Today’s Prompt: Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025 (New-to-you authors you discovered, new genres you learned you like, new bookish resources you found, friends you made, local bookshops you found, a book club you joined, etc.)
Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday!
Let’s just get into it shall we?
Let’s start with Crafternoon! Crafternoon is a zoom event that I co-host with Lisa @ Boondock Ramblings where we meet up with fellow bloggers that we have met online by visiting their bookish blogs, and we talk about whatever while we craft. I always have a lot of fun catching up with everyone.
Next up is my reading journal. I loved keeping a fun reading journal of the books I read. I add quotes and my thoughts, stickers, and what not to it. I love doing it and I love looking back through it too.
Then there are my monthly outings with Wyatt, for books and coffee and cookies (although he doesn’t drink any coffee, he drinks hot chocolate)
We haven’t been able to do lately – in December we both were sick, and then this month it has been too cold! Hopefully we can get out and go in February!!
I also had a book outing with my cousin! He took me to Sip and Read in Detroit for my birthday, and treated me to a glass of wine and a book. We had such a great time and we need to go again soon. My treat this time!
We also went to a book festival in Toldeo, Oh last year, and had a great time. We met up with my cousin and his family. His son and his wife are big readers too. We had a blast!!
Ok this next one, I am not sure if it counts but I am counting it. Billy and I went on a date to theatrical Poe evening. It was amazing. There were a few readings from Poe and it was very atmospheric. I had so much fun!
Last year I also started reading more translated fiction that wasn’t Japanese or Korean. I read Of Salt and Shore, which is Dutch, as well as Seacrow Island which is Swedish.
I almost forgot our Little Free Library! We built a Little Free Library this year, to cheer Wyatt up during his surgery. He loves going out and checking the books. It is really a lot of fun for all of us.
And I think (?) that is everything!
I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!
Hello everyone! I am writing today from inside the Arctic circle, which is now known as Michigan. It has been soo cold here. It is awful. Extreme temperatures are really tough on Wyatt, so we have been inside for most of the past week, and it looks like this week ahead will be more of the same. We are maybe going a little stir crazy!
Books:
Did I tell you I finished Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge? I did, and I miss the ladies chatter already. I need to go find another of their books ASAP. I also finished While the Earth Holds Its Breath. I wasn’t overwowed by it, but it was still a pretty relaxing, calm read.
I have read so far this year four nonfiction books already. Who am I? I do need a break though from it though, and I have two books on deck. I don’t know which one I will end up reading, but I am going to start them both and see which one sticks. I may end up reading them both, who knows? We are stuck inside after all.
Screens:
Billy and I haven’t been watching too much lately! You would think we would be. We have been watching the news a lot more than anything. And the kittens and Miso. They are bringing us happiness in a dark time honestly. Maybe that book “We’ll Prescribe You a Cat” has the right idea. I haven’t read it yet but maybe I will next month. And I know some of you aren’t cat people, so there are other things, dogs, fish, plants. Really just find something that brings you joy right now. Painting, a pen pal. Walks in nature. A good book. A funny movie. Today I think we are going to watch A Night at the Museum with Wyatt. I love that movie and he has not seen it yet. We may end up watching all three this week, who knows? Anyone else have any ideas for kids movies like Paddington, A Night at the Museum, etc, that you really loved?
We had some really great things happen here last week. When you have a kid with special needs, milestones are often inchstones, and Wyatt was kicking butt last week. He is really coming along in reading, and not just reading but SAYING THE WORD out loud to me. I know this guy is understanding so much more than I realize but the fact that he doesn’t verbalize everything usually makes it really difficult for me to measure how much. Last week though he was just blowing me away with actually reading words out loud to me.
He also took his first steps post surgery last week!!!! It was a lot of work and a few months coming and I am so very proud of him. And he was very proud of himself too, which he should have been. I will post my Instagram reel of it, but I am not sure if it ever works when I do this.
And that is about it from around here. Making cookies, eating cookies, playing with kittens, cuddling Miso, writing our pen pals, homeschool.
I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile. I know that I am hoping that the snow (an expected 9 inches here) will have enough a break so that I can run up to Starbucks for my Self-Care Sunday routine of matcha latte with oatmilk and 1 pump of vanilla. We will see though.
Hello everyone! It is crazy weather here in the States isn’t it? I am worried about you all in the south! Stay safe and warm, wear layers, lots of natural fabrics that breathe, build your blanket forts and hunker down. We have been in this house for far too long here, and we just have a few more days of it, although I am taking Wyatt to therapy today at least. We will have a feels like above a negative number so I am going for it, because later tonight our temps really get bad, and we could reach temps of -35. Not fun!
While Billy has been out and about for work this week (poor guy), Wyatt and I have been inside. I did go to the pet store last night to just get out but that has been it. We have been really working hard at school, and Wyatt is doing fantastic. He is really coming along with reading and I am so proud of him. We are also covering the Lewis and Clark expedition in history, learning about boreal forests in science, and we are about to start a whole architecture unit for art, which I am super excited about. I just need to get to the library to pick up some books for it- maybe Saturday I can venture out.
I am having a lot of fun finding pen pals! Lol. When I was younger, I had a pen pal who lived in England and it was a lot of fun. I remember she mailed me the Adrian Mole books which were hilarious. It is sort of neat to revisit this as an adult. I shall call it my correspondence and pretend I am a Lady having my morning tea and writing my letters, when I will really be listening to Wyatt chattering on, the kittens running all over around me, Miso sleeping on my lap, etc. I have been browsing blank cards and stationery sets online, and can’t decide. There are so many different types and designs!
I also finished up my book, Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, which was so quaint and lovely. It was a nice read for this time of year, slow and easy, and I miss their stories now. I will have to read the other books as well, if my library has them. When I was reading about the women themselves online, it seemed they had very fascinating lives!
In kitten news, we had a little surprise. Mabel is really a Max! Our two sisters are really sister and brother. It happens, kittens are so hard to tell when they are really little. And Max looks like he is going to be a big cat – his paws are enormous! They have been cracking us up. We have a new little routine: when I get up, I feed Miso, who is generally waiting next to me on the bed, or rather, pawing my face for her breakfast, then I get Wyatt’s breakfast, and fetch the kittens. Wyatt and I sit in my bedroom with the kittens while they play, and after an hour or so, I put them back into the office, feed them, and then they take a nap. Only a few more days or so and I should be able to just let them have free run of the house. Miso seems to be handling their presence ok – when Max escaped yesterday she found him and they gently sniffed each other’s faces. We are going slow because she is such a gentle animal and I don’t want to overwhelm her and the kittens are a lot.
I have also had a lot of time to plan things! I lined up a skating event for our Blackbirds at a place called the Ribbon in Toledo. We have a cabana, a fire pit, and skating aids at our disposal, including a sled with two runners that Wyatt can use on the ice. We rented the place for two hours, and even if our kids spend most of their time drinking hot chocolate by the fire, it is right by the ice and can be part of the scene in whatever way they choose and are comfortable. I am really excited.
I also formed a teeny book club for Wyatt and two of his friends! Our goals are pretty simple, just to have them say maybe what they liked and didn’t like at first, and then we will have a themed snack and craft, because that is how I roll and these three will love it. We are planning our first club meeting all the way out in March, which is crazy to think about. It’s hard to believe Christmas was already a month ago!
I have been doing a lot of journaling, list making, letter writing lately, and will probably start a sewing project or two this weekend. We have our first Crafternoon of the year Saturday and that will be a nice way to break up this inside time!
And that is it for me today – if you are in the States and in the path of this storm, stay safe and warm! I know that our Southern Hemisphere friends have been experiencing the opposite weather, very hot days, so I hope you are all staying cool! Wish me luck, I need to go snowblow so Wyatt can get to therapy!
Updated to add: I remembered while I was out snowblowing that we have also been watching the adventures of Josh and Jase, two Brits that are touring through Michigan right now. I was sorry to hear they had encountered mishaps on their visit here, but are on the mend and in the U.P. now! They are hilarious, and I love how they are representing my state! You can check them out here!
Hello everyone! It has been forever since I did any book reviews, and I think I skipped over some books. Oh well I guess. This review has the last book I read in 2025, and the first two that I finished in 2026. Let’s start with that last book of 2025, The Bewitching.
“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”
This book snuck in at the last minute, and made it right onto my favorites list. It was amazing. I was deep into the story reading one night during a wild storm – rain that pelted the house so hard that even Miso, who was curled up on my legs, jerked her head back and flattened her ears, and the wind whipped by so fast and furious that the windows rattled. And I am not exaggerating! The night otherwise was quiet, it was later in the evening and Wyatt was asleep and Billy was downstairs playing video games. I had the house to myself, along with the book and the storm. I probably should have gone to bed, but I kept reading during that storm and I was freaked out.
This book is filled with an overwhelming sense of foreboding. The story is told through three different points of view, from different times in history – the early 1900s on a farm in Mexico, 1930s New England, and 1990s New England. I love this multilayered approach to the story, and how we can learn from previous generations. It is hard for me to say which timeline and story that I liked best, because I loved them all, although the early 1900s storyline of Alba was a bit slower and took me longer to get hooked. I loved this book and I am so glad that I own it!
This book does have some trigger warnings, so look them up if needed.
I was looking for an audiobook to listen to when I ran into this one on Libby. I had just watched A Biltmore Christmas starring Bethany Joy Lenz, so she was fresh in my mind. I loved the cover, so Sweet Valley High, and I did like the series One Tree Hill, for at least the first two seasons. So, I went for it.
I am glad that I did! This book is read by Lenz herself, which made it all the more real, hearing her story in her own words and voice. Becoming part of this cult was a slow roll, a creeping insidious happening, one that would be hard to see coming until it was too late. It was couched in love bombing and isolation, preying upon people looking for connection, to others and to Christ. However, what happens is much more than that. It was also about total control to the organization, of resources and time and most of all the people. It was struggle, but Lenz was able to escape and tell her story, and I am so glad that she has since found happiness and independence.
This book had been on my TBR forever, and I am so happy that I finally read it. It is a short book, a quick read, but not a fluffy one. It is bleak, yet also hopeful. I have never read a dystopian novel like this one, that at its center you really could feel the heart of the characters.
When the lights go out in a small northern Anishinaabe community in Canada, nobody worries at first. This happens all the time. However, as the days turn into a week, and they don’t hear anything from the South about what is going on, things begin to seem a bit more dire. Food supplies begin to dwindle, they must conserve all of their resources, and most importantly, work together and look out for each other. This is their way. Community. They care for each other. They share. They collaborate and help. They endure. They remember the old ways, they remember their culture. They gone through other “end of the world” events before as a people, and have survived. When they were sent from their homes to an unfamiliar land, when their children were rounded up and sent to residential schools – these also were end of the world events. And still, here they are.
However, the world begins to creep in, and threatens the community.
A sense of dread and doom lays heavy over this book, it is bleak, and scary to consider such isolation and lack of resources. Yet there is also that feeling of something more.
I could talk forever about this one, but I don’t want to give too much away. It is a short book and I don’t want to ruin anyone’s reading experience with spoilers. However, if you have been sleeping on reading this, I absolutely recommend it.
Hello everyone!! We have had the most chill week ever, and it has been so nice! We are deeply wintering over here, I guess. It has just been so cold, and Michigan is one big virus out there, and we are content and happy and aren’t feeling the need to go anywhere, so… we didn’t. Billy has been off work for almost two weeks and it has been so good to just be together, having all of this family time.
Books:
I have been working on three different reads over break! I am slow reading Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, which is a book from 1953, and is a collection of letters between the two authors about their rural lives. I love it and pretty soon it will be my main read.
I am also halfway through Moon of the Crusted Snow, a book I have wanted to read forever, and that I received from Dini from Dinipandareads. It was so sweet of her to send it to me, and I am finding it a fast, compelling, scary read! I am enjoying it very much.
I also listened to Dinner for Vampires, which ended up being my first book finished in the new year, and since it is a memoir, I get to check that off my challenge list. Lenz, known for her One Tree Hill fame, lived for almost a decade under the control of a cult called the Big House Family. The audiobook is read by Lenz, and it made the book feel so much more real, to hear her story in her own voice. I am glad that she has since been able to find happiness and independence.
Screens:
I told you we have been watching a lot of movies! The Paddington series of movies was adorable; I am pretty sure they are a family favorite for all three of us. I think we might actually make orange marmalade today even.
Wonka was the perfect Christmas break movie! Over the top, beautiful, musical, heartwarming – I absolutely adored it.
Hot Fuzz and The Big Year are old favorites. The Big Year is a movie that we watch every year, since maybe 2012? It just kicks off our year. And Hot Fuzz is our favorite of the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost movies.
We couldn’t believe how many actors we kept seeing pop up in the different movies. It became a game, like let’s see, is Olivia Colman in this one too? Hugh Grant? Just so many. We were definitely in a groove.
In-Betweens:
In between all of this, we have been organizing and cleaning, and working on our own little projects. I have been fun creating embroidery pieces that are personalized to my friends and myself. I have only made 2.5 so far, I am still working on mine, but I love this new phase of my embroidery.
The first two have very long stories behind them. Also, rest assured that none of us think ferals are trashy. I can’t do them freehand yet, and I am still working on my lettering skills, but I am really enjoying this. The rabbit with the Watership Down quote is for me. And ignore the shoddy print job, my printer doesn’t like the transfer paper.
Hello everyone!! I hope that the past week has been good to you! It’s been a whirlwind of course around here, but a very fun whirlwind filled with family.
Books:
I found that I couldn’t read before Christmas. I think there was just too much happening, and I couldn’t relax. However, the day after Christmas I picked up a book and immediately just had that comforting feeling that you get when you sink into a good book. I am loving this one so far!
I also started listening to an audiobook as well. I was scrolling through Libby for a nonfiction book to listen to when I wanted to listen to something quiet, and ran into Dinner for Vampires written and read by Bethany Joy Lenz. I just saw her in A Biltmore Christmas, which is fresh in my mind, so I ended up starting that one last night. It is interesting so far. When we were younger, Billy and I really liked One Tree Hill for a season or two, so I remember this show as well.
Screens:
We spent some time over the past week watching Christmas movies, our old favorites, with the grand finale favorite of A Muppet Christmas Carol. That movie never fails to make me smile. We haven’t watched much post-Christmas Eve, but I am hoping to watch a movie tonight.
Wyatt and I finished up YouTuber Morgan Long’s Vlogmas series, which was a nice little bit of Christmas Cheer as well.
The in-betweens today are all holiday related! I will probably do another Christmas post, one last Comfy Cozy Christmas post, but mainly last week I did a lot of baking and wrapping, like a lot of people I am sure. Wyatt and I also spent some time on Friday just sitting at the table, working on our own projects. He was painting and playing with stickers while I worked on my planner. I got a new planner this year, a Hemlock and Oak planner, and I am loving it.
I feel like I have so much to tell you guys, way too much for this post. Plans for next year, projects, everything we have done. I feel like I am bubbling over with stuff to talk about but I try to keep this post less chatty! I will be posting soon, I can tell.
Hosting:
Just a reminder, Lisa at Boondock Ramblings and I co-host a few linkups and a Zoom Crafternoon together!
We have our Comfy Cozy Christmas for all things December and holidays (not just Christmas) that will be closing soon.
In case you missed Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3: So, on November 22, 2024 I started a little book book, as I call it, but it is a journal of the books I have read with a few jotted thoughts, quotes I like, and stickers. I am an archivist and chronicler at heart, and I have been having so much fun journaling my reading experience this way. I thought it would be neat to share my favorite quotes from all the books I have read – in different parts of course.
“But mermaids- mermaids relish pain. Mermaids embrace pain. Mermaids accept the pain of discipline if far less than the pain of regret.”
“Pat loved the sound of a day to spend. It sounded so gloriously lavish to “spend” a whole day, letting its moments slip one by one through your fingers liked beads of gold.”
“It was the kind of cafe you went to for lattes on a first date, or to meet up with old friends over a pot of chai, or to read a book by the fire while sipping on a mug of hot chocolate with extra mini marshmallows.”
“Those were the sounds of his favorite people. As long as he could hear them, he was safe.”
“It was like some houses stopped breathing the moment their owners died.”
“The fire danced and twirled and then, unbelievably, it somehow grew two little flame hands , which it planted on its two little flame hips, and it waggled at me.”
“He’d whistled in the dark more than once in his life. And an imminent hurricane seemed very, very dark.”
“The world will drive a woman insane, then point and laugh at them.”
“It felt like they had been tricked into attending some Tupperware-candle-lingerie-medieval warfare – party where you technically didn’t to buy anything, but actually you kind of did.”
“But that’s life. It’s unpredictable and anything can happen at any time. Which is why you should live doing what makes you happy, what lights you up inside, what keeps that flame burning.”
” She was not the girl who admitted defeat, and she certainly never let go. She had never let go of anything.”
“Here’s the thing: Witches might eat you, but other than that, they generally respected your boundaries.”
“When I am perturbed, I like to walk. I feel slow and stupid when I sit, but walking seems to wake something up in my brain.”
And we have now made it to the end of October in my reading journey! The last and final post will be up before the New Year!
Hello everyone!! I hope that you are all having a great December so far! Ours has been good but has looked a little different than what I had planned, since we all came down with a cold. However, although we haven’t been able to do the big ticket items on our list this year so far, we have been enjoying Christmas at home with movies, shopping, and wrapping. I am hoping to be able to get to the Detroit Zoo for the holiday lights in the next few days though. I am feeling ok, it is just that cough and laryngitis that linger.
However, I wanted to tell you about all the Hallmark Christmas movies we have been watching! We spent all last weekend watching them, bless my husband’s heart. We watched three: Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, Tis the Season to be Irish, and The Christmas Cottage.
We started with Christmas at the Catnip Cafe, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Olivia has a career as a marketer in California, and thinks she has finally found her dream home, a slick and shiny condo. Unfortunately, the down payment is more than she can afford. She thinks her dreams are answered when she learns that she has inherited her aunt’s cat cafe. Olivia heads across the country, planning on a quick sale and then getting back to California and her new condo. However, Ben , her aunt’s partner at the cafe and a local overworked overwhelmed vet who often does vet work for cookies rather than money, does not want to sell. So they make a deal: Olivia does all the planning and helps during the three week Christmas season at the Catnip Cafe which has multitudes of activities, and Ben will sell. And of course, as this is a Hallmark movie, we do get our HEA. I loved this one because of all the cats, of course. And because of Ben’s villainous eyebrows.
You all know I am such an interiors and set person, and this one did not disappoint. It was full of warmth and texture and color, a mix of old and new. And Olivia’s aunt’s house had the most beautiful stained glass window. Sigh.
The movie did have some parts that just didn’t make sense and gave Billy and I a little laugh , but Billy and I rarely watch a movie with a critical eye. The very reason some people don’t like these movies is exactly why I like them! And I am of an age now where I am not ashamed to admit I like things, even if they are unpopular. I like what I like and I am good with that.
You can see some of the cats here, on the Hallmark website. There was even one that reminded me of my own Miso!
You can watch this one on Hallmark via a free trial through Amazon Prime, Roku, and YouTube.
Next, we headed overseas to Ireland, with Tis the Season to be Irish.
Rose is a free spirited wanderer, who loves being on the move, being in new cities and countries and towns, and not being tied down to one spot too long. She is a house flipper and has set her sights on a cottage in Ireland, that looks absolutely adorable online. Bonus, it is located in a town that her mother (now deceased) had once visited and loved. However, when she arrives it is in complete shambles and the realtor, Sean, is also anti-house flipper and a historic preservationist. The two have a bumpy road as Rose must work with Sean in her plans to flip the cottage, keeping it in standards he approves of as the cottage is historic. Sean is also the most homebody homebody too. When the two start to have feelings for each other, they question just how such a relationship will work out. One thing I liked about this one is that both Rose and Sean are older, in their forties, and I thought that was a cool change.
I enjoyed this one, but more than the romance aspect, I loved the friendships that Rose there. She made friends with another woman who was renovating a cottage, except she wanted hers to live in, not flip, and a woman who had lost her husband and was visiting the town because it was where he was from. I loved the interactions of these women as they began their friendships together.
And there was a cute animal in this one too! Lambchop, the sheep who was devoted to Rose. When Billy and I were guessing at the reason that would suddenly shine the light on Rose that she needed to stay, I suggested that she would discover that the sheep was an ancestor of a sheep that her mother knew during her stay. Lol. I was pretty bummed too, that despite being in Ireland the interiors of these houses and buildings were a bummer. The views of the landscape however, were gorgeous.
You can watch this one on Hallmark via a free trial through Amazon Prime, Roku, and YouTube.
Ok, moving on. The Christmas Cottage.
This is the tale of Lacey and Ean. I mean, we all know they are together in the end, it’s a Hallmark movie so no spoiler there. Lacey is an interior designer, who is at the top of her game. She doesn’t design lovely living spaces though, full of warmth and whimsy, she designs work-home spaces, that are all white and designed to be perfect for, I guess, never leaving work behind? Which makes sense because Lacey is in a relationship with her design firm partner Roger, and their relationship definitely seems more business than pleasure. They have a genuine friendship I believe, and the same goals for their business, but as for a romantic relationship? That doesn’t look like something they have (and is confirmed by the end of the movie).
Lacey is the maid of honor in her best friend Ava’s wedding, which sounds magical. A Christmas wedding, followed by a night in Ava’s family cottage, which has a charming legend surrounding it. Legend says that whoever stays a Christmas night in the cottage will have a happy and lasting marriage. Ava’s brother, and Lacey’s ex, Ean, is the best man, so the two are thrown together quite a bit with their duties, and these duties include decorating the cottage for Christmas. They are there reminiscing about their past together, when they are snowed in for the night. And maybe there just is some truth to that legend, as Lacey’s outlook on what she wants begins to change. Or maybe it wasn’t the cottage that changed her mind, maybe it was just Ean.
This was a cute one! The set was so rustic lodge at Christmas and I was so there for that. I loved Ava and her bubbly personality and her love of everything, and I loved the nostalgia of this movie. After the Catnip Cafe, this was my favorite. Sorry, Tis the Season to be Irish. I enjoyed you but of the three you came in third. Still good though.
You can watch this one on Hallmark via a free trial through Amazon Prime, Roku, and YouTube.
And now I am off to find more to have Billy watch with me this weekend!
In case you missed Part 1 and Part 2: So, on November 22, 2024 I started a little book book, as I call it, but it is a journal of the books I have read with a few jotted thoughts, quotes I like, and stickers. I am an archivist and chronicler at heart, and I have been having so much fun journaling my reading experience this way. I thought it would be neat to share my favorite quotes from all the books I have read – in different parts of course.
We have made it into May!
“Life, I know is written on our faces. I lifted my right hand and involuntarily stroked my own cheek, wondering what stories life would have written there when I reached the end of my days.”
“One belief does not negate the other. They can exist at the same time.”
‘Every time someone wants to throw away a book, a little bit of my soul dies.’
“The girl knows, though, that remembering can be difficult. She always has so much inside her head: songs, stories, things she has to learn, things she wants to forget but that keep coming back. When she needs to remember something, she often forgets it, but she always remembers whatever she wants to forget.”
“…’ the guy wears a tweed coat, Edwards! Willingly! That’s super shady in my book. And he says he’s an archaeologist but I don’t think that’s even a real job. It’s a job that people have in movies, like pumpkin farmer or professional Christmas tree stylist.”
“How many times in her life has she said yes to a boy or a man just because it was the easiest thing to do? How many times has she let a man take what he wanted, instead of taking something for herself?”
“I’m not good at staying mad at people.”
I read this right after Wyatt’s surgery and I wasn’t working on my book book. I will tell you that I wrote down in my two lines of notes that my favorite part was Fifi.
Same as above. I wrote that my favorite part was the descriptions of fall in the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Same. Lol. My favorite parts were the reunion she had with someone special and the cozy snowy vibes.
Same, and last of the survival reading mode. I also decided after this one I wasn’t reading anymore in this series. I didn’t really enjoy it.
“Outside it was the coldest of winters. Cold stars shone over the icy bay and the cold hit you as you turned the corners. Then it was delicious to settle down in a warm kitchen. Pelle beamed and filled the stove with wood; this was all just as it should be, with everyone sitting together, warm and cosy, singing and talking.”
And that is it for today! Have you read any of these?
Today’s Prompt is all about that Winter TBR. I have not quite finalized mine yet, but these are the titles that are in contention. I am feeling like I need a bit of middle grade, a little historical fictions, some nonfiction, some peaceful reads this winter. And maybe one horror. Also, one of these is a book I told my husband I would read. I bet you can guess which one!
I also think I want to reread Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink. I simply loved this heartwarming book. I am also hoping to read Ghosts of Greenglass House, as I really loved Greenglass House when I read it. And then for of course for some more lightheartedness, Secret Nights and Northern Lights. I am obsessed with the aurora borealis and traveling to Iceland (a top five on my bucket list!) so I am looking forward to this one.
And you may have guessed it. Dungeon Crawler Carl is the book I am reading for my husband. Who knows, I may love it!
And I have heard the best things about The Frozen River. I don’t read too much historical fiction anymore, but this one sounds like I need to at least try it!
Moon of the Crusted Snow is one I have had on my TBR for YEARS. Maybe this will be the year I actually read the whole thing.
I want to say, I know next week is wish list week, and I know a lot people feel weird about posting their lists. I am not here to change anyone’s mind, but I am really excited about buying a gift for a blogger or two that posts. I am just going to throw everyone in a hat and have Wyatt pick two. I feel like this is such a great community, the TTT crew, and I want to just spread some Christmas cheer.
And, I can’t wait to see what you all are planning! Who knows, my list might change after I see what is on your plate!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 