Sequel to Hattie Big Sky - San Francisco 1919. Hattie moves to Frisco with the dream of success as a news reporter…

#Read2026 #Series2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheEllieMo @Susanita @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel

“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”

#CharacterDriven

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Roach explores how body parts can be created, replaced, or augmented … “When and how does a person decide they‘d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?”

#STEM

#Celebrate2026

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy and Majik Monday🩷🩵💙

#Read2026 @DieAReader

#Bookspinbingo #Bookspin #Doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

#Series2026 @TheEllieMo @Susanita

#Pantone2026 @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

#ReadingBracket2026 @CSeydel

GR reading goal

Everyone‘s invited to play!

#majicmonday @Eggs

12 yo Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daughter. She needs a mom - her own mom saved baby Cammie from a collision with the milk truck, but died in the process. Heartful and rich.

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

“Wisdom is not loud
nor does it whisper
it is a resonance
that realigns you with a better direction
it is a knowing that arises with undeniable clarity
an expansion that makes the mind lighter”

#SundayFunday

@BookmarkTavern

“And it is partly the transience of it that delights me; so much loving preparation, so much art and experience, put into a pleasure that can last only a moment, and which only a few will ever fully appreciate.”

#MagicRealism

#Celebrate2026

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I‘m all over the place: finishing Christmas romances, audiobooks that are waiting for me, but open to impulse as well.
Suiting me will be any TBR audio, Kindle, physical book, or anything I feel I can‘t live without reading now!

#Ihavequestions

@RaeLovesToRead

“But earth and heart don't have much of a membrane between them. Sometimes decided on grounds as elusive as that single transposable h , this matter of siting ourselves. Of a place insisting itself to us.”

Memoir and companion book to his This House of Sky which I haven‘t read yet. Fascinating 🧐

#Read2026 #Series2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheEllieMo @TheAromaofBooks @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

1* photo of @geodynamical_nonfiction and me the year we had actual fall colors
2* a plug in bubble light - gift from @SarahBradley
3* AI rendering of family Christmas photo
4* GN about Harper Lee I want to read
5* list of sites for book borrowing

#5JoysFriday on Saturday

@DebinHawaii

#weekendreads

@rachelsbrittain

“Henry Smith‘s father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you.”

#FirstLineFriday on Saturday

@ShyBookOwl

Murder most vexing at a sanatorium-turned-hotel in the Swiss Alps!

#LockedRoomMystery

#Celebrate2026

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Great writing, characters, with suspense, redemption, and secrets — a sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me. Unfortunately there were too many years since I read the first one and I forgot a LOT 😳

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

#ChoseWithoutReadingBlurb

#Celebrate2026

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Lucy: Are you afraid of staircases? If you are, then you have climacaphobia. Maybe you have thalassophobia. This is fear of the ocean, or gephyrobia, which is the fear of crossing bridges. Or maybe you have pantophobia. Do you think you have pantophobia?
Charlie: What's pantophobia?
Lucy: The fear of everything.
Charlie: THAT'S IT!

#IncludesPhobia

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This light romance was short, free and hilarious. Good for audiotasking!

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

Kind-hearted Albert! Upon waking one morning and putting his hand out the window to check the temp, a twig drops into his hand…and from that simple movement his life will change 🐦‍⬛ Lovely illustrations ❤️

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

As 3 tweens work to dam up a trickle of stream into a water pond, they begin to see wildlife and wild plants return to the area 🦆 🐿️ 🦢

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

Miss Maple rescues seeds, watches over them throughout winter, then takes them to a place that needs plants and lets them sprout there 🌱🌿

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

We all have wishes for Christmas but not everyone is lucky enough to get what they wished for. This is a story of miracles and redemption in a community where wishes may actually be necessities 💔

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

“…home isn‘t always a place. Sometimes it‘s a person.” A Maplebridge friendship and romance between widowed teacher Ben and Hannah, a cafe owner, who has returned to her hometown

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

Lighthearted small-town holiday romance about second chances, healing, and finding home where you least expect it.

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

“Great tragedies don't ask for great heroes—they ask for ordinary people willing to do the next right thing.”
Clever and heartbreaking dual timeline novel set in Paris mostly underground in the catacombs (which necessitated a deep search into Paris catacombs). Vivid and satisfying.

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

“For years, librarian Clara Jameson has built her life around stories—everyone‘s but her own. Then Nathan Cole, her best friend and the boy she once almost loved, returns to town…”

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026 #Series2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB @TheEllieMo @Susanita

Latest Mickey Haller (Lincoln Lawyer) mystery/courtroom drama revolving around the criminal aspect of AI.

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Series2026 #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @TheEllieMo @Susanita @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

Light-hearted Christmas romance I started before the holidays and finished after. A surprise gift of a puppy brings love to Libby and Seth

#Read2026 #Bookspinbingo #Pantone2026

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB

"Is it not cruel to let our city die by degrees, stripped of all her proud monuments, until there will be nothing left of all her history and beauty to inspire our children?” JK

#NF

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“It's not what's under the Christmas tree that matters, it's who's around it." - Charles M. Schulz.

#Celebrate

#HolidaySetting

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This one was hard to put down but not among, say, top 5 of the year. (I read a lot of Christmas cozies and Christmas romance in December). And now we reach the end of our #12BooksOf2025

Thanks for hosting @TheEllieMo ❣️

“If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is the essence of liberation. That is, freedom begins the moment we forget ourselves.”

Newbery Medal winner for 2024

#StickerOnCover
#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy First Monday of the New Year!

My top 3 were: Finding Grace, The Bright Years, and Wild Dark Shore

Everyone‘s invited to play 🥳

#majicmonday

@Eggs

Damoff also wrote The Bright Years

#SundayFunday

@BookmarkTavern

“Wondering what might have been is one of life‘s greatest burdens.”

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

I always enjoyed the author notes that Larson included in his books.

#HasAuthorNotes

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Only a fool lives in water and remains an enemy of the crocodile.”

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”

#Journey

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

Murakami‘s investigation into the gas attack in Tokyo‘s subway system in 1995.

#SetInLargeCity

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Lengthy but unforgettable

https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/22/brain-pickings-becoming-the-marginalia...

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me 🎶

#TitleBasedOnSong

#Celebrate

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Thank you to our loyal followers who posted for our challenges during 2025! We look forward to your brilliant posts in 2026 🫶🏻

Happy New Year everyone 🥂🍾🎊🎶

#Celebrate starts tomorrow January 1, 2026

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

December/AllYear reading/listening wrap up

#Read2025 #LitsyAtoZ #Series2025 #Bookspin #Doublespin #Bookspinbingo

@DieAReader @Texreader @TheAromaofBooks

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” -Proverbs 25:11

#Silver

#DashingThruDecember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“When Tom arrived home, the whole house was silent, yet everything spoke. It was as if the house had been burgled but it wasn‘t the contents that‘d been stolen, it was the context.”

A page-turner, emotional and eloquent ❤️💔

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

Completely clever and engaging!

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

“Heartwarming tale of a photographer's unexpected Christmas with her grumpy boss after a puppy delivery sparks a connection.” -Amazon

Still trying to finish up a few #ChristmasRomance stories that were free on Kindle.

#DashingThruDecember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This love story was so well done.

#12BooksOf2025

@TheEllieMo

#Decorate

#DashingThruDecember

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Monday! I am savoring these last few days of 2025 and looking forward to a nice chilly wintry week.
I do not celebrate NYE (too peopley) but I like to chill with family and play games or watch movies on NYD. In the new year I plan to live purposefully with gratitude, and also celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸 What about you?

#majicmonday @Eggs