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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.

This was a great book! It's been a long time since I started a book in the morning and finished it the same night.

Absolutely beautiful book for my first December #roll100 definitely not one for feeling festive but a really interesting and important tale of nazi Germany. Fantastic character development and really interesting plot.

Towles writes such immersive and engrossing historical fiction. This is set in 1938 Manhattan, a time and place when obscene wealth and obscene poverty existed side by side. It's narrated by the working-class daughter of a Russian immigrant, who finds herself on the fringes of the high life, and makes many life-changing choices that year. Not quite as endearing as A Gentleman in Moscow, but really left me thinking.

#TenBeforeTheEnd

Celia approached the vicar, who stood alone for a few moments in the shadow of the rounded arch above the doorway, sheltered from the rising wind.
#FirstLineFridays

Wonderful story with masterful writing. Women‘s lives intertwine in the story, which unfolds naturally. Nothing feels forced, the emotion is genuine and a topic not often focused on.

Put up a new display at work. This one features some the best books of 2024 according to different publications, like Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, NPR, etc.

1. After Libby said it would be two more weeks, I got a notification that I could check out the tagged book.
2. The Crime Writers of Color podcast is back after a long hiatus.
3. I got together with a friend for dinner and a movie.
4. We enjoyed War of the Rohirrim!
5. I bought a new wet-dry floor cleaner.
#5joysfriday

I see this only received a 33% rating on Litsy. I completely understand that people may not like it but upon finishing this book I immediately fell into a deep dive into all it had/still has raised within me. A love story, an escape into the deep woods of Montana, the writing, I was hearing the cadence of long lost relatives, the story-quick & to the point-has all the makings of a Western but it's completely Irish. Tom and Polly. The 10,000 (cont)