Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is a seasonal freebie, so I’ve decided to plumb my Goodreads to-read list and give you ten holiday titles that appear on my list. (In case you were wondering, I have more than 60 books that fall into that category I’ve yet to read.)

1. Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
2. Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan
3. Don’t Call Me Christina Kringle by Chris Grabenstein
4. The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York by Alex Palmer
5. The Great Christmas Knit Off by Alexandra Brown
6. On Strike for Christmas by Sheila Roberts
7. A Killer’s Christmas in Wales by Elizabeth J. Duncan
8. Sing We Now of Christmas, compiled by Michael Young
9. A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season by Katherine Paterson
10. An Idiot Girl’s Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List by Laurie Notaro

How about you? Are there seasonal titles you’re hoping to read?

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I’m so unraveled these days that I don’t actually have any progress to show you, on either this book, nor this project. But, rest assured, they will be a cozy Christmas mystery solved and a pair of self-striping socks sometime soon! (For those curious about yarns, it’s West Yorkshire Spinners’ Signature 4 play in Holly Berry, which contains 35% Blue-Faced Leicester wool. I bought it this summer as part of a Christmas in July sale at Simply Socks Yarn Company. And to make some of you horrified and some of you feel like we could be friends IRL, the plastic bag containing the yarn has been sitting on my coffee table this entire time.)

Head over to As Kat Knits, where I’m certain everyone is more together than I am.

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten books we want to reread. I love rereading books (why own them, otherwise?), so this is a lovely and easy topic:

1. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling — every few years.
2. The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde — ditto. Both Rowling and Fforde are very imaginative and I appreciate their world-building and their snark.
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows — I’m a sucker for rereading letters.
4. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern — I admit I’ve never reread this one, in part because the first reading was so perfect I fear repeat viewings will suffer in comparison.
5. Landline by Rainbow Rowell — I haven’t read this one since it first came out, but maybe it’s time again this month.
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott — I don’t reread these one constantly the way I did growing up, but I enjoy dipping back in again from time to time.
7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery — I mean, sure, I maybe appreciate Marilla’s POV a little more than I did when I first read this book, but it still inspires raptures when Anne first comes through the White Way of Delight with Matthew.
8. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill — I enjoyed this so much I bought myself a copy for purposes of rereading.
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — I like her other books, but I love Elizabeth.
10. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas — I just wish it would stop being so relevant.

How about you? Are there books you want to reread?

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May I present a finished pair of Thanksgiving socks? And a book I picked up Monday that I’m really excited to read?

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I have reached the last stripe of my sock’s foot before I start the toe decreases. By this time next week, I will have a finished pair of fall socks!

I also hope to have returned this book to the library by then, with all my field hockey girls and guy ready to head into the 1990s with a better sense of their future. I’ve left them in Salem after a night at Papa Gino’s on Halloween for a couple of weeks now, and it’s probably best to propel them the rest of the way through their senior year season.

On audio, I’ve started Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. I don’t usually bunch books in a series, so it’s a testament to the fact that I enjoyed the first book in the Brown sisters series that I’m listening to this in 2020.

Head to As Kat Knits to see what others are reading and knitting.

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks about the top ten characters I’d name a pet after, but I probably wouldn’t do that. Or, rather, I might, but I would have ended up there, rather than starting there, if that makes sense. (I’m totally not judging you if you do. I’d be the first to ask if that was the inspiration, to be honest.)

So, instead, I’ll give you a topic-adjacent list and give you ten of my favorite pets in books in the order in which they occurred to me:

1. Eartha Kitty in The Voting Booth
2. Fang in the Harry Potter series
3. Dog Monday in Rilla of Ingleside
4. Old Lace in the Runaways graphic novel series
5. Winn-Dixie in Because of Winn-Dixie
6. Hound in the Penderwicks series
7. Pickwick in the Thursday Next series
8. Cat Annoyance in The Man Called Ove
9. Ivan in The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
10. Max in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

What are some of your favorite bookish pets?

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