First things first, this is the first weekend of the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon. Have you signed up and started on your holiday reads, yet? I’m one of the Elves this year, and I’m hosting a Holiday Book Bingo Challenge. I also started on my own personal reads for the Readathon with a Christmas romance, but this week I have a couple of Hanukkah romances – and I’m ever so pleased to see more of those available each year. If you’re looking for books and/or audiobooks to peruse for your own participation, the Under the Mistletoe Collection of short stories and audiobooks have each been just the right size for an Xmas reading stocking and they’ve been terrific so far – I’ve finished three and am thinking about a fourth. (They’re a bit like the reading equivalent of potato chips – you can’t read or listen to just one!) They’re free with Amazon Prime, which is an even better excuse to treat yourself to a bit of light and fluffy reading!
Second, it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. I don’t know about the rest of you, but the holidays totally snuck up on me this year. We’re going to have a pretty low-key Turkey Day – whether we get an actual turkey boob or not. Yes, I said “turkey boob”. There’s just the two of us. Galen doesn’t like the drumsticks. And there’s just the two of us. The amount of leftovers we’d have if we did a whole turkey for just us two humans doesn’t bear thinking about. Also this clowder of cats does not expect to eat ‘people food’ and we have zero desire to encourage such an expectation. So we just get a turkey breast and call that more than enough – which it generally is. Hence, ‘Turkey Boob’ – which we really need to pick up this weekend!
Then again, we might get a little Honey-Baked Ham. Those are yum, too! (And also not for cats.)
But speaking of cats, and also of this time of the year, today’s cat picture is one I’d like to call the ‘Changing of the Guard’. First, it’s utterly adorable that Tuna and George are cuddling now. But in this particular picture it seems as if Tuna has taken on George’s usual slightly suspicious expression so that he can keep watch, suspiciously of everything of course, while his buddy takes a well deserved nap from his general suspiciousness.
Current Giveaways:
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book for Participants in the 2024 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon Holiday Book Bingo Challenge
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book PLUS EVENT-WIDE AMAZON/PAYPAL PRIZE in the Late Fall Giveaway Event!
$10 Gift Card or $10 Book in the Fall 2024 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop
Blog Recap:
A- #BookReview: Feuds edited by Mercedes Lackey
B- #BookReview: Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher
B #AudioBookReview: All By My Elf by Olivia Dade
Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon 2024 Holiday Book Bingo Challenge
A- #BookReview: The December Market by RaeAnne Thayne
Stacking the Shelves (628)
Coming This Week:
Love You a Latke by Amanda Elliot (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
What Child is This? by Bonnie MacBird (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
Eight Nights to Win Her Heart by Miri White (#2024HOHOHORAT #BookReview)
Thanksgiving 2024 (#GuestPost by Galen)
Only Santas in the Building by Alexis Daria (#2024HOHOHORAT #AudioBookReview)
It’s just the two of us, too. But I usually do a whole turkey anyway (a small one, 12 pounds or so), and all our traditional sides. Then I don’t have to cook for nearly a week; we just eat leftovers! I also make up a casserole or two of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and gravy, and freeze them for eating later.
Enjoy the HoHoHoRAT! And I love the photo of your kitties.
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