Most of us do this, I suppose. But do you ever feel like the guilt of not reading from your TBR but continuing to add to it will suffocate you…and then you wonder what you‘re even doing in your free time that doesn‘t allow you the luxury?

#bookloverproblems

Thank you @Graciouswarriorprincess - opened my #StaycationTimeSwap. So excited for all these goodies & I LOOOOVE sour gummies.

Thank you @DinoMom and @Chrissyreadit for organizing this!! I always love a book swap. 😍

LOOOK what I got my hands on!! Trying not to stop the book I just started to start this one. 🫠📚

My #BOTM box came while I was on vacation over the weekend! I‘m so excited to get into this because of all the hype around it! This was an add-on book for me and my main book choice was “The Names” because I really love a good dystopian story. Kind of bummed I couldn‘t get the cover straight on without missing out on the edges of this beauty!

4.5/5 ⭐️
I really liked this little novella - this can be read as a standalone without losing anything by not having read the first book (📖 #WhatMovesTheDead ). The cover art is a stunner again, I love all the art associated with this series so far. I‘m really getting into T. Kingfisher and this series is a great intro if you‘re curious also.

Airport read, seeing as how I only made it 5 pages before being interrupted the last time I opened this baby, I‘m hoping to be able to both start and finish it during this long weekend in Dallas.

#summerreading #vacationreading #airportbooks #creepybooks

I scored some b-e-a-u-tiful editions of some of the classics from an estate sale recently. They‘re all in pristine condition as well!

Super quick read!

Happy Birthday to me, picked this up a couple weeks ago. Super cute! 🥰

Relaxing with a view. 😎

Thank you @guinsgirlreads ! Very excited to dive into these books, definitely some of the sourest gummy worms I‘ve ever had! I loved them. 😍 (I have also never actually had a red hot before so I‘m very curious about these - are they tiny hard candy? lol or tiny chewy candy with a hard shell?)

#valloweenswap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

So many exciting goodies! It‘s hard to get them all in one shot. 😍♥️ gurrrlll @guinsgirlreads I‘m so excited!

#valloweenswap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

It‘s opening dayyyy! So excited to log in and see this - I was ready to wait until tomorrow!!

#ValloweenSwap @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude @guinsgirlreads

My two #BOTM picks this month. Penitence and Phantasma 😎📚

#TBR

Look what showed up today! @guinsgirlreads I can‘t wait to open it 🤍 Jimmy was very excited to sniff all over it also!

#valloweenswap
@WildAlaskaBibliophile
@TieDyeDude

What is everyone picking this month? Did anything stand out to you? I can‘t decide yet.

#botm

away she goes 📮
 @WildAlaskaBibliophile @TieDyeDude

#valloweenswap #litsyswap

#TBR

This is a beautiful daisy book cover which makes me feel conflicted because it‘s supposed to protect my books but I also really don‘t want to ruin it. Adding another to my TBR from a late Christmas Present. 🎄

My reading goal this year is to read some Stephen King - crazy to admit, but I‘ve never actually read anything this man has written.

ALSO! Check out my new koozie cozy! 😍 I grabbed this from The Love Mich Valentine Collection!

With class beginning tomorrow I should really relax with adding to the #tbr pile.

Jumping into this one next! #weekendreads

Finished Beautiful Ugly while I was at the emergency vet with this baby last night.

I will say, it definitely kept me guessing. It reminded me of how I went back and forth trying to decide which reality was the real world when I read Shutter Island or the Wayward Pines trilogy. I didn‘t guess the ending before I arrived there! I loved all the twists and turns, it was such a fun read.

Saw this in a kindle group I‘m in - grabbed it for $0 after using my digital rewards but it was only $1.99 for kindle today!

Still chugging along through my tattoo appointment.

I‘m about 55 pages in and I‘m already glad I picked this for my next read (should be studying but shhh). Short enough that I‘m going to breeze through this because I can already tell I‘m not going to be able to put it down. We have ghosts of the past, creepy gift boxes, moral dilemmas, oddities and a beautiful forest with old deep soul vibes. And The Edge of the World is described as my perfect escape from people (so far).

A month behind but starting December‘s #BOTM choice. Have heard pretty decent things about the audiobook so here‘s to another lit adventure for this month.

4/5⭐️ Always interesting to see another fan of Poe‘s take on The Fall of the House of Usher. This was a nice and quick read, under 200 pages and very easy to sail through if you‘re in a reading mood. I believe there‘s a sequel out there and from the cover I am sad to think about poor Hob.

“It was fun. People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it‘s generally cheaper to obtain.”

Opened my #LittleChristmasSwap this morning. Thank you @kspenmoll !! - I‘m glad I waited until the opening date. There was a gift bag inside the box, but it was outside the bag, how silly!

#lcs #litsyswap

Trying to get one more book under my belt for this weekend before shifting my focus to studying for my next water treatment license!

I love this cover art and I love a good modern retelling of a classic tale. Hoping I enjoy this as much as everyone else has. 📚

4/5⭐️ - loved the first story by Sands, but I‘ve loved everything I‘ve read from her. The way she writes her characters makes it hard not to love them and I love how spicy they all are. I might have loved the second story following Cat and Bones more if I had ever read about their adventures before this. Loved the happy ending but found it hard to really get into their story.

I know it‘s after Christmas - but this has been on my TBR for a long time and I love Lyndsay Sands! Ready for something a little more steamy and exciting.

3.5/5 ⭐️ - I think I was expecting something witchy when I picked this book up, it was an average read for me so it took me a while to get through it. However, it was much better than other reviews lead me to believe.

The book follows a 13 year old girl named Emily who is a twin. It highlights the pains of growing up to realize life is not ever as simple as it seems when you‘re young and perhaps naive of the world around you.

Okay - this is my best FB Marketplace find to date and I thought some of you might appreciate it! This is a “This End Up” bookcase from the 80s/90s I snagged for $60! Not only is it 7 inches taller than me but it weighs almost as much and it‘s a BIFL piece! 😍

#bookcase #bifl

Another book off to find another home - what do you guys do with books you will never read again and don‘t want to add to your personal collection? 📚

January‘s First Reads choice!

I took advantage of the Barnes & Noble sale over the weekend - a lot of hardcovers were 50% off online, so I ordered for pick up at my local store and grabbed a couple B1G1 paperbacks while I was there.

Unfortunately my dust jacket is really messed up on “The Curse For True Love” so I‘m headed back to exchange it this afternoon.

Even though I was up until 2AM and it was technically the 28th - I made myself hold off opening my #NLHS until after I took my license exam. If you need me, I‘ll be over here yawning, but happily enjoying some R&R now that I can table studying for a couple weeks.

Thank you so much @Marmie7 - I LOVED your wrapping paper! And am really excited to read these books. Also that candy bar has been calling my name all morning!

#NaughtyListHolidaySwap

My favorite stocking stuffer - and probably one of my favorite authors to have discovered through Amazon‘s First Reads book program. I‘ve devoured a few of her book series, a couple of my favorites are the Spellbreaker Duology and The Numina Series.

This Christmas is definitely adding to my TBR shelf! I‘m so excited to read some of these books - how can I find the time?! I got these goodies in a secret Santa swap exchange. It‘s a cast iron tea pot and red velvet cake tea!

#secretsanta #folklore

Really hoping this book lives up to the hype. It has such a beautiful cover, I can‘t wait to read this (eventually 😅).

Really looking forward to this novella and it‘s legit b-e-a-utiful - have loved this series so far (I still need to finish Finale!) I looooved my gummy bears, yes I‘m snacking on them at 10pm 😂 Thank you so much @wen4blu very excited you that you picked candy from NJ too!

Thanks for hosting @MaleficentBookDragon this was a lot of fun!

#jolabokaflodswap

Opened the mystery package!! How cute! I am one of the winners of the Chilled to the End Prize Packs from Flatiron Books! I think this should have had a hot chocolate cup included too - but it‘s still super cute and I am really excited to read this!

#ChilledtotheEndPrizePack #flatironbooks

Does anyone recognize this? This was delivered UPS today but doesn‘t have anything written on the box, under my name or return address but has a reference “Killing Cold”? The only swap I haven‘t received is the #LCS - I don‘t want to open it if it is but also haven‘t ordered anything to be delivered until 12/24.

#LittleChristmasSwap - didn‘t see any red packages but some people also didn‘t post their boxes when they sent them.

My #JolabokaflodSwap24 was also delivered today! Thanks, Wendy (not sure of your Litsy handle!) can‘t wait until Christmas Eve! These packages are already staring at me across the room!

#JS2024

Lots of mail today! I got my #NaughtyListHolidaySwap today - now having to wait to open this is going to be tough! #NLHS

@Marmie7 do you have dogs? My dog is looooving how this package smells 😂

All in all I found this book a little misleading and was hoping for more of the “terror” in the “50 Terrifying Yuletide Tales from Around the World” cover description. It was fairly repetitive, but if you think of it as an introduction to winter/yule lore it‘s not a bad book. There are 50 entries, many with an illustration but they‘re all a broad summary lacking many details.