#ItTakesAllKinds #WithPhysician Dr. Wilbur Larch , a great character in a book loaded with great characters! 🍎Tom Tom looks on #CatsOfLitsy
#ItTakesAllKinds #WithPhysician Dr. Wilbur Larch , a great character in a book loaded with great characters! 🍎Tom Tom looks on #CatsOfLitsy
#serieslove2024 I didn‘t read any Peter James last year so I thought it was high time to check one out again . Roy Grace is on the case of a rapist with a fetish for women in designer high heels .Roy wonders if there are more than one perpetrator and if it links back to an old case that was never solved . A Page Turner!
#ItTakesAllKinds #WithLawyer Still on my TBR. Darrow left the relatively normal career as a railroad lawyer to defend people most at the time would consider undesirables . Most would have heard of him as the lawyer defending John Scopes , the infamous monkey trial , about the teaching of evolution.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday In no particular order!
1. The World According to Garp- John Irving
2. The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger polarizing, yet I love it.
3.The Go Between - L.P. Hartley a bunch of us read it in the #NYRBBookclub a treasure , more people should discover it.
Everybody play!
#ItTakesAllKinds #WithMap gotta love a book with a map! I don‘t think even in my hiking prime I could walk this backbone trail of California, as the map indicates Colin Fletcher walked north from Yuma to Oregon from March 8th to September 8th. book was published in 1964, not sure what year he walked it.
I really dropped the ball on #serieslove2023 Never posted a summing up !This is a photo from January last year, I read 8 Connellys , 2, Leons , 1 Silva. Shocking but true, couldn‘t find the next Thompson though as you can see, I own several! I didn‘t put Karin Slaughter in these stacks ,yet I read 3 last year.😁🤷♀️ Thanks to @TheSpineView and @Andrew65 for hosting!
#ITTakesAllKinds #WithTherapist I remember first hearing this wonderful song by Nancy Tucker on the Dr. Demento show. (WOW,I‘m old) this is a lovely version!😄 https://youtu.be/jCwYve87iKA?si=e0unDp1WamJ-_6vO
#TuesdayTunes years ago, a friend of mine who knew I was feeling blue, sent me this tune. Still one I revisit when I want to dance around the room and feel fine!
Say Hey(I Love You) https://youtu.be/LYTBok8Ol7k?si=XxsmKxlvx7c-cyPq
You can rent American Fiction on Amazon Prime aka the evil empire. WOW , this was a wonderful film! And no , ashamed to say I haven‘t read the book.
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
1.The Warmth Of Other Suns -Isabel Wilkerson
2.Evicted -Matthew Desmond
3.Rites Of Spring The Great War & The Birth Of The Modern Age-Modris Eksteins
#ItTakesAllKinds #TrueCrime 2 I really enjoyed and my current read tagged , borrowed from the library.
When Marley & her capable single mom end up in a new town,the Joseph brothers gain her attention. They have a roofing company, are known all over town. Two brothers, both vie for her attention. A family story that has great characters , even the ones with flaws you root for. Marley longing for family, falls hard, not knowing the secrets of the past can make for problems down the road.A well written book looking at the complex lives of reg.people
#BookSerendipity Close to the end of Mercury, just starting Dead Like You , both have a character named Jade!
#TuesdayTunes many moons ago as the mix tape gave way to the CDMix , I put this live version of Lyle‘s You Can‘t Resist It on a seduction mix , it worked!😉 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DemInjXsYVU
I‘m not currently living in a super Tuesday state, just want to say get out & vote !
#ItTakesAllKinds #InspiredByTVorFilm 😁👏⚾️
Fun film! There‘s no crying in Baseball!
#ItTakesAllKinds #Roadtrip I think it said that they took these signs down in 1963 ,but at its height ,there were 7000 sets in 43 states. Fun car game to look for these on your travels back in the day.Found this little gem ,at the big book sale I went to a few weeks ago . Published in 1965. So six signs spread out a ways , you get a poem!
NO LADY LIKES——-TO DANCE——-OR DINE——ACCOMPANIED BY———A PORCUPINE ——-BURMA-SHAVE
#ItTakesAllKinds #FavoriteBookmark of course, couldn‘t pick just one!😁 These are both for that company Out Of Print , that makes fun bookish stuff .
A wonderful book about a person who is a talented writer, husband, & father who looks at the feminine version on face app & realizes who she was meant to be. Lucy recognizes her self repression,yet once the awareness comes she can only move in one direction. She wrote one of my favorite books of all time ,Low Life & lived through those wild NY downtown art scenes of the late 70s & 80s, while many perished in addiction or AIDS.A very moving book!
#TuesdayTunes A unusual song about San Francisco. It still makes me chuckle. I lived in San Francisco for awhile , left for a relationship not realizing that indeed San Francisco was my best boyfriend ever!
https://youtu.be/drehDgCkask?si=3mKjXQo-B6odOssD
Here‘s what happened when I popped in the Scottsdale Library to let the Giants/Cubs game traffic
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I wanted to show one of those cute bookstore stickers from the old days with an object people would recognize for size comparison. Just a reminder of the store you bought it from. Or maybe attract new business if it was a gift. I love finding these and bookplates.🥰
#vintage paperbacks from the sale I went to two weeks ago now almost. From half price day. Always love the Oxford World‘s Classics.
#trollopeing
Happy first day of spring training games for all who celebrate! ESPN live now. Dodgers vs Padres!
What fun! The 2nd in a series on Paris neighborhoods. Think windmills along the streets , Renoir, Van Gogh ,Toulouse-Lautrec & the Moulin Rouge. Later, into the jazz age , with lost generation writers & Josephine Baker. Baxters style is conversational, like he‘s taking you through history, culture ,architecture through time. Brief chapters make it a fun break from my chunksters! I will continue to seek out more books in this series!
#bookplates Another one I just fell in love with!
#bookplates another great one made me buy the book ! Well , the book was in nice shape with a dust jacket too!
Another wild Saturday night! Nacho approves!
#catsofLitsy
#LuckyInLove My #BookCrush seems to be more about an author rather than a character! 😄
#LuckyInLove #Hearts This has been on the TBR for a long time! 📚📚📚😁
#Bookplates Sometimes if I am shopping a book sale and I have a kinda maybe in my hands a great bookplate will push me to buy it!
#ReadingChallenge #poetry #readingwithmaja
This book I grabbed from the book sale. Grove Press was founded in 1947, known for international works & being the first to publish in the U.S.books formally deemed obscene by censors. Think Henry Miller & D.H. Lawrence. I didn‘t know this author, apparently Khrushchev wasn‘t thrilled w/him, but during the Cold War “thaw” Voznesensky was able to travel. A strong collection that carries a mid century vibe.
The universe must want me to have a set of The Yale Shakespeare.I found 5 at a thrift shop, then 4 more at a weekend book sale!
Maybe you have a date with your special person or maybe you have a date with a bookstore,or both!
Happy Valentines Day , everybody !❤️❤️❤️📚🎁
#TuesdayTunes Thanks @TieDyeDude for bringing up music. I listen to so many different types of music . Samara Joy is just amazing! Not only does she sing great American standards with great style, she has also written lyrics to instrumental jazz classics, I saw her live last year . https://youtu.be/X03lvK7qoco
#LuckyInLove#Jewelry A costume jewelry queen! And my favorite Haskell piece I own .
#LuckyInLove #FaceBodyOnCover I am reading and enjoying but been reading it for months!I set it aside for other reading deadlines & it‘s so heavy, I use a book prop with it .She is such a perfectionist she often writes about things she would have done differently in old projects.Maybe I should have done audio!😁
The great thing about the book sale , lovely old Iris Murdoch was priced $3 , I got it on half price day for $1.50!
Another obsession. I went to a big book sale today. I really love the tiny stickers Booksellers used to put in books!
#TLT
1.Harry Bosch “Everybody matters or Nobody Matters.”
2.Commissario Brunetti has 2 kids,a smart & opinionated wife,& glorious Italian food !
3.Matthew Scudder nobody seems to be reading Lawrence Block anymore.Gritty NYC & a detective w/a drinking problem.though not the first in series,When The Sacred Ginmill Closes was so good I wish I could read it again for the first time.
3.5 Phillip Marlowe & Sam Spade! Chandler/Hammett so good !
#LuckyInLove #Dancing An older coffee table book on Hollywood Musicals . Fun to browse through! Fred & Ginger , classic.
I too , read the introduction tonight. Auchincloss writes too about upper crust NY, but of course, more contemporary 1950s - 60s ? I think. Glad to be joining in the #WhartonBuddyRead