And they‘re off #NaturalLitsyCardSwap

@thebookhippie @AllDebooks
@bookwormjillk @julieclair @IndoorDame @jenniferw88 @BookwormAHN @gossamerchild @chrissyreadit @dabbe @kspenmoll @Catsandbooks @DinoMom @PaperbackPirate @Texreader @Blerdgal_fenix @Captivatedbybooks @Karissa @Sarahreadstoomuch @quietjenn @Deblovestoread @wanderinglynn @JamieArc @Sandys|p2001 @DebinHawaii

it‘s almost December. Some of us from #BookedInTime are reading a Christmas Carol. I thought I‘d open it up to anybody who would like to join in this buddy read. All are welcome. There are kindle deals, and few options on Audible. Many libraries will have copies. It‘s a quick read. Just let me know and I‘ll tag you in the discussion.

#BookedInTime November Reads Napoleons Era

DNF‘d the Glass Blowers, may read at a different time.
Still reading Finding Napoleon which is a bit meh.
Finished The Secret Life of Country Gentlemen which is a total blame it on Litsy read. Spicy 🌶️ not my usual read but it was great. How were your Napoleon Era Reads? See the movie?

Thanks for the tag @RamsFan1963

1 Favorite read of November is tagged book not a very popular one but I loved it especially reading with #hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead
2 Looking forward to A Christmas Carol #BookedInTime and Great Expectations #RereadingTheClassics @AllDebooks

@TheSpineView

“the style is fatiguing, the action incredible, the courtesies clumsy, the battles long, the language foolish, the journeys nonsensical”

Well I laughed when I read this!!! This novel can be so tedious at times but I‘m hanging in there. @TheAromaofBooks #randomclassics

Are you interested in joining a Sherlock Holmes buddy read? If yes, let me know in the comments.

Denise and I are excited to start this. We thought to start small with the short stories. We want to make this a fun and accessible buddy read so we‘ll also have some games and prizes along the way.

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

@LitsyEvents

What I was thinking, while reading chapter 18 lol
“ you can‘t do that in the Church of England, you can‘t say “You must have tea and cake with the vicar, or you die.” You can‘t have extreme points of view”
Cake or death, that‘s an easy question. Eh cake please, very well give him cake”.

Thanks for the tag @Pageturner1

1 Water, any type, drink it, bathe in it, listen to the roar of the sea or a babbling brook or cry salty tears.
2 Music
3 Lastly art or the poets, there‘s usually something there to inspire hope or joy.

@dabbe

My Spotify membership now allows 15 hours a month of audiobooks. Yay! So I randomly chose this as my first one and I have to say the narration alone is delightful. I have other reading to do, but I didn‘t want to stop listening to her voice. So far the story is engaging. Looking forward to chapter 2.

Apologies for delay. I hope this is an easy one for all and we can get something off the TBR!!!

Pick any location of your choice. I‘m drawn to anything London and Dickensian for this time period. What about you? @LitsyEvents

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks
@thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88

Three times a charm for me. Found this on Reddit lol. For anyone who is still deciding.

@TheBookHippie @TheAromaofBooks

Thanks Heather @Pageturner1 for the tag. The obvious one is reading, but also leading circle time, being wrong, listening, spotlighting others, teaching, apologies, phonics, mothering and logic/brain teaser puzzles. @Eggs

If you haven‘t played consider yourself tagged.

Some of what I hope to read this month! October was so busy with less reading. Ugh! How was your reads for #BookedIntime Canada/Colonialism? Learn anything new?

I empathized with the character in A Place called Winter, as he tried to make a new life for himself in Canada. I was a little nervous for the first few pages, but it was really good.

November‘s prompt French Rev/Napoleon I‘m reading the Glass Blowers, what did you pick?

I got to be the school librarian yesterday so in between classes I read this delightful spooky book.

Dream jobs - librarian ✅

These are quite complementary!! Anyone else reading both of these?

#PemberLittens #NaturalLitsy


 @BarkingMadRead @AllDebooks

I‘m so excited for this new movie. There is quite a selection of historical fiction about Napoleon, his childhood, rise to fame, the wars, Waterloo, and his exiles. Have fun choosing a book.

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks
@thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88

What did you love or not about this novel? Was it too long?

For those who joined the #BuddyRead or read the book since it‘s release please join in the discussion if you wish.

Reading about this writer for a different book I discovered this other novel of his and realized it would work for October‘s #BookedInTime @dabbe

Wow! From that first line I‘m so amazed by the storytelling. How is everyone else? How far have you read? I read so much last weekend I thought I would finish it but life, work, and, reality continues to ruin my reading plans. Thoughts? I admit there been some 😭

@AmyG @Desha @Sapphire @Deblovestoread @Bookwormjillk @squirrelbrain @Mitch @AllDebooks @Amiable @Cinfhen

@Cinfhen My #Top10SummerBookReads thanks for the tag @dabbe

Looking at these books again, makes me realize how much I really loved them especially, Fresh Water, Mayflies and Lie with me. These three made me 🥺😢😭

Since my trip to Quebec in May and learning about La Grosse Île etc I‘m looking forward to reading about an immigrant‘s journey and narrative as they settled in Canada!! #BookedInTime Tag @Cuilin & @dabbe when you know your chosen book.

A link for starters https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/75796.The_Canadian_Immigrant_Experience

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks

#Pemberlittens #hashtagBrigade I think there will be less mustachios in this one lol 😆

This is one of my absolute favorites, so looking forward to hearing what others think.

We start tomorrow!!! I will check in on a weekly basis to see how we are all doing.

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks @thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88
@mollyanna @jess861 @kspenmoll @ncsufoxes @Bluebird @julieclair @majkia @karisimo
@tdrosebud @rwmg @pathfindernicole @willaful @debinhawaii @alldebooks @covertocover
@itchyfeetreader @thegreensofa @caitlin_sheridan @ann_reads @rookpools @lizpixie

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks @thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88
@mollyanna @jess861 @kspenmoll @ncsufoxes @Bluebird @julieclair @majkia @karisimo
@tdrosebud @rwmg @pathfindernicole @willaful @debinhawaii @alldebooks @covertocover
@itchyfeetreader @thegreensofa @caitlin_sheridan @ann_reads @rookpools @lizpixie

How was your August #BookedInTime read?

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks @thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88
@mollyanna @jess861 @kspenmoll @ncsufoxes @Bluebird @julieclair @majkia @karisimo
@tdrosebud @rwmg @pathfindernicole @willaful @debinhawaii @alldebooks @covertocover
@itchyfeetreader @thegreensofa @Ann_Reads @rookpools @lizpixie

#tar #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

https://open.spotify.com/track/71YnKh43ZSpiGjPhw4DoI1?si=moXvY6rgSI28fwmEvxhQNw

Here is a stack of eight books all set during the Second World War. Not sure which one I‘ll start with. What are you choosing from?
#BookedInTime September #WorldWarTwo @Cuilin

@dabbe @desha @rachel52 @rubyslippersreads @chaoticmissadventures @barkingmadread
@megnews @sblbooks @thebookgeekfrau @bookwormjillk @deblovestoread @jenniferw88

I did not enjoy this journey at all. I was so irritated with the structure. The time changes & sequences with little cliffhangers every two pages made my ADHD scream “Get To The Point!” It was completed through anger infused propulsion. I also didn‘t find much of it plausible. I didn‘t like the MC. I really thought it was going to be about a woman tracking arctic terns. Guess I‘ll have to find another book for that. #UnpopularOpinion.

This was my favorite read of 2022. It‘s in my top five best books of all time. The novel has one of the best opening lines,

”The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.”

#BookBinge #SmallTownSetting

#TLT

I honestly try to avoid all horror movies but these I‘ve come across. I can‘t say I watched them in their entirety. 🫣

1 The Blair Witch Project
2 Silence of the Lambs
3 The Exorcist

@dabbe

If you wish to play consider yourself tagged.

#BookBinge #IncludesRecipes

Love, love, love Patricia Polacco‘s art and storytelling. This has a wonderful chocolate cake recipe.

My summary goes like this: Intriguing…. Boring, mild erotica, boring, WTF? boring, class resentment, mild erotica, racism, more mild erotica, misogyny, boring, WTF?, intellectual twaddle, WTF?, some more mild erotica, quick trip to Venice, boring. The end.

#Sundaybuddyread @TheBookHippie
I gave two stars for his mastery of language.

Went with a literal/obvious interpretation and chose an old Hollywood theme for September‘s prompt for #TitlesAndTunes #DramaQueen I‘m not sure I will actually get it read in September, but hopefully by the end of the year 🤞❤️ the 🎵

#BookBinge #ClothesOnCover

If you have not watched the movie version try to find it, it is adorable.

Described as an erotically charged story of Rudolf Nureyev. I read this about 10 years ago when I overheard someone at a gym say they were disappointed and disgusted at this novel, (because of the gay depiction of their hero, Nureyev), well I ran to the bookstore. This is wonderfully written. 5 ⭐️

#BookBinge #Dancing

@TheSpineView thanks for the tag @dabbe

1 I think the Wednesday before Labor Day
2 Oh, there‘s so many, tagged book, Old School by Tobias Wolf, Malory Towers, Gentlemen and Player, by Joanne Harris, In Memoriam, by Alice Winn, The Chalet school series, Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, I‘m sure I‘m forgetting others. I love a novel set in a school, especially an old English public school.

Care to play?

Set in ancient Pompeii, this is the candid story of enslaved sex workers from a brothel, and their ability to cope, survive and out wit their captors. I absolutely loved the epigraphs beginning each chapter, this was clearly written by an avid Ovid scholar. I will definitely read the rest of the trilogy. #BookedInTime.

#BookBinge #InvolvesAnimals in this case birds, as Franny Stone tracks the believed last migration of arctic terns to Antarctica.

Reminder, we start September 1st. All are welcome to join this low-key buddy read. Tagging those who expressed interest.

#BookBinge #InvolvesaWedding

Read recently but different edition, great narrative.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#bookbinge #involvesdragons

Vividly remember reading this to my girls ❤️

I guess a picture really is worth a thousand words. Missed them on an emotional level.

So happy to see them again. Yay ❤️ 🖼️

#BOOKBINGE #leastfavoritegenre

The tell all celebrity memoir

I‘ve read some I‘ve loved, (Stephen Fry‘s Moab is my Washpot), some I liked (Janis Ian‘s Society‘s Child) but mostly not attracted to anything celebrity related.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Whenever I tell someone historical fiction is my favorite genre they automatically think I mean World War II. I get an abundance of gift books on this era I could do a whole year long read from my own TBR pile. This is another broad prompt, choose your own location and interest area for WW2, 1939-1945 (Prompts will narrow as we move through the #bookedInTime reading challenge)

All are welcome

@LitsyEvents

#Bookbinge #stripesoncover

Big hit with my daughters when they were little. Remember? @Caitlin_Sheridan

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

August plans. ❤️ these buddy reads.
#SundayBuddyRead @TheBookHippie
#NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks
#GoldeAgeCrimeClub @Mitch
#Pemberlittens #HahtagBrigade @BarkingMadRead
#BookedInTime @Cuilin

I cannot remember who on Litsy recommend this to me, but thank you. It was delightful. I heard Millie Bobby Brown in my head as the narrator probably because it evokes the spirit and tone of Enola Holmes. This clever novella manages to be both exciting yet light. I will definitely read more volumes. #moodreading Edit: @Jess_Read_This perhaps?

I wanted to open this immediately but I saved it as my reward for unpacking and getting travel laundry started. Thank you so much, Denise. 💗 I love the sweet corner bookmark too. You are so wonderfully thoughtful. 🫶🥰

I‘ll email you in a few day as I‘ve some ideas 💡 germinating. @dabbe