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 ☺️☕️📖

#25Alive #Prosperous

#25Alive #Joy

The 12 Days of Christmas

December favorite

#12BooksOf2024

Thanks for hosting @Andrew65 it's been fun revisiting my year in books 😊💕

#25Alive #Blessings

The 12 Days of Christmas

November favorite

#12BooksOf2024

The StoryGraph Kool-Aid has been drunk 🥤😂

I decided to give it a try, username thebookgeekfrau, if you you're on and want to be friends

The 12 Days of Christmas

October favorite

#12BooksOf2024

#25Alive #Winter

"None of us liked waiting in ambush, primarily because we couldn't be wholly certain we weren't the ones being set up for a hot-vape."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

"As exiles, that hope is embedded in the very essence of our soul, taught from birth--
Next year in Havana--
It's the #toast we never stop saying, because the dream of it never comes true"

#25Alive

12 Days of Christmas

September favorite

#12BooksOf2024

January - June #BookSpinBingo board

#ReadingMyTBRs #Read2025
#AllergicToChunksters
#BookedInTime
#MonthlyNonfiction2025

Ready for all my challenges📚📖📚

January #Bookspin and #DoubleSpin

#25Alive #Peace

The 12 Days of Christmas

August favorite

#12BooksOf2024

2024 Wrap-Up

Goal: 62
Total Read: 91 a personal best! 😮
BookSpin: 12
Doublespin: 11
BookSpinBingo: 42
ReadingMyTBRs ReadingAway2024: 77
BookedInTime: 3
DNF: 14

Favorite of The Year: Prisoners: A Jew and A Muslim Across The Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg

Goal for 2025: 80

Happy New Year Littens!! 🥂📚❤️

Only 2 away from a blackout board for July-December #BookSpinBingo And it wasn't that I ran out of time; it was the unpredictable fickleness of being a mood reader 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I'm very happy with the 8 Bingos I got!

December Wrap-Up

Total read: 11
#BookSpin ✔️
#DoubleSpin ✔️
TBRs 11
DNFs 2

#ReadingMyTBRs #ReadAway2024