Thankfully Reading 2022

It’s one of my favorite times of the year! Thankfully Reading with Jenn’s Bookshelves and a bunch of readers. Instead of spending the weekend shopping or watching football it’s a time to relax and read. Although this year I plan to hit some local stores and especially the new bookstore in my small town!

Kick off time!

How will/did you celebrate Thanksgiving? This year my husband and I are hosting my mother-in-law at our house and I will run over to my parents to see my Grandma. Lots of food on the horizon!

• What’s in your TBR pile for the weekend? I have a GIANT stack per usual.

These are the books I am currently reading plus I am reding an e-ARC of Alone with You in the Ether:

These are the books on my large TBR pile but per the usual this is subject to change based on mood. Plus I have a ton of romance ARCs I should start.

• How much time do you think you’ll have for reading?

  I think this year I will have a lot of time to read. I didn’t schedule anything after Wednesday evening besides actual Thanksgiving.

• Are you reading print, ebooks, or audio? Maybe a bit each?

  I am reading all formats!!

• What books will you be talking about during Thanksgiving dinner? Probably talking about mysteries with my mother-in-law. And getting a list from her to take back to the library on Monday!

Happy reading y’all!

Wednesday

I was able to get some decent reading time in today. Not as much as I would have liked but I had a lot of photos to edit and I felt distracted most of the day.

I did finish The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks. This was a heartwarming and cozy book. Small town bookshop, MC searching for her purpose for the future, handsome love interest, and a town of quirky characters? Yes, please!

Wednesday Numbers

Pages Read: 301
Audiobook time: 2 hrs 30 mins
Books Finished: 1

Thursday

Happy Thanksgiving. It was a great day full of food. My husband and I spent most of the day watching 1899 which I highly recommend.

Thursday Numbers

Pages Read: 142
Audiobook time: 2 hrs 12 mins
Books Finished: 0

Friday

Today was such a nice leisurely day! I edited photos, cleaned, ate left overs, snuggled with my fur babies, watched a movie but mostly read. It was one of those kind of days that you really need to rest and recharge.

I finished The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim. This book was SO good! It was filled with delightful characters. I really loved Zahra and her struggles between what she wanted and what her family wanted. This was a really heart tugging story but also funny!

I finally started Before I let Go by Kennedy Ryan. This is one of those books that I have been anticipating reading but didn’t want to start because I didn’t want it to be over. I read almost half the book today and it was so hard to put down. It is so good!

Friday Numbers

Pages Read: 515
Audiobook time: 2 hrs 30 mins
Books Finished: 1

Thankfully Reading Week(end) 2020

Wow what a wild ride 2020 has been. As we wind down the year and get closer to a vaccine and closer to a new President I feel something akin to hope! So this Thanksgiving feels very meaningful.

Thankfully Reading weekend is my favorite! Since I am off the whole week I am actually going to make it into Thankfully Reading week! Jenn from Jenn’s Bookshelves is our wonderful host for this event and you can find out more here. I think Thankfully Reading this year is more important than ever since hopefully everyone will NOT be shopping at stores. This is a list I jotted down last week of all the books I want to read while I am off. Ambitious? Probably.

I am looking forward to getting started. I will try to do at least one update per day. Let’s get reading!

Monday

Today was a great day! I was so happy to be on vacation. I got so much done and also was able to get a lot of reading in. I finished editing a photo session that I did last weekend. So I just have one theatre photo session and I will be caught up on editing. I also need to arrange and order more of my historical record photos of Covid for work.

Now on to my reading progress. I am currently reading four books. First off, I am listening to Barack Obama’s new book, A Promised Land. I specifically got the audiobook because he is the narrator and let me tell you it is soothing! I am really enjoying listening to it.

I am also reading The Good Luck Charm by Helena Hunting. This one is taking me a little longer to get in to as I am finding it not as enjoyable as her other books but I am not ready to give up on it yet.

I spent most of the day reading The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins. It is a modern day retelling of Jane Eyre and wow it was fabulous. It is a thriller and I throughly enjoyed this one. It comes out in January and I would definitely put this on your TBR list.

I am also reading Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth. And y’all this book is soooo good! I am just savoring this one. The plot is excellent, the different storylines are all intriguing, the writing is beautiful and captivating and there are even illustrations in the book. The ARC I received is just beautiful. I am trying not to read it too fast.

Monday Numbers:

Pages read: 352

Audiobook Time: 1 hour 35 minutes

Books finished: 1

Tuesday

It was another glorious day minus an eye doctors appointment. It is just not fun to go anywhere during a pandemic.

I did not finish any of the books I read today. But I really enjoyed reading Megan Abbott’s upcoming book, The Turnout. It is very dark. I started Love & Gelato by Jenna Welch Evans so I could have a bit of a lighter read. It’s set in Italy! I decided to DNF Good Luck Charm. I just was not enjoying it at all. My husband and I spent a lot of time watching The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit. Highly recommend both.

Tuesday Numbers:

Pages read: 412

Audiobook Time: 1 hour 41 minutes

Books finished: 0

Wednesday

Today was a weird day. Normally on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving I am busy cooking and cleaning. It really just feels like a normal week except I am off work. Well, I did have to go in for a little bit today so we could do a video. But, it just doesn’t have that festive Thanksgiving air and I am really sad about it. Thanksgiving is my favorite time of year and 2020 is such a bummer! My husband is making our meal tomorrow but he wants it to be a surprise so I don’t know what he is making.

Today was a good reading day though even with going in to work for a couple of hours. I finished The Turnout by Megan Abbott and wow it only got darker. It was pretty creepy. I can recognize that it was a good and well written book and also feel like it just wasn’t for me.

I adored Love & Gelato. It was a perfect lighter read that still had heart! I am looking forward to reading the next one in the series.

I started reading Float Plan by Trish Doller. I have been anticipating this one for months and wow it is already more than I ever expected. I thought it was going to be a fluffy, happy romance. Nope! But I am seriously loving it.

I also started listening to the audiobook of Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. I am about 20 minutes in and I can already tell I am going to love this book. SO many possibilities. I had to force myself to turn it off so I could write this post and then go to bed.

Wednesday Numbers:

Pages read: 466

Audiobook Time: 2 hours 23 minutes

Books finished: 2

Thursday

Oh my Thanksgiving was a rough day. I was sad and depressed in the morning and then had a horrible migraine in the afternoon and evening. I really wasn’t able to get much reading in. My husband made a delicious Thanksgiving lunch and I did finish Float Plan. But that was pretty much it. I have never had such a bad and long migraine. On to better things Friday!

Let’s talk about Float Plan. Wow this book was so, so good. It received a rare five stars. As I said yesterday I thought this was going to be a rom com but it wasn’t. This book was a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of grief, loss and healing. It was mesmorizingly beautiful.

Thursday Numbers:

Pages read: 183

Audiobook Time: 32 minutes

Books finished: 1

Friday

Today was a much better reading day. It was nice to have a lot of leisure time to just sit around and read. I also managed to get some cooking and TV watching in. It was a beautiful fall day!

I started You Should See Me in a Crown which is a delightful YA book about a girl running for prom queen. I am really enjoying it so far!

Also, Legendborn is getting SO good. I am really loving the characters in this book as well as the world building.

Friday Numbers:

Pages read: 319

Audiobook Time: 2 hours 48 minutes

Books finished: 0

Saturday

Another terrific day! This whole week has been wonderful minus my migraine. I finished You Should See Me in a Crown and while the last half of the book wasn’t as enjoyable as the first half I still liked the book.

I am also reading You Have a Match. It is a really interesting concept and it is a book I wish I had been reading during the summer.

I also decorated for Christmas today so that was fun.

Saturday Numbers:

Pages read: 322

Audiobook Time: 3 hours 24 minutes

Books finished: 1

Thankfully Reading Weekend 2017

It is one of my favorite times of the year! I love Thanksgiving. It is my favorite holiday. There is lots of yummy food, no presents and lots of time for reading. Thankfully Reading is the first readathon I ever participated in seven years ago. I love this readathon because there are no rules and I can read whenever I can fit it in. Thanksgiving is pretty busy with cooking and family time so its good to have some quiet reading time. As usual I will be starting my Thankfully Reading on Wednesday. This is the first time since I started this readathon that I am working outside my own business so I made sure to take Wednesday off for cooking and Thankfully Reading! All updates will be in this post. For more information on this readathon and to sign up head to the host, Jenn's Bookshelves website! http://www.jennsbookshelves.com/2017/11/14/2017-thankfully-reading-weekend/

Here are all my Thankfully Reading posts from previous years!

I am getting my TBR list together and I have picked A LOT of books haha. It's as if I have two weeks to read and not just a long weekend. Here is my print book pile. I also have an audiobook and some e-books. I can't wait to get started!

Kick Off Morning!

Yay Thankfully Reading starts today and I couldn't be more excited. 

• How will/did you celebrate Thanksgiving? I will celebrate Thanksgiving at my house. My immediate and extended family will be coming and enjoying the day with us. I am so excited.
• What’s in your TBR pile for the weekend? My TBR pile is pictured above. I also hope to finish up some ARCs and an audiobook.
• How much time do you think you’ll have for reading? I should have a lot of time for reading except for Thanksgiving Day. I have one photo session on Friday and then my husband and I will probably binge the last season on Broadchurch Sunday but that is all I have planned! 
• What book are you starting out with? I am going to start out with Alias Grace on audio. This morning I plan to cook most of my Thanksgiving dishes so I will listen to that as I cook. 
• Are you reading print, ebooks, or audio? Maybe a bit each? Definitely all of them! 

I will check back in later today! Happy reading!

Wednesday

Day one of Thankfully Reading is in the books and it was a good day. It was so great to have an entire week day to read. 

I woke up early this morning and started cooking so my first book had to be an audiobook. I decided on Alias Grace. I am loving it. It’s such a good book. I bought the Kindle edition and added on the Audible audiobook and that is my new favorite thing. It is terrific how easily you can switch betweeen the two. I am about 40% of the way through this book. 

The first book I finished was Confess by Colleen Hoover. I have a love hate relationship with some of her books but this one I liked better than any others I have read. It was a quick and entertaining read. 

And then I finally dove in to The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur. I loved this book of poetry so, so much. I can’t always relate to her poems on a personal level but they always crush me with the honesty and the rawness of them. 

The last book of the evening that I started is the absolutely stunning The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo. This book is gorgeous! The covers, the paper, the colored inks and the illustrations are just amazing. It’s so aesthetically pleasing I can barely concentrate on the content of the actual book!

I am so happy that I had such a good reading and cooking day!  I am ready for Thankgiving tomorrow and so excited to spend the day with my family!

Wednesday Numbers:

Pages read: 703

Audiobook Time: 5 hours 30 minutes

Books finished: 2

Thursday 

Thanksgiving was wonderful! I had all my family at my house. We had four tables groaning with food and it was amazing. We have the best cooks in my family. 

​I listened to my Alias Grace audiobook while getting ready and cleaning up after. It is getting really intense. I am about to find out what really happened to Grace. I was finallly ready to sit down with Language of Thorns and a glass of wine but eyes were dry so I popped upstairs to take out my contacts and I accident broke a blood vessel in my eye. 😭 My mom suggested I not strain my eye and read. So that was it for the night. I didn’t even update the blog until this morning. So sad. But I think I will be fine to read all day today. I have a photo session in a few hours and then the rest of the day to read. 

Thursday Numbers:

Pages read: 64

Audiobook Time: 3 hours 37 minutes

Books finished: 0

Friday 

Today was another good reading day! I finished The Language of Thorns. I loved this book of fairy tales from the Grisha Verse. You really don’t have to read any of the Grisha books to appreciate this. I love the twist she puts on some classic fair tales. So good! And the book itself was gorgeous! The illustrations, the ink colors and the beautiful cover made a wonderful reading experience.

I also finished Alias Grace. This was such a good book! I don’t know why I have only read three Margaret Atwood books as I have loved every one of her books! I am also looking forward to watching the mini series on Netflix. 

​I started One of Us Is Lying. And it is so good so far. I don’t think I have figured out the culprit yet and I am enjoying the different POV. That can be a very risky way to write a story as it can get confusing but I am liking it in this book.

I also started the Young Elites audiobook. I have been wanting it read this series for awhile and I have owned the second book for months. So I finally found the audiobook on Overdrive. I am really enjoying it so far. I love everything Marie Lu writes. 

I had a great day of a wonderful family photo session, yummy Thanksgiving leftovers, a Christmas movie and lots of delightful reading time!

Friday Numbers:

Pages read: 479

Audiobook Time: 4 hours 15 minutes

Books finished: 2

Saturday 

I didn’t get in as much reading today as I thought I would. I had a lot of stuff today so I just mainly listened to my audiobook and read print books here and there.

I finally started Shadowshaper. This is a book I have been wanting to read for ages. And when I posted a photo of my to read shelf to Litsy everyone was like read that one, read that one. It is really good. The shadowshaper stuff can be a little confusing at times though but I am thinking that is intentional.  

​I finished One of Us is Lying. I loved it! I did guess part of the ending before the end but I still really enjoyed reading this book. 

I am also reading The Thousandth Floor. I got the second one accidentally at the library but luckily I had the first one on my Nook. I am really enjoying this book so far. It’s set really far the future and NYC is now all inside in a thousand floor tower. It is fascinating world building. I have also had a ton of Thanksgiving leftovers this week. I probably need to go on a long walk tomrorow to compensate for all the delicious food I have eaten. 

The main reason I didn’t get much reading in is that my sister, brother in law and I went shopping this afternoon. It is Small Business Saturday so we went to our local downtown and supported our small, locally owned businesses and got some Christmas shopping done. Tomorrow probably won’t be that great of a reading day since I plan to decorate for Christmas and watch the final season of Broadchurch.

​​Saturday Numbers:

Pages read: 453

Audiobook Time: 4 hours 17minutes

Books finished: 1

Sunday 

So sad it’s the last day of Thankfully Reading Weekend. And I ended up having an awesome reading day due to the fact that Broadchurch doesn’t come on Netflix until tomorrow. Boo!

I finished The Young Elites audiobook and was not happy with the end. Hoping that it gets resolved in book two but not hopeful at this point. I really enjoyed that book. It was very good!

I about 2/3 of the way through The Thousandth Floor and still loving the concept of this book. I am looking forward to settling down and reading it more tomorrow. 

I finished Shadowshaper and it did not disappoint. I am always afraid that having a book really hype do up will cause my expectations to be overblown. But this one really came through. I loved it and I love Sierra. She was an awesome heroine and I can’t wait to read the next one! 

​I took a break from novels for a minute to see what graphic novels Hoopla has. I found the next two Archie volumes and the last volume of season nine of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I am loving the Archie volumes and can’t wait until the next ones come out. It also inspired me to watch a few episodes of the show Riverdale which I really enjoy. 

I also started the book Hanna Fell From The Sky. Whew. That’s a tough one to read! It is very maddening. It’s all about an fundamentalist LDS like cult. The men are awful and they have all the power as the young girls are forced into plural marriages. It’s truly horrible. But the book is beautifully written with some magical realism elements popping up. I am looking forward to seeing where this book goes!

Sunday Numbers:

Pages read: 644

Audiobook Time: 4 hours 6 minutes

Books finished: 4

Wrap-Up!

What a fun Thankfully Reading Weekend! I had a blast reading and enjoying some relaxing down time.

Total Numbers

Pages read: 2,343

Audiobook Time:  21 hours  45 minutes

Books finished: 9

Thankfully Reading Weekend 2014

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of all time. I love fall, eating and hanging out with my family so it is the perfect combination! Over the past few years I have also added my love of reading to the mix by participating in

Thankfully Reading

. Thankfully Reading is November 27-30 and is a way to stay at home and relax while shopping and Black Friday nonsense is going on.  There are no rules just to read whenever you get time. I love this challenge and really enjoy my time Thankfully Reading and blogging about it. This is usually the only time I ever consistently blog! I have been setting aside some books as they come in specifically to read that weekend. This is what I have set aside. I will probably also throw an audiobook in there to read while driving and cooking.

I actually will start my Thankfully Reading a day early on Wednesday. This year I probably won't make it through half the books as I have a

concert

Saturday and a

photo shoot

Sunday. The good news is Thanksgiving is back at my parents house so I won't have that stress the day of Thanksgiving hosting. Check back Thanksgiving week for more updates. You can also keep track with me on my

Thankfully Reading Goodreads shelf

 and

my Twitter account

. And if you want to see what my previous Thankfully Reading weekends were like check them out

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