Saturday morning #coffeeandabook.
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My next TBR Jar pick. #TBRJar
Tender is the Night | 
My next TBR Jar pick. #TBRJar
so-soFinally reading this further cements for me that Fitzgerald is just not my jam. I found all these characters rather unlikeable and while it‘s not necessary to like the characters in a book, it certainly makes reading it more pleasurable.
July‘s Tequila Mockingbird book club pick is another classic that I‘ve managed to have never read before now.
bailedOkay so I started this one on audio and I like the story, but I‘m having a hard time focusing. I picked up a paperback copy, but the print is too small to read without my glasses. They broke last night and I can‘t afford new ones until August, so I‘m putting this one down for now!
so-soThe beginning and the end were good, but the middle was kind of a narrative mush. I stuck with it because I love Fitzgerald's prose, but this took me like 2 months to get through. I probably should have just DNF'd.
Loving this spring weather 🙌🏻 After some yard work and gardening I can finally enjoy reading on my porch swing! This threeway situation between Nicole & Dick Diver and Rosemary Hoyt has some #taintedlove vibes....
#anglophileapril
so-soI thought it was OK. Through the first third of the book I was uninterested but as I pressed on the plot began to darken and motivations of the characters became more evident. And everyone got more drunk and depressed and I became more interested. I didn't quite buy the ending.
Fun facts: I play basketball weekly at the high school F. Scott Fitzgerald attended: St. Paul Academy. Go Spartans!I‘ve spent many a night in F. Scott‘s theater.
New challenge up on the site! Tell us your favorite series for a chance to win. And don‘t forget to check past posts to see if your name was listed. Happy readathoning! #24in48
“Well, how can one tell what‘s eccentric and what‘s crazy?”
@IamIamIam I see your American Psycho in Humour and Entertainment and raise you Tender is the Night in Crime, Thriller and Mystery!
panYet another #modernlibrarytop100 book that seemed a whole lot longer than it actually is. This book about a married couple and their various issues and infidelities felt so pointless and mostly lacked any kind of energy. There were very brief flares of beauty and insight but I was too bored to give them much notice. I really hope that Gatsby is better than this!
Very glad that “Baby” seems to have fallen out of favour as a nickname for adult women.
Once I knew a man who fell in love with his nurse—
Is this Fitzgerald throwing shade at Hemingway?! #modernlibrarytop100
Another Fitzgerald, and the one he considered to be his greatest work! ✒🧐
Both picked up for £1! 🐒
“It was only a sunny little smile, and little it cost in the giving but like the morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
Next up for #modernlibrarytop100 is a library book that smells like it‘s been doused in perfume. This could be an interesting reading experience.
Just in: Fitzgerald Penguin Classics 😍😍😍
15 | #HeatOfJuly #CrazyInLove
Fitzgerald used real letters his wife, Zelda, wrote during her breakdown in his fictionalised bestseller. Can‘t say I would have appreciated that if I were Zelda but the book is so good - my all time favourite and annual re-read.
Can‘t seem to tag you Cindy and Barbara.
pickThis one I will have to read again. Initially confusing, then compelling, then finally revealing. Anyone who is interested in Fitzgerald‘s complicated life will see it on display here. Was going to give it a so-so, but can‘t do it to him.
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people‘s lives.
#7favesin7days 1/7*
*post a book you love each day for 7 days, without review or comment, with the hashtag #7favesin7days in your post so we can keep it going!
pickI really enjoyed this! If I‘m honest I didn‘t enjoy it as much as The Great Gatsby or The Beautiful and the Damned, maybe cause I read those when I was younger. I appreciated that this book seemed more reserved somehow, it had a slower, withdrawn kind of melancholy. I definitely want to read more Fitzgerald.
#25infive day four update! Such a busy day today - 2.5 hours in traffic, 1 hour shopping for clothes to wear to work, 1 hour tutoring, 1.5 hour on job applications and 4.5 precious hours reading! I split my time between listening to the tagged book and reading Flights on my kindle. That‘s 20 hours in all now, really hoping I manage the last five tomorrow!
‘Sometimes it is harder to deprive yourself of a pain than of a pleasure.‘
Oh Fitzgerald how do you do this to me.
So pretty covers! #bestillmyheart #heartsandhardcovers @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I have enjoyed having this song stuck in my head all day (guessing my coworkers did not enjoy listening to me hum all day as much) so I wish I were more inspired. Sadly all I have is a picture of four books with the word night in the title. I did accidentally use my Book Depository coupon to order a new copy of the tagged book today and perhaps another book or two. Whoops. #becausethenight #rocktober
An interesting cover I've never seen before! #Garish #UncannyOctober
pickI nearly got this into my September stats! It's a beautifully written book, deserving of its reputation. It is sad in a bleak way; the sadness of people who don't even know why they are sad, and think that one more dazzling party, one more trip to someplace fashionable, will make them happy. It also begins to explore mental illness and its effect on the family of the one who is ill, but in a careful, tentative way. Perhaps a bit autobiographical?
Taking advantage of a trip to pay a client's out of county court costs to eat lunch outside. #carpediem #fallintobooks @RealLifeReading
Who knew that we have Fitzgerald to blame for "Brangelina" et. al.?
I don't have this gorgeous set of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, but I wish I did. #goldandsilver #fallintobooks
There's so much I need to be doing right now, from preparing for Irma to boxing up clothes to return. But the cat wants me to sit here and read. Cat wins. 🤷🏻♀️😻#Balthazar #littenkitten #catsoflitsy
"Her immature mind made no speculations upon the nature of their relation to each other, she was only concerned with their attitude toward herself—but she perceived the web of some pleasant interrelation, which she expressed with the thought that they seemed to have a very good time." #followattack @RaimeyGallant
I nominate @sacrilecious @CrazyBookLady @SealedWithInk @sarahnicoloff @forrestlaur @Georgette73 @Hokey @Lyn-Mara & @myreadingcorner
