Way out of my comfort zone!!!!! Sexual adventures galore!!!! Learned a few things in my old age.

I loved this book. A very serious topic ( what does a 25 year old do when told she has inherited the gene that causes breastfeeding cancer?), but had funny moments throughout the journey.

I would have missed out of a great book if not for #QueerBC @PuddleJumper

#TurnthePage 3 out of 5 @Bookwormjillk

I hadn't known that I needed a collection of novellas in my life.

#TurnthePage @Bookwormjillk 2 out of 5
#LitsylovesSJM @StayCurious

I really can't explain how I feel. Slow beginning, but when the siege began- BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! I couldn't keep up. Ready for the finale. #TurnthePage @Bookwormjillk 1 out of 5.

If I can finish 5 of my current reads, I'll be happy. #TurnthePage @Bookwormjillk Thanks for doing this.

This was beautiful. Written in verse of a family of color dealing with the effects of traumatic brain injuries caused by football. It tore me apart. It will be a wonderful readaloud.

It is not listed in the database. I have trouble believing the main plot: a 17 year old American-born, raised by 2 Japanese emigrants, is smuggled to Korea before being arrested as a traitor. Pretending to be clueless, she saves a dozen GI from the Philippines. After she transfers "her men" to an American sub, she believes it to be sunk. She moves to Tokyo, where she then sabotages airplanes. Impossible, right? Tremendously good story, though

I was completely charmed by this book. The respect she showed in order not to tame, yet she showed such compassion and protection when being faced with modern humanity's growth.

It was very relevant to me because I chose to live in the woods. I love nature. I love observing nature. And, I hate when there is a change, such as a new development being raised for new homes.

Glad to be back with Judy Bloom. The bullying was hard to read. My word. #ChildrensClassicRead2025 @TheBookHippie

Grateful for the Litsy member who suggested this. I really enjoyed the imagined anger of Penelope. There were more women's perspectives than in The Silence of the Girls, including the goddesses, but I appreciated Barker's writing a tad bit more. Of course, Song of Achilles is incomparable. Hope I can find some more Homer retellings.

A beautiful story of twins - sister and brother - and a memorial for the 8 Chinese who were on the doomed trip but were shown discrimination during the investigation. I hate that their stories were not kept.

I imagine the ocean, with its swirling, watery fingers knitting together the two lives I have lived.

#FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Perveen Mistry 3

Each one is better than the last. I appreciate learning the culture of Zoroastrians. There is so much I don't know.

Another harrowing tale for Kell, Lila, Rhy, and Alucard. Rhy and Alucard have a family that is so precious, the way the adults care and trust each other. Except for Lila. New characters. New villains. Can't wait for book 2.

My goal was to finish five books. 4 out of 5 is not too shabby. Thanks @Bookwormjillk for #SummersEndReadathon

You can certainly see when school started back.

I will never feel the horrors of a community trying to exist and thrive in a "normal" world, but through books like these, I can begin to understand.

A young woman who lost her hearing at 4 is thrust into a life of spying on Bell. Just wanting to be heard, she is to learn visible speech, mouth patterns created by Bell's father. It is not reading. It is simply a way to make sounds because talking with hands is barbaric.

Book 4 #SummersEnd

I can't wait to read the next one. Love the triangle. Love the adventure. Love how the society mirrors ancient Rome.

Book 3

#SummerEnds @Bookwormjillk

Another great mystery set in pre-independent India. Another great learning experience.

Book 2

#SummersEnd @Bookwormjillk

I was riveted from the first page. You know what the twist is going to be, but when it comes, it twists your heart so much that it takes you weeks to recover.

Book 1

#SummersEnd @Bookwormjillk

Thank you, @Texreader !!!

I have read so much fantasy this year, and I don't regret not one little fairy iota.

The ending blew me away. Another boon, my 14 year old was willing to discuss it with me.

I just want to pull petals off a flower. "Cardan loves Jude. Cardan loves her not."

Alas, my last reading day is tomorrow, so I probably won't find out any time soon. I will hopefully get an hour in each night going forward.

This is a story of faith and triumph. Of peril and betrayal. Of love and loss. Marguerite will stay on my mind for a long time to come.

It is also a story of one of the most hateful, spiteful, vile, vengeful villain, of whom I have ever learned. He's up there with the Spanish Inquisitors.

I wished I had known @vlwelser was reading at the same time.

This book had the most bonkers moments. Not used to seeing "gobshite" or "how things goin'" when reading a book of ancient Athens. I'm telling you, it works. It turned out to be an emotional read. How one person survived a war and imprisonment by knowing Euripedes work.

1. School was my safe space. I lived for Monday mornings.
2. As a teacher, making relationships. If I can get my fifth graders to laugh, I am victorious.
3. When a book I'm reading causes a reaction. Boom. Mic Drop. I love teaching ela and social studies.

@Roary47 I had my tp roll on my desk yesterday while I was putting my room in order. Thought of you.

#tlt @dabbe

@Karisa @CogsOfEncouragement @lil1inblue @

Lovis was my favorite character. So calm to all the chaos. From now on, I will aspire to be Lovis.

Loved Ronia's and Birk's friendship. I honestly think living in a cave might be a cool adventure. As long as harpies don't find me. I think Linville Caverns should offer nightly stays.

Matt was all over the place. Good grief. This was an awesome read.

#ChildrensClassicRead2025 @TheBookHippie

I vowed I would not waste time reading if it was too similar to the current fairy fad. I can take morally gray men, but I can't take a person's control being taken from them.

That was the only thing I disliked. The mystery in this book was creepy and kept me hooked.

TW-child abuse

+ Interesting how Napoleon's rise affected outcomes in the liberation of SA. England supported Bolivar to get rid of Spain's cruel colonialism until they needed Spain to get rid of Nap.
+Bol wanted freedom and equality for all, which is why his government could not mirror US
+He formed and named Bolivia
-Harvey was clearly biased. At least 3 x he called Bol a prima donna
-Why did I choose a bio from a Welsh dude instead of a bio written from a SA?

Sweet, romantic, fun, realistic drama, insecurities, friends getting in the way. Or, I should say, people who pretend to be friends.

I love good YA.

#QueerBC @PuddleJumper

Would I Lie To You? I watch clips. It never fails to make me chuckle. Especially, Bob Mortimer. To me, Zen is laughter. #SereneSaturdays @TheBookHippie

Or I also look at book lists, cleaning them out.

PERFETTO!!!

An Italian-American woman decides, after several life-altering events, to leave Lake Como, NJ, to work in her ancestors' land of Carrera, Italy.

I enjoyed everything about this book. Learning about the marble mining industry and how it was the same mine that Michelangelo chose his marble. Gilting. Love your crazy family. Villages.

I plan to buy Lottery ticketsto hopefully get enough money to visit Italy. That is how impressed I am

Published July 2025

I really would like to give it more accolades, but there is one flaw I cannot let go. The main MFC says that she has studied law and is going to pursue a professorship in Boston after more education. Yet, she doesn't use her supposed understanding of the law to help her brother. She was a fine detective, but the legality issue is not there.

I enjoyed the sweet romance.

Thanks, lauriesandfordbooks for allowing me to read.

I did not know how much I needed this in my life. I only wish it would have been available to me prior to 2019 when my grandmother passed.

The author wrote as a diary showcasing Marmee's anger toward injustices and her husband. The anger is only alluded to in Little Women, so it was nice to imagine what set the character off.

A perfect book for me.

May I share some personal joy? If you watch Riverdale and enjoy Jimmy Stewart, will you let me know if it's a good fit?

He had joined the RAF at the beginning of WWIi before America joined. That is mostly what the movie will be - about his time as a combat pilot. He also filmed The Mortal Storm in 1939, which was about helping a Jewish family escape Berlin. I know how he would react to today's world. He was always the first to fight fascism.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be? THE HATE YOU GIVE

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going. THE ROUND HOUSE

#TLT @dabbe you have been missed.

I'm so tickled with this new-to-me series I found. The first female solicitor in Bombay solves mysteries while recuperating from a very abusive yet short marriage. Perveen is a Zoroastrian who needs to learn the law and culture of the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh communities in order to help her clients.

Wow! I adore relationships when friends will do anything for each other's happiness. I also adore relationships of mistrust and intense hatred, but they have to work together because they love the same people. Kell, Rhy, Lila, and Emery, I need more adventures with you.

A survivor tale- how does an expectant mother keep herself and her unborn child safe after the BIG ONE occurs? Intense!!! #CampLitsy @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks

I feel like I read an 800 page analogy of how today's major religions are historically intertwined. Shannon's world is divided into 4 sections with different belief systems. With research and plenty of intense adventures, royalty begin to see fallacies of their own culture and begin to forge alliances in order to destroy an evil.

Plenty of suspense, intrigue, strong women, and dragons.

I know it's been a month of Sundays, but I mailed tulip bookmarks to those who helped make my 50th so grand. I feel like I should have your email @wanderinglynn and @Desha . If you will resend your address to tammydayton75@gmail.com, I will rectify that. Thank you, all. So much. I know this small token is incomparable to what you have done for my Daytonators.

Sometimes, you find a Christian historical that is worth reading. Facts were accurate, with no vulgarity.

I did not think it was as beautifully/lyrically written as Miller's Song of Achilles, but it did deserve the Booker Award. Is it okay to contradict myself? It is written from the perspective of Trojan women who, as spoils, were enslaved to and raped by the men who killed their families. Very evocative and very well needed. I wish I had noted who included this book in last week's #SundayFunDay. It was an outstanding read, and I thank you.

Have you seen Ann Pratchett's response to David Brook's editorial about current literary fiction? Apparently, it doesn't add anything to today's world? I read the article. He says, "I am saying that literature plays a much smaller role in our national life and that this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture." She gives it to him with outstanding examples. "If trees are too liberal for you,.." I just think of @TheBookHippie Reading is political.

#WeeklyForecast

Also, Whispers from the Shadows (Christian Fiction-Roseanna White and Tilt (Emma Pattee

#fanart #SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern I love Hogwarts, but the way Maas describes the quiet beauty of Rhysand's Moonstone Palace in Velaris....

CALGON, TAKE ME AWAY....

LOL, I just realized young readers won't know that commercial from the 80s.

I can't push myself anymore. I don't understand how an author can write about the abuse of children. I'm sure there's an audience-especially those who like criminal science and the psychology of monsters, but I am not such an audience member.

He is such a precious soul. Readers go through his Hollywood life from The Fonz to Barry. The book clearly is his way of therapy - being raised by Jews who held guilt from escaping and leaving family in Europe in 39, his battle with dyslexia, his anxiety, and lack of self-worth.

The vulnerability that Mr. Winker shared kept me engaged. I didn't want to miss a detail of his growth. I love the fact that he doesn't resent his iconic role.

I chose this for two reasons. It was free, and it was about Henri's mistress. Watching The Serpent Queen, I wanted to visit the perspective of Catherine de Medici's nemesis.

I didn't learn anything new, except Dianne raised all of Henri's children and Queen Mary of Scotland.

I might as well have read a Danielle Steele.

I had not heard about Isis brides till I opened this book. These are girls who were groomed to be exploited. After the war, these displaced widows were placed in camps. They were considered a danger to their native countries.

I think I read it with my mouth gaped open the whole time. Did this really happen? Apparently, it was fiction. Most of the ISIS brides were Syrians and Iraqis, but there were deradicalization programs to help these women.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks