I‘m squeezing in one more book for April for #foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks
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I‘m squeezing in one more book for April for #foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks
pickThis book strives to reset our mindsets. Society teaches us that to be a “good” person/parent/spouse we should have a neat, clean house. The author suggests that a neat, clean house is not an issue of goodness or badness; it‘s a functional issue. We aren‘t meant to be the servant to house. It is supposed to serve us. With that change in mindset, the goal is no longer perfection but function. On days when parenting, chronic pain, work, etc keeps ⬇️
pickIn a small town near Belfast, during the Troubles, Cushla juggles her teaching job, bar keeping at the family bar at night, a perpetually drunk mother, the man she‘s having an affair with, and giving her heart to a young student whose poor Protestant family is barely making ends meet when the father is beaten so badly he can no longer function. There‘s a lot going on yet this short book moves at a snail‘s pace. We are given intimate details ⬇️
pickAn absolutely charming book! Tanzanian Angel bakes beautiful unique amazing cakes in Kigali, #Rwanda, there with her professor husband teaching in the university. Each customer has a story and Angel learns a lot and shares a lot, and solves a problem here and there. She learns how the neighborhood prostitute got that job 😢 and how the local ladies handle female mutilation. Angel solves marital woes and so much more. She reminds me of Mma ⬇️
I‘ve been reading rather than writing reviews! So… coming soon, a raft of reviews!
#5JoysFriday
1) I‘m temporarily on some meds that allow me to walk the neighborhood again without my back cratering in pain. The neighborhood garden is full of veggies and flowers!
2) I made some fun wall art
3) My new paralegal started working for me this week and she‘s awesome!
4) I wrapped up an awful harassment investigation & the stress lifted from my shoulders
5) My sister is visiting me at my lake house this weekend
@DebinHawaii
Today is Italy‘s Liberation Day from the fascist regime. Join all Italians all weekend long as we celebrate (while also continuing to mourn Pope Frances‘ death). Remember we are celebrating #Jubilee all year long for #foodandlit. Read any good books set in Italy recently? (Photo by my daughter when she was there on April 25 two years ago. She reminded me to make this post!) #Italy #catsandbooks
@wanderinglynn What are you doing to celebrate?
So *raspberries* 😝 to my certain family members who say audiobooks do not count as reading. Penguin says it‘s so.
I‘ve started this audiobook tonight, my third book for #Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I‘ve started my third Kate Quinn book tonight for #authoramonth @Soubhiville
I don‘t think I‘m keen on trying this Rwandan specialty
#Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I love how Cushla is reading out loud the misspellings on the menu!
#Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Great quotes. First, I love that the main character Angel, the cake maker, is going through the “change.” The doctor asked Angel if she‘s flashing! Poor Angel she‘s flashing all the time. I feel for her!
And second, don‘t you just love the name Dr Rejoice?
#foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks
Ebook on sale today. I loved this book
Rome turns 2778 years old on April 21. Not part of Italy‘s Jubilee celebrations but definitely part of #foodandlit‘s all year celebration of all things Italian. #Jubilee. Throw a Roman birthday party this Monday!
More info here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIcFUz5MA9b/?igsh=ZzFvM2d0MTV2dGk5
First page. A lot of the first paragraph is relevant although I‘m fortunate not to have had PCOS.
I lost 10 pounds the last two weeks!! I‘m hoping the loss wasn‘t because of the stress I was under. But I‘ve been tweaking my diet a lot, so maybe?
This book was referred to me by my gynecologist. So I‘ve started reading it today. If you spend the extra $ to buy the spiral bound you get the hard-bound book with holes punched in it. Ugh. But it does lay flat.
#5joysFriday
1) I spent last weekend with my crafty friends
Work was really rough this week so I‘m going with the joys coming up!
2) Easter weekend
3) My new paralegal starts next Wednesday and we are getting her office set up—I think she‘ll be a great addition to my team
4) Flying to AZ to pick up son from university for the summer (hopefully I can come see @dabbe on one of these trips)
5) Daughter is graduating university a month from now
Obviously this is a hard book to read. I‘m just not in the right head space right now to read it. So I‘m going to mark it unread rather than bailed (it doesn‘t deserve a bad rating because I‘m not up to reading it now). I need something a lot lighter. So I‘ll find another book that might work better for me now. #Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
I read 27 of them. Not bad I think. Definitely some favorites in there and one I despised and bailed on. My favorites were The Count of Monte Cristo, Lonesome Dove, and Rebecca. I hated The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I want to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. #tlt #threelistThursday @dabbe
Want to play? @Julsmarshall @Bookwormjillk
See link in the original post from @dabbe
I‘ve read a lot about this genocidal massacre but I didn‘t know that there were warnings ahead of time. I‘ve barely started this book and it‘s already overwhelming
And to finish the quote above, the Hutus who sympathized with the Tutsis were among the first murdered
#foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks
pick5+ stars! Seven authors each write in sequence from the viewpoints of different people about Rome‘s occupation of Britain, and the attempt of a queen of one of the tribes to force them out. Queen Boudica did exist; her story was told by the Roman historians. But this book follows other characters (one per author): another queen, a slave (Boudica‘s husband‘s illegitimate daughter), a Roman tribune, a Druid, a son of an important character, ⬇️
pickIn 1899, Jeremy is in Rwanda overseeing building a railroad when two lions begin killing the workers (like the Ghost and the Darkness if you‘ve seen the movie or heard about the true story). In 2000, Max, a young woman with Aspbergers, is looking for a plant that could be the basis for a new life-saving drug in the mountains of Rwanda. Their stories are told alternately. And how they are intertwined will come as a complete surprise at the end ⬇️
My next ebook on my tbr forever. #foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks
This book is astounding, written by 7–SEVEN-authors, about Queen Boudica‘s rebellion against Rome in Britain. Review to come. But in the Author‘s Notes, I thought it amazing that one of the authors gives so much credit to our #authoramonth Kate Quinn! I‘m so glad I read this book; it‘s a keeper (which means I‘ll have to buy a copy). I wouldn‘t have read it but for #authoramonth but I also needed it for #letterY for #litsyatoz. It‘s extraordinary.
Fun #foodandlit fact:
“Mizero Ncuti Gatwa is a Rwandan-born Scottish actor who plays the 15th Doctor in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who.” Courtesy of Wikipedia
Watch an episode for #Rwanda!
Getting kitty biscuits while listening to the tagged book, which is fantastic. #authoramonth @Soubhiville #litsyatoz #LetterY
I really like the last one. Good enough is perfect.
All the best laid plans…
Care tasks are morally neutral. Being good or bad at them has nothing to do with being a good person, parent, man, woman, spouse, friend. Literally nothing. You are not a failure because you can‘t keep up with laundry. Laundry is morally neutral.
#5joysFriday
1) Mom and Dad are safe after a brush fire at their home
2) I went to a cute bookstore in a small TX town
3) My book order arrived from NYRB
4) A friend bought a round of ice cream for girlfriends Thursday night
5) I made super cute bee cards on Friday at my crafty retreat
@DebinHawaii
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