pickOof, what a powerful and heartbreaking read. Joan Didion writes about experience, grief, and family like no other and her books manage to affect me at a deep level, staying with me a long time. This is one I hadn‘t yet read, so thankful that the #AAM challenge had me read her again. With my parents in that “blue night” era, this really resonated and Insee glimpses of myself there too. And yes, that is my undecorated tree 🤫 @Soubhiville
Enjoying fall audiobook walks with my favorite pooch and soaking in an autumn #BeautyBreak this week.
(Inspired by the #HaikuHive)
Slow walk, stopping lots
I take pictures, Cosmo sniffs,
Small moments collected
pickDespite the incredibly tough subject, this is one heck of a memoir. It‘s so well-written and takes into account moments when readers are going to struggle to keep going, and addresses it, and redirects so you can keep reading this story of such an awfully tragic life. One hundred percent essential reading.
pickI‘m a definite Lacey fan and I loved this one. A brilliant structure - memoir and fiction that mirror each other in slightly off-kilter ways - gives insight into the ways writers‘ experiences make their way into their fiction. Thoughts on love, friendship, and heartbreak. Thoughts on writing and fiction and faith. I love Lacey‘s writing style and creativity with form. #TOB2026
Hooked_on_books, merelybookish, Bookwormjillk, Chelsea.Poole, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB, ChaoticMissAdventures
so-so#TOB
Well. That is a book.
I do not believe this is a book to tackle on audio. There is a monotone to the narrator, mixed with a stream of consciousness that makes it hard to digest. This is going to be a book I have no memory reading even though this very short read took me three days - I turned it off each time my mind started to wonder
Not for me
@squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk @Chelsea.Poole @sarahbarnes
Stopping for mid-morning tea and time to finish Deresiewicz's excellent reflections on Austen. I've always really enjoyed this book, and it was fun to read it this year chapter by chapter after each associated work. In Persuasion, he focuses on the meaning of friendship and chosen family. After all, Anne didn't have much love from her family circle but "she found, at Lyme, what she did not know she'd been searching for: something to belong to."
As it turns out, this is a slower year for sign-ups. Some years are like that. 🐌
We‘re just over halfway full for #AuldLangSpine2026. Remind your friends!
Registration can be found here:
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Loving all your lists so far!
