Litsy

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Updated schedule for #SheSaid!

We had 1 book with 5 votes (Wild Swans) and 4 with 4 votes. I added them all to our schedule for 2026 along with our 2 fiction reads. I did bump Wild Swans back to March, so we could read it and the follow-up book by the author after (and hopefully 🤞 when the hold lines at the library are not so long for a new release 😬). Then there were about 12 books tied after that…so new vote this summer.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 7h

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 7h

AllDebooks Thank you Melissa xx 6h

DebinHawaii Thank you! 🤗 6h

CatLass007 Thank you for your hard work. 3h

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AllDebooks

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | Grady Hendrix

I've been forgetting to post my #BookspinBingo lists lately. 😅

Here's my December list. I have a multitude of christmas or winter books to choose from, so I'll go with mood reading for this month.

I have buddyreads for #NaturaLitsy #VirginiaBloomsberries #BookedInTime #SheSaid #AAM #LosersClub #HashtagBrigade #QueerBC 📚

Starting with the tagged. 🙂

@TheAromaofBooks @Cuilin @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Soubhiville @BarkingMadRead @PuddleJumper

BarkingMadRead Love this! 8h

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DebinHawaii

Life with Picasso | Fran�oise Gilot, Carlton Lake

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#Read2025 #MonthlyNonFiction #SheSaid

Finished this morning for #SundayBuddyRead this was a engaging memoir about an amazing woman. A gifted artist & writer, this book focuses on her time with Pablo Picasso & could be titled “Surviving Picasso” who was a giant ass hat man baby. It‘s hard to separate the frustration with the man from his art, but the real interest in book is Francoise‘s perspective on his art & her own. Thanks to the fabulous ⬇️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, TheBookHippie, DieAReader, julieclair

DebinHawaii … hosting & research of the wonderful Christine @thebookhippie the book was even better brought to life & I learned so much about Gilot & the other artists of the times. Therese background of this review is one of my favorites of hers, Paloma à la Guitare, a picture of her daughter Paloma. Truly a fascinating book. 1d

TheBookHippie I loved it so much. 1d

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 1d

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vlwelser That's a great painting. I really like her stuff. I was maybe a little surprised that she seems to have basically imitated other peoples styles for quite a while. But she was also 40 years younger than this creepy old man. I'm guessing this one is from later on. 24h

DebinHawaii @vlwelser Sotheby‘s says it was painted in London in 1965. 24h

vlwelser After she went on her own path. Good for her. I approve. 24h

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) | N.K. Jemisin

Up next for #SheSaid!

Time for a fiction break at the holidays!!

Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 5d

AllDebooks Honestly, I've been meaning to read this for ages but never picked it up. #SheSaid might be the motivational prompt I need. 5d

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SamAnne This will be a reread for me, which I‘ve been wanting to do so I can read the rest of the trilogy! Thank you for the prompt! 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @SamAnne Same! I‘m looking forward to it 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @LitsyHappenings 5d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8 | Stephanie Harvey

Hello #SheSaid!

Voting is up now for 2026! And with this many choice, maybe part of 2027 too 😂

https://forms.gle/en54WgSVAzp1nkoZ6

Riveted_Reader_Melissa https://forms.gle/en54WgSVAzp1nkoZ6 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine @LitStephanie If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 2w

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Bookwormjillk How many do you want us to vote for? 2w

Suet624 Hi, I think you can remove me from this list. Next year I‘m really committed to reading my books on my shelf so I can start moving them out. I want to thank you for your work in organizing this group though. The books have been really interesting and informative. (edited) 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk vote for any you are interested in reading with the group. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Suet624 we need to start some challenge group for that. Reading books off our own shelves. I need to do that badly too 2w

Singout Thank you, Melissa! Organizing this list is a workout! 2w

MallenNC Great list! Some I‘m not familiar with and others I‘d already read so I just picked some that seemed intriguing. 2w

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Karisa

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice | Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Please note: Virginia Robert Guiffre's book“Nobody's Girl“ does not exonerate any of Epstein's associates, including a certain president (who she first met while working at Mar-a-Lago where she also met Ghislaine Maxwell). #SheSaid #NonfictionNovember

In Chapter 38, she actually wrote: “There are other men whom I was trafficked to who have threatened me in another way: by asserting that they will use litigation to bankrupt me. . .

Karisa “One of those men‘s names has come up repeatedly in various court filings, and in response, he has told my lawyers that if I talk about him publicly, he will employ his vast resources to keep me in court for the rest of my life. While I have named him in sworn depositions and identified him to the FBI, I fear that if I do so again here, my family will bear the emotional and financial brunt of that decision. 3w

Karisa “I have the same fears about another man whom I was forced to have sex with many times—a man whom I also saw having sexual contact with Epstein himself. I would love to identify him here. But this man is very wealthy and very powerful. . .“ #epsteinfiles #virginiarobertsgiuffre 3w

AnnCrystal 😢🤨🥺. 3w

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AmyG Seems alot is happening quickly. Hoping for justice for all the women as a result of the email dump. 🤞🏻 3w

Karisa @AmyG It‘s so frustrating because watching NBC news and they just said that her book only said good things about Trump. I was like, wait, what? That‘s not exactly right. We don‘t know because she doesn‘t name all the men out of fear, and she‘s only one of many victims. . . 3w

AmyG Fear, exactly. Even Epstein says Trump is as evil as it gets. May he get EVERYTHING he deserves. 3w

Karisa @AmyG 💯% He‘s such a 🤬. It feels like a mockery of our presidency sometimes 3w

Jas16 I was having a hard time reading the way the media was painting was said/ not said about Trump as well. 3w

Karisa @Jas16 They clearly haven‘t read the source they are citing. She‘s not here to rebut it. I‘m hoping the full files including testimony/depositions are are released soon and untampered with so that more of these perpetrators are brought to justice 3w

SamAnne Just started this book last night. Have been out of cell range the last couple days and am out of loop on all that has transpired! Will catch up today. Difficult read. 3w

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DebinHawaii

October's End | Horrified Press

I never got to my October recap nor have I finished all my October reviews but I wanted to get this posted finally. Finished 16 books & a short story, started one more & got further in Women Who Run With the Wolves (I‘m still way behind).

I finished books for #SundayBuddyRead #ChildrensClasdicRead2025 #NancyDrewBR #BobWhiteBuddies #EBBR
#SheSaid #MonthlyNonFiction #ThematicCozies #FictionalTraveler #Roll100 (3) #AuthorAMonth & SeriesLove2025 ⬇️

Riveted_Reader_Melissa, Soubhiville, TheBookHippie, Librarybelle, Ruthiella, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper, julieclair

DebinHawaii … Favorites were Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator, The Impossible Fortune, Kindred (re-listen), The Witchcraft of Salem Village & Kill Her Twice. 3w

Librarybelle Yay!! 3w

TheBookHippie 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼♥️ 3w

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Ruthiella Looking good! 👀👍 3w

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Fantastic month!! 3w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Women who run with wolves has been on my to be read list forever…I really need to get to it. 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

The Fifth Season | N. K. Jemisin