I am positively OBSESSED with this book. You guys. I will be talking about this book for the entire year to come, probably more. An intimate, modern, queer, provocative, spiritually challenging retelling of the Noah‘s Ark flood story through the eyes of Noah‘s wife. Dreamlike, poetic in style, Blake made me dig deeper into my own questions, my own struggles, and my own relationship with Gd.

LOVED this one! Such a special graphic novel and a beautiful, relatable story. Thank you, @LiteraryinLititz !! ❤️🎃

Library haul! Excited to try both of these!! 🐯👩🏻‍🚒

I just spent the last hour crying in my favorite coffee shop as I finished this book and let me just say- EVERYBODY PLEASE READ IT! ❤️🧡💛 The perfect blend of relatable literary, NYC, and teaching references! I honestly feel like Kelly Harms wrote this FOR me, even though I don‘t yet have children. The characters and dialogue are so REAL and completely sucked me in and held me tight for the whole ride. Thank you, @LiteraryinLititz ! 🗽📚🍷💋

LOVED this story! Couldn‘t put it down. It was fast-paced and witty and the characters were fun to root for! I definitely want to read the others in the series now!

My sister surprised me with this gift!! I‘m so excited to read it!! 😍😍😍

Just saw the IMMENSELY talented, brilliant, hilarious Hasan Minhaj with the Tribeca TV Festival and I feel so blessed! He is amazing. Someone asked him about a book that left an impact on him and he said Seneca‘s Letters on Stoicism- guess I need to check that out! 🥰🥰🥰

IT‘S HERE IT‘S HERE IT‘S HERE!!!!!!! I‘ve had this day marked in my calendar for so long!!!!! ❤️💜🧡#bookmail #thegreatlibrary !!!

Yayyyy I love reading all your comments! So glad we all enjoyed this!! #lmpbc @LiteraryinLititz @Mem_ugh @kstadt929

#25Etsy @Megabooks Congrats on this awesome milestone!! And thanks for the giveaway opportunity!!

This book was everything! Please read it! Don‘t even bother with the library- you‘ll want to own it!! ❤️

Maybe unpopular opinion but I thoroughly DISliked this book, like as much as I disliked Where‘d you go Bernadette. I can‘t say why without spoilers, but yeah, wow. Had to read it for an IRL book club, so perhaps some of the other gals in the club will shed light on why they liked it. 😤

I lived in Chicago for many years and this week I‘m back to see friends! Unabridged is such a special bookstore- if you get the chance, please visit!!

Visited my dear friend in LA last week and I was totally smitten with Chevalier‘s!

Library visit today, look what came in on hold!
P.S. - because of the heat wave in NYC, many libraries were open today I heard that weren‘t normally open Sundays! I love that ❤️📚

She‘s done it again!!! I will read anything by Angie Thomas. “I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.”
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It‘s been so long since I‘ve hung out with Gabriel Allon! Love this series. Perfect beach read!! 🏝☀️

Caveat: I was unprepared for how DARK and disturbing this story was! All of the press surrounding this book is that it‘s so “funny and charming and quirky,” but my experience was that I couldn‘t help but dwell on the heartbreaking, upsetting side of things.

That being said, really well-written, engaging prose, and a triumphant ending. I always appreciate stories about the kindness of strangers.

Trigger warnings for child abuse and neglect.

Bookstores make me feel calm amidst the chaos of city living ❤️📚

Here are my #top6reads for the first half of the year! @Cinfhen 🌟An eclectic mix!

I want to echo what @LiteraryinLititz said - you must read this book!! It was just impeccably written from start to finish and now I really want to read more from Rowley. Love love love!

I am LOVING this book so much!! Rowley‘s writing is so heartfelt and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny! His main character‘s internal monologues are so relatable. This quote cracked me up thinking about my Dance Major history classes! 😄

So exciting!! I unknowingly opened my #summerreadingswap package because it just said Amazon so I thought it was something else! 😂 @rather_be_reading if you‘re able to, can you tag whoever is my partner because I want to be able to thank them but the package didn‘t say! Thank you so much, I love these HP socks and I‘ve been wanting to read Eleanor for forever! 🙏🏻

This story was easy to get immersed in, especially being Jewish myself. It‘s my first by Englander and I really liked his style, weaving in and out of a Surrealist quality. Between a pick and a so-so for me because it started out so realistic and then felt like it shifted too jarringly. But “realistic” may not have been the goal so much as striking at the core:

What do we owe each other, in this life and the next?

Such a fun #buddyread with @LiteraryinLititz !! I have to say, some parts of this story were highly perplexing and/or ridiculously far-fetched, but I won‘t give any spoilers haha. Loved the shifting perspectives and especially the urgency and suspense of the last 100 pages!

Mailed my #summerreadingswap package!! Yay!! Should arrive by Saturday! @rather_be_reading thanks for organizing!

Fun idea! @EclecticReaders
Lol if someone told me to stop reading I‘d be like 😒 but I laughed the most at “cancelled plans to stay home and read” because that is too real 😂

Help me decide what to read next! Your votes will determine in what order I read these six books, which have been on Mount TBR for too long! 😆 Thank you!!
#makemereadit

Awesome weekend in Philly exploring some treasured independent bookstores! I picked up my own copy of the tagged book, as well as some others for my students.

This was an okay #lmpbc read! I was interested in the familial relationships and I always like shifting perspectives. However, I feel like the same exact story could have been more compelling had it been written differently...I‘m not sure what, but it was missing something for me. @LiteraryinLititz is next! @kstadt929 @Mem_ugh

This book was so well-written. I learned a lot about the devastating AIDS epidemic in 80s Chicago. The characters were vividly painted, honest and relatable. As a Northwestern Art History major, I connected to that subplot, though at times it felt disjointed, which makes sense because Makkai said she set out to write one book and then wrote a different story entirely.

This was my first IRL book club read and we all had strong reactions to it!

Usually this is not the kind of title I‘d go for, but I trusted the reviews and it was so worth it! From start to finish this book was such an exciting, heartfelt, unique read. It‘s short but packs QUITE a punch! Love discovering new authors and I would absolutely read more by Braithwaite.
As someone with sisters I totally related to the feeling that you‘d do anything for them- “Lord help the mister/who comes between me and my sister!”

This week I took myself on an independent bookstore crawl in the West Village!🗽🗽🗽

650 pages is a LOT! But I‘m glad I stuck with it because I liked this one FAR more than books 2 and 3 in the series. I love Strike and Robin; they are such captivating, real characters and the mystery unraveled in an intriguing way without the gruesome gore of the previous books. Highly recommend!

The tagged book = summer to me 😄❤️☀️and I hope you‘ll check out the post by @rather_be_reading about her #litsyswap! #summerreadingswap so excited!

I‘m into it! I really liked the Russian folklore feel of this and I would totally read the rest of the series! Some things were confusing to me - like is the Frost King a platonic relationship or a romantic interest for Vasya? - but all in all I was really engaged throughout!

Pros: Cool to be immersed in a new (to me) fantasy world. Fascinating to reflect on the idea of “true names at our cores” and “power that lies beneath the surface of everything.”
Cons: I NEED MORE DIALOGUE in my books! It was hard to stay engaged because I tend to check out when it‘s just endless description.

Such a special opportunity to be able to see Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer in dialogue about Nathan‘s new book!! I‘m starstruck 🌟 Amidst the horror of Notre Dame burning today, I especially appreciated delving into their humor and sincerity re: their writing process. What does it mean to put your whole self into your art, or rather to let yourself slip away and create connections with your reader that transcend consciousness? ❤️

I really enjoyed reading this for #lmpbc ! I agree with @kstadt929 that some of the characters were infuriating- your comments were so wonderful to read 😁 I still found myself hooked and wanted to stay up late reading tho ☺️ The little girl and her imaginary friend was definitely my favorite plotline; as an elementary teacher I found this spot on. Hope you enjoy it @LiteraryinLititz and @Mem_ugh ! Thanks @Kaylamburson for recommending this!

Look what #bookmail just arrived! So speedy!! Excited to read this for #lmpbc 😄💌🖍 @kstadt929 @LiteraryinLititz @Mem_ugh

WOW. Sheer brilliance. I can‘t believe this is a first novel and I‘m just blown away. Honestly the first 150 pages were not grabbing me but then it just took off and I couldn‘t put it down for the next 200! Heartbreaking, poetic, thrilling, moving, all of the things. So clever how it navigated between past and present, part “coming of age tale” and part murder mystery. #lmpbc I‘m really glad we chose this! @LiteraryinLititz @kstadt929 @Mem_ugh

My classroom got a whole new shipment of books!!!! We are so excited!!!! Fiction and nonfiction. Nothing is more exciting than being the first to touch a new book 😍🤣🙏🏻

OMG IF YOU HAVEN‘T READ THIS YET PLEASE DO BECAUSE I LOVED THE $&!@ OUT OF THIS BOOK!!! Wow, where do I even begin? 500 pages of female badassery, delicious deception, deeply descriptive sex, and based largely on real life?! What?! Not without its disturbing and horrifying moments, because it alternates between WWI and WWII and that‘s never sunshine and rainbows, but for me this was really a story about friendship and the power to endure. ❤️🌹💄🤫

Finished! Well, I thoroughly enjoyed reading alongside @kstadt929 @LiteraryinLititz and @Mem_ugh for #lmpbc ! But I was unimpressed with this author and her storytelling. I think the idea had potential- having amnesia and needing to piece your life together through others‘ accounts - but I‘ve seen it done better by authors like Liane Moriarty.

Taking advantage of my snow day today to finish this one for #lmpbc! Sorry that I‘m late in mailing it back @kstadt929 ! So fun to read with the comments of @Mem_ugh and @LiteraryinLititz , too!

Between a pick and a so-so. I love Shapiro‘s style and her descriptions are so vivid. I also loved that this one was all about post-Impressionism and 1920‘s France. I just felt that at some point the plot was way too drawn out and convoluted and I was ready for it to be done.

This book was really well done! I loved hearing the author‘s insider, West Wing-esque perspective on my favorite presidency. I‘ve never wanted to go into politics but I appreciated how much she focused on advice for women who strive for that. It made me cry because I miss Obama so much, so now I‘m not sure if I‘m emotionally ready to start Becoming 😭

WOW. This book gave me ALL the feels. I loved everything about it and found it super cathartic. 😭Easy to get absorbed into the relationships and the emotions that Zappia illustrates so deftly. For sure akin to Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell but for me this one resonated more. #blinddatewithabook was a MAJOR success!

I finished this with my class today and it was bittersweet because my kids were totally enthralled! Such a moving story. I think it‘s perfect for teachers of upper elementary. Also perfect for humans who are not teachers! 😄

I‘m excited to get the ball rolling! #lmpbc Round 5! @Mem_ugh @kstadt929 @LiteraryinLititz Which are your top two picks? Then I can choose based on our crossover. Yippee!