Book mail from myself!! These are the books I bought at Powell‘s in Oregon on vacation and mailed to myself so I didn‘t have to take them on the plane. I showed remarkable restraint, I might add—this is not a big box! 😁
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Book mail from myself!! These are the books I bought at Powell‘s in Oregon on vacation and mailed to myself so I didn‘t have to take them on the plane. I showed remarkable restraint, I might add—this is not a big box! 😁
More of Powell‘s Books, the happiest place on Earth (I don‘t care what that giant mouse says)! I didn‘t have a huge book haul (picture to be posted later). I have SO MANY books at home that I haven‘t read!!! And the truth is that my physical space is getting scarce. These days, a place on my tbr list dies not guarantee a place on my shelves! It‘s a sad state of affairs. I miss the days of indiscriminate book-grabbing! 😢
1. Ugh! How to pick just one?? Okay, the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It‘s been highly recommended by some trusted friends, so I think it should prove to be an excellent read.
2. No, because my summer has been very hectic so far.
3. I don‘t do fitness at all, which is the problem! 😒
4. Our fur baby and Lord of All He Surveys (which is mainly us and the birds that land in the backyard), Oliver Kingsley!
#humpdaypost
Sorry this is so late!
📚A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
🎬 Little Miss Sunshine 😂😂😂
🎼 Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves
#manicmonday #emojimadness
1. Ignatius J. Reilly.
2. This is a love/hate relationship. ❤️😡
3. While his self-centeredness can be astounding in its obliviousness to reality, he is a fascinating, larger-than-life character. He whines a lot, but much can be forgiven a person with his vocabulary. I‘m just sayin‘!
4. I think I‘m doing this really late, so whoever hasn‘t participated yet, consider yourself tagged!
I finally figured out how to get text on the picture! I‘m slow, but I eventually get there! 😜 #alphabetbookishquiz
Spending Saturday learning to be a librarian at the University of North Texas in Denton! #librariansoflitsy
1. School‘s out for the summer!! And I saw Penny Kittle this week! ❤️
2. Gone With the Wind, The Far Pavilions, Shogun, Lonesome Dove
3. Houston Astros?
4. I live in high school, so the tagged book and Animal Farm
#humpdaypost
Met and attended an all-day training with the amazing Penny Kittle yesterday. It was SO inspiring and revolutionary to the way we traditionally do things. Her personal anecdotes of various students moved me to tears. Needless to say, I have LOTS of YA reading to do this summer! ❤️❤️ #teachersoflitsy
Scooped a first edition of the first edition at the library book sale!! (Carrie was King‘s first book—get it? 😜)
My book haul from last week—pretty sweet, right? Thank God for library book sales!! ❤️❤️📚
This is way late, but whatever! 😁
1. Sleeping late and more reading time!!
2. Not really excited, but The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid‘s Tale, is coming out. The one I‘m excited about and that I believe was originally scheduled for summer is the 3rd Scythe Book, but it‘s been pushed to November 😢.
3. Fresh fruit
4. 109 F. We also have the distinction of an average of 74 days per year—EVERY year—at 90 or above! 😭😓🌞🔥
#thursdaysurvey
1. Holy Ghost by John Sandford
2. “Wardell Holland, the mayor of Wheatfield, Minnesota, was sitting in the double-wide he rented from his mother, a Daisy Match Grade pellet rifle in his hands, shooting flies.”
3. If you don‘t like to read, you haven‘t found the right book—J. K. Rowling. I use this one with my students all the time!
#weekendreads
1. A first edition of Carrie at the library book sale and a tweet from a group of my students here at the end of the year have made me happy. I‘m going to miss those kiddos! 😢
2. Reading, baby!! No papers to grade!! Can I get an amen? 😁
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It‘s Saturday and I don‘t have any papers to grade!!! *falls to knees and sobs in sheer joy*. I know my fellow #teachersoflitsy can relate! I HAVE TIME TO READ AGAIN!! 👏👏👏
As a teacher, you have SO MANY days that make you wonder why you chose this profession in the first place. Dealing with the unreasonable expectations of admin, disrespectful and/or apathetic students, demanding parents, and the crushing loads of grading and planning wear your spirit down. Then a kid tells you that you‘re her favorite teacher and invites you to her softball game as her special guest—and you remember why you do it.
#teachersoflitsy
I‘m super late with this, but I couldn‘t pass it up!
1. Teleportation all the way, baby! I can‘t even think of a downside to being able to snap your fingers and be anywhere in the world instantly. London, Paris, Rome, all of the most beautiful places in the world—yours to experience at a moment‘s notice. ❤️❤️!!
2. Magicians or vampires
3. Gus from Lonesome Dove, Judd from Pet Sematary, or Duane from Summer of Night 💔
#whatwouldyoudo
The newest resident of our school library. Meet Bentley!! The kids are over the moon about him! ❤️
#teachersoflitsy #librariansoflitsy
pickAnother win for Jonathan Maberry! I really like Joe Ledger. This is a great blend of action, sarcasm, and plausible sci-fi. Highly recommended!!
panI see that I‘m in the minority, but I didn‘t care for it. I found the behavior of the characters to be preposterous. A couple of them (especially one!) become so obsessed with the mother of the kidnapped baby that it crosses over into disturbing. The ending felt very contrived (to me, anyway). Glad if you liked it, though! 😁
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Essex Serpent
2. I just finished Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
3. The Gormenghast Novels
#weekendreads
Fell asleep early last night, so here‘s my late entry!
1. Jonny Quest, Bewitched
2. Going to Europe!!!
3. They call to me from the shelf and the one with the loudest voice gets picked! 😁
4. The Road, A Confederacy of Dunces
5. Name a book that ravished you, that made you feel completely submerged in the world the author created.
#friyayintro
Hey, Team Raven! I was just wondering—since our book read circle is complete, are y‘all up for another round, or is that it? And @LiteraryLona , I have your book all ready to ship back but haven‘t made it to the post office yet. It‘ll be in the mail this week! Sorry for the delay.
#hgpbc #teamraven
so-soMeh. Liked it until the end and found the ending just too unrealistic and unbelievable. I felt cheated, left with unfulfilled expectations!!
pickPretty satisfying end to the trilogy, but a little bloated in parts. Fanning‘s story needed to be told, but not sure if we needed his WHOLE life story. Also, not sure that not getting the girl you love (when you did have a chance and didn‘t go for it) is reason enough for wiping out the entire human race. I‘m just sayin‘! 😜 Glad Amy got to share her story so it would be remembered, but again—way too much info about those characters at the end.
1. It‘s a toss-up between the 80s (when I was a teenager) and the Roaring Twenties (like from the movie Midnight in Paris❤️)
2. Physical —love an actual book!
3. Yes 😢
4. Unfortunately, yes
5. Will do! Have a great weekend, everyone! 😁
#friyayintro
I‘m super late for this, but whatever!
1. Aquarius
2. I made a 95 on my annotated bibliography for grad school?
3. I haven‘t dnf‘d one in years (I‘m a completionist), but I wanted to dnf the audiobook I just finished—The Perfect Mother. Apparently I‘m in the minority on this one, but I REALLY didn‘t like it.
4. My Saturday plans were to spend the day at Teen Book Con, listening to famous authors speak, which I did.
5. Will do!
#friyayintro
Listening to Laurie Halse Anderson, Angie Thomas, and Veronica Roth (among others) read from their books and field questions about writing at Teen Book Con in League City, TX. What a great event!!
1. I recommend this, but it takes a special breed to appreciate it!
2. What‘s the point? Just gonna mess it up when I need to get back in!
3. It‘s cloudy today, so only 74, but tomorrow will be 80. Soon after that, 90s here we come! Spring doesn‘t hang around long down here in SE TX! 😒
4. Macaroni and cheese mixed with mashed potatoes?
5. Since it‘s Saturday now, consider this a tag for everyone who is late like me!
#friyayintro
1. Reading and spending time on Litsy and Goodreads. Between work and grad school, no time for anything else!
2. Horror, fantasy, classics.
3. Oliver, our Papillon dog
4. Yes, Litsy list is accurate and unowned
5. Funko pop figures, literary dolls and action figures, literary toys and knick-knacks, book-based games, bookmarks, jigsaw puzzles
6. Just that I love Litsy and don‘t get to spend nearly enough time here!
#litsylove
I‘m going to Teen Book Con here in Houston! My first librarian-in-training outing. There are going to be some great authors there. I‘m so excited!!
pickThis was a lot of fun! Plenty of horror to go around (plus the whole claustrophobic trapped in a cave thing), but my favorite thing is the main character, Dolan. He and his producer, Ken, are wonderfully snarky and sarcastic, so there is a lot of humor to leaven the episodes of terror. Highly recommended for fans of horror and snark!
pickThis is a well-written book based on a rather odd premise. It‘s like Groundhog Day for life. It starts with Ursula Todd‘s birth on a snowy night in 1910. The doctor fails to arrive in time and the baby is stillborn, the cord wrapped around her neck. The next thing we know, the story resets and starts over. The story continues like this, resetting each time she dies. I never understood why. Why her? Is it magic? No answers, but a good story anyway.
pickThis was pretty good. Lots of scary action. The main character, Ollie, gets annoying with his constant denial of what‘s happening and determined announcements that “everything is fine” when everything is clearly not! His excuses become such a reach that it‘s ridiculous. Also, the constant references to his two website customers is confusing, since they ultimately have nothing to do with what‘s going on. Spooky, though!
pickI doubted Neil Gaiman on this one and shouldn‘t have! It starts off like one of those wistful, nostalgic trips down memory lane to childhood, but the story quickly grew teeth. The narrator (a 6-7 year old boy) of course does EVERYTHING wrong—the exact opposite of what he‘s told to do, so everything that happens is pretty much his fault, but it‘s an interesting story. Never doubt Neil!!
so-soIt has an old-fashioned vibe to it (think Victoria Holt or Mary Stewart) but still pretty good. I immediately knew who the villain was, although not the how or why. The MC, a young woman, seems to make all the wrong choices, as they always do, but it is pretty entertaining.
pickThe end of the trilogy. I liked the story, but I‘ve read other reviews that say Uncle Stevie threw in the towel on crime drama on this one and returned to his roots, and I would have to agree. Everybody‘s favorite psycho, Brady Hartsfield, who seemed out for the count, is back with a vengeance, and with a few new tricks up his sleeve. Suddenly, he‘s acquired some interesting new powers that he plans to do all kinds of evil with. Recommended!
pickThis is a fictionalized account of a true story—the bitter rivalry between two paleontologists in the Wild West. What‘s even stranger is that apparently Michael Crichton actually toned down the feud in the book out of fear that the truth was too unbelievable! I really enjoyed it, and I‘m not a fan of westerns!
pickI really liked this book, especially the protagonist. He‘s pretty sassy! It‘s also yet another interesting and plausible version of the virus story. Highly recommended for zombie fans! I‘m excited to read the next in the series!
pickRead this with a group of Litsy ladies—definitely made it much more fun! Interesting from a historical and cultural perspective, and well-written. The meandering structure is different from most of our modern works—it doesn‘t seem to have any type of goal in mind and even keeps going after the title character dies. Still, it is one of the first recorded books ever written, about a thousand years ago, so worth reading!
pickCreepy haunted house story. Some major differences from the Netflix show (which I love!), but definitely still worth reading!
pickI strongly believe this is one of the greatest books about books ever written. The story is so on point with our society today, the concerns so spot on for what we see happening to people and their relationships with others. And the prose!! So beautiful! Highly recommended for all bibliophiles.
pickGreat story, although it‘s an awkward fit into this series. The story really has nothing to do with Det. Hodges and crew—they‘re just forced into it at the end. Still a great read, though!
Fellow teachers of Litsy, those of you who are mere hours or minutes away from the beginning of Spring Break—we can make it!! #teachersoflitsy #comeonspringbreak
I knew that Ukifune was in that nunnery—I KNEW it!! This is like a modern day soap opera! If they can‘t show you a body, they‘re not dead! 😁
I‘ve been away from Litsy for a week—one week!—and when I open it up, I‘m immediately hit with two great swaps that I missed signing up for! *sigh* It‘s for the best; I don‘t have time to participate, but it still hurts!! 😢
Okay, did anyone else have a problem with the older princess just abandoning her sister to a possible rapist? “She felt terrible for her sister, who was innocently sleeping away, and it broke her heart to imagine what would happen.” Are you kidding me?? As the older sister, shouldn‘t she take care of the younger? Wouldn‘t they both have been safer together? Surely Kaoru would have been hampered by the presence of the sister; ⬇️ #Genji #genji47
