Okay, so I‘m not actually digging into my #AuthorAMonth selection until a bit later in June, but since I stirred up so much controversy I thought I‘d pull my copy of this off the shelf now before I caused any more trouble 😅🤣 You ladies can let me know if you agree with my assessment or if I‘m just a wuss. 🤗💙 @BarkingMadRead @dabbe @Soubhiville

It‘s the 2nd! New #bookspinbingo boards are soooo much fun! @TheAromaofBooks Thanks 🙏☺️💛

@TheAromaofBooks Excellent spins!!!! My #bookspin is one of the 2 #CampLitsy books I‘d hoped to join in for (though I‘ll never get my Libby copy read in time to actually do that, so I may buy an audio version) and my #doublespin was the #Roll100 book I was most excited about reading last month but never managed to, so now I have extra motivation to go back to it.

Happy Pride Month Litsy! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I usually compile a fiction reading list for Pride, but I‘ve decided to get the tagged book instead this year. I have a tiny studio apartment and I‘m wondering if anyone owns photo books on kindle/tablet and if that works or if this is the kind of thing I just need to carve out space for?

“Oh, no.” Mariel Spark stared at the startled chicken that had materialized on her kitchen counter. “That wasn‘t what I meant to do.” #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I‘m having a tough time figuring out how to rate this. There were aspects I adored! And others that drove me completely crazy! Overall I think this is a book you get obsessed with, and I‘m all for that.

Winging its way to @5feet.of.fury tomorrow #lmpbc Group W 🧙🏽‍♀️

#EveryBreathYouTake I know I‘m not the only one who thinks this song is creepy. Even Sting has admitted it in interviews! 😂😅 #VolumesAndVocals @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#stow #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

@BarkingMadRead Starting this copy today for #hashtagbrigade with the #pemberlittens. I‘m super excited about this one!!

#stop #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#EdgeOfSeventeen is about the first major sudden losses that Stevie Nicks had to grieve, and the tagged book is about a slower type of grief later in life, but it was the first connection that came to mind. This photo is from the back jacket cover of the book. #VolumesAndVocals @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I haven‘t really been sticking to my lists lately, but I‘m going to try this out for June and see what happens. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

May wasn‘t much of a reading month. I did finish my #doublespin (a buddyread we‘d read half of in April), but didn‘t even manage to start my #bookspin. A Room of One‘s Own was my favorite read this month, with Devil in the White City following closely behind. Hopefully next month I‘ll manage to focus more on my reading. I‘m carrying a lot of these unread titles over to my June TBR, and leaving more blank spaces for mood reading. @TheAromaofBooks

AAE doesn‘t qualify as #weirdwords but I was thrilled to hear that The Oxford dictionary of African American English is currently being created and I wanted to share instead of my usual weekly entry in case people hadn‘t heard. I‘m so excited based on the initial entries they released to the NYT recently! I‘m sorry to say I was completely oblivious to the history of this fairly common word, so I know I have a lot to learn from this project. @CBee

Maybe not strictly in the sunshiny spirit of #Nat‘lSmileDay as the day was originally founded by dentists and meant to remind people of our capacity for joy… BUT, this may be my biggest pet peeve ever, and I‘m in love with the street art project this book is about and the movement this woman has sparked!!! #MayMontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#sterile #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Skating in just under the wire with my #AAM selection. What a fabulous read! Thank you so much to all the Littens who recommended it! I bought a physical copy of it around the time it was first published, but had no patience for nonfiction back then & didn‘t make it very far into the story. I‘ve always meant to go back to it, & I‘m so glad I finally did! This was informative & exciting, it won‘t be my last Eric Larson. #Booked2023 #AboutAMonster

#step #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#stencil #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

I stubbornly remain in my funky little ‘I‘m still reading, but at a snail‘s pace‘ slump… This week I read the last chunk of Outrun The Moon & caught up on #LesMisCAD which I‘d fallen pretty far behind on. No Progress on Wollstonecraft or Dickinson so they‘ll roll over to June w the bulk of my May TBR. Next week I‘m hoping to finish The Lighthouse Witches & The Devil in the White City, but prob won‘t start anything new. #BookReport #WeeklyForecast

This Hulu miniseries perfectly embodies #GirlPower by portraying these iconic women so well you actually believe you‘re watching 20 something Gloria Steinem, and by perfectly capturing the frenzied energy of the age that we could maybe do with a bit of today. It‘s also a great history lesson for any daughters of the digital age. Who else is MAD we still haven‘t managed to ratify the ERA?!! 😡🤬 #MayMontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#stem #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#ThinkPositiveBePositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

thanks for the tag @dabbe !

#stellar #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#FaceOnCover #MayMontage I had a mini version of this coffee table book in the 90s, and flipped through the portraits until the binding disintegrated. Like most people at the time, I was captivated by “Afghan Girl” and her striking green eyes, but even more than the 1984 National Geographic cover shot which was used for the cover of this Phaidon collection (left) I remember the controversy surrounding the photo in the 90s.👇🏼

#Dark #MayMontage A few years ago I went searching for THE dark, creepy story that‘s lurked in the corners of my imagination for years, & found this. It seems a whole generation of kids was traumatized by the same story & they first read it here, & now the internet is filled with info about it. The newest piece I saw is about replacing the sublime but terrifying artwork for more kid appropriate illustrations. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#steer #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Finished our #sundaybuddyread book today. This was my first time reading Stacy Lee and I‘m definitely a fan! She took a pivotal piece of our history, that certainly got glossed over in my education, and really brought it to life with the perfect amount of depth and complexity for a YA audience.

#weirdwords I can‘t remember what book I was reading recently that had the word INDITE in it, but it caught me off guard, and struck me as one that my fellow Littens would appreciate. @CBee

I know tons of people hate #therapy books, and they‘re not the first thing I reach for, but I just loved this one when I read it a few years back!!! It was funny and real, and has stuck with me. #maymontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#steep #poetrmatters @TheSpineView

I just saw the most heartfelt message about book bans from Amanda Gorman on her instagram account after her poem was banned in a Florida school district. I was feeling all the emotions I typically feel when I hear a story like this, and then I read the details of the single, parent complaint she shared that led to the ban, and now I‘m livid! How can we live somewhere where this was upheld?????

#steed #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Reposting for @Andrew65
All welcome to join, either aim to read for 20 hours over the four days, read 20 chapters or set your own goal. A very fun, informal and relaxed Readathon.
To join before Friday just post either the books you are aiming to read and / or your goal (s).

How is it already the end of May! This hasn‘t been much of a reading month for me, so I‘m going to try to sneak in as much reading time as possible during this #20in4

#steam #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

@suvata Thank you for sending this under along with the next #lmpbc book! It looks like a lot of fun and I could totally use something light right now! 💛🩷💛

#stalk #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#bookreport #weeklyforecast This was another slow reading week, but the highlight was definitely A Room of One‘s Own. As slim a volume as it is, there were sections I‘d either never read or didn‘t remember, and I was happy to be able to finally get to appreciate this in its entirety because it was a book that really spoke to me. @Cinfhen

#steal #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

The lighthouse was called the Longing. #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I have a weakness for epistolary novels, but I sometimes forget that in addition to the traditional exchange of #letters💌 they also include a whole range of other forms of documents and communications. I think it‘s fascinating that the tagged book (one of my favorite of all time) makes lists of epistolary novels, when you don‘t learn till the epilogue that it‘s being told as one. #MayMontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#steak #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Just suffused with powerful quotes I want to remember. Woolf clearly saw the systemic reasons there were so few women writers and artists throughout history, and what it would take to begin to change that.

#steady #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#Queen #MayMontage This was one of my top reads of last year, AND the Netflix adaptation was killer! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Currently reading the tagged book which is dual timeline. The past is set on a fictional remote Scottish island named Lòn Haven.
2. I love it when authors capture the vibe of little neighborhoods nestled in big cities, so I‘m drawn to stories set in London, Manhattan, etc… Luckily for me there are so many to choose from!
3. I have a thing for closed settings so I love me a boarding school, spaceship, crazy small town, cult. #wondrouswednesday

There‘s just so much of women‘s history that I don‘t know! Clearly I‘ll have to seek out this woman‘s work.

I was charmed by the derivation of this word when I came across it this week. #weirdwords @CBee

#state #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

On my TBR #bridge #maymontage @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks