Finally back to my happy place, reading at the water park. And I am loving this book! 💕🌈
mvegabec Nice place!!! Enjoy the day Lara!😁😘 2mo
britt_brooke Nice!! 2mo
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Finally back to my happy place, reading at the water park. And I am loving this book! 💕🌈
In honor of Hemingway‘s 120th bday today, this was our favorite stop on our recent cruise. The Ernest Hemingway House (and his sweet polydactyl cats) in Key West. What a treasure!
Clockwise from upper left: a chair in his office complete with cat underneath; Harry Truman; leaving Key West on the ship while reading A Farewell to Arms; Daisy Buchanan; typewriter still set up untouched; and me & my girl with his books.
It was our fave stop!
Sunday night MOOD. 🐈😴
Only 75 pages in on this. So far, as a parent, it‘s a pretty tough read. Interested to see where it goes!
It‘s after midnight CST and we leave bright & early to drive to the port city for our cruise. So I have excitedly torn into my #summersantagoespostal package. Thank you so much @KCCOkatey I really love all of these goodies! I hope everyone has a wonderful opening night/day!
@BookishMarginalia
Y‘all, I am so sorry I have been MIA! Life has been crazy the last few weeks since I have been working overtime to get time off for our cruise next week! Every other moment has been spent trying to get ready for said cruise. 😩
But I got the most LOVELY #litsylove smile box from the beautiful @Stacypatrice Stacy, you are such a sweetie! I loved this box of smiles & am really looking forward to reading Angela‘s Ashes! Thank you with all my ❤️!
pickReading slump ✅ Exercise slump ✅ So I decided to re-read this series which I love & finally unpack my bike from storage to get back outside and off the stationary bike. The wind almost killed me yesterday, but so happy to be biking again. Hoping to finish out these last 2 weeks of #bookfitnesschallenge on a high note! #bfc @wanderinglynn
@mvegabec I‘m waiting on one more thing to pack & then this is on the way to you!! Not much travel distance between Oklahoma & Texas, so I know it‘ll get there in time. But didn‘t want you to worry! 📦📭📚💕 @BookishMarginalia
I truly believe that reading opens hearts & minds. When you fall in love with a character, their struggles become your struggles. And their happiness matters to you. I feel so blessed to be able to read anything I could possibly want! Happy #PrideMonth everyone! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
#diversebooks #lgbt #lgbtq #queerbooks #pride #rainbow #bookrainbow #readtherainbow
Ru is my GuRu!! It‘s almost crowning time! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Most of the wonderful things I know, Ru has taught me! “If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen?!” 💋💅🏼💃 #dragrace #rupaulsdragrace
My #motivation @wanderinglynn 💕🌺 When life is bringing me down, I put on my headphones & shut out the noise. I escape to some fictional world where everything is better. And then I try really hard to remember the beauty that exists in this one. It really can overcome the ugly!
Not keeping track of #bookfitnesschallenge points, but a much better fitness week than last, and still on track for book total! Thanks to all you #bfc-ers out there!
“The truth is we are perfect.”
Yesterday was #realeaseday #bookmail delivery for me! So happy!
Then today I get home and read the latest unbelievable news to come out of this administration.
Y‘all, I‘m struggling. I just get so down with every new destruction of human rights that is thrown at us, and I feel so powerless lately to stop the wrecking ball of hate. I just keep thinking, if only people would read & open up their minds a little.
The laziest of lazy Sunday mornings! 😻😻😴 Messy covers, don‘t care. 🤷🏻♀️
Best thing about my #bfc evening walks: the scenery, the delicious smell of the honeysuckle all along the park, and getting to listen to Henry & Alex bicker & make up.
Worst thing: the MOSQUITOS! 🦟 They are out in full force due to all the rain we‘ve had.
My fitness goal was only partially attained this week, since life happened. But I‘m looking forward to a new week! #bookfitnesschallenge
I am so excited to start this! The Kiss Quotient was one of my surprise LOVES of last year, so I am eager to jump right into this before work today! Just downloaded the audiobook too, now trying to motivate myself to take my daily walk for #bfc It was a crazy late night at work last night, so I am dragging a little this morning. Coffee & my birds are helping me feel alive again though! 💕☕️🐦📖 #bookfitnesschallenge
Holy moly, I am blown away! I was out back planting some succulents last night when my husband came out & said “You have a package from Australia!”
@Rissreads Nerissa, I am in LOVE with this UK cover of The Bear and the Nightingale! For me, British covers are always so much lovelier than American covers. And I have been wanting to read this for some time! Thank you for thinking of me & for the sweet card & bookmark. You are so sweet! #litsylove
I am super excited to join the #bookfitnesschallenge and thank you so much @wanderinglynn for hosting it!
It‘s perfect because it ends the day before we leave on our cruise & I‘ll have motivation & accountability to get in better shape!
I set my goals as 9 books in the 6 weeks and 3 days walking/2 days biking per week!
Signup & details here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAU4kKH7WFJxnoEg0F2JKMMyhfxC0i3lPlRS1E...
My crazy & beautiful life has been hard to balance lately, but coming home to a #litsylove care package from @AmyG just made me feel so wonderful!
I can‘t wait to read this. It looks so good! And based on the blurb, sounds like it fits the #beautifulcrazy prompt to a T! Thank you so much for thinking of me, Amy. 💕💌 I really love our snail mail chats!
#amonthofsongs
“And now that you don‘t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
Not sure if Ali loves Steinbeck or just wants to attack his sister‘s tail as it swooshes by. 😹
#eastside #amonthofsongs
First thing that came to mind for #longandwindingroad I have loved these characters through so much of my life. Not much most of us wouldn‘t go through to get ‘home.‘ #beatlemaynia
Sorry, couldn‘t resist! In less than an hour... #itsgonnabemay 🤣🤣 #itsgonnabeme #amonthofsongs
April Stats:
2 audiobooks
2 print
3 ebooks
2 graphic novels
Oh, Oklahoma! Not exactly how I was planning to spend my last day before heading back to work! ⚡️⛈🌪 It‘s officially springtime in the Midwest. Surprisingly, like most Okies, I could sit and watch weather for hours & hours and never get tired of it. Conversely ratchets up my anxiety & soothes me at the same time. 🤷🏻♀️
Starting this one now. Another #blameitonlitsy choice, brought to me by @sprainedbrain this time. I‘m very susceptible recently it seems. 🤣🤷🏻♀️ Enjoying just a couple more days before heading back to work. Sitting out back watching the storm clouds roll in now. Man I love the smell of rain! #booked2019 #nightorientedtitle
This is a total #blameitonlitsy and I couldn‘t be happier! 💕 I am flying through it but don‘t want it to end. Thanks to @IheartYA for the post that I first saw this & knew I had to have it. It‘s so good! Plus, perfect for #booked2019 #foodorbeverageoncover Enjoying a beautiful Oklahoma day & one of my favorite things: #readingoutside
#readjarder2019 #task1
pickExcuse the face, I think I cried for 3 hours straight! No tears left. 😭 But it was so good!! And so many thoughts to write in the journal. 🤗🧡💜💛💚❤️💙 So glad the parents & kiddo could join me. #avengers #endgame #avengersendgame
pickA heartbreaking love story. These two just seep into your bones over time, and everything they are feeling feels so heavy to you too. It‘s painful. It‘s hurtful. And hopeful? The characters are compelling. Lonely. And frustrating, but in a completely relatable way. I had no idea what to expect going in, but listening to the audiobook I was hooked right away. It also deals with some pretty heavy issues, but in a very realistic way. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I‘m probably overdoing it, but I don‘t care! I NEED to be planting after a rainy morning & now beautiful 63°, no wind day! ⛅️??? Started this #audiobook and now I‘m 3.5 hours in and loving it! Really enjoying the characters. Is it going to break my heart?! ?♥️?
#audiogardening #gardening #planting #flowers #scribd
Hiding in the back seat of the truck between volley ball games. My body is not having a full day of VB in the seats today. 😔 Debating between starting this for #booked2019 #nightorientedtitle or taking a nap! 😴
“She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
#church #springintoreading
Hi guys! I‘ve been missing you all. Thanks so much to everyone who has been checking in on me! I‘m doing ok! Just been too tired to do much at all.
I knew after this surgery it would be hard to focus on reading. So I decided to make my way through the MCU, in chronological order. It‘s all I‘ve been doing for 7 days, in-between naps/sleep. Refresher on some, some I‘d missed entirely. Non-release order gave it a new feel I think. Only 1 to go!
When standing out is a bad thing... Just like in a lot of dystopian fiction, #cliques are the key to staying alive in this story. And looking like & thinking like 5000 other girls is a good thing. But where would the fun be in that?🤷🏻♀️🤣
Happy to feel well enough to take a pic out back today & what a difference a week made with these blooms. Although we‘ll be close to freezing another night I guess.😭With a deluge tomorrow. #springintoreading
No time for any true #selfcaresunday. Surgery in the morning & have to be at the hospital at 5:30am. But stealing a few moments out back while I chug this bowel prep in my Thunder cup hoping it‘ll go down easier, lol! 🤢
Also trying to finish Wuthering Heights since I have never read it. I must say, this is not the story I thought it was going to be. 🤣🤣 These are some really terrible people. Do people really love this? Somebody tell me why?
Eight hours of 🏐 down and we‘re waiting on the next matchup! 😬💜 Plenty if downtime reading today. Although it‘s starting to get a little uncomfortable. Really enjoying this YA about lots of almosts & ‘the time that Time lost‘. 💛💙 Plus, total #coverlove 😍
Home from work just in time to snap a quick pic for the #flowers prompt for #springintoreading This is my first challenge pic of the month, but I knew I couldn‘t miss this one. And this is one of my favorite floral covers ever in my favorite floral pot from my mommy! 💕🌷🌹💐
Plus, I‘m having surgery Monday, so it‘ll be a while before I can do any more planting/gardening. 😭😭😭 Had to get a few things done out back this week!
What a treat! You are beyond thoughtful @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks! 💕 I have been wanting to read this book for some time! And you KNOW I adore this postcard! 🌷🌹💐 So beautiful! I don‘t have many flowers peeking through just yet, but these purple phlox decided to bloom just in time to take a pic for you! Also, I am in love with these #litsylove bookmarks. Thanks so much to you and @TheBookHippie for having those made. ☺️
Oh, my goodness Helen! It got too late to post this last night. My heart is so full! ☺️ Thank you so much for sharing this piece of your honeymoon with me! 💕🧳✈️ The wooden bookmark from South Africa is just beautiful & the Parisian postcard & bookmark make me feel like I am right there! I am blessed! And I‘ve been inspired to keep all my #litsylove in my vintage train case. So just like reading, I‘m traveling the world with lovely friends! 😍
Running out the door to pick up the kiddo from school & the postman hands me a beautifully floral pack of #litsylove! Can not wait to open it when I get home @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank You!!! 💕
1. The Shawshank Redemption
Every. Single. Time. It‘s. On.
2. X-Men
3. New Zealand is my heart‘s desire 💕🇳🇿
4. Contemporary Fiction/YA
5. English and not enough Spanish to be respectable. 😭
#premondayvibes @pepsicola
Thanks for the tag! @nelehelen
#whatwouldyoudo
1) Outlander...Not my fave, but it‘s long & utterly re-readable. 📖☺️
2) Jamie...of course. 🤷🏻♀️😍
3) Claire. Sorry, love you girl, but one of y‘all has to go. 😜
4) The Tartans! How else are we gonna cuddle on that desert island. 🤣
@Stacypatrice @Kerrioke
#booked2019 winter season prompts complete! I feel like booked & #readharder both are helping me to read some new things I never would have explored otherwise! ❤️ The tagged book, for example. So thankful for the Litsy community who has brought such fun challenges into my life!
When you need to finish your online training before your upcoming CPR class, but you have JUST ONE MORE #booked2019 winter book to finish. There‘s no teacher here to scold me for not paying attention, so... 🤷🏻♀️
Precious and I, along with @whatsthEstorey, are keeping the kiddo company in the gym tonight. I‘m worn out just watching her! 😓 Trying to check another off the #booked2019 winter season before it ends Sunday!
What a treat this card was Elisabeth! I love getting to know you so well & you‘re right, we have so much in common! 💕 I‘ll be sending some #litsylove back your way shortly! 😍📚❤️
pickWhen ‘fake it until you make it‘ has a whole new meaning....
Y‘all, this story is the real deal!! John Carreyou wrote a fascinating narrative. The audiobook by Will Damron is utterly listenable. I don‘t usually love non-fiction, but this story took over my life for 2 days. My jaw just kept dropping from beginning to end. I want to watch The Inventor, but I‘m afraid it won‘t be as all-encompassing and I‘ll be let down! So good!Read it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy ‘Sun‘day beautiful Littens. Hope you all have a lovely, brightness filled day wherever you are!
I‘m #audiojournaling to the tagged book and working on a little #litsylove. Hoping to finish my others for the #booked2019 winter prompt before the end of the week. 😄
What‘s everyone reading/listening to today? I‘m enjoying my last day before the end of Spring Break and back to work tomorrow. 😭
The sun is shining & it‘s spring break. It‘s a no make-up, #readingoutside kinda day. Perfect for continuing this YA paranormal series. Still really enjoying the witchy characters & New Orleans vibe. 💜🖤💗💙🔮🧛🏻♂️
Finally, finally, finally had time to get some #litsylove packages and responses mailed out! 💗📚💕 I am so slow 🐢, but I‘m having a blast! Working on more as I write this. Hope you are all having a beautiful Tuesday! It‘s the last day of winter, everyone!! 🎉💛🌷💚🌸💜🌼🌳🤗
One of my faves from Lewis Carroll, a nice little surprise at the beginning of Part 3. Also, #readingoutside before work, because we finally have one of those gorgeous ‘spring is in the air‘ Oklahoma mornings! 📚☕️💗💜🌸🌼🌷🌸💛💚
pickFinally working on some #litsylove this morning before work. Decided to include some of these in my cards as a fun way get to know everyone better. Conversation starting questions on the back plus a notecard with my answer to add yours to & pass along. Hope that‘s something you will all enjoy. If not, it was fun just answering for all of you. 🤗📚 I work all weekend, but will have some mail going out by Monday! 💕✍🏻💌 #litchat #bookriot
@Stacypatrice you made my week with your #litsylove! After a really rough few days at work, having my husband say “you got a pen pal letter” just about brought me to tears! 💞 I was in the bath and shouted “bring it to me!” 🤣 Thank you so much! Sorry I just now had time to post, but know that it meant so much & I can‘t wait to send some love back your way! 😻
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