Reading for the #24B4Monday I‘m 9 hours in!

2019 has been such a year of upheaval for me! But I must be settling in.... my library is all set up in a my new home!

My October #bookhall

So I have had a hard reading year but thankfully I set my goals low! Goodreads challenge complete!!

I loved this book as a teenager! I think I will try this again just to walk down memory lane!

This book of poetry is making me laugh! I love it!!

Still working on moving and getting our place together so ALL of my books are just chilling in the middle of my room! I can‘t wait until I get all these put away and my nights just consist of reading 😉

I‘m not quite sure how I feel about this book. I don‘t love coming of age stories or stories about drugs, and I found the language overly descriptive and out of character for a twelve year old boy, but overall the effect was captivating! I loved this journey and felt compelled the whole way through! I highly recommend!

So most fantasy and all sci-fi is #outofmycomfortzone #selfimprovementsept but this has been in on my #tbr for years! Has anyone read this series?

I would love too @emmaturi thanks so much for the tag! I can‘t wait to read Daisy Jones and the Six!! This is my favorite cover ever!! #7days7covers #covercrush

My airport book haul! This book looks fascinating! I hope I can get a chunk done on my short flight!!

Airport bookstore browsing!

This is the last book that made me #laugh! #selfimprovement

I have heard mixed reviews of this but on the the other hand...... I love the cover..... so I just had to pick it up today for my reward for getting through a hard day at work! #somethingnew #selfimprovementsept

The #flowers on this cover are beautiful! The inside however is a little dense 😉 not quite as inviting as the outside! #selfimprovementsept

My #hobby is definitely cooking! Just give me some ingredients and a good audiobook and I love to get lost making something new!! #selfimprovementsept

My September reading goals are to finish these two giant books! I‘ve been reading them all year and I need to finish them because they are taking up a lot of my mental energy! #readinggoals #selfimprovementsept

Some Sunday reading!

Thank you so much everyone for all the Birthday wishes! #LitsyLove @julesG @Robothugs @robinb @Jas16 @Cinfhen @BookwormAHN @Kalalalatja @rohit-sawant @TrishB @Jerdencon @Librarybelle @JessClark78 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Dragon

My April wrap up! Only three to go along with my reading slump of a year! But in the plus side I loved these!

I got another chapter read tonight. This has been taking me forever! I‘ve been reading it for 5 months! I may never finish..... #currentlyreading

#marchwrapup

I‘ve been reading this book for a few weeks, it good but it‘s been really slow for me! I hope to finish it this weekend!

Which women‘s prize book should I read next??

Next Up of my #tbr shelf!

It‘s time to start cooking 🍳🍉🥖🥞🥂

My #Januarywrapup! It was a little bit of a slow reading month for me, but I read some great books!

The Fifth Season was one of my favorite books of 2018 and I am really enjoying diving into this #uniqueread! #ANewChapter

This is my 2018 in review! I love looking at this wrap up! And it always gets me excited to make my #2019readinggoals which are:

-Read 65 books
-Read at least 10% toward my lifetime goal of reading a book from every country
-Read at least 4 presidential biographies
-Join at least 3 Litsy readalongs/bookclub reads

#anewchapter

This is a little late but these are my favorite books of 2018!
10. The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark
9. The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin
8. She Would be King by Wayetu Moore
7. Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara
6. I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
4. A Mother‘s Reckoning by Sue Klebold
3. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the Book of M as #1! 🍾🎊🎉

So my classic sign of a reading slump is that I start numerous books, but can‘t finish any, and I dive into book reviews, blogs, videos without actually reading! This almost never happens in the new year but the signs are undeniable!! Do you all have any recommendations??? How do I stop this before it turns into a full on reading slump???

I read The Great Gatsby for the first time last year and I was surprised that I absolutely loved it! I recommend the audiobook read by Jake Gyllenhaal! Now I‘m watched the movie to celebrate the new year!!

I finished this book and my fiancé and I just watched to movie ??I did not think I was going to like either, but it turns out I loved both! Now I need to read the sequel!

I‘m enjoying my first Tana French!

Reading by the fire while the family watches Elf! Merry Christmas Eve 🎄

Thank you @AmyG I love everything! The books look so good! I was excited to see the Horowitz it has been on my TBR forever! I loved the amazing Christmas goodies and treats! I love the Little Women ornament! It was so sweet of you to get something so meaningful! It‘s already on my🎄Finally Thank you for the adorable 🍒 sip! I can‘t wait to use it tomorrow! Thank you So much! And Thank you @Avanders for putting this together! It was so much fun!

I love getting Holiday mail! I also sent mine out on Saturday!! #StuffedStockingSwap #SSS @Avanders

My homework is serious derailing my reading......

What do you do when you are overwhelmed by homework??? Read anything except for the 6 hours of dry articles you are suppose to read 😑

I absolutely loved this book! It really made me think about what it really means to be human

I don‘t know if I can finish on time but I‘m going to try! I got this today (as a reward for a hard weekend of work!) and I‘m joining the #readingenvyreadalong

#currentaudiobook! I‘m really enjoying this!!

Starting this tonight!! I figure I need something creepy for October!

So I just watched the movie for the first time and this might be a controversial decision but I liked the movie more than the book! I felt like it was more about all the characters rather than just Wade!

I know I‘ve been away from Litsy for a while but I had a big life event and I really wanted to share it with all my friends on here! I got engaged on the top of Mt. Fuji at sunrise! About the little women: at one point early in our relationship I told him that instead of giving me a ring he could give me a first print first edition of little women 😂 So as a part of the engagement he gave me a new little women with an engagement ring bookmark!!

I am in such a reading slump...... Arg....

1) I‘m reading about 10, but I tagged my favorite!!

2) I traveled to visit my boyfriend‘s family for the weekend, but I just traveled back home today

3) oh so many, but I am going to choose pickles... does that count??

#manicmomday @JoScho

Confession: I love the bachelor/bachelorette tv show! I know it problematic but I‘ve been watching it for almost the beginning since I was really young and I just can‘t get enough! But I‘m reading during the commercial breaks!!

Post family gathering, post clean up, I‘ve snuck away to try to read with the last minutes of daylight!

Reading this #whodunitbymail book while its raining outside!! Perfect day #currentread