#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. One of my favorite students stopped by my apartment with his mom to drop off gratitude salted fudge and chocolate chip blondie bars that he‘d baked himself!
2. Takeaway spicy dal soup made a perfect breakfast on a chilly morning
3. An especially pretty sunset
4. The selection of caffeinated teas I ordered for summer arrived!
5. After several weeks of exhaustion I‘m starting to feel more human again,🤞🏼!
Finally starting to get a little strength back after several crazy draining weeks causing a major flare. But I‘m still trying to spend most of my time in bed so I don‘t overdo it and end up right back where I started. Luckily kitty and Miss Marple are helping me out. This is one of the most all consuming stories I‘ve picked up in months! Just read 100 pages straight through without even noticing!
pickI connect to, and fall in love with, something different in each of Jane‘s books, but this is one of the few where I connect to the leading women in a way that I actually see whispers of myself in them and their actions. I know I always say I‘ve just read my favorite, but I actually think it may be true this time 😂 I‘m slowly rereading all her works so eventually I‘ll get back to you also on my favorite at 41.
pickI found this opened up even more with a second read. I get why this isn‘t a popular book on Litsy, but I like experimental fiction & poetic writing & I‘m so impressed by what Rhys was able to do with Antoinette & Rochester‘s characters. The way she was able to open up their backstories, make them each both sympathetic & callous, and leave you in sync with the source story but also have things still feel ambiguous. #hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead
@TieDyeDude #tuesdaytunes
I‘m voting for Barbie Girl by Aqua
One my baby sister played on repeat when she was in middle school and I was in high school and no inducement would get her to change the track 🤮
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
I‘ve been listening to Me all week, so this has pretty much been my playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/285EOSTB2SmIT1whQmMy8B?si=kucfv8AAQK2HM9wrK4Sd...
When you nostalgia watch a 90s movie loosely based on one of your favorite 80s books, and then get hit with insomnia you clearly have to reread the original book. Or relisten, if the audio is all that‘s available on Libby in the middle of the night. It holds up surprisingly well for a light teen read written in 1972.
I wasn‘t expecting the miniature version of 100 Flowers to be quite this miniature, but ever since I discovered miniature versions of coffee table art books I‘ve been looking for (used if possible) ones to look at in bed when I‘m too sick to read or watch TV, so maybe a truly tiny one is actually just what I needed. I can keep it by my bed right within reach. #theuniversealwaysknowsbest
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Deb, I really appreciate you encouraging all of us to cultivate this gratitude practice. Today is not normally a day I‘d take time out for gratitude as I‘m getting dressed to go to a funeral, but it‘s exactly when I need to. ♥️🙏
What a great list! And I totally failed with 43% Somehow I still haven‘t read They‘re Eyes Were Watching God! So that‘s at the top of my list, along with Lincoln Highway and Tell the Wolves I‘m Home. #TLT @dabbe
I had my last tutoring session yesterday with a student who‘s been reading this on and off all year to practice his Hebrew decoding skills, but leaving it in the middle of a chapter was driving me crazy 🤪 and reading children‘s books is good for my language skills, so I pulled it off the shelf and read it for my own amusement this morning 😄
pickThere are a few collections out there that you can never read enough times, that you open and immediately it‘s like coming home.
#weirdwordwednesdays #weirdeords @CBee
My favorite word from my reading this week!
1. Feeling grateful for my friends, my furballs, and all the privilege I was born into this world with that makes a difficult life much easier.
2. I‘m hoping the world becomes kinder, one of my students experienced some serious antisemitism from a kid in another class yesterday, which I think was meant as a mean spirited joke, but has left me reeling. I‘m hoping people prioritize peace and humanitarian needs over politics and ideology. ⬇️
#TuesdayTunes
While listening to this memoir the last few weeks I kept thinking about the fact that I actually became a Brandi Carlile fan because my bff and I went to an Indigo Girls concert at a tiny venue in Main somewhere during their Despite our Differences tour, and she was their opening act. And while I liked her set, what actually captured me and got me to buy her cd and go back and listen to her music more carefully was that she sang ⬇️
pickThis is a brief fictional biography of Frida Kahlo, told entirely from inside her own mind, focusing mostly on her relationship with Diego Rivera, and her chronic illnesses. Drakulić and I don‘t have the same vision of Frida, but I can tell this story was incredibly well crafted because instead of dismissing it I found myself alternately questioning my own vision, and arguing with the author inside my head. #bookspin
Work sent a teacher appreciation bookstore gift card to my email today, so obviously I immediately went on an online book buying binge and realized I MUST have twice the number of new books that the gift card covers…ooops 🙃😂🫣
pickWhile I found myself automatically applying many of the same criticisms I frequently have for contemporary love/heartbreak poetry to this collection, there was still something about this particular author that spoke to me. I see a lot of potential if this author keeps writing.
pickThere were definitely moments in her life that I connected with, but in many ways for all her celebrity, this is just the story of a life. I would really recommend this (especially on audio) for people who are already fans of her music. Because what really struck me here, was hearing the stories behind songs I already knew well, and listening to her sing the songs she‘d just been discussing writing and performing at the end of each chapter.
I‘m so fickle. I think whichever Austen I‘m reading at the moment always becomes my favorite Austen all over again, until I pick up another 😂
pickI don‘t know if I‘ll manage to read a new one of her‘s for #AAM or not, but I‘m really glad I decided to start by rereading this because I found it much more affecting the second time, and I also found I was better able to to approach it inquisitively several more years post pandemic as life is actually snapping back to normal. I also think her books may work better for me in print than on audio. @Soubhiville
#5JoysFriday
@DebinHawaii
1. I finished April with several books that really spoke to me, including Zorrie which has been lingering in my mind in the best way
2. I‘ve been getting back into the habit of listening to music every day #musicheals
3. I got word that a Rabbi I work closely with was involved in a major peace protest action near the Gaza border and I found her words about it really heartening
I‘ve been waiting excitedly for Spin Day!!!! #bookspin sent me running to my Living Room Bookshelves to find a new title and I decided on Frida‘s Bed, and #doublespin is something from an ongoing series and it‘s been way too many months since I picked up a Miss Marple. Happy reading everyone, thanks @TheAromaofBooks !!!
#SundayBuddyRead friends! I just opened our new book and found this deco underlay on the first page of each chapter!!!!! I‘ve never seen this before and I‘m totally in love with it! Do your copies have this?
pickThis YA urban fantasy was recommended to me by a friend who was 💯certain the story was an allegory for something specific. I definitely see what they saw in the story, but if I hadn‘t gone into it with their voice in my mind I wonder how much more fluid my interpretation would be…
The world still feels upside down this week, but several things, including music, are starting to feel more heartening #tuesdaytunes https://youtu.be/fWSZJ2_y9cA?feature=shared
#ReadAway2024 update: April was my best month to date for my read from my own shelves project! I read 6 owned books which was 40% of my total reading this month. Several were rereads, but several have been sitting on my shelves unread just this side of forever. April was also an exceptionally good month in terms of reading things that spoke to me so I should definitely keep reading from my own shelves and all the other things I did this month.
pickI find it so fascinating that as I get older this is starting to become one of my favorite Austen‘s even though Fanny and I are nothing alike, and IRL as I get older I actually get less and less patient with persistent romantic advances, and probably wouldnt‘ve forgiven Edmund for his part in the whole “just give Henry a chance” campaign.
#pemberlittens I couldn‘t sleep and stumbled across this set of books where someone has compiled 50-100 illustrations for each novel from illustrated editions published circa 1830-1910 by 5 different illustrators. I may have to have them all!!!!! But I‘m thinking I should start with Mansfield. I‘m rereading it right now, and my Chiltern copy is stunning but totally devoid of pictures.
panI‘m not panning this because it‘s bad, I just wasn‘t the intended audience. Sometimes graphic memoirs reach out and touch deeply me even when they‘re wrestling with questions I‘m not, or I‘ve already answered. This one didn‘t. It was more like rambling conversations I‘ve had with friends over the years trying to sort out ourselves and our lives. Which makes the book essential if you don‘t know people actually asking these questions when you are.
pick@BarkingMadRead Thank you for taking us to Manderley this month! No matter how many times I read this I fall in love with it all over again! #hashtagbrigade #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
pickThis is exactly why I love letting other people pick some of my reads! You could seriously never have described this in a sentence or two in a way that would‘ve made me think I wanted to spend a month savoring this novella, but I would have been wrong. This was exactly what I didn‘t know I needed, wanted, was looking for right now… #sundaybuddyread
