#Spooky Season Bucket List
🎃Drink as many as I can pumpkin spice latte coffee ☕️
🎃Decorate some areas with Halloween decorations-I‘m a little unmotivated because I‘m doing some changes in the apt and I don‘t have space so with this bucket list I hope I could do it
🎃watch movies and read spooky books
🎃Candles with this season scents

#Scarathlon
No points yet👻

These are few of the movies I will like to watch but I will be looking those recommendations by you. I love haunted houses, any recommendations?

Oldies
The Others
Frankenstein Jr.

First time watching-some of these. I don‘t watch too much tv🤷🏽‍♀️
Eerie
Killer Book Club
His house
The Pope‘s Exorcist

#Scarathlon
20 points + 1 point for post=21 points

These are only few possible books I will like to read. I‘m a such a mood reader😕🤷🏽‍♀️ I never know what I‘m going to read next. That‘s why my #BookSpinBingo card reflects topics no books anymore. But I‘m posting possible tbr, I think that counts☺️Each team has interesting buddy reads.

#Scarathlon
20 points + 1 point for posting (possible tbr😬)I will try to read those by Simone St. James

Well, if it accepted then it will be 21 points🤗

It is not too late to join #Scarathlon If you like fall, if you like this spooky season, challenges, games, readathons, and many other activities, this is you🧙🏼‍♀️🎃🍂🍁 📚 Have fun 👻

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnawYo1IDsB

#Scarathlon
10 points + 1 point for reposting=11 points

The Fffffff‘s box arrived #FFFS this week I picked it up yesterday. So happy!🤗Thank you in advanced @BookNAround I know I will love everything🥰🍁🍂🤎🤎🤎

I sent my box to my secret match today. Finally, I received the item I was waiting for. It should arrive by Tuesday. I sent the tracking number to the coordinators email @Chrissyreadit and @Avanders
I hope🤞my match like what is inside the box
🤎🤎🤎🍁🍂🍁🍂🤎🤎🤎

Thank you @DGRachel for the #travelingStars package. I really love those stickers, they are so pretty😍

Don‘t apologize because I‘m late too😬I will send your package soon. I‘m also new in this world and sometimes I don‘t know what to send. The book is perfect for me. Thank you so much, friendship in this world of stars 😘🌙💫⭐️✨

@staceghost

Thank you so much @cathiewithac for this lovely #Travelingstars package 😍Love everything. That card with my zodiac sign is so pretty, the stamps, the washi tapes, stickers, cards, bookmarks. The guided journal is so pretty and practical. Thank you 🥰⭐️💫🌙

@staceghost

#WondrousWednesday
🍁First job, paid😅was at 17 y/o selling in a general community store
🍂Yes, various for a couple of years: babysitting, tutoring (children and adults), professor (undergraduate and graduate levels), counseling
🍁It is hard but you must have to look for that balance for your mental health stability. Sometimes we have to ask for help, support, learn to say no, establish boundaries and to delegate or share responsibilities.

I received this package last Monday but I picked it up yesterday. It‘s from Catie, don‘t have Litsy name. I guess this is the #FFFS package.
Thank you in advanced 🤗🍁🍂

@Avanders @Chrissyreadit

#HauntedHollowSwap @wanderinglynn
🎃wolf (but like owls and cats too)
🎃I have various but there are 2 I will like to read: How to Sell A Haunted House & Woman Eating
🎃Witch, Catwoman & vampire (I made the characters costumes in different years using different pieces. I think all of them looked pretty good. But I won a small award one year for hippie costume.
🎃yes! 9 in shoes
🎃The Others- haunted houses🧙🏼‍♀️🧛& wolf for me
🎃Chocolate😋

#MWS @BookwormAHN witches aesthetic I think someone ask for witches aesthetic but I‘m terrible in creating photo collages but this is a photo I found in Google that mostly shows what I like.

Two4Tuesday

👁Nope! too risky and I think I will find the most weird persons I can imagine. I think I will find almost every diagnosis mentioned in theDSM-5, specially those related with personality disorders😳🤣🤣🤣

But I know that this type of service has worked for some persons, good for them!

👁I can‘t remember if I have read one with this topic.

Thank you @TheSpineView 🥰📚❤️❤️❤️

#MWS This or That @BookwormAHN
I like almost everything ☺️

🧙🏼‍♀️🍂🍁 🖤 🖤🖤

🍁My grandmother
🍂I could go to any time when she was alive because she was so special during my different development stages. About the meal, she loved to cook her grandchildren favorite meals.

Thank you @Eggs 🍂🍁🤎🧡💛🍁🍂

@DinoMom the #AThingADay package arrived in the weekend. Thank you so much🥰Love everything. Those stickers are so lovely, they represent a part of me, and the bag is so cute. Lovely bookmark and a very handy folder😍🤗

A lovely gesture from your part. Thank you thank you 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️

#HauntedHollowSwap

Preferences are in yellow. In the part of thrillers, they are my favorite genre but I can say that I enjoy cozy mysteries very much too.

Pumpkin spice and apple cider are my favorite flavors during this season but I‘m a chocolate lover too (favorite dark but I can eat others too😋)

@Wanderinglynn #HHS23

#Two4Tuesday
📚Tagged book but also enjoyed The Trouble with Goat and sheep
🏰 I love the world of HP, the characters and the story. In this particular book we know the strengths and weaknesses of each character; how they worked together, students and professors to resolved the situation. I enjoyed the interaction between Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore and how these two faced Dolores Umbridge. Then, we have the HP loss😢

Thank you @Eggs 🥰

🎥 I have various old ones: Young Frankenstein, Analyze This, The Pink Panther, Elf, Meet the Parents There‘s something about Mary etc.
Mire recent movies: Guardians of the Galaxy John Wick (at least I lol in that last movie)

🍿 Last movie watched😳Barbie🤷🏽‍♀️
🙌I wish Ukraine 🇺🇦 could have peace. Enough to all this situation

Thank you @TheSpineView @Eggs @Meshell1313 🥰❤️❤️❤️

A late #Two4Tuesday
📖 Most of our private schools start during the first week of August. Public school used to start second week of August. The first week teachers start to work.

📏 Harry Potter!!! I can re-read those books and watch the movies over and over 😂

Thank you @TheSpineView🥰

Late post but this tag was not easy for me, trying to look for an English song that could match with the book. Then the books I was reading were not so good at that time😳
But during Yellowface, June was almost “paranoid” of who was writing what in social media, of course to later justify herself. But I thought in this song:

Somebody‘s Watching Me by Rockwell

Thank you @Eggs sorry for the tardiness 😳

August wrap up
10 books read
#BookSpin & #DoubleSpin read
One bingo column
@TheAromaOfBooks
No bingo in #ISpyBingo @Clwojick
Some buddyreads were completed I‘m late but I‘m enjoying the books. I can‘t do more, too slow as a reader🤷🏽‍♀️I still enjoy reading the books discussions📚🤗❤️❤️❤️

Last book read in August
Was this book necessary? I really don‘t know. It was so short that this could be included as an epilogue in the first book. Nothing much to say that it ended very cheesy. Best character? Silas of course and I enjoyed Nathaniel occurrences/expressions. 3⭐️

August #BookSpinBingo (#5-sequel) @TheAromaOfBooks
#SeriesRead23 @Abdrew65
#ISpyBingo August (purple flower) @TheAromaOfBooks @Clwojick

August review A super late reading for ##GoldenAgeCrimeClub(February)
This was an interesting reading but since I read the book so late I didn‘t participate in the book discussion. However, reading the comments now, helped me to understand better the story and the characters since you find many racial/stereotypes comments that today could be very offensive. But as one of you mentioned it‘s difficult to evaluate it with our current values/beliefs

August review
This book was part of #CBBC @mommamanzi
I enjoyed this one. Carly went back to her hometown and rented and inaugurated a place where she establishes her restaurant. The specialty are different types of grilled cheese sandwiches 🥪 😋recipes at the end of the book👌But with only few months operating she was informed that the building new owner wants to renovate the place and she has only few months to evacuate the place⬇️

August review
I struggled with this book. The topics are interesting but for me was jumping from one topic to another losing the continuity of the story. There were “chucks”/parts so interesting but it was confusing. Valuable information but the style or format didn‘t work for me at all☹️
3⭐️
August #BookSpinBingo (#11-Women in Translation Month) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo August (right/wrong story content) @TheAromaOfBooks @Clwojicj

August review
I liked this story. Mrs. Creasy mysteriously disappeared during summer 1976 in England Grace and Tilly, 10 year olds girls are in the mission to find out this mystery. As the book blurb says the girls, inspired by something the vicar said, “...believed that finding God they might also find Mrs. Creasy”. I usually don‘t like stories with religious content but this story has more elements, is about this community⬇️

Super late reading and August review🤷🏽‍♀️
I enjoyed this story about Annabel and her process to become an adult. In few pages we will see Annabel working, taking care of her family and her romance. It was Interesting maybe with a cheesy too easy ending but lovely. In less that 200 pages you see all these well developed characters and story. 3.5⭐️I love those Dean Street Press covers/editions😍

Another August review 😲
I liked it but not as much as I expected or as much as many readers. You know by now what this book is about. So interesting to see how awful and terrible the media can be and how dark a person can be transformed to gain attention and to be “famous”...at all cost. All characters are unlikable but I think those aspects can be worst in the real world. All those part were interesting to me. But⬇️

August review😬
This book started so interesting but then it was like a chaos. James is at the airport going back home after vacation, met Michelle and strange things start to happen like they are in another dimension. Then you will see the different reaction of people at the airport. It is supposed to be something like Jurassic park but in a bad way. The book club members thought I would like it because of the psychological aspects but no😳⬇️

August review😳
Third book and apparently last book in this trilogy (sometimes authors decide to add a new book at the last minute🤷🏽‍♀️) I love love the characters and this world. First book was amazing. However, these 2 books could be summarized in the first book. It was so repetitive like they needed to add unnecessary information just to say that there is a trilogy. Abrupt ending.3⭐️ Land for the whole trilogy3.5⭐️⬇️

August review😳
This is a re-read for me. As expected, I loved not maybe as some previous books but I still think this is a well developed magic world with wonderful characters. The audiobook has an amazing narrator. 4.5⭐️
#BookSpinBingo (#4-sequel) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo August (name in the tittle) @TheAromaOfBooks @Clwojick
#ChunksterChallenge @Amiable

#StaycationSwap box by @BarkingMadRead so happy with everything!😍Love the books👍I already ate one chocolate😋never too early😉The pouch is so pretty as wells as the bookmark and necklace🤩The journal will be to track books I want to read by Irish authors and to annotate places I want to visit in that country 🇮🇪 ☘️Stickers will be use in my current journal🤗Thank you Kim🥰 We chose the same country☺️

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom

Felicidades Chrissy! Happy Birthday
🥳 🎂🎉🎊🎈 🎈🎈I wish you the best for today but also best wishes for many years to come. So many things and experiences that have made you stronger as a woman❤️I hope we could have the opportunity to meet each other in person but you have demonstrated your kindness and support as a friend from the distance, always there with words full of love. Have a great day today, you deserve it my friend🥰 @Chrissyreadit

I received the #Staycationswap package yesterday but I picked it up today. Thank you in advanced @BarkingMadRead 🥰

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom

This #CBBC package arrived last Monday. The book seems interesting. The bookmarks goes so perfectly to today‘s day: Book Lovers National Day. Harry Potter Lego? Yes, please👌Definitely I will use the mask, I need to dip into...no water...but collagen😂

Can‘t wait to taste the coffee 😋Today I tried the coffee with blueberry flavor mmm 😋 All of them are so good. They are perfect for my afternoon coffee. Thanks @BethM 🥰

@mommamanzi

The tagged book is the one I‘m currently reading:

Page 209 “You know, I never really liked museums before” Matthew said in a stage whisper.

Thank you @Eggs 🥰

Happy National Book Lovers Day♥️📚♥️📚

Late #WondrousWednesday @Eggs

📖tagged
📖The author writing style (it was a debut book-looking forward her next book), the story and the characters, everything, even the cover
📖Depend, I like different settings, depend on the story I‘m reading. What I like, love prioritize is when that setting is well described that you feel the atmosphere, you feel that you are in that place, you are seeing it through the character‘s eyes.

📖 I try to read every day but sometimes I have to pretend that I‘m a responsable adult and need to attend/resolve/manage human daily situations😂But yes I try to read every day when these circumstances are not present, at least few pages because I need to breath and feel alive through my books🙌
📖obtain information personal/general/specific; Catharsis/emotional relief; a moment of peace/solitude being in harmony you‘ll never feel alone or bored

From yesterday #Two4Tuesday
🌳 tagged book
🌳Since I read Hamnet and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, I wanted to read more books by this author. I really like her writing style, her atmosphere descriptions and character development. Now thanks to #AuthorAMonth challenge, I read 3 more of her books last month. Trying to read as much as I can, books from my physical tbr during this challenge.

Thank you @TheSpineView 🥰♥️♥️♥️.

July #BookSpinBingo wrap up @TheAromaOfBooks
My bingo card is more about mood reading than specific books
12 books read ;new, from box subscriptions and used)
Completed #BookSpin & #DoubleSpin 1 bingo line
Challenges #AuthorAMonth #Summerween #LGBTBookClub #Foodandlit
I enjoyed my reading even those categorized as “so-so” those were books I really wanted to read
“So many good books to read, so little time”😩

Last book completed during this month, last book read by this author #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville A HF based of Lucrecia De‘ Medici who apparently was killed by her husband. This Lucrecia is so different to the real one and the facts are totally fictionalized. The idea comes of this rumor that she was murdered.
I didn‘t like this book as I expected. I felt it forced in term of the history. ⬇️

It is a difficult summer in 1976 and Gretta and Robert continue with the same routine since 39 years ago. But this time, Robert didn‘t return to his house, disappeared and the story began when Gretta, who seems to be so emotional contact her two daughters, Monica and Aoife and her son Michael Francis. Then we will know about all these characters in the splendid authors way, their relationships and the family secrets.⬇️

I‘m not the best audience for this manga but it was okay and cute, how this girl who is not supposed to have magic discover that maybe she has it. There will be adventure and risks in this journey.
I have difficulties to appreciate the art. Some traces were not well defined but I don‘t read much mangas or graphic novels. 3⭐️
#Summerween Readathon read a graphic novel/novella/or manga @Gabyreads

After I read Hamnet and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, I wanted to read more books by this author. Someone from Litsy recommended me this one. Maybe is not the best story but the writing style create the atmosphere to love it. This is a character driven novel with slow pace. It was fascinating to me how well she described the characters, I felt I was in their heads specifically with Elina, Ted, Lexie. The story goes from past to present⬇️

Katy‘s mother died and her world stopped. She decided to travel to Italy as she had planned but with the absence of her mother, who was supposed to go. She will discover herself in this travel.
I didn‘t expect that this novel would be a time traveling. This is a story of second chances.
I liked the atmosphere, you felt like you were there. I traveled too with the help of Google☺️But this character is so annoying⬇️

I enjoyed this cozy mystery. Jane lives with her uncle and aunt in a resort and to increase the number of bookings and raise money for repairs to the property, she creates a Murder and Mayhem week. There will be prizes for those who solved the clues. But the activity turns in a real murder after a book was given as a prize by mistake since the book shouldn‘t be given away. Jane will discover many secrets around this book, about a society ⬇️

Another book full of coincidences. These 4 women retired from a secret organization called The Museum. Their mission-at the beginning was to hunting down the neo by nazis and later this vision expanded. Now, they are in danger and they want to know why, they will investigate this why and who is behind that mission.
The ending was so abrupt. 3⭐️
#TheForgottenBookClub
#ISpyBingo July bold fount @Clwojick
#BookSpinBingo (#2) @TheAromaOfBooks

Unpopular opinion-I didn‘t like this one as much as I wanted. Too many coincidences in those twists, so convenient with a dramatic ending and almost happy ending😳
Love the premise but you see from the beginning that something is off🙄 3⭐️

#Summerween Readathon prompt-thriller @Gabyreads book pick for @Gabyreads on May
#BookSpinBingo (#13) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBingo title in fav color @Clwojick @TheAromaOfBooks

Unpopular opinion because this one has low rating but I enjoyed it. Eric is in disguised with 2 daughters, something happened in the past that they left abruptly. He needs to work and gain some money and need a place to stay for his daughters. Then, there is a well paid job offer where the catch? He has to live in a house documenting everything that he sees in the house. What happen in the house, what is the history. It has a couple of twists⬇️

I enjoyed it, the audiobook is great. Leigh lives alone, no friends and hasn‘t see her sister for a long time. She starts to listen noises at night, a figure trying to enter into her room and that voice. Oh, how well this part was dramatized in the audiobook. Can‘t say much but the story has a couple of twist, some I didn‘t expected, some I suspected. If you enjoyed Darcy Dark and the movie The Others, there is a high chance you will like it