An intense read but an important one, Knott takes us on a nonlinear journey through her struggles to get sober and her history that shapes why she struggles. The trauma she endured, the systemic failures, the hopelessness of addiction - man, it was tough. But the end, when she starts to work it all out and discover her worth, made it all worthwhile. #SheSaid

I really loved this book. For once, the failure to communicate actually made some sense (social awkwardness/anxiety instead of pure stubbornness). The humor was perfect, the growth of the relationship worked - it was a great romance read.

Philosophical cats: is the box half empty or half full? Either way there‘s room for cat.
Is the food dish half empty or half full? I can see the bottom! Starvation is imminent.
#DannyBoy #catsofLitsy #DeadPhilosophersSociety

I‘ve spent the last eleven days rereading these so I can go on to the next trilogy. But now I must diverge into library books coming due, buddy read commitments, and #roll100 #bookspin picks. Why must life interfere so badly with my reading time? All I ask is for 8 uninterrupted hours to read every day…maybe 10…is that so much to ask?

I kinda (completely) forgot we started today. I hope to get a bingo for #BookSpinBingo and start at least one #Roll100 book. And keep up with buddy reads. And not go absolutely crazy because life seems insanely busy right now. #SuperSeptember

The first time I read this I hadn‘t seen Mulan. Now it‘s extra funny.

Wow.

The only thing I don‘t like is deciding if this will go on my poetry shelf, or with my mythology books. Both sections are overflowing, naturally.

I‘m loving so much about this book.

Some of this was interesting, and I learned a lot about several authors I didn‘t know very well (pretty much everyone but JA). But the authors drew conclusions that weren‘t supported. I know the goal of research and writing is to forge new paths, but a lot of this felt like arguing for argument‘s sake. Jane was catty about Anne, so she was mean and their relationship had soured. But Virginia and Katherine must have been closer than the 👇🏻

These are equally mine and kiddo‘s. I love folktales and myth collections. I already had the Graves, but not illustrated! The top two on the right were printed in the USSR, in English. The book you can‘t see for the glare is the tagged. We got 27 total for $11.75 😯 which we rounded up to $20 because it‘s for literacy programs.

More of kiddo‘s book bazaar picks. She got two Boxcar Children, tagged, Quidditch Through the Ages, a Karen Hesse called The Music of Dolphins…and some others we‘d never heard of. Plus three she thought would be good for school!

Kiddo picked these (the two on the right we already have in other versions, but she‘s obsessed with ballet - especially because she had her Nutcracker audition last night and is going to be a soldier and a sheep in this year‘s production! Her first time). Tagged is in our cat books puzzle so she recognized it, though it‘s a “school” copy with extra junk in it.

Today I went to the Centenary Book Bazaar, but it was in the last hour or so and most of my favorite sections were pretty sparse. I did find these promising ladies looking at me. Though I haven‘t started the section on Woolf and Mansfield I thought I‘d grab her stories. I‘m not familiar with her work. #PemberLittens

So it‘s not just a recent product of social media…huh.
(That‘s Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose recent article about Lady Byron had unleashed something of a shitstorm of criticism)

#PemberLittens

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
1 - I‘ve been trying to get back to Iceland for almost twenty years, maybe someday I will.
2 - my guidebook, a fluffy romance read that I can leave in a hotel and replace with a book souvenir. And maybe someday I‘ll read the tagged, which I bought in preparation for my trip all those years ago and never read.
#two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

I really enjoyed this magical romance. I liked that Vivi wanted to maintain a balance between the magical and mundane parts of her, and Rhys was fun and likable. Their chemistry was believable and I loved all the banter. I‘m glad I have the next one to jump straight into! #DannyBoy liked the talking cat Sir Purrcival. #catsofLitsy

I swear to goddess, I had it down to just DQ and the Blyton I‘m reading with kiddo. That was two days ago! And yet here I am, drowning in really good reads again… and in a few days I‘ll add Feline Philosophy for the #DeadPhilosophersSociety too. 🤦🏻‍♀️

This is a fairly short, surprisingly readable look at the social aspects of the world described in Homer‘s epics. Whether that was truly some heroic age, or more reflective of Homer‘s own time is another question altogether. Writing initially in the late 1940s, with revisions in the 1970s, Finley incorporates lessons learned from the Linear B tablets to bolster/adapt his conclusions as appropriate. If you‘re a classics nerd, I recommend this.

To whom it may concern: Target has a bunch of Hocus Pocus stuff on sale right now, including this tarot deck.

I got myself a birthday present at Target, and picked up the #NaturaLitsy buddy read at the library. I don‘t know that I‘ll do the read, but I thought I‘d try it.

I just love #BookSpin #BookSpinBingo announcement day. It starts my morning the best way. My bs is I Can Hear You Whisper and my ds is a #Roll100 pick - Paola Santiago and the River of Tears. Of course, two days into September and I‘m already behind on buddy reads…

In case anyone thinks scholars are dry and humorless…

…what a weirdo.

Well, in August I read 15 books/4877 pages. I completed both my #bookspin and #doublespin picks AND all three #roll100 books (plus a few more from that list). For #20in4 special readathon I read 4.5 books to finish the month strong. Onward we go!

I love having this Norton Shakespeare for its completeness, but dang! It is not easy on the eyes. Also, every time I drag it our hubby jokes I paid a dollar a pound…funny every time…

King Lear is a quintessential tragedy. I need to find a version to watch, now that I‘ve got more of the story down. This was my first time through this one, and I imagine I‘ll read it again someday with the kiddo.

Well…that‘s a mighty useful term…kind of a jack-of-all-trades…

It‘s so rare the entire library pickup is for me and not kiddo! I have the next #SheSaid book, The Ex Hex because I just got an ARC of the sequel, and am finally getting around to joining the Hazelwood bandwagon.

I put my September #BookSpin list together today. I have two #roll100 books (I finished #94 the day of the roll) - The Tale of Despereaux and Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, A Secret Sisterhood for #PemberLittens, and In My Own Moccasins for #SheSaid. Also the entire (so far) Hidden Legacy series since Ruby Fever just came out. I‘m ready for Friday!

And just like that, it‘s over. I really loved sharing this series with kiddo, who also loved it. This book is nine years after the previous installment and brings the family back to Arundel, where Lydia (youngest Penderwick and born after that magical summer) gets to have adventures like her much older sisters once did. 😍

A really good conclusion to another really good series. I need to read Riordan‘s other series (Kane and Magnus Chase), as I‘m no caught up on the Greek series. I hope he continues with another, because I need to know what Nico does next. #doublespin #seriesread2022

Confession: I got through a BA in English and an MA in Humanities without ever taking a Shakespeare class (I read Tempest for MA). I‘m very slowly reading some on my own, and decided to tackle King Lear. I didn‘t realize there were multiple versions (should have, being Shakespeare). What to do? So I‘m reading the Conflated version that follows this side-by-side set to confuse myself less. 😆

Good enough. The character development for Brody and Abby was good, I like how Del was introduced. Vanessa‘s a jerk, the guys are real asses to Cameron. I‘m enjoying this reread, but not as much as the first time through when they came out.

Well, kiddo and I are celebrating end of summer (homeschool fifth grade on Monday) with Deathly Hallows movies today, fam is going canoeing tomorrow…so we‘ll see about this one!

I‘d like to finish the two in progress and then either tackle some of Don Quixote or King Lear for #20in4 special #readathon with @Andrew65 and company.

Thank you Cavalier House Books! I got the tagged today plus this ARC! I know what I‘m reading next month - the entire Hidden Legacy series (I‘ve only read the first 3 + novella) and Sterling‘s books (I need to get The Ex Hex from the library ASAP).

I didn‘t really know what to expect, but I really enjoyed this. I‘m not a huge Bradbury fan, but so far I‘ve liked what I‘ve read. This is a vignette-centered story of the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. There‘s life, death, love, adventure, and some creepiness thrown in, too. I got this copy from my parents when they moved from OH to ID years ago. It‘s from 1969 and neither of them remember buying or reading it, but someone obviously did.

Better late than never: I finished four books for the #AwesomeAugust readathon. That got me a #BookSpinBingo! Thanks to @Andrew65 for hosting.

Rats.

An ancient Greek playwright goes to a tailor to get some trousers fixed.

The tailor looks at the trousers and says, “Euripides?”

The playwright nods. “Yeah. Eumenides?”

I wanted so much more. Maybe that‘s not fair, maybe I‘m expecting something that couldn‘t really be written before Roe actually fell, but there‘s a lot of speculation in here that is irrelevant now. Many sections are just print-outs of websites (based on the assumption of them becoming inaccessible at some point post-Roe). The Resources section, conversely, is only online. 🤷🏻‍♀️ This could be a good start, but I sure hope there‘s more out there.

Yeah…that word is “flouting.”

While a lot of this book is useful and important, there are also lots of this, and references to sections that aren‘t in the book at all. I feel like this update didn‘t get edited at all.

Probably the most comfortable I‘ve ever been at a wedding. I just wish the internet at the venue was reliable, because it‘s really jumpy and hard to follow.

Today‘s #bookmail includes the tagged for #DeadPhilosophersSociety, A Secret Sisterhood for #PemberLittens, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground for #SheSaid - and a bunch of feminist works because that‘s the mood I was in when I was on Book Outlet that day. Also a cute puzzle/find ‘em/geography thing for the kiddo.

Taxpayers will always be forced to fund programs they disagree with. Taxes fund wars, jails, bailouts for the rich, stadiums and sports arenas and all sorts of programs many oppose. Yet somehow a moral objection by a minority of Americans to the legal act of terminating a pregnancy has become an issue so sacrosanct that abortions has [sic] been removed line by line from the entire US tax code. That‘s not a reasonable moral objection, that‘s 👇🏻

This is Batty‘s story, and Ben‘s too, as Batty approaches her 11th birthday. That‘s a jump of about five years from the last book (and since the first three happened over about two years it feels abrupt). There‘s a lot of heartbreak here, with backstory about how Lizzy (mom) died, the recent loss of Hound tearing a hole in Batty‘s heart, Nick‘s all-too-brief leave from war, and Skye battling Jeffrey‘s crush and everyone losing in the process.

A meh book on an important subject. Maybe this hadn‘t aged well, despite the fundamental problems remaining unchanged. Maybe I‘ve read other books on similar subjects that worked better for me (Freakonomics and Fast Food Nation, both last year, come to mind). I just wanted more from this and didn‘t get it. Another done for #AwesomeAugust

It‘s a good enough historical romance. There are annoying errors (Fitzgerald when it should say Fitzallen, people in two places at once) and I saw the two twists coming pretty early, and the big conflict ends up passing quickly. But I liked both characters and the supporting cast, and I have the next two already, so I‘ll continue the trilogy. One down for #AwesomeAugust and #Roll100

We‘re charging full speed toward the climax of this series, and nobody is safe. Apollo‘s redemption is also progressing, and I just hope he can retain the humanity he‘s built. There were some genuine moments of peace and laughter, too, which was a nice respite. #SeriesRead2022 @TheSpineView

Awesome @Andrew65 is hosting #AwesomeAugust readathon over the next nine days. I hope to make some headway on my list for the month. Specifically, I want to complete at least one line on my #BookSpinBingo - which will require that I read/finish at least three books. Hubby is traveling this weekend so I had high hopes for reading time but momming is negating that somewhat. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We shall see.

I finally got through this one, after falling off the buddy read wagon months ago. What an amazing undertaking! I‘m going to have to revisit sections of this, and delve into the contributors‘ other work, for years to come. Hannah-Jones mentioned this being the beginning of an ongoing project, and I certainly hope that‘s the case. I also need to find out more about the educators‘ resources, and see what I can use for homeschooling.

I‘ve loved everything Mihalik has published so far, and while this isn‘t my favorite, I still loved it. Kee‘s insecurities were a bit much, and so much would have been solved by just TALKING TO EACH OTHER, but Kee and Varro are a good pair and it‘s a solid continuation of the story arc from Hunt the Moon. Next installment due in early 2023, which feels like forever.