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#BeatyBreak
Yesterday, we had a freezing 🥶 rain all night, and this morning, my Firebush was pretty with icicles.
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Molly, who we‘ve renamed Snortles the Snow Pig, is enjoying the weather, but it‘s really been difficult for the rest of us. My Wednesday surgery will have to be moved, and we were without help for dad all weekend. I‘ve been reading and even finished one of the best books I‘ve ever read (Short War by Lily Meyer) and another 5⭐️ (History of Sound). Bodes well for the year! Reviews soon!!

Think we‘ll stay in and read today.

#icestorm #dogsoflitsy #coffeandbooks

This is one of my comfort movies when I'm feeling unsettled. Strange...because it's not a feel-good story. I enjoyed my re-read of the novel.

And I'm glad to be back on Litsy after a long break due to a massive project at work. All is better now. Looking forward to a Friday night scroll through Litsy!

Overnight, the big tree in the front yard succumbed to ice.

#GratefulHarvest Some of the human relationships were as #chilly as weather outside in this novel. It‘s dark ,it stayed in my thoughts for quite awhile .

11-16-21: My 115th finished book of 2021! In a 24 hour period, on the weekend after Thanksgiving in 1973, two families are falling apart. The Hood family and the Williams family. During this 24 hour period much will happen when everyone gets caught in an ice storm all out of natural proportions. Adultery, sexual awakenings, alcoholism and even death will visit these families. Very well written. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍🏼📖#️⃣1️⃣1️⃣5️⃣

NBR: We can't have peaceful snowflakes coating everything, it all must be encased in ice!

It's pretty, but so destructive. Two large trees in our complex fell over from the weight of the ice, took up the entire root system too. Fortunately the power lines were spared but there's over 200K people in this area who are not so lucky. ❄️

A big ice storm overnight is affecting my favorite tree. 🤞🏻 it doesn‘t lose branches! Note the road too. Not too many people out at 7 AM today!

I have this book on my kindle but have never read it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Using my new mug from @sebrittainclark and the #Bestof2020 swap! I haven‘t tried the tea yet because we lost power last night and I didn‘t want to fumble in the dark for my infuser. We also don‘t have running water when the powers out. Luckily we have a gas stove so we manually lit it and boiled enough water for tea and cocoa. No word when we might be powered back up so I guess I‘ll be huddled under the blankets reading if anyone needs me.

https://lithub.com/companion-reading-for-this-truly-fraught-holiday-season/

Where Christmas isn‘t quite so merry.

Day 11 - #IfYouLikeThis #AmericanBeauty

#YoullLikeThisBook #TheIceStorm

Description - Ice Storm Book by Rick Moody
The national bestseller and basis for the Ang Lee film is a “powerful” novel of two troubled families during a blizzard in 1970s suburban Connecticut.

#MayMovieMagic

(Day 30 - #IceDance)

*One of my favorite books, is “The Ice Storm,” so naturally, that title immediately occurred to me for today‘s prompt. Above is the author, Rick Moody & ambient themes from the book: Watergate (Barbara Jordan) & the Sexual Revolution (Gloria Steinem). Below is a montage of participants in the film: Ang Lee, Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, Katie Holmes, Elijah Wood.

We had freezing rain overnight. The tree outside my window is gorgeous with all the ice but all the broken branches on the ground are not. I have to leave for work soon but I also scheduled my exam to take for my pharm tech license. April 25 is d day. Hopefully I‘ll have my act together by then!

Icy in WI = burning vacation with the cat. And knitting, reading, baking cookies and playing cards.

The Ice Storm
Frozen
Let it Go
#manicmonday

Stay safe Littens in the arctic vortex! I have many friends and relatives in the area , I hope everyone hunkers down and all goes well.My dad would be shocked,he delivered mail in the upper Midwest,I can‘t remember him ever saying that mail delivery was canceled due to weather.This is so extreme , it makes sense.I saw a post on Twitter that next week the weather models predicts 60 degree weather in Chicago.😳I‘m in Az.feeling guilty.72 today.

Not the funnest drive home from work tonight and I get to do it all again in less than 12 hours. But...I got good steps in. Here‘s hoping the roads will be better in the morning #LitsyWalkers

What the trees on our property looked like this morning. It doesn‘t seem to be getting any better. Still really cold out and the rain is still coming. Too bad I am working. It would be a perfect day to sit in a comfy chair reading.

A great read and I think the movie did it justice! A great story that‘s really 2 different things. It‘s a coming of age story and it‘s also a story about the rot hiding underneath the veil of an upper class white family. I‘m really into these types of stories and I highly recommend this one!

#icantread #septembowie
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I Can't Read is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabriels for the 'Tin Machine' album in 1989.
Bowie released his own version of the song as part of the soundtrack for the film The Ice Storm ( based on the 1994 novel by Rick Moody).
Bowie's version was available as a single only in Germany and Scandinavia in 1997 and in Australia in 1998.
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#ice #sizzlinsummerreads Sometimes a book grows more powerful in your memory as time goes by.Ice Storm is one of those for me. Biting and acerbic,it follows 2 Connecticut families in 1973 , as family life shifted again in the early 70s ,the parents lie to themselves and each other. The kids are angry , drugged & disillusioned, not seeing the promise of adulthood .Wreckage behind the well tended lawns.An Ice storm indeed.

Moody's writing is absolutely breathtaking, but I feel like the book's profound message is lost on me. I don't really relate to depressed suburbanites of the 1970s, and I found the damage the parents doing to their children to be sort of horrifying. I will give Moody's other work a try because of his writing, but not sure his subject matter will resonate with me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This morning's surprise snow (for me anyway) is inspiring my next Beat the Backlist pick. #riotgrams #outside #beatthebacklist #snow #butthankgoodnessthereisstillschool 😀

This does not look like an auspicious start to my day. Freezing rain advisory. Dog is currently cowering in basement, oldest daughter is going to work from home. I'm thinking about taking a sick day but I'll probably at least attempt to go in. Yuck.

One of the all time best #thanksgiving books

Taking a train directly into the blizzard, just declared a state of emergency. Fantasizing I am Paul Hood in The Ice Storm, stranded and romantic-feeling