“Bookstores are the happiest places on earth.” 👍🏻👍🏻
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“Bookstores are the happiest places on earth.” 👍🏻👍🏻
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
New books!
Christmas presents wrapped!
New October Daye book announced!
Podcast episode that made me laugh so hard I cried!
#AuldLangSpine list!
pickA Christmas charity event for the local animal shelter gets messy when the big donor pharmaceutical CEO gets murdered. Monica decides to investigate when 1 too many of her neighbors ends up having a motive.
This was delightful. A charming setting, beautifully described for the winter season. Fun side characters, a mystery that kept all the suspects suspicious, & Monica has a really fun family dynamic. Wish there were recipes! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Y‘all!!!!! Look at the cover for the next October Daye book! I‘m so excited!
#CoverReveal
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pickSometimes, all one needs is time to take a break & a book recommendation to change your world. Fortunately, that‘s just what the Soyangri Book Kitchen provides.
I really love these fabulist stories that are just vignettes of people dealing w/ problems stumbling on a magical little place that helps them recontextualize their lives. I do wish we could have gotten more time w/ each customer & the staff, but this was lovely.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
#BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard December and Christmas are some of my favorite times of the year. I have so much to look forward to this month!
#BookSpin NetGalley #DoubleSpin Bloodmarked
#Roll100 The Inconvenient Indian, Great Fortune, Burns Poetry
#OokBOokClub Where‘s My Cow?
#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery off Old Telegraph Road
#QueerBC The Bones Beneath My Skin (I knew I had forgotten to add one!)
#ThematicCozies Where the Bodies are Berried
Saint Nicholas was Greek?!? BRB, I have to add baklava to my Christmas wish list!
What a fun quiz! #TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe
Success! I am so ready for Christmas. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 #AudioWrapping
Some of these presents have been sitting in my closet since the first week of October. 😅😅
Yes, yes, that is in fact a tiny crowbar taped to the top of the large present in the back and on the left.
Good news! I bought the last of the Christmas presents.
Bad news! I bought more presents for me too! #BookHaul #OopsIDidItAgain
What a magnificent list from @WildAlaskaBibliophile !
Four authors that have been on my watch list for a while, and a book I actually already own (Silver in the Wood!) Got a few placed on hold already, and I‘m so excited to dive in!
Thanks again and again to @monalyisha for putting so much work into this! #AuldLangSpine
#MonthlyRoundup for November, and I am well pleased with how I did! Some really fantastic books this month. ❤️
pickWhen Selena comes to her aunt‘s home, she expects to find family & rest after her mother‘s death & a recent breakup. Instead she finds an empty house, a squash god, friends, & an evil roadrunner.
T Kingfisher really does not miss. This was a charming story about finding where you belong & the strength to stand up for yourself, w/ creepy scenes of not knowing what‘s happening. Adored all the characters, & the ending was perfection.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
pickAn old feud is ramping up again when a dwarf is found murdered, & the trolls are accused. It‘s up to Vimes & the Watch to investigate & solve this crime before war breaks out.
The parallels between trolls/dwarfs & Sally/Angua play off so well against each other. This is also my favorite Vimes story as he battles his anger/darkness. & his dedication to 6 o‘clock hit much harder, as I had a tradition of reading to my nibling during COVID.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
so-soKate‘s newest case involves a string of child strangulations in an isolated community. When she & Al learn 1 of the locals was once jailed for murder, they‘ll be forced to re-examine a case from years ago.
Intense & stressful read! I liked Kate as a character, & I liked how we learned about her as she allowed Al to learn. Not too much of an actual mystery, but a thrilling investigation. & I really liked the resolution of everything.🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Gotta shout out the American Girl Dolls here! I loved all of these books growing up! #MiddleGradeMonday @Karisimo @Daisey
Thanks for the tag @Eggs !
I love chilly weather, warm blankets, SOUPS, wrapping presents, The Christmas Cookies, and spending time with family! ❤️💚❤️💚
#MajicMonday
#WeeklyForecast
I am so excited for This Princess Kills Monsters!
Whew! Got my #BookSpinBingo list together! And I‘m actually almost done with Christmas shopping, so I hope I‘ll have more time for reading! 😂
so-soWhen Daniel finds a hidden book in a mysterious library, he begins to unravel a mystery that involves burned books, a vanished author, a crumbling mansion, history of the Spanish Civil War, & his own romance.
Fantastic book about the power of stories to shape our lives, gorgeous imagery, & an engaging mystery. But it also felt like it was doing too much sometimes. & the tension was really unrelenting. I had to step away several times. 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
Finally managed to sit down with my list and get my #Roll100 titles for December!
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Great Fortune by Daniel Okrent
Collection of Robert Burns‘s Poetry
Every year, I have a New Year‘s resolution to read more non fiction. That‘s still the goal, but I‘m going to try to be more deliberate about it and read more non fiction written by members of marginalized communities.
#SundayFunday Have an amazing day, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!
pickAyleth is determined to prove herself to her mother‘s coven heading to the kingdom‘s capital to rescue the Bloodstones keeping the Veil intact. But then she draws the eye of the king as she becomes friends with a princess dark as a raven, fair as snow, & red as blood.
A fantastic prequel! Really digs into taking a sympathetic character & breaking her down until she‘s willing to burn it all. Great world building, a little slow to start.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
so-soIn a futuristic England, a disowned noble son & the scientist that takes him in travel to Egypt to explore the pyramids. I‘m doing so, they wake a Mummy that sets out to cause chaos.
This was an odd read. Absolutely fascinating ideas of scientific developments, politics & backstabbing worthy of Game of Thrones. But so slow & bland characters. & I‘ll be honest, I mostly kept reading hoping the Mummy overthrew the English monarchy.😂 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
pickThe Bob Whites get swept into another mystery when someone attempts to sabotage widowed Mrs Elliot‘s flower selling. Everything becomes worse when it seems her stepson knows more than he‘s telling.
A very interesting, more personal mystery. Trixie & the gang help out a neighbor, make some new friends, Dan gets to shine, & things don‘t always go right w/ the investigation, but the whole team always operates w/ good intentions.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
#WeeklyForecast
I‘m really looking forward to getting to the #OokBOokClub book! Thud is one of my favorites!
Ya‘ll! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 #AuldLangSpine2026
It‘s time for one of my favorite Litsy events! The absolutely fabulous @monalyisha does this event yearly where you‘ll end up reading lists of 2025 favorites with another Litsy user! I‘ve found some new favorite books doing this, and I can‘t recommend it enough!
pickOnce, there was a knight. Then, there was a scholar documenting the knight‘s legends many years later. The 2 stories aren‘t supposed to meet, until a mysterious book arrives in the scholar‘s lap.
WTF was this book. A love story, Arthurian vibes, a time loop, a tale about the power of stories, what makes a nation or a kingdom, & grasping your own destiny between your hands. This left me crying, & I want to read this again immediately.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
Years ago, the only thing I was reading was my single volume of the Lord of the Rings I had received for Christmas. As soon as I finished, I started over.
My dad became frustrated with my refusal to read anything else, so he took it away until I read Fahrenheit 451, which put me off sci fi for over a decade.
& then I discovered LeGuin, & I fell in love with the genre. I am so grateful to this book for reintroducing me to a genre I had avoided.
so-so2 brothers are just trying to live as people w/ powers around them fight amongst themselves. When Emil suddenly manifests an ability, the war becomes much more important in their lives.
This was an interesting magical twist on the superhero genre, w/ some really interesting characters. But the pacing was nonstop, we didn‘t get really deep characterizations, & there‘s a difference between a cliffhanger & ending in the middle of a climax.🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
so-soThe local harvest festival cook off is just ahead, & Sherry‘s practice cooking is thrown off when the body of a local farmer is found under mysterious circumstances.
A fun read, with lots of community building! Everyone felt very well established, but I wasn‘t lost given that this is 10 in a series. It did rely a lot on dialogue, too much sometimes. But I adored the description of food! Do wish more recipes were included.🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
pickMedusa has had many roles in many stories. Daughter, sister, mortal, priestess, victim, monster. Here‘s a story that incorporates many aspects of her past to make something new.
A fascinating retelling of Medusa. This Medusa is much younger than other retellings, & that influences a lot. Medusa‘s characterization is deep, but everyone else‘s is shallow. The pacing kept me tense the whole time, & the ending left me feeling a bit sad.🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
#WeeklyForecasting
I am enjoying The Everlasting so much! It‘s a perfect curl up under a blanket with a cozy drink kind of read.
#BookReport
Both of the audiobooks I read this week were so good with amazing narrators!
Watched the movie!
Pros!
Gorgeous scenery
Breathtaking costuming
Amazing soundtrack
Jacob Elordi
Oscar Isaac
Cons!
We seem to have lost a lot of the complexities and subtleties of the story
I am NOT a fan of how the ending read, to me
Results? Worth the watch, but a separate story from the novel. Which is fine. If I wanted 1 to 1 the novel, I‘ll reread the book. #BookAdaptations
pickDin wasn‘t sure what he was expecting for the 1st big crime he had to investigate, but he certainly wasn‘t expecting murder by tree growth. When multiple bodies start dropping the same way, Din & his boss must untangle a vast conspiracy.
Wow! An epic fantasy Holmes & Watson mystery within a vast magical empire! Interesting characters, a fascinating mystery. A little repetitive on how the magic works, but I‘ve already put a hold on 2!🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
I‘ve been hearing very mixed things about Guillermo del Toro‘s Franksenstein, so I wasn‘t sure if I was going to watch it. And then a friend sent me a review where the reviewer was mad saying “why is the monster hot? Why is the monster sympathetic?” And now I have to watch it. 😂
It‘ll be an after work treat for me today.
#SundayFunday Have a wonderful day everyone, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!
Ya‘ll! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Greenteeth is my favorite read of 2025 so far! I‘m so excited to see a new title from O‘Neill!
#CoverReveal
so-soColonel Chris Hadfield reflects on his life and training that led to him becoming a highly skilled and successful astronaut.
Absolutely fascinating look into all that goes into astronaut training combined with sweet brief glimpses of his family life as well. And yet, somehow, was incredibly dry to read. Interesting, and probably would be better as an audiobook.🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
pickThe adventures continue as the whole gang travel to India to meet Connie‘s family & find an artifact of immense destructive power before the Order.
Such a fun series! Love the relationships between all the characters (although 1 particular aspect felt rushed), loved the spotlight on Connie‘s family & the plight of India under British rule. & really enjoying the depth given to 1 of the villains, making for a really interesting conflict. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
*takes deep breath* AAAAAHHHHHH!
HG Parry?! Arthurian retelling?!? I need this immediately.
#CoverReveal
pickYou take 1 ghost space ship, scrub it clean of Lovecraft fish people, add in a werewolf, a mummy, a Frankenstein, & an AI doctor, mix it like a margarita shaker, then send them off to kill Dracula. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything. Everything goes wrong. This pastiche of horror icons made me LOL several times. Not a lot of character depth, but I was honestly having too much fun to care. I want more of this group‘s adventures! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
#WeeklyForecast
I am so excited for all my upcoming reads! A friend at work has been recommending The Tainted Cup to me for weeks, and my hold finally came in!
#BookReport
I‘m so happy and a little sad that I‘ve finished all the Oz books by Baum. I think I have one of Ruth‘s books, and I know I have a copy of Dorothy Must Die somewhere, so I might continue on sporadically. #BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad
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