#DashingThruDecember #HolidayCocktail

Had an Old-Fashion for the first, and last, time 😖

#DashingThruDecember #Gold

#DashingThruDecember #Carols

I intended to take a nonfiction break; apparently I'm not 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

I had to bail at page 63, the spin was making me too dizzy to keep reading.

#HailTheBail

89/80

Ok Littens, y'all have piqued my curiosity with this one!

#BlameItOnLitsy

While Schönhaus' story of living in Berlin under the Nazi regime as a Jewish document forger is interesting, the writing was just so, so bad.

88/80

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#DashingThruDecember #LightDisplay

"My survival is the result of events in which the 'law of large numbers' played the major part."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#DashingThruDecember #HolidayFilm

Made into the movie Christmas With The Kranks

This reading is inspired by The Book of Lost Names that piqued my interest in the people who forged documents in WWII. Shout out to @Offmybookshelf for finding this book and passing it on to me ❤️

A moving story, with a little too much repetition as it was told from various PsOV. But, and not to sound cold hearted, I was a little annoyed with Mary Kaye. If you sprain your ankle and your entire leg swells the next day get thee immediately to the ER, do not pass Go, don't even stop for a red light; you don't wait for your doctor's appt the next day.

87/80

#BookSpin #ReadingMyTBR #Read2025

#DashingThruDecember #Snowflake

Many snowflakes = snow day 😁

Reading this month's #BookSpin and waiting on the snow to start ❄️☃️

#DashingThruDecember #IceSkating

December #BookSpin and DoubleSpin

I love Debbie Macomber's cozy, easy-flowing stories when life gets hectic.

86/80

June #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#majicmonday

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

Now that all the "Have Tos" are behind me I can answer this in a better frame of mind ?

I love the holiday feeling that settles over everything with less rush and more slowing down to take in decorations everywhere, and people just seem more cheery and friendly.

#DashingThruDecember #Green

November spot goes to: Talking To Myself: A Memoir of My Times by Studs Terkel

#ReadingBracket2025

My first blackout board!!! And with a month to spare 😁💃🏻

#BookSpinBingo

November Wrap-up

Total Read: 8

✔️#BookSpin
✔️#DoubleSpin
6 #BookSpinBingo
8 #ReadingMyTBR #Read2025
2 DNF
0 5-Star

Some cute reader novelties I picked up for myself yesterday 😁

#ARichLife #Humble

Finally getting around to my June #BookSpin

My first blackout Bingo board!!! 💃🏻😁🎉

Because this is written in a series of essays the repetition got on my nerves. But the rest was enjoyable, and the parts about Eddie were sheer gold.

85/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

I had a moment so I got my December #BookSpin #DoubleSpin list together

#ARichLife #Games

Going way back in my reading life for this one

Last book on my #BookSpinBingo board! Here we go...

Just didn't hold my interest - #HailTheBail

84/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

Starting my penultimate black out board #BookSpinBingo book

Interesting history of not only the family, but also, the Gilded Age, and NYC. It helped me make better sense of 'The Swans of Fifth Avenue' by Melanie Benjamin.

83/80

Another bingo this month! #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025

"When I was six, my father took me to Grand Central Terminal in New York to see the imposing bronze statue of my great-great-great-grandfather 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#ARichLife #Blessings

I love decorated endpapers

That was a flora and fauna snooze fest, but I got another bingo 😁

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

#hailthebail

#ARichLife #Veggies

Technically a fruit, but a socially acceptably vegetable 😂

Going for a 4th bingo with this book that's been on my TBR shelf since college

This just did not flow as well Ehrenreich's other books. Her attempt to show death's inevitability, and explain why it's not in our nature to accept it nearly bored me to death. But I did get two bingos!

81/80

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader

Thanks for the tag @Eggs

#majicmonday

Painting the outside of my house. Huge project! But so worth it!!

#ARichLife #Pie

#ARichLife #Spice

"As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Up next for a bingo!

#ARichLife

It doesn't take a whole lot of mental gymnastics to make this fit today's prompt if you know that Felix enjoyed nothing better than his own #HomeCooking 😂

Very repetitive and slow, but the early medieval history was interesting.

80/80

#BookedInTime @Cuilin

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

Sometimes you just have to step out your front door to see cool shit - the epitome of a lazy adventurer 🤣🤣

#ARichLife #Table

I can't believe not a single Debbie Macomber book I own has a cozy #Fireside cover! So this will have to do 😂

#ARichLife

The writing was a little too stream of consciousness for me, but the breadth of history was fascinating.

79/80

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks

#ReadingMyTBR #Read2025 @DieAReader