"She was born of electric fire into ice and torment and there had never been anything like her."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Hopefully a go author who isn't going to disappoint 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Last few Star Wars books have been the same damn plot--kidnap, rescue, lots of close calls. It's been like reading a season of The A-Team.

50/80

#DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025

 @TheAromaofBooks @DieAReader

#JulyJazz #Hammock

Ozzy on repeat for the rest of the day

RIP

#TuesdayTunes

#JulyJazz #Grace

Book mail!! Thank you fellow Litten (I don't remember who exactly) for putting this on my radar 🙏🏼😁

Listening to the thunder and starting this month's #DoubleSpin Can't think of a better way to spend a Friday night 😁

Very similar to their other collection: My Nest Isn't Empty...
Cute, and lighthearted, but I felt like I'd already read it.

49/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

"Here's what I've learned in my life: Motherhood has no expiration date."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

@dabbe thanks for the tag

#tuesdayscavengerhunt #boat @Chrissyreadit

Found a boat in @kspenmoll posts; so #tagyoureit 😊

Staring this for a bingo

The writing style was not for me.

#HailTheBail

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

It's hot -- I'm just gonna sit my ass in the AC and read the day away

An angsty and sweet love story. And can I just say, both sets of parents are parenting goals!

47/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

"One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#coffeeandabook time

Not my favorite of her memoirs. As it is a memoir of her family tribe there was just so much going on with all the various family members that the writing felt choppy. I did very much love the tribe living though; and if I could, I too would have my whole family within a six block radius.

46/80

July #BookSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#MonthlyNonFiction2025

#JulyJazz #Liberty

The framed Pledge of Allegiance that hangs under my daughter's army photo

#JulyJazz #Forgiveness

#JulyJazz #Peaceful

#JulyJazz #MentalHealth

Staring my July #BookSpin

"There is no lack of drama in my life, I have more than enough three-ring-circus material for writing, but even so, I always approach the seventh of January with trembling."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

The history of Iran just before, and following the revolution was interesting. I didn't care for the writing, however; and it was too long.

45/80

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

#JulyJazz #StarsAndStripes

Happy 4th of July 🎆🎇 US friends!!

Thanks for the tag @Eggs While it's still Wednesday in CO, if I don't do this now I'll forget 😄

After a year of putting together photo albums for our grand, who's always commandeering someone's phone to look at pix, she finally sat down with one and enjoyed it so much she went and got the others.

#JulyJazz #MadeInUS

#BookSpinBingo board for the second half of the year

July #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin

Happy #CanadaDay to my northern neighbors! 🎉

#JulyJazz

#ReadingBracket2025

Much thought was required here. It was a tough choice between The Book of Charlie and Demon Copperhead. And then another tough choice between The Sun Down Motel and The Book of Charlie, especially since there are such different books. But seeing as I wanted to call everyone I knew and shout from the rooftops to read The Sun Down Motel, it clearly deserves the 1/2 year top spot.

No blackout, but 20 books off my TBR shelves is still a win!

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

June Wrap-up

Total read: 6
1 DNF
3 TBRs
1 Nonfiction
1 Chunkster
✔️#BookSpin
❌ #DoubleSpin
2 #BookSpinBingo
1 5-star read

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 #AllergicToChunksters #MonthlyNonfiction2025

This comes awfully close to book banning to me.

Apologies, if the below link doesn't work. Give it a google if it doesn't. I tried 😂

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna215255

"In the fall of 1995, after resigning from my last academic post, I decided to indulge myself and fulfill a dream."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

1. A sense of humor

2. My 30s

3. My life by Billy Joel

#WondrousWednesday

House is clean. Thunder storm approaching. But I've got my coffee and a possibility for another bingo this month. All is good right now 😊

I learned a lot; thanks Litsy for putting this on my radar!

44/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair

July #BookSpin #DoubleSpin and July-December #BookSpinBingo

#BookSpinBingo #BlameItOnLitsy started this morning

I am so glad there wasn't a thing on my agenda today except to finish this book! I have to admit, at just shy of the halfway point, I was really wondering why there was such love for this book. Didn't take much longer to find out! There's not much I can say that hasn't already been said except, if you're thinking of reading it--do it!!

43/80

#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2015
#AllergicToChunksters
#BookSpinBingo

"First, I got myself born."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Starting chunkster number 2 for #AllergicToChunksters

I don't even know what the hell I just read.

#HailTheBail

42/80

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025 @DieAReader

"Let me call her Sylvia."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Starting this month's #BookSpin

If it didn't have the ending it did, it would've been a so-so read. Space exploration and NASA just don't do it for me, so my attention kept wondering. But I did love that ending.

40/80

I love a pretty end page design 😍

There's nothing better than finishing a book and then finding book mail in the mailbox 😁

Gossipy, a little crime solving, and forced family fun--everything a summer read should be. Not a bad way to spend reading time.

40/80