Finally starting one of my Blind Date books

Lots of laughs about motherhood and some bittersweet thoughts about aging.

10/80

February #BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

Thanks for the tag @dabbe 💕💕

I read 25/100

3 favorites:
Mama Day
Of Mice and Men
Push

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

Moving on to this month's #BookSpin
Oh! And lookee there #Roses on the cover for #FeelinTheLove 😁

I didn't realize this was a murder mystery. I tried to stick it out, but I just don't care.
#HailTheBail

9/80

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

I liked the characters, I liked the plot, I didn't like the annoyingly obscure writing. And I kept waiting for Shane to say 'Go ahead. Make my day.' 😂

8/80

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

February #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin

I'm going to live la vida loca and read the DoubleSpin first!😲 Crazy, right?! 🤣

#FeelinTheLove #LovePoem

"He rode into our valley in the summer of '89."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

January Wrap-Up

Total Read: 7
#Bookspin ✔️
#DoubleSpin✔️
#BookSpinBingo 1
#Read2025 TBRs: 6
5 Star Reads: 0
DNF: 1
#MonthlyNonFiction2025 2

January Favorite: More or Less Maddy

Got a Bingo for January! 😁

#BookSpinBingo

Published in 2008, the info is so outdated that there is no mention of iPhones. However, it was interesting to skim through as a hindsight read.

7/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBRs #Read2025 @DieAReader

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

Thanks @Eggs for the tag 💕

1. My granddaughter's 4th birthday
2. A snowy reading day
3. Watching my daughter start to thrive in her new career
4. Meeting a new friend through a local bookshop
5. Family trip to the Space Foundation Discovery Center

#5JoysFriday

Thanks for the tag @dabbe 💞

I scored better on this one 32/100 32%

3 Faves:
The House of Spirits
The Hundred Secret Senses
Ethan Frome

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

#25Alive #Bright

I love a book that makes laugh out loud while I'm reading!

#25Alive #Laughter

#25Alive #Hope

20yr old Maddie is diagnosed with bipolar disorder after storming out of Thanksgiving dinner to go meet Taylor Swift to collaborate on her memoir.

It took until just past halfway to really get into this and connect with the characters. That's so very different from Genova's other books. But once it hit its stride I had a hard time putting it down.

6/80

February #BookSpin #DoubleSpin

"Maddie stares at the ceiling fan above her."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#25Alive #Dreams

Thank you for the tag my dear 💕 @dabbe

I scored higher than I thought I would 28/100 28% thanks to school

3 faves
Don Quixote
Beloved
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

#25Alive #Celebrate

This was a total #BlameItOnLitsy read, and y'all done me good Littens!! ☺️ This was a perfect cozy read to get me through snow and the polar vortex!

5/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBRs #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#25Alive #FaveWinterFood

That feeling when a preorder arrives 💃🏻😁

#25Alive #FvWinterDrink

Starting this total #BlameItOnLitsy read 😁

#25Alive #AuthorYouLove

Enough with nonsense word salad. Be gone! 😂

The title is the only good part of this book.

4/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

#ReadingMyTBRs #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#HailTheBail

#25Alive #SnowyCover

Starting this while waiting for the snow and Polar Vortex 🥶

So I was a little annoyed that this book was more about two people working at a newspaper than about children being sold out of desperation in the 1930s. But after a bit I became so immersed in the story that it didn't matter anymore.

3/80

January #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBRs #Read2025 @DieAReader

#25Alive #1stBk25

"Outside the guarded entrance, reporters circled like a pack of wolves."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#25Alive #FaveBook24

@dabbe Thanks for the tag 💕

I read 8/104 8%

3 faves:
Sounder
Bridge to Terabithia
King of The Wind

3 I want to read:
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Julie of The Wolves

#ThreeListThursdsy #TLT

A literary postage stamp? Why, thank you very much!!!
😍😍

#25Alive #Memory

Long day watching the Grand, though we did have a blast at SkyZone (indoor trampoline park)! And I'm amazed at just how much the 5min knee exercises coupled with a daily 1.5 mile 100ft elevation walks have made difference in my leg strength and stamina; cause it certainly doesn't feel that way when I'm walking up that dreaded, fucking hill 😂

Book and relaxation time 😌

#25Alive #TakeCharge

Jamie came to mind immediately for this prompt because he just made everything in life okay💞

At first I was like, come on! a 12yr old city boy is tanning deer hide! But the mention of the Civil Defense put the whole Cold War, nuclear fear thing gave context to why Sam studied up on survival skills. Made it more enjoyable, and overall I ended up liking it more than I thought I would.

2/80

#ReadingMyTBRs #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#25Alive #Friendship

"I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Tea and a book 😊

I really like Corran Horn so I was happy he was the MC. I also enjoyed getting more Jedi lore. But holy shit was this one long-winded novel. I was starting to feel like it was never going to end, and that makes it border on so-so.

1/80

#BookSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBRs #Read2025 @DieAReader

I scored 26%

Three favorites:
🕸️ Charlotte's Web
🌙 Goodnight Moon
🐂 The Story of Ferdinand

Three that should have been included:
Sylvester and The Magic Pebble
The Black Stallion
Where The Sidewalk Ends

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

#25Alive #FreshStart

#25Alive

My 2025 #ReadingGoal is 80 books with the majority coming from my TBR shelves 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Didn't get anywhere the predicted amounts, right here at least #iykyk

Shoveling done and onto coffee and book time ☺️☕️📖