You will love this book if you like beautiful narrative poetry, thoughtful observations on daily life, and heartbreaking truths about living with metastatic breast cancer, which Anya does. We were grad school friends, and I experience more enjoyment reading her work than I ever did from reading a poem at Emory.

#humpdaypost

1. 4️⃣th Pic - Even though she hates when I do this, I screenshotted my daughter's (r) Snapchat story because she's away at Davidson College & I miss her
2. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 🙏🏿
3. Drizzly & warm 🌦
4. Frederica by Georgette Heyer because news was getting me down so I needed a little historical romance 💕
5. Labor Day plans - Tailgating & cheering on the University of Georgia Bulldogs with friends & family! ❤️🏈🖤

As an English teacher, reader, and mother, this conversation between my daughter and me warms my heart! Doesn't every reading mom want her daughter to ask her for more poetry?? She loved Milk and Honey, so I went with this one.

I didn't realize how much I would love this book. SO timely just coming off the Google Memo about women in tech. I started it to familiarize myself with tech terminology before a round of job interviews, stayed for the fully realized characters, male and female: sympathetic villains and flawed protagonists. Highly recommend! 5 Peaches 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

Forget #TaxDay - It's #TitanicRemembranceDay in homage to the unsinkable ship that went down on April 15, 1912. For a while, I was obsessed with Titanica and even taught a college composition course based on Titanic texts. Best read in my collection is Biel's cultural history - I learned some used the "women and children first" maxim to "prove" that women were weaker than men & thus didn't deserve the right to vote!

Funny that I have so many green titles, since this is a color I NEVER wear. This cross-section represents all the genres I love, & I chose the current title because I'm using it for #LitsyReadingChallenge2017 #LitsyRC20 - On Your TBR for over 1 year!
#marchintoreading
#greencovers

My 17 yo daughter sent me this pic of her first trip to Waterstones in London! She is studying abroad this year in Spain, and I miss her terribly, but I love that we can connect long-distance with books. I love seeing what strikes her fancy. The only one of these I already have is the Franzen, but I've wanted to read the Roxane Gay & Jennifer Niven. I went ahead & added them all to my Goodreads!

Still waiting for all the wonderful things, but I think we've got all the ugly things covered in this administration, thanks. Enjoy one of my favorite signs from the #AtlantaMarchforSocialJusticeandWomen which reminds us that #allisnotlost ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

January #BookoftheMonth has been a great box so far: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Lucky You, Gillian Flynn, and now this! I love books about music, especially novels. Jennifer Egan, Michael Chabon, anybody got other recommendations?

#ReadJanuary #Day11 #DNF I love Laura Esquivel, but the main character in this one is so unlikable! She has a drinking problem, which is supposed to make her appear flawed, but she makes ridiculous decisions (like calling out her best friend at work). I didn't care for the translation, either. Lots of cliched expressions that I can't believe Esquivel would use. A #Netgalley choice that has ruined my review percentage long enough! @RealLifeReading

#BOTM day!! I couldn't decide which one for this month, so I got both, plus the #BOTY #Lolly winner. The sad thing is that I wanted #SwimmingLessons too, but I'm still pouting over getting turned down for that one on #Netgalley 😬I'm so mature! Anyway, I'm excited for my Christmas present to myself!

So many Star Wars legos in this house! Biggest SW Parenting Fail: Taking 6 y.o. to see "Revenge of the Sith" in the theatre. Bedfellows for a week! #litsylovesleia @Liberty

Day 8 #SeasonsReadings2016 #artrelatedbooks I'm a day late, but I had to post because I love books that tell a story about art! Started with Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, then Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue, but had to choose this one because Mary Cassatt is my favorite artist of all time! @RealLifeReading

#booknerdproblems - Stand in line for book signing or stand in line for book cookie cake? Solution: Get cookie first to eat while standing in author line! Excited to hear Alice Hoffman discuss this book at MJCCA #BookFestival in Atlanta. It's a lovely survivor story & exploration of mother-daughter relationship. Fun fact: Hoffman named her dog Shelby after the main character! #photoadaynov16

#somethingforsept Day 13: #faveclassics I have a ton of favorite classics, but this is my latest one. My daughter just started an IB program & this was her first assignment in English class, so I wanted to read it along with her (embarrassingly, for the first time.) So much timely relevance! #septphotochallenge

I love looking at bookstores on vacation! (Especially books in another language.) My Spanish isn't quite good enough to tackle this one, but I loved it in English!

I. Love. This. Book. Simon is the most lovable HS student who is trying to keep himself and the boy he loves (but has never met) from being outed by a blackmailer. He is just so relentlessly optimistic, even faced with the uncertainty of first love amid some pretty terrible bullying. Just do yourself a favor & read it. This picture was taken in a hotel bathroom, where I finished it at 1:30 a.m. while my daughter slept

How my heart sang when Chelsea Clinton mentioned this book while introducing Hillary Clinton at the DNC earlier. She called it one of her favorite memories of reading with her mother as a child. It's one of my favorite books, too, and this is the same edition I had (with one small addition)! #StrongerTogether #HistoryMade #Herstory ❤️🇺🇸🎉

Finishing this awesome find for #24in48 this weekend. I'm planning to finish lots of Netgalley books that I can take on the go. Freaked out a bit that I spent so much of the 1st 8 hours sleeping! Ack!

#FunPhotoFriday - I'm late to the party, but I've loved seeing everyone's childhood libraries! So many of my faves have already made an appearance, but I loved this story, a child's view of the Holocaust. I was haunted by the specter of Hitler collecting beloved toys. This is my actual childhood copy, circa 1980.

As an English teacher, I love books that use the inner workings of schools as a backdrop. Our heroine, Kate, takes an admissions job at a swanky NYC prep school while she recovers from heartbreak. This is the book Sophie Kinsella would have written if her American boyfriend had dumped her at LaGuardia and she had gone home to work at Eton. If you're on Netgalley, go request it now!

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." --LMA
I love Alcott, but I don't follow her philosophy on this month's BOTM bookmark. I'm rather, the more books, the better! #FunFridayPhoto

So pumped for my first BOTM box! Love That Boy, plus a Curtis Sittenfeld add on--not sure how I can be this excited when I have a TBR pile, both literal & electronic, threatening to take over my house. Couldn't resist Fournier's memoir of releasing the crushing expectations we place on our kids

I loved Carry On & Eleanor and Park so much that I'm working my way back through Rowell's backlist. This deal is perfect timing! **Hope this screenshot doesn't make your feed look as if it's filled with ads-sorry!

Raising a family of four kids in our consumer culture, I identified with the author's desire to disconnect from his "stuff" and reconnect w/ loved ones. Scott is hilarious, a master of self-deprecation who avoids sanctimony & guilt. Full review at ReadThisBookYall.com (Netgalley)

Embarrassment of riches: I got 5 out of the 6 books I requested from Netgalley, so I'd best get cracking! Chose this one first in honor of the U.S. Olympic Trials going on now. I'm enjoying it so far, but it skews a bit younger than I'd hoped: 8-12 yrs rather than teen. Missy is amaze-balls, though!

This is exactly the problem with Reader's Guides: Did you think of a Greek chorus? Why, yes, I thought immediately of a Greek chorus! This book is terrific, though. Moriarty is a genius with plotting and her black satire of the sport of competitive child rearing is both hilarious and unnerving.

In honor of @Liberty 's Fun Friday (Feline Friday?), I call this composition "50 Shades of Grey"-my cat Shadow used to be standoffish, but he's become a more cuddly reading buddy in his old age. We're both enjoying TAOBN-depictions of HS loneliness ring so true

Excited to start the next book in my haul from Waterstone's on a recent London trip (yes, I really did pack 9 paperbacks in my luggage!) Told the clerk I wanted British fiction that was less well-known in US & she chose some. This one describes HS experience of David, who secretly wants to be a girl

I seem to be the only person in the world who couldn't get into this book! I usually love narrative nonfiction (yay, Erik Larson!) but this one didn't engage me after 43 pages. What do you think? Did I give it enough time?

This is a summer reading choice for my seniors, and so far it's a funny, lopsided portrait of surviving high school with a bit of mental illness

"I don't mean that nothing matters anymore. I mean nothing ever mattered. Like, if it's all so fragile anyway, then it was never really real, you know? Even if there weren't an asteroid, I could still die tomorrow. So why worry? It's like Andy said, 'Whatever it is, it's not worth it.'"