Congratulations on your first tattoo ! It looks great. When I got my first tattoo I swore that I'd never want anything else ever, it was the perfect one for me .... several years later, I have both wrists tattooed, both shoulders and my left inside forearm.... I don't regret a thing.

TATTOO TATTOO TATTOO how exciting!! and definitely forcing you to read macbeth in 2023. it's just too good

Hope you enjoy your time at home, WFH is great for that flexibility - I usually go and stay with my aunt and uncle for a few weeks in the summer and its great not to have to take holiday days. Loved hearing your decisions on what to take back or not it is so hard to decide! Merry Christmas 😊

I have this daily calendar thing with literary factoids each day, and I thought you'd appreciate the one for today (Dec 22) - "Erik Larson, the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City, calls The Maltese Falcon his 'all-time personal favorite': 'I love this book, all of it: the plot, the characters, the dialogue . . . The single best monologue in fiction appears toward the end, when Sam Spade tells Brigid O'Shaughnessy why he's giving her to the police.'"

I want to get my first tattoo to love you and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your family friend John ❤❤❤

It was fun to watch you cull your bookshelf for the sake of only three books to take home-but I fully get it-books are friends you like to have around you. I’m nearly finished with Oliver Twist (the current book for the mega-Dickens read-a-long from Books and Things) and it’s been a lot of fun to read, so I encourage you to take it up in 2023. You mentioned Robert Frost and William Wordsworth and your plan to do some poetry vlogs-I’m waiting expectantly for them! Lately, I’ve been reading Longfellow to my delight. Finally, Bleak House is magnificent, and the adaptation is brilliant-here’s a link to both- Part 1- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jMmff5ub1a-3kqs.html Part 2- kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edNnkt1_1JrHaKs.html I’m very glad you made it home safely, Valerie, Happy Christmas and New Years Day!

Are your books not your real jewels?😁💝