#BookspinBingo

#February 12 books, finished both BookSpin and DoubleSpin numbers, 1 Bingo

#March is ready to go.

@TheAromaofBooks

Thanks for the quiz link @BarbaraBB . Off to find a copy.

See her original post to see which you should read.

#Roll100 #NONFICTION

I‘ve been wanting to read the tagged and hope this is the motivation I need to do so.

@PuddleJumper

#Roll100 #BOTM

First up will be the tagged as it‘s on the Women‘s Prize longlist.

@PuddleJumper

#RYK

Would love to get to all four.

Thanks @CBee

#MondayMood #Resistance

The wise advice for resistance is on our county‘s democrat website. If you are unsure how to help or where to begin check out your local county‘s website.

Caught the double rainbow on my way to see Chicago the musical last night. I was the passenger and the pic is through the windshield. I can‘t begin to describe how brilliant the colors of the first one was. I had never seen one that bright before. Nature inspires hope

#WeeklyForecast

Still working slowly through King. Loving the Sense & Sensibility adaptation. Starting the audio today. Hope to start Margo today, too. On the Calculation is the only Booker International Longlist book my library has and I‘m trying not to buy new books. The Women‘s Prize Longlist drops the 4th and it may change all of the above 😂

I miss doing a #BookReport and miss @Cinfhen leading the way.

Colored Television was good on audio. I said “Oh, Jane!” numerous times. I‘m glad I stuck it out.

The Lost Passenger was enjoyable. Ultimately an immigrant story set in NYC. It has a lighter tone than most I‘ve read with this time and setting.

The Bell Jar was hard. After sitting on my shelf for years, I‘m grateful to finally have read it. #HashtagBrigade

#FebruaryChallrngeWrapUp

Two more books off my *indle and even better no additions. One book each for my #Roll100 Both were ok not fantastic.

#WickedWords

From Dust to Stardust: Ballroom, Candlestick, Library
From The God of the Woods: Guests
From Black Woods, BlueSky: Yellow

@CBee @PuddleJumper @AsYouWish

#FebruaryWrapUp

#NetGalley #ARC

Black Woods, Blue Sky
The Lost Passenger

#TOB25

Beautyland
The History of Sound

#WeeklyFavorite

Elinor survives the sinking of the Titanic and it sets her on a different life path from the one she thought she‘d be living. I really enjoyed this book.

@Read4life

A belated birthday post for @Mimi28

This is one of our two cats, Dahlia. She has not been a happy camper since we added Pippin (our 9 month old black pug)to the family. After a vet visit and some good drugs she is back to being her normal amount of neurotic. Here she is after Pippin has gone to bed cuddling up to his favorite toy.

Hope you had a wonderful day 💚

1) My little patch of crocuses alert me to Spring on its way. And warm enough to have the windows open yesterday.
2) watching the neighbor cat perform his high wire act
3) Pippin did great at daycare. This is his mom I don‘t want to go out pose. He‘s dead weight til he gets his belly rub.
4) Wise words in the chaos
5) Finding a laugh amongst the absurdity of it all.

Finding joy is resistance! They want you to feel powerless, don‘t let them! 🩷

#MentalHealthMonday

1) Not bad due to a decent night‘s sleep and I haven‘t seen any news today.
2) Music always helps!
3) Depending on the type of hard it can be dance it out music, sing at the top of my lungs or lyrics that make me cry.

@Kerrbearlib

#MondayMood #RantTime

“Woke means you care about other people”

Feel free to join me and post your mood today. Or feel free to unfollow I believe in a world where the choice should be ours, yours as well as mine. 🩷

#BookReport

I finished 3 books. Two buddy reads which were fun if not fantastic The Secret Adversary with #ChristieCapers and From Dust to Stardust with #SundayBuddyRead. I also finished Beautyland which I 🩷.

#WeeklyForecast

Still reading King albeit slowly and haven‘t made much progress on Do the Work. Reading the #NetGalley ARC of the tagged. Starting CT and Margo today. Still keeping up with my daily reads.

#Bookrelated

Today‘s section in our #TreeADay reading. My question to you is if you have read the tagged book, any factual history or historical fiction set during WWII how you cannot see the parallels from that time to this? What is keeping you from recognizing how our freedoms are being taken away piece by piece? It is happening again and you are not only cheering for it you are praising God for it. God help us all.

@CBee

Going to work on downloading my kindle content to my computer and no longer purchase kindle books. What a pain! However far I get I will still have plenty to compile a list of 20 for this challenge for the foreseeable future. 😬😂

#BookspinBingo

Same plan as January and February.

Thanks @TheAromaofBooks

#WeeklyFavorite

Beautyland hit my February sweet spot. Audiobook where life happens but there is a lightness in tone that keeps anxiety at bay. Glad to have read this #TOBshortlist book. 4 🌟

@Read4life

#SundayBuddyRead

Decided to look for the rest of 2025 list. These 4 are on Book Outlet. Summer at Tiffany is $7.99 and the rest are $5.99. $35 gets free shipping. They are having a sale. I have 9 books on the way 😁

@TheBookHippie

#5JoysFriday

1) ⬆️ something that generated a bit of joy and hope this week.
2) Pippin passed his daycare intake! He did so well and it was such fun watching him interact with other dogs.
3) Worked a couple of half days this week and really enjoyed it. Thinking of not throwing in the tax towel after all.
4) Chapter a day buddy reads. It helps to have a plan.
5) Beautyland is a joy to listen to after the depressing #4 books

@DebinHawaii

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Watched these two adaptations over the last two evenings and I truly love both. I had forgotten Anna Madeley (Mrs. Hall of All Creatures Great & Small) was Miss Lucy Steele. Maybe the 2008 3 episode series has a slight edge since it has more content than 1995 film.

@Crinoline_Laphroaig

#WeeklyForecast

Going through the tagged fairly slowly. Keeping on task with buddy reads. And just started the other three current reads. Concentrating is currently a bit of a challenge. Having a plan visualized is a big help.

What are your reading plans for the week?

#BookReport

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey 3 🌟
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore 3 🌟
Stitches by Anne Lamont 3 🌟

#WeeklyFavorite is the tagged book 4.25 🌟

@Read4life

Put “Literally my Character” in Pinterest search bar. First 6 are you. Thanks to the @TheBookHippie for starting this trend.

I‘ve enjoyed seeing everyone‘s posts.

#5JoysFriday

1) Baked a Maple Pecan cake yesterday…sometimes you just NEED cake
2) Pippin‘s favorite toy is monkey man which is almost as big as he is
3) I am loving Les Mis chapter a day
4) After surviving reading Lark Rise to Candleford, rewatching the series on BritBox makes it all worthwhile
5) We haven‘t had much snow but I‘ve loved watching it fall.

Share your joys! It helps combat the barrage of daily 💩 we get.

@DebinHawaii

#ThreeListTuesday

Best yet!

Favorites:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sense and Sensibility
The Secret Garden

Thanks for the tag @dabbe @Eggs

I‘ve often said short stories and I don‘t get along for the most part. I usually am left wanting something more but I do not have that feeling with these stories. These well written, connected stories are satisfying. I do think going audio with different narrators helped

#WeirdWordWednesday

It makes sense that there would be a word for this but I didn‘t know it til a few days ago. Presented here with some examples 😀

@CBee

https://youtu.be/aUultIb2pPc?si=utvmydtIYHrGcdD1

I shared my resistance playlist with my daughter who added a bunch of songs I missed including this one as well as a bunch of new to me music.

We‘re All to Blame

@TieDyeDude #TuesdayTunes

1) Rested, caffeinated and ready to start the day with a side of worry.
2) Music, putting aside what isn‘t helping, quilting, walking and playing with the pugster
3) ? I‘m not much help here

@Kerrbearlib

#HashtagBrigade

Excited to be finally reading this book. It‘s been on my shelf for years. My copy is a Book of the Month club edition published in 1993.

@BarkingMadRead

#WeeklyForecast

Still working on my kindle and print books. Audio seems to be working better for me. Three stories into the History of Sound and am loving it!

#WeeklyFavorite

Loved this one on audio.

@Read4life

#5JoysFridays

1) Chapter a day reading: Tagged, Villette and #Hashtag brigade
2) Sunny days. Temps are cold but if I stand in the sun I can almost feel Spring and the sunsets have been spectacular
3) Heated throw and Pippin snuggles
4) Traitors: I normally don‘t watch “reality” tv but Kelly and I are enjoying the mindless hour and dissecting it all
5) Long conversation with my dad: books, state of the world, all the things

@DebinHawaii

#ThreeListThursday

2 more than the last two weeks

Favorites:

The Poisonwood Bible
Much Ado About Nothing & Midsummer‘s Night Dream
All the Austens

@dabbe

Audio books that aren‘t too heavy with characters that I love and root for seem to be what my brain and heart want. That and any excuse to organize something. I bought new hangers after a friend told me about the slimmer velvet cover ones. Spent some time today switching them in with the old plastic ones out.

Loved this one. When Greta tells about Val listening to I‘m Not in Love after getting his heart broken I‘m thinking been there, done that.

#WeirdWordWednesday

Smart kid! Should be in the dictionary.

@CBee

#1 Up and down.
#2 Anxious
#3 Reading when my brain allows me to focus and reorganizing my sewing room. Bought new hangers for my clothes so closet is next. Busy work helps calm me. Allowing Pippin to take me on a walk when weather permits and lots of play with toys when it doesn‘t. For a small dog he is strong!

@Kerrbearlib

#ReadYourKindle

It feels a little bit like cheating since I‘m already nearing the end of the tagged book and the Christie is on deck for #ChristieCapers buddy read. I will try to get one of the other two read as well.

@CBee

Still keeping up with daily reading. Just started King today but the writing is stellar. Greta & Valdin will keep me company while driving to and from work.

#WeeklyForecast

#BlackHistoryMonth

I knew I picked the right book for Black History Month when the above quote was in the prologue. I needed this quote as Hope seems to be in short supply currently.

Final (I think) January stat post. I love all of Storygraph‘s features.

Thanks to @CSeydel and @Catsandbooks for posting brackets for 2025. Since each will pit a different book one against another I decided to do both and see what happens.

#BookspinBingo #January

15 books and 4 Bingos although I have split #HashtagBrigades Lark Rise to Candleford into its three separate book publications rather than counting the trilogy as one unit to get there.

@TheAromaofBooks

#ISpyBingo #January

Not too bad for my first time. Using StoryGraph to keep track of which books had which prompts. 20/25 with 3 bingos. Hope to clear the board in February.

@TheAromaofBooks

#LiteraryCrew

Chapter a day reading seems to be working for me right now. I‘ve broken down the tagged book into one or two daily chapters to see if I‘m more successful with my second attempt of reading Vilette. Thought I‘d share my plan in case others want to try that approach.

@Librarybelle

#WeeklyFavorite

Really loved the tagged book. Phoebe has decided her life is sh*t and there is nothing left to live for. As her plans get waylaid she is given a chance to find her true self. Great book!

@Read4life

#TBRTarot

Final finish for January. Set in Leavenworth WA during winter ski season. It is always feels like being home when I settle into this series. I needed that.

Minor pet peeve rant: Ellie this sentence is so unnecessary. “Little did I know our safe village might not end up being that space.” You write cozy murder mysteries. We KNOW your otherwise idyllic town is Not a safe space. There have been 6 murders to date. 😂

@CBee