“Well, we are the stars", Joan said. "And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at part of who you once were, who you may one day be.”

A PICK. But not sure if it was of the same caliber that I usually expect from TJR…the relationships were good though. And I found myself rooting for Joan, Vanessa, and Frances-truly great humans.

#Read2025 @DieAReader

Shapiro is a common-sense writer who relies on scientific research. I was hoping for more recently published essays (this was written 2019) but many of the ideologies and inconsistencies of which he speaks are still relevant. He sees “America as the story of a nation founded on eternally good and true principles, principles only fully realized for many Americans at the cost of blood and sweat and death.”
#read2025 @DieAReader

Not to be confused with Canada Day on July 1, this Canada Day celebrates all French-speaking Canadians - also called St Jean Baptiste Day. 🇨🇦

#Canada

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

At a time when Japanese Americans were being herded off to remote “camps” during WW2, this account explores the fighting heroes: Japanese American men and their sons who volunteered to fight for America in France, Germany, and Italy. Well written.

#favoritesofjune

#Read2025 @DieAReader

So many significant quotes!

Here‘s one “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” NYT

Solid pick, extraordinary. Beautiful memoir💖

#favoritesofjune

#Read2025 @DieAReader

June ‘25 #BingoBlackout

@TheAromaofBooks

Favorites: The Right Call, Gamechanger, TheRivals - all by Tommy Greenwald; and You Could Make this Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 🩵

#Bookspin: Carson the Magnificent
#Doublespin: Akimbo & The Crocodile Man

I got a little ambitious….dont know if I‘ll get all these read for July!

#Bookspin
#Doublespin
#Bookspinbingo

@TheAromaofBooks

#Pink

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Kissing

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#haikuaday 6-22-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

#haikuaday 6-21-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

#Music

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1 popsicle boy 🧒🏻
2,3,4,5 Books/novellas I read this week—all great. Amazon Originals (free) scores again 👏🏻👏🏻

Everyone is invited to play

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will occur on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. Eastern Time.

#SummerSolstice #JuneSpecials #haikuaday 6-20-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Haiku “Rain‘s Fury” by K. Balachandran

#Whoosh #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

In service from 1943 to 1991, this ship (Lady Lex) sits in the bay at Corpus Christi. Often called the “ghost ship”, it was converted into a floating museum and it is awesome.
#haikuaday 6-20-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

From Birthday
By Robert William Service

#Whoop

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Freedom was a long time coming, but it was mighty sweet."

#Juneteenth

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#haikuaday 6-19-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

#Wholesome

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”

#Picnic

#JuneSpecials

Happy Wednesday ❣️3 days til summer solstice ☀️
Everyone is invited to play !!

1-Indoor games-Chinese checkers, scrabble, clue. Outdoors-kickball, building snow people, hide and seek, croquet, tennis

2-movie- Sound of Music, A Thousand Clowns
Books-Gone With The Wind, The Moffats

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

#haikuaday 6-18-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

“Growing your own food is like printing your own money.”

#EatYourVegs

#JuneSpecials

Oh, Waffles…

#haikuaday 6-17-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@BooksandCoffee4Me
@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue @Jari-chan
@Itchyfeetreader

Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand

#Whole

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."

#LearningDisability

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Whoa #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

Partial solar eclipse from 2022

#haikuaday 6-16-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader

“Aw Gee Whiz” - Edgar Albert Guest

#Whiz #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

Happy #Fathers Day in Heaven to my Daddy! RIP ❤️

1910-1970

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#haikuaday 6-15-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤


@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

Coffee first!! I usually have several works in progress to follow up on that include writing, crafting, reading, treadmill, laundry. Church at 5pm. May you all have a lovely Saturday🌺❤️☀️

#Chatterday2025 @AllDebooks

Play? @dabbe @Susanita @Cupcake12 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll @Suet624 @Crazeedi @BarbaraBB @AnnCrystal @lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47

“Everyone deserves to find that thing that cracks them open and softens them enough to see the beauty in the world.”

#Flag

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#haikuaday 6-14-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

#Whittle

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

1-granddaughter reading by the pool
2-field of sunflowers near the creek
3-photo I found of cascading twinkly way to frame a bed
4 & 5-finished 2 Greenwald books that were 5 stars

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

Everyone‘s tagged ❤️

#White

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#haikuaday 6-13-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛


 @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
 @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

In 1968, we teen girls wore dresses to school! My mom used this pattern to sew me a dress and I loved it ❤️

#Sewing

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Whistle

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#RedRose

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

It seems I‘m not done writing about this…

#haikuaday 6-12-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @lil1inblue
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lillinblue
@Itchyfeetreader

For my sweet husband💔

#whisper #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

#BeautifulLife

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The beauty of morning light! That is, before all the skyscrapers appeared …

#haikuaday 6-11-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue @Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

1-An Almanac of Birds - Maria Popova, coming in late July

2-Stand alone

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

@AmyG @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Jari-chan

#Whiskers

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

Here‘s Laura Ingalls Wilder‘s recipe for Spiced #IcedTea from the tagged cookbook

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks