#bookhaul! Seven books including: three ARCs and one signed first edition. All written by women! 🙌

I hope this week is going to have as much reading time as I think it will!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤓📚📖🛋

This is how I ruin my chances of succeeding in my 2019 reading challenge. 👎

#arc #womenwriters #readingchallenge2019

I‘m on page 70 and I can‘t seem to get into it.

I don‘t know why but I can‘t seem to relax into a book lately. Possibly it‘s hormones (3 months postpartum) or that my husbands really rough assignment is over which changes the balance at home.

This would be the third or fourth book in two months that I‘ve bailed on. Is it me or the book? Does it matter?

Help!

Cool! As seen at McNally Jackson books in NYC
#aroundtheworld #fiftystates

I loved this book. It was safe writing and the story kept you guessing a little. And just.... soothing....

🙌🙌🙌🙌

Exciting day today.

So many books, nothing to read.

What am I to read?
I‘m having severe reader‘s block.

Any suggestions welcome.

Ancient Greek wisdom.

“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from”

#currentlyreading in the park with the smaller of my bookworms.

Glad the kid is asleep because I can‘t put this book down!

This is my lap on a little vacation without my book.

If you could see my face it would have tears.

Poolside reading is great. But what is this book? I don‘t understand the tone. Is this satire? Do I need to brush up on my Shakespeare or avoid Tyler in the future?

So sad this one is over. I left it on my nightstand for an extra day because I wasn‘t ready to let go.

The writing was wonderful and the story structure was inventive and engaging.

Read it.

Lately, I‘ve been starting two books at a time. One for bedside reading and the other to carry in my bag. Because not all books are built for travel and any travel might provide time for reading!

#bagbook #bedside #shelfie #arc #classic #noir

Ten $1 books for the #bookworm!
This was on the last day of the sale. I‘m only a little sad I didn‘t make it in sooner.
#raisingreaders #kidslit #bookhaul

Not what I was expecting x2. This book is literally just women talking. Women who have been denied the right to participate in society debating big questions.

Brilliant. Thought provoking. Genius.
#women #mennonite #feminism #talking

“We‘re only women talking” pg 179

#women #mennonite #feminism #applepancake

The #bookworm is reading instead of taking a nap, which is fine. The funny part is that she came out of her room with the tagged book to tell me it was too scary for her.

#raisingreaders #naptime #thriller #shortstories #icanread

A+ for the first half of this book. But Johnson lost me in chapter 4.
As I feel with a disproportionate number of nonfiction reads - the first half has all the useful meat.

Not a bad Thursday.

How anyone can think this book ISN‘T #pick is beyond me.
This book is a testament to the America we are all living in today. In fifty years it will provide a whole new generation with a window into today.
#blacklivesmatter

Back in our house! So, time for a #HomeRenoRecap

Left: to read
Middle: in progress
Right: finished

I‘m close to done with All the Single Ladies the end just keeps slipping farther away. And I‘ve been trying to keep my tbr in check this year but I‘ve just been finding so many hard-to-pass-up gems!

Excited for Moment of Lift!

#homereno #recap #tbr #shelfie #arc #proof

Biden‘s imminent presidential run and all the women alleging inappropriate touching has changed how much I feel I can escape with this book.

#politics #escapism

#shelfie
left: TBR
middle: in progress
right: finished

Five weeks into my #homereno and reading has been harder than I was expecting and book shopping has been a lot easier. 😬

I‘m also wondering if Asymmetry is a good choice considering my scattered mind right now. Thoughts?

#renovation #construction #slump #retailtherapy #upnext #progessupdate #bookstack #stack

Author and illustrator Andrea Tsurumi teaching us how to draw a crab! 💗💓💕💞
#storytime #raisingreaders #kidslit #author #illustrator #womanwriter #femaleauthor #independentbookstore

Relaxing afternoon for the temporarily homeless.
#nohome #homereno #renovation #coffeeshop #nyc #femaleauthor #womanwriter

Perfect. And the egg and cheese hadn‘t even arrived yet. 💯

As a white reader trying to understand the intricacies of race relations, Brown doesn‘t offer answers. She supplies insights into better communication and understanding.
I hope I can live up to her expectations.

This is the saddest book I have ever read. It brings me to tears just thinking about it.

Birthday present from the hubs!

#homesweethome #birthday #nyc

Will this be enough for the 6-9 weeks I‘ll be living out of a suitcase while my apartment is renovated?!?!?

Actually the Lethem is for the hubs.

#arc #proof #mounttbr #readharder #harderfasterstrongbetter #blackhistorymonth #blackauthor #womenwriter #womenshistorymonth #femaleauthor #homereno #moving

Every session since 1923? It now seems like the least of our problems. (Though obviously not)
What is wrong with people?

#EqualRightsAmendment
#feminist #women #womensrights #humanrights #liberal #conservative #usa

Signed 1st edition of this gem! Bookshelf win.

Visiting my parents (and childhood home) this long weekend.
I love this book. It feels so much like #ferrante. I‘m supposed to be taking advantage of my parents as babysitters and sleeping. But I just wanna read! It‘s 12:30a and here I am awake...
#raisingreaders #grandparents #mlkweekend #longweekend #uplatereading

I‘m so excited!!!!

#arc #womenwriter #grahicnovel #motherhood

2018 in 2018.

Thank you Rebecca Solnit for this beautiful insightful description. #library #femaleauthor #womanwriter

Guess I‘m done with gifts to myself for Hanukkah. Got a new one for each of the eight crazy nights.
#jewish #holidays #gifts #selfcare #arc #europaeditions #aroundtheworld

I‘m worried about my husband.

Having some trouble with this one. I‘m on page 55 but the writing is putting me off. Thinking of bailing. Will I regret it? Is it the important portrayal of native Americans that I think it is?

Thoughts?

What I wouldn‘t give to sit at a coffee shop and finish this book right now. I‘m so close!

Pg 96
Just finished this and I‘m shaking.
Its everything. Everything this year of my #readingwomen has been about. Everything #feminism is. All of its promises and real life problems. It‘s all of the complications of adulthood and societal expectations. It‘s young love and reality. So much truth. So much heartbreak.
#mustread #readharder

Next book on the docket.
But also let‘s talk about mornings

#raisingreaders #femaleauthor #rubberduckie #mornings

Dear Reader,
I bought them.

#seepreviouspost #goals #femleauthor #mounttbr #challenge

Two more books until I‘m #netzero for 2018.
Too bad I have four books on hold for me at a #localbookstore.

Should I buy them?
#conundrum #goals

#climbingmounttbr #readharder #challege #two #netzero

Had trouble finishing this one. Half way through the second section I started wondering what moving backward in time was teaching us, the readers. I don‘t know if I figured it out.
Suggestions welcome.
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#wwII #femaleauthor #historicalfiction #queerlit

History is bound to repeat itself if we do not learn from it.
This section is suddenly 100% relevant.
Solnit has such an eye for relevant and enlightening events. Her explanations of feminism open my mind.
#feminism #believewomen #essays #nonfiction #femaleauthor #readharder #educate #resist

#bookhaul for the #bookworm
We also need to rededicate ourselves to potty training. This mom is not excited for the messes during the learning curve.
#raisingreaders #kidslit

This is all to say: If I read four more books without buying any I will be at net zero for the year!
#goals #climbingmounttbr #readharder #challege #bonus #ansel #four #netzero