This is the perfect metaphor for what this feels like.

Today was book club day! Always a good time with these friends. Water Moon was our January book and Good Spirits was our December read so we got to talk a bit about both for those who couldn‘t meet last month.

I admit I didn‘t love Water Moon, but I did love the premise of a pawn shop where you can pawn your regrets. I was hoping we would get to see their clientele and the types of regrets they pawned but it went in a whole other direction.

I wasn‘t able to keep up with the #12BooksOf2025 😅so here‘s a smattering of some favorite reads. I completed 104/100 for 2025.

Loving this one so far 😂

January #BookSpin #ReadYourKindle #BookSpinBingo The fates decided no you will not let #LosersClub picks fall to the wayside! In fact Christine was my BookSpin from December too. Very “I won‘t be ignored, Dan!” 🤣

December Wrap Up

A #BookSpinBingo to end the year with 🎉 Tagged book was also a #TBRTarot pick for the book with multiple POVs prompt. Ended the year with 13 free spaces to spare. I will try my best not to squander them this year 😂

I‘d like to provide this hashtag and challenge to anyone interested in 2026! I had a much better physical books reading year in 2025 and hope to continue in the new year. 🥂 #AVL26

Last library haul of the year. Most of these will be on my January TBR.

Merry Christmas, littens! I was gifted these 2 beautiful books of poetry. I haven‘t read poetry in far too long and I‘m looking to get back into reading more of it and maybe writing some again in the new year. 🎄

Not me reading this part on 12/10 😂 I am under a tight deadline to finish this book before book club brunch on Sunday 😝

Glad photo posting is back on. Tried posting this one yesterday.

Is it just me or are there issues with Litsy not letting you post photos right now 😑 I‘ve tried on the app and on the browser and I can only post without photos.

I picked this one up thinking aww a cute YA romance with rollerskating, but it‘s much more than that. This a book about the impact a rink has on creating community for a Black Indianapolis neighborhood being impacted by gentrification.

#AuldLangSpine 🧨

Pink highlights are my hopefuls for January that appealed to me most. 13 was the only book from the list I‘ve read.

I was just talking to a friend of mine about how more sprayed edge editions of books are coming out and he showed me the sprayed edition of 1. 😍 I was like maybe I should read that whole series just to get to 1. 🤔 I might be the only person left on Earth who hasn‘t read the Hunger Games series 😅

I know I‘m late to the Frieda McFadden hype train, but our book club got invited to an early screening of The Housemaid on Wednesday so I read that book so fast 😅. I was excited to see this was directed by Paul Feig. It stayed very close to the book and it was a lot funnier (dark humor lol) than I expected too. Gonna need to continue this series for sure. #KissAndTell

Finally putting up my December #BookSpin / #ReadYourKindle lists and my #BookSpinBingo board. I was struggling to locate seasonal stickers, but I‘m sure I will find some as soon as I post this. 😅 I carried over my unused free spaces for the year. Going to try for a blackout board but I‘ve never done that before 😂

November Wrap Up. I got 3 bingos! And finished my November picks. I‘ll still be carrying over 13 unused free spaces from 2025 into December so I will try to be a book fiend this month too. #BookSpinBingo #ReadYourKindle I think Dark Matter and Role Playing were my favorites this month.

Pretty pissed that I waited 9 years to read this, but I can't help but believe this is the timeline I was meant to read it in. 🥲 What a ride. This book will be haunting me at least till the end of this year I think.

Pic from book club yesterday. Really enjoying this group. 🥹🩷📖

#TBRTarot - A book that has become a movie or TV Show. Will be starting the series next. 📺

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Finally got to check out Book Nerd a new indie bookstore that just opened a few weeks ago. There‘s a silent book club that had a meeting yesterday. I love the concept of getting together and reading your own books with local folks and maybe meet some new people. Will definitely attend another meeting.

Day 8 of #37by37

Yay I made it! ⏱️ Toward the end I started bouncing around between a couple titles but I should finish these before the month is out. 🧁

Thanks to everyone who played along. I had a truly great birthday and today I‘m attending a silent book club at a new bookstore here in town. Happy Sunday!

Gonna little behind with my #37by37 updates.

Day 6 of #37by37

Read a bunch of monster books yesterday which seemed suitable for a 13th. Was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed most of the Amazon Original series from October.

My favorite book read yesterday was Unwrap My Heart. ⬇️

Day 5 of #37by37

Day 4 of #37by37

I adore anything Emily Austin writes. These poems were excellent.

#ReadYourKindle

Day 3 of #37by37

Loved Holy Runaways. Recommended for those who have left broader evangelicalism. Or if you know someone who has left and would like to gain some perspective. Very relatable even if you are not interested in pursuing a less horrible community of faith.

Day 2 of #37by37. All Hail the Bail 🔥 Loving Holy Runaways 💚🪴

#37by37 💯

I thought this was for sure going to be a 5 star read for me. I was invested. I related so much to Sloane, too. I felt that there was so much left unsaid by the end of the book. I also think there are times when leaving an ending ambiguous adds value, but sometimes I would really rather an author just make a choice.

Got a good chunk of time logged for Day 1 of #37by37. Did not plan on a red covers theme but here we are.

🥺🥺🥺 #37by37

Was that romantic? Or deeply messed up? A Memoir 😅 #37by37

First book down for #37by37 🩸🧛🏻‍♀️

Even vampires need their mixtapes 🧛🏻‍♀️🎶 #37by37

This one was somewhere between a so so and a pick for me. I know why the ending is ambiguous but I want answers dammit 😂 Would have liked more details about the rules of the sorority and the actual cannibalism. But I get that it‘s supposed to be a satire on feminism and not straight up horror. Etc, etc.

Tentative (as all my TBRs tend to be) TBR for #37by37

Me reading this book: ummm.. what? Wait wtf. Somebody think of the baby elephants!! Omg this is adorable 🥰 But seriously this kid‘s face on the right was me on this page 😂

Do better 😜

Forgot to post.. I fully intended on making progress on Dark Matter during my platelet donation on Saturday but one handed reading these BOTM hardcovers is no joke 😂 I ended up spending most of my appointment listening to the new album by The Belair Lip Bombs. It‘s excellent and unskippable IMO. Also I just noticed I‘m in the 3 gallon club now 🎉 #LitsyBloodDrive

Please join me for another birthday readathon! I will be 37 this year and am hoping to complete 37 hours of reading the week leading up to my birthday on the 15th. You can try for 37 hours, 37 chapters, or choose another goal entirely! Use the tag #37by37 and tag me so I can creep on your progress 👀🧁

November #BookSpin #ReadYourKindle and #BookSpinBingo Board. I rolled over some of my unused free spaces so there should be plenty of room for adhd mood reading 😂 I will also be hosting a readathon the week of my birthday (November 8 - November 15) if anyone wants to join me. I‘ll put the details in the next post. 🧁 📖

Kiddo and I were sadness and embarrassment from Inside Out for Halloween. 💙🩷

Cujo was the last book read in October and here is my October wrap up overall. Cujo definitely unlocked a new fear in me especially with rabies cases on the rise in my county and so many who don‘t follow leash laws. I definitely could have made bingo this month but it was nice to be busy with fun things like a concert and Halloween and meeting new people. Great month! #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #Chocolotiers #TBRTarot ⬇️

Not no but hell no. Yikes on bikes. I would have DNFd at about 50% but this was a book club book and I wanted to be able to discuss all the awful 😂 Luckily everyone pretty unanimously hated this one. The premise had potential but this was terrible. It‘s been marketed as dark gothic romance but this is not romance nor did it really feel like horror. It was like a mish mash of tropes and hoping for the best. 😬 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders ⬇️

Some of you might remember I posted about a local bookclub that was just getting started in SA.. well this was our first book. Post Stolen from IG from one of the other ladies in our book club who makes book themed cocktails. I loved this story that is set in the world of the Ruinous Love trilogy. If you read Butcher and Blackbird, the FMC in this book was a minor character. This book is the start of a trilogy all focused on the same couple. ⬇️

So cute. Zeb is nervous about befriending a brain he names Brian because brains are food not pets. This one reminded me of a Brian I used to work with whose name was mistyped as Brain on the schedule once. He was Brain to us after that 😂 🧠 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

Another cute picture book read in October. 🧛🏻‍♂️ 🐌 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #ASnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo

Catching up on posting the rest of the books I read in October. I mostly picked this one up because I love KC Davis. Even if you aren‘t in a romantic relationship there is so much to take from this book to increase your emotional intelligence / self awareness. I love this quote. 💯 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers +1 word search +2 scavenger hunt. #BookSpinBingo

Happy #AllHallowsReadSwap day! Looking forward to these haunted house books. I love that the covers have similar color schemes. And that ghost‘s face was all of us dealing with 90° weather halfway through October. I‘m glad the freezer saved him (he was delicious)? ? Thank you @LeslieO happy #AHRS

Time flies when you‘re ignoring your physical TBR #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

I was about to make a snarky post asking if anyone is actually finding brackish for the word search and then it decides to show up 😂 #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders

Been doing some of these Cleary books with my son for speech stuff. Featuring one of his favorite things on the cover 🍕 Fake Sticker and Grey for Scavenger Hunt. #HauntedShelf #GrimReaders #OneSnackToRuleThemAll #Chocolatiers #BookSpinBingo