Happy St. Patrick‘s Day ☘️
#CaresPieShow #KiwiFruitPie #BooksandPie #iLovePie #LitPie
Happy St. Patrick‘s Day ☘️
#CaresPieShow #KiwiFruitPie #BooksandPie #iLovePie #LitPie
Current audiobook, for book club. Amazing that Libby had a copy available- the eBook and print copies all have over 10 holds.
I am already questioning some of the premise even as the narrative attempts to explain/excuse it. And the hypocrisy of the “mother” is rage-inducing.
“… managed to escape… [ ], lived with a group of rebels loosely affiliated with the Home Army in the forests of Warsaw.”
I practically DNF‘d this WW2 novel that I didn‘t finish by book club discussion so now I know most of the pieces. But HOW ODD in coinky-dink land that my next random book, *Dear Fang, With Love*, references a grandma from Poland!
Always makes me go 🤔
Road Trip
On way to KCMO for St Patrick‘s Day party ☘️
Look what I picked up from the library! Via ILL ❤️
I have gotten away from posting my readings 😢 Let‘s get back to it.
Updated later: found it confusing, but I am glad to have read it. It was a MUCH quicker read than I expected!!!!
This is such a crazy idea! I love nonfiction- especially narrative nonfic; my most memorable entry to reading something “true” for FUN? Let me introduce you to Tracy Kidder. #TLT #ThreeListThursday #NonFiction
1. Tagged book. Inspired me to read all of Kidder‘s books (I haven‘t 🫤) but Mountains Beyond Mountains is another of his extremely inspirational reads.
2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - LISTEN 🎧 to this!!!!
3. See comments . . . 👇
Lots of pie references (a mention of Thanksgiving will usually always have a pie mention.)
“Later, Amanda would remember this as one of the moments when she fell a little out of love with him. Also when he ate the last piece of pumpkin pie for Sunday breakfast.”
#LitPie #BooksandPie
“ . . . as well-intentioned and charmless as a store-bought pie”
Happy March 2nd!
Happy Banana 🍌 Cream Pie 🥧 Day!!l
(THIS is home-made pie 🤣)
#PieinLit #LitPie #ILovePie #CaresPieShow
#Audiobaking #iLovePie #BananaCreamPie #WiaN category Natural Disaster
Wow - this is so good. Devastatingly sad, super-intriguing on the ghosts part!
Well, THIS has to be the shortest fastest ToB read I have ever experienced! I wish I would have known it would only take me one sitting; I would have devoured it at a bookshop and returned it to the shelf. LOL maybe not… #ToB24 #novella #LibraryBook [Book 15 of 2024] ⛰️🦁
Soft pick, entertaining in a way that fits my mood today.
Current essay collection for daily reading “dips”
#CopperBopper #whpg #Griff #DogsofLitsy #ReadICT
QUESTION??? Do you think JOY is a virtue? To satisfy a challenge category…
Starting because I want to read this and it is in the house.
#EstherBester #EstherFest #DogsofLitsy #whpg
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1️⃣ Fave Female Character: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Because: a letter received today from a friend thanked me for sending her a copy - I knew she would appreciate ❤️ OK is rough at the edges with a heart of gold.
2️⃣ Going with narrator of tagged-in-comments because he was an idealist
3️⃣ Ross Gay might have been my choice for Fave Male Character since his words have fed my 🧠 DELIGHTFUL
Current audiobook. Reading what I want to. I have ToB fatigue maybe. Not into it this year
Trying valiantly to get into this. I have been on page 16 for days and days. #sigh
I enjoyed the story; a bit overwrought. Book 9 of 2024
#DoubleSpin #BookClub #WW2 #FrenchResistance #library #HardCover #ReadICT category: Lost or Found
Painting “People”, currently on show at Wichita Art Museum #WAM (just a photo on my phone)
Call me impressed. Dazed, feeling melancholy. This is imaginative and creative without any sense of arrogance. Imho
#ToB24 #HardCover #Purchased Book 10 of 2024
“What the lovest well remains…the rest is dross… What thou lov‘st well shall not be reft from thee… What thou lov‘st well is thy true heritage…
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1. Yes 💌💕 #LetterMo
2. Sure
3. Today! Hub and I are off on a roadtrip right now. Checking out the lake near Ponca City OK and then hoping to discover a cool lunch spot, meandering back to Wichita before doggie daycare needs us to pickup E and C.
🥰🚗👌🌻🚤🎣🐶🐾💖
Something to shake up my reading!!! From the library bookstore to support the Friends-of-the-Library
#GraphicNovel #onMyTBRsince2017
Current audiobook, for a new book club that is starting with my Theta sorority alumnae group at the end of February.
#CaresPieShow #iLovePie #PeachBlueberryPie
Started this one yesterday #LitsyTob24 right? NOPE: #ToB24
Bleak. One bad decision and consequence after another. Too too long; I suffered through, though, to the bitter ambiguous WTH ending. Listened at 2x speed. People seem to think it brilliant literature but I want a refund. #ToB2024 Book 5 of the year.
#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo Feb2024
I adored Iona Iverson‘s Rules for Commuting and so I knew I wanted to read the author‘s book just prior. EXACTLY my favorite kind of book! This is another “found family”, great lovable characters, assumptions made, kindness needed, and a happy hopeful ending.
#ReadICT category Lost or Found
Just started my next library book and found pie on page 11! #ReadICT Category: Lost or Found (I think 🤔) #LitPie #BooksandPie #iLovePie
Esther is ecstatic to help me review this fast read for #BookClub #DogsofLitsy
Some sentences are more than clunky but it was a good read, characters to cheer for, lots of interesting history, and I am glad to have read it. Plus, I wanted to spend all my time reading — a feeling (?) which I have been missing these last few weeks. (My first book by this author.)
#WiaN2024 Category: Shape #HistoricalFic
Am giving this a pick but it stressed me out; one reason is that it made me sad, I appreciated the humor and knew I should and would usually love this kind of humor but my mood this month did NOT match what I am sure was a lovely read. All that to say, I am glad to close this & move on. The ending was kind of lovely. #LitsyToB24 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letters #ReadICT Category: a book I meant to read last year
Happy National Pie Day 🥧
#NatlPieDay #Jan23_2024 #CaresPieShow #AppleBlackberryPie
Put me in the camp of being FOR this book; style, drama, footnotes ❤️, characters, etc. Capturing the pics of books “recommended” at the conclusion of the ebook so I can reference for adding to my tbr. (And always curious, WHY THESE?) I am having such conflicted motivation to read right now, not really a slump, but, the “is it me?” Question on why I can‘t seem to get into Wellness, for example? And The Bee Sting? 😩
#ToB2024
Thank you to @bthegood for tagging me; I have been trying all day to think of a book I read that had a car!
1. Yes, I drive a manual transmission Jeep Wrangler.
2. Going through my recent reads, THIS book starts off with a mother and daughter hitting the road…. I love the cover and the story is good, too.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
I am freakin‘ delighted with the mind of Ross Gay and very delighted by how many books he has released to the wild.
In essay #21 “(Foot- End- Etc.) Notes”: “I love few things as much as I love a weird book.” So I tbr‘d Katherine McKittrick‘s DEAR SCIENCE AND OTHER STORIES. He also references Diaz‘ Oscar Wao, “where the author pokes his head through the curtains of the novel” 😃 I thought that novel a wonder. DELIGHTS!
“Whoopie pies with marshmallow fluff.” #LitPie
#LitsyToB24 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letter #ReadICT Category: Book I wanted to read last year
The book was too long and I got bored. I was happily following along until about a third in, and I wasn‘t sensing any critical arc coming anytime soon, so I skimmed through to read the last few chapters or so. 💄🌹🥀😆 Red frame to Copper‘s frank expression.
#LitsyToB24 #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #WHPG
I can‘t wait to read this! The movie 🎥 is SO good.
#ReadICT
I need a favor. I need someone to comment here with the following words: “don‘t read this!”
Please and thank you. (I have a reading challenge that has a category to read a book that someone tells you not to. Banned books count but I can‘t find that Florida is on any such list.)
Help me out?!
Pic is Aggieville, Manhappiness, Kansas #ReadICT Category: someone told me not to read
Cake is fine, but I believe pie is happiness, connection, and love. So this year, I will strive to include all the pies I encounter, in real life and in literature 🔥
First Pie January 1, 2024: Sugar Cream Pie aka Hoosier Pie. It is very good.
Wishing you all much pie, fabulous pie connections, and world peace ☮️
Day 1 New Year
Rouge and Wellness for #LitsyToB24
The Bee 🐝 Sting for #ToB2024
The Book of (More) Delights for me 😊
Litfluence 37k, Happy New Year! Happy Reading 📚
First Book, #FirstBook2024 #WiaN2024 Category: Double Letters #ReadICT Category: TBR2023
Always a fun ride with McBride doing the storytelling. I had a bit of length- and character-quantity fatigue, though. Still!! Always willing to go where this author leads - I was just in a hurry to finish and my hurry-it-up experience suffered under my own hubris.
#ToB2024 #PieinLit #LitPie #Audiobook
I found it mesmerizing, fiercely hopeful. Toni M influenced this and Ward gave her character agency. Powerful.
Happy New Year Everyone!! Be safe 🥰
Question for all of you amazing Littens, especially the big point winners: how can I get my Litfluence number to 37,000 before tomorrow? Is it possible?! Anything special I can do today and still finish all three of these books by midnight? 🤣🤪 TIA 🥂
“Her voice lingers in the air: the crust of pie around the edges of the pan, the pan that we scrape to savor in the hot corners of the kitchen, the buttery crumb rich in mouths, but only enough to hint at the cinnamon, the nutmeg, the sugar… p1887-188
#iLovePie #pieinlit #litpie
On a road trip, posting this to get it on my Litsy banner of current reads, but I will now go read hardcover of Ward‘s Let Us Descend, which is due tomorrow, which means that it will be returned late to the library, and so I offer an apology to the next person in line and yes, I should be ashamed of myself.
#tob2024
Just delightful! And now starting volume 2, tho maybe Inciting Joy was in between? Anyway, I will read that third.
Prof Ross Gay has such wonderful joie de vivre and his writing puts me in a good mood. I keep writing letters to him in my head - maybe one day, I will put pen to paper. 📝📬
Pic selection random from Gallery; Eggnog Pie with Fig #CaresPieShow
Finished this a few days ago and the experience reminds me why ebooks are NOT for favorite. I got all settled in and snuggled to enjoy and WHAT?!?!!! It ended. I had no idea I was on the second to last page 🤣🤷🏻♀️😳🤦🏻♀️
Book ends abruptly. I was not expecting it.
And I was finally getting into it and liking all the characters!! Oh well. If I had read the physical book, I think I would have liked it even more. Maybe.
Pic: Homemade eggnog