Late start to the #AwesomeAugust #Readathon, but my goals are:

🇫🇷 to read The Caretakers before book club Saturday
🛏 to get to Chapter 19 of Gerald‘s Game
✏️ 444 pages

I hope you‘re enjoying your trip @Andrew65 !

1. My grandmothers, mom and dad, and sisters were/are all readers, and many of my childhood friends as well. I had a neighbor friend who would sometimes just come over & read her own book while I read mine. 🤓
2. Barbara Kingsolver
3. Yes, we‘ve been together about 15 years. The Caretakers is next.

I tag @Enchanted_Bibliophile and @EadieB since you both tagged me to play last month & I dropped the ball.

Thank you @Eggs !
#WondrousWednesday

Better late than never?

🛏 Gerald‘s Game by Stephen King - currently reading along with a group in IG
✅ Granta 115: The F Word: (Feminism) - read
🌎 Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists for the Monthly Key Word gxo challenge
🇫🇷 The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal for book club
⚡️ The Change by Kirsten Miller with my sister

Wish me luck!
#tbr #AugustTBR

Here‘s my reading summary for July! It was an excellent month of reading, so it‘s hard to choose one favorite for the month.
Want to guess which one I picked?

It was…

The House in the Cerulean Sea!

#Bookly

Day 3 of the #20in4 #Readathon went well. I got a lot of reading done today and am now at 155/204 pages toward my goal.
My favorites so far are a short story by Louise Erdrich, also an excerpt from A Train in Winter, a book about the women of the French Resistance sent to Birkenau during WWII, and a photo essay, Un-Possible Retour by Clarisse d‘Arcimoles.
I hope you‘re having fun too @Andrew65 !

The sun has set on day 1 of the #20in4 #readathon.
I read 34/204 pages toward my goal. I need to pick up the pace to get there, but now that the weekend is here I should have more reading time.

My photo is from my outdoor reading session this evening.

📖 @Andrew65

📖 It‘s almost time for our next #20in4 #Readathon!

📚 My goal is to read 204 pages, which would
finish the tagged journal, and
start me on another book, either Gerald‘s Game by Stephen King or The Change by Kirsten Miller.

📝 Busy week ahead getting ready to go back to school, so thanks for the push @Andrew65 !

It‘s time for my #JubilantJuly Readathon wrap-up!

My goals:
✅ finish The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 250 pages left
✅ read Less - 261 pages
❌ start Granta 115: The F Word (Feminism), 5 stories and 2 poems - 89 pages
🟰 511/600 pages

🌏 I had fun, and read 2 great books!
Thank you for hosting us again @Andrew65 !

I met one more #JubilantJuly goal today by reading this book.
I loved this adventurous story of Arthur Less, a gay middle-aged man who goes on a trip around the world to have an excuse to miss his ex‘s wedding.
The shifting pov and time frames were a challenge for me, but I still enjoyed riding along on Less‘s journey. It also won a #PulitzerPrize. Bonus points for #OwnVoices . Read if you like love stories.
👔👔👔👔

✅ 2/2 books
@Andrew65

#JubilantJuly check-in time!

Day 4: 257/600 pages
1/2 books
✅ I finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January today! I 💙 this book. A delightful blend of a coming-of-age story mixed with fantasy & supernatural elements, and girl power overtones. Bonus points for BIPOC main characters, + queer characters. Read if you like books celebrating the power of the written word, adventures, or stories with dog bffs.
🚪🚪🚪🚪🚪
Jubilant July @Andrew65 !

#JubilantJuly update…
Day 2: 148/600 pages
Keeping pace so far! It‘s been easy because this book is so good. I‘ve been sitting in the pool to read, very carefully, to help keep cool.
The Citrus Cooler my husband made topped it off nicely. ( I maybe made it Irish…or pirate? with pineapple rum.)

Cheers @Andrew65 ! 🧉

It‘s time for the #JubilantJuly Readathon hosted by @Andrew65 !

My goals:
🚪finish The Ten Thousand Doors of January - 250 pages left
🌏 read Less - 261 pages
🏄‍♀️ start Granta 115: The F Word (Feminism), 5 stories and 2 poems - 89 pages
🟰 600 pages

This is a Choose Your Own Goals #readathon if you‘re interested in joining!

I finished this book earlier this week (with the help of Bombadil) and it has stayed with me. I loved the characters, and how the author used them to create unique similes for homophobia and racism. Lots of funny moments too. Bonus points for gay main characters.
Read if you love Harry Potter, magical realism, or found family.
🧚😈🐕🐉🦠
#DogsOfLitsy

Last week I finished this book which I started on a flight to Maui. I knew the very basic history of Hawaii & wanted to know more before visiting.
I really like how Sarah Vowell tells history, in a linear way that can sidebar to other relevant events in time, and then back again. Natural history is also addressed throughout. Photographs or illustrations were the only thing missing.
I read The Wordy Shipmates, but I liked this more.
🐠🐡🐟🐠🐡

Here‘s what I want to read this month!
🐠 Today I finished Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell - a brief and fascinating history of Hawaii, perfect for this Independence Day
🌊 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, and Granta 115: The F Word (Feminism) for the #MonthlyKeyWordGXO challenge (June: sea, July: word)
🏳️‍🌈 (Tagged), and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow for book club
📚 See any you‘ve read and loved?
#JulyTBR #tbr

I didn‘t make it to my #BigJuneReadathon goal of 7 books, but I read 4.5 with a total of 1,523 pages. My favorite was Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, with The Institute as a close second.
Thank you for the push @Clwojick !

❌ My goal for the #20in4 Readathon was read for 10 hours to hopefully finish this book. I totaled my time today, 9 hours 56 minutes! Lol wish I had checked last night to read 4 minutes more and be legitimate.
💉I really got into this book and spent a lot of time worrying about the kids in the story. I‘ve seen it labeled as horror, and although it was a horrific tale, I would say it‘s closer to science fiction.
☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️
4/7 #BigJuneReadathon

It‘s #BigJuneReadathon update time! 3/7
🏖 Last week I read Terror in the Trench (link unavailable here, independently published) edited by Jay Alexander. I loved or liked every ocean themed horror short story in this book, some giving me the creeps. Bonus points for diverse characters, and diverse authors. Double bonus points for using all proceeds to benefit The Shark Trust!
🌊🌊🌊🌊
🐢 Photo taken at sunrise in Kihei, Maui
🌺 Thanks @Clwojick

I would love to join in on the #20in4 Readathon!
📘 My goal is to read 10 in 4 - that‘s how much time Bookly predicts I‘ll need to finish The Institute.
📚 Thank you for the tag @Andrew65 !

Working on my #JoysOfJune and #BigJuneReadathon goals this morning in Maui!

#JoysOfJune update!

🍌 I read for 4 hours on a plane ride to Maui yesterday and almost made it to the halfway point. Fascinating history.

📚 Thanks again @Andrew65

📚 I finished this book today. It‘s 2nd in the Carson Stable Mystery series.
🔎 This story brings us back to Annie‘s ranch and finds her, once again, inadvertently wrapped up in solving a murder investigation. Fun setting for a cozy mystery. I wasn‘t able to figure out the murderer in the first book, but I knew this one from the beginning.
🐎🐎🐎
✔️ #JoysOfJune : read this book
#BigJuneReadathon : 2/7 books

Thanks again @Andrew65 & @Clwojick !

✔️ This is my first book for my #BigJuneReadathon goal. 1/7

🔎 This book was a fun combination of a mystery, supernatural, coming of age, and humor story. And bonus points for a gay main character. Everyone in my book club loved it and I did too. (Rarely happens when we all agree)
👻👻👻👻👻

🌲 Photo taken in the Coconino National Forest - we took a nice drive with the dogs last week. Hooray for summer vacation.

Thank you @Clwojick !

Time for #JoysOfJune with @Andrew65 !

Goals:
🐎 Read Saddle Up for Murder by Leigh Hearon
🐡 Read 1/2 of Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
🦈 Read 1/2 of Terror in the Trench - short stories edited by Jay Alexander
🟰 576 pages

✈️ I have a 6 hour plane ride and a beach day on the schedule this week so I see a lot of reading time in my future!
📚 Happy Reading everyone!

#ThoughtfulThursday on Friday…

If I‘m answering for this summer,
🏖 The beach
🏊🏼‍♀️ Swimming Pool
📚 Paperbacks
✈️ Overseas Travel
because we‘re going to Maui!

Thanks for asking @TheSpineView and @Ddzmini !
Thank you @MoonWitch94 !

#two4Tuesday on Wednesday!

1. Yes, the cover goes perfectly with the story (and the title goes perfectly with this hashtag).
2. No, I read the book because my book club (and I) voted to read it.

Thank you @TheSpineView and @EadieB !

I‘m late posting but I would love to join the #BigJuneReadathon with @Clwojick !

My goal is to read 7 books. I have 1 done so far.

Summer break means bigger book stacks!
🐎 Saddle Up for Murder by Leigh Hearon for the Belmont Stakes
🦈 Terror in the Trench edited by Jay Alexander for our trip to Maui
🌊 The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune for #MonthlyKeyWordGXO and Pride Month
🌺 Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell - also for Maui
👻 Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia - finished this morning & loved!
🚸 The Institute by Stephen King - buddy read on IG
#tbr

1. Yes, geez, why are you asking? (trying to get moody :)
2. When I think of moody, I think of suspenseful stories. Something is hidden, people are mysterious, angsty characters, something foreboding…Carol Goodman writes good moody, suspenseful stories.

🙌 Thank you for the tag @EadieB !
😑 Thank you for asking @TheSpineView !
👉 @Cazxxx @Ruthiella @kwmg40

#Two4Tuesday

My #20in4 totals are:

5 hours 29 minutes
161 pages
1 book finished
1 book started
1/2 goals met

🙌 Many thanks @Andrew65 !

#readathon

I made my first #20in4 Readathon goal - finishing this book!
It was a unique story, a funny adventure, and has a Save the Whales message. Loved the chapter titles. Nice way to kick off the summer.
🐋🐋🐋🐋

My next goal was to read Saddle Up for Murder. I‘m switching books, and I won‘t finish it in a day, but I‘m planning lots of reading breaks.

I hope your challenge is going well @Andrew65

Time for the #20in4 Readathon with @Andrew65 ! Perfect to kick off my summer break.

My goals:
🐋 finish Fluke, for real (p. 238/321)
🐎 read Saddle Up for Murder by Leigh Hearon

Happy Readathon everyone!

#readathon

I read another 23 pages under the drier while getting my hair did today! I love the chapter titles in this book.

206/321

#MarvellousMay
@Andrew65

#MarvellousMay update time!
🐋 I‘m still reading and loving Fluke, which means I didn‘t meet my first goal, to finish before seeing Christopher Moore tonight. I‘m on p. 173/321. My new goal is to finish by Sunday.
🐿 The author was hilarious, and it felt good to laugh with a group of people again. Can‘t wait to read Razzmatazz!
📸 The event description said No posed photos, so hopefully this doesn‘t go viral. 😂
🐳 Thanks again @Andrew65 !

🐋 I‘ll see Christopher Moore tomorrow!
🐳 It‘s a physical book; I don‘t ebook.
🐋 Halfway through it‘s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🐳 I use page flags for all the good quotes, dog names, and mentions of Flagstaff, Arizona (none so far in this book).

👈 Thank you for the tag @Enchanted_Bibliophile !
👍 Thanks for asking @MoonWitch94 !
#ThoughtfulThursday
👉 I tag anyone who wants to play!

#MarvellousMay check-in time!

I read 52/275 pages of Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

On Saturday morning my nephew texted me from City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, which prompted a reread of Howl by Allen Ginsberg (18 pages).

Total: 70/355 pages

Thank you @Andrew65 !

🌊 Photo taken in 2019 at Half Moon Beach, CA

It‘s #MarvellousMay Readathon time with @Andrew65 !

My first goal is to finish Fluke before 7pm on Friday when I go see Christopher Moore with my friends. I have 275 pages to go.

My second goal is to read 80 pages of Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto.

355 pages total

#readathon
#MarvelousMay

1️⃣ No, but whenever I read Haruki Murakami I have weird dreams.
2️⃣ It‘s probably a tie between To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and the Harry Potter books.
3️⃣ My priorities for May are to finish the school year strong, and make time for crafting self-care.

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

💐 Here‘s my April reading report from #Bookly (slightly edited)!
📚 It was a good reading month for me. Although I liked all of my books I read, I would have to say Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse was my favorite.
📱 I got this link to give to friends for 30% off Bookly Pro, in case anyone has been thinking about getting the app. I‘m not a paid rep.
https://bookly.app.link/FNvFTPAUlkb

💐 Here‘s my late #20in4 Readathon wrap-up!

My goals were to:
✅ read for 8 hours (8 hours 13 minutes to be precise)
✅ finish Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson (it was vg)
✅ start Two Old Women (also good)

Thanks again for the challenge @Andrew65 !

#readathon

1. Short Answer: 2
Long Answer: If we travel by car, I‘ll bring 2 to read, and my tbr for the month + anything location related for Bookstagram/Litsygram purposes.
If things go right I‘ll be bringing more home with me.

2. Yes. I‘m a paper person.

Thanks for the tag @EadieB !
Thanks for asking @TheSpineView !
👉 I tag anyone else who wants to share!
#Two4Tuesday

Happy May! I pretended May isn‘t the 3rd busiest month of the year and made this giant #tbr pile.
🐎 Saddle Up for Murder by Leigh Hearon for Triple Crown Season
👯‍♂️ Two Old Women by Velma Wallis for #BookClub
✅ I finished Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson today
☎️ Dial A for Aunties by Jesse W. Sutanto for a buddy read
🐋 Fluke; Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore for the #MonthlyKeyWordGXO challenge
#MayTBR

Time for a #20in4 #Readathon update!
❤️ I‘m loving this book!

Today: 3 hours 5 minutes
combined total: 5 hours 12 minutes
remaining: 2 hours 48 minutes

Pages for today:113
combined total: 201 pages

🥰 Today Bombadil helped me read! You‘re looking at him curled up on my stomach with his nose hidden. Very helpful! 🐕

📚 How‘s your reading @Andrew65 ?

#DogsOfLitsy

#20in4 #Readathon update time!

Today I read for 2 hours and 7 minutes, totaling 88 pages.
I had no problem slipping back into Pip‘s world. I‘ve really been enjoying this mystery series this year.

Thanks @Andrew65 !

🌸 I‘m joining the #20in4 Readathon with @Andrew65 !

🌼 My goal is to read 8 hours, coinciding with the #EnchantedBooklyReadathon.

🌷 I‘m on p. 109/397 so I hope to to finish this book, and start Two Old Women by Velma Wallace.

💐 Who else is joining in the fun?

#readathon

Any other #bookly users joining the #EnchantedBooklyReadathon ?

Good Girl, Bad Blood is my Mystery Book.

Good luck!

#readathon

I updated my #pantone2022 challenge card today.

I added:
❤️ The Hundred and One Dalmatians - #innuendo
💚 The Last Thing He Told Me - #basil
💛 Black Sun - #popcorn
🤎 Gordath Wood - #SudanBrown

😁 Yay! I got a bingo!

💞 Again, they match much better irl.

🌲 Happy Earth Day!
🐕‍🦺 This week I read The Hundred and One Dalmatians for the #MonthlyKeyWordGXO challenge (one). Very cute and the illustrations by Alex T. Smith enhanced the story.
I wasn‘t sure if I‘d like a children‘s story but it was fun. I‘m going to read The Starlight Barking next.
🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺
📚 What are you reading?

The #AwesomeApril #Readathon has come to an end. Hooray! I exceeded my goals!

My goals were to:
✅ finish Skeleton Crew - 177 pages
✅ start The Hundred and One Dalmatians - 23 pages ➡️ 66 pages
📗 Bonus! I also read 90 pages of UDL Now!
= 200 pages ➡️ 333 pages

Thanks again @Andrew65 !

#DogsOfLitsy

It‘s time for an #AwesomeApril #Readathon progress update.
☠️ Skeleton Crew: 85 pages
🍎 UDL Now!: 90 pages
🧮 Total: 175 pages
🍀 Still planning to finish the last 92 pages of Skeleton Crew, and start another book

Thanks again for hosting @Andrew65 !

Photo BOMBadil!
#DogsOfLitsy