3✨ I‘m not completely sure how I feel about this book so I took a few days to think about it. The mystery was what I enjoyed about this book. It lead down a logical path and unfolded nicely. What I didn‘t like was the sexual content. For anyone that would be triggered by rape specifically this is not the book for you. There was very graphic sexual content involving the rape victim and another group. I would not call it spicy, it was uncomfortable

Hi @Emilymdxn I had the privilege of selecting your #Snowedin books. Here is the most interesting of the bunch. I wish I could say I‘ve read some of these, but I went off of authors I have enjoyed instead. Happy reading! @PuddleJumper

Hello #GingerbreadGems we only have 5 days until #WinterGames 😱🤩 I wanted to make an opportunity to allow all of us to get to know each other. 1.) I love hot chocolate so much that I have a corner in my kitchen with different flavors and toppings. 2.) We have a gingerbread decorating night every year. 3.)I‘m excited for the atmosphere 4.) We took the kids to the Santa Experience where they saw snow, Santa, and we built a snowman together. ⛄️🎅❄️

Here is another daily challenge by @Eggs and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks sorry I ended up saving it cut off. 🥺 #GingerbreadGems #WinterGames #DecemberDreams check out their original posts for the rest. 😭💛

Hello #GingerbreadGems here is another #WinterGames opportunity for points. 🤩 Reminder: the games start on Friday! Are you ready? 🫣I still have some planning to do. 😱

No… not the cat! 😭😭😭😭😭 Okay, this bad dude needs to go down! 😾😡

My December TBR full of Christmas reads. I believe I might make another TBR for my kids stories, and non holiday reads just in case I need to switch it up a little bit. #WinterGames #GingerbreadGems

3✨it has been a long journey, and I‘m not even sure it is completed. It left on a cliff hanger, and I could have sworn this was the last one. I‘m going to double check. This was not the best in the series. There was challenges for the characters, but not really as exciting as some of the other titles. I‘m not sure what was happening when Aaron flashed back to the present and I‘m not sure I understand what happened to JD. #SeriesLove

Meet Lady the forever pardoned turkey. All my birds remember last year and are hiding. Lady is never hiding, so I was surprised to see her in the chickens coop. (My birds are free range) 😅🫣 Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates! 🦃🍽

Having a pre Thanksgiving walk with a classic. 🥰💛

3✨ I can see why this is a great classic SciFi. Foyle is the strong and resilient main character powered by revenge. He was stuck with little, isolated and in a very possible position of dying. When his rescue ship passes him by after several attempts to get their attention he is pissed. Then he goes on a man hunt that leads him into more than he expected. I can get where Foyle was coming from, but he was a jerk to basically everyone.

Trying to multitask and it‘s not really working. My kiddos F and S helped me make fresh pumpkin puree 🥰💛

Adding some of this to a bucket list. Glowsticks in a bath? How fun is that?! I‘m thinking elf on the shelf will set that one up. 😉 #wintergames #GingerbreadGems

We are saving money for Disneyland so told everyone they were getting cookies this year. May turn into an every year thing. What is your favorite holiday cookie? 🍪

I‘m trying not to overwhelm, but here is a Google Drive with lots of bingo boards, lists, and more! Feel free to browse and see what can help you make #WinterGames even more fun! #GingerbreadGems 💎
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-26swMkbuvxBAsd05ihAyiDGiCho997L

I think yes! My poor baby E has Covid so we are all huddling inside. What better way to spend my time then a couple of readathons. Thank you @Catsandbooks and @Andrew65 for your readathon too! Already finished the first book. I‘d like to try to finish 2 more audiobooks and if I can two physical reads. #Friendsgiving

4.5✨ Simply magical. This was the love story I was missing in: “It Ends With Us”. There is mild conflict, but it really just pulls two amazing and lovable characters together. I couldn‘t put it down. #SeriesLove @TheSpineView @Andrew65

The points breakdown is here #GingerbreadGems for #WinterGames

Remember to tally your points the easiest way for you and provide me those totals before or on the due dates. Please be patient with me after the 19th. I have a planned surgery on the Dec 20th that should be in and out, but may be emotionally taxing.

I LOVE questions (Science Teacher) so please let me know if you need any help. I am excited to see all the fun so please tag me. 💛

Last one for today I promise #GingerbreadGems for #WinterGames I found that this can really rack up the points. My tips are if reading from kindle there is a search option, or you can use Google Reads. 😉Until next time lovely Gems! 💎

I get my kiddos an ornament every year so this scavenger hunt will be fun to reminisce. Well, except for my newborn, but how exciting he will get his first ornament this year! Yay Baby E! #WinterGames #GingerbreadGems

I found these sooo fun last #WinterGames #GingerbreadGems I hope you will have fun with them too.

Hey #GingerbreadGems here is some early bird points to get our #WinterGames started. Please tag me in your posts so I can cheer you on! The point system for the main game is going to be posted later, but I will be posting a few more things to help you get a head start on preparing. Please keep track of your points on your own. There will be a few check ins when I can tally all the points. 🥰💛

Hello and welcome to #WinterGames #GingerbreadGems I‘m sorry I didn‘t post sooner. My friend is getting married tomorrow and I‘m in it! 😱 It is an honor to be your team leader as we have some winter themed fun. Our team books will be The Christmas Pig and/or Jacob T Marley. Our team movie will be A Boy Called Christmas. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions along the way. I hope you all have an amazing time Gems! 💛

Aweee.. not book related but so awesome to be spotlighted. 🥰💛

4✨I watched the movie as a kid so many times and never read the book. It was pretty much as epic as I remembered. Mrs Frisby has a sick child in their burrow and since her husband had passed away it was up to her to figure out how to protect him since the farmer was going to plow the field where they lived. This brave mama met with a crow, owl, rats, and the humans bent on exterminating them all. Definitely a book worth the Newberry Metal #roll100

4✨It was so nice getting to revisit this as an adult. Nancy witnesses a little girl almost get hit by a vehicle and it leads her to believe there may be another will from the late Mr Crowley. Her sleuthing leads her to other that could also be connected to another will. I really enjoyed this story and would only change the title so we can be a little more surprised. #NancyDrewBR @Librarybelle #ChildrensClassicRead2023 @TheBookHippie

I had the opportunity to go to Tucson for the weekend! Anytime I go I make sure to make a stop at Bookman‘s which is my favorite used bookstore. Which actually is two stores now. I went to both and found a lot of the retro Goosebumps, Dear America, and American Girl books I didn‘t have yet. Plus I found so many other books by a favorite author and just interesting books I wanted to add to my collection. 🥰💛 Great prices and finds this time. 😍

I found these and more. Bucket list hot chocolates for #WinterGames I think yes! 😍

I got off of my book buying ban since I‘m getting paid again. I saw the tagged book today and was really excited about it! Then I found some books for next month. 😍🥰💛

4✨I didn‘t know what to expect for this second secret book. At first we don‘t know what‘s really going on and I had to go back because I felt a little lost. I relate this more to my busy life at the moment though and my mind not completely committing. As our MC learns about themselves we also learn secrets that change goals and the reality that he knows. The world building is complex and futuristic which was what really got me.

You‘ve been trapped inside due to a massive snow storm! Luckily you have some books to keep you occupied! I‘m really excited to see what‘s picked for me. (I‘m also excited to pretend it‘s snowing where I live 🤣) Thank you @PuddleJumper for setting this up! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffx15-VHEe2Nf7bSYHIk_DZqafpEDkSAkKg3I1...

Trying to audio crochet 🧶 #LitsyCrafters but realized why I haven‘t been able to. 🤣 Juvenile Cats… 🙀😹🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

My October Reads! I read so much that I can barely fit them on one collage. That‘s a good problem to have. 🤣

Last night I went to some of my students drama production of “Puffs”. For all the Harry Potter fans out there this was hilarious! It follows the Hufflepuff house all 7 years when Harry was in school. Harry is present, but seen as more of annoying side character, Ron was a mop, and if you haven‘t read the books/seen the movies you would have been LOST! If you can watch it DO IT! My husband who is not a Harry fan was busting up laughing next to me.

I just signed up! Hoping to lower my TBR and have a lot of holiday fun! 🥰💛. Check the sign up link on @StayCurious or @Clwojick page.

4✨ I finished this a couple days ago. I‘m having trouble completing anything. 😅 A prophecy is made about different regions of dragons hatching together to bring change in deciding their next leader. Some of the dialogue is strange. However, it runs at a good pace to detail a brand new world, and diverse characters as well as provide an interesting story. The graphics are all very well drawn too.

DNF- I figured I wouldn‘t like this, but was recommended it by a coworker. So naturally I needed some talking point. After 50% yesterday I gave up. I‘m not interested and pretty disgusted. At least I tried.

Okay, cheer performance completed last night, Halloween almost here. I am hoping to finish the tagged before the end of the month. However, not enjoying it really at all so will DNF if I continue to be grossed out by slaughter pigs. 🤢

3✨ I read this with a pretty busy mind so I‘ll want to do a reread in the future. I enjoyed the writing and how it started out. There was a lot of narrative instead of dialogue which made it harder for me at this moment in my life to stay focused. I liked how it was written and would have likely enjoyed it more if I gave myself more time or was not as busy while I read it. #Scarathlon #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks (I audio and physically read)

Sorry #BatBrigade I got back to work Monday and as I thought I came back to a huge mess and a ton to still grade (my team did the best they could while I was gone). Plus grades are due tomorrow. #MaternityLeave #TeacherProblems I‘ll t try to get back to it soon. 🥲

Week 3 Game I did the best I could. 😅 #Scarathlon #BatBrigade 80 words @Catsandbooks

One day I will get to this one “Orange” #ScarathlonPhotoChallenge #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks

3✨ It was kind of a fairytale retelling, but for dark fairy tales. Namely, in regard to stories coming alive. There is also a magical other world that they enter. I really liked our super fan of Alice‘s grandmothers books on dark fairy tales. I feel like this book could have used more world building, but I also was having a hard time getting engaged. It was a good story I just wasn‘t hooked. I‘ll try the second book too though. #Scarathlon

I‘m going to try to do some catching up with #ScarathlonPhotoChallenge images. This was the best I was able to do for “coffin” (Yeah, I‘m that far behind life has been crazy). @Catsandbooks

Meh. I finished it because I wanted to know the ending. Four friends return 15 years after their friend‘s disappearance to reminisce. Their fifth friend disappeared one day and all of them think they had something to do with her disappearance/death. Im not sure how the four of them didn‘t put the pieces together in 15 years. While it is a good plot line. Im not a fan of the conclusion or the ties that got the characters there. #OUABC #Scarathlon

3✨ I like that this is a zombie book with a different twist. The characters are interesting and likable, and the plot is intriguing too. What I didn‘t like so much was the constant repeating of being the “chosen one”. It caused me to lose interest in the middle. #Scarathlon #BatBrigade @Catsandbooks

I‘m really proud of how many points I collected this far. I could have gotten more, but have a lot going on. For #BatBrigade #Scarathlon I gained 15,532 points! @Catsandbooks

Before I do my final count her was my week 2 game for #BatBrigade #Scarathlon @Catsandbooks 91 words, 910 pts. 🥰💛

4✨ This story is narrated in 8 different POVs. It starts out peaceful and calm. We have a bad king, his horrible wife, and a two faced son. Then we have siblings making peace with another nation. Finally we have the Starks where most of our POVs are. This is my second attempt and I‘m so glad I went through it this time with a chapter a day method. So much happens! Very well done. #GOTChapteraDay #ReadingWesteros @5feet.of.fury Notice Joff 🤣

I haven‘t been posting, but we have been watching a lot of toddler friendly Halloween shows. Crowd favorite is Super Monsters with a amazing 32 episodes the past two weeks! Hubby and I have also been watching The Walking Dead 🧟‍♀️ 10 episodes. #BatBrigade #Scarathlon @Catsandbooks