Daughter and I at the San Antonio Book Festival this morning
A free ebook today! It‘s never too early to stock up on Halloween reads because it‘s one of my favorite times of the year on Litsy!!
Maybe my favorite comic ever!!
#twofortuesday It‘s been a heckuva week so I‘m just now getting to focus on Litsy, so thanks @TheSpineView for forgiving my long delay!!
1) Both! 😂
2) Bibliophile: “a person who collects or has a great love of books” I googled it because I assumed from the question they were different! Great gotcha! I think if someone were a voracious reader, they‘d have to fit in one of the two, or both parts of that definition
Fun one!!
#wondrouswednesday. Thanks @Eggs for the tag & allowing me to post late
1) I love to garden but it doesn‘t always work out every year. As a kid my parents indulged me & found me spots to try growing things. As a child, my best gardens were one year gorgeous tomato plants with a bumper crop of tomatoes, and another year a garden‘s worth of marigolds
2) veggies, but I want to expand to flowers 💐
3) tagged
What about you @freeatlast1137 ?
#thoughtfulthursday Thanks for the tag @BrittanyReads !
1) tagged
2) IRL
3) 5–it‘s such a remarkable piece of history
4) only when reading IRL books for work, because I‘m one of those who likes my books to be like new 😁 I do highlight my ebooks. I find it very helpful
A day late but I still love responding to these so I couldn‘t pass it up! @MoonWitch94
I‘m really enjoying this book. The writing is lovely. #Tunisia #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
An ebook by my husband‘s fave Norwegian author is on sale! Staalesen‘s books are often set in my husband‘s hometown of Bergen, Norway. He has all his books in Norwegian and I have only been able to find English translations in London. So this is fun to have an English ebook! But it does appear to be a very dark Scandinavian noir book.
Ebook on sale today. I love nonfiction about fearless journalists. So here I go again because it should have been on my tbr list all along
The kingdom being referenced is Saudi Arabia, where the main character worked for a time. #Tunisia #readingafrica2022 @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
pickWhen the father and older brother must leave Kabul to avoid punishment/conscription by the Taliban, the oldest sister living at home must figure out how to make money to feed her siblings. She starts a business that ultimately employs quite a few women, who desperately need jobs to survive, right under the noses of Taliban soldiers. What is life like for women in #Afghanistan under the Taliban? This book, while amazingly inspiring, tears ⬇️
Four free ebooks on Amazon right now. These sound exactly like the kind of books I love
I bought this ebook on sale today. It‘s set in #Finland by an author from Helsinki. My dear wonderful sister-in-law is from Helsinki so I like to try to learn about where she‘s from.
“The four men responsible for this last deal in human flesh…were natives of Maine…”
The captain and owner of the ship, Clotilda, which made the final illegal run for slaves, was from Nova Scotia.
I thought these were enlightening facts—northerners were often as racist as southern slave owners, they just lacked an economy that supported slavery, so they moved south. 😡
#Benin #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
“The Viking press again asks for the life of Kossula, but in language rather than dialect.…” The dialect was a vital and authenticating feature of the narrative. Hurston would not submit to such a revision.
I love that Hurston stood her ground, even though it cost her the publication of the book during her lifetime. An anthropologist/historian true to her profession.
#Benin #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
Update on the status of the #readingafrica2022 challenge. Current reads are for the smaller countries of #swaziland #tunisia (for the tagged book) and #Benin—which I‘ve colored with stripes. @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
I started this one today for #Benin #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
Ebook on sale today. Long on my tbr so I bought it. It‘s a murder mystery set in 1800 Korea
I‘m finally unboxing my latest craft supplies! I love the stamp bottom right for #litsylove! I‘ve got a lot of letters to catch up on! I‘m also looking forward to when we do paper crafts for #litsycrafters! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Catsandbooks @curiouserandcurioser
I love the writing style in this book. The author is making poignant points about poverty in humorous ways. It‘s quite effective.
#readingafrica2022 #Tunisia @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
“The villagers were completely discombobulated. Most of them hadn‘t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them.”
This made me chuckle. And one of my most favorite words: discombobulated
#readingafrica2022 #Tunisia @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
Starting this one as my next audiobook. It‘s set in #Eswatini aka #Swaziland. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
“ The partnership between America and my country, it‘s a good and helpful beginning. Together, I believe that we can and will make even more progress in building a more stable and successful Afghanistan.“
Such a good book but sad and poignant knowing what we know now.
#foodandlit #Afghanistan @Catsandbooks @Butterfinger
Osama bin Laden, the “wealthy Saudi,” brought death not only to Americans. By establishing his base in Afghanistan, thanks to protection from the Taliban, he brought even more death and destruction upon innocent Afghans who wanted nothing to do with him or the Taliban. I‘m so sad that after all the Afghan women have been through they‘re going through it all again. #foodandlit #Afghanistan
#thoughtfulthursday Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView & @Ddzmini ! 🤗
1) I shopped for craft supplies! Like books, you can never have enough!
2) daughter is home from college so I took part of day off to spend with her (we reorganized a bookshelf), and then I‘ve been doing special things with her and my son when his day is done at high school like I did when they were little. Today was a froyo run. It‘s nostalgic for me and fun for them.
#wondrouswednesday
1) no; but I dream whole stories. When I wrote one of them for college creative writing, the prof said it was my best writing yet. I should write more of them down. I even remember some of these dreams as if they‘re books
2) tagged (I‘m weird)
3) sigh, surgery in 2 weeks on my elbow—so getting my books organized today has helped me prepare for downtime to read
Want to play @Nute @GingerAntics @KristiAhlers @Catsandbooks ?
#twofortuesday a bit late. Thanks @TheSpineView and @Eggs for the tag!
1) tagged; the MC loves his bees deeply as they set out to harvest spring flowers. I‘ve barely started it but the writing is beautiful
2) I do, even though I rarely do so. When I was young and reading chunksters at unbelievably fast speed, I‘d listen to my 80s singles (I ❤️ I was a teen in the 80s). ‘Der Kommisar‘ will always remind me of Winds of War and War & Remembrance
A free ebook today for fans of Lord Byron. I‘ve read another historical fiction book by this author and loved it. She does her research and her writing is well done.
pickThis author frustrates me to no end. He‘s a fantastic writer but every book I‘ve read by him has several serious editing issues, like the big one in this book. The characters are all admiring a glass skull that a page later is removed from a briefcase. How??? Dialog is often unrealistic although it improved in this book. It always makes me want to stop right there. But his descriptions are top notch—some of the best landscape descriptions ⬇️
I‘m borrowing daughter‘s dorm room wheeled cart (she‘s now home from college for the summer) for my challenge reads. With her immense amount of help, we organized and updated my fave books bookshelf (in the background). Then we pulled out my IRL challenge books for #readingafrica2022 (top of cart) #foodandlit2022 and #litsyatoz and put them on her cart. I decided to throw in a couple of my Wilbur Smith books for Africa because, why not?
pickJama is a young Somalian boy when his mother dies in the port city of Aden, Yemen, and so he decides he will undertake a trek to find his father, who he believes to be a “driver” somewhere in #Sudan. Thus begins his travels across north Africa & on to England all during the most dangerous time the world has ever seen, WWII. He is smart and lucky (thanks to his being born under the lucky sign of the black mamba). But he also makes stupid ⬇️
Posted by the author recognizing it‘s National Mental Health Awareness Week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdYLagbMZOf/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Such an excellent book.
I‘m starting this book tonight for #Tunisia #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
This has been on my tbr list so I snatched it right up now that the ebook is on sale for $1.99.
One more challenge list—my remaining letters for #litsyatoz2022. I‘ve never been this close to finishing the #litsyatoz challenge this early in the year (& I hope I didn‘t just jinx it). Obviously I have books lined up and ready to go! This will be my fifth year doing this challenge so I‘m very excited to finish it again this year (hopefully). @BookishMarginalia
I finished this audiobook tonight. It grew on me over time and I‘m looking forward to reviewing it. In the meantime it has helped me complete a few countries for #readingafrica2022: #Somalia #Eritrea #Djibouti and #Sudan. Some of it takes place in #Egypt too. It‘s free for Audible subscribers and it certainly helped with the challenge! It can be a rough read but it‘s very good. Review to come. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
I recently posted a list of the books I‘ve read for #readingAfrica2022, and books I‘ve purchased for more African countries. Here are the countries I have left for which I have no books, just ideas, & for Seychelles no ideas! So I‘m scouring bookstores & online for them. Those with (A) I‘ll get on Audible eventually. And if worse comes to worse, in previous years, I‘ve already read the asterisk books for Congo and Zambia. Any recommendations?
@BarbaraBB I read your question about swimming in this underground lake and then read the next chapter. So, here ya go. 🤔 #Namibia #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle
Confirming what I just read in the tagged book. This is fascinating!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7975397/AI-powered-drone-used-cr...
#Namibia #readingafrica2022 @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
Why do I love to read? Learning fascinating new things like this!
#Namibia #readingafrica2022 @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
Four free cozy mystery ebooks centered around chocolate? Yes please!
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