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hes7
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🔟 ten before the end 🔟

only ten weeks until 2026 🤯 so here are ten books i want to be sure i read before the end of 2025:

1️⃣ daughter of the forest
2️⃣ the first girl child
3️⃣ the last sin eater
4️⃣ the measure
5️⃣ the metropolitan affair
6️⃣ red string theory
7️⃣ suspended in the stars
8️⃣ the twelve dogs of christmas
9️⃣ under the texas mistletoe
🔟 winter solstice

SomedayAlmost Yikes! 10 weeks?!!! 4d
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Clare-Dragonfly
The Gododdin | Gillian Clarke
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Pickpick

The other cat kindly agreed to model for this picture 😄

My knowledge of Welsh is sufficient to help me appreciate the beauty of the poetry. I don‘t know enough to pick out many words (maybe I would have done a tiny bit better with modern Welsh), but it was fun to recognize a word here and there! Mostly I enjoyed the earliest known reference to King Arthur.

Bookwomble I really liked this book. Gillian Clarke's poetry is wonderful 😊 4w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 4w
Darklunarose 😻😻😻 4w
dabbe 🩶🐾🤎 3w
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Clare-Dragonfly
The Gododdin | Gillian Clarke
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I sat down to read but then this happened. #catsoflitsy

dabbe Well, you definitely have your priorities straight. 🖤🐾🤍 1mo
Ruthiella The cat was just waiting for the lap to appear. 😻😻😻 1mo
Susanita ❤️❤️ 1mo
Darklunarose Such a beautiful girl! 😻 1mo
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forestandcrow
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Thank you so much @MittenGirlPeach for this wonderful box! My littles tried to take off with the cookies immediately. I cannot wait to start reading.
#fffswap
@Avanders @Chrissyreadit

Avanders 😍🍂🍁♥️ 1mo
Chrissyreadit 🤎❤️🧡💛🧡❤️🤎 1mo
MittenGirlPeach I tried to find some things that were a little unusual, but hopefully they work. I was happy I found the cookies! They look yummy. 1mo
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Chelseabillups30
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bibliothecarivs
Untitled | Untitled
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Recent acquisition for our personal library (not in the Litsy database yet, despite me adding it weeks ago):

📖 The Celtic Vision: Prayers and Blessings From the Outer Hebrides: Selections From the Carmina Gadelica edited by Esther De Waal

#celtic #medieval #christianity

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xicanti
The Last Light of the Sun | Guy Gavriel Kay
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I only remembered three things about THE LAST LIGHT OF THE SUN:

1. There were vikings.
2. They blood eagled people.
3. I didn‘t enjoy it as much as Kay‘s other books.

Now I‘m rereading it for the first time, eighteen years on, and I‘m loving it. Kay hits me hardest when he‘s PERSONAL, above mythic or political, and this book is very much that. I can‘t wait to plunge onwards.

Also of note: it‘s Allie‘s 8th birthday! She loves it under her tree.

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Cuilin
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#CharacterCharm #fairy-elf-pixie @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Part memoir and nature writing this also includes some Celtic mythology and fairy folklore. It should come with a warning “might make you run away to Ireland, Scotland or Wales.”

Eggs So lovely 🧚 3mo
TheBookHippie Let‘s go!! 3mo
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BarbaraJean
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Fiona returns to live with her grandparents on the beloved Western Isles of her birth. When she visits her family‘s former home on the island of Ron Mor, she‘s sure she sees a glimpse of her baby brother, who disappeared when her family left the island four years before. Such a sweet, lovely story of family and return, with hints of myth and magic—enhanced by Fry‘s drawings throughout. So glad I picked this as my 1957 book for #192025.

willaful This must be the source of “The Secret of Roan Inish“! We just rewatched that the other day. So a beautiful movie. 3mo
BarbaraJean @willaful Yes! I haven‘t watched it yet, but really want to now that I‘ve read this. 3mo
Librarybelle Yay!! 3mo
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BarbaraJean
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“The divine has such passionate creativity and instinct for the fully inhabited life. If you allow yourself to be the person that you are, then everything will come into rhythm. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessing in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love, rather we are living the life that is expected of us.”

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