#20in4 Readathon time with @Andrew65 !
My goals:
✒️ finish Zami - 18 chapters
❤️ Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown - 2 chapters
🐴 She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo - 4 poems
🟰 20 chapters and 4 poems
😝 20 and 4 for 20 in 4
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👻🎄 Get some points for #GhostsOfChristmas and #wintergames !
I finished my #Naturalitsy #midwintersolace nature swap cards over the weekend. Some of you got nice stamping, others, well, I tried! 😅
The international cards are on their way and I‘ll send the rest out December 1st.
Thank you for organizing the card swap @TheBookHippie !
Here‘s my Remainder of 2023 #tbr for the #WinterGames Early Bird Points.
5 books will help me finish 3 challenges.
If I read 11 of these I‘ll meet my goal to read 47 books this year.
Tagged is for a #NaturaLitsy #Buddyread.
Go team #GhostsOfChristmas!
pickToday I read this short story for my birthday! It did not disappoint! If you could make one wish, what would it be?
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pickI just finished reading The Language of Flowers. It‘s a coming of age story about a girl who has just been emancipated from foster care. Basically the only thing she likes besides food is flowers, and her knowledge of them steers her life in an interesting direction.
When I first started it I had a hard time putting it down. It had a satisfying conclusion.
💐🪻🌷🌼
💐 Photo taken last weekend at the Desert Botanical Garden
This is the final scrapbook page I recently completed for my October 2022 scrapbook. It has my reading wrap up for the month. The spiderweb, raven, and words on orange paper are stamped.
My roll of crime scene tape was a great investment. It gets used for lots of things. 😁
Also I highly recommend Maus! 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀
#LitsyCrafters
@Catsandbooks
pickI recently realized I could have counted the books I read to my class on Halloween for #Scarathlon! Lol! I‘ll just keep playing over here by myself. 😂
I teach 5-7 year old students.
A Beasty Story by Bill Martin Jr. was my pick.It‘s a repetition story, great for comprehension.It‘s also rhyming & can be used to teach colors.
My class voted to hear Leila next.They loved her story. They are also fans of Gustavo which we read for Dia de los Muertos.
My November tbr:
🗿Just After Sunset by Stephen King - currently reading
🧙🏻 Strange Tricks by Syd Moore
💐 Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory and
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh and Zami by Audre Lorde for the #monthlykeywordgxo challenge (I‘m behind!)
Which should I read next?
#novembertbr #tbr
Behind the scenes! Lol. My husband took this picture of me doing a #scarathlon #photochallenge last month at the airport.
I can Bookstagram and walk my dog at the same time. 😅
#Dogsoflitsy
Time for my #20in4 Readathon wrap up!
My goals:
Finish Bitch by Lucy Cooke - 87 pages ✅
Read Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier - 247 pages ☑️
Read Harvey‘s Dream ✔️ and Rest Stop ❌ from Just After Sunset by Stephen King - 18 pages
🟰 352/375 pages
✅ Score some points for #TeamBOOkLovers in the #scarathlon !
Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 !
My #Scarathlon total for #TeamBOOkLovers is
1,205 points.
So much fun!
Thank you @Bookwormjillk @TheSpineView @Andrew65 @Catsandbooks for hosting fun things all month!
#BOOkLovers
pickI was transported away with this little middle grade graphic novel. I read it in just a little over an hour. It touches on a lot of great topics but centers around family and honoring the dead through Dia de Los Muertos. I cried.
I love the fictional town it takes place in. The author said it‘s based on Half Moon Bay in Northern California @Leftcoastzen 💙
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#TeamBOOkLovers #BOOkLovers #scarathlon #20in4
@Bookwormjillk @Andrew65
Sorry for the late #20in4 Readathon post! Since Thursday night my time has been consumed by Halloween, baseball, book club, and reading!
My goals:
Finish Bitch by Lucy Cooke - 87 pages ✅
Read Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier - 247 pages
Read Harvey‘s Dream and Rest Stop from Just After Sunset by Stephen King - 41 pages
🟰 375 pages
Score some points for #TeamBOOkLovers in the #scarathlon !
Thank you @Andrew65 !
Thank you @Bookwormjillk !
#BOOkLovers
Yay! I met my #OutstandingOctober Readathon goals!
My goals:
👾 finish Project Hail Mary - 290 pages
👯♀️ read 2 more chapters of Bitch - 59 pages
🟰 349 pages
Thank you @Andrew65 ! Hopefully I can add a little more later tonight.
#TeamBOOkLovers #BOOkLovers #scarathlon
@Bookwormjillk
Today‘s #scarathlon #PhotoChallenge is Fear.
I have an anthology of fear, written by a friend of my nephew‘s and gifted to me by him. I believe it is self-published.
#TeamBOOkLovers #BOOkLovers
pickToday I finished Project Hail Mary for #LitsySciFiBookClub with @TheSpineView . I can‘t wait to talk about it with them because I loved it so much.
🧑🏼🚀 I loved the main characters, the timeline shifts, and the flow. Really did not want to put it down. I laughed and I cried.
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✔️ Finished 1 goal for #OutstandingOctober with @Andrew65
✔️ Got some points for #TeamBOOkLovers for the #Scarathlon
📸 Photo from last Saturday‘s eclipse
Scary/creepy movies I‘ve watched so far:
🧙🏼♀️ Hocus Pocus 1 & 2
👻 Ghostbusters Afterlife
🪓 The Shining
👻 Stir of Echoes
Scary/Halloween shows:
🍩 Halloween Baking Championship
🎃 Outrageous Pumpkins
😎 You
👹 Creepshow
👺 Cabinet of Curiosities
🍿 Fun so far!
♐️ Image from thepulpgirls on Instagram- always thought of myself as a final girl tbh 😅
📙 #TeamBOOkLovers #BOOkLovers #scarathlon
@Bookwormjillk
Looking forward to the #OutstandingOctober Readathon with @Andrew65 !
My goals:
👾 finish Project Hail Mary - 290 pages
👯♀️ read 2 more chapters of Bitch - 59 pages
🟰 349 pages
My Bookly app predicts this will take me about 11 hours.
Hoping also to add some points for #TeamBOOkLovers in the #scarathlon.
During today‘s #ScarathlonSprint I read for 1 hour and 46 minutes.
First I read a cool ghost story called Willa from Just After Sunset.
Then I read some Project Hail Mary which is vg so far.
I hope your sprints went well Team #BOOkLovers!
Thank you for the tag @Bookwormjillk !
Thank you for hosting @Emilymdxn !
#TeamBOOkLovers #scarathlon
🧡 Todays #PhotoChallenge prompt is #Orange.
📙 I keep going back and forth between reading Just After Sunset or Bazaar of Bad Dreams this month. Both are short story collections. Both would count toward my monthly challenge. Help me out Constant Readers.
🎃 Also I finished decorating/cleaning today! #HalloweenBucketlist
#BOOkLovers #TeamBOOkLovers #scarathlon @Bookwormjillk
Happy Indigenous Peoples‘ Day!
The last 2 books I read by an Indigenous author:
Empire of Wild and Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
The last book I purchased by an Indigenous author:
Running With Changing Woman by Lorinda Martinez
📚 What were yours?
pickHappy Belated Banned Books Week!
I read the number 2 most challenged book in America this year.
I think this is a great book for teens questioning their sexuality, & also for heterosexuals to better understand them.
“I released the deepest and darkest things about my past in hopes that someone might see a reflection of themselves in the words and know that they are not alone, and that they may not make the many missteps I took along the road.”
Hey Team #BOOkLovers! I was giving away my end-of-the-quarter bookmarks to my class and realized these go with our group read!
I have 7 to give away to fellow team members. I will mail them to first 7 who comment.
ETA: Now open to everyone! (5 left)
👻 Day 4: ghost
#scarathlon #PhotoChallenge #TeamBOOkLovers
@Bookwormjillk
It‘s #20in4 #Readathon wrap up time!
My goals:
✔️ 22 chapters of As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
❌ 2 chapters of Bitch - 1 chapter read
❌ 2 chapters of All Boys Aren‘t Blue by George M. Johnson - 0 chapters read
🟰 23/26 chapters in 20
Thank you for hosting @Andrew65 !
My husband the photographer got a new tripod and wanted to try it out at the airport yesterday morning. I decided to tag along to get my own picture for the #scarathlon photo challenge. Yesterday‘s prompt was Black so I used my current read without her dust jacket.
#BOOkLovers
@Bookwormjillk
#PhotoChallenge
pickJust finished in time to count for the #SummerEndReadathon. This was a surprising conclusion to The Good Girl‘s Guide to Murder series. If you liked the other books in the series Pip and Ravi won‘t disappoint you.
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
✔️ Also met a #20in4 #Readathon goal - read 22 chapters
📸 Photo taken in Canaan, CT a few weeks ago
Here‘s my ambitious #Scarathlon #tbr for October!
💫 Project Hail Mary for #LitsySciFiBookClub
🦋 The Bazaar of Bad Dreams for #MonthlyKeyWordgxo challenge
🪰 Maeve Fly and 💀 Strange Tricks for fun
🏳️🌈 All Boys Aren‘t Blue for Banned Books Week
🧜🏽♀️ Bitch for book club
#Scarathlon #TeamBOOkLovers #BOOkLovers
@Bookwormjillk
Today is the last day you can sign up for #Scarathlon!
Join the fun by signing up here: https://forms.gle/xMbdTBiD4qSrEbgX8
@Bookwormjillk @StayCurious @Clwojick
#TeamBOOkLovers
It‘s #20in4 #Readathon time w/ @Andrew65 !
My goals:
22 chapters of As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
2 chapters of Bitch (book club got pushed back a month so I can take my time - I really like it so far)
2 chapters of All Boys Aren‘t Blue by George M. Johnson - next on my tbr for Banned Books Week
🟰 26 chapters in 20
Hoping to simultaneously start racking up points for #scarathlon #TeamBOOkLovers & get closer to my
#SummerEndReadathon goals.
#Scarathlon #TeamBOOkLovers
1️⃣ I prefer paperbacks. I like alliteration. I like getting a book for “a steal.” Pretend pirates are fun.
2️⃣ Tough one - for the season, magical realism
3️⃣ Halloween 🎃
4️⃣ basically 👻
5️⃣ USA
6️⃣ I‘be been married 24 years, rescue chihuahua mutt dog mom, 1st grade teacher for 20 years, scrapbooker, snail mail fan, grew up on a farm in the country but love city life as an adult, love the outdoors, Sagittarius
Thank you @DinoMom for the #HappyMail! I‘m looking forward to scrapping with your goodies!
You brightened my day! 💙
#AThingADay
pickI finished Gangster Nation last weekend. What a fun continuation of the series! I never would have guessed I would like a gangster book; I only bought the first in the series because my friend asked me to go see the author with her. Now I‘m anxiously waiting for the time to read the final installment!
Read if you like gangster stories, Jewish mc, anti-hero, snarky, dark humor, series, thrillers
🎰🎰🎰🎰🎰
✅ #SummerEndReadathon
@TheSpineView
The month is more than halfway over so I thought I should share my tbr pile. 😁
🐕 Bitch for book club
💐 The Language of Flowers
and
Zami for the #MonthlyKeyWordgxo challenge
💙 All Boys Aren‘t Blue for #BannedBooksWeek
📚 As Good As Dead
📖 Gangster Nation - almost done, going to see Told Goldberg again Wednesday
✔️ The Warmth of Other Suns - finished and loved
Wish me luck!
The goal was 14 books from the tbr in 14 weeks, Memorial Day to Labor Day.
I read 10! I forgot to include 1 in this collage, but it‘s fitting because I forgot to put 1 in the initial stack post. 😅
Thank you for the challenge @TheHeartlandBookFairy !
1 Becoming
2 Fall Into Darkness
3 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
4 Horse
5 Marvel‘s Voices: Pride
6 The Summer Wives
7 Wool
8 Empire of Wild
9 Death Comes for the Archbishop
10 Quicksilver
pickI finished this epic history/biography about the Great Migration, the period of time between 1910-1970 when Black people escaped the south to get away from Jim Crow laws only to be welcomed in the north & west with more racism.
I love how the author chose 3 delightful people who migrated & fully shared their stories while tying it into a broader scope of American history. I‘m grieving not being able to read about them anymore.
#SummerEndReadathon
I would love to take part in the #SummerEndReadathon with @TheSpineView !
My goals are to:
1️⃣ finish The Warmth of Other Suns
2️⃣ read 3 of these 6 books:
🔜 All Boys Aren‘t Blue by George M. Johnson
🔜 As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
🔜 Bitch by Lucy Cooke
🔜 Gangster Nation by Tod Goldberg
🔜 The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
🔜 Zami by Audre Lorde
See one you think I should read first?
So far I‘ve read 56/120 pages toward my #20in4 Readathon goal. I need to finish by Friday for book club (271 pages to go)!
I just noticed when I posted this picture it says at the top, “…an absolute delight to read.” I must not have gotten to the delightful part yet! 😅 Though I would say it‘s definitely “profound” & “necessary.”
I‘ve also read 11 pages from Beyond the Hundredth Meridian- it‘s my “purse book” since my other book is 600 pages.
☠️ I know this wasn‘t my best book when it looks like death is coming for the archbishop and I‘m like, At last! 😅
📘 Today I got to read some more on my lunch break and there‘s only 27 pages to go. Death Comes for the Archbishop has been my purse book because my main current read is 600 pages.
📸 photo taken in Taos, New Mexico July 2023
Book 9/14 #14Books14weeks2023
Yesterday was such an exciting day! My friend of 22 years launched her first published book! When I very first met this talented lady she told me she was a writer, & that is who she is to the core. I‘ve watched her through the years grow, evolve, & never give up on her dream despite the rejection letters and obstacles life put in her way.
📕 You can buy her book of essays on grief from Barnes & Noble. I can verify it IS something she might say.
It was the other side of the world from the wide-open, quiet land of the cotton fields. Ida Mae saw things she never imagined, bridges that lifted into the air to let ships pass through, traffic lights and streetlamps…
p. 244
#WondrousWednesday
📚Happy National Book Lovers Day @Eggs !
📚 Thank you for the tag @Ann_Reads !
#NationalBookLoversDay
Currently reading this (tagged) thick one.
It‘s vg so far.
Happy National Book Lovers Day!
📸 Taken at op.cit. books on a recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
#NationalBookLoversDay
📚 July was a good month of reading for me.
🥇 Favorites:
The Summer Wives
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
🥈 Still Recommend:
Empire of Wild
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
🥉 So-So:
Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon
Quicksilver
😴 My least favorite, and #JubilantJuly Readathon goal failure to finish, Death Comes for the Archbishop 97/156 pages.
🙌 It was worth trying @Andrew65 !
#Bookly
⚾️ We went to a Diamondbacks game yesterday and got there really early so we could get a free Diamondbacks/Star Wars Haboob Globe (a snow globe for the desert). So I brought my book to read until the game started and work on my #20in4 Readathon goal.
📕 Currently on page 186/297.
🐍 And we won!
Late posting but it‘s #20in4 Readathon time!
My goal is to finish Death Comes for the Archbishop.
I‘ve read 18 pages since the Readathon started.
I have 158/297 pages to go.
I almost dnfed this book but I rarely do that so on I go. I‘ve also read My Antonia and wasn‘t a huge fan so this will probably be my last by Ms. Cather.
Thank you for helping me power through @Andrew65 !
pickI received this from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program.
👻 This is a unique coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who lives in a graveyard with her dad who works there. A mystery, a supernatural resident, romance, and indigenous values are layered in, making this a book I would recommend to others and that I won't soon forget. Bonus points for the comedic chihuahua sidekick.
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📚 Thank you @PenguinRandomCa !
#ReadTundra
Time for my #JubilantJuly wrap up!
My goals were to:
✅ finish The Summer Wives = 122 pages
❌ read Quicksilver by Dean Koontz = 304/356 pages
❌ start Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather = 53/122 pages
🟰 479/600 pages
🦞 My favorite was The Summer Wives by far!
Thank you @Andrew65 ❗️
Day 2 #JubilantJuly Readathon update!
✔️ finished The Summer Wives = 122 pages
(it was very good)
🌵 started Quicksilver by Dean Koontz = 51 pages
🟰 173/600 pages
8/14 #14Books14weeks2023
pickI picked this up at a book sale, drawn in by the title and cover illustration, not realizing it‘s book 14 in a series of 25. I gave it a try anyway and it was able to stand alone. It‘s a cozy mystery taking place at a Renaissance Festival in England, with a bit of magical realism thrown in (Aunt Dimity is a dead friend the mc can talk to through a journal). Fun but average story.
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📷 Taken at the Arizona Renaissance Festival in April
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