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I started the year intending to #readordonate these 21 books in the top picture. I ended up donating 15 of them plus many more from the rest of my books on other shelves. The tagged book is the only LFL book that I didn‘t donate…yet.

I also donated a piece of furniture from my bedroom and completely reorganized my bookshelves. Bottom picture is the same bookstand thingy in its revised location, and it now holds books that I don‘t plan to donate.

#AllergictoChunksters inspired me to tackle The Last Magician again - I started it 2 years ago, and didn‘t make it very far. I was determined to get through it because, as you can see, I had slowly collected the rest of the series.

Ugh, I just can‘t do it y‘all. I reached page 100 this morning and called it quits. Turned it into a #ReadORDonate situation. My local library will be getting these to sell or loan out to other readers. #hailthebail

Repost for @julieclair

#ReadOrDonate is back for another year! It‘s time to do something about those unread books we all own! Each month, choose a book that you vow to read that month. At the end of the month, if the book is still unread, it must leave your house. If you have read the book you choose whether to keep it, or set it free into the world for someone else to enjoy.

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#ReadOrDonate is back for another year! It‘s time to do something about those unread books we all own! Each month, choose one (or more) books that you vow to read that month. At the end of the month, if the book is still unread, it must leave your house. 😳 If you have read the book (hooray!) you may choose whether to keep it, or set it free into the world for someone else to enjoy. 🙂

All are welcome to join! ⬇️

I've been using a random number generator to decide which of my holiday books I'll read next, and weirdly ended up reading Wrapped up FOR Christmas and Wrapped Up IN Christmas back to back 😂

Soft pick for this one; it's just a little too cutesy for me. Bodie was seriously injured on his last tour of duty and almost died. While recovering, he received a handmade quilt from the Quilts of Valor program, and that along with the letter that came ⬇

A soft pick for these two loosely-connected stories that take place on Nantucket a year apart. These were super Hallmarky and perfectly pleasant. I enjoyed the first more than the second, because the mom in the second story drove me kind of crazy. But the greatest tragedy is that I was 160 pages in and all of the sudden the book skipped to page 216!! Right at the big finale of chaos (you know, where the kid ran away with the puppy and supper is ⬇

Would be a great Hallmark movie! Nothing new - a big city businesswoman heads to a small town to close down a local company, but instead falls in love with the town and the people. She catches feelings for a local man, then finds out some ugly truths about the conglomerate she works for, and needs to figure out what‘s most important to her.

#readordonate
#bookspinbingo
#ChristmasAtoZ #LetterN
#adventathon
#wintergames2024 #holidaybookdragons

Three shorts in this one. They were all okay, but more about the characters shagging than anything Christmasy. Sometimes I enjoy Shalvis, but it feels like whenever she has shorter stories, she focuses on spice over story, which just isn't my personal preference lol

But lots of prompts checked off, and another book off my shelf!!

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

Four novellas in one by four different authors.
Making Spirits Bright - 1*, absolutely dreadful. Besides the story making 0% sense, the entire plot of a rich woman just deciding she wishes she had a kid or two and immediately just running out to try and rush through an adoption felt honestly icky, like kids were a commodity that she could just go out and buy on a whim like a puppy. It was weird. But maybe I'm sensitive to it because my youngest ⬇

This is what I'm looking for in holiday romance!! Cheesy, predictable, but still loads of fun with likable characters and storylines that actually make sense!! 😂 I'm a HUGE sucker for marriage of convenience stories, and this one played out pretty well. Super cute, and I'm planning to read the next book this week!!

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks