Sunday theatre with Daisy-May, who‘s decided she‘s tired of being upright and would like to sprawl on her awful couch for a few hours, thanks.
(The STORIES I could tell you about this couch! It‘s an atrocity. Those leather couches people leave by the curb as freebies and nobody ever actually picks up because they‘re AWFUL are nicer than this late Victorian piece to which my aunt is hopelessly attached.)
pickThis is a keenly incisive book, particularly striking as the narration has a sort of dreamlike quality, and the narrator herself is not entirely reliable. A dystopian world, but one not that far from ours—especially given the current state of politics. Looking at the US‘s Project 2025, it‘s even more striking. And terrifyingly realistic tbh. Certainly still a prescient and clever read, even so long after original publication—and a great reread.
Jumping on the #14books14weeks bandwagon!
There's my stack of 7 physical books, and here's 7 ebooks:
Cecelia and Kate series 1-3
The Good Knight
The Mountain in the Sea
All the Birds in the Sky
Walkaway
I talk about 8 great books in my latest video:
https://youtu.be/YQepqdaHrG4
#LGBTQ #poetry #audiobooks #comics #CanLit #AsianHeritage
pickMacLeod is the master of the short story. Period. I loved this collection. Nothing more to be said really. #CanLit
Another catch up post and another reread. I enjoyed this much more than I did the first time, in 2023. I've been reading LM Montgomery's journals with #kindredspiritsbuddyread. They give so much more context. Susan seems to echo LMM's concern over WWI. Also, the Anne books have been better in publication order, rather than chronologically. I still have the same gripes as last time (too little about Avonlea favorites), but oh well.
A beautiful spring day calls for reading on the (new!) deck after work. (Pictured with a bubly in a wine glass)
It‘s been a whirlwind week/weekend, but I made time today to finish my #reread of this wonderful book on audio. I had forgotten just how solemn and sad the entire story is. It is truly a novel of WWI on the Canadian home front with all of the stress and grief that includes. Yet, it also has those signature moments of pure beauty and humor that LMM writes so wonderfully. I loved revisiting this story.
#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #WWI #audiobook
Casey‘s ailment is a pancreatitis resurgence. The vet‘s office gave him excellent care and he‘s already doing much better, but he‘ll have to make some changes that‘ll be tough for my parents. They want to feed him all the bacon and peanut butter, and they CANNOT.
Little dude‘s promised to serve as reading buddy while I finish HONEY AND PEPPER today. I saw myself devouring it in one sitting, but I just didn‘t have enough reading time yesterday.
repost for @BarbaraJean:
Hello #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead-ers! I‘m looking at a tentative schedule for the next few months:
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders (2 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (2 weeks)
Emily of New Moon (3 weeks)
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (3 weeks)
Journals Vol. 5 (3 weeks)
Emily Climbs (3 weeks)
“The Lay of the Brown Rosary” & Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4 weeks)
THAT takes us to mid-October
