1. Zola had her monthly grooming yesterday and she has bows in her ears this time! So cute! 🎀
2. These little anole lizards are always hanging out in the yard. This guy was on my steps yesterday! 🦎
3. Star shaped sugar cookies
4. Listening to Billie Eilish's new album
5. My husband's hugs ❤️

#5JoysFriday

#FoodandLit July Turkey 🇹🇷

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

1. A baby opossum visited our yard this week! It was absolutely adorable 🩵
2. First BLTs of the summer
3. Visited a new to me restaurant for lunch, I had a chicken caesar wrap
4. When Zola lays her head on my tummy and looks up with the most adorable puppy dog eyes 🐶
5. Listening to music

#5JoysFriday

Hello #LitsyCrafters
We're halfway through the year already! How are your projects going? What have you been working on? Any issues? Any goals for the rest of the year?

I finished the above cross stitch, I've done a few little craft kits like sun catchers and diamond paintings, and I've still be working on my book blanket.

I look forward to seeing/hearing about your crafting adventures! 🌈

1. My husband and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary this week ❤️
2. Seeing black vultures in my neighborhood
3. Half off pizza from Dominos
4. I took Zola (🐶) for a car ride and got her a pup cup
5. Long chats with my sister 💕 @CurvyCrochetGirl wanna join in?

#5JoysFriday

1. Any romance! It happened one summer by Tessa Bailey is a great one

2. Not this year

3. I had an appointment that I was nervous for, but it ended up going really well!

#wondrouswednesday

4.75/5 ⭐️ I love Tessa Bailey!

4/5 ⭐️ I enjoyed this pick! #LMPBC It's on it way!

4.5/5 ⭐️ #FoodandLit Spain 🇪🇸

#FoodandLit June Iceland 🇮🇸

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

1. I've been struggling with my mental and physical health for awhile now and last week things kinda blew up. I'm glad I'm still here.
2. I've been rewatching Grey's Anatomy. The best seasons are 1-10
3. Cold water on a hot day
4. Root beer floats
5. Kitty cuddles

#5JoysFriday

#5JoysFriday

1. I've been coloring a lot in the Happy Color app, especially nice while listening to audiobooks
2. Grateful for A/C as the temps are starting to rise
3. Two of my kitties, Zeke and Luna, cuddling in a laundry basket
4. Talking to my niece via FaceTime, she makes me laugh
5. Orange Creamsicles 🧡

4/5 ⭐️ I enjoyed the second half of the book more than the first. I didn't mind that it was a traditional Greek mythology telling. Sending it out tomorrow! #LMPBC

2.5/5 ⭐️ Disappointed in this Venezuelan-based folklore fantasy. It had so much potential and a really great world, but I think the author tried to do too much. It is the first in a series so maybe there will be more development later on
#FoodandLit Venezuela 🇻🇪

But Zola says hi! I'm behind on Litsy stuff as I'm just starting to feel better after getting sick with a cold that went to my chest and inflamed my asthma

#FoodandLit May Spain 🇪🇸

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

4.5/5 ⭐️ I forgot to post this review, but I loved this book! It was funny and sweet and spicy! #littensloveromance

CW: eating disorder, but I think it was handled really well and I say this as someone who struggles with disordered eating

1. Zola looked so cute in the flowers in our yard
2. I put a plastic clover on Zeke's head 😂
3. Flavored lemonade from my favorite local cafe
4. Late night conversation with hubby ❤️
5. Laying in my hammock when the weather was absolutely perfect ☀️

#5JoysFriday

#tlt #ThreeListThursday

1. The Vampire Diaries show is amazing and the books are meh

2. Big Little Lies was fantastic and added so much more than the book

3. You - Penn Badgley is deliciously creepy

Honorable mentions - True Blood, Gossip Girl, The Princess Diaries

(And yes ik these are all tv shows but I enjoy TV shows far more than movies)

Depending on my mood and my headspace I go back and forth between audiobooks and physical books. Sometimes I even do both at the same time, which is a lot of fun to feel even more immersed in the story!

#wondrouswednesday

Wanna play? @KateReadsYA @Laughterhp @Meshell1313 @Texreader

The husband and I ventured to a Korean BBQ restaurant and had a feast! Lots of veggies and meats, our favorite was the bulgogi beef. We also had the Korean fish shaped pastry filled with red beans and fried rice cakes with powdered sugar!
And the other day I made cheesy Korean corn (bottom right Pic), it was delicious!

#FoodandLit Korea 🇰🇷

5/5 ⭐️ I love these characters so much!! 😭😍❤️

#ChloeGongReadalong

#FoodandLit April - Venezuela 🇻🇪

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

2.5/5 ⭐️ I don't want to say too much because it's a #LMPBC but this had more gore than I was expecting, so check those content warnings.

I sent it out today 📬

3/5 ⭐️ Light pick for this #FoodandLit Korea book. Love triangle set during the Korean war and the years following. Very sad though.

4/5 ⭐️ Fun novella from one of my favorite authors! This would have been even better if it was longer so the characters were more developed

#BooksinBloom Readathon
🌼March 15 - 22🌼
🌸Set your own goals🌸

My husband has a conference so I decided to host a readathon! I'm hoping to get through at least 2 books. 💐📚

Hello #LitsyCrafters ☺️ How is your 2024 going so far?

This year I'm crocheting a book blanket! Each color is a different genre and the number of rows is the star rating I gave it. Above is what I have so far!
One of my goals this year is to complete more projects that I've already started.

If you'd like to be added or removed from the #LitsyCrafters tag list let me know.

3/5 ⭐️ This was an Anna Karenina retelling but with young rich teens in New York. I've never read the original Anna but this was wild. These kids were out of control, so much drugs, alcohol, and sex. I read it early for #FoodandLit South Korea as the main family is Korean, but it wasn't really a part of the story.

3.5/5 ⭐️ Cute story with so much tasty food. I wish there was more development with Ryan's father, but I think the grief storyline was well written.

#FoodandLit March South Korea 🇰🇷

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

4/5 ⭐️ This was quite the genre blending adventure! Great commentary on government and police corruption, LGBTQIA rights, class warfare, and more all set in a fantasy biopunk world. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series coming out this fall!
#FoodandLit New Zealand 🇳🇿

Hey gals! Here's my picks, but if you don't like any of these I have tons more!
#LMPBC

We need 2 more people for our Fantasy group for the final round of #LMPBC

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vkmQzUrDDP80lAM1fsanpoiJiv05NxU1qR3ZSbGY...

The final round of #LMPBC is happening soon so if you'd like to join in visit the wonderful @suvata 's page!

I'm doing a witchy book group ✨

A day late, but I wanted to show what I made my husband for Valentine's day! ❤️ We've really been into Ted Lasso lately so I made it a theme. Here's my card, a paper box, and the shortbread biscuits from the show that I all made! #LitsyCrafters

Birthday Book Haul!! 🎉

February is always a busy month for me!
My husband and I both have birthdays this month, mine's today! Of course there's Valentine's day too. Also our dating anniversary! This year we've been together a whole decade! 🎉 💕 Time has flown by and I'm so proud of how far we've come! Looking forward to the next decade with you by my side! ❤️

Cuddling with my little Luna belle for #hyggehour

An easy choice for January! Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong 🤌🏼
#2024ReadingBracket

Feel free to grab a blank one on my page or here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ogcYdNAw3yOaDwgzjqXmjndFLJ8l93JS/view?usp=drive...

4/5 ⭐️ I normally don't like short stories but I really enjoyed this collection! I loved that every story had strong female characters! My favorites were Nefertiti, Attem, Naleli, and Orin.
#FoodandLit Ghana 🇬🇭

4.75/5 ⭐️ Chloe Gong has done it again!! Heavy world building that was a bit much in the beginning but otherwise fantastic dark fantasy! And wow what a cliffhanger! 🤯

#ChloeGongReadalong #SeriesLove2024

(Pictures found on pinterest)

1. It's a quiet week so just my regular routine.
2. Tagged for #FoodandLit 🇬🇭 Enjoying it!
3. Creative and organized

#motivationalmonday

#ChloeGongReadalong
I put the bonus material that is in my Immortal Longings copy up on drive for the group to view! It contains a conversation with Chloe Gong and an annotated chapter.

If you have any issues accessing it, let me know 🖤

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-E4d_QvTU3FFsfVliKD69P14kVsMW-2Z

2/5 ⭐️ I think I'm in the minority here, but I did not care for this book. I don't like when the majority of the book could have been solved if the characters just had an honest conversation. #littensloveromance

#FoodandLit February New Zealand 🇳🇿

To participate read a book that takes place in the country or is by an author from the country. Also enjoy food from the country. Share your experience with the tag #FoodandLit & tag @Catsandbooks & @Texreader

Resources, including a book list & more, can be found at https://foodandlit.pisani.me/

If you're not currently tagged in #FoodandLit news & would like to be, let me know.

3.75/5 ⭐️ My first western romance was a sweet and steamy one. One thing that really bothered me was the male MC calling the female MC "sugar" a million times ?

I've been playing around with some picture editing apps and made this! #LitsyCrafters

I made a #BookBracket for 2024!
I added in wild card options, for people to use however they like. Your bracket, your rules!

Please feel free to share!
I also have a link where you can download your own copy, if you prefer to get it that way 🩵 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ogcYdNAw3yOaDwgzjqXmjndFLJ8l93JS/view?usp=drive...

#ChloeGongReadalong
A letter from Chloe Gong to the readers and the character art that was on the reverse side of the letter

Nothing better happen to Mao Mao or I will be very upset!

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#ChloeGongReadalong
More artwork ✨

TL: front endpapers
TR: back endpapers
Bottom: reverse dust jacket of Calla with her cat Mao Mao

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#ChloeGongReadalong
I wanted to share the gorgeous artwork on my special edition of Immortal Longings!

TL: front dust jacket
TR: sprayed edges
BL: back dust jacket, with the numbers 57 and 86 in gloss print
BR: hardcover with blue foil

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