Saturday morning #coffeeandabook.
Looking forward to finishing this one today.

#BookReport
Finished reading:
📚 Three Holidays and a Wedding 💙

Currently reading:
📚 Flamingo
📚 May Day
🎧 Much Ado About Nada
📚 Foul Play at Seal Bay
📚 The Twelve Clues of Christmas

Didn't really read this week:
📚 Murder on Astor Place- I kept setting this one aside for other books
🎧 Kitchens of the Great Midwest- I wasn't as invested in this one as I was with Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
📚 Flying Too High

I loved this book! Maryam and her family are traveling to Toronto for her sister's wedding, and Anna is traveling to Toronto to meet her boyfriend's family and spend Christmas with them. They're on the same flight, and a blizzard causes them to have to land in Snow Falls, instead. Stuck for who knows how long before flights can get out again, Maryam and Anna reevaluate what's really important to them.
#LitsyLoveReads

#WeeklyForecast
Finish reading these:
📚 Murder on Astor Place
📚 Flamingo #BookSpin
📚 Three Holidays and a Wedding

Continue reading these:
📚 May Day #SeasonalCozies
📚 Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Up Next:
📚 Foul Play at Seal Bay
📚 Flying Too High #ReadOrDonate
📚 The Twelve Clues of Christmas

#StorySettings #Wedding
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#BookReport
Almost Done:
📚 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
📚 Murder on Astor Place

Currently Reading:
📚 Flamingo #BookSpin
📚 May Day #SeasonalCozies
📚 Three Holidays and a Wedding

Didn't Read:
📚 Foul Play at Seal Bay
📚 Flying Too High
📚 The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
📚 Manhattan Girls

Thank you so much Lynn @Read4life! I'm really looking forward to reading this!
#LitsyLove

#WeeklyForecast
I'm reading all of these right now:
📚 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
📚 Murder on Astor Place
📚 Flamingo
📚 May Day
But these are all potential next reads in case I want to read something different:
📚 Foul Play at Seal Bay
📚 Flying Too High
📚 The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
And I'm already behind schedule on reading this one for #SundayBuddyRead, but I might catch up:
📚 The Manhattan Girls

Stopped by my parents' house today, and my mom sent me home with a book 💙 @Lunaglassart

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook
#BookSpin pick

#BookReport
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- finished
📚 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club- I'm really enjoying this one so far!
📚 #BookSpin- Flamingo
📚 #DoubleSpin- Mother's Day Murder, which was already on the shelf for this week anyway, and which I've already bailed on 👎
📚 The Manhattan Girls- I'm still undecided about this one, but I haven't read very much of it yet #SundayBuddyRead

I already bailed on my May #seasonalcozies pick, so I'm replacing it with May Day. Thanks @CogsOfEncouragement for the recommendation!
@julieclair

I was getting my May #LitsyLoveBingo card set up and realized I forgot to post my April card.
#LitsyLove

#5JoysFriday
🌸 my son was named a Top Graduate of his senior class this week
🌸 Diet Dr. Pepper
🌸 Italian sausage meatloaf
🌸 my pool, again- always a great source of relaxation after a hectic week at work
🌸 only 19 more days of school until summer break!
@debinhawaii

I've unfortunately already bailed on my #SeasonalCozies pick for May, so I might try to find another cozy to replace it this month. Suggestions welcome!
@julieclair

May #BookSpin Bingo card
@TheAromaofBooks

May #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin books
(I've already bailed on the #DoubleSpin, though)
@TheAromaofBooks

April #ReadingBracket2024
@CSeydel

What a lovely story of how so many peoples' lives are changed, in both big and small ways, by Nightingale Books, the little Bookshop in the town of Peasebrook. When Julius Nightingale passes away, his daughter Emelia comes back home and temporarily takes over his bookshop. Everyone in town stops by to make sure Emelia knows how much her father and his bookshop meant to them.
#LitsyLoveReads
#ReadAway2024 #AwesomeApril Readathon @andrew65

3 #ReadOrDonate reads in April!
@julieclair

#WickedWords
I found 4 of the 5 words for April!
@AsYouWish

#WeeklyForecast
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop
📚 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
📚 May #BookSpin
📚 May #DoubleSpin
📚 Mother's Day Murder- May #SeasonalCozies
📚 The Manhattan Girls- May #SundayBuddyRead

#SpringSkies #2BksWSimilarTitle
In this case, I found 6 books with the same title- I've only read the London Calling by Sara Sheridan.
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Andrea Morales moves to Portland in the 90s to escape the constraints of her hometown in Nebraska. In Portland, she feels free to live her life as a lesbian, and has the support of the family of friends she meets there. Then she meets Ryan Coates, the drummer of local band The Cold Shoulder, and everything changes when they have an affair.
#LitsyLoveReads
#ReadAway2024 #AwesomeApril Readathon @andrew65

#SpringSkies
Just wanted to give a shout out to a few other books I enjoyed with #Secret or #Secrets in the title!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#SpringSkies #Secrets
This is a favorite book of mine, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a favorite author.
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

May #BookSpin
@TheAromaofBooks

#BookReport
📚 Stray City- still reading
📚 Naughty in Nice- finished
📚 Resurrection Walk- finished
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- finished
📚 Zorrie- finished

Joining the #AwesomeApril Readathon, and hoping to get these April books finished!
@Andrew65

May #SeasonalCozies book
@julieclair

A bittersweet story of the triumphs and sorrows of life, and how we try to pick the pieces up after the sorrows; the friendships we make along the way that dampen the sorrows and amplify the triumphs.
#SundayBuddyRead
#LitsyLoveReads

Lady Georgiana vacations on the Riviera and finds herself in the middle of several crimes she must solve in order to prove her innocence.
#LitsyLoveReads
#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#ISpyBingo @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick

#5JoysFriday
🌸 flowers blooming in my yard
🌸 one of our neighbors has bees, and I got a bottle of the honey this week and it's so good!
🌸 swimming in my pool, and floating in my pool reading a book (also, listening to yacht rock while swimming and floating 🎶)
🌸 I got my membership card and lots of great bird information from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
🌸 that it's Friday!
#debinhawaiii

Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer) represents a woman who had been convicted of killing her ex- husband, a police officer, 5 years before. She insisted that she was innocent, and with Harry Bosch's help, they decide to take her case.
#LitsyLoveReads
#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge: Josie Packard @Yuki_Onna

#WeeklyForecast:
📚 Stray City #BookSpin
📚 Naughty in Nice #DoubleSpin
🎧 Resurrection Walk
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate
📚 Zorrie #SundayBuddyRead

#BookReport
📚 Stray City- still reading
📚 Midnight in Austenland- finished reading
📚 Naughty in Nice- almost done
🎧 Resurrection Walk- almost done
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- still reading
📚 Zorrie- trying to catch up with this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead

#5JoysFriday
🌸 my husband will be home tomorrow from a week-long conference!
🌸 listening to the Somewhere in Time soundtrack
🌸 finishing a puzzle
🌸 that @TheBookHippie shares journal prompts each month
🌸 swimming in my pool
@DebinHawaii

#WhatsNewWednesday
🐈‍⬛ When I got home today, there was a surprise package from my mom with these adorable magnetic bookmarks! 🐈‍⬛
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4Life @TieDyeDude

This was definitely not as good as Austenland, but good enough to listen to while I was working on a puzzle.

#WeeklyForecast

Finish this week:
📚 Stray City #BookSpin
🎧 Midnight in Austenland
📚 Naughty in Nice #DoubleSpin
📚 Resurrection Walk

Start this week:
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate

Keep reading:
📚 Zorrie #SundayBuddyRead

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook ☕️
#BookSpin

A colonel and his wife ask Phryne to check on their daughter, who they worry is being poisoned by her husband. Phryne travels to Australia and finds herself investigating not only the situation with the colonel's daughter, but other crimes as well, including a drug ring involving a Russian ballet family.

#SpringSkies #OneWordTitle
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#BookReport
📚 Cocaine Blues- finished
📚 Stray City- still reading
🎧 Midnight in Austenland- still listening while working on a puzzle
📚 Resurrection Walk- still reading
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- haven't started yet
📚 Zorrie- read this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead

#5JoysFriday
🌸 sitting outside listening to my windchime and the birds chirping, watching the bluebirds fly back and forth to the new bluebird house where they're building a nest
🌸 spending a little time most evenings drawing simple little pictures/designs or practicing hand-lettering (I am no artist, lol!)
🌸 my cat Smoky
🌸 getting a text from my friend Cara, who I've known for over 40 years
🌸 coffee! ☕️
@DebinHawaii

#WhatsNewWednesday
🐦 A couple of bluebirds have discovered the bluebird house I just got over the weekend, and have made a nest in it.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude

#SpringSkies #SetInSnow
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Reading:
📚 Cocaine Blues #ReadOrDonate
📚 Stray City #BookSpin #ReadOrDonate
📚 Midnight in Austenland 🎧

Keep Reading/Start Reading:
📚 Resurrection Walk
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate

Read this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead:
📚 Zorrie

My manatee stamps got here today! Where I grew up, Snooty the Manatee was a local celebrity that we were able to visit. Here's an article about Snooty and why we love manatees where I'm from: https://bishopscience.org/remembering-snooty/
#LitsyLove

I'm not sure if I'm feeling ambitious this weekend, or feeling like I don't really know what I want to read. 😂