We did our opening with our kids last night on Christmas Eve. Here‘s my book haul from last night. Merry Christmas Littens!

Took this to work with me today and managed to finish it between what I got read there and what I did after work. It‘s a pick because it was cute, but now it‘s going in the donate box because I‘m not likely to reread it. #20inFour @Andrew65

I did indeed finish it last night, so it‘s off my #20inFour list. Ended in a cliff hanger as did Inheritance, so now I‘ve gotta wait a year for the last book but I‘m still glad I read it. @Andrew65

There‘s a greater than average chance that I‘ll finish The Mirror today, as I e only 6 chapters left. Thanksgiving is likely to be a dine and dash at my sisters because my brother in law has covid (but I work with him so I‘ve already been exposed, plus I might still have some immunity from having it myself a few months ago). But this is my #20inFour list. @Andrew65

Final book for the #20in4Readathon. I absolutely loved this. Thanks for hosting this readathon @Andrew65 ! I had a great time and hope it‘s broken though my funk.

2 books down for the #20in4 readathon! Gaslight was a solid 4 stars for me and is the book for my upcoming IRL group on Monday night. Butterfly Cove, I‘d give 3 stars. I liked some parts but not others and didn‘t feel a lot of chemistry between the mc‘s, also I felt like the mystery part ended abruptly with the ending of the book. @Andrew65

I finished this late last night. I loved it, it was sweet, funny in parts, had some steamy scenes (yet sweet too) shy college girl who works in the library falls in love with the schools star basketball player when he shows up on her night shift looking for a poetry book for a class. Miscommunication follows but in the end, they get their HEA, although they‘re young so it may just be a HFN. #JoyousJanuary #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65

Cold, windy, snowy but this book is cute, light, and makes my heart warm. I‘ve spent the morning working on clearing a path to the windows because the hubs somehow booked someone to come out and give an estimate on doors and windows today. Plus, we‘ve been in this house since summer and I really want to finish unpacking and organizing. But now a reading break! #JoyousJanuary

Absolutely love this series. I‘ve never read anything by Devney that I haven‘t devoured. #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Usually like her books but this one, while I enjoyed the premise, felt a little forced to me in the romance department. But it‘s a book I can get off my ohysical shelves and into a donation box. #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

First finished book of 2024! Turns out I‘ve actually read it before but I think I read it when it came out in 2012 and didn‘t actually realize I‘d read it until I was halfway through. So, in my mind, it was a brand new read for me. 🤣It was a nice way to start my mini vacation after working solid from the day after Christmas through the 4th. #ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Last read of 2023! Technically it was a reread but it‘s been a few years. Still good, still made me cry. #publishedbeforeyouwereborn (1967, I believe, I was born in 70). #rushathonchristmaschallenge @Andrew65

I actually finished this late on the 29th and really enjoyed it. I‘ve read a couple Bosch books but not any Lincoln Lawyer ones and this one had both. Fantastic storytelling. I thought it would be my last read of 23 but I‘m working g on a re-read of the Outsiders and if I finish it trying to stay up for New Years, that will be my last one. #400+pages #rushathonchristmaschallenge @Andrew65

The tagged book is, I think, the first in the series but this pictured book isn‘t in the Litsy database. The whole series is good. About a group of siblings in an Idaho mountain town, their father is dead and their mother has so@r mental issues and is living in a different state. Each book is about a different sibling finding love. The relationships make the series. This was #March best book for the #12BooksofChristmas @Andrew65

The cover is gorgeous, the story was compelling. As usual, since it was almost a year ago, the details are fuzzy but this was my best book in #February2023 for the #12BooksofChristmas. @Andrew65

One last gift from my sister. Back to work tomorrow to start my long stretch but I‘m already looking forward to my extra long weekend at the end of it. Happiest of Holidays Littens. I hope you‘ve all had a good day filled with love, peace, and books.

Best book of January 2023. I read this for book group and loved it. Although now that it‘s been a year, I‘m fuzzy on the exact details. #12BooksofChristmas @Andrew65

Just finished this one, so I can start one of my new books tomorrow. And it fills the #publishedindecember prompt for the #rushathonchristmaschallenge. Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate Littens.

Oh and these as well that I forgot to put in the bigger picture. These ones were actually a surprise, even though I was with the daughters when they bought them. 🤣🤣

We did our Christmas early, since my youngest has to work tomorrow. Here‘s most of my haul (which really is that I buy these for myself and my kids wrap them. 🤣🤣 cut off in the pic are the tagged book and The Scene Book by Sandra Scofield). Just big Christmas with extended family tomorrow but that‘s more about eating and being together than gifts. There will be some, but mostly we all just like to hang out together.

Who says you can‘t read and prep at the same time? Enjoying a fine football romance while dipping ritz peanut butter sandwiches in white chocolate, which is a family favorite. Took them to work last week for out department party and one of the pharmacists thought they were most excellent. So I made extra because it‘s me and him for New Years Weekend, and we might need the sustenance. 🤣🤣

Finished this today while baking cookies. A solid haunted house/paranormal investigation book with some romance thrown in. While I enjoy romance, I was really in this one for the paranormal stuff. I‘m generous with my ratings so I‘d give it a solid 4 stars. Also I‘m using it as my #freechoice in the #rushathonchristmaschallenge

A quick read. I enjoy her books although I mainly picked this one up at the library because of the cover (there‘s a dog). I didn‘t think there was enough chemistry between the main characters to make the romance believable but I did enjoy it overall. Probably a 3.5 star read #borrowedbook #rushathonchristmaschallenge

I know it‘s December readathon time, can‘t remember what we‘re calling it. 🤣 but I finished this one while getting my hair colored today. Nice, fairly believable romance between a widowed firefighter single dad (of 4!) and a shy reclusive artist from his hometown. The suspense part was subtly woven in and the menacing figure was a shocker to me. #treeoncover (well trees) for #rushathonchristmaschsllenge

Meh, I enjoyed the mystery part of it, not so much the romance. I also had similar feelings for the first book in this series. But it‘s now off my physical TBR and on the donate pile. Also it was a #randomshelfpick for the #rushathonchristmaschallenge

Read the series out of order, this is book 10 and I think I‘ve only read the first 3 or 4 so far but I needed a book that started with Z. Which is fine as each book is mostly about a different brother. This was good and I ugly cried while reading it, but it was sweet too. Some spicy moments but they made sense in the context. Filled #readpastmybedtime in the #rushathonchristmaschallenge @Andrew65

Four days of utter nonsense at work and four more to go until a day off. What made it better? This-this book right here. A rom com hallmark movie, but a spicy one! Renovation reality show star wants to save the town of Merry which has been devastated by a hurricane. She‘s only got a few short months to do it. Standing in her way is a grumpy town manager and sparks fly. 🔥🔥🔥 highly recommend. #rushathonchristmaschallenge

I absolutely adored this book. Nice representation of a heroine with a disability (she‘s missing a leg), a swoon worthy book reading hero and a big crazy family. My only complaint was that I wish it was longer but there‘s more books about this family so I can‘t complain too much. Prompt 6 (made you lol) in the #rushathonchristmaschallenge @Andrew65

This one isn‘t in the Litsy database but it‘s a spin-off of the one I did tag. Trying to finish my ABC chsllenge so I read this one. It was probably more a pick than a so-so and I‘ll probably read the rest of the series. But it was also prompt 16 (impulse read) in the #rushathonchristmaschallenge @Andrew65

My affair with Lucas continues, despite my irritation at a secondary character that I liked getting knocked off, it did leave room for Virgil to join the investigation. It‘s was prompt 13 in the #rushathoncheistmaschallenge next in series. @Andrew65

Pretty decent for a 60 page book, essentially a short story. I received it in a book box, but probably wouldn‘t have paid money for it. But it was the first book I read for the #rushathonchristmaschallenge it‘s prompt 3: quick read. I tried putting it in StoryGraph and while it shows I added it, it‘s still saying I didn‘t read it, but that‘s minor details. @Andrew65

Lucas goes to Vegas via New Orleans and Los Angeles. Top notch work, we get to spend time with his new pals from the Marshalls service, Rae and Bob. Spent the morning with my parents, who are moving to their “last” last house in a couple of weeks so I swung by to pick some stuff up. They‘re super downsizing so I‘ve been bringing some stuff home here and there. But I really need a bigger house. 🤣

Still a favorite of mine. #SeriesLove2023 #JoyousJanuary. Fills a couple of prompts for my many reading chsllenges this year. @Andrew65

1st book in the #joyousjanuaryreadathon and also #setieslove2023 I‘m still reading Little House in the big woods and will probably finish that tonight as well. Goodreads tells me I read this before but I sure didn‘t remember it! Kept me guessing the whole time, so that was good. @Andrew65

I‘m pretty sure a childhood dog chewed on this. I got the whole set for Christmas in 78 (when I was 8). I thought I‘d re-read them as part of #serieslove2023. Additionally, I think it fills a prompt or two on some of my other reading challenges this year. Check out the low low price of $1.99. Those were the days!

Finished this last night before bed but today has been a whirlwind. Work, finally (mostly) kicking the headache I‘ve had for the past week, we‘ve been low key house hunting so we looked at a house this afternoon (it‘s not the house for us), I‘m just now sitting down to read/catch up. This is not Nora‘s best, but I love books set in Alaska and other cold things so I‘d give it 3.5 stars.

My rooms still a mess, and the tension headache I‘ve had most of the week is back, but I‘m done with the book! On some level I knew these types of positions exist, but I had no idea what they really were about. But there‘s so many layers to Belle‘s life, I couldn‘t possibly get into all my thoughts here. Just a great read and my second book of 2023.

My rooms a mess and I don‘t feel real great this morning but book group is tomorrow and I still have half the book to read. So I‘m going to have my breakfast, read, and try to motivate myself to get some housework done. Happy Saturday Littens!

Book 1 of 2023 down! It wasn‘t the book I started with but it‘s the one I finished first. 🤣This was pretty good, I didn‘t guess the killer right away. A couple questions that the author didn‘t wrap up though, and that kind of annoyed me but overall a well written fast paced suspense/mystery type book.

Happy New Year Littens! Here are my first 2 books of 2023! I‘m bouncing back and forth between them. The Personal librarian is for my IRL book group and I need to have it finished by next Sunday. Midnight Caller is just for fun. I‘m off today and tomorrow so I‘m hoping to make good progress.

I did it! Book 100. Going to keep reading as it‘s only going on 7 pm here but I‘m going to either work on longer books or get a jump start on my first read of 2023. Or a combination of both. We‘ll see what happens! I enjoyed this “quickie” high school reunion insta love/mean girl story. Still only 3 stars since it was so short there wasn‘t any character development. #WinterReadathon #ReadingMyWayTo2023

Different book, same author. Another short one so it‘s book 99 for me. Just another so so read although I do love this cover. #WinterReadathon #ReadingMyWayTo2023

As a lead in to #SeriesLove2023 I read this short 75 page novella as part of my personal #readingmywayinto2023 weekend. One of the series I‘d like to tackle is this Lucy Kincaid series but it‘s been so long since I read any of them, I figured I‘d start fresh! 2 more books to hit 100 in 2022! #WinterReadathon

Late on Resolution planning day! Naturally I‘ve bitten off more than I can chew but a lot of these overlap and I‘m not going to feel pressured to finish any of them but I‘ll reward myself for each one I do finish (not sure what that will look like though). Goodreads goal remains 100 books. #WinterReadathon

1 short book down, 3 to go and I‘ll hit 100 for the year. Not reflected on goodreads because I was bad about updating. This was just ok. It was what I was expecting:insta love, pregnancy, a hint of danger. It‘s a fun series so far, but it‘s only book 2 and I tend to just read these when I want something quick and brainless. #winterreadathon

Also went to the library for the first time in months. Their hours aren‘t compatible with my hours (or my desire to leave the house on my days off) but I managed to hold myself down to just 7 books.

Different book, same author. I have 4 books to make 100 for 2022. I‘m off until Tuesday afternoon so I‘m going to try to read my way into 2023 so I‘ve picked some shorter books and will give it a go. This was at work yesterday. The regular burrito from El Amigo is big enough to feed me for 2 days.

Yeah, I know Christmas was yesterday. It‘s still cold and I‘m off today so I figured I‘d try to squeeze one more Christmas read in this year. #Winterreadathon @Andrew65

Not book related but one of my favorite gifts this year. From my daughter, who inherited my wacky sense of humor. I plan to put it in the guest bathroom of our new house, whenever we find a new house.

Typically the only books I get for Christmas are the ones I buy myself while shopping for others. I always buy a book planner and I‘ve been buying this one from Little Inklings for the last couple of years. My hubs did get me an Amazon card though—which probably be spent on ebooks. I have a couple more hood coming from the ‘zon but they were delayed by the Blizzard. #ChristmasBookHaul