“We came on the wind of the carnival.”

Finished in January for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge
#AudreyHorne

Vianne Rocher sweeps into the town of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church during Lent, making an enemy of Father Francis.

This is such a good story. A little bit witchy and full of delicious details. The food descriptions almost make me salivate. I recommend.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Book 1 of Chocolat

#SeriesLove2025 #Read2025

‘The Heart‘s Desire Always Comes With A Price.‘

Finished in January for #FairytaleReadingChallenge 2024 #Rumpelstiltskin

‘As the seasons change, it‘s clear that something is terribly wrong. The creatures are real, and they‘re offering to fulfill the residents‘ deepest desires in return for just a small favor.‘

I always love Craig‘s books. This was a good story with great writing and detail.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Read2025

25/55

Favorites:
Hot Chocolate
Caramel/Candy Apple
All the coffee, pies, cakes, and pumpkin spice 😋

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

27/45

So many good movies on this list. 🍂

Favorites:
Dead Poets Society
Practical Magic
Bram Stoker‘s Dracula
Harry Potter
Edward Scissorhands
The Craft
Sleepy Hollow
Hocus Pocus
E.T.
The Goonies
Stepmom
It‘s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Beetlejuice
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Last week‘s #ThreeListThursday #TLT

I keep forgetting to post this. This #BookReport covers August and early September.

📚 Finished
Lughnasadh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Dead Zone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Firestarter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Nutcracker Bleeds ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Alien Agenda - Read eight chapters. On page 371.
Sailor & Lula - Finished Wild At Heart. Read six chapters of Perdita Durango. On page 151.

37/70

Favorites:
Coraline Both
Dracula Both
Dead Poets Society Seen
Frankenstein Both
Harry Potter Both
The Hobbit Both
The Hunger Games Both
Interview With The Vampire Both
The Lord of the Rings Seen
The Night Circus Read
Practical Magic Seen and read, prefer the movie.
Something Wicked This Way Comes Both

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

I‘m going to join in on #LitsyAtoZ. I will attempt to use books I already own, starting with Alien Agenda for #LetterA.

My August wrap up. 📚🌾

Finished one for #SeriesLove2025
Finished two for #LosersClub
Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge

Still in Progress:
Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels

Meant to post this yesterday.

I was able to finish The Nutcracker Bleeds, and read a few chapters of Sailor & Lula over the weekend.

#SummersEnd #Readathon

Thanks for hosting @Bookwormjillk

Autumn has been steadily creeping up around me, from lower temps this month to the reemergence of pumpkin spice and fall flavored delights. Summer is almost out the door and I will gladly celebrate with a #SummersEnd #Readathon. This weekend I‘ll be trying to finish The Nutcracker Bleeds and whatever I can get done with Sailor & Lula.

Next up. Starting my first book for #AllergicToChunksters.

#Read2025

Next Up. Starting a reread of this for the #LosersClub.

#KingFromTheBeginning #FireStarter

#Read2025

This is Kol and Finn, the newest members of our family. We took them in around mid-July and officially adopted them a couple weeks ago. They are our older kittens, Jinx‘s and Boon‘s, younger brothers. 🐈

#CatsOfLitsy

Time to catch up with the #LosersClub. Starting a reread of this today.

#KingFromTheBeginning #TheDeadZone

#Read2025

#BookReport for July

📚 Finished
Esoteric Empathy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Nutcracker Bleeds - Read nineteen chapters. On page 174.

📚 Next Up
The Dead Zone
Lughnasadh

July wrap up. 📚🌞

July was another terribly slow reading month. I only finished one of the two books I was reading.

Still in Progress:
The Nutcracker Bleeds

Starting next. This was my December pick for the 2024 #FairytaleReadingChallenge.

#TheNutcracker

#Read2025

Three week #BookReport

📚 Finished
Midsummer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Devil‘s Dreamland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Wicca Handbook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Long Walk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Esoteric Empathy - Read one chapter. On page 58.

My June wrap up. 📚🍃

Finished two for #SeriesLove2025

Still in Progress:
Esoteric Empathy

Two week #BookReport

📚 Finished
Protection Spells ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Writing Poetry in the Dark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Bachman Books - Read nine chapters of The Long Walk. On page 335.
The Wicca Handbook - Read Part I. On page 75.
Midsummer - Read three chapters. On page 95.

Last night we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to our Sparrow. She wasn‘t feeling well and wouldn‘t eat. We took her to urgent care where we were told she had developed a very rare complication from diabetes that required a very aggressive treatment with a low survival rate. She was declining so quickly we had to make the hard decision to let her go. She was a good reading buddy; the kitty who liked to sleep with my books. She will be missed. 💔💔

#BookReport for May

📚 Finished
The Crimson Crown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beltane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Stand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Protection Spells - Read five chapters. On page 181.

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ll be starting The Long Walk in The Bachman Books, and continuing with Writing Poetry in the Dark this week.

My May wrap up. 📚🌼

May was a slow reading month. Hoping to get more accomplished this month.

Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge (2024)
Finished one for #SeriesLove2025
Finished one for #LosersClub

Still in Progress:
Writing Poetry in the Dark
Protection Spells

Finished this in January.

Wanted to read this because I love the movie. There‘s so much story not included in the film. This is a very dense story that can take a little while to get through. It‘s well written with amazing descriptions, magical realism, and an awesome horse. There is some horse cruelty I didn‘t like.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge #KatherineMartell
#TPRC

‘A high school show-and-tell session explodes into a nightmare of evil...‘

Read this in January for the #LosersClub.

Starts with a shooting then turns into something that reminds me of a twisted version of The Breakfast Club. Great writing. Strange twist.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#KingFromTheBeginning #Rage

#BookReport for April

📚 Finished
Hooked ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Crimson Crown - Read forty-six chapters. On page 421.
The Stand - Read eight more chapters. On page 636.
Beltane - Read three sections. On page 97.
Writing Poetry in the Dark - Read eleven chapters. On page 105.

My April wrap up. 📚☂️

I‘ve been horribly slow with reading and posting. Only finished one book in April.

Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge and #SeriesLove2025

Still in Progress:
Beltane
Writing Poetry in the Dark
The Crimson Crown
The Stand

Starting next. I have a sleeping Boon keeping me company for now. This was my November pick for the #FairytaleReadingChallenge (2024).

#SnowWhite

#Read2025

Two week #BookReport & #WeeklyForecast

📚 Finished
Night Shift ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ostara ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Lady Vanishes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hooked ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Stand - Read forty chapters. Reading a few chapters a day. On page 376.

📚 Next Up
The Crimson Crown

A lot of good films on this list. Way to hard to pick three.

26/100

Favorites:
Dead Poets Society
Beauty and the Beast
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
The Sixth Sense
Chocolat
The Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge
Seabiscuit
Juno

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

My #ReadYourKindle picks for April:

4. Grave Talk - Nick Spalding
13. Friends in Napa - Sheila Yasmin Marikar
20. When the Rain Ends - Mary Ellen Taylor
12. The Thirteen Black Cats of Edith Penn - Sean McDonough

My #ReadYourKindle list for April. 📚🌸

My March wrap up. 📚☘️

All five books were favorites for March. Starting to catch up on challenges and buddy reads.

Finished two for #LosersClub
Finished two for #SeriesLove2025
Finished one for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge

Still in Progress
The Stand

Starting next, to read alongside The Stand. This was my October pick for the #FairytaleReadingChallenge (2024).

#PeterPan

#SeriesLove2025 #Read2025

Thanks for the tag @dabbe

12/100

Favorites:
American Graffiti
The Exorcist
Jaws
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
E.T.

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

1. Meditate, sleep, bake, take short breaks from socializing, burn incense/scented candles.

2. I usually go for fantasy, magical realism, fairytale retellings. Harry Potter, anything Sarah Addison Allen, childhood favorites like Alice‘s Adventures In Wonderland.

#Two4Tuesday

Starting next for the #LosersClub. Sparrow is keeping me company while the kittens run amok.

#KingFromTheBeginning #TheStand #Read2025

Getting a late start on this one.

#HitchToScreen #Read2025

This #BookReport covers the last few weeks.

📚 Finished
The Dark Descent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Let the Right One In ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Shining ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Night Shift - Read eleven stories. On page 186.
Ostara - Read two sections. On page 65.
We, the Drowned (Kindle) - Read a little. Still at 1%

I‘ve been horribly slow with posting lately. These are my #ReadYourKindle picks for March. I‘ll start these after I finish February.

16. We Ate The Dark - Mallory Pearson
14. White Out - Danielle Girard
19. The Night Raven - Johan Rundberg
1. The Warbler - Sarah Beth Durst

Continuing with my #LosersClub catch-up. Starting next.

#KingFromTheBeginning #NightShift

#Read2025

3/100

Favorites:
The Song of Bernadette
The Ten Commandments
To Kill a Mockingbird

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

1/100

Favorite:
The Wizard of Oz
(The only one I‘ve seen on this list 😂)

Last week‘s #ThreeListThursday #TLT

Catching up on #ThreeListThursday
This is from two weeks ago.

10/96

Favorites:
Dances With Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
American Beauty
The Lord of the Rings

#TLT

Starting next on Kindle.

#ReadYourKindle #10 / February
#Read2025

Time to catch up with the #LosersClub. Starting next.

#KingFromTheBeginning #TheShining

#SeriesLove2025 #Read2025

My #ReadYourKindle list for March. 📚☘️

My February wrap up. 📚❄️

Finished three for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge

#BookReport

📚 Finished
Deep ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Empire of Wild ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
The Dark Descent - Finished twenty more stories. On page 944.
Let the Right One In - Finished Part One and Two. On page 203.

Starting next for #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge

#TheManFromAnotherPlace: Translated from a different language than English

#TPRC #Read2025