“We are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives.”

This guilt is my current heartbreak. It helps to see my feelings articulated on the page.

The Austin central library is six stories of beauty and light. I bought a tshirt. I think this is going to be a new thing for me - to visit libraries when I travel and buy stuff to support them. What library do you love? #publiclibrary #library

Reading at a cafe in Austin, Texas. This book is SO long. I‘ve been reading it all week all over Austin!

Reading poolside today. I have nine school days left, but today feels like summer. #teachersoflitsy

Listening to the audio while on a road trip this weekend. I have two hours left - need to fit it in while I do errands. I love the two narrators and the flashback to “then” and back to “now”.

I really enjoyed reading this book about a modern woman at a crossroads in her life and an apothecary who specializes in poison.

#springbreak #teachersoflitsy

💙 when your coworker brings you a book at work 💙

Current read in my new bedroom reading chair!

Library haul. This should keep me busy.

January has been a good month for reading for me! All the Bright Places was a good one - funny, sad, and great characters.

The Four Winds is an epic story of one woman‘s life during the Dust Bowl in Texas and heading west to California to search for a better life. Heartbreaking and unforgettable.

2022 off to a good start - reading wise. I have time to read because I am home sick. So that‘s no fun.

Ended the year with an audiobook on a road trip. Christopher Moore‘s Fool is a hilarious retelling of Shakespeare‘s King Lear. Very inappropriate in all the funniest ways. A great way to close out 2021.
Happy new year everyone!

Knitting a second sock and reading about Nina Hill.

Merry Christmas!!! Reading by the fire in the afterglow of gifts. Thankful for the season!

Great book and I met my goal for 2021!

“…it‘s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown up.”

It really is.

Just read the first few pages, and I‘m speechless at how Backman puts my feelings about life into simple humorous prose. It‘s just lovely.

I really enjoyed this book. It is so clever and a mix of history and fiction. A witch and a vampire fall in love and travel back in time to find a teacher for the witch. Amazing plot and great characters. Can‘t wait for the third book to be available!

Ah I am enjoying this book so much!

One of the things I love best about my kindle is being able to go to the library while I‘m in bed. Checked out six books. Starting with the second book in the Discovery of Witches series!!!

Ooh this book is so good! It‘s keeping me up past my bedtime three nights in a row! #witches #vampires Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇👻🧙‍♀️🧛🧡🖤

Audiobook!

Good morning, mortals. This book is so crazy and fun!

Currently reading this stack. The top one is just so much fun. The next three are challenging me in very good ways. The bottom one is something I‘m looking forward to unpacking. #teachersoflitsy

Ahh this was so fun! I listened to the audio version and it was delightful! Alex and Poppy are best friends who travel together. Reminded me of When Harry Met Sally. Fun read for summertime!

Another day to read by the beach.

Mini vacation 💙

I read this book awhile ago, but thought it would be fun on audio. Yep - it‘s good.

Re-reading this - I adore Jacqueline Kirby, and this one is hilarious! She decides to go to a romance writers conference, because she is bored, and then decides to write an historical romance. Oh, and solve a murder mystery too. Easy and delightful reading.

I started the audiobook, but I needed the print version to finish. The audio is a good reader, but the cadence was comforting and I kept falling asleep. Once I switched to print, I was able to connect to the story and finish it.
This is the story of Doro and Anyanwu, two immortals with exceptional gifts. Doro uses his power to gather and breed gifted humans. Anyanwu is a healer.
Excellent and disturbing. I want to read the series.

Reading this slightly disturbing book about a young mother while enjoying the sunset and a boozy drink.

I listened to the audiobook on Audible. Delightful - fun story set at a local renaissance faire.

“Let‘s make croissants by hand from scratch “ he said.

“Great idea! I need to go to the library and do some research first..” I said.

As one does…..

I loved this slightly crazy fictionalized story featuring the works of the Bronte family. And now, of course, I need to read the ones I haven‘t read yet. Thank you, used book store! These are my summer goals.

My dog is guarding my book for me! My friends gave me this to read and it‘s perfect so far - a young woman starting her studies at Oxford and waiting to find out what she has inherited as she is the only descendant of the Brontes.

Summer work reading. It‘s challenging in a good way!

I read this for a second time. It‘s really the perfect summer mystery - it takes place in Rome and has a little bit of history thrown in with the best main character, Jacqueline Kirby, librarian.

I had a great weekend - read two books 😁! Highly recommend Binti - it was amazing.

Started this book over breakfast. What a mistake! Colleen Hoover‘s books pull me right in and now I want to go back to bed and read all day! But I have stuff to do so I‘ll be an adult and get my act together. Pancakes were delish!

I‘m a teacher, so many people have recommended this book to me and it‘s been on my list for awhile. I started it on Monday and finished Thursday night. Wow - I was enthralled with the story, with the writing, with the fact that this is all true. Well, it‘s Tara‘s story. It is her truth. Which she wrestles with in such a genuine and heartbreaking way that you cannot help but believe her. And cheer for her. And then cry with her.

Third floor patio poolside in Waikiki - not a bad place to read and drink my coffee. I‘ve been meaning to read this book for ages and finally have time and headspace to read it. Thankful!

Another great story from Colleen Hoover! All of her books should come with a warning: do not start to read this if you have to work tomorrow. Stayed up to finish!

Also, so happy that I can sit in a coffee shop and read by myself. I missed this.

Very cute novel! I enjoyed this!

Nice way to start the day. 💚

Wow. I read this in one sitting. It‘s that good. And I‘m reeling from the ending. WTF.
Lowen is an author hired to finish a series of books by Verity Crawford, who has been seriously injured in a car accident. While researching in Verity‘s home office, Lowen finds a manuscript for an autobiography. So she reads it.
This reminded me of Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier.

Decisions, decisions. One library book, one borrowed from a friend, and one I bought for my son. Verity is up next!

I stayed up late reading! I feel like one of the best parts of me - the lover of books - is coming back after a long absence. Also, knitting this beautiful yarn into a scarf.

Ahh. I stayed up past my bedtime to finish and find out how January‘s story ended. A lovely wonderful book full of adventure and magic. I‘m so thankful I‘m able to read again! I missed it so much.