pickAlthough I wouldn't describe this as an unputdownable book, I'm leaning more toward a Pick than a So-So rating. I weirdly enjoyed the endless tension and disorienting time jumps. I can see how this one may not be everyone's cup of tea. I spent most of the book waiting for the other shoe to drop. On the back end of the story I began to doubt the existence of the other shoe until that final chapter bonked me on the head.
I was today years old when I found out Litsy was on the web. Wow. Also learning about some other cool features I've missed by scrolling back through older posts from the official Litsy account. They have been putting in that work! 👏🏽 #themoreyouknow
"When....got back from her hunt, two big white birds in her hand, held upside down by the feet they used to have, she tasted it on the air, what happened, and dropped the birds, their wings opening on the way down."
"She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness."
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs @TobeyTheScavengerMonk
1. That feeling when reading and the whole world falls away. Also, hard not to love a book that gets me all in my feels.
2. Glass jars.
3. Nope. I'm more likely to look for a recipe online than grab a cookbook.
4. I don't read much poetry. I'll offer up Nikki Giovanni and Edgar Allan Poe as early faves.
5. Tagging @IamIamIam @batsy @Kalalalatja
"Horse dung looked dignified. I could have brought it to church as an offering like the sheaves of wheat placed on an altar during the harvest festival. Horse dung took on the form of an artwork when it fell to the ground--I wanted to learn to fall as skillfully as it did."
Tonight's impulse buy brought to you by Classic Lines Bookstore. Adorable book fan > Silently judging wallet.
#pghartsandlectures
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#pghartsandlectures
My stubborn determination to finish this book has really thrown a monkey wrench into my overall reading plans. Nearing the end this week.
Day 21: #hungryheart #marchintothe70s
Ken Kimble who took a wrong turn and just kept going.
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 20: #dancingqueen #marchintothe70s
Close enough?
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Of course she's super interested in the book with the glass of milk on the cover. 😂 #anarchyintheuk #marchintothe70s
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Playing catch up today with the #marchintothe70s challenge prompts. This one seems perfect for Sunday's #immigrantsong. Min Jin Lee will be in Pittsburgh on April 1st!
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Day 16: #intothemystic #marchintothe70s
🎶 Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic 🎶
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
#jealousguy #marchintothe70s
Sounds like Danglars. Also, I really should pick this one up again.
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Day 14: #heartofgold #marchintothe70s
From Rumpelstiltskin...
"Now get to work! If you don't spin this straw into gold by morning, then you must die."
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 12: #heroes #marchintothe70s
"Black Panther is the ancestral ceremonial title of T'Challa, the king of Wakanda. T'Challa splits his time between protecting his kingdom, with the aid of his elite female royal guard, the Dora Milaje, and helping protect the entire world..."
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
"The adjective 'cold' has such an appealing sound. I'd give up anything to experience such cold, for Ice Queen beauty, for shivering jouissance. The ice-cold truth. Acrobatic marvels that give you cold feet. A talent that makes all your competitors blanch and tremble as if frozen. Rationality hone sharp as an icicle. Cold has a broad spectrum." #wordoftheday
Day 11: #lustforlife #marchintothe70s
Emphasis on lust. 😜
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Day 10: #bluebayou #marchintothe70s
Bayous bring Louisiana to mind.
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so-so"The book you're reading contains a collection of my favorite stories, crammed with the taste-memories that draw them up through my mind from years ago."
-Lucy Knisley
I wanted to like this so much more than I did! New & enticing recipes throughout the book. Delightful artwork. But, Knisley jumps so abruptly from moment to moment that I found it difficult to connect with her story. Maybe if I try cooking some of her recipes I'll feel differently?
Day 8: #tinydancer #marchintothe70s
Okay, okay. So technically this book is not on topic, but do I get extra points for being petty? #tinyhands
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Playing catch up with the help of the library stacks! This book offers 40 examples of how even the experienced travelers among us can get tripped up out in the #wildworld.
#matchintothe70s @Lizpixie @Cinfhen
"Many times in the past I had danced atop a gigantic ball, ridden a stunt tricycle and a circus motorcycle. But publishing an autobiography was a far more dangerous acrobatic feet."
Day 6: #alltheyoungdudes #marchintothe70s
"Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along....Then the creature stepped from mirage on to the clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadows but mostly clothing. The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing."
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 5: #psychokiller #marchintothe70s
I have a sneaking suspicion that this book fits. It's at the top of my tbr pile so I'll be finding out soon!
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
"In the mirror I saw my red-smeared lips, a masterpiece of the beets. I'd never eaten root vegetables voluntarily, but when a beet came swimming in my bowl of borscht, I immediately wanted to kiss it. Bobbing amid the lovely dots of fat floating on top--which at once awoke my appetite for meat--the beet was irresistible."
Day 4: #wontgetfooledagain #marchintothe70s
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, annay're gowen picking arn aht of yinzes liver, see.
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 3: #londoncalling #marchintothe70s
Is it ever a good idea to move into the home of an estranged and deceased English relative?
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 2: #youresovain #marchintothe70s
"Tell me, glass, tell me true!
Of all the ladies in the land,
Who is the fairest? Tell me who?"
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
Day 1: #wishyouwerehere #marchintothe70s
My hubby gave me this adorbs book this past Valentine's Day. He will randomly pluck the book off the shelf, flip to a page and read it to me. It is super cheesy and I love it.
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
pick"She usually had sense. But maybe it was just that she had had so few chances to do stupid things before. Maybe she was actually a person who would do stupid things all the time, if it seemed likely that other people might see her doing them and think she was brave."
Summertime, adolescence and a slow burn of tension in Small Town, PA. The plot doesn't hold up well under scrutiny, but i enjoyed Knecht's style of writing too much to care.
"She had been like that for most of her adolescence, vivid to herself with the world muted and blurred around her. Now the world was thunderous. She pulled up a blade of grass and chewed on the end of it. The world was loud and close, and her heart and lungs and brain were a tinny afterthought."
"He'd had a few brilliant ideas in his life and every one of them had started with money and ended with a beating."
so-soThe lust story of two really shitty people unfold in the boonies of 1930s California. Frank Chambers and Cora Papadakis are an epic train wreck of a couple. White fragility, fuckboi logic and peak ain't shitness abounds. It's kind of impressive that Cain had me rooting for the demise of his characters so completely.
My creeping need to follow this twisty shitshow of a story to it's end was vexing. But, also, this title is everything.
"I had dinner with him last night, and he was crowing over me. He was pitying me, the sap. Sackett and I are enemies. We are the friendliest enemies that ever were. He'd sell his soul to the devil to put something over on me, and I'd do the same for him." #frenemies
pickDid this book really need to be this chunky? I have my doubts. The story dragged in parts yet I still enjoyed the heck out of it.
Looking at this book like, "Boo, you had me at Vampire Apocalypse."
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