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Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JULYJAZZ
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: FIREWORKS

We do not care that you are cute. If you keep humping your friend at the dog park while he runs away from you and roll in poop, you are leaving early for a bath… 🤦🏻‍♀️ #WDNCW

Friends I believe we have a troll (?). No posts just a weird comment on @Eggbeater #WDNCW post. Thought you‘d all want to know and proceed with caution

DEFINITELY A CREEPER. COMMENTED THE SAME ON MINE. LET THE BLOCKING BEGIN.
@Amiable @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @AmyG @dabbe @TheLudicReader @Susanita @CBee @mcctrish @KadaGul @Aims42 @AnnCrystal

#WeDoNotCare #WDNCW

We do not care if tonight is “Do it yourself” dinner. We have planned, shopped and cooked your dinner for almost 40 years. We are out of ideas. I‘m eating cereal.

@dabbe

Well I‘m not unsatisfied with the real world 🌍 but I do have high expectations 📚📖

I finally have #9 the hubby is on a reading streak as he‘s on his 6th book in the Malazan series so excited for him 📖

We do not care that the prevailing philosophy is to bend the truth and make sweeping generalizations about those who disagree with us. We will not participate in the dehumanization of those who believe themselves our opponents, even if they do it to us. In fact, in our focus on maintaining our humanity, we reject the entire "us" vs "them" dichotomy.

(I was going to rant about perimenopause, but I chose a different direction.)

#WDNCW

I want to thank you all for your messages on my last post about Pickles.

I would like to share a very unpolished poem that I wrote about her. It was written straight out into my notes app on my phone, and it captures how I felt in the moment.

I don't usually post poetry anywhere, but I've shared so many memories with Pickles over the years, so if anyone was going to appreciate this tribute it would be my Litsy family 🩵

(Floors = floofs)

@BookmarkTavern I'm tagging you. You did a review with the picture of an ocean. @Chrissyreadit started a tag game and you are it. #tagit

#ReadingGoals

Last book was The Missing Half ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Current books The Compound on audio 🎧 and Pineapple Street physical copy 🍍

Finding Grace is up next! The cover is gorgeous 💛

My zinnias are showing out!! 🌺

July 8, 2025

@robinb TAG, you‘re it 😊😊 You posted a review of a book with an ocean on the cover! Feel free to play along if you‘d like! @Chrissyreadit #tagyoureit

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

#JULYJAZZ
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks

TODAY‘S PROMPT: FORGIVENESS

I‘ve been enjoying a lot of reading since I retired. #reader #booksvschores #litsy

Mourning dove update:
More mature feathers, lots of wing exercises, more time without parents at the nest. They grow up so fast!

In the top picture you can see the plastic bird spikes on top of which the nest is built, which I find quite amusing and kind of inspiring.

My latest Piper and Ivy #bookish t-shirt purchase newly arrived from the post office. ❤️❤️❤️

#bookishthings #bookishclothes #piperandivy

Who‘s on StoryGraph?

https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/awk_word_smith

Today we said goodbye to Pickles.

This is a very difficult post to make because I don't feel I can do justice to how much I loved this smol furry menace 🩷

I know so many of you loved her too 🩵

I'll miss you, baby. You were so special.

Weekly forecast:

Currently Reading:
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (Libby)
High Season by Katie Bishop (ARC)
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson (Audio)

Plan to start:
Ward D by Fredia McFadden (Library)
Disappeared by Linda Castillo (Audio)
Death of an Ex by Delia Pitts (Netgalley)

#weeklyforecast

Ran to Walmart this morning. Even though I have 3 bookcases of books, I stopped by the library on my why home. It's a hopeless situation for me, I just love to read and books so much😂 I know my Litsy friends understand!

#libraryhaul

Popping back up with my sporadic additions! #haikuhive @dabbe
@DebinHawaii
@Mimi28
@TheBookHippie
@JenlovesJT47
@Reggie
@vivastory
@Eggs
@jdiehr
@TheSpineView
@CBee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@AnnCrystal

Three week #BookReport

📚 Finished
Midsummer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Devil‘s Dreamland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Wicca Handbook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Long Walk ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 In Progress
Esoteric Empathy - Read one chapter. On page 58.

My June wrap up. 📚🍃

Finished two for #SeriesLove2025

Still in Progress:
Esoteric Empathy

Sounds about right to me… 😅

Spied this on @bookwormbecky1969 from Instagram this morning!!

What a fun idea!!

I have read them all except two. Will you be adding a photo with your books with HOUSE or HOME?

Thanks to the authors for your talented selves and the joy you provide. ♥️

@jennifer.amy.rosner
@katherinereay
@moyerginny
@courtneysanto
@louisecandlish
@taraconklinauthor
@kristywharvey
@marykayandrews
@sadeqasays
@janecockramauthor
@charlesbelfoure

Yes, yes, yes! I could not agree more.

You would have our eternal devotion. ❤️📚❤️

Happy Fourth of July Weekend!!

Will you be stopping by this week?

@janedarbyauthor
@rjkoreto
@jeannettedebeauvoir
@evashawwriter
@helainemario.author
@amy_clipston
@mindbuckmediabookpub
@partnersincrimevbt
@uplitreads
#uplitreads
@tnzfiction

I‘m fortunate in that my life has contained more good and neutral days than bad ones but I don‘t know how I would have kept on keeping on without books. 💗

😍😍😍 Happy Sunday, everyone!

My mom sent the packages of what I couldn‘t squeeze into our suitcases when we came home. Kiddo already absconded with her stack of manga drawing books and Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels. I must have put a cookbook or four back at HPB because I thought I had more coming, but these actually fit on my shelves! This is a combo of HPB, BN, and my mom‘s shelves shopping sprees. One of them is for our homeschool library, does that make it better?

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
High Season by Katie Bishop
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

When you are on vacation and all of your book subscriptions come in while you were gone...definitely nice to come home to.

That tongue ! #catsoflitsy

Happy Saturday!! We had a great night watching the fireworks 🎆 downtown with our community! Now I need caffeine! I‘m so sleepy 😴

Drink of the day is Delta Dream 🍍 🍓 🍊 🥤 from Kajun loaded tea company!

#DOTD

https://youtu.be/f8gQAkA1bho?feature=shared

My haul from London and Tunbridge Wells!!!!

I love this community. I‘ve gone about my day trying to ignore that it is July 4th and consumed with grief about recent happenings. It took a few minutes of scrolling on here to feel a bit less doomsday. 🩵💙🩵

This is the beginning of Robert Reich‘s post today about what it means to be a patriot. I find his work to be informative, encouraging and hopeful. Happy to forward the whole thing to anyone who is interested.

#ReadingisPolitical

Where are my Pedro fans? I love him for his acting talent, but even more for THIS ⬆️ and his advocacy. “Support the people that support you.” 👏🏻👏🏻♥️♥️ #overcomingevilempires #notbookrelated #prettypedro

I‘m a bit late on this. My June reading was pretty sad, seeing that this was a reread (and my audiobook has the book twice, which is why I read it twice. Seeing that this is already on my reading bracket, I‘m not even going to add it again. 💁🏼‍♀️ Sorry reading bracket.
#JuneWrapUp #StoryGraph

@dabbe #Fridaythe4thPlaylist

Quick off the top of my head:
La Bamba- Ritchie Valens
Superman es ilegal- Los Hermanos Ortiz
Yo soy mexicano americano- covered by many artists
Mi Tierra- Gloria Estefan
American Pie- Don McLean
Maple Leaf Rag- Scott Joplin
It‘s a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong
This Land Is Your Land-Woodie Guthrie
Strange Fruit- Billie Holiday (gotta acknowledge and atone)
The Pill- Loretta Lynn

I bet I‘ll think of more.

#Fridaythe4thPlaylist

America - Simon & Garfunkel
American Idiot - Green Day
Land of the Free - The Killers
America, the Beautiful - Ray Charles
Take Back the Power - The Interruptors
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
Do You Hear the People Sing - Les Mis soundtrack
Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton soundtrack
I Want to Break Free - Queen
Not Ready to Make Nice - The Chicks

@dabbe

I introduced my kids (teen and adult) to Utah Phillips today, this album and Fellow Workers. I forgot how much I love his storytelling. https://open.spotify.com/album/2IqT02ArTZ3Pd3PH9LQ2nU?si=xeNMakznTEuZich4ErldfQ

#4thofJuly #Playlist @dabbe

Feeling this today. To echo what many others have already said, I didn‘t recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school for 13 years to now be called WOKE 😒 I‘m feeling grief for what happened yesterday. Feeling grief for what‘s to come in the future. I know I‘m not alone in this feeling so that gives me hope! Happy ‘Bonus Reading Day‘ & National Caesar Salad day to those feeling the same today🕯️

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛💛💛

My joys this week:

1. Tasty subway dinner with family 🥪
2. Surprise gifts from my bestie 💖
3. Women's European Championship started ⚽
4. Lovely gift from a customer 💛
5. Children drawing and playing in our children's book section 📚

@DebinHawaii

We all know my tbr is bad … I mean I could get through them in maybe a year and a half if I went full read mode… but the what about the new books coming out? So I‘ll read as much as I can and keep adding titles to my tbr… Where are you at on this scale ? 📚

Hope everyone reads as much as they want today happy 4th everyone 📚📖🥳

1. Frankie
2. Crumbl cookie
3. Coffee
4. Litsy
5. Not doing shit today
#5joysFriday @DebinHawaii