So.. this book had been on my TBR since last year‘s #AuldLangSpine but as I am writing this I now realize the book on last year‘s list was actually the same title but a different author 😅

But it worked out and was a pick for me. I think fans of Emily Austin will enjoy it. Lots of dark humor and existential themes. Kind of Six Feet Under meets Dear Evan Hansen in terms of the pickle the main character puts himself in. ⬇️

In December I read You‘re a Mean One Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky. I couldn‘t get this chai cookie with eggnog icing out of my head so I finally made them. Loved Matthew and Hector baking together and Matthew being useless in the kitchen. Matthew was definitely giving David Rose from the “you just fold it in” scene from Schitt‘s Creek in terms of baking chops. 🤣 💯

I borrowed this one a little too early to follow the #LittensLoveRomance schedule but this was a great pick and I will be following the commentary on this one. Now I want to check this author‘s backlist. This is my second book by them. 🩷🎙️#LetterE #LitsyAtoZ #Jumpstart2025

Completed my first book of the year which was a belated Christmas gift. This book was fantastic and I love this author bio 😂 Letter D for #LitsyAtoZ #Jumpstart2025 #25Alive #TakeCharge

I just started the tagged book and didn‘t have a bookmark near me (shocking I know) so I pulled a card from my Good Omens deck. IX of Demons reversed (traditionally IX of swords) and I think the description here is just perfect for what this book is about 😄

Starting this one tonight and look I‘m in the dedication awww … wait what 😝

#12Booksof2024 December was a tough choice but it kind of worked out because A Very Snowed in New Year is not in the database yet, so I have tagged my favorite nonfiction from December. 🖤⚡️

#12Booksof2024 This was probably my favorite nonfiction book that I read in 2024. This one stands out as being exceptionally authentic as a depressive myself. Relatable, yet hopeful without being trite or sugarcoating the tough stuff.

Honorable mention to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. That‘s a book I‘d like to live in. 🖤✨

I was lucky enough to be an ARC reader for the tagged book. This morning I heard back that My application to beta read book 2 was approved. So excited to contribute to the process. This one comes out May 25th!

January #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are challenge tags. I chose The Final Girl Support Group for #AVL25 because I saw a friend that I share my Libby account with has it on loan and was like heyy I have this book too wanna buddy read 😄

The tagged book is my #ReadOrDonate 📖 and is also a March 2023 #TBRTarot prompt - the 4th book in from the left side of your shelf. I got this one from a library sale around 2018 so it‘s time to read or let it go.

#12Booksof2024 Octobah belongs to Billy flippin‘ Boston. I adore this series, but when Connor and Kayley write together it‘s always *chef‘s kiss*. The humor in this was great but there is also a paranormal aspect to this one that I wasn‘t expecting, but it just goes with the story so well.

Was surprised I was able to get this from Libby so soon after the US release. This will be my January #FictionalTraveler pick and I realized it‘s also a chunkster so it‘s another hopeful for the #AllergicToChunksters challenge as well.

First half points were 6,255 and last half points were 19,734.4 for a total of 25,989.4 points for #HolidayBookDragons / #WinterGames2024

#12Booksof2024 Called it on my March post. This sequel was everything and nothing that I could have expected. BB Easton is such a talented storyteller and really took so much care with this one. 🖤💚

Here we go again! January #BookSpin / #DoubleSpin list. Hope everyone has had a great first day of 2025 scheming their reading goals. 🤭🥂

#12Booksof2024 This book had the biggest impact on me this year, as it relates to producing a visceral reaction. In retrospect, this was probably my trauma being triggered by the existential horror of it all, but I don‘t regret finishing it. This one will have you thinking about what it really means to “shuffle off this mortal coil”.

Honorable mention to How to Make Friends With a Ghost which I adored. 🥹👻

January #ReadYourKindle list. A bunch of these were what was left perpetually at currently reading on Goodreads 🫣. If I don‘t get to them this month they are gonna get TBR‘d or DNF‘d

Final #BookSpinBingo board of 2024. Was so close to 4 lines but 2 in one month is not bad! In 2024 I completed 6 BookSpins and 7 DoubleSpins. Looking forward to another year of spinning!! Thanks @TheAromaofBooks for keeping this one going. It‘s always what I look forward to at the start of each month even though I‘m not always great at the follow through 😂

Finally ready to concede to my final Goodreads total of 138/100 🤭 The pages read don‘t mean anything because of how pages tend to register for audiobooks, though.

100 tends to be my default for goodreads but I am going to try to make more specific reading goals that I can hopefully stick to. I am moving next year and would like to focus more on my physical books and will likely be looking to rehome some of those before moving. 👀

HNY 🥳

Going to call this as my last book of 2024. It was also my October #DoubleSpin for #BookSpinBingo. This is one I definitely need to own at some point. I jumped the gun and added it to my #AuldLangSpine list ahead of finishing it because I knew what I had. Sorry not sorry 🤭 Amy Fleisher Madden has taken incredible care of documenting and capturing the 2nd and 3rd waves of emo music. I‘m so glad this book exists 🖤⬇️

This is my 2nd book I have read from the Jr. series. I just might need to find more of these in 2025. So cute to see these characters before they met Mrs. Jeepers.

+30 Word Search Words. #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Santa (and a bingo line) for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter D (and a bingo line) for #ChristmasAtoZ. Curls (and a bingo line) for #ISpyBingo. Naughty for #ChristmasCheer.

Not in database - insert sad trombone.

Gahhh what a perfect book to end 2024 with. If I don‘t finish another book today, I won‘t even be upset. I loved Piper‘s story and how this book brings the other 4 HEA‘s full circle. This series is one I will continue to revisit. I love these characters so much and this book particularly is a love letter to romcoms and the “hopeful romantics” who love them. ⬇️

#12Booksof2024 July was a tough choice it was between this book and The One by John Marrs. As far as I know this is the last of the series, but I hope it isn‘t the end. As I said in my January post this is the series I have recommended the most this year. I love the concept of healthy masculinity in the form of gleaning wisdom from reading romance. This also happened to be my #DoubleSpin for Christmas in July 😁

#12Booksof2024 Loved this sequel to the Ruinous Love series. This is Lachlan Kane and Lark Montague‘s story. I wouldn‘t call this a New Year‘s book but there is a deserving death involving fireworks to the crotch right at the beginning 😄🧨

May was all about The Ravenhood series for me. I finally read the trilogy, plus the tagged book which is the first of a legacy spin off of the original series. So hard to nail it down to just one. 🌧️ 🥹 #12Booksof2024

Absolutely adored this cheeky frog‘s wisdom. 🐸 🍄

Finished 12/27 +5 Word Search Words.

#BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 #SugarRush Tree for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter L for #ChristmasAtoZ. Xmas Tree for #ISpyBingo. Tree for #ChristmasCheer. Book you received as a gift prompt for December 2024 #TBRTarot prompt.

One of my kiddo‘s Christmas presents from the grandparents. Was actually a 2 in 1. I was very full of Christmas cheese when we were reading this but my son was adamant that we finish reading before taking a nap lol 😴

Finished on 12/25 +6 Word Search Words. #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 Ice for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter I for #ChristmasAtoZ. Stripes for #ISpyBingo. Cheer for #ChristmasCheer.

My son is obsessed with spotting these guys all over town so I got him his own for Christmas that came with this little booklet going over the history of these things. Finished 12/23. + 1 Word Search Word #BookSpinBingo #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 #ReadAway2024 #Adventathon #SnickerdoodleSprint Gold for #AVeryMerryBingo. Letter W for #ChristmasAtoZ. Different levels for #ISpyBingo. Jolly for #ChristmasCheer.

Matthew Prince creating events in his head in times of stress reminded me so much of Jenna Hunterson from Waitress creating a new pie in her mind. 🥹 Was really sad that there wasn‘t a recipe in the book for the chai cookies with eggnog icing. I want to make them so bad. I really loved the focus on mental health in this one around anxiety. And Matthew‘s mom can get stuffed. ⬇️

Mooncakes was my #12Booksof2024 pick for April. It was also an #AcquiredViaLitsy2024 read that was received from #BasicWitchSwap from @tdrosebud in 2022. 🖤

It‘s that time of year again where we are feeling really good about the coming year‘s reading goals! I will be hosting / attempting Acquired Via Litsy in 2025, now with a less annoying hashtag! 😄

#AVL25

#12Booksof2024 BB flippin‘ Easton 🙇🏻‍♀️ Loved this one and will not be surprised if the sequel shows up later on this challenge. ☘️

#12Booksof2024 My review for this one pretty much sums up why Mother Faker deserves the top spot for February:

“I‘ve found it. The perfect book. Should probably come with a warning for single moms. Read at your expanding heart‘s own peril 🥹🥰”

(I really need to finish this series in 2025)

#12Booksof2024 I read a lot of 5 ⭐️ reads in January but The Bromance Book Club has also been the series I have recommended the most this year. 🌼 💛

#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