1. Lunch date tomorrow and trivia date Thursday.
2. About an hour?
3. I think it would be fun to visit all the current major league ballparks and write an updated version of the tagged book.
#motivationalmonday
1. Lunch date tomorrow and trivia date Thursday.
2. About an hour?
3. I think it would be fun to visit all the current major league ballparks and write an updated version of the tagged book.
#motivationalmonday
Quirky story about a man who tries to find his way in the world after his mother dies. Soft pick. #sundayfunday
I have a goal of making a necklace for every month of the year. Some months have been easier than others, but here are my creations for January through March. Yes, I used my cat as the background for January‘s picture. #LitsyCrafters
A clever cozy mystery that made me hungry! Pick.
1. You are your own best advocate.
2. Retired
3. I briefly pursued a career in HR/career counseling, but I kind of missed that wave.
#wondrouswednesday
1. Pulling together stuff for the tax return in a couple weeks. Maybe going for a hike on Saturday if the weather cooperates.
2. I wanted to be a nurse so I could be in the navy like my dad. Not sure where I got the idea that was my only option.
3. It‘s not exactly a holiday, but I will be going back to New Jersey next month to housesit for my friends who will be traveling to see the eclipse.
4. Tagged!
#motivationalmonday
I learned a few things from reading this book.
-I like the show better
-Confirms this author is not for me
-White nationalists are crazy monster truckers
Either Genesis or Homer‘s Odyssey (the real one)
#sundayfunday
This old TV stand has served me well, but it‘s time to find it another home. The best solution is that my niece takes it to replace the “crappy plastic one” they got from Amazon, but I have a Plan B and Plan C to get it out of here. #empty #shelfie #ittakesallkinds
The Monet exhibit was wonderful!
1. Tagged book takes place in Atlanta.
2. I want to visit the Shetland islands from the Ann Cleeves series.
#wondrouswednesday
1. When I was a kid, I wanted Laura Ingalls to be my roommate, but she‘d probably watch the faux news channel all day the way my current “roommate” does.
2. The main characters in the tagged book are roommates at Bletchley Park.
#two4tuesday
After the events of the last book, Emma and Sam decided to start a detective agency, and their first case is a doozy. I found the parallel investigations of the police and the detective agency to be a little repetitive, but I liked the story otherwise. I‘d thought it was the last in the series, but Goodreads tells me there‘s at least one more. I‘m glad, because this one opens up some interesting threads for the main characters. #serieslove2024
My #favebookmark is whatever is in the physical book I‘m currently reading. This one isn‘t even technically a bookmark: it‘s a ticket stub! #ittakesallkinds
This veered occasionally to soap opera “territory” but would always pull itself back. I liked the author‘s use of history, family research, and her imagination to craft an interesting and enjoyable story. This was a Seattle without Starbucks!
#FabulousFebruary … how did I do?
FINISH
Island of the Blue Dolphins✅
Now You See Them ✅
A Wild and Heavenly Place ✅
Emma (maybe?) 2 more chapters
START
The Last Widow✅
March #TBR continued. Four mysteries and a romance.
I‘m not planning to reread anything this year so I can focus on #readordonate and #serieslove which leaves out Jane Harper unfortunately. Perhaps I can finally finish Emma which was #authoramonth for January!
I should read these books in March, right? Meanwhile, I‘ve got four back issues of Real Simple, and this one from 2009 is actually the newest. #readordonate #monthlymagazineblitz
I moved my #readordonate books again! The result is a more accessible space and no more need to use Baseball Vacations to anchor the row. It now has a more suitable home.
Also out:
Matrix-read & gifted to a friend
Island of the Blue Dolphins-read & donated to LFL
In:
The Book of Longings- upcoming book club selection found in LFL
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch-back on the shelf for now to be picked up again later
For various reasons both positive and negative I‘ve put a good dent in my reading goals for the year so far. I finished ten books in February, with the tagged one being my favorite. With the eight that I read in January, things are off to a good start. #wrapup
☕️coffee … because it smells so goooood
💦pavement after it rains … it smells so fresh
🛀🏻mint & eucalyptus bath scrub … it‘s relaxing and refreshing at the same time
#wondrouswednesday
A soft pick. I enjoyed catching up with old and new characters several years after the events of the last book, but I have to say the dynamic of Emma as bored housewife and Edgar as her clueless husband was a bit annoying. The overall story was interesting. There‘s one more to go in this series, and I already have it in the queue. #serieslove2024 #fabulousfebruary
1. I have exciting plans!
-Sort various March appointments
-Clean my favorite coffee mug that can‘t go in the dishwasher
2. Merida for her unruly mop of red hair
3. Baseball!
#MotivationalMonday
I finished this lovely and wistful book today as part of the #FabulousFebruary readathon. Tomorrow I‘ll continue my tour of local LFLs as part of #readordonate for the year.
It‘s time for the #FabulousFebruary readathon! My goals:
FINISH
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Now You See Them
A Wild and Heavenly Place
Emma (maybe?)
START
The Last Widow
We had a visitor last night. This encounter through the window continued for a while, then when it was over Kili rolled around on the carpet for a few minutes. Outside cat has a collar and is not a stray. #catsoflitsy
1. Kinsey Millhone
2. Samwise Gamgee
3. Tagged book is a palate cleanser after the intensity of the last book I finished. It‘s also intense in its own right.
#wondrouswednesday
1. 1992
2. Tagged! Glasgow, Scotland, to Washington Territory (now Washington State) would be an endeavor even today. In the 1870s it took several segments and several weeks.
#two4tuesday
The tag line for this book is Get Out meets Rear Window, and that‘s not wrong. Until the wild and very rushed ending when it turns into Bourne Identity.
My book club agreed with Roxane Gay‘s assessment on Goodreads: great premise and interesting historical information … with pacing issues. Still I‘m not sorry I read it and give it a pick.
1. I‘m going to see Peter Pan tomorrow night with a friend of mine. I don‘t think I‘ve seen a live theater performance since before the pandemic.
2. I heard Who Knew (P!nk) yesterday on the radio, and it‘s been stuck in my head since then.
3. U2…before they get too old or I do.
#motivationalmonday
My first #bookcrush #luckyinlove #Strider
A husband decides to buy a boat and sail around the world with his wife and two small children. He‘s a bit of a jerk, and she‘s a hot mess. Throw in some storms, trouble with the boat, and a mysterious bad thing that‘s referenced in the current timeline…and you get a long winded ride to nowhere. Sometimes a dual timeline is fine, and sometimes you just want someone to get to the point. Also the last chapter is a total needle scratch.
I haven‘t seen that many plays or musicals in my life, but there were some that were especially memorable.
1. My college roommate was in a production of the tagged play.
2. I saw a cool production of Richard III with my sister at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
3. In high school I was in the pit orchestra for Carousel, so I got to know it VERY well.
#TLT
This is described as a “companion” to Last Night at the Telegraph Club and not really a sequel, though we do “catch up” with the characters from the first book. I liked that one better, but this is also a pick.
My #serieslove2024 list now fits in one collage, even with a book I‘d forgotten to include before and some upcoming books that now have covers. The bottom row is just UK mysteries!
My old pastor posted this on Facebook.
#Lent
#AshWednesday
#ValentinesDay
As if that‘s not enough, it‘s also the start of MLB spring training.
Dragons and soldiers and cults! Oh my! Middle Earth meets Pern meets Revelations. Murtagh gets his chance to … shine? Redeem himself? There‘s room for continuation of the saga, but it‘s also a satisfying conclusion if it‘s the end.
With this, I think I‘ve cleared enough books from the #serieslove1024 board (along with the ➡️ books that I‘m pushing to the future), that I can go with one list now. Unless of course I start a new series!
I found this on cloudLibrary and figured I‘d finally read it as part of #serieslove2024 even though I‘d previously jumped into the middle of the series. It was an interesting story that could also stand alone. Holmes isn‘t one of my favorites, but he‘s tolerable and resourceful as he navigates Mary‘s travails in San Francisco. Guest appearance by Dashiell Hammett.
Books with ➡️ are deferred for now for various reasons. Not sure what‘s up next.