My Reading Life | 
Pat Conroy talks about his lifelong love of books and reading in this memoir, one of my favorites.
Introducing you to my granddaughter, at age 4 (can‘t believe she turns 6 next week), who is my inner child come to life.
pickWhy did I wait so long to read such stunning prose from this masterful author? Everything in this book left me gobsmacked: stirring essays on classic authors Pat obsessed about & the English teacher who challenged him to dig deeper into literature. What really got me was how beautifully this man could write.🤩Each sentence sculpted with perfectly chosen words that danced off the page directly into the heart. Genius!
#BookishMonopoly
@AkashaVampie
Finally getting back on the #BookishMonopoly bandwagon. Yay! For this month, I rolled a lucky 7 and Snoopy landed on “Bookshelf #1.” After perusing this packed shelf, I chose my first Pat Conroy read. Looking forward to learning about the books that inspired this acclaimed novelist.
Thanks @AkashaVampie for hosting this fun and creative challenge.🤗 Glad to join my cool comrade players @Jari-chan and @ElizaMarie again.🎲
My favorites include, in no particular order:
Locke & Key: the Golden Age
Grandma Gatewood‘s Walk
The Kind Worth Killing
The Twist of a Knife
Under the Bayou Moon
Storyteller (Dave Grohl)
West With Giraffes
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Persuasion
Deaf Utopia
Mrs. Everything
Gender Queer
Taste (Stanley Tucci)
Both Finlay Donovan books
Becoming Unbecoming
I had 11 5⭐️ reads. Maybe this was a better year than I originally thought.
#ThoughtfulThursday
📚Organized By Feel. Lols. I have a bookshelf filled with just female authors. An entire section of the house has shelves of middle grade/YA fiction/children‘s classics; another with literary novels. Picturebooks are neatly arranged in several book cases with ikea foldable boxes tagged/labeled
📚We have over 20 husband-made bookshelves at home, not counting the ones in our bedrooms
📚I only buy physical books. Paperback mostly
This is my final #Top21Of21 - this time fiction picturebook edition. Here is the full link:
https://wp.me/pDlzr-nZY
Not bad at all considering how dramatic the year was (globally and personally). I'll post my favorites soon!
You have unleashed a monster, @merelybookish - here is my #Top21Of21 - nonfiction picturebook edition. Here is the GatheringBooks link: https://wp.me/pDlzr-o0c
Thank you, @merelybookish for tagging me on your #Top21of21 started off by @Cinfhen - here‘s my top 21 books read in 2021. Naturally this does not include picturebooks as that deserves its own post.
Here is the link to my year in books: https://gatheringbooks.org/2021/12/29/my-2021-in-books/
Tagging @Reggie @batsy - would love to see yours, too, if you have already posted one! 💕💕💕📚📚📚
Oooooo……. My download is ready! Pity I‘m at work! But I might be able to sneak a quick scan whilst on a zoom meeting later!
#JulyJourneys Day 5: #JuneStats
My reading moods for this year as per the Storygraph app.
@NataliePatalie
I may finish another book or two before the official end of 2020 - regardless, I am so proud of the reading I've done in the midst of all this *gestures wildly at the general state of the world* chaos!
After way too much deliberation, I‘m going for it and naming these as my #20best2020😅 Thanks for the tag Cindy & Carolyn 😘😘
#20Best2020
In no particular order, except that Run and Summer are probably the absolute standouts for the year. Honourable mentions for Writers & Lovers and Pereira Maintains, and for sheer entertainment value, A Sudden Death in Cyprus.
Thanks for tagging me @Cinfhen @Centique
I'd love to see your lists @LeeRHarry @JennyM @Rissreads @Freespirit @MrsMalaprop
Here you go @Cinfhen my #20best2020 There won‘t be a nonfiction edition because I hardly read any this year! My year of reading (some) modern classics influenced the top row for sure. I‘ve put my favourite fantasy and sci fi on the bottom right. And for some reason Yaqui Delgado is living in my brain - highly recommend it for a YA about bullying.
Are some of you thinking about your top twenty yet? @CarolynM @Tanisha_A @merelybookish @LeahBergen
I think I‘m ready to call my #20Best2020 #FictionEdition ( #NF will follow)
I‘ll start with tagging a few Littens but I‘d LOVE to see EVERYONE‘s picks @TrishB @BarbaraBB @Megabooks @CarolynM @squirrelbrain @Cathythoughts @erzascarletbookgasm @KarenUK @JennyM @Librarybelle @jenniferw88 @Kdgordon88 @Hestapleton @TheAromaofBooks @Centique @Reggie
Silly question......!!!!🤣
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-books-compete-with-netflix-yes-and-heres-why-11...
#AcrossApril Day 30: Here is my #AprilStats. Pretty abysmal, but it was a crazy time at work. I did manage to complete two inter-institutional research proposals though: one with University College London (UCL), the other with Education University of Hong Kong (EduHK). Cross fingers both will get funded. 💕🧚🏼♀️📚
#MagnificentMarch Day 31: #MarchWrapUp
#MarchMadness Day 31: #MarchStats
I thought of combining both reading challenges into one. Only 31 books read for March, a large chunk consists of picturebooks, as per usual.
Photo was taken during my birthday week early this month at an airbnb overlooking the Persian Gulf at Ras Al Khaimah.
What do y‘all think?
(Day 9: Blue) Books by a few of my favorite authors. Only book I haven‘t read is The Neverending Story, one of my favorite childhood movies. It‘s on the TBR, though. #ColormePretty #PhotoChallenge @Sweetkokoro
I miss Litsy! I am not on as often as I used to be and my TBR list is growing. When I started working at the library part time two years it really cut down on my reading time. But it is totally worth it because I love it! And a week from tomorrow I will become the library director! I am so excited and can‘t wait!
I grew up a word-haunted boy. I felt words inside me and stored them wondrous as pearls. I mouthed them and fingered them and rolled them around on my tongue.
#quotes #patconroy #language #wordchoice
Conroy brings up two interesting points discussing Gone With The Wind.
Mitchell‘s defense of the Confederacy and her romanticized view of it that defines the South for so many, even to this day.
The sheer joy of reading, even if the source material is highly suspect.
I take it as an article of faith that the novels I‘ve read will live inside me forever 😊
#quote #patconroy #myreadinglife
Hey! Don‘t judge! I am a “Bibliophile”. When I get the opportunity, these purposefully chosen books are going into a huge bookshelf I just purchased. They will be classified according to the Dewey Decimal System. Came on here to share how I have have been disappointed with myself this morning, came in here and fiddled around with my books and I feel lots better. They are a great mood enhancer for me...Happy Valentine‘s Day, Book Collection
Went to Biltmore House today and learned that George Vanderbilt had a lot in common with many of us bibliophiles. He kept a list of books read and even took one along, pictured, on his honeymoon.
My reading snapshot for the past month. Going to do one at the start of every month 😊 Got 60 pages of The Hate U Give left but absolutely love it so put that down 😍
#mmdchallenge #modernmrsdarcy #mmdbookclub
“Hey guys” ( in my granddaughter‘s voice), I really have not been here in a long time and I only need a calendar. For real! 😀
So after much research & debate I finally came up with a way to track my reading, although I can't take any credit for my system. I got it from @kate.olson.reads on Instagram (don't think she is on Litsy). I made a copy of her template & then tweaked it for me. I will include the link to mine & the link to @kate.olson.reads original post. This will track my books & I'll use a journal for my reading challenges b/c I like having both. See below
I read the most books in one month in June (10) because I was not working that much then. Even though I will be busier in 2019, my goal is to read 100, about 2 a week. I need time to #readallthebooks #bibliophile #drjoyfulmimireads #drjoyfulmimi2019 #bujonewbie
So happy and thrilled to have: read 69 (as of now) books this year, started Bullet Journaling and discovered Stoicism, the philosophy. These three things have been major in making this a great year. However, the birth of my granddaughter was the most epic and greatest thing.
Yes, I am a bibliophile, book addict...whatever. Yes, this is a glimpse of my “bookroom”/library. Yes, those are mirrors on the closet beside the bookshelf, which is behind the new bookshelf, showing other bookshelves and book stacks (in the mirrors) Did you get that? 🤣 Yes, I am about to have major fun putting books in this “new” bookcase I found at Goodwill along with a few “new books” of course. #findjoyinlife
My Reading Life - Part 1
These are my 'books read' figures for the last few years.
2012 - 52
2013 - 98
2014 - 39
2015 - 33
2016 - 43
2017 - 35
2013 I was off work sick, 2014 I had a baby thus the huge discrepancy.
My target for 2018 is 75. I'm currently on book No 59 so I don't think I will achieve it. Hopefully I will get to nearly 70.
I'd like my total to be higher though...
Sending #BirthdayLove to @Read4life 📚❤️🎂🎵🎉🎈😃Hope you have a wonderful day❣️❣️❣️#TheBirthdayCrew
I went back to the library this evening and had the greatest time. Being in the stacks, near all of those books really enhances my mood. I am most definitely a bibliophile. Betcha all of you are too! Next time I will photo the stacks but that may be too much book porn 🤓
When you are a Community Member, you do not know its Fall Break and the University Library is closed.
While playing librarian today, cataloguing and shelving, i joyfully discovered that I have two Barbara Kingsolver essay collections. A bibliophile‘s joy! 🤓
Cataloguing my books is one of my favorite things ever to do. I love playing librarian. Is it just as much fun to be one, I wonder?
