pickI finished this book last week. It was thoroughly enjoyable as all the Flavia books have been. I would hate to see it end here. Flavia is growing up so wonderfully. I would really like to know what happens to her next. I sure wish Flavia had been around when I was growing up. I'm sad to have reached the end of published titles for this series, but happy to tick off another completed (for now) series.
pickThis book is about as harsh as they come. I can't love this story; it is too hard and it makes me sad. At least right now. But it will live with me forever. I hope I've learned something from it. I hope I will continue to learn from it. A terrific and powerful indictment of the brutal effects of casual everyday racism endured by people of color.
Another #abookandamovie pairing. I think I'm watching too many movies and not reading enough books this weekend! Lol! 😄
I didn't plan on this being #abookandamovie weekend, but after last evening's Country Music, tonight the spouse and I watched "Love, Gilda" a wonderful movie about Gilda Rander's life. Now I want to read her autobiography (tagged).
Tonight I think we'll be re-watching some of Ken Burns's Country Music documentary. Mr. Burns was helped greatly with his research by my friend Bill Malone's book (tagged). It's the first & most comprehensive book on the topic. I recommend the book or the documentary. If you watch the film keep an eye out for Bill Malone who is featured throughout & is one of the nicest persons ever! 😊
Wisdom from Ponder Stibbons, Unseen University's Reader in Invisible Writings. Thoroughly enjoying another #Discworld installment.
#OokBookClub #lunchreading
October #TBR. Just a few of the books I‘m working on this month. All bets are off when library holds come in though! 😄😄📚📚📚
What is the deal with literary journals this year? First Tin House now Glimmer Train. 😢
https://www.newpages.com/blog/goodbye-glimmer-train
pickFinished reading this one recently. I love just about anything Python so I found this delightful.
I loved loved loved this book when I read it. Spent some time this weekend working through the first half of the first series from HBO. Very glad to say it has lost very little in the translation to visual media. An excellent series all around!
Speaking of Susanna Clarke, here's Day seven - #7days7covers #covercrush
Post a cover you love each day for seven days
No explanation needed. Tag someone new each day. I don't need to tag anybody else. Join in if you want to!
The book illustrator is Charles Vess. I'm sure the cover illustration is also his, but I couldn't find a cover designer credit anywhere.
Stamped case hardcover on the left, paperback on the right.
Playing off my previous post of a book published by McSweeney's, here's a whole book about McSweeney's book designs.
Day six (#notinarow) - #7days7covers #covercrush
@DaisyDaniel would you like to play?
Post a cover you love each day for seven days
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Cover design by Brian McMullen.
Day five - #7days7covers #covercrush
@Geeklet would you like to play?
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Cover art by Jordan Crane.
I need some explanation. Lower right inset: full cover. Larger image: "exploded" view
That's three (3!) layers/levels of dustjackets. Published by McSweeney's. They put a lot of thought into their book packages! ⤵️
Day four - #7days7covers #notINAROW! #covercrush
@KMM would you like to play?
Post a cover you love each day for seven days
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Cover design by Richard Ljoenes.
Saw this little gem when I turned on the news this morning. Thank goodness for people like Sean Doolittle! I did not know he was a co-founder of Libro.fm. I'm trying to get my publisher's audiobooks on Libro even now!
Watch him sniff a new book on national TV! :-) He's a *real* reader!
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mlb-player-sean-doolittle-pitches-for-independent-...
Day three - #7days7covers #covercrush
@AC4ever17 would you like to play?
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Cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell Sumpter.
This is my cover pick for the day. I'm posting this blurb first tho, so the posts appear in the right chronological order in your feed!
This is the explanation. This is The Wizard of Oz from the Penguin Threads editions.
The designs are hand stitched. The top photo shows the outside cover and flaps. The bottom photo shows the inside cover which shows the reverse side of the embroidered piece.
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News that is new to me this morning, the Library of Congress is partnering with Poisoned Pen Press for a new series of crime classics, drawn from books in the LOC collections.
Launching spring 2020. 👍📚
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-091/library-of-congress-crime-classics-bring-new...
Day two - #7days7covers #covercrush
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@bool_lova183 welcome back! would you like to play?
Post a cover you love each day for seven days
No explanation needed. Tag someone new each day. ☺️
Day one - #7days7covers #covercrush
@Niso would you like to play?
Post a cover you love each day for seven days
No explanation needed. Tag someone new each day.
I'm following the lead of @quirkyreader who is sharing the #litsylove by thanking her first 10 followers. Since I just passed my third #litsyversary I thought this would be a good thing to do.
So thanks to those tagged, my first 10 followers! 😊💜 I may not be posting & liking as much as I want to, but Litsy & this fantastic reading community is never far from my thoughts. I've found my tribe! Thanks for sharing my bookish adventures! 😊
My #lunchtimereading today. I'm hoping the #nyrbbookclub doesn't mind me tagging along with their reading. Between the NY theme and the stream of consciousness style, I'm really digging this book. I like the small snapshots that jump around.
But really this book had me from the beginning with: "Canadians, do not vomit on me!" surely I'm not the only one that's been vomited on on the NY subway! ???
pickJust finished this amazing book. This is the perfect follow-up to The Underground Railroad, bringing all the same racial issues into a 20th century setting. Just as serious and heart wrenching and horrifying. Beautifully written.
Got to see Margaret Atwood on the big screen albeit on tape delay. She was brilliant as always. Very excited to read this book!
#atwoodlive #almost
@Birdsong28
Got this in on audio and I've got a road trip coming up this weekend. Perfect timing! 😊
Continuing my #lunchreading with the #OokBookClub book of the month. I've even got my own Great God Om to read with me (in the form of a frog). He's not talking though. At least not at the moment. 😂😂😂
Another free short fiction Hugo award winner: A Witch‘s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies.
It‘s about finding the right book and the right book, the book you need, finding you. With a little bit of witchcraft.
https://www.apex-magazine.com/a-witchs-guide-to-escape-a-practical-compendium-of...
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A terrific little story from the Hugo Winners list. You can read it on the b&n sci fi blog or download it for free to your Nook from bn.com.
This author is already on my #TBR list but now I feel excited and want to read more of her stuff NOW! That ever happen to you!? 😊 LOL! 😄
#shortstories #scifi #lunchreading #gimmemore
My first #bookhaul post from three years ago. The only one of these books I've read is State of Wonder. I love Ann Patchett! 💜
#BookHaulChallenge
Doing some gardening reading this morning. The neighbors unexpectedly and generously shared some flowers with us yesterday. Going to get them in the ground! 🌸🌸🌸
I won a giveaway! I almost never do but then I don't enter all that many either. Only for books I really want to read. Looking forward to this tale about uploading your brain to the cloud. 👍😂😂☁️ Thanks @WilliamMorrowBooks!
pickWhen Beverly Cleary turned 103 last month, I discovered she had written, not one, but two memoirs. I finished A Girl from Yamhill and have just started My Own Two Feet. I recommend either of these books; the first covers up to when she left home for college and the second starts with her college years. I loved Beverly Cleary‘s books when I was younger. I‘m enjoying this chance to reconnect with her as an adult!
One last book experience for the day: The Book Deal, my new favorite local used book store. They post book stack photos to their Facebook page. You can "dibs" any book pictured and they'll hold it for you until you can pick it up. Excellent and Dangerous service! Score! More books for me! I feel like I won the book lottery. ?? #saturdaybookday #bookdate #itcountsasadate #MKEadventure
Next stop: the famous Boswells Books in MKE. My first time here. This could be very bad for the wallet! 😊 💜 📚📚📚📚💵💵💵
First stop: the Half Price Books clearance sale!
The spousal unit has planned an outing day based around book shopping. He's a good guy. I hope he doesn't have to tell me this and I hope he does! 😂😂 #saturdaybookday #bookdate
#humpdaypost @MinDea
📍This weekend I went to the local college football game, but I didn't take any pictures.
📍So here's a picture of the last concert I went to last summer. It was a line up of 80s bands. Pictured is modern English singing I'll melt with you.
📍I worry too much.
📍I don't have netflix but I'm still trying to keep up with The Crown 👑. Anybody know when season 2 will be out on DVD?
📍A re-read! A Confederacy of Dunces!
#tuesdaytidbits #thisorthat
@JenlovesJT47
⚀ The Wizard of Oz, for sure!
⚁ Both!
⚂ Fantasy
⚃ Coke
⚄ Consider yourself tagged! 😊
That's me in a nutshell, fussy about everything but my book covers! 😊
I'm so out of the loop I didn't even realize it was a readathon weekend. I never seem to have as much time as I want to read on the weekends, but these are the 2 books I'll be trying to make the most progress with.
pickJuly so far is a very busy month. Not as much time to read and not as much time to post about it. Sigh.
This is one book I did finish. It's a pick for me, the last in a trilogy all of which I thought was very good. It's a first contact story and it didn't quite end up where I thought it would.
This checks some reading goal boxes for me though! #yearofthechunkster #finishtheseries #mountTBRchallenge @DivaDiane
June reading wrapup. Made some progress in #finishtheseries by reading the next installment and a short story in the Harry Dresden series. Also re - read sweetness at the bottom of the pie in preparation for reading more in that series.
My favorite books this month were I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Parable of the Sower. And Mort, if course, which I've included here even though I probably won't finish it until tomorrow!
#mountTBRchallenge
pickThe hubby and I are watching the PBS shows on The Photo Ark project this morning. There is also a companion book (pictured). This guy has spent years photographing the world's rarest animals before they disappear. He goes to great lengths to shoot them in front of a white or black background so he can eliminate distractions and really show off the beauty of the animals. Highly recommended based on the TV shows! 🐯🐼🐦🐊🐙🐌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I've been busy today. This is the tragic end of yet another purple editing pen. #bookpeopleproblems
1⃣ I love a great cover, but it's more a consideration when purchasing books I already know. I generally don't choose books to read based on covers.
2⃣ If my summer porch were summer ready I'd be out there reading! 🌞
3⃣ I like to finish a chapter or at least a section.
4⃣ Definitely a bookmark user. Not always proper though.
5⃣ You betcha! 😄
@SilversReviews
Now that it's pretty much mid - June I thought I'd commit to some reading goals for the month. A few buddy reads and some personal #mountTBRchallenge books that work towards #finishtheseries. What are you reading this month?
pickThis book is really well written & presents the case very clearly. I never found myself lost in the details even though at least half of the book is reconstructed from the author's notes (she died in 2016) & other writings. I wish she had gotten the time to write more books. It's a pick for me & I think true crime enthusiasts will like it even more.
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