To all who celebrate, may you and yours have a Very Happy Easter 🐥🐣🐤🐰🥕🐇💖.

#californiananncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday 💕🌺💝 & Thank You @TheSpineView for the tag ☺️🐎💝.

1- Easter Is Sunday 🐣🐇🍫💖.

2- Family 💝💝💝.

3- I had fun trying mail ordering again 🪄📦💃, been years yet I won't be making a habit of it...waiting for those packages made me loony 😂 ⌚🧐🤔🧐😜🧐📦🤩.

4- I can begin reading book three of the Riley Thorn Mystery series Sunday (or maybe Monday) night 📚💝.

5- Easter 🐣🐇💝.

Thank You @dabbe for creating this fun play-card 📚💝 & Thank You @TheSpineView for the tag 💕🐎💝.

4/100 · 4% I watched many as movies 👀📚🎬.

Read & watched the Twilight series

Just purchased
Bless Me, Ultima

Been meaning to read the Harry Potter Books, I have most of them...maybe missing one or two.

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

The story of the two, Bate Motels.

My mom always told me about a Bates Motel series from 1987. It had supernatural elements and was all so good!

A few weeks ago my mom found this complete series of the Bates Motel. We were so excited to find this, and I was thrilled to finally be able to watch this supernatural series I grew up hearing about.

👇

Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card 💕🐎💝 & Thank You for the tag 😎👍🏼.

1- We always do ours before the due date rush

2- Pursuit

#Two4Tuesday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Book News

Found on web, not sure how accurate or availability details 📚💝.

Book News

Found on web, not sure how accurate or availability details 📚💝.

@emz711

Purchased this issue because Dark Winds was featured on the cover, and discovered this article.

From Magazine,
Cowboys & Indians
The Spring Fashion Issue
April 2025, Page 110

Note: the following is not a direct qoute from article.

The Packhorse Librarians (during the great depression between 1936-43) filled their saddlebags with books and rode into the hills of the Appalachia to bring books to those who had none.

#californiananncrystal

💖🌱🌽🍆🌻💝.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

😎🌊💖💖💖.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

#californiananncrystal

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.“ -Jane Smiley

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- Litsy is working again 👏🏼📚💝💝💝.

2- book shopping...because I had absolutely no more tbr books on my bookshelf 🤥📚👀😂😜🤣.

3- Garden 🪄🌱💝.

4- Reading Snacks 😋🍿📚💝.

👇

Thank You @dabbe for creating this fun play-card & thanks for the tag 😎🎬💝.

7/116 · 6% 🤔seriously👀...

Hugo (2011)

I haven't been able to catch the Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) movie, therefore it wasn't one of my seven. Yet Did read the book, and that was a terrifying masterpiece.

The Descendants (2011)

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#killersoftheflowermoonreviewedbyanncrystal

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Anyone else excited about this new series? 📺🔍🧐🔎🥳 Seems like the show is going to have a strong female leading character.

Haven't been this excited about a Sherlock book (influenced) to TV adaptation since the 2016 Houdini & Doyle, which was a historical-fiction based on Doyle's relationship with Houdini and not so much about Doyle's character, Sherlock.

@dabbe
#Sherlockians
#sherlocked
#sherlockholmes

#californiananncrystal 📚💫📺🥳💝.

Thank You @Eggs for creating this fun play-card & Thank You @TheSpineView for the tag

1- a favorite is the late spring blooming White Magnolia that continues to blossom through the summer. 💝💝💝.

2- garden, family, our home, my state (California), my heritage, my art supplies, my library of books 🌱💖🏡🐻🦅🖌️🎨✏️📚📚💝💝💝.

#WondrousWednesday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Thank You @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card & Thanks for the tag 💕🐎📚💝.

1- Since I was around 13 years old 📚💝.

2- The Spellshop 🪄📚💝💝💝.

#Two4Tuesday

#thespellshopreviewedbyanncrystal

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- A ThunderStorm 🌬️⛈️🌧️🪄🦅💝 came on Thursday. When the Thunderbirds sung, the song was a roar... incredible, it has been years.

2- Read a little during Thunderstorm 🌧️🎶📚💝...just 2 enjoy the spooky atmosphere even more..

3- Grateful that the Thunderstorm rolled in before this weekend 🌬️⛈️🦅🌧️🌦️🌤️🌞.

4- April is here 🌻🐇🧺🐣.

5- Litsy.

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Thank you @dabbe for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 🎬😎👍🏼💝.

22/100 · 22%

There were a lot of good ones on there...🤔🎬💝.

Ghost (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Chocolat (2000)

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

#unrelated2books

Went out and got myself a pager 📟! Anyone can now reach me by dialing 📞 Pennsylvania 6-5000 😉💝.

#californiananncrystal

Thank you @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 💕🐎💝.

1 - Absolutely...terrible 👩‍🎓🤔.

2 - Just Beyond: The Scare School by R.L. Stine

#Two4Tuesday

#RLStinereviewedbyanncrystal

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Today is Cesar Chavez Day

✊☺️🇺🇸💝.

My late Aunt Linda (my Mom's sister) was involved in the movement during her younger days.

#unrelated2books

#californiananncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- Fruit 😋💝.

2- the magic of stumbling across something you have been looking for after having given up the search 🪄💖.

3- The 6th book in the Old Kingdom series has been added to my library 🪄📚💝 still super excited about this 😂📚💝.
#theoldkingdomreviewedbyanncrystal.

4- meeting a stranger in a parking lot who claimed to be psychic and who read me too well 🪄🤩🆒.

👇

Thank you @dabbe for creating this fun play-card ☺️💝

14/100 · 14% 🎬💝.

ET 📞.

Mary Poppins 🪁.

Raiders of the Lost Ark 💼.

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

💝💝💝.

A comic strip about a family.

Daily highlighted posts.

https://www.fborfw.com/

Thank You @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card and Thank You 🌷💝 & @Eggs 🌼💖 for the tag.

1- sketch, garden, watch fantasy or comedy...

2- something light and fun like the tagged, or comics like “For Better Or For Worse“ By Lynn Johnston.

#Two4Tuesday
#rileythornreviewedbyanncrystal

I read the bulk of this during March, which turned out to be a perfect read for Women's History Month!

While this is fantasy fiction, it draws from real-life women inequality issues across society, religious orders, and political structures.

When I first began this book, I expected a “Beauty and the Beast with gothic undertones“. This is more “medieval, cursed king finds his sorceress“.

I very nearly bailed at the very beginning...

👇

About true leadership 👑📚💝.

#thehalfkingreviewedbyanncrystal

Thank You @TheSpineView for #BandBDay & for the tag ☕📚💝.

Hope to finish this tonight. This read turned out to have way more depth than I expected...in an incredibly good way...better conclude in a good way...📚💝.

#thehalfkingreviewedbyanncrystal

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

#unrelated2books

On the first day of Spring I was drinking tea...this was the quote connected to my tea bag...cheers ☺️☕💐💝.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

#binspired

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- Litsy!!! So glad we all have access to Litsy again 🥳📚💝💝💝!

2- Springtime has arrived!!!! 🪄🌱🌺🌻🌼🌸🌷🌹🐛🦋🐝🐦💝.

3- The 6th book in the Old Kingdom series has finally been added to my library 🪄📚💝 #theoldkingdomreviewedbyanncrystal.

4- The magic of Books 📚💝.

👇

Thank You @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card & Thanks for the tag 🌺🐎💝.

Wonderful time for #Two4Tuesday to return, Springtime 🥳.

1- Every Flower 🌺🌻. One of long-time favorites is the white magnolia 😍.

2- although the attached has a flower on the cover, the bloom happens in summertime. I fell in love with the Queen of the Desert before realizing that the flower has a connection to my heritage 😍.

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

#unrelated2books

💝🇺🇸🐕‍🦺🇺🇲💝.

#californiananncrystal

To all who celebrate...

Happy St. Patrick's Weekend ☘️🥳🍀💚💚💚 and Day (March 17th 2025).

“May the dreams you hold dearest, be those which comes true; the kindness you spread, keep returning to you.“ -An Irish Blessing.

I always believed that the true pot of gold at the end of the rainbow 🌈 is not filled with actual gold, it is a collection of genuine magic...or a passage to a magical library 😉🪄📚💝.

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- ☘️🥳🍀 St. Patrick's Day Weekend 💝.

2- Coffee, Chocolate, Mint, and more Coffee ☕💝.

3- the Fantasy genre 🧚🧙🧛🐉🦸🧜🧝🦇🪄📚📺🎬💖.

4- reading 2 the soundtrack of rain 🌬️🌧️📚💝.

5- Fruit 😋💝.

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Thank You @dabbe for creating this fun play-card and Thank You Dabbe 🎬😉💝 & @TheSpineView 🎬🐎💝 for the tags.

18/100 · 18%
Again...I'm sure I've watched some more...yet it's been years and I'm not 100 percent certain.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Suspicion (1941)

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

✊🏼😢📚💝📚.

“What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.“

https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/

@TheBookHippie

I truly wanted to prolong this for a bit longer, but in this crazy world the RileyThorn Mysteries have become my favorite escape.

It was fun continuing the journey with these wacky characters. I love this series, I really hope this goes on for many books...although I don't know when I can go and add the next one to my library. Thankfully, I have the first four in this series.

And good thing, because this completed on a grand cliffhanger!

👇

There are different versions of this legend, my favorites are the longer ones. I found a shorter version of the beginning from the web so I could share here for International Women's Day 2025.

I always liked the beginning, because I felt it hinted how men need to show respect to all woman... whether they recognize the woman as a Holy person or simply human.

Have A Power-Infused Women's Day!

#EarthHealingHopepostsbyanncrystal

#MMIWG

Thank you @AllDebooks for creating #SaturdayChatterday and thank you @TheSpineView for the tag 💕🐎💝.

After some errands, I plan on a mixture of books & movies...(watch something strong-woman focused to celebrate International Women's Day) while snacking on goodies 📚🎬😋.

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

Thanks @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday & for the tag 💖🌺💝.

1- @TheSpineView has returned to Litsy! It's wonderful to know that you're alright and on the mend 🙏🏼💝.

I always keep my Litsy friends in my prayers and good wishes. When regulars vanish (TheSpineView, bthegood, @JudeCC, & other Littens), I remain hopeful that they're simply too busy 💝.

May your recovery be swift TheSpineView, I an enjoying reading your posts again 📚💝.

👇

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

Thank you @dabbe for creating this fun play-card 🎬😉💝.

26/100 · 26%
I'm sure I've watched more...yet it's been years and I'm not 100 percent certain.

-Love Affair (1939)
Love Cary Grant, yet this is my favorite version of this movie. Especially that last scene, I believe Charles Boyer captured the intensity of the moment incredibly more than Grant did (sorry Carry 😘 Grant).

-The Wizard of Oz (1939).

-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

#unrelated2books
#Ukraine
#Zelensky

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky became a hero the day his country was invaded. He has shown that he has the endurance to be the warrior his people need. May Ukraine win the victory of true peace that they are fighting for 🙏🏼🇺🇦💝💝💝.

#unrelated2books
#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

#unrelated2books

“There is a special magic and holiness about Women. They are the bringers of life to the people, and the teachers of the children.“ - Unknown (Native American qoute).

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

#unrelated2books

This special was incredible. An amazing tribute to his father and a journey of healing for himself.

🦸‍♂️💝.

Thank you @dabbe for creating this fun play-card & for the tag 🎬🎭🥳💝.

31/96

The Shape of Water (2017), The Artist (2011), & You Can't Take It With You (1938).

#TLT
#ThreeListThursday

#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

#unrelated2books

I posted about this around a year ago...wanted to share again. This event happened to me many years ago ✌️💝.

“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.“ -Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief and warrior.

We are all members of the human race...🐴🌍✌️🌎✌️🌏🐘💝... #BehumanKIND

#EarthHealingHopepostsbyanncrystal

#californiananncrystal

#quotessharedbycaliforniananncrystal

#dreambasket

#binspired

#unrelated2books

Hi Littens, as some of you may have heard, our Pope Francis of the Catholic Church is facing a health crisis.

In case you haven't yet heard, I'm posting for all Catholic Littens (or those who don't mind offering a prayer, or good Vibes from your own personal belief perspective).

May all the global united prayers help our precious Pope.

🙏🏼💝.

As commented on @dabbe a few minutes ago:

While I'm good with variety posts, I'm rather new here on Litsy and only know the Litsy as it has been since my joining this magical community.

I find Litsy a safe place, a gathering place that serves a community of members like a mom and pop bookstore. We recognize one another if we visit often. We learn about one another, celebrate each other, offer emotional support, etc.

👇