🍾🎭Week at a Glance🎭🍾: 2/3/25 - 2/8/25

🍾📎📚New-To-Me Authors 2024 Part 2📚📎🍾

🍾Best Reads of 2024 Part 4🍾

January Book of the Month: Season of Joy by Ellie Thomas

🍾Saturday's Series Spotlight🍾: Best of 2024 Part 2

📚💖🎅💙👨‍❤️‍👨💚👻💖📚Bests of 2024 📚💖👻💙👨‍❤️‍👨💚🎅💖📚

⏳🎭🍾👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Time Capsule 2024 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🍾🎭⏳

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Now that February is in full swing I've reached the end of the Best of 2024 posts here at Padme's Library.  In case you missed any you will find links to all of the posts here.  Be sure and have a look at some of my bests, it was difficult to narrow it down, there were just so many lovely and entertaining books, novellas, and short stories that graced my Kindle but I was finally able to put the lists together.  Hope you agree and maybe you will find something new to add to your 2025 TBR list. As a special bonus, if you are still hungry for holiday tales I included the link to my Happy Holidays at a Glance post and for those who have had enough holiday sweets then I also included the link to my Happy Halloween Spookyness at a Glance post.

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Part 1  /  Part 2  /  Part 3  /  Part 4

1/20/25: Monday's Mystical Magic, Memorial Moment, & Morning's Menu

1/27/25: Monday's Mysterious Mayhem & Musical Melody

1/23/25: 🍾⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳🍾

2/1/25: Part 1

2/8/25: Part 2

2/1/25: Part 1

2/8/25: Part 2

1/26/25: Sunday's Safe Word Shelf, Short Stack, & Sport Stats

1/29/25: 🍾🎧Audiobooks - Best Listens of 2024🎧🍾

1/31/25: Part 1

2/3/25: Part 2

2/9/25: ⏳🎭🍾👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Time Capsule 2024 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨🍾🎭⏳

1/19/25: ⛄🎄🎅💗🎅🎄⛄Holiday Season Hi-Jinx 2024 at a Glance⛄🎄🎅💗🎅🎄⛄

11/1/24: 👻🎃👻 Happy Halloween 👻🎃👻 Spookyness & Mayhem: October 2024 at a Glance

🍾🎭Week at a Glance🎭🍾: 1/20/25 - 1/26/25

🍾Monday's Mystical Magic, Memorial Moment, & Morning's Menu🍾: Best of 2024 

🍾Best Reads of 2024 Part 1🍾

🍾⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳🍾: Best of 2024

🍾Best Reads of 2024 Part 2🍾

🍾📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘🍾: Best of 2024 Part 2

🍾Sunday's Safe Word Shelf, Short Stack, & Sport Stats🍾: Best of 2024

🍾📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘🍾: Best of 2024 Part 2

👀I'm later than typical for my Best of postings but with my mom's passing last week everything was thrown upside down but it was always important to her that I had my blog as an outlet for "me time" so though it seems odd to do it right now, I'll continue because that's what she'd want.👀

As the new year moves forward and we say goodbye to the old, we find ourselves looking at our "Best of" lists.  So this week's Friday Film Adaptation post will feature the most viewed of 2024.  Click on the title links to take you to the original posts.  It's possible not all the original purchase links will still work, in those cases be sure to check the author's websites/links for latest purchasing details and in some cases where the original book the film was based on is an older publication, you might find better luck at your local library.

 

Part 1  /  Part 2

9/6/24:  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

10/4/24:  The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

11/8/24:  My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

12/6/24:  Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber

⛄🎄🎅💗🎅🎄⛄Holiday Season Hi-Jinx 2024 at a Glance⛄🎄🎅💗🎅🎄⛄

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As the New Year continues and the holiday season ends, I've posted links to all the holiday themed posts that have been here at Padme's Library since Thanksgiving.  It's never too late nor too early to enjoy the magic of the holidays.  As we begin 2025, we say goodbye to yet another challenging year & once again perhaps now more than ever, we need to enjoy and experience tales that will spark the holiday spirit within us each and every day.  Hope you had a happy, healthy, and safe holiday season and here's to an amazing 2025. 🍻🍹🍸🍷🍻

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Part 1  /  Part 2  /  Part 3  /  Part 4

Part 5  /  Part 6  /  Part 7  /  Part 8

Part 9  /  Part 10  /  Part 11  /  Part 12

11/25/24:  Thanksgiving, 1947 by Frank W Butterfield

12/2/24:  Flake it Til You Make it by Beth Bolden

12/9/24:  The Boyfriend Cruise by Deanna Wadsworth

12/16/24:  Christmas Below Stairs by Ellie Thomas

12/23/24:  I Spy Something Christmas by Josh Lanyon

12/30/24:  The Stroke of Midnight by Jordan Castillo Price

1/6/25:  Silent Knight by Davidson King

11/28/24:  New Tricks by Davidson King

12/5/24:  Merry Christmas, Mr. Miggles by Eli Easton

12/12/24:  Three Under the Christmas Tree by Silvia Violet

12/21/24:  New York Christmas by RJ Scott

12/26/24:  Slay Ride by Josh Lanyon

1/2/25:  The Rest of Our Lives by Helena Stone

1/10/25:  The Holly Groweth Green by Amy Rae Durreson

11/29/24:  The Ice Storm by Rick Moody

12/6/24:  Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber

12/13/24: That Christmas and Other Stories by Richard Curtis

12/21/24: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

12/27/24: Boyfriends of Christmas Past by Erika Marks

1/3/25: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico

11/30/24: Slow Burn Holidays by Nico Flynn

12/7/24: Anna Martin's Christmas Short Stories Part 1

12/14/24: Sarah Hadley Brook's Operation Xmas

12/21/24:  Laurel Holidays by VL Locey Part 3

12/28/24: The Kings: Treemendous Christmas Charlie Cochet

1/4/25:  Dare Me Christmas by Lee Blair

12/1/24:  Vincent's Thanksgiving Date by R Cooper

12/8/24:  Ice Around the Edges by Mary Calmes

12/15/24:  Christmas Beau by Amy Aislin

12/22/24:  A Yuletide Excursion by Ellie Thomas

12/29/24:  Mistletoe Trio by Lacey Daize

1/5/25:  The Alphas Santa-Kissed Omega by Lorelei M Hart

1/19/25:  Five Gold Blings by Clare London

1/1/25:  🍾🎉Happy New Year 2025🎉🍾

2/2/25:  🎅🎄After Christmas Holiday Reads 2024🎄🎅

11/28/24: 🦃Tales of Turkey Day 2024🦃

🍾📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘🍾: Best of 2024 Part 1

👀I'm later than typical for my Best of postings but with my mom's passing last week everything was thrown upside down but it was always important to her that I had my blog as an outlet for "me time" so though it seems odd to do it right now, I'll continue because that's what she'd want.👀

As the new year moves forward and we say goodbye to the old, we find ourselves looking at our "Best of" lists.  So this week's Friday Film Adaptation post will feature the most viewed of 2024.  Click on the title links to take you to the original posts.  It's possible not all the original purchase links will still work, in those cases be sure to check the author's websites/links for latest purchasing details and in some cases where the original book the film was based on is an older publication, you might find better luck at your local library.

 

Part 1  /  Part 2

1/26/24:  The Bishop Murder Case by SS Van Dine

2/16/24:  How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan

4/19/24:  More Bitter Than Death by Dana Cameron

5/3/24:  Return of the Jedi by James Kahn

6/7/24:  The King's Assassin - The Secret Plot to Murder King James I by Benjamin Woolley

8/2/24:  A Bramble House Christmas by CJ Carmichael

🎅🎄🎭Week at a Glance🎭🎄🎅: 12/23/24 - 12/29/24

🎅🎄Monday's Mysterious Mayhem🎄🎅: I Spy Something Christmas by Josh Lanyon

🎅🎄Random Tales of Christmas 2024 Part 11🎄🎅

🎅🎄Random Tales of Christmas 2024 Part 12🎄🎅

🎅🎄⏳Throwback Thursday's Time Machine⏳🎄🎅: Slay Ride by Josh Lanyon

🎅🎄1st Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Ava Beringer

🎅🎄📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘🎄🎅: Boyfriends of Christmas Past by Erika Marks

🎅🎄2nd Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Eliot Grayson

🎅🎄Saturday's Series Spotlight🎄🎅: The Kings: Treemendous Christmas Charlie Cochet

🎅🎄3rd Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Jodi Payne & BA Tortuga

🎅🎄Sunday's Safe Word Shelf🎄🎅: Mistletoe Trio by Lacey Daize

🎅🎄4th Day of Christmas Author Spotlight🎄🎅: Pandora Pine