BRB, gotta update an Elfine-style cape to my Christmas wishlist! 😆 💚

#coverart

Signed, sealed, to be delivered. 📮
One goes near, and the other not too far.

#Jolabokaflodswap #LittleChristmasswap

Sometimes it takes about a 100 pages for a book to sink in and sometimes all you need is the first sentence to know that the book is going to be a delight.

What a whimsical cover, too! 💜
#currentread #coldcomfort #perfectfordecember

I hope you all have a happy Saturday 💕😊

#currentlyreading

Some of the ‘dead zones‘ are as large as middle-sized countries. 😧😔

A discussion on the Sundarbans led me to pick up Ghosh again. I absolutely love The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide by him and I love to hate The Calcutta Chromosome. Let‘s see how this one fares. 🌊

#currentlyreading

Happy Diwali, y‘all! ✨🪔✨

#currentread #lights #booksaboutbeverage

I‘m surprised that I got to this book so late considering how much I love Rebecca. Better late…

(Published in 1951)

#currentlyreading

A very happy birthday to you, Sarah 🎉🎂🎉📚🤗 @TheAromaofBooks

I started at midnight but decided to post this with a #BirthdayBash breakfast. I love how we are celebrating your birthday from different parts of the world. 🥐🍳

I chose your birthday to start a new book, my #halloweenread. This is my second by the author and it is set in the UK.

“October in East Evansburg, and the last warm Sun of the year slanted red through the sugar maples.” 🍁🍂🍁

#FirstlineFridays #currentlyreading #halloweenread

Autumn colours remind me of this vivacious character. This particular episode always cracks me up! 😁🧡🍁🍂

📸 Spotted last month at an ice-cream shop.

I‘m buddy reading this book with my sister on this crispy autumn day 💛🧡❤️

#currentlyreading

I still can‘t stop ‘thinking‘ about my last wild ride of a book, I‘m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. I figured my #currentread would help.

#angsttoromance

Look who decided to join me on my day off. 🥰📚

#raisingreaders

My first sighting of a little free library! 😊

I‘m on a book-to-movies binge. I just watched Where‘d you go, Bernadette. Now onto Hillbilly Elegy and when I finish my tagged read, I‘ll watch the movie on Netflix. 📚▶️📺

#currentlyreading

Not quite what I expected it to be but I‘m going to go ahead with it anyway.
Is that print turned bookmark too distracting? 😁
#currentlyreading #weekendreads

My favourite book by Sarah Waters is The Night Watch followed by Fingersmith. She‘s totally my jam even though I just noticed that her books aren‘t very popular on Litsy. Any other Sarah Waters fans out there?

#currentlyreading #friyay

My weekend is booked with the other Bennet sister. Didn‘t quite get to know her well before. I love how Mary‘s character is developing and whenever the other characters are mentioned I feel as if someone is talking about my friends. 💙

#currentlyreading
#letstalkaboutMary
#classicaltwist

I feel bad for bailing. I was so impressed by the first page that I thought I would love the whole book but after a hundred pages or so it just kept spiralling around the same dialogues. In its defence I had just finished The Switch, which I loved, and I was not in the mood for another romance. Won‘t be going back to it later either. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The perks of being driven. 😎
#currentlyreading

I really liked The Sandcastle and I want to finish all of Murdoch‘s books in the Penguin Vintage Classics series. The covers are gorgeous!

These funny alternate book titles crack me up! So good 🤣🤣 I wish I could post all of them here.

Off to the ‘beach‘ with my current read! 🌊🏖🌊

#armchairbeachbum #beachonmymind #blameitonlitsy

I didn‘t read too many books this year(veryyy few) but these are the ones I‘d recommend.
🥀The Switch- light, palate cleanser, romantic without all the fluff, adorable characters.
🥀Cutting for Stone-chunkster, set in Ethiopia, if medical and family saga is your thing, great for a book club discussion.
🥀Keeper n Me- audiobook rec
🥀Americanah- I was late to the party but if there‘s still someone who hasn‘t read it, I‘d highly recommend this one.

The multiple titles and covers are confusing but the reviews are promising. I love the cover with the letter H. 💙
#fridaynightplans #currentlyreading

A grandmother and granddaughter switching homes...I‘m getting The Holiday-like vibes here. Good thing because I love that movie. Unexpected snowy day but the redbud looks so pretty. 💕 #currentlyreading

I love a good limerick. 😁

My morning started early with this book set in #Ethiopia. I love the pace of the story and I can find myself settling into it. 💚
#currentlyreading

March was for two books. Keeper n Me by Richard Wagamese and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Both books were a revelation but have left me drained. I need to indulge in a Regency romance and Georgette Heyer is my go-to author. #currentlyreading #palatecleanser

February was a stressful month and I couldn‘t even finish one book.
On the other hand, I cannot stop listening to my current read. It‘s funny and sad and makes me long for something. I don‘t know... good books tend to make me feel that way. Thank you @Lindy for recommending this book.

#currentlyreading #Canada

I‘d consider it an achievement if I can manage to read 10 pages these days. I couldn‘t resist picking this book set in #Syria. Such a beautiful cover too! I love the Arabic text shadowing the title. 💙

#currentlyreading #bluecover

I‘m in the opposite state of a slump but that is usually the case in January (as is with resolutions) and I think what has helped me this time is giving in to my moods rather than following a structured reading like I did last year.

After watching a sad but brilliant movie, and finishing a heavy read this weekend, I need something lighter. Hoping this does the trick! 📚
#currentlyreading #blameitonlitsy

📽 All the Ways Home by Elsie Chapman. The Dry by Jane Harper
📽 Breakfast at Tiffany‘s, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Martian
📽 The Shining by Stephen King because of Friends. (I remember telling my friend I understood why Joey put it in the freezer) 😆

#weekendreads

The Dry was the first book I stacked on my TBR list on Litsy. Now after three years, I have finally started reading it.

Reminded me of your latest post about getting to a book in about four years! 😁 @Tanisha_A

#currentlyreading #Australia #thriller

I‘m armchair travelling in the NYPL, and it‘s letting me visualise ‘the painted ceiling of a cloudy sky..., the Edward Laning murals depicting the history of the written word..., the view of the balcony from the foyer..., and the stacks.‘
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Historical fiction, mystery of missing books, set in and around a library, two timelines... I‘m really enjoying this book. #currentlyreading #armchairtravel #historicalfiction #NY

Image from Google.

As much as I love QE and all of the guys on in, I feel you can give this one a skip.
I felt the whole book could have been summed up as a newspaper article.

This Saturday calls for a short book and a quick breakfast because I have a busy day ahead. #booksbeforechores

The first page brings back fond memories of The Indian Coffee House... waiters with the elaborate red cummerbund and all.

#currentlyreading #fiction #India

❄️The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. A close friend designed the hardcover and gifted it to me when she found out that I had lost my copy.

❄️The tagged book was my last read of 2020. I was daunted by the size and had expected it to be too YA. Instead it was fast-paced, and a great palate cleanser.

❄️I bailed on Crazy Rich Asians. I was left with less than a 100 pages but I couldn‘t go on. 😑

#wondrouswednesday

My first read of the year. 🐉
How gorgeous is the cover! 💚

Happy New Year to my Litsy family!! 🎊

#china #currentreading #greencover #historicalfiction #covercrush

My last read of the year. I chose this whopping chunkster for my year-end readathon. Let‘s see if I can finish this before December 31st. 🤞🏽 🐉

#currentlyreading. #chunkster

I have completed my 2020 resolution of reading one classic per month. Even though my choice of classics were limited, I did discover new writers I want to read more works of.
I kept the classics under 400 pages so that I could manage it easily. Only the August choice was a reread.
Least liked classic: Breakfast at Tiffany‘s.
Most liked: Such a difficult choice but based on my mood right now, I‘d go with O Pioneers.

#classicschallenge2020 🎊💃🏻

“Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.”

My first Baldwin.

#firstlinefridays #classicschallenge2020 #currentread

This is what I look forward to after a long day of work.

A #blameitonlitsy read. 🤍❤️🤍
#currentlyreading

I love most of the photographs in this collection. Photographs by Steve McCurry. 💙

“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.” ~EVA
💜
#currentlyreading #classicschallenge2020

Grateful for sunny days. ☀️🥰☀️

#currentlyreading

It‘s Maisy over Catherine these days!
This book was recommended by the librarian based on an online ‘Find Me A Book‘ feature. My toddler loves the pictures, he can identify the animals, and recognise some of the words. Ideal for 2 years and up. 👩‍👦📚 #YoungReadersDay #ThankfulThoughts

My husband had been coveting this book so I bought this for him on his birthday. Also made these tikkas to remind him of Delhi. 🤎💚

Who ya gonna call? 🚫
Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃
I‘m being haunted by the ghost of the reading slump. 👻 I hope it passes soon.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ~Albert Camus
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