Book Bracket Update!!! 🏅
I am as of yet undecided on my book of the year… 🤔😫
-How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristin Perrin
And
-The Book of Doors by Garett Brown
were both such captivating reads this year! I‘m tempted to call it a tie, but I‘ll let it simmer a little longer since the Book of Doors is so fresh in my memory to truly decide!😌

I‘ve been enjoying swiping through everyone‘s #readingbracket2024 this year and finally thought to sit and make mine! Hahaha so far, Fredrick Backman‘s beautiful short novel on memory and loss is pitted against The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, although a Map of Days and Kristin Hannah‘s The Four Winds were pretty fantastic these past couple months as well! I didn‘t realize how tricky this would be to fill!

Better late than never! Spring 2024 titles! June was a bit of a bust will all of my wedding prep, but I‘m ready to dive back into my stack!📚 #pantonespringchallenge

Spring #Pantone challenge update… any good purple recommendations?!?💜

-King‘s Cage 5%
-The Covenant of Water 50%
-Map of Days 30%
-Annihilation 75%
-The Invisible life of Addie Larue 💯
-The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek💯
-Library of Souls💯
-Pineapple Street 💯
-Fourth Wing💯
-Emily Post‘s Wedding Ettiquette 85%
-Getting things done -DNF (too busy getting things done😅 I need to find this on audio😂 still want to read it!)

Such a satisfying end to the third book in this series. I didn‘t know how they were going to wrap it up. I thought “surely, it can‘t end this way?!” Then it all came home beautifully 🥹 can‘t wait to start Map of Days!

January Spring Reads progress! #pantone2024
-The book Woman of Troublesome Creek 100%
-The Invisible Life of Addie Larue 100%
-Library of Souls 60%
-Emily Post‘s Wedding Etiquette 50%
-Getting Things Done 20%
-Fourth Wing 5%

First Audio book to kick off the year! As an outreach librarian myself, this was a super fun read! I had it recommended by one of my outreach patrons and was instantly drawn into the story and the parallels of life I shared with the main character. So fun! Also gut wrenching, tear jerking, gasp inducing and at many different times made me want to linger in the car listening just a second longer.

Give me your best of the best, favorite, must-read-first picks from these authors! I‘m an outreach librarian that does a lot of readers advisory but has never actually read these authors that my patrons are always asking for🙈😂. I‘m gonna put together a list and make myself a challenge this year. Please and thank you!!🥰

Jane Eyre has been on my TBR for wayyyy too long!😂 here we go #bookspinbingo
Also pumped for my #doublespin

January reads! Tagged book was my fave this month. Also still reading Middlemarch with the #pemberlittens and The Sparrow for my #doublespin #bookspinbingo I‘m feeling pretty good about this years‘s reading pace so far… we‘ll see how I fare once homework starts filing in😬🤭

Read this third book to finish the set but wasn‘t really wowed by any of them. These were a recommendation for me and I can see why they would be popular (particularly if you grew up reading Shannon Hale‘s Princess Academy, you will love this!) but they are just so full of cliches. Just enough freshness to keep me reading and some twists. But, let‘s just say if you‘re an eye-roller, save yourself the headache you will get from reading this one 😂

Not how I expected to finish this book😂🙈 but I knocked it out before it was due! Audiobooks are absolutely MADE for sick days!☺️

This was my first Stephen King read/listen and I really liked it! I‘m not much of a horror reader so I figured a fantasy-leaning book would make for a great intro to his work! I highly recommend the audio! So fun and the author even makes a cameo!

When you only have two days left to finish your driving audiobook and there‘s a long holds list waiting … #justkidding #notreallythough #icantbetheonlyone #desperatetimes #desperatemeasures

Excited to cut through this stack! Cheated a little putting Middlemarch as one of this month‘s reads, but it was truly on my TBR so 💁🏽‍♀️😂 #bookspinbingo

Slowly catching up and read through ch 11, but this snippet from chapter 8 where everyone is roasting Casaubon was everything to me😂😂😂 #pemberlittens

Slowly catching up! Here we go chapter 7! #OhDodo #PoorChettam

Excited to start this challenge! What a fun idea!!#pantone2023 #itssopreeeety

Picked this up at my library‘s Friends Bookstore last year and am excited to get to read along with #pemberlittens! Gotta catch up first!🤓

Perfect read/listen for the start of 2023!

I closed out 2022 with “The Power of Habit”, so this was a great way to turn that information into some practical steps for making sustainable change in my habits and routines going into 2023! 10/10 recommend!
Also, getting ready to graduate and am raring to get back into my reading groove! Trying to decide which challenges I want to join in on in this new year and I feel like a kid in a candy store!

Last-Minute-Readathon is off to a start with finishing this gem of a book! These are mine and my younger sister Abby‘s TBR stacks for this readathon. Douglas Adams writes the most brilliant nonsense I‘ve ever read in my entire life!

Wow...just wow! Krivak slowly and tenderly swallows you with his depictions of the great and quiet forest. Before you know it, you‘re surrounded by trees feeling the cold water of a spring washing over your bare toes with the smell of pine and rich soil in the air. I loved every minute of this book, even though it took me a lot longer than intended because of school!

I‘m finally sufficiently recovered from a long and grueling year of grad school to want to read for fun again! Gotta catch up ok some cool titles I‘ve heard about but been too busy to read. 📚🤓

First thing on the list, The Bear by Andrew Krivak. I left off with 20 pages to go right before school started and really wanna see how it ends!🐻

And just like that, my 2018 challenge is over... now to keep reading anyway 🤣

Getting in the Christmas spirit with this classic and some almond milk cocoa #humbug #seasonsreadings #cozy

I grew up in a house full of books with a family that made frequent trips to the library. For some reason, I never really thought to buy my own. Any trip to the bookstore was always to add to our collection of schoolbooks (I was homeschooled.) So, to get to start my own collection, and have a bookcase that is all my own...I am just so excited and loving it! All that to say-look at the pretty new lights I just put up! 😍#storytime #mybooks #inlove

Got sent home from work with a cold🤧, so I‘m chilling on the couch with a box of tissues determined to cut through this book. It is interesting, and I loved Red Queen, but it just seems to be going sooo slowly for some reason...

Feeling suuuper cozy and Christmassy (is that a word?) tonight🎄I‘ve got my flannel sheets down for the cold front that‘s coming in tonight, Christmas lights are up in my room, I went to a vespers choir performance this afternoon, and to top it off, I‘m reading the Christmas chapter in this lovely little book!❄️

Loved, loved, LOVED this book! When I started reading it, I thought it wouldn‘t be worth the hype, but man, it proved me wrong! So many feelings packed into one book, I stayed up late into the night alternately crying and then laughing out loud at how much I could relate to Eleanor‘s social awkwardness 😂 🤦🏽‍♀️ Great book!

Both of these books have been on my TBR since I saw them on my library‘s book club list. I finally picked them up from our friends of the library store and am excited to get started on them.... I‘ve heard good things about both!

I‘ve been wanting to read this one for a while. Getting cozy with some extra dark coconut milk cocoa 😋

1. Finishing dinner in my hammock.🕶
2. A week ago (hi!)
3. Either BBQ or bratwurst haha
4. 7:30ish
5. The Readers of Broken Wheel Reccomend
@MinDea #humpdaypost

1. The Lone Star State 🏜#Texasyall
2.The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3.The Chronicles of Narnia
4.Little Women with Wynona Rider and Christian Bale
5.Psych🍍
6.Ella Fitzgerald
7.The sky(all variations)
8.Journal entry/Inner Dialogue types of books
9.Library📚😍
10.A goldfish named Piranha Ron (it‘s a long and tragic story)
#meetthelittens

Books and hammocks are always a good combo 📖 #readathon #hammocking #springtime

Readathon is off to a fantastic start with this gem! This is a fantastic series as a whole and I HIGHLY recommend the audiobook. I wish I could say that it was a satisfying conclusion, but I can‘t because I want MORE!!! Please don‘t make us wait too long, Sylvain? #themisphile #readathon

Getting pumped for a #readathon tonight! 🤓

One does not simply walk past the bookstore #dollarbooks #callingmyname #minibookhaul

Perks of working at a library. I get to read it first! 😍