#HolidayLaughs #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

+ 390 Word Search Words.

#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #SnickerdoodleSprint #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Wreath and another bingo line for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter J for #ChristmasAtoZ. Candy Cane for #ISpyBingo. Wreath for #ChristmasCheer. Blind Date for #ItsATrope. I found Art Gallery, completing December‘s #WickedWords (lobster was also in this book in case my last lobster post didn‘t count 😆)

As we start making plans for 2025, check out this #AllergicToChunksters challenge @julieclair will be hosting next year. See her original post for the StoryGraph link if you‘re into that! 💚

+ 75 Word Search Words.

#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Mistletoe for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter S for #ChristmasAtoZ. Neck Tie for #ISpyBingo. Holly for #ChristmasCheer. Grumpy/Sunshine for #ItsATrope. I found Necklace for #WickedWords

+270 Word Search words. #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #Adventathon #LittenListen Free Space and a bingo line! for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letters H for #ChristmasAtoZ. Eyes #ISpyBingo. Reindeer for #ChristmasCheer which is perfect because I think my favorite part is Blitzen‘s love for weeing and pooing on unsuspecting ppl lol 🦌 💩

Not sure if this gets #WickedWords credit, but I just noticed that the Wombats album coming out on Valentine‘s Day has a final track called #Lobster. 🦞 Looking forward to this release so much. The 3 singles already out from it are 🩵🩵🩵

-I‘m Sorry I‘m Late I Didn‘t Want to Come
-Blood on the Hospital Floor
-My Head Is Not My Friend

#WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons

Last night I went to a Queer Crafternoon event hosted by one of our local SAPL branches. I love this idea! It was my first time. I got to make 2 holiday crafts (my poinsettia needs a little more work) and we got to listen to part of the tagged book while we worked. Also the author is local to me. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons

I just realized I made this a few weeks back but never posted it. I am looking forward to #AuldLangSpine 2025. I marked out books I‘ve read already. These were all 4 or 5 stars books for me 🤩. ✨ = most likely to pick up in January and 👀 = I will definitely be reading 🤣 Thanks for the list @Marmie7 and our fearless leader @monalyisha for being our gracious host!

Midway check in for #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 6,255 points. 📖 🐉 🎄

Made my first bingo line of #WinterGames2024 for #ISpyBingo #HolidayBookDragons Pardon my hexxus X‘s

Decided to combine this series into 1 post. Total of +221 Word Search Words. I have ranked the series on a scale of 1 being Winter Wonderland ❄️🥰 and 5 being I miss who I was before I read this. 🫣😅

But even the lowest ranked book I am glad I read because it led me to the 1 ⭐️ Goodreads reviews which made me laugh so hard 🤣 And it‘s too bad my least favorite story had my most favorite narrator of the bunch (Connor Crais). ⬇️

Finished on 12/7. Another impulse Disney graphic novel. I think Turning Red was a slightly better adaptation but it was still very good. +8 word search words. Candle for #AVeryMerryBingo and #ISpyBingo. Gift for #ChristmasCheer #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #WinterGames2024 #GingerbreadJourney #HolidayBookDragons

Finished on 12/6. +19 Word Search Words. Snow for #AVeryMerryBingo Monster for #AVeryScaryXmasBingo Letter F for #ChristmasAtoZ Santa for #ISpyBingo Festive for #ChristmasCheer #HolidayBookDragons #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024 #WinterGames2024 #Adventathon #GingerbreadJourney

We went to the park today and I noticed this leaf that looked like a Christmas tree 🍁🌲Currently reading the tagged book. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons

Some holiday movies watched this week. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons #ChristmasCheer #Santa

Kiddo picked out the Emoji Movie from the library. Wasn‘t expecting it to open with the Christmas tree emoji 🎄😄 #wintergames2024 #holidaybookdragons

Another 5 ⭐️ read from Benjamin Stevenson! I love this series / writing style so much. +129 word search words. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #BookSpinBingo #LetterE #ChristmasAtoZ Different Levels for #ISpyBingo Promise for #AVeryMerryBingo #Adventathon #LittenListen Seasonal for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge Gift for #AVeryScaryXmasBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #Lights #ChristmasCheer

Some holiday shows/movies we‘ve been watching this week. #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

This book was so cute and made me think of all you #LitsyLove littens 🥹 +22 word search words. #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 #BookSpinBingo #Christmas #WickedWords #LetterM #ChristmasAtoZ Movement for #ISpyBingo Friends for #AVeryMerryBingo #Adventathon #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

Ok so maybe technically not a Christmas show 😜 but I loved this line from the Season 1 finale. I got the Peacock Black Friday deal where you get the whole year for $20 so I am finally watching this series after reading the Bill Hodges trilogy last year with #LosersClub. So far I‘m really enjoying this adaptation. #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

We put up my son‘s Crocsmas tree 😅 #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

We were watching A Pink Christmas yesterday morning and I forgot all about “Swifty‘s Messenger Service” 😂 🎁 #holidaybookdragons #wintergames2024

December #ReadYourKindle list

December #BookSpin list / TBR. #WinterGames2024 #HolidayBookDragons

14 books read in November. My reluctant reader actually asked to read us the Turning Red graphic novel twice! #BookSpinBingo #ReadAway2024

I have my activities for the “til you wobble” part of the day ready to go 😅

🩵 59 pages left of RTSA
🥂 I hope to start First Wives Club in honor of it being Operation Hell‘s Fury Day today
🧛🏻‍♂️ ‘Salem‘s Lot in progress on Kindle for #losersclub

Happy Thanksgiving from behind one of my new Zenni pairs! 🤓

This is probably going to be my favorite nonfiction book of the year. Extremely relatable for depressives and not in a sugar-coaty way which is super refreshing.

The end of an era. I finally updated my used and abused #mysapl library card yesterday and got a new number. I‘ve had the last one burned into my brain for the last 12 years. The new designs are really cool too.

Litsy database is sadly lacking in Kayley Loring books. 🎻

My most anticipated read for December is A Very Snowed in New Year which is the *tentative* end of the Very Holiday series. ⬇️

Here‘s a Painting with a Twist Painting I did about 5 years ago. Who doesn‘t love a holiday hedgie?

Hot Chocolate or Eggnog

Hot chocolate. I like eggnog but I am Scott Calvin about cocoa.

Open presents Christmas or Christmas Eve

My son and I do our Christmas on 12/24 and then do Christmas with my family on 12/25.

Star or Angel topper - Star 🌟

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Registered for #AuldLangSpine. Creating my list had me thinking that was this year?? It‘s been a long one, folks 😅 This is such a fun challenge to do each year and @monalyisha is a great matchmaker! I recommend signing up especially if swaps seem intimidating to you. It‘s a neat way to find books that you didn‘t know you needed.

‼️Littens who print as a part of their bookish activities‼️ Please send me your printer recommendations. I currently have an Epson XP 4105 that is making me batty. I‘ve had it for 4 or 5 years and am about ready to set it on fire 😂 I‘m hoping Santa might send me a new one this year. 👉👈I mostly use it for my BookSpin bingo tiles. 🖨️ 🔥

We made it folks! Went slightly off course with this graphic novel I had to read my son who has been Turning Red obsessed lately 😍. Maybe I have 2 years left of correlated years to hours birthday challenges left in me, yet! Thanks to everyone who joined! And thanks for the birthday wishes! It really is a marvel that we get to exist at all and I‘m glad to have made it through another year. 🩷 #NFN #NonfictionNovember #36by36

Half Price Books haul from yesterday. I‘ve been meaning to read First Wives Club for years and now she‘s mine! I also found some Bailey School Kids books. Some years ago I recollected the original series, but now I need the super specials, the Jr. series, and (not pictured) the Bailey City Monsters series too. I used to own more of these but I‘m sure they got cleaned out when I first went away to college a lifetime ago 💔 Ooh and book lights! 🤩

I hope everyone enjoyed pickle day yesterday! I finished Part of Your World which I enjoyed despite the act 3 break up. My Libby hold for Reasons to Stay Alive actually ended before I got to finish it (this always happens to me because I am always reading too many books at the same time 😅) but I was able to get a print copy from my library that I will finish today. #36by36

Didn‘t make a #36by36 update yesterday, so here‘s a twofer. I finished The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows on Monday. Nick Allen would love this book. 🖊️ I am glad I read it and am actually surprised that these are not “actual” words because I have found myself relating to so many of these, some frighteningly specific to my own experience. I hope to own it at some point in print because a lot of these concepts deserve further introspection. ⬇️

Yesterday was full of bowling and Mario Kart as Sundays tend to be 😄 So I didn‘t finish any books but I am halfway through The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows which I am enjoying as much as everyone who has recommended it thinks I will! I also found a Kensington edition of Pucking Wild at my library so I started Tess and Ryan‘s bonus epilogue yesterday too. 🥹 Almost to the midpoint of this challenge. #36by36

Finished the tagged book yesterday. It was kind of a cross between One Last Stop and What If It‘s Us with fairy tale references throughout. I did feel a little shameful about the potential plot twists I was cooking up in my brain that didn‘t end up happening. Afterward I felt like bad Amanda those characters would never!! 😆

Starting day 3 of #36by36 with just over 13 hours. Hoping to get to 16+ hours by the end of the day. ⬇️

Finished Pumpkinheads finally while waiting for my earbuds to charge. This panel cracked me up. 😅 I think I‘m going to need to find some frito pie and caramel apples today. 😋 #36by36 #ReadAway2024

Starting Day 2 with just over 8 hours in for #36by36. The goal for today is to finish The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers and Pumpkinheads. I actually didn‘t realize a pumpkin embroidered jacket was going to be a plot point in the first book so this kind of reminds me of the #ThingsInCommon challenge that @Clwojick did last year. It‘s so fun when you find links between reads.

Happy Friday! Finished the last 1:10:00 of the tagged book to kick off #36by36. I‘m glad I read this rec. I related to it so much. If you‘re a fellow chronic overthinker, this book will make you feel less crazy.

Going to try to even out my reading by format Print/Kindle/Audio, but we will see how it goes, as I‘m a mood reader through and through 😅 #10BeforeTheEnd #NFN #ReadAway2024

Hey that‘s me lol 🙋🏻‍♀️🎭

Book 2/10 for #10BeforeTheEnd
I was marked at “several months” on Libby for this hold when it surprisingly came through the other day. 🙌 I think this book is worth the hype, I really loved it. I think a lot of ppl are intimidated by the long trigger warning list for list one. But I think this book is on the same level as Butcher and Blackbird. Josh is the most cinnamon roll of Dark Romance MMCs IMO. 🥰🔪 #SeriesLove2024 #ReadAway2024

First pick of the month! I listened to the audio but this would be a good book to own to revisit. I especially appreciated the section How to be Sane on the Internet. #NonFictionNovember #10BeforeTheEnd

I hope it‘s not too late for me to jump on this #10beforetheend challenge. The Litsy algorithm was barely showing me this tag today. Here are 10 books I am hoping to finish before 2025. Great idea @ChaoticMissAdventures 🤩

November #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin picks. For my DoubleSpin I had marked as a #ReadYourKindle book so I am choosing Morbidly Yours which was a pick from October and also fits this month‘s #TBRTarot prompt for a book that begins with the first letter of your middle name.

I will be hosting an 8 day readathon leading up to my birthday. I am turning 36 so I am going to try for 36 hours by my birthday. These challenges get more challenging the older I get! Please join me! You can match my challenge, read 36 chapters instead, or set a totally different goal. Use #36by36 on your posts and tag me so I can see what you are reading. 🧁

#ReadYourKindle list November.

November #BookSpin List. I am going to attempt to read more nonfiction this month for #NonFictionNovember

October #BookSpinBingo wrap up. 10 books read in October is not too bad, but it pains me how close I came to getting a double Bingo 🤣 Crossing my fingers for November, which is also my birthday month! I plan to host a readathon during my birthday week. I will post details soon. 🧁 📖