Started this right when the weekend started on Friday night. Bit of reading in bed now Sunday night to wind down.

I do not think I was smart enough for this book. Was just confusing.

She‘s so real and open. So much of this book is not safe for work. Here I am, listening at work. I keep making sure my headphones are all the way plugged in!! Alternating between laughing and gasping in horror. What a life.

Ooooops. Bought a new book. 😅

There‘s nothing like a Power Point presentation to stamp out green shoots of happiness. 😂

Loved this book! Super cute. I am going to see the author talk tonight and introduce her next book!

Sabriel was great! It‘s there in the middle of my fall stack. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Initially did not even want to read, but glad I did!!

What the feck did I just read??? 🤯

Finally getting into this. I don‘t think I was really in the mood for fantasy YA when I started. Enjoying it now though!!

This book is so much fun!!! 💕💕 Vacationing in Ireland right now, so here‘s a photo of all my layers.

Reading for the third time! I have always loved this book. Traveling to NY today and Ireland tomorrow. Thinking I‘ll leave this book somewhere in the next airport for someone new to discover.

The whole trip felt like a series of short films, screened only once, and afterward he had a sense of what they were about but no exact memories of the plot.

Catching up on old book of the month picks. 🥰

There was nothing scary about this book for me. I picked it as my book of the month because it had a high creep factor. I really enjoyed the people drama, so it‘s still a pick, just didn‘t give me my hopes for nightmares.

My first kiss. It‘s the fastest thing that lasts forever. 💋💋

Book of the Month book got me reading all day! 👀

New book. Slow start getting off of how much I adored Queenie.

I have seen so many reviews where readers said they liked the book despite hating Queenie‘s attitude and wanting to throw the book and shout at her for her behavior. That‘s why I loved it though. It was a realistic look at anxiety and the spiraling effect it can have. The worst case attitude, the negativity, the self-destruction. I loved Queenie. ✨💥

Loving this book so much!

Gah! Scared myself in the waiting room when I turned the page. 😭

Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them? It must be that they believe in their night vision. They believe themselves able to draw images up out of the dark. But black wells only yield black water.

I‘ve never read a more interesting book structurally. My mind was given a workout.

Learning about Taoism through a Winnie the Pooh filter.

Not scary like I thought. Was on a few lists of books that are actually scary. Anyone have recs?! No King - I know all his stuff. I‘m really looking for a comp for Hex! 💀

New book and new bird. I am blowing through this. The chapters are so short. I‘m trying to take my time, given the subject matter. A lot of picking up and putting down.

So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I‘m still trying to figure out how that could be.

Started this lovely little book this week! I‘ve never read it, nor seen the movie! 🥳
Also, the last book I read, The Chemist, I‘ve posted about already - but here‘s my blog about it. I have a book club section on the blog where I detail questions we talk about during meeting — https://greenlightphilosophy.blog/2019/07/09/blockbuster-books-the-chemist/

Audio listening at work. Getting exciting now!! ⚔️

Between a pick and a so so. Read it for a book club and enjoyed it enough to finish in a weekend. Had a very hard time thinking of questions to ask at book club. I don‘t think there‘s much to discuss here. Lots of action, lots of guns, big summer block buster of a book. My sticky notes are things I want to discuss, but all very surface level. 🙄

Book and bomb pop soda from yesterday. I am loving this book so far. My first Meyer ever. 🧪🧬💉🦠🔬

Wrote a blog on this book. Please give it a read. Tony was my life, I read this book as part of my 2019 Theme on Creativity. Blog here ->> https://greenlightphilosophy.blog/2019/06/27/kitchen-confidential-and-blogging-b.... 💕💕

This book made me think of one word: yearn. Evie, our main character, wants so badly to grow up and be loved and to be beautiful. She wants to be an adult and understand the aftermath of WWII and her parents and the hushed conversations all the adults in her life seem to have. She yearns for so many things and grasps a few in the end. A few others, though, fall right through her fingers.

People flee to America from war-torn countries every day. Some are Arabs. Some are Muslims. Some are both, like us. But we could live here for the rest of our lives and never be Americans. You think you‘re doing the right thing by wearing this hijab, but that‘s not what Americans will see when they look at you. They won‘t see your modesty or your goodness. All they‘ll see is an outcast, someone who doesn‘t belong.

Looooooong drive. Great book!!

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“Yes, we were being taught to read, but we still weren‘t being taught to think critically or creatively or in any way that would allow us to expand our minds.” - - This reminds me so much of Trevor Noah saying you taught us to fish, but gave us no fishing poles. 💔

Audio drive. 🚙 Vacation mode on! Beach, here we come! ☀️🐠👙⛱

.. all I see in an ocean 🌊

New audio! Moving along in this series. 🎧🎧 I took an accidental Litsy break and have been spending most of my time on insta. Glad to be back and posting more frequently here! If you do have an insta, come say hi! I am green_light_blogging over there! 🌷

This book was a serious call to action. Made me want to volunteer and make a difference. 👊🏿👊🏾👊🏽👊🏼👊🏻

And I think about all the things we could be if we were never told our bodies weren‘t built for them. 🎧 *audio walking

“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.” 💕

I love these chapter breaks!

I can‘t even begin to explain how much I love this. I‘ve only just started and I had chills for the 14 minutes I listened. Will definitely be posting quotes on Litsy soon. ✨

Between a pick and a so-so. I liked it alright. Glad I read it. Pacing was good, action was okay, there were a few twists. Nothing mind blowing. Reminded me a lot of Fahrenheit. 💕

“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Why refer to a lady crack pipe or good sir dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied?” On masculine and feminine pronouns 💕

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.... Audio walk.

New book, who dis?! Watching Red Dead and reading YA on this beauty of a Sunday. ☀️

Really liking this book so far!

My favorite part of reading was hearing Sadie describe how other people talk. I wonder what each of us pick up on because we perceive it as our faults and look upon others as having better ‘x‘ than us.