Buddy reads: #sundaybuddyread #nunlit #nunlitquarterly #Naturalitsy
Row 2: #ThematicCozies #January #animal #EGHSbuddyread #readyourkindle #libby
Row 3: #ALafyDarbyMystery #libraryfind -Finished
#serieslove2025 #Jumpstart2025

#Read2025 #JumpStart2025 #SeriesLove2025

I finished my second #ThematicCozies #Animal pick today running errands. I found it cute & enjoyable overall, especially the setting of Wagtail, Virginia, a town set up to cater to pets & the pet experience inn that the MC‘s grandmother runs there. There‘s the usual cozy quirky small town characters—here they are humans & their pets & the mystery was pretty easy to solve. I would try another book in the⬇️

#Read25 #JumpStart25 #SeriesLove25

My #SaturdayChatterday is the usual, running errands & coffeeshop time.

I finished this short story from the Shady Hollow series as part of my #ThematicCozies for January #Animal It‘s a bit out of season with it‘s October/Halloween setting but I missed it in October & wanted to check it off to be completely caught up with this series. A quick read with Vera & the down looking for a young squirrel possibly ⬇️