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I have been looking forward to making this list ALL day! we are just back from a trip to Alaska:
1) Glaciers - apparently the blue of a glacier is best seen in August? 🤷🏻‍♀️
2) Baseball! ⚾️ went to a game yesterday and weather was perfect (home now but still on vacay)
3) Basil for pesto
4) Friend sent me poem book!
5) Another friend just texted that her knee surgery went well and another friend is recovering from donating ⬇️

One young woman in the Pacific Northwest is fascinated by old photos and vintage items. This little novella gives us a glimpse into the reasons behind her obsession. Her path crosses with a coworker and former soldier, and they have a sweet connection. Brief but beautiful. The scene where everyone at a party has to tell a personal story was particularly memorable.

A short, beautifully written, understated book. A quiet story grounded in the weight of real life. No fancy twists and turns, no technology. Just a young woman‘s yearning.

@LeslieO Thank you so much for this delightful #staycationswap box!! With jaunts to the Pacific Northwest AND Scotland, I‘m in for a fantastic armchair journey! The chocolate and the teas look delicious, and I‘m excited about the journal and pens. Can‘t wait to travel off to colder climes. 😊

Thank you to @Chrissyreadit and @DinoMom for hosting this swap—one of my favorites!

I needed a new audiobook and this choice was cover love (and I had seen a post on Litsy 😉) It seemed perfect for me, and it was a short one! (Still trying to increase those end of the year numbers! )A young woman who loves vintage and works in a Library is looking for love. Settings:Alaska and Seattle. Well written. Just too melancholy for me right now.

I loved this little gem. Isabel works repairing books in the basement of a library, but she longs for more. The story unfolds over a single day.5⭐️s 💛 #adventrecommends

I‘m not really sure about this one. It just didn‘t flow for me and I found it pretty confusing. The setting was definitely a main piece of this one but I just didn‘t fully feel satisfied in the end. I felt like I was missing something. Beautiful writing, but I just felt like this wasn‘t very story driven and I had a hard time starting interested in this one.

This is a moving though quiet novella, a book to read for it‘s beautiful writing & subtlety. Isabella was a quiet thoughtful child now grown into a woman who mends books in a library & scours thrift shops for treasures. The short scenes feel as if her breath is held, there is a beautiful tension as she sorts through her thoughts and memories with new possibilities on the horizon. A tender and thoughtful short read 💜💛

It could be because I‘m the exact audience for this short audiobook, but I adored it. Isabella lived in Alaska as a child and has a fondness for glaciers and desperately worries about their disappearance. She relocates to the Portland where the present day action takes place. Isabella is basically me: lover of thrift stores, vegetarian, works in a library, concerned about the changing world, loves books, old things and cats. A rec from @Liberty

This string of new lights and my blue shelf are having a bit of a winter romance.

I loved this sweet and surprising novel recommended to me by @Amandajoy for @monalyisha's #newyearwhodis

The characters felt fully realized for such a short book and I loved the descriptions of late 80s/early 90s Alaskan childhood. I grew up in roughly the same era in a neighboring Alaskan community so some of the points really resonated: work on the slope, walking up to exit glacier and fashion/trends taking 5 years to reach Alaska (if ever 😂)

Loved this! 5⭐ Not sure how to describe the plotless story so I'll steal the description from goodreads. 😉
Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life; work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress. In Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life.
Thanks to @LeslieO for including Glaciers in my swap. 🙂

@LeslieO Thank you for a wonderful #summersantagoespostal package. I love everything! 😄 I'm looking forward to reading all the books, it's funny Glaciers was on my TBR but the other two were more on my radar. They all look great. The memo pads are cute and notebook is too chic for me but I'll use it anyway. 😉 Thanks again for making a great start to my day and weekend.

@BookishMarginalia Thanks for hosting! 👍🙂

The kids are asleep. The almost husband is at work. The house is quiet and there‘s the sound of rain outside. Now I get to settle into bed with this lovely book. Maybe I can keep my eyes open long enough to finish. I‘m really loving the writing in this, just gorgeous.

Spent so much time at the airport this weekend I finished my book. Good thing I brought a spare. 😉

I took a break from studying for my Statistics final and decided to read myself work opening one of my #stuffedstockingswap gifts. The lovely ornament @monalyisha included handmade by @Leigh_Medeiros made me laugh out loud. It perfectly represented how I'm feeling about my hardest class.

I'll takes pics in the morning when the light is better.
#sss

Rachel thank you so much for the unbirthday present!! So touched by the thought and lovely to hear your news - I have also signed up for the library weekend, but definitely not for the gym 🤣
Also need to pick out my next #lpmbc book...!
@RachelO

Such a beautiful little book. Thanks Liberty for the recommendation. Here‘s Katzli helping me read while she relaxes on her blanket.

Book: Glaciers
Author: Ginsberg
TV Show: Give Me a Break ("For Heaven's Sake! What happened to my piece of the cake?" ❤Nell Carter!)
Food: Garlic Shrimp
#manicmonday #letterG @JoScho

#ManicMonday #LetterG

1. Glaciers (tagged); (The) Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making; (The) Girls‘ Guide to Hunting & Fishing; Glory O‘Brien‘s History of the Future

2. Gaiman (duh)

3. Gilmore Girls (don‘t even talk to me if you‘re #TeamLogan); Grace & Frankie

4. Gumbo 🦐

“G” is a superstar letter! ✨So many favorites! 😱

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Here is a review by Denise: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2394095043

This.

The imagery in this paragraph ...

So true.

This fits my little girl to a T! Ever since she could pull herself up to standing, she would pull our books down and flip through them. She will still run off to the ball pit if she gets ahold of one and lay in the pit with the book over her face.

"You're such a good cat, she says. And then she says it again, such a good cat, because shw tends to say things twice to animals."

Why do we do this? You know we all do ... do we think they will understand if we say everything in duplicate?

Not book related, but I just had to post this pic from our glacier walk today 🗻 we finally had some amazing weather, and we finished the day walking through mountains to get to a hidden hot spring. I‘m absolutely in love with Iceland ❤️❤️

Mini book haul for me. 😁 I allowed myself to buy this one only because it is on my TBR list and the library district doesn't have a copy, not even on Overdrive. I hope I like it as much as I like the cover. It's very striking, now that I see it in person. #MtTBRchallenge #RtC #minibookhaul

I finally finished my list for #MtTBRchallenge!
Rules for my personal challenge. I have to read *at least* 10 of the 18 bks listed to complete the challenge. Beyond that, I will reward myself with small prizes if I complete 75% (14 bks), 89% (16 bks), and 95% (17 bks). If I read all 18 bks by December 31st, I earn a special prize. I just have to come up with something good. Suggestions? Also, I'll not buy any books, except maybe the one tagged.

#TbrBacklist #LibertyRecommended @Liberty I finished this short debut novel this morning and loved falling into its atmosphere- perfect for a Sunday morning. When I went to Goodreads boy I saw some acerbic reviews- mainly about Portland stereotypes- frankly the fact the some of the story occurs in Portland was fairly irrelevant in my mind. Has anyone else found Goodreads reviews to be increasingly overly meanspirited? I enjoyed this read👍👍👍👍

Library hold- novella (174p) following a day in the life of Isabella a 20 something thrift store shopper and collector of remnants. That‘s from the blurb and I don‘t know anything else but this is a debut novel- using this as a short fiction book prior to tackling some tomes for #tometopple week Nov 17-30.

Rereading this today because I was in the mood for something devastatingly perfect. 💙

Like Isabel I also have a fascination for photos of people unknown. These pages are from a scrapbook that I bought in an antique market when I was 12. I have no idea who it belonged to, but I love imagining her life ❤️

Book 2 for #7in7readathon

Up next: my second book for the #7in7readathon
(Ignore the gross sticker residue. I should really try and get that off since it's such a lovely cover 😱)

It's been awhile since I read this one but #introverting made me think of it. It's a lovely little book. #maybookflowers

A beautiful story that left me wanting more! Also makes me want to go shopping in thrift/antique shops more often 😊 4/5⭐️

Such a lovely little story.

I have very similar memories and I bet you do too.

Starting this lovely little book from @Jess

Finally getting around to this one. I love the main character and the writing is beautiful.

This was not a good audio book, but am reading what's here, may go back and reread it in paper. Lovely, poetic, a great book that I couldn't fully appreciate while in traffic!

#bookanddrink #TheSpineCrackersBookClub I could just pick one mug there a tons in our pantry I like. The black one can be kind of a fall theme too not just Christmas. Then, I am obsessed with butterflies so I had to throw that one in too. Glaciers is a sweet book so far, filled with menories and well written ❤️😍☕️

Just because a book is small doesn't mean it won't give you all the feels.

The reader is shown a brief but beautiful day in the life of protagonist Isabel, a woman in her late 20's who loves vintage items and works in a local library as the librarian of damaged books. She secretly pines for a coworker nicknamed Spokes, but is not sure how to act on it. Through the course of the novel, we share in her memories, hopes and dreams, joy, and tragedy.

Such gentleness and exactly what I needed. Alexis M. Smith writes with such a sweetness and the perfect amount of detail. I never wanted it to end. Bravo!
#PNW #greatbooks #Portland

Friday night activity-aaaaahhhh.

4 🌟

"Those are library books, asshole, not men's room stalls, she said."

What a delightful surprise! The blurbs on the back describe this author's prose as clear and piercing and I think that fits perfectly. If I had that kind of life, I would have read it in one sitting, but I still finished it in just over a day and was left with a heart that was both aching and hopeful. P.s. Thanks to Litsy for leading me to this book, which I would NEVER have discovered before I joined this community!