1️⃣ Pjs, work clothes, comfy clothes, pjs = 3, 4 if I walk the dogs
Weekends: ~4 depends if we leave the house

2️⃣ I think I‘ve got the right one in the series with the stylist character.
I‘ll tag another in case I‘m wrong.

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView ! 🙌
#Two4Tuesday

🔥This week I‘m reading about the largest library fire in US history. I should say that‘s what it was about at first, but now it‘s evolved into the history of the Los Angeles public library system. I‘m about halfway through and I‘m still into it.
📚 Taken at Burton Barr Central Library today even though it‘s not a library book

If I‘m judging by August, September is almost over but here‘s my tbr for the month anyway:

📚 currently reading The Library Book with my sister #reesesbookclub
🔺Invisible for the #keywordreadingchallenge
💪🏼 The Norton Book of Women‘s Lives for a buddy read - first quarter done by next month
💔 Broke Heart Blues - #EarlyReviewer
🪄 Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire Illustrated Edition for #bannedbooksweek

I need a time turner…

🥳

#bookly

#Two4Tuesday

1. I don‘t know if I can pick a favorite, but this year we had a blast at the museum in Gateway Arch National Park.
2. I love this series, and I wish The Essex Witch Museum was a real museum I could visit. I have 2 books left to finish the series, hopefully this year!

Thanks for asking @TheSpineView !

30 years ago today I got my “laugh now, cry later” tattoo. I don‘t regret it, but I‘m ready for something more relevant to my life now. Stay tuned for new things to come…

Anyone else thinking about getting a bookish tattoo?

#tbr #tattootbr

Dust Child is a fictional story set in Vietnam told from 3 POVs & timelines: an Amerasian orphan dealing with racism & poverty as he makes his way in life, an American veteran dealing with PTSD from the war, & a young Vietnamese woman who moves to Saigon during the war. It‘s sad but the writing is excellent. It took me to Vietnam every day.
Read if you like sister stories or historical fiction.
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The author kindly commented on my IG post!

A 599 page book + back to school = 1 book finished

But I finished it! And it was a vg book!

Hope you had a better August!

#bookly #booklyapp

🇻🇳 I‘m reading Dust Child for book club.

💀 Photo taken downtown Phoenix on stormy Friday evening

✔️ author‘s name is in the wrong order on the tagged book

#alwaysbringabook

If you liked The Eyes of the Dragon you will love King‘s latest dip into the fairy tale genre pool. This one‘s centered around a 17 year old modern day boy & his love for an old German Shepherd named Radar.
Yes, he got all the fairytale elements in there making them fresh with King twists.
Read if you like fairytales, Stephen King, or dog stories.

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Thank you @BarkingMadRead for hosting #losersclub! Sorry it took me 1 month to read.

If you‘ve seen the Netflix show (I took the liberty of improving the annoying Netflix promo fake sticker on the cover) the book is nothing like it at all. The only thing the same is a haunted house and the names of the characters. That was ok with me because I liked this story too. It totally gave me the creeps!

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This was an excellent historical fiction/magical realism story about 4 generations of Dakhota girls & their dolls. The first 2 generations of girls are forcibly placed in “Indian Schools” & navigate the disturbing experience with help from their dolls. The next 2 girls & their dolls have generational trauma to live with as a result. Wonderfully written!
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

📚 Read for book club
📚 Taken with a mini Cabbage Patch doll from my childhood

Friday was Educator Appreciation Night at my local independent bookstore which means free book swag for my treasure box, and used picture books for my students and class library! For myself they also had a 20% discount so I got Weyward (wish my picture could capture the shimmer of the insects! 😍) and Uncommon Type (I read the first story - Tom Hanks, wow!). I got The Scorpio Races for free (can‘t resist a horse story).
Thank you Changing Hands!

📚 Happy National Book Lovers Day from Bombadil! We love reading books together by the pool.

🐕 Currently reading Fairy Tale and we can‘t wait to have more reading time together this weekend. There‘s a German Shepherd named Radar in the story, Bombadil‘s favorite part.

📚 What are you reading, fellow book lovers?

#DogsOfLitsy
#NationalBookLoversDay

I finished 12 books between the last day of school & the first day of school.

I read:
🦈 Jaws
🐦‍⬛ The Book of Delights
🍆 Dial A for Aunties
👻 The Haunting of Hill House
👠 Under the Duvet
♦️ Crows and Cards
☕️ Something I Might Say
🌺 Maui Ink: Supernatural Tales
🐪 Cress
🧑‍💻 Billy Summers
👶🏽 A Council of Dolls
🇺🇸 The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy

I had a great reading summer: prizes from the library, good books, & I read on a train!

I‘m pretty sure this is a dream tbr for this busy month. But my goal is:

🪶 When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky and The Library Book for the #KeyWordReadingChallenge

📕 Dust Child for book club

💪🏻 The Norton Book of Women‘s Lives - buddy reading with 2 friends. We‘re going to read it in quarters over the next year.

🦮 Fairy Tale - currently reading for the #losersclub with @BarkingMadRead

Stay cool! 😎

#bookclub #tbr #augusttbr

Aw summer reading! I‘m sorry to see those lazy days go, but I got some good reading done and 4 more books off the tbr pile this month.

#bookly

I got a Bingo for July #bookspinbingo !

#Bookspin - The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy ✔️

#DoubleSpin - Jaws ✔️

Also read on the board, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Something I Might Say by Stephanie Austin.

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks !

Who else had a shelf full of these books?

😢

My county‘s reading program ran from June 1-July 31. I read 4,515/1,000 minutes for my Summer Reading Game! Nice to be an overachiever! 😅

The big prize was to choose a new book from a big list of books and I chose Never Whistle at Night - it‘s been on my wishlist. I also got 4 tickets to a WNBA game, a state park pass, and a coupon for a free used book from the library bookstore. I love my library!

#justreadppl

This week I read my friend‘s book, essays of grief, first with the loss of her father followed by the loss of her grandmother. I thought I already read them all, but discovered I hadn‘t when I had to read a local author to get BINGO. Reading them compiled & sequenced, I got to experience the essays all again in a new way, and read some new material too. I was really moved by the progression of pain throughout. You should read it too.
☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

🦉📜 An owl brought my letter tonight! Time to go back to Hogwarts.

#Ravenclaw

The author makes the case that the Doctrine of Discovery fueled America‘s historically terrible treatment of Indigenous people and Black people. I like how the author divided the book into 3 parts of the country, with 3 similar patterns of land grabbing and lynching, and how the communities are reckoning with their history to create a “path forward” today.
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Read for my book club and it‘s also my #bookspin book!
#bookspinbingo

This year is the 50th anniversary since Jaws was first published. The story still holds up after all this time. We‘re unfortunately still asking what‘s more important: human lives or money?
🚧 This is a banned book!
I have seen the movie many times over the years, & I enjoyed most differences between the two.
Speaking of movies, I was randomly rewatching Back to the Future 2 & laughed at the Jaws 19 prediction.
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#doublespin #bookspinbingo

Cress was a great continuation of the Lunar Chronicles series! This Rapunzel is locked in a satellite. I loved the nonstop action moving from chapter to chapter. I was so tickled to learn in the author interview at the end that she‘s a Firefly fan and got some inspiration for this series from there.
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This was my #bookspin book for June. Late post! Thank you again @TheAromaofBooks !

📸 Taken at Clear Creek, Arizona last month.

Apparently I‘m better at buying the books than I am at reading them!

In case you can‘t read the covers:
The Corrections
The Overstory
Atonement
Americanah
White Teeth
H is for Hawk
Demon Copperhead
An American Marriage
Station Eleven
Bel Canto

Which one do I need to read first?

#100bestbooksofthe21stcentury #tbr

Of the ones I‘ve read I only feel like The Warmth of Other Suns belongs on the list.

#unpopularopinion #100bestbooksofthe21stcentury

If you‘re used to Marian‘s fiction stories you won‘t be disappointed by her essays. She uses the same writing style and depth mixed with humor when discussing her own life. She somehow forgot one key thing in the giant subtitle: Booze.
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I read this for the #WhatsInANameChallenge - I needed “footwear” and “Shoes “ is in the subtitle.

Also read this for #bookspinbingo last month but am late posting my reviews!

#wian2024

I usually don‘t pay much attention to how the #booklyapp puts the cover in the background of the timer, but…
Da, duh, da, duh, dundundundun!
This one surprised me!
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(Currently on page 195)
#bookly

Another kind draw for me!

#Bookspin - The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy - my book club book

#DoubleSpin - Jaws - been on my tbr for 1 year!

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks !

#bookspinbingo

Not only does the main character have magical abilities, but she also has a pet hellhound with magical abilities!
I loved this book, and, hey, shouldn‘t the sequel be out by now?!

Thanks for asking @Karisimo !

#middlegrademonday

A pretty good reading month for me!
If I had to pick a favorite I would say…
Dial A for Aunties!

#Bookly

I had fun playing #BookSpinBingo in June! Thank you for hosting @TheAromaofBooks !

My stack has books for challenges, bookstore BINGO, group reads, or series to continue, and a few mood reads.

#summertbr #tbr #naturalitsy #losersclub #serieslove2024

BINGO! I just finished Cress in time today!
Bookspin: Cress by Marissa Meyer
Double Spin: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Thanks again @TheAromaofBooks !

#bookspin #bookspinbingo #doublespin

I checked today and discovered I started this series in 2016! Then I read the 2nd in 2020. No, I refuse to wait until 2028 to finish the series! It‘s too good!
For now, my goal is just to finish the last 248 pages by Sunday night so I can get a #bookspin book read and a #bookspinbingo !

#serieslove2024

📸 Taken last Saturday on a photo opp. detour between Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona

I bought this book from Maui Friends of the Library in Lahaina a year before it burned down. I purchased it wanting to support the local authors who wrote this so I wish I could say I liked it more, but the stories were too short for my taste, usually 2-3 pages. I did learn a little more about Maui superstition/beliefs.
🏄🏽🏄‍♀️
Taken with a Lahaina mural, The Great He‘e and the Golden Egg by Sally French, June 2022
#bookSpinBingo

🐦‍⬛This middle grade book takes place in St. Louis in the early 1800s so of course I had to read it on our trip. It was the perfect choice - after a day reading about the history of St. Louis it was fun to go there in a fiction world and see it all brought to life.
🚧 The language used to describe non white people is fitting for the time, not our modern era.
📸 Taken last week on a riverboat ride on the Mississippi River.
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Oops I did it again!
Despite vowing not to buy any books this summer, this happened.
If you need an excuse to buy a book, choose one of these titles and I‘ll give you the excuse I told myself about why I HAD to buy it. 😅

💛 This week I finished this book. It‘s such a funny story that I laughed out loud multiple times! Imagine Weekend at Bernie‘s set at a massive wedding with 4 Chinese-Indonesian American sisters helping their niece hide a body.
I will definitely continue the series!
💛 Read if you also like a little romance on the side in your stories.
💜 Taken at my niece‘s reception last Friday! No one asked me to hide a body so big win!
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I‘ve been reading this on vacation - it has a wedding theme and we‘re in Missouri/Kansas for my niece‘s wedding. I only have 48 pages to go but it‘s been keeping me laughing the whole time
Taken last night on a visit to the lake by my sister‘s house.

I just finished the #20in4 Readathon and surpassed my goal.

I finished A Council of Dolls: 241/241 pages
AND
read part of
Maui Writers Ink Supernatural Tales: 27 pages
How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal: 74 pages

🟰 342/241 pages

Thanks again @Andrew65 !

#Bookly

The draw was kind to me this month! The double spin book is my next to read and the one I was planning to read after is in the same row - with a free spot! I‘ve got this.

Bookspin: Cress by Marissa Meyer
Double Spin: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Thanks again @TheAromaofBooks !

#bookspin #bookspinbingo #doublespin

May was a good reading month- great books and my reading time was up despite being a busy month.
Notice my page count was down though so maybe a few of those minutes were for sleeping. 😅

If I HAD to pick a favorite for the month…Billy Summers.

#Bookly

I‘ve joined the #20in4 Readathon!
My goal is to read the remaining 241 pages of A Council of Dolls in 4.
My progress at the end of day 2: 49/241
Loving this book so far!

Thank you for hosting as always @Andrew65 !

I haven‘t played #BookSpinBingo in a long time! Thank you for keeping it going @TheAromaofBooks !

This is basically my summer stack -
books for challenges, group reads, series to continue, or that coincide with upcoming travel.

#summertbr #tbr #naturalitsy #losersclub

📽️ I got a score of 43/100 which comes close to my age. 😎 It might be higher because some I think I‘ve seen but can‘t remember for sure so I didn‘t count them.

3 favorites:
1. Alien
2. Star Wars
3. Blazing Saddles

Find @dabbe if you want to play along!
#ThreeListThursday #tlt

This King story is a one-last-job-and-I‘m-done-forever trope, & classic King had to make it with a special twist. I loved the characters & would read another book about all of the “good” ones. I was really surprised at the intricate combat descriptions coming from author with no military background.
Today I had about 100 pages to go & had to finish it!
Great “summer” read!
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Thank you @BarkingMadRead for hosting the #losersclub again!

My wallet was stolen last month and I realized the other day the only thing I hadn‘t canceled was my #librarycard! I mean, what are the odds, but you can‘t be too safe, right?! 😂
I got my new card today (way cuter than my old maroon one) and checked out The Overstory by Richard Powers (trying to read 3 Pulitzer Prize winners this summer).
Also it was my last day of school today so please excuse my wild, dirty, sweaty, joyous appearance. 😜

I finished this last night and it was a race to the end. I really like how the story is going along nicely and then TWIST. Lots of fun with some dark undertones. Very spicy (it‘s not just a clever title).
Read if you like girl power and reading about different cultures.
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Read with my sister. We‘re reading #ReesesBookClub books together, and this also fit for the #keywordreadingchallenge (story).

It‘s the middle of May so I better post my tbr! Definitely won‘t finish this month but a girl can dream.

🌻 tagged - started last month, intentionally going slow
🐴 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse - just for fun
🪷 finish Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
📕 The Library Book
and
⭐️ Where the Forest Meets the Stars - for the Monthly Key Word Challenge
🚗 Billy Summers for the #LosersClub group read with @BarkingMadRead

#tbr #maytbr