🥺🥺🥺 #37by37

Was that romantic? Or deeply messed up? A Memoir 😅 #37by37

First book down for #37by37 🩸🧛🏻‍♀️

Even vampires need their mixtapes 🧛🏻‍♀️🎶 #37by37

This one was somewhere between a so so and a pick for me. I know why the ending is ambiguous but I want answers dammit 😂 Would have liked more details about the rules of the sorority and the actual cannibalism. But I get that it‘s supposed to be a satire on feminism and not straight up horror. Etc, etc.

Tentative (as all my TBRs tend to be) TBR for #37by37

Me reading this book: ummm.. what? Wait wtf. Somebody think of the baby elephants!! Omg this is adorable 🥰 But seriously this kid‘s face on the right was me on this page 😂

Do better 😜

Forgot to post.. I fully intended on making progress on Dark Matter during my platelet donation on Saturday but one handed reading these BOTM hardcovers is no joke 😂 I ended up spending most of my appointment listening to the new album by The Belair Lip Bombs. It‘s excellent and unskippable IMO. Also I just noticed I‘m in the 3 gallon club now 🎉 #LitsyBloodDrive

Please join me for another birthday readathon! I will be 37 this year and am hoping to complete 37 hours of reading the week leading up to my birthday on the 15th. You can try for 37 hours, 37 chapters, or choose another goal entirely! Use the tag #37by37 and tag me so I can creep on your progress 👀🧁

November #BookSpin #ReadYourKindle and #BookSpinBingo Board. I rolled over some of my unused free spaces so there should be plenty of room for adhd mood reading 😂 I will also be hosting a readathon the week of my birthday (November 8 - November 15) if anyone wants to join me. I‘ll put the details in the next post. 🧁 📖

Kiddo and I were sadness and embarrassment from Inside Out for Halloween. 💙🩷

Cujo was the last book read in October and here is my October wrap up overall. Cujo definitely unlocked a new fear in me especially with rabies cases on the rise in my county and so many who don‘t follow leash laws. I definitely could have made bingo this month but it was nice to be busy with fun things like a concert and Halloween and meeting new people. Great month! #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #Chocolotiers #TBRTarot ⬇️

Not no but hell no. Yikes on bikes. I would have DNFd at about 50% but this was a book club book and I wanted to be able to discuss all the awful 😂 Luckily everyone pretty unanimously hated this one. The premise had potential but this was terrible. It‘s been marketed as dark gothic romance but this is not romance nor did it really feel like horror. It was like a mish mash of tropes and hoping for the best. 😬 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders ⬇️

Some of you might remember I posted about a local bookclub that was just getting started in SA.. well this was our first book. Post Stolen from IG from one of the other ladies in our book club who makes book themed cocktails. I loved this story that is set in the world of the Ruinous Love trilogy. If you read Butcher and Blackbird, the FMC in this book was a minor character. This book is the start of a trilogy all focused on the same couple. ⬇️

So cute. Zeb is nervous about befriending a brain he names Brian because brains are food not pets. This one reminded me of a Brian I used to work with whose name was mistyped as Brain on the schedule once. He was Brain to us after that 😂 🧠 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

Another cute picture book read in October. 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🐌 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #ASnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

Catching up on posting the rest of the books I read in October. I mostly picked this one up because I love KC Davis. Even if you aren‘t in a romantic relationship there is so much to take from this book to increase your emotional intelligence / self awareness. I love this quote. 💯 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers +1 word search +2 scavenger hunt. #BookSpinBingo

Happy #AllHallowsReadSwap day! Looking forward to these haunted house books. I love that the covers have similar color schemes. And that ghost‘s face was all of us dealing with 90° weather halfway through October. I‘m glad the freezer saved him (he was delicious)? ? Thank you @LeslieO happy #AHRS

Time flies when you‘re ignoring your physical TBR #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

I was about to make a snarky post asking if anyone is actually finding brackish for the word search and then it decides to show up 😂 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Been doing some of these Cleary books with my son for speech stuff. Featuring one of his favorite things on the cover 🍕 Fake Sticker and Grey for Scavenger Hunt. #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

This was a fun read. I felt it kept the spirit of the original. #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo +3 Scavenger Hunt Prompts

It‘s that time again. Here‘s my #10BeforeTheEnd list. Perhaps more aptly named 10 lies, but I‘ll try 😆 I‘ve started about half of these.

Early voting in Bexar county means an excuse to go to the library. 🗳️ As you can see I have been playing catch up with #losersclub 😂 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

I got this news alert while listening to Cujo 👀 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #LosersClub

I was planning on WFH tomorrow to receive this package and save it from the TX sun, but it came early today! I was able to make it home during my break at work and chucked it in the freezer for a bit just in case lol ? Thank you @LeslieO ?? We are projecting a high of 71° on opening day and I can‘t freaking wait. #AllHallowsReadSwap #AHRS

Only page 2 and am already deeply relating to this FMC 🤣 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Late but … Final total for #Deweys24HourReadathon #DeweysOct25 I think I should finish all these by the end of the week. #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #BirthdayBashReadathon #ReadYourKindle

Little over half-way update. I‘ve gotten a little over 8.5 hours reading time in which isn‘t bad for me. Finished Roadwork and made some progress in Grotesque and Cujo. Wasn‘t actually planning on reading any Cujo for this readathon but I was running errands earlier and I had this audio handy. #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BirthdayBashReadathon #LosersClub

Readathon Snacks. Don‘t cancel me but yes candy corn and pickles. I wanted to do like a candy corn filled pickle but that was a lot to commit to so I give you candy corn lily pads. Don‘t knock it till you try it 😂 #deweysoct25 #deweys24hourreadathon

Fall Book Spines #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25

Here‘s a #monstrous recommendation. Super cute and would be a great read aloud. +4 scavenger hunt prompts for #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

Don‘t want to overachieve too hard but here‘s my TBR for #deweys24hourreadathon #deweysoct25 and a starter for #BirthdayBashReadathon

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPri8ZqkRAy/?igsh=MXdhc29uNXJ5dGQ5

I don‘t think the @DeweysReadathon Litsy page is active anymore but today kicks off the Dewey‘s 24 hours readathon over on IG. Here‘s their bingo board. I‘ll post the photo challenge next in case anyone is interested.

This was the first book I read this month. Libby is an actress trying to hide from the limelight and rumors about her at Mohegan Island, a solace of her childhood. Weird things start happening to her and her single dad grump neighbor steps in to get to the bottom of things. ⬇️

I‘ve read quite a few seasonal picture books earlier this month but I loved this one using Dracula to teach about the importance of blood donation! Also behold the power of chocolate! #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #LitsyBloodDrive #BookSpinBingo

I love how much this character hates salad. 😄 I don‘t have a lot of experience with quinoa but I thought I would give it a try. Not sure what he was on about it‘s pretty great. 🥗 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #TrappedInASpookyHouse #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #PumpkabooHunt #BookSpinBingo

I was hoping that the weather would be less hellish by now before getting this in the mail but alas… I will be dropping off my #AllHallowsReadSwap #AHRS package either tonight or early tomorrow. So it should arrive Thursday sometime. Yes I went a little overboard but I do what I want. 👻 🍫

Correction: it‘s due to arrive on Friday.

Ok maybe one more lol #FirstLineFridays #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

#FirstLineFridays #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Yoinked from IG. Who else is hoping to get to House of Leaves this month? 😂 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Took my October #BookSpinBingo board out for a walk today in the crisp 89° weather ? I think this is the first month this year where both picks are actual books and not just challenge or format placeholders.

October TBR

I have 23 unused Free spaces so far this year so I added some back. No freebies left behind 👻
#BookSpin #ReadYourKindle #TrappedInASpookyHouse #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

September wrap up and I was able to squeeze in a #BookSpinBingo. 🎉 Not bad since most of these were read in the last half of the month after settling up with my last place after moving out. I still have unpacking to do but I feel much less stressed now and am ready to get back to reading again. #TurnThePage

Last book I read in September would be a fitting #HauntedShelf rec although not in the traditional spooky season sense.

The darkness drops again! There is quite a bit of humor in this book about Gerald whose consciousness gets trapped inside of Slack leaving his body behind. I think the format of this book solely in the form of Slack chats lends itself to a lighter mood, but this really is a horror book. ⬇️

TBR for #TurnthePage. Tagged book is giving Murder She Wrote vibes and is set in Maine.

September #BookSpin / #BookSpinBingo /#ReadYourKindle

Going to try to sprint the last week of this month to get my reading rhythm back.

Super late getting my #BookSpinBingo August wrap up posted since I finally unpacked my printer. Only read 2 books because moving took most of my energy and focus but both of these were great. The tagged book will surely make you feel great about your failed relationships too 😂 This is also proof that DNFs are not always forever. I came back to this book 4 years after shelving it in “library purgatory”.