Which two should I take on vacation?

This book assumes a knowledge of Scandinavia that I didn‘t have, but I appreciated. Leaned a lot about bee keeping and the factions within the community. Makes me want to keep bees. Like Sherlock Holmes!

The vocabulary and some sentence structures are making this read very hard. It‘s giving me all the feels that I‘ve never seen some of the words before.

Local library reopened after 3 years and I love the librarians there so much. Especially the children‘s head librarian.

She recommend all the kid ones. So excited to read Melissa and everything else.

“To be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar, is to be afraid of life… and to be afraid of life is to be afraid of truth.” - from the catalog of the 1913 art exhibition at the 69th regiment armory in nyc 👌👌👌

Started training for my marathon in November.
Murakami and I seem to have similar musings while running.
😬😬🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️💨💨💨

“The next murder was not my doing”

‘…
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.‘
…
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.‘

I‘m calling this an RGB (Really Good Book).

Nb: it has nothing to do with Ruth Bader Ginsberg

#rbg #notoriousrbg

“I‘ve sometimes wondered whether the young men of our time had to die to bring a new idea into the world… something Olympian.”

I wish I‘d discovered Cather earlier in life! 🥰❤️💯👍

I am so excited for this book. It feels like a coming together of so many threads.

Reading this story (and the strange movie adaptation) in high school was so memorable and mind blowing. This is a 1941 short story about his wife‘s side of the story. One of three such short stories by Janet Lewis. I LOVE women‘s view retellings. Also found this book volunteering at the library as they prep to reopen after 2+ year renovation. 🥰😍

Fun!

What an interesting (and still accurate?) take on American opinions.

Maybe we should try thinking and discussing. 🤷‍♀️

(Written in 1922)

Same same but different.

Yep. I cried. And stayed up way to late.

So so good and readable. 👌👌👌

Favorite place to read. And totally prepared to cry.

This book got way better after page 90.

Next ten books. From my at home TBR. All bought used.

#usedbooks #thirfting #mounttbr

I don‘t know if anything will ever beat this day of thrifting.

Current read

Time to listen and learn.

From nytimes

If anything has ever been important. This is important.

I am more than my uterus.

There are so many things that are not referenced in the constitution. If you think this ruling stops at Roe you are very wrong.

Sixty pages in. Do I want to spend my time reading a 1920s historical romance?

I‘m leaning toward “no” but I‘m going to give it another few chapters.

I‘ve been reading this 250 page book for two weeks. A “pick” book would beg to be read faster. Right?

I owe the library $17 to “replace” this book. Better get started.

How can anyone have self control when books you‘ve been thinking about are a quarter of their list price is beyond me.

Four books almost missed the bus to my sister!!

Sis better read quickly. I‘m know super stoked to read the stack I loaned her!

This stack is headed to my sister. #readingbuddy

My current reading plan is to finish the library books I have at home and then read ten from my owned books TBR.

I‘m having a hard time deciding if I should read the quick reads from the library first or a longer read.

🤞I‘ll be done with these my Memorial Day.

Written in 1937 by a Yale psychology professor. This is the 1957 edition.

What have we learned about “caste and class” in the last 95 years?

Current read

My dad wanted book recommendations. So I scoured his shelves for books I had already given him.
This is his new TBR.

He likes non fiction about - science, Americana, the Jewish experience etc.

Anything I should add to his pile?

TIL I‘m not into Greek myths.

Let‘s do this! #marathontraining

Everyone has time to read if reading is what they want to spend their time doing. Reading two pages is reading.
I hate this excuse.
Why don‘t we allow ourselves to read or not read as we want? So much morality involved.

Current read.

Under promoted women of Oceania

Under promoted women of the Middle East

Under-promoted women of Africa

Under promoted women of Asia

Under promoted women from Europe

Under promoted women writers from the Americas

McNally books in nyc has a display called “the silent canon” which is showcasing influential women writers from around the world.
The thesis is that women write and have written but aren‘t republished or promoted as much as men.
I tend to agree.
I will also post close ups of the continents so you can read the names.

Vacation purchases.

👍👍🙌🙌

Black History Month chunker

We all have covid.

Luckily, I went to the library before I got my results. 😷😷😷🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Mentally, I am still in this book that I finished two weeks ago.

Wish I hadn‘t had to give it back to the library….📚📚📚

Hanging in the kitchen. Reading while cooking.

I am disappointed with myself.

In 2020 I read 54 books. In 2021 I read only 42 and that counting the ones I bailed on, which I didn‘t last year.

This year brought different challenges than previous years. I dedicated myself to other hobbies, but I‘m still surprised by my numbers.

We don‘t succeed in every challenge but challenging ourselves is how we better ourselves, right?

Right?!!?