Yay!! #CoffeeBeanBookClub #cbbc time!
Thank you @Callemarie for sending these books & yummmmmmeeeee coffees!! ♥️☕️📖♥️☕️📖

For my #hyggehourreadathon #hyggehour today, a bubble bath, my fave soda, coffee scented candle (amaze), and The Book of Doors (#reallifebookgroup).

It took me a while to get into it, and I still phase out sometimes, but overall a good read. 📖🚪✨

Also spotlighting Barnes‘s new $5 cafe special — which of course I bought. 🤭😎

Happy Sunday and Hygge Reading Hour all!
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Received all my #botm #bookofthemonth #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub books today! 👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼

Also, found this fun notebook for my sister who will find great use of it… 🤭😂

Hope everyone is enjoying Septemberrrr 🧡🧡🧡

I think I see these and just black out for a couple-two-tree minutes and next thing I know I‘ve signed up.
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Head over to @wanderinglynn for #HauntedHollowSwap #HHS24

Or @BookwormAHN for #ModernWitchSwap #MWS

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Discovered this at B&N today… anyone read it? Sounds intriguing ☺️

Also, settling in for my #hyggehourreadathon in the bath 🛁 with The Book of Doors 🚪✨🌉

I mean, but really. How could I not?! Full box yet again… 🫣🫣🫣

#aardvark #aardvarkbookclub

A peek into the process and a box ready to go (same box ;)).

Dear Secret Recipient:
Be on the lookout for your #autumncomfortswap package soon!!

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Love that #bookofthemonth #botm made books available early this month!! They‘re already on their way as of yesterday! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Everyone- that program completely messed up the merge and just pulled whatever from wherever. That form means nothing - COMPLETELY DISREGARD.

New emails will be sent out shortly that say: CORRECT MATCH. That‘s the right one. Sorry for the confusion!!

Last call to sign up for #FallingforFallSwap #fffs - we‘ll close sign-ups tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug 28th.

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Yay #autumncomfortswap package arrived! It‘s so cute! Thank you @KadaGul — I can‘t wait!!!
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Finished the tagged cozy for August‘s #SeasonalCozies and really enjoyed it! It has a pinch of magic (or more) and a dash of international intrigue, along with family secrets and, yes, of course, tea and cozy vibes. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

So I went out and got book 2 right away. 😁

Also, I started Book of Doors for #reallifebookgroup - so far, so good!😊

And while I‘m not displaying my hygge here, it‘s there. #hyggehourreadathon 🫖🍦📖

I mean, given what everyone else has already said, it‘s no surprise that this was so good.

What I loved and didn‘t really expect: it‘s more like 4 mysteries, rather than just 1; it‘s pretty literary, and not really thriller‘y, and really well done; it is and it isn‘t what you expect. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also started Steeped in Secrets for #SeasonalCozies and started this audiobook that … probably someone here recommended. 😁 it‘s intense! 🫨

It‘s tiiiiiiime…. @Chrissyreadit and I are back with
#fallingforfallswap #FFFS

Click here to sign up!
https://forms.gle/gyc4novtyUNxMyzT6

Sign up by 8/28
Matches by 8/30
Send by 9/20
Open on 10/1

(tagging some folks who may be interested - pass it on! ☺️)

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Late, but present! #nationalbookloversday
1. A Fatal Grace
2. Ballerina (Stewart)
3. Annie Bot!
4. Bossypants
5. Harry Potter
6. Maybe Six of Crows?
7. HP1
8. Vampire Diaries?
9. The Vanishing Stair
10. Cozies, for some reason 🤔
11. Harry Potter
12. Jonathan Strange…
13. HP again… Also, The Neverending Story
14. Night Film
15. Impossible 😏 But I have a slew of candidates on my “favorites” Goodreads shelf…

Thanks for the tag @Chrissyreadit ! 😘

A perfectly hygge read for a perfectly #hyggehourreadathon (perhaps a smidge early, but whose counting 😉)

@Chrissyreadit it came!!!!
Thank you - I‘m so excited!!

Let‘s wait until winter to read ☺️
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Iiiiit‘s Aardvark day!! 💃🏽🪩🕺🏿

I picked 2 new books & 1 I wished I could have gotten last month but didn‘t have the space 😄🤩♥️

#aardvark #aardvarkbookclub @AardvarkBookClub

I gave this one a soft pick (⭐️⭐️⭐️). Seems if you know Scumble River, you‘ll probably be into it. For me, a fine but not great cozy. Not as cozy as I‘d have liked…

Excited to be reading God of the Woods next! (For #reallifebookgroup)

And excited for my #botm #bookofthemonth August box! The pick was a stretch for me, but seemed interesting, but Moreno Garcia is a #mustbuy #autobuy for me and the Shafer sounded fun! How ‘bout y‘all?

Thank you so much @sblbooks for this awesome #staycationintime to the future!!! 🤩😍🤩I‘m so excited for these books & I love the extra goodies you sent!! The alarm clock was a stroke of genius 🤓😉 Thank you thank you!!! ♥️🧬🩵🔭🩶🧪💚

And thanks to wonderful hosts @Chrissyreadit and @DinoMom for such a fun swap! #staycationintimeswap 🤗😘♥️

Also showing me-at-pool to give some street cred to the idea of me taking a staycation 😜🏊🏽‍♀️🩵

Welp, it turns out this book is set in September, not August, so not a #SeasonalCozies head start after all 🫢. Never fear, I found an August and am ready to go for next month. 😁 Still reading this though… a little cozy palate cleanser.

And thank you @Mommamanzi for these sweet little surprises!! I‘m so happy to be back with #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub ☕️🫘📖♥️

Also posting a nod to my cozy evening for #Hyggehourreadathon #hyggehour 🥰🕯️🧦🩶

Happy #hyggereadinghour #hyggereadathon #hyggehourreadathon #hyggehour #hyggehyggepumpkineater #whycantieverrememberthehashtag

Finished this book a few days ago…

4.5⭐️. Super funny at first. And then like a wall of bricks right at your face.

Also, bugga loved his trip to the planetarium w his summer camp… now I just have to go! 🤩🌌🪐♥️

#StaycationinTime package received! 💃🏽🪩🕺🏿
Thank you @sblbooks !! 🍹♥️

Now to wait…..

Did some much needed (aesthetic) book rearranging today… hard to see all that‘s going on, I know, but trust that it‘s better now. 😜 #shelfie

Turning, then to #Hyggehappyhour 🥰 This book is thoroughly enjoyable during the work scenes… not as into the mom scenes. Too close to home? 🧐

Oh! Also, I mailed my #StaycationinTime package yesterday — set for delivery Monday!

Yay!! 💃🏽💃🏽 Received my first (in a couple years!) #cbbc #CoffeeBeanBookClub book! ☕️🫘📖 (tagged) Also thank you @Callemarie for the yummmy smelling coffee and the yummy tasting chocolate!! ♥️♥️♥️

Also, added a couple cozies to the ol‘ #mounttbr
… need to … refrain …. So hard…. 😓😅😘

Omg what a spectacular birthday surprise!! Thank you so much @Chrissyreadit !!! You are always so *thoughtful* and generous and send just the perfect things!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ So very blessed by this community. 🙏🏽🫶🏽♥️😘💫🥹🥹🥹

(Ps that coffee smells amaaaaaazing)

And with that, I met my Goodreads goal for the year! I initially set a goal of 12 bc that‘s what I read last year (😅), but changed it to 30, & still met it! 🙌🏽

As for the book, it was dated. 2003 in small town MN was riggedy-rough with .. out-dated .. perspectives on “existing as women,”mental disabilities, *and* race. Ooph! It did not age well. But the mystery was fun & I loved the recipes. It‘s like ⭐️⭐️💫 (2.5)

#SeasonalCozies for July!

Received #botm #bookofthemonth 👏🏽👏🏽

And what I assume is my #staycationintime package, @Chrissyreadit ? 💃🏽🪩🕺🏿 I‘ll be sending mine out soon! Need to get just 1 more thing….

Aaaaaand, shipped my #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub package this morning! ☕️🫘📖♣️💌 @Mommamanzi

Got a couple-two-tree things for a couple-two-tree swaps (none of which are pictured), and figured, while I was there, I should get myself a couple-two-tree things too. 😇😎

*note: “a couple-two-tree” meant a somewhat ambiguous “few” in the 80s in Wisconsin as I was growing up… ✌🏽3️⃣👾👧🏽

Finished one cozy (not perfect, but perfectly enjoyable ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫), and onto the next (tagged), my July selection for #SeasonalCozies @julieclair
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And very excited to get my book boxes, esp to get my #RealLifeBookClub selection for this month! 👏🏽👏🏽 #sobuzzy

Reposting for @thebacklistbook :

If you meant to sign up but time got away from you, you can still sneak it in. #autumncomfortswap I'll close the form around 10 am PDT https://forms.gle/z2SdXkMhoDsAbzb17 . #swaps #solstice #litsy

😩😩 they‘rekilling me with these selections this month!!

I put *four* more in the waitlist (aka tbr) in BOTM too… (the ones on the left) (I know, I can order 4 add-ons now, but I just can‘t justify 8 new hardcovers this month… 😁)

Way to go #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub and #botm #bookofthemonth for July!! ♥️♥️♥️

You ever just feel like *all* you want to do is read, look at books, talk about books, go to bookstores…. I know, you all do. 🤗♥️📚

It‘s been one of those weeks…
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(Reading this for book group…)

Holy cozies Batman!
I‘ve been in a cozy mood lately! Went to local bookstore to get that stack, and the rest were mostly ThriftBooks… and one maaaaaayy be my selection for #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub 🤩☕️📚📖🫘🤎 (so excited)

First time doing this, and there was a surprising learning curve 🫣😂

Top 3?
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Dark Knight
Anything Harry Potter related..

Also, I had a low‘ish number… only 57/140! But I noticed that while I picked a lot in the beginning, it tapered off to almost nothing sharply after my son was born… 🤔😜

Thanks for the tag @MaleficentBookDragon !😘

#tlt #threelistthursday

Progress! 🙂‍↕️

Read/finished the 3 smaller ones:
Murder Your Employer ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Marsh King‘s Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tagged: a strong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - just all the right elements to a perfectly enjoyable cozy! This also satisfied my summer/June cozy read for #SeasonalCozies @julieclair 😄

Now reading Weyward for #ReadLifeBookGroup #rlbg

Yay! Local bookstore coming through with some fun new finds, including the Witch of the Winter Moon by a local ABQ author and the super fun looking tagged w sprayed pages 😍

Our book for my #RealLifeBookGroup - Weyward - I had to get from Target though 😯

Captured: Buggy sitting in his book nook (closet), reading 4 books at once 😂😍

Also, received this new long-anticipated book (I‘ve met Vladeck on numerous occasions and find him intelligent and engaging… let‘s see if he‘s also a good writer ;))

And the tagged is my chosen book for June for #SeasonalCozies (summer). 🧊🍹☀️🌸🪻

It‘s that time of the month!!

So for #bookofthemonth #botm I was disappointed, but kind of accidentally picked an audio book — hey, something to try (not the author, who I like, but audio through BOTM 🤔)! Let‘s see if I can listen at speed 😉

But #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub did not disappoint! So excited 👏🏽👏🏽 (the 3 in the upper left)

Also, here are 3 of my current reads… the Lawrence is pretty dense, but so interesting— anyone read it??

New books!
The bottom (also shown with dust cover off and with front cover shown, along w World of Wonders 🤩) is a gift from a friend — brought from London! She knows how I feel about their pretty covers 😉

The next 2 are regular old purchases (😎) from my favorite local book store (tagged)

And the top was a gift from SIL that I‘ve been wanting for a while!

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I did a thing…. Or 2! 🫣 (signed up for pending swaps, yay! 🎉)

@thebacklistbook #autumncomfortswap

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom #staycationintime24

Even though I have the tagged in audio and kindle (Kickstarter campaign), I had to have it in paperback too 🤦🏽‍♀️

Also discovered this beaut at Barnes today — anyone read it?

Received #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub and #botm #bookofthemonth books! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Did anyone else get Volume 0, the short story collection??

Posting timely! 🤓🙂‍↕️

It‘s Sun eve & it‘s #hyggehappyhour or #hyggereadinghour or #hyggeforthewin … 😜 Just finished What Mother Won‘t Tell Me (3.5 ⭐️), and starting the tagged for #SeasonalCozies for May! (Mother‘s Day + tea 😉)

Also tried to read You Be Mother… did not enjoy it. Cut out at p. 100… maybe some feedback from #RealLifeBookGroup (rlbg) will persuade me to keep going. For now, a bail.

But read next month‘s #rlbg also: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😄

My office was doing a special Olympics fundraiser at Barnes today… so I *had* to buy some books. 😁 These looked fun… anyone read any?

Oh yes of course I also went to my favorite independent bookstore today (tagged) — we bought bugga a bunch of things. 😄

Updates…

Acquired: Destroyer of Worlds, 3 (grouped) books related to autism, and the tagged, which I am *geeked* about

Read: Ghostwritten - 4 horror novellas on how books can be evil ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reading: Emotional Vampires - so far, en-💡-ning and Murder at the PTA (for #seasonalcozies & great so far!!).

Found: these amazing fish stickers. 🫢🤩

Not separately depicted: enjoying #hyggereadinghour

Welp, I did it. 🥸 #botm #bookofthemonth

Also, did you know these cookies existed?! 💜🤍

@AardvarkBookClub #aardvarkbookclub #aardvark picks: easy… there was even 1 more I was seriously considering! 🎉

#botm #bookofthemonth not as much… anyone read this? Thoughts? Nothing else really spoke to any desire to acquire immediately/in hardback… 🤔

I flew through this and loved it. Maybe it wasn‘t *perfect* but it‘ll sit there in my brain for a long time, and what more can I really ask for…

(& another solid pick from @AardvarkBookClub 🎉)