I really do need to make more effort to support indie bookstores. B&N is often too convenient because it‘s enroute along grocery store for me and pet supplies for the cat. When I make time for the indies I give my money to Frugal Muse, Leopold‘s Books Bar & Caffé, and Kismet Books.
#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

This is a first for me of finding out about the Knit for Food knitathon. When the day arrives I plan on making a donation to the Yarn Harbor team. Are there any #litsycrafters who have known about this event before? Or like me just learning about it in 2025?

Website https://givebutter.com/knitforfood25
Yarn Harbor team https://givebutter.com/knitforfood25/yarn-harbor-1/YarnHarbor

My #Roll100 books for April. 🎲 24 and 🎲 36 are pending library holds. 🎲 16 is probably going to be purchased since it‘s not at any library branches or libby.

@PuddleJumper

I‘m a little late joining the last #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge for the year. It was a wait for my libby loan to be available. L&L is being paired with a s‘mores tasting NA brewski.

Damn Fine Coffee: character is coffee lover #TPRC
@Yuki_Onna

Sipping ☕️ , & noshing 🍩 Once I‘m caffeinated & fed I‘ll be browsing ravelry projects for the yarn I don‘t need that I bought in support of Joann Fabrics. Then it‘s grab the cat to lounge on the couch for a day filled with audiobooking between The Stand & Monstrous Regiment.
#LosersClub @BarkingMadRead
#OokBookClub @julesG

While I was searching for Discworld themed knit or crochet projects I came across a cute Great A‘tuin amigurumi pattern. I don‘t know anything about amigurumi yet. I have a beginner project sitting in the frog pond waiting for me to attempt again. So this link https://www.planetjune.com/blog/about/amigurumi-discworld/ is beyond my understanding and looks suitable for someone with better creative skills.
#OokBookClub #PratchettPosse @julesG

My -ology journey continues with Griffin & Sabine heptalogy series. I chose these instead of Chronicles of Narnia because a) I read book 1 of G&S and I wanted to finish the remaining books and b) I read Narnia to the point I lost count.

I did not participate in the Good Omens kickstarter campaign as I wasn‘t aware of it until around the time the accusations against NG became public. If there are any littens who have contributed to the campaign, Terry Pratchett Estate posted an update that NG will not be receiving any proceeds.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4302179

Happy Holidays to those celebrating 🎁 Merry Wednesday to those not observing. 📖 While Pistachio naps under his blanket fort, I‘ll be wrapped like a burrito in mine reading Kristian Nairn‘s memoir. What are you reading today?

I don‘t make a habit of planning a list. I end up ignoring it anyways. What I usually do is look up on the website to see if books I want are in stock. If I‘m on a time crunch I‘ll place a pick up order. If I‘m in no rush I‘ll browse the aisles and snap pics of books I‘m interested in for later. Today was a rare moment of prepping a list. Simple enough, since it was only one. 😅
@BookmarkTavern #SundayFunday

Pistachio lending a paw to #TPRC prompts I‘m getting caught up on.
1. My Special Agent: recommended by someone special to me 📚 The Dead Take the A Train recommended by a fable friend.
Bonus prompt. Season 2: Book published in 1991 📚 Needful Things
10. Twin Peaks: set at an Iconic location 📚 irl Stanley Hotel being the inspiration to The Shining fictional Overlook
@Yuki_Onna
Book listed in comments ⬇️

Books in the Freezer‘s 2025 Reading Challenge is up on StoryGraph. Templates are available on BitF instagram highlights for anyone interested in them.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/81fc387c-ed2c-40ae-ae30-89b482f...

https://www.instagram.com/booksinthefreezer?igsh=MWlqd3Nzd3NuY3g1dA==

A3 - Explore the town (Set somewhere you'd like to visit)
I chose Argentinian author Dolores Reyes to begin the #frozensick reading adventure.
@PuddleJumper

And just like that we‘re approaching December. Last #roll100 of 2024 are:
🎲 82 Black Leopard Red Wolf
🎲 76 skipping, already read for February
🎲 10 The Cat‘s Pajamas
Thank you @PuddleJumper for hosting this challenge! Looking forward to continuing on into 2025! My plans for this weekend is compiling a new list for the new year. 📝

I missed the entire month of October and last entries for November of #DraculaDaily due to ending one job and starting another one. I‘ll be getting caught up to finish Dracula tonight. This was quite an experience to see those hilariously titled emails. I might repeat it next year or sit back and observe other people‘s readalong. 10/10 recommend pairing the book with Re: Dracula audio adaptation https://redracula.live/

#TPRC 19. Falling: a book that's likely to make you emotional
It took some time searching for emotional book rec‘s that fit with the prompt. I was reading through a Reddit thread and I wasn‘t feeling moved to check out the books mentioned. Until that is I came across a commenter‘s experience with reading The Bone People. That has been on my tbr for years and maybe this is a sign to get it read in the near future.
@Yuki_Onna

@monalyisha I got a kick out of your summoning post. Anyone else joining in on the fun?
📚 The Artist‘s Drawing Handbook (on order @ B&N)
💿 Dead Can Dance
🍢 veggie kabob
🍺 New Glarus seasonal beer
♟️Shiny! find @ B&N
🏞️ Frederick‘s Hill, Pheasant Branch Conservancy

idk how to play the Firefly game. It came with a $50 price tag. So I ended up walking away and left it on the shelf.

#Roll100 is going to be a solo book.
🎲 85 on library hold
🎲 74 would be Piranesi a repeat from April. Still not feeling motivated to read it yet.
🎲 42 would be Never Whistle at Night. I already read it for a different challenge.
@PuddleJumper
PS Happy International Dog Day to all #dogsoflitsy!

#TPRC prompt 14 Wrapped in Plastic: book with dust jacket

While Pistachio is contentedly wrapped in a cozy blanket, I show up to annoy him with a book pose.

@Yuki_Onna

This f***ing hurts to hear the allegations against NG. I‘m listening to Council of Geeks commentary on Tortoise Media‘s podcast about Scarlett, K. and Caroline coming forward with their stories. I‘ll eventually get around to listening to TM and as well as Claire on the Am I Broken podcast. For the moment I need to process the news.

https://youtu.be/5xmeEXDFM8I?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/P60gfp4VBQQ?feature=shared

A few months ago I went careening down the loom/circular machine/flatbed machine knitting youtube rabbit hole. Flatbed looks intriguing, but expensive. Jury‘s still out on circular machine. Looming was affordable and now here I am playing around with Loops & Threads build-a- loom trying to figure the sourcery of this. Are there any #CraftersofLitsy who knit with different methods? I admire you because this looming has my mind 🤯

My June #roll100:
🎲 66 a BOTM pick
🎲 7 an audible credit pick
🎲 24 on my TBR
@PuddleJumper

I knew immediately what I will be choosing for #TPRC Katherine Martell - a book you had/will have to push yourself through.
My kryptonite book is House of Leaves. I tried solo, buddy reads, chapter a day. Only to pull the parachute cord and bail. 🪂
YouTuber Oskar/A Theory Reader has taken on the brave task of audiobooking HoL. I want to wait until he‘s finished with it before I make another attempt at it.
@Yuki_Onna
Links in comments ⬇️

#SundayFunday on a Monday Runday.
My go-to reads are usually Alice in Wonderland, The Princess Bride, Watership Down, Black Beauty, and Octavia Butler‘s Parable duology. Occasionally other books get thrown in the mix. Some time down the road I plan on re-reading Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman graphic novels.
@BookmarkTavern

For funsies I looked up the paprika hendl recipe that zonked out John boy. There are plenty of blogs to bookmark for future cooking experiments. Though I have to share this screenshot posted on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TastingHistory/s/iTmY5b8bwu
Mem. Must go food shopping next Friday.
#DraculaDaily

Oh hey! I guess I‘m joining the group of littens who are participating in #DraculaDaily. It was a last minute decision to sign up for Mark Kirkland‘s email when I saw @BookmarkTavern admirable Drac stack. 🧛🏻‍♂️

May‘s #roll100
🎲 29 on my tbr
🎲 59 a re-read
🎲 62 haven‘t read yet BOTM
@PuddleJumper

Spending my “appreciate you covering extra shifts” gift card on cat food for the domesticated mountain lion and a book for me.
#TPRC prompt 5 Deputy Hawk: book by #indigenousauthor (no matter which country)
@Yuki_Onna

The day to read the hexalogy series has arrived. I had to complete my set since I stopped at Library of Souls. Distracted by other books was more of a cause than lack of interest that paused the continuation of reading the Peculiar Children series. I have to finish The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home. Then it‘s onto MGHfPC

A little book splurging therapy after enduring a chaotic work week. I ordered all of them online since they‘re listed as out of stock at my B&N. And now I wait for the Shanghai star crossed lovers and their gang to arrive in the mail. Except Our Violent Ends. That‘s a pre-order to a June release.
#TPRC
@Yuki_Onna

I have yet to read my March books 🫣 so they will be joining my April #roll100 stack.

🎲 100 a re-read. Or rather a re-listen of the audiobook I own.
🎲 6 tbr from my 2023 list.
🎲 74 a book I selected from my lapsed BOTM.

@PuddleJumper

I have my book & snacks. Pistachio settled down too soon & I‘m about to commit a crime. 🙀 That‘s right I have to move Pistachio to get my mug of coffee I was brewing.

#CatsOfLitsy

Damn fine day to re-read tagged book, but first try to convince Pistachio to use a roomier box to nap in.
#CatsOfLitsy
The Double R #TwinPeaksReadingChallenge
@Yuki_Onna

Thank you littens for the birthday wishes! As part of what the card says “you‘re tutu fabulous! And a happy birthday to @Lovesbooks87 🥳

My March #roll100
🎲 79 The Vanishing Half ~ I‘m having a deja book moment. I swear I‘ve read it before 🤔
🎲 48 We Ate the Dark ~ from my TBR 📚
🎲 67 Infinite Country ~ from my bookshelf, haven‘t been read yet 📖
@PuddleJumper

I have one more shift to get through and then it‘s a much overdue 5 day weekend off! Gee I wonder what my plans are going to be? 🧐

I still have a stack of books that I used up renewals on to read through. Yet here I am checking out two more books. Both new to me authors Lauren Groff for #authoramonth and out of view Kiersten White for a fable bookclub.
@Soubhiville

Another book captured by Pistachio. It‘s ok. I was better prepared today with a stack in reach this time.
#catsoflitsy #kittensagainstliterature

I‘m a cat of course I‘ll lay down on that book you want to read.
#catsoflitsy #kal

My planned #roll100 for February:
44 🎲 is a new TBR
50 🎲 another new TBR
and
76 🎲 is a re-read

@PuddleJumper

Screenshot from Books in the Freezer insta-reel. A hilarious annotation inspired by if Lestat was written during GRWM popularity.
Annotation reads: Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel.

I made it to the pentalogy book series of my reading challenge. My library loans for Catherynne Valente‘s Fairyland series arrived in the nick of time. A second storm is on its way starting 3am Friday and continuing into noon Saturday.

2024‘s #roll100 new-ish list is complete. It‘s a hodgepodge of 2023‘s books, new TBRs, and re-reads.
To be ringing in the NewYear will be 🎲 19, a 2023 Roll 100 book 🎲 83 is a re-read and so is 🎲 78.

@PuddleJumper

Cat tucked away in his blanket fort ✔️
Book for me ✔️
Let the Saturday reading game begin! 📚
May the odds of a coworker not to disturb me be in our favor. 📴

Last month of 2023‘s #roll100. 🎲 I‘m not feeling motivated by my choices for 9/90 or 53. So it‘ll only be no. 27 getting read for December.

@PuddleJumper

Spotify is including audiobooks with premium membership. Alas there‘s restrictions of allotted time being set at 15 hours per month. It‘s a start anyways to getting some of those tbrs that fall under less time. Just not you Fairytale 😔. I‘m off to search for something else.

Onto my next -ology book series; the tetralogy 📚 From what I can tell The Hunger Games isn‘t called that yet. More of a trilogy plus prequel. I‘m using these books anyways since I already own them.

While out shopping for cat supplies, I swung by B&N blocks away down the street. Pistachio isn‘t the only one getting pampered today.

Next up for my trilogy book project is The Bone Witch series. I‘ve read Bone Witch a while ago and will be re-reading it again during my luxurious weekend off. Heart Forger and Shadow Glass to follow soon-ish.

My weekend off is all booked 😁 I‘m going the checked out at library route for my Fable books.
With Poe, I‘m only reading “The Fall of the House of Usher” along with What Moves the Dead. These Violent Delights is the book chosen for duology prompt.
⬇️Fable links in the comments⬇️