Happy #hyggereadinghour #hyggereadathon #hyggehourreadathon #hyggehour #hyggehyggepumpkineater #whycantieverrememberthehashtag

Finished this book a few days ago…

4.5⭐️. Super funny at first. And then like a wall of bricks right at your face.

Also, bugga loved his trip to the planetarium w his summer camp… now I just have to go! 🤩🌌🪐♥️

#StaycationinTime package received! 💃🏽🪩🕺🏿
Thank you @sblbooks !! 🍹♥️

Now to wait…..

Did some much needed (aesthetic) book rearranging today… hard to see all that‘s going on, I know, but trust that it‘s better now. 😜 #shelfie

Turning, then to #Hyggehappyhour 🥰 This book is thoroughly enjoyable during the work scenes… not as into the mom scenes. Too close to home? 🧐

Oh! Also, I mailed my #StaycationinTime package yesterday — set for delivery Monday!

Yay!! 💃🏽💃🏽 Received my first (in a couple years!) #cbbc #CoffeeBeanBookClub book! ☕️🫘📖 (tagged) Also thank you @Callemarie for the yummmy smelling coffee and the yummy tasting chocolate!! ♥️♥️♥️

Also, added a couple cozies to the ol‘ #mounttbr
… need to … refrain …. So hard…. 😓😅😘

Omg what a spectacular birthday surprise!! Thank you so much @Chrissyreadit !!! You are always so *thoughtful* and generous and send just the perfect things!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ So very blessed by this community. 🙏🏽🫶🏽♥️😘💫🥹🥹🥹

(Ps that coffee smells amaaaaaazing)

And with that, I met my Goodreads goal for the year! I initially set a goal of 12 bc that‘s what I read last year (😅), but changed it to 30, & still met it! 🙌🏽

As for the book, it was dated. 2003 in small town MN was riggedy-rough with .. out-dated .. perspectives on “existing as women,”mental disabilities, *and* race. Ooph! It did not age well. But the mystery was fun & I loved the recipes. It‘s like ⭐️⭐️💫 (2.5)

#SeasonalCozies for July!

Received #botm #bookofthemonth 👏🏽👏🏽

And what I assume is my #staycationintime package, @Chrissyreadit ? 💃🏽🪩🕺🏿 I‘ll be sending mine out soon! Need to get just 1 more thing….

Aaaaaand, shipped my #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub package this morning! ☕️🫘📖♣️💌 @Mommamanzi

Got a couple-two-tree things for a couple-two-tree swaps (none of which are pictured), and figured, while I was there, I should get myself a couple-two-tree things too. 😇😎

*note: “a couple-two-tree” meant a somewhat ambiguous “few” in the 80s in Wisconsin as I was growing up… ✌🏽3️⃣👾👧🏽

Finished one cozy (not perfect, but perfectly enjoyable ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫), and onto the next (tagged), my July selection for #SeasonalCozies @julieclair
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And very excited to get my book boxes, esp to get my #RealLifeBookClub selection for this month! 👏🏽👏🏽 #sobuzzy

Reposting for @thebacklistbook :

If you meant to sign up but time got away from you, you can still sneak it in. #autumncomfortswap I'll close the form around 10 am PDT https://forms.gle/z2SdXkMhoDsAbzb17 . #swaps #solstice #litsy

😩😩 they‘rekilling me with these selections this month!!

I put *four* more in the waitlist (aka tbr) in BOTM too… (the ones on the left) (I know, I can order 4 add-ons now, but I just can‘t justify 8 new hardcovers this month… 😁)

Way to go #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub and #botm #bookofthemonth for July!! ♥️♥️♥️

You ever just feel like *all* you want to do is read, look at books, talk about books, go to bookstores…. I know, you all do. 🤗♥️📚

It‘s been one of those weeks…
🥸📖🥸☕️🥸📚🥸🫖

(Reading this for book group…)

Holy cozies Batman!
I‘ve been in a cozy mood lately! Went to local bookstore to get that stack, and the rest were mostly ThriftBooks… and one maaaaaayy be my selection for #cbbc #coffeebeanbookclub 🤩☕️📚📖🫘🤎 (so excited)

First time doing this, and there was a surprising learning curve 🫣😂

Top 3?
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Dark Knight
Anything Harry Potter related..

Also, I had a low‘ish number… only 57/140! But I noticed that while I picked a lot in the beginning, it tapered off to almost nothing sharply after my son was born… 🤔😜

Thanks for the tag @MaleficentBookDragon !😘

#tlt #threelistthursday

Progress! 🙂‍↕️

Read/finished the 3 smaller ones:
Murder Your Employer ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Marsh King‘s Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tagged: a strong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - just all the right elements to a perfectly enjoyable cozy! This also satisfied my summer/June cozy read for #SeasonalCozies @julieclair 😄

Now reading Weyward for #ReadLifeBookGroup #rlbg

Yay! Local bookstore coming through with some fun new finds, including the Witch of the Winter Moon by a local ABQ author and the super fun looking tagged w sprayed pages 😍

Our book for my #RealLifeBookGroup - Weyward - I had to get from Target though 😯

Captured: Buggy sitting in his book nook (closet), reading 4 books at once 😂😍

Also, received this new long-anticipated book (I‘ve met Vladeck on numerous occasions and find him intelligent and engaging… let‘s see if he‘s also a good writer ;))

And the tagged is my chosen book for June for #SeasonalCozies (summer). 🧊🍹☀️🌸🪻

It‘s that time of the month!!

So for #bookofthemonth #botm I was disappointed, but kind of accidentally picked an audio book — hey, something to try (not the author, who I like, but audio through BOTM 🤔)! Let‘s see if I can listen at speed 😉

But #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub did not disappoint! So excited 👏🏽👏🏽 (the 3 in the upper left)

Also, here are 3 of my current reads… the Lawrence is pretty dense, but so interesting— anyone read it??

New books!
The bottom (also shown with dust cover off and with front cover shown, along w World of Wonders 🤩) is a gift from a friend — brought from London! She knows how I feel about their pretty covers 😉

The next 2 are regular old purchases (😎) from my favorite local book store (tagged)

And the top was a gift from SIL that I‘ve been wanting for a while!

📖♥️😍

I did a thing…. Or 2! 🫣 (signed up for pending swaps, yay! 🎉)

@thebacklistbook #autumncomfortswap

@Chrissyreadit @DinoMom #staycationintime24

Even though I have the tagged in audio and kindle (Kickstarter campaign), I had to have it in paperback too 🤦🏽‍♀️

Also discovered this beaut at Barnes today — anyone read it?

Received #aardvark #aardvarkbookclub and #botm #bookofthemonth books! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Did anyone else get Volume 0, the short story collection??

Posting timely! 🤓🙂‍↕️

It‘s Sun eve & it‘s #hyggehappyhour or #hyggereadinghour or #hyggeforthewin … 😜 Just finished What Mother Won‘t Tell Me (3.5 ⭐️), and starting the tagged for #SeasonalCozies for May! (Mother‘s Day + tea 😉)

Also tried to read You Be Mother… did not enjoy it. Cut out at p. 100… maybe some feedback from #RealLifeBookGroup (rlbg) will persuade me to keep going. For now, a bail.

But read next month‘s #rlbg also: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😄

My office was doing a special Olympics fundraiser at Barnes today… so I *had* to buy some books. 😁 These looked fun… anyone read any?

Oh yes of course I also went to my favorite independent bookstore today (tagged) — we bought bugga a bunch of things. 😄

Updates…

Acquired: Destroyer of Worlds, 3 (grouped) books related to autism, and the tagged, which I am *geeked* about

Read: Ghostwritten - 4 horror novellas on how books can be evil ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reading: Emotional Vampires - so far, en-💡-ning and Murder at the PTA (for #seasonalcozies & great so far!!).

Found: these amazing fish stickers. 🫢🤩

Not separately depicted: enjoying #hyggereadinghour

Welp, I did it. 🥸 #botm #bookofthemonth

Also, did you know these cookies existed?! 💜🤍

@AardvarkBookClub #aardvarkbookclub #aardvark picks: easy… there was even 1 more I was seriously considering! 🎉

#botm #bookofthemonth not as much… anyone read this? Thoughts? Nothing else really spoke to any desire to acquire immediately/in hardback… 🤔

I flew through this and loved it. Maybe it wasn‘t *perfect* but it‘ll sit there in my brain for a long time, and what more can I really ask for…

(& another solid pick from @AardvarkBookClub 🎉)

Ah-hah! Found this at the *other* Barnes (other side of town ;)) and will choose this for #seasonalcozies for April. Why? Because, in an ill-advised move last month, I agreed to be voted in as pta president next month (April). 🫣

Ok! Went to DC last week for OA at the Sup Ct (so cool), & had a nighttime stroll past the white house w sis ☺️ (yes, I was exhausted🥱)

Also spotted Ikigai on living long & happy life… 🤔 curious how it contrasts w hygge…

And picked up a few books at Page 1. I was thinking of reading birthday murder for #seasonalcozies, but I think I‘m done w Meier after this month‘s (Patty‘s day), which I‘m struggling to finish. 🍀👎🏽

Anyone read the tagged?

The vast majority of this was deeply unsettling and uncomfortable for me. I don‘t know how to commend this more than: 🤢😭🤯♥️. 5 glowing stars.

#botm #bookofthemonth

This book was absolutely bloody brilliant. Thank you @AardvarkBookClub for picking a book from one of my favorite authors! ♥️
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Also, here‘s my #botm #bookofthemonth selection … and getting ready to read St Patty‘s Murder for #SeasonalCozies 🍀🔪🩸

Ugh… more than halfway through the month I #unskipped #botm #bookofthemonth for these…. What is wrong with me?! 😩😩

Also reading this lovely cozy for #SeasonalCozies 😄👏🏽👏🏽

Sadly, I‘m not available to do #Hyggehour this week because I‘m at work (taking a quick break 🥸), but I read the cozy earlier today in an attempt to find a little relaxation ☺️🥰

(Did I tag the right people? 😬)

Life! Events! Things!

Reading the tagged for #RealLifeBookGroup - I wasn‘t loving it at first, but I think we‘ve just turned a corner… 🤔

Went to my favorite local bookstore and got this fun stack… note that bottom book that looks like it fits in is, in fact, non-fiction 🤭

And got this lovely sweet v-day card/stickers/bookmark from the ever thoughtful @Chrissyreadit - thank you!! Mal loved the stickers ☺️🥰💖💝💘

Trying to find peace.🧘🏽‍♀️

I did it! But I forgot to take a picture… so I‘m posting a pic of my sister‘s hyggeligt space & cat (you can‘t see it all clearly, but lots of pillows & blankets!) 😉. I participated in #hyggehour with y‘all last night, reading Inland.

I also finished my #SeasonalCozies pick for January yesterday (meh 2.5 ⭐️).

And in searching for hygge images, I discovered this candle I must have and this podcast I must check out!

Happy Monday all! 😅🩵

After a long week, I left work early, went to my favorite local bookstore, and bought some books w store credit (including my February pick for #SeasonalCozies (tagged)).

Now, eating spinach & feta cheesy bread, having a drink, and zoning dowwwwnnn. 😌

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
💙🤍🩵

Oof guys. This genre is a rough one for me, especially when my brain is struggling with focus! But I‘ve been pushing through and, just past the halfway mark, I think I might actually finish in time for #RealLifeBookGroup next weekend! 🤞🏽

Also, it *has* improved as a read for me with progress… it helped that one of my friends put so eloquently why she felt Nora‘s story was such a page turner: will she ever get a drink of water?! 💦🤭

Out with the old, in with the new!

Barely scraped by with my goal this year, reading The Pale House Devil today! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ weird, dark, and fun. ☺️

And received the tagged from Penguin Random House as one of their final reading rewards (program ending 🙁) - anyone read it?

Finishing the year with the tagged…
And the 5 books I‘m starting 2024 with!

4 of those are #RealLifeBookGroup books (switching to audio for Demon Copperhead), and the cozy is for #seasonalCozies.

Happy New Year all!
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This is not the tagged book.. which doesn‘t appear to be in the system yet. But this is what I‘m planning to read for January for #SeasonalCozies

Such a great idea @julieclair !

🔪🩸☕️📖♥️

Picked up this beaut‘ with Barnes points today… paid $0.22 😁😁

1- I did! I had to modify it *down* twice though 😞 Hoping this year is different! I am 1 book shy of my final goal…. Must getterdone!
2- 😬 Maybe the tagged book if I finish it?
3- The September House 🤩

Thanks for the tag @BethM 😘♥️

#WondrousWednesday (you know, or Friday…)

Post-Christmas Barnes & Noble sale? Don‘t mind if I do…. 🤩🤩

And a continued celebration of Jólabólaflóð!

THANK YOU @mom2bugnbee for this perfectly winter book and yummy chocolate!! With my planned break from work, I‘m hoping to actually get a chance to start reading again! ☺️

♥️??♥️??♥️??♥️??♥️

#jolabokaflodswap

Happy Jólabókaflód part 2!

Here‘re the family‘s treats…

Bugga is really excited about all holidays and we found some extra books to help him (and us all) with understanding ☺️

LeCarre for husband, bada$$ for little sister, Harvest for big sister, and Episode 13 for me.

Also, yes, chocolate abounds. ☺️
♥️??♥️??♥️

Oooooh thank you @Readergrrl for this perfect #jolabokaflodswap pick!! I‘m so excited!! And thank you for the perfect picks of chocolate too!!
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Happy Jólabókaflód all!!

Also thank you @MaleficentBookDragon for hosting my favorite book swap!! ??

Oh Chrissy, what a wonderful self-care/housewarming/Christmas package!! 💖💖💖 Thank you!! Everything is so perfect, and hyggeligt and thoughtful. And the card is so beautiful - did you make that? So excited for everything!
♥️🎄❄️💙☃️🤍💖

*not pictured: 2 ornaments that bugga hung immediately 😉

Hi all!! I received packages!! I realized I hadn‘t posted re my first #jolabokaflodswap package yet - sorry! I got it! And I also received a package from you @Chrissyreadit !! 🤩🤩 so exciting!! 😄🥰

I also baaaaaked again! 🙌🏽 even though our kitchen is tiny, I‘m so happy I can take complete possession of it for several hours … well, it & most of the rest of our home 😁

And also? Upper right? Yep…. 😅

Happy December all! ❄️☃️🩵💙🤍

And some fun holiday thoughts!

My books for #BOTM this month (I hope I get to the tagged this month!!)

Our trees (including outdoor-balcony tree ☺️) and mantle…

My advent calendar this year…

And a book a friend recently gave me — anyone read it?

Happy holidays all!!
🎄♥️🎄♥️🎄♥️🎄♥️🎄♥️🎄♥️