I've been very sick for a week and on mandatory isolation with possible covid. So that's been fun. Finally turning the corner though and I am beyond stoked for that! I haven't seen my kids in two weeks!
🦋- my son celebrating his 11th birthday via FaceTime.
🌈- usually something K-Pop or maybe bounce, like Big Frieda
🧁- Peanut M&M's
♥️- I don't know any new littens, I've been off too long. 😅

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

1. We've had some confirmed cases all around the city & surrounding areas & even more suspected. Schools are all closed, my hands are even more destroyed bc I'm already obsessive about clean hands so the cracking & bleeding is worse. Etc
2. I don't believe in hoarding, it's rude. But I did buy a larger pack than I usually would before the shit really hit the fan.
3. I never do
4. Tagged & The Institute
5. Joker
#randosurvey @laurenslibrary

1. My daughter's being goofy while we waited for a curbside order the other week.
2. It'll be the next Anita Blake book, and probably also another Stephen King novel. That's been my pattern lately.
3. Avoiding the public, for their stupidity and their viruses.

#friyayintro @howjessreads @4thhouseontheleft

The most beautiful corpse I'd ever seen was sitting behind my desk.

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

"It was St. Patrick's Day, and the only green I was wearing was a button that read "Pinch Me and You're Dead Meat".

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

1. Yes
2. Found out it was on sale through Kindle, thanks to a Liten's post
3. Houston Chronicle, Huffington, online local news websites, etc
4. I do not
5. @Kayla.Adriena
#friyayintro
@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. English, but I know a smidge of Korean and can read/write hangul.

2. I reread Guilty Pleasures for the hundredth time, and that's always a fiver for me. So I'll tag the first time read that was a fiver.

3. I don't even remember what I ate last night...

4. 👍🤷😂

5. 👍

#friyayintro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. The Stand
2. Monty & Percy, Samwise & Potatoes, C3P0 & R2-D2, Anita Blake & her haraam.
3. The tagged set

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Hi everyone. Hope your 2020 has started out decent. I've been MIA from here for many reasons, including the fact that I've just spent more time reading over any other task, including work. I've been in a murdery, mystery, vampy kind of mood this year for the most part. Rereading the Anita Blake series and knocking out some King's I haven't read or finished yet. And even tried a couple new authors I was told about. Currently reading tagged.

I'm a day late, but I was tagged by @Kayla.Adriena and it actually notified me in a reasonable amount of time. 😆
1. My lab results came back perfect 🙌
2. The kids and I are going to go visit my sister
3. The tagged and also rereading Guilty Pleasures for the umpteenth time.

#thoughtfulthursday #onfriday @MoonWitch94

Sorry #teamelectricsex and @LibrarianRyan I'm sucking at #wintergames I started new meds and they're not being very kind to me.

Ive read this one a few times before, it's always been my favorite Dahl. It had been a while though, so it was nice to revisit a classic. #Authoramonth @Soubhiville
#wintergames #teamelectricsex @LibrarianRyan

I love carbs! #wintergames #teamelectricsex @LibrarianRyan

📚 - The Wolf Gift
🎬 - Gifted
🎶 - Gifts, Propagandhi
https://youtu.be/1X2TTiyms6Q

#manicmonday @JoScho

Watching Home Alone with the kiddos!
#teamelectricsex #wintergames @LibrarianRyan

Finished my first #authoramonth title a few days ago but haven't taken time to post. This was my first time reading this one. It was cute, not a favorite Dahl, but enjoyable.

@Soubhiville

Do you know how difficult it is to take a picture eating a candy cane and not look ridiculous or obscene!? 😂 But 15 pts for a month that is so busy it probably wasn't a good idea to sign up for more. 😅 #wintergames #selfiescavengerhunt #teamelectricsex @LibrarianRyan

December is already getting away from me. #novemberwrapup was 9 books, all rereads except for 3 & a half. Some audiobooks, some ebooks, all very enjoyable. Of course, my favorite was American Gods because that's my favorite book.

📚 - tagged
🎬 - Annabelle's Wish
🎶 - Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

#manicmonday @JoScho

#wintergames #teamelectricsex @LibrarianRyan

1. 77
2. 60
3. Something by Roald Dahl for the #authoramonth challenge.
4. Sweater weather

#wintergames #teamelectricsex @LibrarianRyan

If you have never read this short story, do your self a solid and get it now. It's 70 some odd pages of absolute genius suspense writing. I have read books that are hundreds of pages long that were unable to create the intensity that Daphne du Maurier does here.

The movie simply shares a title and an idea but has no horror the way the book does, and I like the movie. I always assumed it was because I don't fear birds, but I was wrong. So wrong.

One more for #AuthorAMonth. I've read this one before and loved it, but I think I liked it even more on audiobook. It kept me great company for all the baking I had done for Thanksgiving.

@Soubhiville

@Soubhiville is hosting another #AuthorAMonth in 2020. I jumped in late in 2019 but I've enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to following it for the new year. Go to her profile, let her know you want to participate and follow the link to vote on the authors you'd like to read! Voting closes tonight!

1. Donuts!
2. I don't think I have one. ... Maybe the Grinch. I love me some Seuss.
3. My kids, my cats, coffee and books and music, and lots more!
@Eggs
#wondrouswednesday

I enjoyed this one. Some of these intros & pieces I had read/heard before, but a lot I hadn't. Mostly it beefed up my TBR even more, but a few times it made me tear up. Sometimes, the big feelings I get from Gaiman & his words make me question my sanity. I just like what he says & how he says it. For some reason, something in me rings like a bell struck when I consume his work. This was an intimate book that rang a lot.
@Soubhiville #authoramonth

📚 - Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten. My kids have all gone through Junie phases.

🎬 - A Christmas Story. Because turkey dinner was ruined.

🎶 - Stuffy Turkey, Thelonious Monk (my favorite jazz musician!) https://youtu.be/4_cpiKxOXi0

#manicmonday @JoScho

1. Tagged and also rereading The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

2. Ocean at the End of the Lane and The Song of Achilles to my sister last night.

3. What kind of artist? Pen/Pencil/Paint: James Jean, Gail Potocki, Caravaggio, Grant Morrison, Terry Moore, Ryan Ottley, etc.
Musical: Ani Difranco, The National, Cursive, Two Gallants, G-Dragon, Childish Gambino, etc.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

1. I don't have any recent bookish selfies but I have a lot of kitty selfies.
2. Felicity executes an eye roll that must give her a spectacular view of the inside of her skull.
3. Sunny, upper 70's during the day. An occasional bit of drizzle and low 70's now.
@Eggs #wonderouswednesday

Y'all. I have another foster. Her name is Goblin. She has the funniest little croak instead of a meow. She's a bundle of energy and sass and holds her own with the bigger boys. She was found under the hood of a car after said car had driven 30+ miles on Houston freeways. And amazingly enough, she doesn't have a single scratch, burn, or bump anywhere. Shes got super powers or something!
#catsoflitsy #fosterkitten #adoptdontshop

📚- Sing a Song of Sixpence, Little Jack Horner, etc etc.

🎬- Pushing Daisies (even though it isn't a movie, but it's one of the best tv shows to ever exist)

🎶- Petootie Pie by the great Ella Fitzgerald!
https://youtu.be/2o3vU6qTX7Q

@JoScho #manicmonday

And another #AuthorAMonth reread done! This is another one of my favorites by him. It's weird that I can forget how much I love this book. I used to read this one every year. And somewhere along the way I switched back to American Gods being my most oft reread. Anyway, this book is great fun and you should read it.

@Soubhiville

Thanks for the #litsylearn tag @Alora ! 😊

1. -I went to a big punk show in an old condemned apartment complex that was demolished the next week. -I met Wil Wheaton at a mall in the 80's. -I have an autographed picture of The Sandlot cast because I wrote to their fan club.

2. Catcher in the Rye

3. Yes!

4. Too cold

1. It's on my TBR
2. My 2 orange foster boys were successfully neutered and their adoption finalized. They're officially my kitties now! 🙌
3. Not a damn thing, and I am so ready for it!
4. 5 that I can immediately think of. I have a very large family, there are members I've never even met. 🤷
5. You've got it dude.
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Finished American Gods for #AuthorAMonth. I've lost count of how many times I've read this one. It's the absolute best.

@Soubhiville

📚 - The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide

🎬 - The Holiday

🎶 - The Letter, The Box Tops

#manicmonday @JoScho

#quotsynov19 #cycle @TK-421

It's 12:01 here, making it November 10th, so I can officially say it!

Happy 59th birthday to the best of the best!

Gaiman's works make my life better and I want many, many more years for him on this planet, in this timeline.

1. Tagged! Rereading it for the umpteenth time in honor of #AuthorAMonth
2. “There‘s something wrong,” said Wednesday. “Fuck. Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle."
3. Coffee per usual.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

#quotsynov19 #freedom @TK-421

1. I love games! My favorites would be Scattergories, Scrabble, and Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit. And if cards count, than Uno, Magic the Gathering, and Munchkin too!
2. South Korea and Romania
3. I finished my goal of 60 and surpassed it by 11 so far.
4. One of my favorites now, Stephen King, more than a dozen years ago.
5. What is the dumbest book quote you've ever read? From what book?
#friyayintro @howjessreads

#quotsynov19 #stress @TK-421

#quotsynov19 #bonfire @TK-421

3rd #AuthorAMonth book finished! I have read the first half of this book twice, & now 3 times. Yet I've never managed to finish it. This time though, I started it & went all the way to the end! I'm really glad I did too b/c while some of those stories I had read independent of this collection, others I hadn't, like Black Dog. I loved it, no surprise. And b/c I adore Shadow Moon, it inspired me to reread American Gods again!

@Soubhiville

My Wayward Kitty, Simon, is a very messy eater. 😂 #catsoflitsy #fosterkittens

#quotsynov19 #eternal @TK-421

📚- tagged book has a couple funny shop scenes.

🎬- Shop Girl

🎶- Supermarket Fantasy, Screeching Weasel
https://youtu.be/K_naf_gn4w8

#manicmonday @JoScho

It's been years since I read this. Still an excellent Norse mythology story written with young readers in mind but lovely enough for everyone. You just can't ever go wrong with Gaiman and Norse mythos. 2nd #AuthorAMonth book down. @Soubhiville

Loved it even more the second time around. This ending is still my favorite ending of any book. Book 1 for #AuthorAMonth done. @Soubhiville

1. Odd and the Frost Giants and Trigger Warning
2. Ghost Boys
3. Cold temps!
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain