This is why I love book clubs! I‘m not a big sci-fi reader and would probably never pick this book up on my own, but it has glowing reviews and I‘m looking forward to diving into this story and discussing it in a few weeks!

So-so for me. A basic love triangle story with a predictable ending.

My morning consists of chauffeuring a kid around and waiting, waiting, waiting. Fortunately, it‘s absolutely beautiful outside! I‘m planning on getting some reading in and maybe a walk around the asylum campus for the next 2 hours.

I read this 2 years ago and just finished the audiobook for book club. I find this story an intriguing piece of US History and I‘m glad to have the story told to me. I‘m looking forward to the movie, Matthew McConaughey is my favorite!

Went to the movies with hubby to see Tolkien this afternoon. It basically covers his life from age 12 when his mom dies, his time at King Edwards School, Oxford & WWI, summing up his marriage and the beginnings of Lord of the Rings. We both enjoyed the story and I liked how they flashed thoughts and pieces of LOTR ideas as they came to him throughout his life.

Best book I‘ve read in a looooooong time! Beautifully written, heart wrenching at times with waves of emotions. I‘m a bit of a mess right now.

Kid has callbacks for a show she‘s auditioning for. I‘m opting for some quiet reading time in the car with the sound of rain falling all around. Happy Sunday Littens!

I didn‘t know much about this book going into it other than the rave reviews I keep reading. I haven‘t stayed up late, on the edge of my seat, excited to read the end of a book in a long time! There were a lot of characters that I often had to stop and think about there story before continuing which may bother some readers. I loved how the book had an open ending. So, so good!

Powwow time! I have a feeling the ending to this book is going to be jaw dropping for some reason. Something big is going to happen and I‘m at the edge of my seat!

My library‘s April Reading Challenge is to read a children‘s book. I chose Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver‘s book Everybody is Somebody. This is book #12 in the Here‘s Hank series. I love the fact that Hank is dyslexic and even though he has a hard time with his reading and schoolwork, the books focus‘s on something positive that Hank is good at. I also love that they use the Dyslexie font, a font that helps readers with Dyslexia.

I listened to this one since Time was of the Essence, ie:bookclub! Although I didn‘t think the story was all that unique, the writing was amazing, I loved the speed and way the story was untold and I felt I had an intimate relationship with Roy, Celestrial and Andre. I can‘t wait to discuss this next week!

@vumblereads Here‘s a picture of our LFL that my daughter built for her Girl Scout Silver Award a couple years ago. It is at the beginning of a bike/jogging trail in town. We need to make a new door for it this spring/summer but we‘ve had a lot of fun with it!

I have a Goodwill at the end of my street. The last Saturday of the month is 50%. This is my book haul for $7.69! The 4 books on the right are books for me or my daughter to read first. The rest will go in our Little Free Library. I was super excited to find two of The Great Brain books. I loved these books as a kid ❤️

Congrats to Angie Thomas! Writing a book after THUG is no easy task. Though On the Come Up isn‘t a book that brings the HUGE controversial topics THUG did, I loved Bri and the hurdles she goes through to find herself. I enjoyed this just as much as her first book.

Over half way through this audio book and I finished painting my son‘s room while he hiked the Appalachian trail for a few days. Now I‘m relaxing and finishing On the Come Up!

Whodunnit murder mysteries aren‘t usually my thing. They get tied up in too neat of a bow at the end (the point of it, I know) but I did enjoy this mystery within a mystery. Clever! I wasn‘t thrilled with the reasoning behind the Alan Conway‘s murder but otherwise, it was a lovely listen on audio.

Delightful little book of Tweets! Lin-Manuel Miranda chose his favorite good morning and good night tweets over the years and created a sweet, inspiring book of uplifting thoughts to start and end a day. ☀️🌙

This book, IMO, is perfect! I loved the quirky Eleanor Oliphant, Raymond and basically ALL of the characters. Eleanor‘s story came out well timed, little bits to keep you curious, wishing you were reading when you couldn‘t be. And the vocabulary was wonderful! Big, fun words from Miss O usually when she had an opinion of something or someone! It‘s going to be a book hangover kinda day for me today.

I got 5 hours of audiobook listening in while I dug out the corner of the yard for my fire pit this morning! Now I‘m going sit back, relax and enjoy the weather! I ❤️ my matching table and forsythia!

Our One Maryland One Book choice this year. It‘s written by a pediatrician in Flint MI about the children and contaminated drinking water.

*70‘s, maybe give the hippie lifestyle a try
*hardback books although I‘m really enjoying my Paperwhite Kindle
*older (44)
*nope
*All are welcome 😀
#friyayintro @howjessreads

Hanging with Eleanor O. and a vodka tonic tonight. I just discovered vodka tonics, it‘s my new drink drink this year!

I had high hopes for this. It‘s our current book club pick and it took me a full 3 weeks to read! I‘m probably in the minority here, but I had little interest in the characters for the first 3/4 of the book. I loved the overall story but felt I didn‘t really get to know the characters until the end and I was forcing myself to pick the book up to read. I do want to visit Caroline‘s house in Bethlehem, CT the next time I‘m visiting my parents.

Another delightful audiobook by Jojo Moyes. I think this series is good but not over the top awesome. I do however LOVE Louisa Clark and all her quirkiness! I also really enjoy the narrator, Anna Acton, she‘s perfect!

I hope the 2nd half of Lilac Girls picks up because I‘m not super into it and I‘ve been chugging away at it for over 2 weeks now! I‘m determined to finish because it‘s a book club book. Fortunately, I have a snuggle bug this evening! #dogsoflitsy

Wishing Littens a wonderful first day of spring! I can‘t wait for outdoor reading weather!

Company‘s gone. Kids have disappeared. Hubs and dog are snoring. Yay for quiet reading time! I sooooo need some time with my book.

Out of town guests this weekend means I‘m cleaning today. But first, I‘m going to enjoy my coffee, book and warm-ish weather.

The perks for living a mile from work, lunch on a beautiful afternoon with my puppers! I‘m getting Spring Fever!!!

This week is Tech Week for the high school musical, West Side Story! My daughter is at school at 7:30am and picked up at 9pm. She was hesitant to ask me about getting her the audio book for The Grapes if Wrath since she‘s falling behind. I hooked her up! Downloaded Libby, showed her how to speed it up and set the timer so she can listen at bedtime. I was shocked to see it‘s 21 hours long, wow! I should probably read it in the near future.

I didn‘t love this one but I enjoyed it and learned a few things along the way. I didn‘t know much about The Golden State Killer other than he was recently caught. I didn‘t know anything about Michelle McNamara but found her intriguing. I also learned that not only can you speed up a book on Libby, you can also, accidentally, slow it down below regular speed 🙄

I had such a productive weekend! To top it off, I finished this gem of a book. It was very “Dexter” like and I really enjoyed the shortness of it. The book itself was short and the chapters were choppy and short, different then most styles of writing. I‘m hoping to make it to a library book club that will be discussing it next month.

I must be in a dark mood because both my current reads are about a serial killer, one fiction and one non-fiction, and then I went to see a local performance of Sweeney Todd last night 😆

I am soooo glad I was able to finish this book before heading to work today! I‘m looking forward to the 2nd book in this series, coming this year! This world was so creative and the characters were fantastic.

I‘m glad I put a hold on this last night because I totally forgot about it. I checked my email just before leaving work to discover an awesome page had it on the hold shelf waiting for me! I flipped through it a tad but can‘t wait to really dig in!

Congratulations @TheSpineView !!!! Excellent Litsy milestone! #50LoveLitsy

Pleasantly surprised to see this was available on e-audio through the library and super excited to start it!

This was an intense account of what happened in Benghazi on 9/11/12. The book is read by the author. It‘s not about the politics of the event but about what actually happened during the attack and the Americans who were involved. I‘m planning to watch the movie this weekend 😬

My February reads. 3 audio, 3 physical books. 4 Fiction, 2 nonfiction and all from the library.

1. My house today, after a snow dusting
2. I love it! Super convenient to so much!
3. The Day the World Came to Town
4. Mornings and evenings
5. Egg roll in a bowl
#friyay @howjessreads

*5 times a week...I work there 🤣
*10
*ebooks, eaudio books, print books, DVD. Fiction, nonfiction and a juvenile book.
*no overdues but I have a $0.30 fine
*12, 2 of them are ready for pick-up. @monalyisha
*Tagged book

Drizzly Blah Saturday so I decided to explore The Book Thing in Baltimore. It‘s basically a giant, walk in, Little Free Library full of books and volunteers. Take what you want, donate what you want, everything is FREE! I got 3 books for me and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books for our LFL.

So good! This is the 2nd book in The Ember in the Night series. It started with a bang and ended with hope. I can‘t wait for book 3 to see what Laia accomplishes. I read this on my Kindle but I have hard copies as well. I‘m giving the series to my 14 yo nephew this summer b/c there are few readers in my family and he‘s one of them.

Happy National Love Your Pet Day! I‘m not getting as much reading done as I hoped because my boy, Angus, is excited his people are home today. I should wake the kids up, it‘s their turn to play! #loveyourpetday #dogsoflitsy

Today‘s snow day involves lots of reading and experimenting with my new Air Fryer! The potatoes with onion and bacon and the broccolini turned out fantastic for breakfast 🍳

Yay! Schools and libraries are closed tomorrow! I‘m so excited for a much needed snow day! I‘m hoping to finish my book 😀

I needed an audiobook ASAP and chose this one since my theatrical daughter has been playing music from the show Come From Away.
This book is fantastic! It‘s the story of what happened after 38 planes are forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland after 9/11. This book just made my heart so happy to read about so many people coming together in the midst of a major crisis. I rarely reread books but this one...I may have to purchase and own. ❤️❤️❤️

I had high hopes for this one. I loved Albertalli‘s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and I loved Silvera‘s They Both Die at the End but this was just a meh for me. It had some positive concepts for teens but the story didn‘t feel original and the characters were flat or maybe just annoying.

Now that I have mastered the Instant Pot and presented 2 Instant Pot 101 programs at my library, I‘m moving on to the Air Fryer. My Valentine‘s Day gift to myself. Now to see which cookbook I want to purchase and own.

Audiobook project this evening. Now it‘s very obvious these are MY earbuds.
Also, I finished this book. I had read it a couple years ago but just listened to it for next month‘s book club. I don‘t love or hate this book. It‘s just there for me.