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All 5 joys this week are about today being the last day of school. I love these kids and I will miss them dearly (especially my 8th graders that won‘t be back next year) but I‘m so ready for a quiet building for the summer.

@DebinHawaii

Deb i‘m a little late- but here are my 5 joys for the week:
1.My daughter is driving back to live on the East Coadt again- left LA Friday.
2. I‘ve been reading a range of books I am enjoying.
3. Coffee always brings me joy.
4. A lot of old friends have reached out to reconnect.
5. My cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 bring me so much joy (and my dog too!)

Happy Friday

I‘m currently reading (and absolutely loving) this witty Regency-era romp by Georgette Heyer.

Fun fact: It was her personal favourite of all her novels!

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

1. Dinner with some wonderful friends
2. A great discussion at book club
3. A delicious cup of chai
4. An amazing indie bookstore tour
5. Another week down… only 4 to go until summer!

These are the Heyer books I have- i think quite a few courtesy of @mabell The ones I have not read yet are The Grand Sophy, Friday‘s Children, These Old Shades and Cotillion

These bright and sunny beauties came at the end of a rollercoaster week and gave me so much joy!! @Kshakal cute reading 🦕 🦕🦕 I‘m melting! Not to mention the sweet bunny holding a daisy!! Chai is my current obsession and I can‘t wait to try it!! @sarahbellum Such beautiful colors and that tea shop sounds a.maz.ing! Peppermint is my favorite evening tea!! @Daisey A bright 🍋 card to go with a bright lemon and GINGER combo sounds so delicious!

I just wanted something fun to read and after aimlessly trawling though my TBR I realised that there's ALWAYS a solution to that problem and it's either Terry Pratchett or Georgette Heyer. This time I've gone for Heyer.

Though not one of my favorite Heyer books, this one was especially charming because of its hopelessly naive young hero & heroine. It was refreshing to have a hero who may dress the part of a Regency Hero but was exactly what you‘d expect a barely-begun-his-twenties young adult to be, & a very young heroine who had spunk but not much gumption to back it up! It made for some comical dialogue & a cute, silly romp. ★★★☆☆.

I go through phases where everything makes me cry and then nothing makes me cry, but these two consistently do it.

1. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
2. I am, I am, I am by Maggie O‘Farrell

#fridayfeelings @Cuilin

@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB @CarolynM @Texreader @Coleen_Nieto @Sharpeipup @Eggs @Moonprismpower

Amazing writing and stories can makes us feel so much. These all had me weeping

1. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

2. The Gathering by Anne Enright

3. Hammet by Maggie Farrell

How about you? Feel free to play. I want to know what books made you cry.

Thanks for the tag @Cinfhen
1 No idea, I feel totally out of the loop. I should check their website.
2Audible, I‘m using the free version of Bookly but not sure about it yet.
3 I forgot it was Memorial Day weekend. The weather is nice so maybe some gardening.
4 Gin and Tonic. 😂

Play along @LyndyG @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Readage @mcctrish

1. 😷
2. 1.5 - no favorite
3. Pretty flowers!!
4. Habbersett Scrapple

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@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1 About a dozen.

2 Sorry

3 Scavenger Hunt for Organisms (producer, consumer, decomposer, etc.)

4. I love April Fool's. I told my 9 year old there was a finger that a dog brought to the porch. She was all excited and started doing it to the 17 year old who was not thrilled. I fell for a Facebook post that Dolly Parton bought Cade's Cove to build a roller coaster. My heart fell.

# FriyayIntro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. Top book is my current read. Hope to read the other 3 as well.
2. Monopoly
3. Nice weather and a chance to get outside
4. Nah!

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@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. Dont really have one
2. Extrovert
3. 7 i think
4. @Espeon725 @AkashaVampiak
@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

Sorry a bit late 😅 thanks for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💕

1. Any fantasy / sci-fi!
2. Love watching stand-up comedies
3. Most recent favorite TV show is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
4. Writing letters! 💕

#FridayFun @wanderinglynn

1. Flew by, especially when I got back to school. Also, I finally turned 21!
2. Red, White, and Royal Blue
3. ...I don‘t really have a Feb TBR? I guess one of the books I got for Christmas.
4. On it!

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1. Nancy Drew books
2.Disney World opened 😂/ Also, Elvis died
3. Campbell‘s Chicken Noodle soup and some saltines
4. Hello to all new Littens!
#Friyayintro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

1. I started college! Honestly one of the brightest moments of the decade.
2. 50 books, and this year i have a plan!
3. Whatever we find around the house, for the most part, haha.

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I hope everyone has a great weekend!

1. I always love a round of Scattergories! Or Qwirkle.
2. Venice
3. Smashing them! My original goal was 180 books. Changed it to 300. Currently at 266, so should easily finish.
4. Harry Potter!
5. What did you have for lunch today? (I had leftover carnitas enchiladas.)
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Better late than never!
1. Oh definitely cheddar and sour cream chips. They never last long in my house
2. Sometimes. It depends on who‘s narrating
3. Kind of. I‘m looking forward to Thanksgiving Break
4. I had half a lollipop, haha!
5. A really pale grey-blue

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#friyayintro @howjessreads

🍫🍦 It is a toss up between chocolate and ice cream.
🎧 Love audiobooks. They let me indulge my reading passion while I cook, clean, and commute.
👍 Totally!
🍫 Only one, but I had a pumpkin cupcake and a slice of a huge chocolate chip cookie.
💜💜💜

1️⃣ chocolate 🍫
2️⃣ no
3️⃣ Thanksgiving
4️⃣ 1
5️⃣ breast cancer pink

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Happy TGIF everyone💕🤗

1. If I absolutely have to pick, Elly Griffiths‘ Dr. Ruth Galloway series.
2. New Amsterdam
3. Absolutely!
4. What I made tonight for dinner: orange glazed salmon with rosemary
5. My dad was a voracious reader, especially after he retired. It wasn‘t unusual for him to pick up 8 to 10 books on a trip to the library. He rarely bought books, unlike his daughter 😊

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#friyayintro @howjessreads

📖 Goal is 75 books. Currently at 74 so hopefully before the end of the month I will reach my goal.
🛵 I used to have a motorcycle in my younger days. Still have the endorsement on my driver's license.
🎵 Classic Rock
💍 July 10th
🤗 Hi.

1. OK, I'm doing well with GR & #booked2019, not so well with some of the others that I signed up for.
2. I can't see in 3D
3. Cheesy pop!
4. November - heart transplant - 17 years this year.
5. Will do.

#Friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Indoor but only because I hate bugs. I love being outside when I don‘t have to deal with them 😂
2. Water or coke
3. London I guess
4. Dark gray
5. Yep

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Indoor in summer, outdoors in winter
2. Passion fruit Le Croix
3. Paris
4. Red!
5. Yes!

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🧡 completing a project I‘ve been wanting to for months
🧡 Jamaica 🇯🇲
🧡 strawberry 🍓 short 🍰
🧡 yes, rest and family
🧡✅

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Besides Harry Potter, I loved the How to Train Your Dragon series
2. All of them? I don‘t really use condiments - I barely even use ketchup 😂
3. Not a phobia per se but I hate bugs. And I‘m mad my cat won‘t kill them for me. Lol!
4. A younger sister
5. Will do

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1) A Tale of Two Cities. I thought I hated Dickens until we read it in class
2) It's a blue dress with pink ducks!
3) Brooklyn 99
4) I have a soft spot for the griffin
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1. Interesting question. Maybe the TS Eliot poetry books I had to read for my Contemporary American Lit elective class - a strange elective for a Psychology undergraduate.
2. Black
3. Game of Thrones - we are now in S7, E4.
4. faery!! That is me! 🧚🏼‍♀️

I am a HUGE fan of the marriage of convenience trope, so even though this book has a few issues, I tend to gloss over them. :-D

Full review on my blog at some point; link in bio.

It‘s Friday. Let‘s do this!

Quite new to Litsy, but here is my first post!!!!

Working on my vacation #TBR, and a reread of Friday's Child is high on the priority list. I love rereads for vacations - no stress about how things are going to turn out!

#litsywelcomewagon - any tips or insights are quite appreciated as I feel my way around this new site!!

1. 😂🤷🏼‍♀️⭐️ - I like to laugh and star my book choices. And I have kids. 😜
2. One of my cousins is graduating high school. She was born 2 months after *I* graduated. 😳
3. Tonight was my youngest‘s preschool promotion! I‘ll have a kindergartener again very soon. 🙂
4. Eldest of 5.
5. Here I come, just barely still on Friday! #friyayintro

1️⃣ Rocky and Bullwinkle @BarbaraTheBibliophage
2️⃣ Paris & Prince Edward Island @Melissa_J
3️⃣ random inspiration @emtobiasz
4️⃣ Megan Miranda @youneverarrived
5️⃣ top 2 books so far in 2019? @Eggs
Life after Life, Kate Atkinson, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barberry
#friyayintro @howjessreads

This week‘s #friyayintro is brought to you with a little help from Nov of 2017. I asked people to ask their own question, and I saved a few of my fave answers!

So this time you can answer some fun questions from @BarbaraTheBibliophage @emtobiasz @Melissa_J & @youneverarrived ! & then ask your own question at the end. 🙂

(You can tag them if ya want, but if it‘s too much work, just tag #friyayintro to make sure it gets seen!)

1. Maybe not bring back, but I‘d live the 00s again—probably my most difficult but also most rewarding decade. Grad school, first “career” job (publishing/editorial), then packing it in to move to South Africa for 3 years!
2. Print! I enjoy audiobooks for lighter fiction, though.
3. Older by 5 years.
4. Almost 💯miles exactly. I lived MUCH farther away for over 1/4 of my life, but have been back in SoCal for almost 10 years.
5.👍🏼💜
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1. Truthfully, none of them, except maybe the fashion of the 1920s.
2. I‘m still a paper person, although I do use my Kindle a lot.
3. Definitely older-67.
4. No. Pennsylvania to Florida is definitely more than 100 miles 😄
5. Thanks for the tag @Crazeedi Off to read and comment.
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1. Story, my darling chihuahua. We also have a chiweene named Maize, a cat named Garfield and a pregnant goat.
2. Hanging out with the hubby before he leaves Monday for two weeks to start a new job.
3. Baking goodies and yelling at my kids. 🤣
4. ⚯͛ world, Washington during cherry season, and NYC at Christmas time.
5. What‘s your favorite smell? Mine is probably wet, freshly turned earth.
#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. The Most handsome Brittany you‘ll ever meet (Jaxson) 🐾
2. Homework, course work, and project work....oh! And how to train your dragon 🐉
3. Dog training, photography, scuba diving for some
4. Hawaii, Alaska, and Washington (too many things to see in each for me to limit it more than that 😜)
5. What was the last movie you saw?

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. Sadly not
2. It's supposed to be unseasonably warm (14°C) so going to the seaside and then the cinema
3. I pick up honoured for a while but always end up dropping them again
4. The Highlands, the Islands, Coventry (I'd really like to see the cathedral)
5. Have and 2019 reads made it into your all-time-favourite list yet?
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1. I prefer stand-alone books to series (but I still read a lot of series)
2. Salty! Chips and guac all day!
3. Hilda and Bill, Joe and Kathryn (I was named after her)
4. Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin
5. London

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1. Teleport! Mind reading would be hell I think.
2. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (partway through, stopped to push on an audiobook due back at library)
3. Write more, procrastinate less. So far, mixed bag. Some really good, some really bad days, productivity wise.
4. Forensic Files and Friends. Downton Abbey and Mrs Maisel on Prime.
5. 🙌🙌🙌