“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
#DoubleLetterTitle #DynamicDs
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🌿 Pretty much all the way through grad school; I wanted to absorb everything like a sponge 🧽
🌱 tagged was delightful
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
From Auguries of Innocence
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/auguries_of_innocence_18433
#PoetryMatters #Wanton
@TheSpineView
“Mma Ramotswe did not like lying, but sometimes it was necessary, particularly when faced with people who were promoted beyond their talents.”
#DynamicDs
#Detective
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
April commences tomorrow🌺🌼🌸
Please join us for our April challenge #DynamicDs. We can‘t wait to see your posts🤗 I hope it‘s sunny and bright wherever you are☀️
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LitsyEvents
“We sang as we walked, all of us, singing a hundred different songs, and the Nazis let us sing. Another small mercy. Or perhaps they too missed the way the world had been before the war.”
#CoverStories #Prison
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“As for children, every woman knows the fears and sorrows. Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.”
#CoverStories #Sea
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#5JoysFriday on Sunday! @DebinHawaii
1 - 3 the poppies and bluebonnets are up and LB is 17.5 months old
4 - 5 These 2 books, recommended by my eldest girl, @SarahBradley , are beautiful MG novels in verse 😍
If you haven‘t played, please feel free!
“Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom. The sky, is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life.”
#CoverStories #Music 🎶🎺🎵
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“The world is slowly learning that because two people think differently, neither need be wicked.”
#Golden #CoverStories 🧡🍎⭐️
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-
awards-list-3-nominations-for-best
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
65/100, 3 faves 👆🏻
#TLT @dabbe
Play? @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @lil1inblue @KadaGul
“Sometimes, all it takes is a leap of faith to find the magic that's been missing from our lives.”
#CoverStories #Lake
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“Mr. Williams, how do explain a day like today? A day filled with lots of sad and happy, too. Tonight I asked Aunt Patty Cake that very question. She said, 'Baby, that's called life' "
#CoverStories #Letters
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🌼 I walk, write, stretch, listen to music
🌸 The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz - it centers me
Thanks for the tag Lisa❣️#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Play? @MaGoose @LibrarianRyan @AnnCrystal
Presenting: April 2025 photo challenge! We hope you will join us 🤗
Just post a photo of a book, poem, quote, song, play, film, etc. that correlates with the daily prompt. Thank you to all of you who played in March 💗!!
Please feel free to repost 🩵
#DynamicDs
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@LitsyEvents
“What a gift it was to know so clearly what you were not, who you did not want to be. Nina wasn‘t sure she‘d ever asked herself that question.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#CoverStories #Waves
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Come a little closer...
Come a little closer...
Listen to the night...
There's music in the air...
#CoverStories #Barn
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
Alice Sebold
#CoverStories #jewelry
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1. Started a new Blake Pierce series
2, 3, 4. Listened to 3 audiobooks this week
5. Found this photo from 1977, me and my sweetie @SarahBradley
6. 19 days until house closing
It‘s late in the day - if you haven‘t played, you are tagged!
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
“Then there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.”
-Beatrix Potter
#CoverStories #Pastel
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
-Neil Gaiman
#CoverStories #Clock
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"Don't be afraid to cross that bridge, there's a better version of you waiting on the other side."
A few #Bridge books I‘ve read! #CoverStories
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“Wind rises up and fades away, but a river flows endlessly. And our suffering? This too shall pass. The wind is not a river.”
#CoverStories #River
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“As they left the shop, Mma Ramotswe made amends and told Mma Makutsi that she really thought the blue shoes very beautiful. There was no point in disapproving of a purchase once the deed had been done.”
Mma Makutsi‘s weakness was colorful unusual shoes - it was her trademark 👠
#Shoes #CoverStories
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Opportunities were things that fell in your lap, but second chances had to be fought for.”
-Kate Quinn
#CoverStories #Keyhole
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
When Claudia and her brother decide to run away from home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they are pulled into a fascinating adventure!
#CoverStories #Running
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“We could have counted our problems on the petals of the daisy in my bouquet, but it wouldn‘t be long before we were lost in a field of them.”
-Ashley Audrain
To call this novel compelling is an understatement…😳
#CoverStories #Reflections
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1* Finished the Katherine Center book
2*Starting the Shari Low book BC I love Christmas🎄
3*I liked this quote
4* Had sedation this afternoon for an endoscopy and chilling/napping at home now
5*Had an offer on the house, and now set for closing on April 9! Hallelujah
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
Play? @TheSpineView @TheLudicReader @Sleepswithbooks
“…. wasn‘t afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.”
A beautiful MG novel
#CoverStories #Feather 🪶
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-
awards-list-2-nominations-for-best
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
TLT @dabbe
“In regular clothes, I'm a nobody,” Dean once reflected. “In a tuxedo, I'm a star.”
#CoverStories #Tuxedo
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Creator, I was so young when my parents died. Now, I carry sounds without the meaning. Isn‘t that sad?”
#CoverStories #Snake 🐍
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“I was hazy with wine, hazy with Nick. I nestled into my seat and marveled at his endlessness, only inches away, his infinite capacity to shelter me.”
-Beatriz Williams
#CoverStories #Umbrella
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#5JoysFriday on Saturday! @DebinHawaii
1-read the newest Cash Blackbear mystery
2-a new Jenoff novel came to my attention for Mount TBR
3-finished the 25th book in the Botswana Ladies Detective Agency series; the 26th will be out later this year
4-the redbud trees are blooming (they are actually more pink than red)
5-May go to a free philharmonic concert this evening
“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Here are 6 favorites with #Trees #CoverStories
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.”
-Alex George
#CoverStories #Stairs
One of my favorite books 💚
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
"In the best of times, I don't do well with change.
These are most definitely not the best of times.
And way, way too much is changing."
#CoverStories #Hammock
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
-George Orwell
#CoverStories #LargeAnimal
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Love the gown covers of the Selection series-
#EveningGown #CoverStories
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🩶🤍
#CoverStories
#2SimilarCovers
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
(I couldn‘t decide which 2 were the most similar 🤷♀️)
1*. The shrubs outside my window are blooming with delicate flowers
2* Little Bear likes to hug the kitty-cat
3-4* Read 2 more books in the No. 1 Ladies‘ Detective Agency series
5* my dryer of 14 years bit the dust; the new one arrived yesterday
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
What I wanted, what I felt owed, was some clear place in the hierarchy of those he loved.
-Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Jobs‘ first child Lisa paints Jobs as a #Narcissist.
#FeelinTheLove
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The Academy Awards Winners for Best Picture In honor of the awards, which will air this Sunday, how many have you seen?
1. Survey link: https://shorturl.at/jp3WT
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
#TLT @dabbe
Apparently I liked the 1970s and 80s movies most!
My brother Frank 1945 - 2018
#FeelinTheLove #BrotherLove
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