@REPollock - congrats on your #big10k ! This Halloween I‘m revisiting my first “real job” and am heading to work in my original Blockbuster Video uniform...still searching for some khakis, but there‘s still time. #WowWhatADifference

A colleague‘s daughter and her friend made this graphic novel (Deathwish) featuring the guys from My Chemical Romance. I ordered their first two issues and enjoyed what I‘ve read so far. These ladies are impressive...love seeing talent and people making their dreams a reality!

#7Days7Covers #Day7

#7Days7Covers #Day6 #Inspired

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Consider yourself tagged, if you‘d like to participate. Seven days, seven covers - no explanation required.
#Day1 Thanks for the tag, @Connster 🤗!

Just signed up for this WW themed 5K at my university. My first 5K - and I‘m not the least bit in shape...LOL. Time to get moving!

1. I‘m about 10 mins from Rutgers University (R-U-Rah-Rah)!
2. Fall-like! 🤗 🍁
3. Blind double date...the other couple was dating for sometime and no one was helpful with conversation. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
4. Two kiddos 👦🏻👧🏻 - No pets
5. 👌🏼
#friyayintro @howjessreads

📖 Doctor Sleep
🎥 Sleeping with the Enemy
🎼 Asleep - The Smiths
#manicmonday #wishitwasFriday @JoScho

1. This was a #BOTM bust
2. New Girl - this is my go-to “pick me up”
3. Coffee & yogurt (so I‘ll be hungry by 11 🤦🏻‍♀️)
4. EST
5. Green Midnight (I‘m loving everyone‘s band names!) 🤘🏼

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Oddly...these two kiddos kind of resemble my own two... 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. Started reading this yesterday - a treat from @BekahPat 🤗
2. Celebration with families: birthdays, bbqs...and beer! 🍻🤞🏼
3. Mint chocolate chip...followed by cookies & cream
4. Nope - played the piano & the viola through middle school, sang through college 🎶🎵
5. 🙌🏼👍🏼👋🏼
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My wonderful #penpal and #birthdaybuddy has showered me with love and kindness once again! 🤗🥰 Thank you, @BekahPat - you‘re so thoughtful. I promise I will be able to sit down and write soon. xoxo

Most importantly: Happy Birthday to You! 🥳

I devoured this co-memoir in a little over a day! It wasn‘t what I expected (more about their podcasting/love of true crime), but I enjoyed hearing more about their histories and journeys...and appreciated the little kicks in the ass delivered along the way. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I so enjoyed this novel. I loved the non-linear storytelling; I loved piecing the story together in bits and pieces. This is my kind of storytelling: not necessarily easy to follow, but a great story of family, faults, and figuring s--t out. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Thank you, @BekahPat for sharing this title with me. 🥰$

Next up...started this podcast from Episode 1. Slowly moving along (Episode 28 started last night). #SSDGM

I got to experience a show at the #GrandOleOpry last night...Alice Cooper. Not who I would‘ve expected to see while in TN, but so worth it. At 71, the man can perform. Such a fun show!

In Nashville for a work-related conference, but got here a few days early to enjoy some time with the hubs. The only “must do”: Parnassus Books. Our 2nd order of business this morning (after food). Walked out with a few new books for the shelves at home. 📚

I‘m not a #BBRC -er (what does that stand for? 🤷🏻‍♀️👵🏼). It‘s impossible for me to choose between the last two sets...impossible! For those open to sandwich exploration: try some PB&CC or PB&LC sandwiches...these are a favorite treat of mine. Best enjoyed freshly made.

📖 Please, Puppy, Please (a kids‘ favorite, I my house)
🎥 Dog Day Afternoon
🎶 Puppy Love
#manicmonday @JoScho (#iwishitwasSunday)

It‘s been a long time coming, but I finished the Che Guevara biography (thanks to a productive June with days off to focus on making progress). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ on Goodreads & a🤘🏼on #Litsy for anyone wanting a thorough, well-researched, highly detailed chunkster of a read.

1. Harry Potter...but if we go old school, Baby-Sitters Club
2. Mayo - not a fan...only used with tuna (and sparingly)
3. Thankfully, none
4. One older sister - almost exactly 3 years apart
5. 👍🏼🙌🏼👌🏼
#friYAYintro @howjessreads #flashbackFriYAY

Another important, honest, and open work from Haig. How has society, technology, social media, culture changed, and how have those changes impacted our daily lives? This may be the only book I finish in June, but it was a good one. Lots to highlight and reflect upon.

1. Notes on a Nervous Planet (M. Haig), But What If We‘re Wrong (C. Klosterman), Che: A Revolutionary Life (J. Anderson)
2. The tagged book is next up for my book club. I‘m double excited as I received a copy of this book from my #LitsyPenPal, @BekahPat (who highly recommended it). 🤗
3. Searching for John Hughes (J. Diamond)
Happy #weekendreads to all!

Yayayayay! Just arrived today... @Gayan you inspired me to move on the purchase! 🤗 #SSDGM #MurderinoInTraining 😉

Maisie and I got off to a slow start. For a while I was wondering whether or not I was reading the first in the series...I appreciated greatly the jump back in time for her full story. From there, I was enthralled and didn‘t want to put the book down. I haven‘t read much WWI-based fiction...I found myself thinking about Downton Abbey, too. Anyone else?? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

1. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤗🙌🏼 (As a bonus: 🥳. There‘s been a lot of celebratory texts lately.👍🏼)
2. No! I work at a university and graduation is next weekend, but that‘s as close as I get this month.
3. Travel to/from NY (from NJ) to celebrate Mom(s). “Muffins with Mom” at my kids‘ daycare this afternoon. 🤗
4. Younger of two daughters, born 2 years, 362 days apart. I came home from the hospital on her birthday! #BestGiftEver ?!?! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣
5. 🙌🏼🤷🏻‍♀️🤗

Nine...NINE bags of books!! A local school is having a book sale for project graduation and these bags of books are on their way to the donation station in the morning. A great opportunity to #declutter, but there are still sooooo many titles on my shelves. #JustKeepReading 📚📚📚

Quick motivational bursts...keeping this close by for those days when I need a pat on the back.

I enjoyed this, though it was not what I expected at first. Reid builds the suspense slowly, and towards the end I knew I had to stay up and finish. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ and a half.

My choice of donuts (yes, 🍩🍩🍩) has placed me in Gryffindor... (I‘m more Hufflepuff, but this was a cute start to my day.) See how you choice of 🍩 sorts you!
https://www.bookish.com/articles/quiz-donuts-hogwarts-house/ Mmmmm...donuts! 🤤

Current bedside stack - got the bottom three this weekend: picked up O‘Farrell & Murakami @strandbookstore & received the tagged book from my sister (I have a soft spot for 80s teen movies 😍). The top two are current reads, not so newly acquired.

Thank you for the tag, @MrBook 🤗! While I‘m not swapping, I can‘t resist.
☀️ Somewhere with a breezy, beautiful view (pool or beach)
☀️ 🍇 🍒 🍉
☀️Lounging poolside
☀️I‘m an ice cold beer, kinda gal 🍻
☀️Sunblock...and a book...and sunglasses 😎
☀️Early morning on the deck
☀️Tag, you‘re it!
Happy swapping to all participating in @BookishMarginalia ‘s swap! Thanks, @hermyknee for the prompts! 👍🏼

Do you ever see another person reading nearby and wonder, “What are they reading?” I‘m at a show, and a nearby woman is reading the tagged book. It‘s the only book in view. #ThisIsSpinalTap #35thAnniversary #TribecaFilmFestival #BeaconTheater

💜Read this book! 💜 I finished Jacob‘s memoir a few days ago and have been struggling to find the “right” words.

They tell their story without hesitation. Jacob doesn‘t pretend to sugarcoat their experience or who they are; they tell their story, share their experiences with frankness & honesty: the bad, the ugly, the better. And they do so with humor and intellect.

Filled to the brim with positivity and light. This book will have a permanent bedside home. 📚🥰

Coming back to Che after a significant hiatus. Trying to focus on making headway in the two weeks leading up to my next book club meeting...

1. Jacob Tobia‘s Sissy
2. To NY on Saturday for a family Easter celebration; “relaxing” at the house on Sunday
3. Yes! Something I‘ve come to appreciate as a grownup
4. Alicia or Ronnie (Veronica) or Frankie
5. 🙌🏼👍🏼🤗
@howjessreads #friyayintro
Happy #Easter and #Passover to those celebrating this weekend!

Today I learned that Jerome Flynn (Bronn) was previously half of the 90s duo Robson & Jerome. Wikipedia tells me that Simon Cowell was a factor in getting these two to put a record together. If you want a song stuck in your brain for the next few hours, check out “Up on the Roof” 🤦🏻‍♀️. You won‘t thank me for this. But maybe you‘ll have a laugh. 🤷🏻‍♀️

1. The Likeness (Tana French) & Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story (Jacob Tobia)
2. 🤗 & 🤷🏻‍♀️
3. 👍🏼🍻🦵

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Best footnote ever?! #RIPToysRUs

Looking forward to reading Tobia‘s memoir. Their voice is smart, funny, and honest. This is sure to leave a mark.

The Room. It‘s amazing how bad this movie is. Incongruous...plot holes galore...and yet...amazing. Sestero takes the reader through the wild ride that is his friendship with The Room‘s mastermind: Tommy Wiseau. As crazy-bizarre as he appears to be, I have to give Wiseau major credit for bringing his dream to reality (🤔 how did he find this thing?!). Of course, I need to rewatch both movies. 🤷🏻‍♀️💣🎥

Coming in at under 150 pages, this is a densely packed exploration of the forecasted changes to the future of higher education.

Read this with my 4yo son over the course of the past month at bed time. He enjoyed it, and I was surprised he wasn‘t scared by the content and images. He loves the movie, so I‘m sure that helped a lot! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Ummm...anyone else tempted to give this # a call?! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️😂 #TheRoom #TheDisasterArtist

It feels appropriate to finish this on St. Patrick‘s Day.

I appreciate that the resolution wasn‘t tidy and perfect: questions remain unanswered, which feels more true to life. Ryan is an unreliable narrator, which we know from the opening lines...and I‘m okay with that, though I know it can irk others.

I‘m glad I started with the first book in the DMS series, especially since we see more of Maddox in The Likeness.