Lots of mail going out💌📬

#LitsyLove

Book 2: When their beloved neighbor is in hospital after a stroke, the inventive siblings‘ plan evolves into building a magic “healing garden” for him…

#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024
#LitsyLove

“The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are.” Amazon

Delightful story of 5 children who, in devising a scheme, find out so much more…

#Undertone

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.” Edna St. Vincent Millay

A few of my favorite “train” books

#Train
#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1 and 2: Little Bear is now 9 months old; he and Sister Bear are inseparable 🥰

3 and 4: All the cacti 🌵 are bursting with 100s of blooms

5: Got a new bed from IKEA 🔧 🔨 🪛

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Want to play? @lil1inblue @KadaGul @Gissy @TheBookgeekFrau

So many favorites….

1*Elton John-Madman Across the Water

2*Vince Guaraldi-Charlie Brown Christmas

3*Joni Mitchell-Blue, & Autumn and December-both by George Winston, & early Tony Bennett

#TLT @dabbe

Creepy good. Teen girls have been disappearing and everyone, including Liam‘s parents, thinks it‘s Liam. POVs of Liam, mom, dad, sister Hannah. Great story!

#ReadAway2024
@Andrew65

Lao Tsu

#Understand

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“There were just a few weeks left of the deployment. The wives were frustrated and wrung out, and the air had become charged with these emotions.”

Memoir of being an army wife-great writing, authentic characters, unputdownable! Setting is Fort Benning in Georgia in mid 2000s.

#ReadAway2024
#LitsyLove

Wounded Whisper by Edward Ibe

#Underscore
#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” Looking for Alaska

These 2 books were great! Both have a #College setting. The bottom photo is University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where I earned my Bachelor of Science (BS😂) degree. The campuses are right next to the river-it‘s so beautiful.
#StorySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My youngest daughter and my son-in-lawve helped me get rid of my old huge bed yesterday. Today she came back and helped me build the new bed. I could not have done it without them. That‘s what is new!

#whatsnewwednesday

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude

Happy Wednesday! Hope you‘re having a great week!
ENJOY ❤️🩵📚🔖📝☕️🍪🍇❤️💛

1-The first time I realized that a Newbery Medal existed!
2-I always start with library/libby, then Amazon (used), and some months BOTM. I do browse bookstores sometimes just for the experience! I‘m lucky to receive books as gifts too.
3-Today I started the new Erik Larson, The Demon and the Unrest-so far so-so…

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Mind Undermined by S. Hussam

#Undermine

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

A favorite of mine-I‘ve read it countless times…so clever

#ArtGallery

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The day got away from me!

1-wine, cheese, strawberries 🍷🧀🍓

2-poetry!

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

#Underhanded

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“It's like the people who believe theyll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

#Graveyard
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Loved this book 🖤 🪦 💙

Shows what life is like for kidnapped kids and their families once they return home. Especially heartbreaking for Dylan who is nonverbal autistic. Everyone heals at their own rate, and it can take a while for the traumatic memories to surface ❤️‍🩹

#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Andrew65 @TieDyeDude @DieAReader @Read4life @GHABI4ROSES

#randomactofkindness
#LitsyLoveBingoCard May

When I see a mom with a baby or toddler or otherwise restless kid behind me in the express lane, I wave them to go ahead of me. I‘ve been there and know what it‘s like…

#suggestbookforgraduate AND
#Contributeto#LLfund

#LitsyLoveBingoBoard May

If I know what they‘re studying in college or training program, I send them a book F or NF on that topic or theme. Or The Four Agreements is great for 18 yo and up—builds character.

Companion book to Nightjohn, the man who secretly taught slaves to read. Sarny was one of his pupils who, after the Civil War, fled to New Orleans to start her free life.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024

@Andrew65 @TheSpineView @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

#Underground

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Ever after she lived alongside the knowledge that nothing on this earth could protect her completely.”

#Prairie

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#LitsyLove flying 🪽out in tomorrow‘s mail

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @DebinHawaii @cinda.marie @iread2much @CoffeeNBooks

“My mother maintained that the “seek and ye shall find” passage of Matthew 7:7 referred to reading, that most answers could be found in books.”

Beautifully done HF dual timeline 1918/1987: NYPL librarian Jesse Carson volunteers to go abroad to help conserve the ‘literary landscape‘ of France WWI. This was part of wealthy socialite Anne Morgan‘s program to rebuild communities close to the war front.

#ReadAway2024

#underfoot

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

“They are the children of the strangers,I told her. They have no faces. They have eyes.
Pretend they are birds. They cant see us. They don't know it yet. they don't want to believe it, but they wont ever see us again.”

#HauntedHouse
#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#underdog

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

#Wedding

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Some of the beautiful blooms at the community gardens! And of course me and the little humans🧡🤗🩷

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

It‘s late in the day, so whoever hasn‘t played yet - here‘s your chance💗

I had no expectations going in so it was a pleasant surprise! Great character development, good pacing, and twists. Elizabeth Black disappeared 2 years ago, but suddenly returned and she is not forthcoming with info or her whereabouts…

#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

@Andrew65 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @DieAReader @TieDyeDude @GHABI4ROSES @Read4life

#undercut

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

#Desert

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom's room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life.”

Teen Isabelle is grieving the loss of her dad, but what makes it even more heartbreaking is that no one - especially her mom - will talk about it or acknowledge the loss…

#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Read4life @TieDyeDude

#Undercover

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“So often fatigue – mental or physical – will stop you from caring…The moment you stop caring is the moment you‘ve lost your ability to climb.”

Especially when there‘s a killer on the mountain…

#Snowstorm

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Third of 3 books about Kristina Snow and addiction. This one holds the voices of her 3 older children: Hunter, Autumn, and Summer. These 3 live with different guardians and have different last names. Two more, boys under 13, live with Kristina‘s mom. Her children are troubled and angry, fearful and psychologically empty. Shows how addiction and abuse affects family and friends.

#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024

Beautiful, honest, heartfelt - Kingston was 11 yo when her mom passed on from cancer‘s ravages. But before she got too sick, her mom made videos for her and her brother Jamie. She also made memory boxes with letters for them to open on birthdays, graduations, marriages, and babies. I kept thinking ‘I wish my mom or dad had done that for me…‘

#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

Family Family Family!!!

#WhatsNewWednesday

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude

#Underbelly

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“In the end, it's not the height of the tower that matters, but the strength of the friendships built within.”

I read the first of this series but never got around to the others…

#Skyscraper

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Wednesday!! Thanks to all who shared responses last week🙏🏻 Everyone is invited to play❣️

🩵 grateful for having 20/20 vision every day since October last yr. Also for AC! (Texas heat/humidity) And 3rd, for a quiet neighborhood

🩷 Hope I can fit into that dress that I really want to wear 😀 Also hoping for prices of necessary items could stabilize for a while. And for continued good health! Onward and Upward🤗

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Written in verse, this is book 2 of 3 about Kristina Snow, an addict. After birthing her son at 17 and staying sober for a year, Kristina throws it all away for ‘Glass‘. Will she hit rock-bottom this time?

#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024

While lost in the woods, Carl and his cousin seek shelter with a man known as Fox Man. Though his face is horribly disfigured, (WWI) he is generous and intelligent, and becomes a sort of mentor for the boys. Great story

#ReadAway2024

@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Beautiful writing despite the sparse sentences with few commas or demonstrative pronouns. But that had a firm purpose-it was the way that Ash spoke. She leaves her husband to manage the farm while she goes off to fight with Union soldiers in the Civil War. Hard to put down with an ending that may surprise you.

#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

Welcome to #LitsyLove ! @THill 📬🩷💌

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude

💛 Bread recipes and the making of bread, of all kinds and flavors

🩵 Cass, who has a ghost for a best friend, is able to pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead and enter the world of spirits.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Want to play?
@DebinHawaii @Gissy @lil1inblue @SaceReads @KadaGul @dabbe

#Uncharted

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView