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LisiBee815 (Beth)

@lisibee815.bsky.social

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🤓 📚 ARC reviewer, mood reader, romance & genre fiction lover. If you have access to a free public library, go use it. Knowledge is power! 🦄 Over-thinker & semi-cynical Gen-Xer. The opposite of edgy. She/Her. No DMs.

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 2d

October reading wrap-up! Somehow I managed to read more books than September, despite October being especially chaotic. Mix of mostly digital ARCs & library books, with one physical library book from the stack I checked out earlier in the month. If you have a free library, use it! #BookSky 💙📚

21 book covers from my October reads. Too many to describe, lots of great authors like John Scalzi, Lynn Painter, and Mhairi McFarlane. Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jiminez made me ugly-cry, the main story line of caring for a parent with dementia hit a bit too close to home.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 5d

I need a smaller life. I need better boundaries and I need to say "no" more. I need a nap and it's only 9am. I also need cookies, and I don't care if it's only 9am. I need breakfast cookies to become an accepted thing.

elmo from sesame street is surrounded by cookies falling around him

Alt: Cookie monster from sesame street is surrounded by cookies falling around him

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone else get to that stage of the day where they know they just need to be on their own. Like that's enough human interaction for today thank you

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 8d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
20/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld. Pink cover with yellow accents, shows two city skylines (New York and L.A. maybe), with a car between them, two pale pink outlines of a woman writing and a man holding a guitar at the top of the cover.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 9d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
19/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Beginning of Everything by Jackie Fraser. Shows a woman sitting in a chair, looking out the window and holding an open book.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 10d

This was a new one for me. Would I drive 75 miles round trip to deliver a $10 item for free? If not, would I ship it for free? No & no. I'm not Amazon. 🙄 I try to be accommodating but I'd lose money on those options. When I get unreasonable requests like this, it's so hard to answer politely.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 10d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
18/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for Total Dreamboat by Katelyn Doyle. Pictured is a man and a woman standing at the railing at the front of a boat.

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 11d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
17/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for Vlad The Impaler: A Captivating Guide to How Vlad III Dracula Became One of the Most Crucial Rulers of Wallachia and His Impact on the History of Romania. Part of the "Captivating History" series.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 12d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
16/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Library of Lost Dollhouses by Elise Hooper. The cover shows 3 bookshelves with books on them, interspersed among the books are small houses with lit windows.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 13d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
15/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge @megshaffer.bsky.social

Book cover for The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer. Green background scattered with books and sheets of paper, a woman's silhouette holding an umbrella standing on one of the books, a cat's silhouette sitting on one of the papers.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 14d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
14/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 15d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
13/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher. Pictures a bird with a hissing and fanged snake in its beak.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 16d

Ours does too, and once a year they have an annual blowout sale. So much fun!

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 16d

Library book sales are the best! 📚🥰

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 16d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
12/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. The cover shows a woman sitting on a bench, holding a book in her hands.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 16d

In a shocking turn of events, not only did the guy ghost me but he never read the reminder message I sent. Truly, I am shocked. 🙄

Picture of a woman, with the caption: I swear...no amount of concealer can cover up how tired I am of people.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 17d

Maybe I do have an attitude problem 😆😆

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 17d

Then yesterday someone wants to buy something today & asks me to send him a "reminder message" to come get it. 😶 What I said: Sure. What I *didn't* say: Who am I, your mom? Are you or are you not a functional adult, one who can be trusted to remember an appointment that you yourself set up??

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 17d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
11/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge @tashacoryell.bsky.social

Book cover for Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell. Shows an old fashioned Valentine's Day card torn in half.

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 18d

A friend gave me one of the special Japanese matcha tea flavored Kit-Kats and I am currently rethinking our friendship. #AcquiredTaste

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 18d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
10/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Page Turner by Viola Shipman. Shows a woman sitting on thes space bar of an oversized typewriter while several people wearing sunglasses peek out from behind the page in the typewriter.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 19d

Sparkly purple toenails won't fix everything but they're a good start 💜💅

a man with a mustache is drinking from a glass while wearing a blue jacket .

Alt: a man with a mustache is throwing glitter in the air

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LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 19d

#20TBRBookChallenge 💙📚

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
8/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

Book cover for The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 19d

One last thing: do not let someone else's chaos pull you in or trick you into thinking it should be your shared burden. It's not. I have spent so many years being trained to think this way, and it's brought me nothing but heartache and none of it was worth it. Not a single bit of it.

LisiBee815 (Beth) @lisibee815.bsky.social · 19d

Hold on to the love you have for them when the anger tries to take over. And if they won't take responsibility for their own things, then you have to let it all go. Take it from me, holding on is not worth your mental health or your serenity. Thanks for letting me talk, Bluesky. End thread.