#5JoysFriday

1) Working on my #SummerSwapCards. Decided to make cards so they may be a bit late.
2) Amanda brought Pippin new toys, the manta ray is his favorite. We have a blast playing.
3) Cards are arriving. So appreciate the joy they bring.
4) Prepared for #NoKingsProtest tomorrow, sign and shirt. The graphic is from #BadAssQuilter and used with permission. Be safe out there. 💙✊🏼💙
5) Caved and joined @AardvarkBookClub and got my 1st box

#Two4Tuesday

1) I‘m eagerly awaiting my copy of the tagged although I won‘t read it until its #CampLitsy25 week. I have also preordered the latest Louise Penny due in November. B&N often has 25% off preorders so you can get the book you want and tell your husband it was a great deal when it shows up 😂

2) Mostly auto buy authors although not many series lately

@TheSpineView

#TuesdayTunes

Not what I listen to day to day but a clip showed up on IG and I had to go find the whole song. I‘ll be thinking about this one of a long time. Listening to it hurts my heart, as it should.

https://youtu.be/Zg0-q8-Wy_o?si=0SzZEHUppts_uKDm

@TieDyeDude

#MentalHealthMonday

My heart is heavy today. Tears are riding at the surface, blood pressure is elevated, finding motivation is hard.

But I will not let them steal all my joy! They want me to give up, to say it‘s too much (and it is) but I WILL keep trying.

@Kerrbearlib

These lines are from the tagged book. I listened on my drive to attend a show with my daughter. A story about a young woman trying to live the life she wants not the life that is expected of her…and she has the privilege to do that.

As I drove I thought about that last line in depth. Do we not ALL deserve to live our right life? Without poverty, food insecurity, without racism, hate for who we love, how we dress, what we believe? ⬇️

#MondayMood

#5JoysFriday

1) Oregon Beavers won the first game of their super regional today.
2 & 3) Tried my hand at strawberry freezer jam and we got a great smallish freezer to put them in.
4) My dad is having some health issues but endoscopy and colonoscopy came back fine. No firm answer yet but having colon cancer ruled out brings much joy.
5) Pippin‘s joyful greeting when I got home from my dad‘s.

@DebinHawaii

#ReadYourKindle

Tagged is #NetGalley

And the other three #SeriesLove25

@CBee

#WeeklyForecast

Tagged was the best of the week. Loved it.

@Read4life

#ReadYourKindle

I think I‘ve been reluctant to acknowledge June so am behind on all the things.

@CBee

#5JoysFriday

1) Samantha and Darrin on the Flintstones on IG
2) Rose bushes are blooming
3) Pippin
4) Started a baby quilt using baby animals in teacup fabric
5) The Wallflowers in concert last night

@DebinHawaii

#WondrousWednesdat

1) Hazel I would have liked to be named after my grandmother
2) Favorite names: Huckleberry Finn (an Irish Setter), Roady short for Another Roadside Attraction (a calico kitty rescued from s ditch) and now Merry Pippin.
3) Stellaluna

Want to play? @AnnCrystal @BarbaraJean @BarkingMadRead

@Eggs

#TuesdayTunes

https://open.spotify.com/track/07Fw4Ms3XMoZJExcYOLnde?si=Wpju6vggQAiKwlJYxUKzNQ

New to me. So good.

@TieDyeDude

#Two4Tuesday

1) I think the tagged will be my favorite of the month.

2) Gabriële and #CampLitsy books

Tagging anyone and everyone ?

@TheSpineView

#JumpStartSummer #WrapUp

Having hubby home cuts into reading time. Finished my two buddy reads and progress was made on my audio and ebook but zero progress on my other 2 print books.

Thanks for hosting @TheSpineView

#MentalHealthMonday

1) I‘m ok today. Feel like last week‘s funk is dissipating. Had a good walk this morning, did some chores and got groceries. Ready to start the week.
2) Daily walks, lots of pug snuggles, lunch with a friend and hubby is home for the next ten days.

@Kerrbearlib

#BookspinBingo

@TheAromaofBooks

#WhereAreYouMonday

Mesopotamia 631 BC
London 1840
Turkey 2014

How else could I experience theses places in these times if it weren‘t for stories? How bereft my life would be without books. How thankful I am to be a reader!

@Cupcake12

#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Continuing my sanity project. Grateful for all the creative content creators that capture my thoughts and feelings so well.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ9ROMluOoa/?igsh=ZndndXV4MXh4ZGZv. Link to Bruce‘s reel which made me tear up.

Please join and tag me in posting your memes if you are so inclined.

#WeeklyFavorites

Juliet Tilney and Jonathan Darcy are each sent to London by their parents to expand their social connections and if they find a match so much the better as long as it‘s not each other. Of course murder happens and they are again called into help the investigation. I‘m really enjoying this series and glad to know there willl be at least 2 more.

Thank you #NetGalley!

@Read4life

First Finnish for #JumpStartSummer

What a delightful read. Loved the descriptions of Tiffany and the excitement of NYC as described by a Midwest college student. A summer to remember🩵

@TheSpineView @TheBookHippie #SundayBuddyRead

#5JoysFriday

1) Saw the rare Mountain Bluebird on the coast. No phone on me unfortunately.
2) Jumping between Gilmore Girls and Father Brown while I work through my funk
3) Loving my star dogwood and Japanese Willow
4) Enjoyed my time with my brothers while at my dad‘s
5) Grateful for the patient ear of a good friend

@DebinHawaii

#JumpStartSummer

These are the physical books I hope to finish along with The Road to Tender Hearts on audio and the first half of Lamentation on kindle.

Thanks for hosting! @TheSpineView

#Two4Tuesday

1) Irish Gaelic

2) I love translated literature and have no hope of reading any of it in its original language.

@TheSpineView

#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Late today because it‘s been a day. Hoping for a better night‘s sleep and no responsibilities tomorrow.

Join in and tag me if the mood strikes you.

#SundayFunday

Storygraph shows the tagged book At 1240 pages. Michener is king of the chunkster.

@BookmarkTavern

#14books14weeks

Here is my list of books to tackle from May 26 to September 1. A combination of #NetGalley ARCs, a couple #CampLitsy picks and a few I‘ve been wanting to pick up.

If you want to join make your list of 14 books and tag @Liz_M Thanks for hosting!

#WeeklyForecast

Enjoyed the tagged audio book about Morgan Le Fay.

@Read4life

#5JoysFriday

1) I‘m at the north coast for a long weekend with my dad. The weather‘s not great but had a couple of breaks so Pippin could walk me.
2) The Rhododendrons are spectacular
3) Our son brought over fresh halibut on Tuesday, so good.
4) Impressions of the Sea symphony with my daughter
5) Enjoying everyone‘s joyful posts

@DebinHawaii

#ThreeListThursday

Not good but still missing 3 from my older edition. Hoping to do better in the next century 😁

@dabbe

#WondrousWednesday

1) The tagged book and The Boxcar Children
2) No one comes to mind…sleep deprived brain today
3) Sunrise on the Reaping 3 1/2🌟

Tagging ever who would like t play.

@Eggs

#MondayMoodinMemes #MondayMood

Loving the Shakespearen twist on thoughts and feelings. And trying, although not always successfully, to concentrate on TODAY. What must be done, what act of resistance, finding the joy, etc. to avoid feeling overwhelmed and to fight spiraling into despair. Creating a mood board out of things I find when scrolling seems to help.

Join me if you like.

#5JoysFriday

1) BOTM arrived DragonFriut won the middle grade/YA Oregon Book Award
2) #CampLitsy books are being announced
3) The sun continues to shine with perfect temps
4) Long lunch chat with a friend
5) Continuing ED hours are done

Happy Friday!

@DebinHawaii

Today is catch up on buddy reads day.

This quote from yesterday‘s chapter has given me pause, something about it in light of current events resonates.

#LesMis

@TheBookHippie

#ThreeListThursday

Not great especially since 6 of them are DNF‘s.

I have the 2006 version of the book and have read/dnf‘d 24. In my version, and not on the survey, are Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, A Christmas Carol, Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland, Little Women, War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Tess of the D‘Urbervilles. It‘s hard to imagine that these didn‘t make the list.

Classics are hit or miss for me but have added some to Mt TBR

#WondrousWednesday

1) On Independent Bookstore Day I purchased Audition and Raising Hare. I‘ve managed to not buy anything since.
2) I review on NetGalley, Litsy, IG and sometimes Amazon and B&N. I enjoy writing short reviews especially for books I loved, not so much for books I didn‘t like.

@Eggs

#Two4Tuesday

1) Daytime sitting, nighttime laying on my side in bed.
2) Other People‘s Summer - it‘s ok so far

@TheSpineView yesterday got away from me.

#MondayMoodinMemes. #MondayMood

Feel free to join me in sharing your mood in memes or whatever way works for you. This is a sanity project for me.

The tagged is the one I am most likely to get to, not sure about the others.

#ReadYourEBook

@CBee

#AprilChallengeUpdate

Read #Bookspin & #DoubleSpin

Read 1 #ReadYourEBook

#WickedWords:

The Briar Club: Gambling
King A Life: Singer, Massachusetts
Wild Dark Shore: Fish
The Martha‘s Vineyard Beach and Book Club: Portuguese

#ISpy

April: 5 remaining
March: 4 remaining
February: 2 remaining
January: complete

@TheAromaofBooks @CBee @AsYouWish

#AprilWrapUp

Loved Wild Dark Shore and P & P as always. Enjoyed Midnight in Soap Lake and The Briar Club immensely. Learned so much from King.

DNF‘d 3 books

#5JoysFriday #NoPicVersion

1) Sunny and warm enough to have all the windows open.
2) Coffee and stitching with a friend
3) Both kids home for a belated Easter dinner
4) I am not a fan of our chestnut tree except when it‘s in bloom and then as the blooms fall and carpet the grass
5) Pippin

@DebinHawaii

#ThreeListThursday

Lots of favorites on this list: Jane Eyre, Watership Down, War & Peace, The Shell Seekers to name a few

Unpopular opinion stinkers: The Alchemist and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin

@dabbe

#ReadYourEBook. #May

@CBee

#BookspinBingo #May

I read King over three months. It is a deep dive into his life from childhood to his assassination. A man of great passion and conviction who worked tirelessly to end racism, fight poverty and end the war in Vietnam. I knew the highlights but there is so much more here. Let‘s just saying lying and manipulation in government is not a new problem. Our current government would like to erase this history. Let‘s not agree to that.

@Read4life

#WondrousWednesday

1) Roses because my grandma wore Tea Rose perfume daily and lilacs because of the large lilac bush by the front door of her house.
2) I was just talking to my dad about this. Rather than a specific memory it was our years in Ephrata. Sledding down suicide hill, riding our bikes all over town, playing out in the dry fields, spending our afternoons at the pool. It was definitely a different time in terms of safety and freedom.

An appropriate meme to go with @TheSpineView ‘s #Two4Tuesday questions. I needed a smile and it always delivers. ❤️📚❤️

#TuesdayTunes

Recent find

https://youtu.be/_q7307IWwr4?si=EeC6j7qo6W_2sj9f

Haunted by Shane MacGowan and Sinead O‘Connor ❤️

@TieDyeDude

#Two4Tuesday

1) I wish I had a dedicated library, but having bookshelves in every room is not a bad thing 😀. My best guess at physical books is ~1200

2) Wild Dark Shore is my favorite book of April.

@TheSpineView

Voted! The long list is full of fantastic sounding books, so many new to me titles. I can‘t wait to see what we will be reading. Don‘t forget to vote by May 9. Link is on @BarbaraBB #CampLitsy25 post.