pickPage turner! This heartfelt, smart mystery had me up way past my bedtime. McConaghy‘s writing is beautiful. The tension between her characters, the landscape, and the secrets contained in all are absolutely compelling! Can‘t wait to see what #CampLitsy says!
pickFast, fun, warm, whimsical read! It‘s like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mr. Lemoncello‘s Library but the kids are now adults. 😅
so-soNot a fan, but I‘m not the target audience either. It‘s the story of high schooler Christina/Bree as she getting hooked on drugs which changes her life. Written as poetry, listened to it via audiobook, lots of cringe moments, lots of trigger warnings. #WithTheBanned
👏👏👏 You tell him, Captain!
Whether it‘s 1778 or today, no means no. I‘m loving Evelina so much!
Loving this book (audio version on Spotify) so much! It‘s about the women authors that influenced Jane Austen. It might take me a whole year to get through it because after each chapter, I want to go read something from the author she‘s talking about! Fascinating! #ThankYouLitsy for the recommendation!
Made it over to my favorite local bookstore in honor of #IndependentBookstoreDay (/weekend😅). Beers Books motto is “Still No Beer” 😂. Grabbed some fun stuff and a coffee from my favorite local coffee shop. It was wonderful to see both places busy. Hurray! 🎉
(Cosmo, my dog, was mad he didn‘t get to go and tried to take it out on the tote. He got over it with a treat.)
Hurray! It‘s here and thank you, @TheBookHippie 🥰 Can‘t wait to dive in right after I finish Rapture and Melancholy with #SundayBuddyRead 💗📚
pickRich family saga spanning 1910-1989. I didn‘t know much about Korea and Japan during this time—so interesting!
pickRe-read this for #WithTheBanned and remembered why I loved it so much. Honest, hopeful, and yes it deals with serious stuff in a sincere, thoughtful way. Now I think I need to go re-watch the movie 💗
Books + Pets + Kids + Nature (and repeat)… yep, pretty much sums up my life right now 😅 That was fun!
Congratulations on reaching 200K 😯 @dabbe 🥳 #moodboardcontest/#mbc
📗 I loved The Briar Club (tagged) so much! It features my favorite trope of found family and a wide array of strong, female characters. So good!
📕 I couldn‘t get through Anxious People. I just couldn‘t get into it🤷🏻♀️
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Just realized that Art Spiegelman (Maus‘ artist/author) drew Garbage Patch Kids 🤯 Blast from my childhood. Thanks, American Masters on PBS!
https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/03/art_spiegelman_tells_the_story...
1. Today was a lot. Just put away my computer and tomorrow is looking to be more intense (6 hours of being on an interview panel for a new principal after 4 hours of teaching—ugh).
2. I find most affirmations cheesy, but many of my students love them. Whatever works to get ya through the day🤷🏻♀️ My fav: It‘ll be good. It‘ll be great. It‘ll be over.
@Kerrbearlib #MentalHealthMonday
Joining my voice to the choir singing this historical fiction book‘s praises. Sixty percent in and loving all the quirky, found family vibes of this boarding house of women circa 1950‘s DC. It‘s making me need to go watch A League of Their Own (maybe Fried Green Tomatoes) too⚾️😭💗
#LiteraryCrew
This quote summed up perfectly how I‘m feeling this weekend. 😅🤧 Gotta love Edna St. Vincent Millay #SundayBuddyRead
“Nearly 400 volumes were removed from the academy‘s library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s office ordered it to remove books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.” 😢
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna200012
Can‘t wait to see it! Sadly, it is more relevant now than ever. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/art-spiegelman-documentary/35215/
Proceeds go to American Library Association (at least that‘s how I‘m justifying this cozy impulse buy😅). They have tote bags too… #BookNerd 📚🤓 https://plotthreadsshop.com/collections/libby-collection/
I have only seen 23. 😬 So many had such high Rotten Tomatoes scores, I need to check some more of them out! Adding to my list. 😅I feel like films like Taxi and Network are important ones that most everyone has seen. Tess intrigues me too because I love historical dramas, and I‘m thinking it may be based on the tagged novel. Thanks, @dabbe ! #TLT
Can‘t believe it was already available. 😱 Snagged on Hoopla! Feel like I won the lotto! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
@DebinHawaii #JoysFriday
1. Successfully led an art museum field trip for 100 6th graders + parents—Whew! 🙌
2. Hearing students spot art they recognized from class as if it was a celebrity (There‘s the Kehinde Wiley! There‘s the ceramics I did my project on!) 😎
3. Going to visit my daughter at college today 🚙💨
4. Random three day weekend 👏👏
5. #SundayBuddyRead on Litsy 🥰
Happy Spring, everyone!
My #SpringCardSwap is in the mail! 💌🌸🌺🌷🌼
Time for an audiowalk before the pre-spring showers get going here! 💗
Three different countries and time periods for me this weekend. 😊
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
🎬 https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-awards-for-best-picture
🎬I‘ve seen 40 of them! I didn‘t realize that I had watched so many.
🎬 I especially liked Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (watched it probably 10 times), Coda made me cry in the best way, and Chicago is my favorite musical.
Written just a decade after Brontë‘s Villette, but Braddon‘s book feels more modern somehow. Going into this without knowing much but enjoying it so far ? #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
Very random ?
Type "Literally my character" into your Pinterest search bar and see what you get!
#literallymycharacter @TheBookHippie
Enjoying this classic even more than I expected! Lucy‘s story is full of twists and I like her so much. Thanks, @Librarybelle for putting this back on my radar with #LiteraryCrew
Eye-opening and so informative! I feel so seen listening to this book by a doctor who specializes in menopause (after going through it herself).
A friend recommended it to me today when I told her about the strange, intense shoulder pain I‘ve been having lately. It‘s called “frozen shoulder”—I‘m not the only one!
Time to bury myself in a book. . . Um, but this one centering on a divisive, cluelessly(?) cruel speaker with a cult following might cut too close to home!
Merry #Jolabokaflod, everyone! Thank you, @Laughterhp for choosing the perfect book for me. I can cancel the library hold I put in forever ago and enjoy it over the holiday break. 😊 The chocolates look yummy too. Can‘t wait to dig in! @MaleficentBookDragon
My gift was mailed out on Saturday. Can‘t wait for opening day! ⛄️📦💗🍫📚
#JolabokaflodSwap24 #JS2024 @MaleficentBookDragon
pick#10 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series had me laughing like the others but also crying hard. Crying hard over a duck at that (#iykyk)! The main plot would have seemed inconceivable to me 10 years ago. However,after seeing blatant corruption in the highest levels of our government embraced in the real world, it feels sadly plausible. Another great read by Penny—entertainment with heart that makes you think. 👩🍳💋
pickI finished The Brutal Telling (Gamache book #5) and Bury Your Dead (book #6) this month. Both are fantastic detective novels with so much art, history, compassion, and culture of #Canada incorporated into them. I just can‘t get enough of Chief Inspector Gamache or Three Pines though these two novels took very sad turns.
Also enjoyed the fun Canadian treats from @mcctrish and will need to be finding another Coffee Crisp someday yum! #FoodandLit
pickI didn‘t fully grasp the switches from first to third person or the nuances of being an influencer in the online sex industry. However, I loved the found family feels of this book featuring a strong protagonist who finds her own path through some tough times.
Election Night in the U.S. is like waiting to get to the final chapter of a book with an unreliable narrator 😬
Hurray! It‘s like Xmas came early! Thank you, @mcctrish for all the Canadian style treats. I will enjoy them while binging Chief Inspector Gamache novels this month as this is the most correct way to celebrate #Canada month for #FoodAndLit I believe😅🍁
@Catsandbooks @Texreader
pickThe village of Three Pines grows more dear with each book! In this one, the mystery that shrouds the whole series deepens as Gamache works to solve a death at a seance at the creepy Hadley Manor.
Book #3 of the Chief Inspector Gamache series is terrific! I listened to the audiobook version because it had a shorter wait. What a voice! Makes me want to try learning French. I guess I‘m in my Three Pines era now. 🌲🌲🌲
Dear Libby, You‘ve been saying “available soon” for 2 whole days. Waiting is torture… 😅
So hard to wait for the next book in the series sometimes! Would it be awful to load up the next 10 in my holds? 😂 Might be asking for trouble if they all come in at once or out of order… 🤔 #BookNerdProblems
pickSo freaking good! This series has been on my #tbr for a while, but the size of the series was daunting… It has so much more depth than I expected. I love Penny‘s take on the bookish detective with Chief Inspector Gamache. Plus the village of Three Pines is swoon worthy! Lives up to the hype!
pickI think I‘m on a short, strange novel kick for autumn. This one is twisty, timey-whimy with a splash of romance and magic.
The heroine is brave, young, and ready to break her family‘s curse. Are all the Farrow women destined to go mad or is something else at play?
pickGothic, campy, strange, and yes, fun. Great, fast read for October.
Vesper has never felt like she fit in and returns to her strange family home to seek some answers. Then things get creepy… and creepier…
Robbie Stumblecheese, pleased to meet you. 😊
pickI‘ll join my voice to the choir signing this book‘s praises. Fantastic read takes you like a summer blackfly buzzing around hearing family and community secrets when a child‘s disappearance in the same woods years after her brother‘s disappearance sets everyone on edge.
