Congratulations to the following Advent Calendar Winners!
@bthegood
@ShelleyBooksie
@BethM
@Mimi28
@TieDyeDude
@mabell
I need to order these in bulk, so please fill out the form link below ASAP so that I can order these tomorrow. If you didn't win, I'd still like to send you a little thank you, so please fill out the same form. Thanks to all of you for the #SmilesOnLitsy!
Link: https://tinyurl.com/3maenvr9 🩵❄️🩵

#WinterGames

Hi!
I have received a few requests from other team members to use the folder I created. The reason I created it was for me to organize my scattered brain with all of these wonderful activities. I shared with my teammates, but if it will help ANY of you, please feel free to use it. I may not update it all the time, though, so keep going to the main folder for updates. Whatever helps you! 🩵❄️🩵
Link: https://tinyurl.com/3e82zzsm

#WinterGamesUpdate
#ReadAThons

Hi!
The pic above includes updates for the readathons occurring all month from 12/1-12/31. Shoutouts:
#WinterClearDown: @puddlejumper; #Adventathon: @BookmarkTavern;
#LittenListen: @Aperfectmjk; #WinterCosy: @puddlejumper; #SundayBuddyRead: @TheBookHippie; #Gottacatchemall: @puddlejumper; #Castthedie: @puddlejumper

Whew! I think that's it ... for now. 🤣

#WondrousWednesday
@TheSpineView
Thanks for the tags @TheSpineView @Lin3han @Eggs! 🩵❄️
1. With two rambunctious GSD's, we don't decorate much. We have a little Charlie Brown Christmas tree, a large poinsettia and pine trimmings/wreath. That's enough for us.
2. I've always been a lover of the Charlie Brown Christmas bulbs. Many happy memories looking at them as a kid from my bunkbed.
3. “Christmas Time is Here“ instrumental by V. Guaraldi. 🎄

#WeirdWordWednesday
@CBee

Trying to learn/relearn some logical fallacies. 😃

#HumbleHarvest
#stars
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Star-crossed indeed. 😃

Repost for @TheSpineView ... thank you again for another stupendous month of poetry! 🩵❄️🩵

Here are the December prompts for #PoetryMatters To play post a poem, song, quote, etc. that you feel matches the prompt. Please use the #PoetryMatters hashtag and tag @TheSpineView.

#poetrymatters
#tinsel
@TheSpineView

❄️🩵❄️

#WinterGames #Readathons

These are the readathon posts so far. There will be more, but this is enough to get you started.

Shoutouts to @TexReader (#AtoZReadathon), @peanutnine (#HolidayRomance),
@Andrew65 & @DieAReader & @GHABI4ROSES (#Rushathon), and @Catsandbooks for #CandyLandReadathon.

Please let me know if I've missed someone. It's hard to corral all the information! 🤩

#WinterGames #PhotoChallenges

All of the above count as photo challenges. The following hashtags were created by the oh-so-talented people on Litsy:
#DailyPhotoChallenge: The incredible #WinterGames leaders: @Clwojick and @StayCurious
#DecemberDreams: @Eggs, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#OrnamentHunt: @Clwojick, @StayCurious
#SelfieScavengerHunt: @Clwojick, @StayCurious

Again, details are in the Google drive folder: https://tinyurl.com/3e82zzsm

#WinterGames #BingoBoards

Look at all these wonderful boards! From left to right, shoutouts to
@laughterhp, @laughterhp, @Traci1, @Texreader
@Emilymdxn, @MatchlessMarie, @Ruthiella, @Puddlejumper
@peanutnine, @Emilymdxn, @Allylu, @Andrew65
@AllDebooks, @AnnR, @Puddlejumper, @Puddlejumper

Please let me know if I've missed someone! Bigger photos and details are in the Google Drive folder: https://tinyurl.com/3e82zzsm 🎄🎄🎄

#WinterGames #BingoBoards + #PromptMaze

Giving shoutouts to all the creative people on Litsy for their boards/events. Remember that details and bigger photos are in the Google Drive folder: https://tinyurl.com/3e82zzsm

All of the above were created by the uber-talented @TheAromaofBooks. 🩵🩶🩵

Hi, Littens~
Just a little reminder that if you want to enter in the drawing for a Jacquie Lawson Advent Calendar, the last day to do so is today. All the deets are in the pic above. I love seeing those #SmilesOnLitsy! 🩵🩶🩵

#Bookspin @TheAromaofbooks

Keeping it easy-peasy. That's how I try to roll. 🩵

Princess Kate's plans for the day. 🖤🐾🖤

#2023ReadingBracket

November Pick: THE NIGHT CIRCUS. Can't believe we're close to picking the read of the year! 🤩

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tags, @TheSpineView, @The_Penniless_Author, and @Lin3han!

1. Without a doubt, THE NIGHT CIRCUS. Had a blast reading this one!
2. I love me a good ghost story, detective story, or mystery centered around the holidays, so I can't wait to read any of my anthologies for this season! 🤩

Wanna play? @kimrenee @TheLudicReader @IndoorDame @AmyG

#HumbleHarvest
#window
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Anyone remember this one? 🩵🩶🩵

#poetrymatters
#tinkle
@TheSpineView

My favorite Poe poem. This is only the first stanza; the entire poem can be found at https://poets.org/poem/bells.

Perfect for this festive season! 🩵🩶🩵

#HumbleHarvest
#family
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Loved this show as a kid, especially Kristy McNichol. 😍

#poetrymatters
#tingle
@TheSpineView

Hello again, #USS!

Just an fyi ... there are TWO Google Drive folders containing all things related to #WinterGames.
#1: The one I created because I had to put names to all of the boards. I'm kind of weird that way. 🤷‍♀️
#2: The main folder created by our lovely hostesses, @Clwojick and @StayCurious.
You will find anything and everything you could ever want to see for this event in either folder, probably more info than you'll ever need! 😄

#WelcomeToLitsy

Hi, everyone! If you have a moment, please welcome my sister @kimrenee to Litsy. She's a bit overwhelmed with it all, so I know she'll feel better with all of the #LitsyLove. If you can also give her some wonderful people to follow, that would be fantastic. Thanks. 🤗

#SundayFunday
@BookmarkTavern
I would just like to see at least one shelf filled with books; that way I would know that we shared the most important past-time: reading. 🤗

#TBR #WinterGames

Here's a photo of my “anticipated“ physical reads for #WinterGames. Looking forward to some cozy, murderous reads full of fun and mayhem. 😃
Points: 25 + 1 for posting = 26

#USS #UglySweaterSquad

Hi, #USS!
Please welcome our new team member, @Q84! 🤗

I hope you don't mind, but I have created a separate folder in Google Drive for all things related to #WinterGames. I've reorganized and renamed stuff because I need it to keep me on track! 🤣 I hope it helps you as well. Please read “The Deets“ sheet in that folder; it has lots of explanations that I hope will help. Throughout these next days I will post items that were created by ⬇️

#HumbleHarvest
#FallInTitle
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#poetrymatters
#tine
@TheSpineView

Reposting for @eggs and @allwaysbeenaloverofbooks
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2667798

#HumbleHarvest
#tea
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This one's for you, Christie! @TheLudicReader 🩵🩶🩵

#poetrymatters
#tinder
@TheSpineView

#WinterGames
#USS #UglySweaterSquad

Hi, #USS!
Just a few questions before the big opening next week so we can get to know each other a little better. You can reply in the comment below or post your own (just be sure to tag all of us so that we can enjoy what you share!)
1. The sweater was multi-colored, had shoulder pads, and jingle bells all over! #the80s
2. Hands down Vince Guaraldi's A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS. The whole album! ⬇️

#ihavequestions @RaeLovesToRead

Sorry I'm late on this!
1. Tana French's IN THE WOODS ... opened up the Dubliner Series for me! I'm delighted that she's on @Soubhiville's #AuthorAMonth for next year as well!
2. I don't have one in particular right now, but I am looking forward to the wintry short stories/books this December; most are mysteries.
3. I love an excellently written locked room mystery. 🤩

Drum roll, please. 🥁 Started: January 8th. Finished: November 23rd. 😳 How to describe this tome? Epic. Philosophical. Historical. Multifaceted. Sweeping. Character-driven. Profound. Realistic. Timeless. Masterpiece. Intricate. Sociopolitical. Reflective. Ponderous. Intimate. Symbolic. Richly descriptive. Challenging. Humanistic. Moralistic. Cinematic. Intellectual. Turbulent. Elegiac. Redemptive. Spiritual. Unpredictable. Universal. It's LIFE.

#HumbleHarvest
#novella
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The only Melville I've read to date. 😃

#poetrymatters
#tin
@TheSpineView

One of my top fave favorite albums of all time. 🧡🖤💜

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. To all who don't or already did, Happy Thursday!

I'm thankful for this place filled with the kindest and most voracious readers I could ever hope to know. #thankyou 🧡🖤💜

#HumbleHarvest
#gratitude
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

🧡🖤💜

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#timid

I see this word and this song instantly pops into my head. It doesn't quite support the independence of women, but ... it sure is a catch tune! 😃

#WondrousWednessday
@Eggs

I keep this Mutts comic pic on my phone to remind me to be thankful for every single moment of life and for all the people and animals near and dear to my heart who give me the reason to want to live in the first place. 💜🖤🧡

#WeirdWordWednesday
@CBee

In SLOW preparation for election season, I've been trying to learn/relearn some logical fallacies. A lot of them are weird because they're in Latin, so you might be seeing some of these in the future. 😃

#HumbleHarvest
#redstack
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

To go along with the red stacks of books. 😃

#poetrymatters
#time
@TheSpineView

A dash of Wharton's prose, a flourish of Austen's wit, and a bit of spice from Gaskell's CRANFORD, this novel portrays the daily life of a well-to-do married woman living in 1950s London. Subtleness is key here as a complicated plot does not exist; mostly it reads like a well-developed diary of the life of Wilmet Forsyth trying to put meaning into her life. Pym also showcases a muted wit that satirizes the religion and society of the day. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Two4Tuesday
Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView! 🧡🖤💜

1. Matt and I will go to my sister's house tomorrow and spend Thanksgiving with her and my other two sisters' families. Then we'll go to Matt's sister's house on Thursday for a repeat. 😃
2. The tagged book is a sweet Mutts comic book featuring Earl and Mooch and showing what truly matters about gratitude and giving gifts.

#HumbleHarvest
#baking
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

😃

#poetrymatters
#timber
@TheSpineView

#WinterGames
#USS #UglySweaterSquad

Hi, guys! Here is the general point breakdown for #WinterGames. I have also created a folder in Google Drive with a “DEETS“ sheet and all of the items I post; that way you don't have to keep scrolling around trying to find stuff. I will continually be adding to this folder as items become available and will update the DEETS sheet, too. If I can help in any way, let me know! 🎄❤️🎄 Drive link is ⬇️.

#HumbleHarvest
#tree
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This is a blackout poem I created from one of my favorite bildungsromans, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Using Betty Smith's words, I “blacked“ out a bunch of words from a page in the novel to create a unique poem that still held true to the theme of the book. I hope you like it. 🌳

#poetrymatters
#tilt
@TheSpineView