Grandkid has a Gingerbread Baby obsession, and she got a Makedo kit for Christmas, so we all joined in making a gingerbread house out of cardboard. Hours of fun! Meanwhile, I wasn't making much inroads into the tagged book: Oyeyemi's books require more time & focus than what a house full of people including a small, overexcited child, allows. Now they're all gone & work is quiet, I am zooming along and enjoying the wonderful writing 😃
“Quiero pensar que mi oficio es la vida y que mi misión no es prolongar el odio…”
so-soToday was book club day! Always a good time with these friends. Water Moon was our January book and Good Spirits was our December read so we got to talk a bit about both for those who couldn‘t meet last month.
I admit I didn‘t love Water Moon, but I did love the premise of a pawn shop where you can pawn your regrets. I was hoping we would get to see their clientele and the types of regrets they pawned but it went in a whole other direction.
These are my #ReadYourKindle options for January. Since I'm still working on 192025 (10 more to go!), I'm going to aim to read the tagged as it's the shortest and an ARC that I haven't gotten to yet.
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Thank you @TheEllieMo #12BooksOf2025 and @Andrew65 of Litsy for this idea and background.
Celebrate your reading year with your favorite book from each month of 2025 beginning on 12/25 to 1/5.
My PICK for October 2025 - Books About Books - Chick Lit - Friendship
Review: https://tinyurl.com/ah2nvpp8
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@StMartinsPress
pickFor the most part this was a very good read. an interesting concept with excellent character and story development. For me the only detractor was the vulgar and blasphemous language. While not steeped in it, it was frequent enough to lower the level of the dialog. I can never understand the reason why some feel such language is necessary. Perhaps that is why I prefer the classics.
My Bookish Goals for 2025
✔100 books - I read 199
✔50K pages - I read 64,229
💀25% NF - I hit 24% which is a bit shy but I am still happy with it!
✔50% not US - I did 53% and read from 64 different countries!
✔12 Chunksters - 15
It is always so fun to look back at what we accomplished even if we just missed out goals, at least we tried!
Happy New Year everyone!
We had food and games with friends and family last night. I am the only one up this morning, although I can hear the neighbours 🙄 I am having some quiet time, reading the tagged book and catching up on social media, before a 4-year old wakes up and asks for attention 😁
Pic of mistletoe still in trees, taken at a local-ish park in December #beautybreak
pick#Read2025
Finished the audiobook yesterday & while I didn‘t love this one as much as The Change (the dark humor was less), I still really enjoyed it. The narration of the audiobook was excellent & once we got through the characters‘ backgrounds & stories, I was caught up in the story. For some reason, I was midway through the book before I realized it was set in the same place as The Change & I liked revisiting some of the characters. I do ⬇️
Tagging Grandkid's favourite book: Gingerbread Baby