Welcome to Litsy!

🌼Yes! I love working in my gardens. So relaxing!
🌸A little bit of everything! Daisies, herbs, peonies, iris, coneflower, shrubs, trees.
🌻Tagged

@Eggs #wondrouswednesday

Spring means flowers!

I don‘t garden at the moment, but I‘d like to grow herbs at some point.

I love to read on the patio anytime. Spring brings not only warmer temperatures, but also the sun angles are better than in winter.

Tea or lemonade.

#thoughtfulthursday on Friday

Mahalo for the #ThoughtfulThursday tag @wanderinglynn
1️⃣ It‘s the cover & all the 💐

2️⃣ I used to grow herbs but I‘m not good with plants. On my patio I have a thriving aloe vera 🪴that is only doing well because I don‘t touch it.🤷🏻‍♀️

3️⃣ We are warm here most of the year. If there are trade winds I love to read outside or the beach but not when it‘s humid. 😓

4️⃣ Good lemonade 🍋any time & plantation iced tea.🍹

Play if you haven‘t!🤗

I loved the use of flowers as language, however, not a fan of young girl getting pregnant and somehow a baby saves her.

1) Daffodils (the Canadian Cancer Society has an annual Daffodil Campaign to raise funds in April and there seem to be a lot of daffodils around my area at this time of year)

2) The Language of Flowers

#two4tuesday

1. Lilacs 💜
2. The Language of Flowers

@TheSpineView @NataliePatalie
#Two4Tuesday

#bookreport Finished another two books this week; seems I need firm deadlines to get books completed.

#currentlyreading HP and the Deathly Hallows is my #doublespin for March and I should be able to complete it. Apples Never Fall and Booth are both library books and would like to get them completed by Sunday evening as I don‘t think I‘ll be going to the library for awhile after that.

#weeklyforecast nothing at the moment

#weeklyreport

4⭐️ I first heard about this book through Books on the Nightstand about 10 years ago and just like the first time I read it, I really liked it. There were many things that I liked about the book but I really liked the back and forth with what happened when she was 10 and the present day. #2022 #fiction #bookreview #bookstagram #contemporary #bookclub

My plans for the #20in4 #readathon are to:

📚complete The Language of Flowers and An Impartial Witness

📚work on Apples Never Fall and HP & the Deathly Hallows

1. The tagged book. My book club was supposed to do this last March but due to Covid restrictions being what they were in 2021, we decided to postpone the book until this spring (we managed to get our March 2020 meeting in just in the nick of time)

2. Anything related to the Covid pandemic

#two4tuesday

After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, Victoria is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings….Loved this book🌸🌺

#Flowers #ItHadToBeYou @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ItHadToBeYou @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Flowers

My mom got me a beautiful bouquet of flowers!! 💗

I loved this book about a girl in foster care who communicates through flowers. Not only a good book, but you will learn a lot about flowers.

My good deed for the day. 🌸

Our Cataloger at the library has been stuck at home for an entire year. She‘s someone who thrives in a social environment, her husband is in a nursing home, & she‘s been isolated & lonely since last March. She finally returns tomorrow & I want her to know that she was missed. I also got a small, quilted owl decoration for her husband who has a particular penchant for the wise, little birds. 🦉 Too pretty not to share!

1. HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, An American Marriage, Shuggie Bain and The Lamplighters

2. Tagged book

3. HP and the Philosopher‘s Stone

#weekendreads

1) the longer days and the promise of warmer weather

2) the change in weather doesn‘t really change my reading habits

#thoughtfulthursday

The flowers/trees blooming and warmer weather.

My reading choices don‘t change.

Thanks @Chili for the tag!
Tagging @Jerdencon @MySharonaK
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

Watching the trees and flowers bloom.

No. I just take my monthly books off of my TBR pile.

Can you play? @LibrarianRyan @emmaturi @Ash.on.the.line @mandarchy @Chili @Nute @cleoh @JacintaMCarter

@Eggs Thanks for the tag!

I‘ve had this on my shelf for years now, so I‘m very glad to finally have read it. I did like it, but some parts more than others. I wouldn‘t say it‘s a new favorite. But I absolutely am thinking about flowers and their meanings differently now! It makes me want to go back and remember what flowers I had at my wedding and then decode what they meant. 💐🌺🌼🌸

#flowersoncover #windsofmarch @Eggs

Here is my #bookspinbingo list for February 2021! The ones marked with a T are from my TBR pile. They are books I‘ve owned for a long time and am making an effort to finally read this year. I‘m all ready for tomorrow‘s number draw, though I‘ve left 3 that are for whatever I feel like borrowing from the library and of course the 5 free choices, so that should satisfy this mood reader. 😋

After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, Victoria Jones is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. This book! So #enchanting 🌺🌼🌸
#floral #fallfinds
#wordsofoctober @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I haven‘t read this yet... but the title fits 🌸🌼🌷

#Aromatic
#WordsofOctober

@Mynameisacolour Heather, what a lovely surprise. Thank you so very much- you are too sweet. 😘

#3books #recommendedtome. Loved them all!

I read many reviews about how the main character troubled people, but I felt I understood her. I wasn't angered by her, but felt compassion for her. I really liked this sweet, gentle story of learning to accept love, kindness, and connecting from others.

Beautifully done❤️❤️❤️🌺🌸🌼🌹🌷🌻

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Im not sure how I feel about this book. I'm torn between thinking it's beautiful and hating the main character. I can't blame her for doing what she does because she never had a support system but still it makes me upset. I almost bailed a few times but I am glad I finished. Sorry for the lame review but I don't think I have words to describe it fully.

Just finished a wee bit of garden tending, and about to settle into reading this....

#flowers #gardening

I really enjoyed this novel. Chapters alternated from past to present and the stories build beautifully on each other. It‘s a story of a young woman learning about love and forgiveness; how to receive love; romantically, familial, and for herself. It was enraging and frustrating half the time, but the protagonist is a damaged underdog you can‘t help but to love and root for. Not to mention, this book really does educate you about flowers.

The was such an emotional story. Have Kleenex handy! Loved it!

Loving this story so far.

#KeepLitsyPositive #BloomingLitsy #litsywalkers

 @Eggs tagged me last night & it‘s dark & rainy this early morning so I‘m going with flower photos or photos with flowers in them already on my phone. Top right is a corpse flower I saw/smelled at the botanical gardens a few years ago, bottom left is a bowl of broccoli stems with flowers (an inside joke we made for a coworkers going away party) & the cattle egret is in a flowering hedge in my yard.

1. Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. 2. Reese Peanut Butter Eggs, jelly beans. and PEEPS! 3. Violets 4. Ummmm...a card my husband got for his birthday. It has a cupcake on it with yellow frosting.

#SetDuringSpring
#MagnificentMarch

🌸🥀🌺🌼🌻🌹🌷💐

#emotional
⭐️language of flowers is a beautifully written story. Personally I love flowers & gardening hence I could relate more. It‘s about an orphan girl & roller coaster events of her life. At places her character is annoying but overall a gripping story. 4⭐️

⭐️There is nothing left to write about Ove. I started this in Jan but read again n again in Feb. It‘s a perfect blend of all emotions 5⭐️

⭐️ Real #tearjerker 💔 memoir

#readwithmrbook

#Flower #reallyrandomFebruary
@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ReallyRandomFebruary @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Beautifully written story about a woman who had a talent for growing flowers and she uses that skill to help others. Set in Victorian times you get a glimpse into the mundane lives of people.

I didn‘t start out loving this book—despite my sympathy for her horrible childhood in the foster care system, I found the MC, Victoria, hard to take. She grew on me though & I wanted her to have a happy ending. Loved the beautiful descriptions of flowers & their symbolism. 🌸A selection for my virtual foodie bookclub, I made a Baguette Stuffed with Cheese & Herbs like one made by Grant for Victoria as my book-inspired dish. Review/Recipe link👇🏻

My somewhat cobbled-together sad desk lunch: a poke bowl with multi-grain rice from across the street, seaweed seaweed snack from my desk, & fruit snacks from the classroom snack bucket (I‘m insisting that these work as vitamin C for my cold!) 😉With my virtual foodie book club read due at the end of January that I am just starting. I got a chapter in before being disturbed...😬 #worklife

"anyone can grow into something beautiful."

Enjoyed reading about the different messages that a flower has and how flowers can repair broken hearts. I cared for each member of the unconventional family and was thrilled with the ending.

Bought this book over 2 years ago and finally sat down to read it. I‘m glad I did! Such a sad but beautiful story and I was rooting for Victoria the whole time. 👍🏾

1. Tagged
2. Grey
3. Visited a cemetery for work
4. Yes and yes
5. 💖💕💖

#friyayintro @howjessreads

I really enjoyed this one. The story pulled me in. The MC did irritate me a little bit but I understood why she made bad decisions. It ended up very uplifting.

One of the many #flowers at work. The tagged book is on my TBR
#selfimprovementsept
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

#Flowers
#Selfimprovementsept

A book from my tbr shelf and the beautiful flowers from my sweet friend @Stacypatrice a few months ago ❤️🌸🌷😘

I enjoyed the use of the flowers to further the meaning of the main characters interactions, overall if you read the synopsis and feel you will enjoy it you probably will.

Victoria (the main character) is bounced around from foster home to group home until she turns 18. What‘s next? And why is she so seriously damaged? And how does she know so much about flowers?
I enjoyed this book, but in the middle I thought it might break me, but then the story turned and I liked the ending.