#TemptingTitles
#WithaColor
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

That was fun. 🤗

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spend

I am beyond angry at my state's (Arizona) education department for the following:
“Arizona‘s top education official launched a hotline this week for state residents to report K-12 class curriculum and lessons that they deem “inappropriate,” the Arizona Department of Education said in a press release.

Championed by state Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne, the “Empower Hotline” ⬇️

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

“Jim Gallien had driven four miles out of Fairbanks when he spotted the hitchhiker standing in the snow beside the road, thumb raised high, shivering in the gray Alaska dawn.“ ~INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer

#readingbracket2023 #fiction

@iconchasjjlee

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BookofPoetry

Taking a different spin here: this is a narrative book of poetry about Billie Jo's life living in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma in the 1930s. The entire tale is told from BJ's POV, all in poetry. Haunting, lovely, and heartbreaking all at the same time. I included a little poem because I can't get enough of this book. In my top 5 of all time.

Wouldn't this make a great bucket list: to visit every one of these gorgeous libraries? Starting with this one in Austria. 🤩

If you want to see all 20, click below:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/culture-design/architecture-design/worlds-most-...

#poetrymatters

For our poet Maestro, @TheSpineView. 🥰

#weirdwords, late by a day
@CBee

I wish I was still teaching just so I could do a unit on Weird Words. Such fun! 🤗

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Publishedin2020

Read this one last year and loved it. 💜

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#speck

I finally decided to clean out our office (where all of our “teacher“ stuff has been since retirement), and I came across this. After reading THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING with my freshmen honors students years ago, a student made me a Merlin statue in her ceramics class. It's now my proudest object on my desk. Plus, I now actually have a desk to work on!❣️ #asweetteachingmemory

#MarchMagic
#neurodiverseprotagonist
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

An oldie, but still a favorite of mine.❣️

Thanks, @Eggs for the tag! 😊
1️⃣ A morning of doggy solitude: coffee, my NYT puzzle, and pups on the couch with me. #heaven
2️⃣ While subbing at my former high school, I asked a student to be quiet (she was loudly chatting with her friend while I was talking), I receive this reply: “Seriously, lady; what's your problem? It's Monday, I haven't seen her all weekend, so I'm chatting.“ Times have changed. 😳
3️⃣ introvert, softie, curious

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spear

Most of the Steinbeck books I had read to date had been tragic in some way. Not this one. While no intricate plot is detailed (except throwing Doc a party), I adored the vignettes of life in and on Cannery Row. As Steinbeck said, the stories here “crawl“ into and out of the pages. His language has a gift to bring you directly into the story. Doc, Mack, Lee, Dora ... I won't soon forget you.❣️
#AuthoraMonth
@Soubhiville

#MarchMagic
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#AuthorofColor

Just a highlighted few of many accolades for this momentous woman:
1988: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved
1993: Nobel Prize in Literature
2000: National Humanities Medal
2011: Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction
2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom
2016: PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
2023: Featured on a USPS Forever stamp

#Two4Tuesday
Thanks for the tags, @Eggs and @TheSpineView! 🤗

1️⃣. Possibility. 😊
2️⃣. I would have my permanents: my Sherlock volumes and my Peanuts Comics volumes. Then, I'd have a rotating library from my TBR list/shelves. Once those books were read, I'd go into port, give those books away, and bring up another batch. 🥰

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spatter

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#FavoriteBannedBook

As a high schooler and as a teacher, this is a favorite. I always read Ch. 25 out loud to my students--even the “fuck yous“ because to not do so would be censoring the book--something I would never do. That was fine for ALL the years I taught. Not one parent complaint. Until 2020. In the 21st century. I am terrified a Handmaid's-Tale world is not far away.

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sparkle

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

It just didn't work well for me with exact titles; my mood is too mercurial. 🤣

Let's try this for April! 😊

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#SetinHighSchool

Ah, yes, the 1950s ... such a wonderful time to be a woman: staying at home, keeping house, caring for the children. And what's a high school girl's dream? To find a man, of course! So that she can be just like her mother hanging chintz curtains in the kitchen window. I still love them, though, and I love the history that comes from them. Even if the history is a wee bit complicated. 😊

For me, when I am so engrossed in a book and I look up because the natural light in the room has gone from day to dusk, that is the power of a book. Nothing else can hold me so enraptured that I don't even notice the day turning into night.

@Ozma.Of.Oz

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spaniel

A hard one for me today. I lost my cocker spaniel, Caramel, back in 2006, but today has me thinking about her with this poem (though she would never have killed a rabbit!). She lived to be almost 17, and I included a photo of her with the poem, the last photo I took of her. She was a big-time granny then, and I know how lucky I was to have her that long. I still miss her. 😢❣️🥰

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#LGBTQasMC

I hope this counts. 🥰

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#span

#MarchMagic
#KickAssFemale
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Going with a recent one: Elizabeth Zott from LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY.❣️

#20in4 #Readathon

My overall goals:
1️⃣ Finish CANNERY ROW. (#AuthoraMonth)
2️⃣ Get to 25-30% in WAR AND PEACE (the never-ending #chunkster).

That should take around 20 hours, I think. If not, then next on my list is INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES.

Thanks for hosting, @Andrew65. 🤗

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#spade

#MarchMagic
#FavoriteClassic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Surprised? 🤣

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#space

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#EnemiestoLovers

I still have my threadbare copy from the 70s. What I found out from good ol' Wikipedia: “Known as the first modern 'bodice ripper' romance novel, the book revolutionized the historical romance genre. It was also the first full-length romance novel to be published first in paperback rather than hardback.“

Who knew? I'll have to go back and read the good parts (y'all know what I mean). 🤣

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#source

#weirdwords
@CBee

Sometimes using a longer phrase works; sometimes not. 🤣

Thanks for the tags, @IndoorDame, @TheSpineView, and @Eggs. Of course I'll play! 🤩

1. Scarlett O'Hara because she just doesn't give a damn! Or is that Rhett? 🤔 🤣
2. Jane Eyre for her ability to survive: “Reader, I married him!“
3. Belle da Costa Greene: same reason as #2 (without the quote).

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Hard to believe, but this book came out in 12 short stories in the Strand Magazine between 1921-1927; it's the final 12 cases of the SH's canon. The book form came out in 1927. Not as good as the earlier stories (IMHO), but more than ample for SH fanatics who craved more ACD SH stories. 😊

Thanks for the tags, @TheSpineView, @Read4Life, and @Lynnsoprano!

1️⃣ Our favorite restaurant in Phoenix is Christopher's, where old-style Italian food is prepared. They just happen to be conveniently located in the same shopping area where we get our hair cut, so we have to visit at least every 6-8 weeks! 😄
2️⃣ Most definitely. I would have NEVER even tried fried green tomatoes if I hadn't read FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE! 🤣

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sour

#20ThingsAboutMe

My favorite thing to do all day has been to read these. Thanks, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for the idea a few years back and for revisiting the idea so us newbies could also join (her creativity knows no bounds! ❣️) ...

and to #wordslinger42 for the tag. ❣️

Please, if anyone can spare the time, inquiring minds want to know! 🤣❣️😊

A little bit behind. 😊
18. Between Sagan and Tyson; how about both?
19. My cheat-sheet book to the classics. What to read, what to skip, even the sexiest scenes. Who could resist? 🤣
20. Always and forever Poe.

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sound
#deadpoetssociety

Since joining Litsy, I've tried reading more contemporary novels, this being one of them. While enjoyable (almost thoroughly so), I felt a little preached to by Elizabeth, though she was teaching the ladies in the 60s, not this jaded and worn-out 57-year old. I did laugh out loud at parts, found it jarringly sad in parts, and discovered Six-Thirty to be my favorite character (a dog, of course). All in all, a fun-kick-ass-woman read with 💜 and 💪.

My first chapter book that I read all by myself was PIPPI LONGSTOCKING. I adored her books. 😊 #thanksforthehappyfeels ... @Ozma.of.Oz

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sorrow

Lord Byron added an additional stanza that he never published. Wonder why?
🤔🤣😉 Here's the (not-published) last stanza:

Then—fare thee well—Fanny—
Now doubly undone—
To prove false unto many—
As faithless to One—
Thou art past all recalling
Even would I recall—
For the woman once falling
Forever must fall.
[The poem was about Byron's failed affair with Lady Frances Webster.)

#FunFacts #Arizona
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@LitsyLove
√There are
-22 national parks and monuments in Arizona
-more than 100 wineries and 22 varietals of wine produced in Arizona
-75+ licensed craft breweries (and growing)
√Arizona chefs and restaurants have received more than 50 James Beard nominations since 2010.
√Arizona's Sonoran Desert is the only place on earth where the iconic saguaro cactus grows.⬇️

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sore

I know Litsy is about books, but the only social media I am on is Litsy (the BEST social media on the planet), and I want to share with you Littens that I have never scored 100% on one of these stupid quizzes before! I'm horrible at who-said- what tests! Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket? 🤔🤣😊

Plus, as a former teacher, I just love quizzes! #imweird #friendsfanatic #thanksforlettingmebrag 🤗

#MarchMagic
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#IrishAuthor

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#sorcerer

My favorite sorcerer.