How bee-you-tea-ful are these covers?!! 🤩😍🤗⭐️

This was good enough. I needed a pallet cleanser, and it did the job. I think I set it up for failure when I expected Grady Hendrix Southern Book Club‘s Guide level humor, and that wasn‘t here. But that‘s awfully high expectations, so maybe that‘s not to be found in a non-Grady book. And that‘s ok. ⭐️⭐️⭐️PS: I‘ll never look at my Roomba the same 😂

I liked this middle grade book, BUT I wasn‘t prepared for the anxious feeling I had while reading it. The safety of the snow leopard is in jeopardy for most of the book, and it was a lot to take on. Now, I‘m off to read some adult book with, hopefully, a snarky narrator and no animal endangerment, something a little more relaxing…😬

Absolute perfection. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This clip is a fun little throw back to the music I grew up with 🤓🤩🎵🎧

I really liked this whodunit told from the perspectives of three students accused of murdering the principal of their prep school. I‘ll be reading all the Nick Brooks books from here out 👏

Pretty excited about this one 🤩

Yessssss!!! ✊✊✊

Andddd we‘ve entered the “Next Book Indecision” stage of the reading process 🙄😩

Maggie O‘Farrell can do no wrong. Her writing is unmatched, and this gem is a testament to her talent. I still consider This Must Be the Place to be my favorite by her, but Hamnet is a masterpiece.

Cute, quick read about overcoming fears for the good of all and learning that people (vampires especially 😉) may not be what they seem.

An interesting, well-written, weird, and sad little book 📕 Good stuff!

Thriftstore find. How beautiful is this cover?! Will I actually read it? Approximately 28% chance because I have a #PROBLEM 😍🤩🎨🖌🖼

Idk, I have to set it down. Maybe if I pick up something else, I‘ll discover if it‘s me or the book or the season of life or the inability to concentrate hard enough to read this book. (Page 180/364 😩)

I almost put this book down for good around p.55, but I‘m so glad I didn‘t. There‘s a really interesting embellished historical element that I wasn‘t expecting but am thoroughly enjoying.

Nice little Little Free Library find 🤩

Well, which red book from the library will I start next? 🤓❤️

A fun, funny look at community and isolation and found family. I really enjoyed the Community Board posts, and Conklin‘s writing had me chuckling.

This book is cracking me up, giving me My Year of Rest and Relaxation vibes. 🤩

Seriously, what took me so long to read this book? It‘s heartbreaking and stunning and so beautifully written. I loved it. This one deserves all of the hype. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Sad subject, superb writing 🤌

When you‘re in a book slump, but a chunk of library holds all arrive on the same day 🤩👏

LOVEEEEEEE!!! This book is fun and funny and spooky and all of the great stuff that makes up great middle grade graphic novels. Probably going to need a copy for my own shelves 🤓❤️

Looks like the old guy who opens Aladdin, yeh?

Such a beauty! 🤓🤩❤️

Why so big? Why such a chunker? Page 19 of approximately 8,000 probably 😏🤪

Edited to add that it‘s not really 8,000 pages but it feels that way in my heart…

👌Ok, I dug this apocalyptic thriller. It‘s not a book I‘m going to remember forever nor was it one I couldn‘t put down, but it was enjoyable with solid writing and interesting characters…and that‘s good enough for me!

It‘s the Dab at the bottom for me. I‘m loving this cutie patootie graphic novel 🤩😂

Such a great (and super important) episode of the Diving In podcast. The ladies discuss the idea of ‘cancel culture‘ and book banning and all the BS involved. And my favorite part?! Where they defend teachers as professionals who can (and should be able to) correctly choose literature to utilize in their classrooms! 🤌🙌👏💪

This was a good palate cleanser. I don‘t usually do cozy or creatures as characters, but I did really enjoy the idea of choosing to slow down and of opening a coffee shop for neighbors who have never even heard of coffee. Loved the coffee shop parts and especially Mr. Thimble! 👨‍🍳🐀☕️

Pretty pumped about this one ✊🤓🖤

Me…tomorrow morning, no doubt. 🙋‍♀️😅😴

Any other Zach Bryan fans out there? ❤️😎🎶🎤😁

Possibly a “right book, wrong time” situation, but I‘m giving up at 124 pages. All of the parts I usually enjoy are there (some snark, an interesting format of crime writing expert telling the story, a mystery, dysfunctional family), but it‘s just not working. If I see this as a Kindle cheapy, I‘m buying. For now, back to the library and moving on ✌️

“She describes it as a business and tenses up whenever anyone says *that* specific word. So out of respect, I won‘t use it. I‘ll just say the Egyptians built them.” 😂😂😂

A very solid read! A small town murder leads us to evaluate the goings-on of the town and its people. I may not remember this one forever, but I sure ASAP put Winslow‘s earlier book on hold at the library. Good stuff! ✊📚

Down the rabbit hole… 🐰🕳

I had maybe 15 pages left of the current book, then I packed two books, then library holds arrived and now I‘m on a three day trip with five books 🤷🏼‍♀️. Update: I started Decent People, and I am loving it!

I think I‘m an outlier, but I liked this one. The main character is immature, selfish and unsure of herself, but the parts where she showed that the most were, imo, the parts that readers are supposed to find humor in. I think it‘s in the same vein as My Year of Rest and Relaxation in that you need to be okay with reading about (and pretty much studying) characters you don‘t like. There were parts that lulled, but the humor outweighed them for me.

Thanks for the tag, @Eggs ❤️
1. It‘s when people think they know everything. You know the ones who call out people on unimportant things (like grammar rules that should‘ve been abolished ages ago or a slight mispronunciation on a word only 20% of the population even knows). And they‘re usually the ones who hog a conversation 🙄.
2. Characters who won‘t learn from their mistakes and make the same bad choices over and over again.

@TheSpineView

A cute story about a rover‘s connection with his humans and his work overcoming a seemingly impossible task on Mars. Sweet, techie, and lovely 🤓

Population laws are in effect, families are not supposed to have more than two children, and the ‘illegal‘ third (and fourth) siblings become the hidden. I don‘t know if I‘ll teach this one or not, but it would make a great choice for a Lit Circle option.

Middle Grade, that‘s where the joy lives ❤️. I‘m loving this book about Res the rover.

I don‘t read romance often, so I‘m not a great judge but I liked this one enough. Truly, I‘d say I‘m ‘romance adverse,‘ but I actually wanted to pick up my kindle and thought about the characters when I wasn‘t reading. The idea that grown men were discussing romance novels to better their marriages and discussing the idea of played out and tired female stereotypes together was really neat. If I see any others on the kindle sale, I‘m game 👍

Not a book I‘d read on my own, but my middle schoolers are going to love it. Plot driven and action packed, this book follows three young teen refugees, each one during different fight for survival (Holocaust, Cuban Refugee Crisis, Syrian Refugee Crisis). Gratz is a super popular author if you have a young readers in your life.

Once I got past the author traveling so he can spends some months focusing, I really loved this book. It‘s full of so much important information on the ways our attention is being purposefully and adeptly manipulated. This really should be required reading…for parents, for educators, for politicians, for anyone who‘s scrolled through Facebook today, and for anyone who‘s tired of not being able to focus on simple things that bring joy. A must read.

Nonsense like this is why Litsy is my preferred social media ❤️

Have you watched this on Netflix?! It‘s a must watch, especially if you find yourself wasting time on FB and Instagram. 🙋‍♀️ Really informative and infuriating…

I really hope for a rebuttal from William because I‘m not buying some of the exchanges as Harry remembers them. He reminds me of the stereotypical youngest uncle that can‘t hold a job and drinks too much and dabbles in hard drugs. He tries hard occasionally but falters again after about a week on the wagon. That‘s not really what happens but the personality seems the same 😅. Despite skimming some parts, I couldn‘t put it down and enjoyed it!

“It was merely one man‘s self-justifying, self-centering version of events.” Umm, my first thought was how similar that sounds to what I‘m currently reading…🤔😕😒🤴