The nice weather is HERE so breakfast is outside

Happy Long weekend of reading Canadian Littens 🇨🇦I loved Daisy Jones! It sucked me right in and had me riding a roller coaster fuelled by sex, drugs and rock n roll. I‘m sad these aren‘t real people and that the book is over

Driving my oldest to his summer job on Beausoleil Island ( Georgian Bay) and eating and reading en route. The new Bistro Teen burger at A & W is really quite good. Happy Mother‘s Day to all Littens, hope you are having a lovely day. It‘s my first without my mom and bittersweet to be driving my son since he‘s only been home for 2 weeks from uni

Basically bizarre! Part poetry, part myth, part true, part fiction, it‘s beautiful and bleak and weird

Happy Mother‘s Day to all the Litsy moms out there ( this was the Mother‘s Day Art we made in grade 3 this past week) I hope you all get some reading time and some children time, whether they are big or small. We are driving my oldest ( who‘s been home from uni for 2 weeks) to his summer job ( at a summer camp on an island). I had him home for a wee bit of time ☺️they grow up fast

Started this but really all I can think about is GoT and who left their cup in the scene

What a brilliant book this is! In the first section, Roots, you meet 8 characters in an almost short story style. In the next section, Trunk, you begin to see the connections. What a story unfolds, filled with science, facts, love, betrayal, commitment, sacrifice! Richard Powers is an absolute wonder of a novelist

We had SUN today so I gardened to celebrate, dividing up some hostas to make room for a new tree and I am excited! This book might be slim but it packs a lot in! It tells the story of how the Second World War came to be right under everybody‘s nose. There‘s a lesson to be learned

Heading to Stratford ON to celebrate my father in law‘s 80th, being the introvert that I am I‘ve brought a book to read. There‘s about 28 of us travelling on a mini bus

Slowly but surely things are blooming in southern Ontario. Fun fact: it was warmer in Moscow than here for the last 3 days and by warmer I mean WARMER ( 28C to our 15C)

I‘ve read all 10 now and I Love My Purse is tied with a few others for 10/10 🎉moral of this story: do what you love ❤️ carry that purse, paint your face, wear a Hawaiian shirt! Be you, everyone else is taken

It‘s this nice in Southern Ontario today 🎉I must sit outside and read watch my sheets flutter

#poutinepenpals I am loving all the sweet little cards I‘m receiving, getting snail mail rocks thx @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego for getting us all organized
Happy Long Weekend and Hoppy Easter to everyone

My sippy cup coffee beverage at book club tonight, we discussed The Marrow Thieves and picked The Saturday Night Ghost Club for May. I had an iced caramel cloud macchiato ( decaf) 👍🏻👍🏻

Taking a break from YA to read something grand and sweeping ❤️🌳

This book ❤️it‘s harrowing and heart breaking and I couldn‘t breathe sometimes and I wanted to shake Polly and I wanted to hug her and I wanted to just sit and cry for her. The CDC makes a horrendous mistake that causes a viral apocalypse and the world changes. Polly makes an enormous sacrifice and this book will haunt you with her story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finally found some cute notecards to send out to my #poutinepenpals today, wishing I had these stamps even with all the controversy. I have received cards already from a couple of pen pals and it really is wonderful to get proper mail. I hope all my cards fly swiftly across the country to their destinations 💌

This book is filling me with despair 😩 everything is going so wrong 😢😢😢

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Physical - Olivia Newton John
2. Cancer
3. I was a devourer of books after I read A Wrinkle in Time ( what a fantastical journey she set me on)
4. @sherryvdh

Next up in my Red maple readathon

This one was hard to push through. The main character isn‘t that likeable but nobody really is, except Porous. He‘s a friend from home ( Mumbai) that she meets again in Jeddah, where she lives with her aunt and uncle. The male dominated Saudi society, full of privilege and power is hard to stomach as is the female experience of shame, inferiority and dependence. Everyone is horrible to everyone else. The ending is hopeful-ish

Starting this today

I am struggling with this YA book. It‘s set in Jeddah and the oppression of women and girls and the entitlement of boys and men is really hard to stomach. It‘s extreme in this case but really it‘s prevalent worldwide. I want to see how it ends so I‘m gonna keep on keeping on, but it‘s easy to pick up my iPad and troll the webs instead of reading

What are your red books? I might need to buy this book

Part of my White Pine readathon, Catching the Light is a lovely coming of age story. It centres on Cathy who is on the spectrum with a severe reading disability. She‘s redoing grade 7 when she is befriend by an adult who helps her learn to read. Cathy works hard to master reading and writing and achieve her dream of going on to art school. Meanwhile a horrific accident occurs that shakes the small town she is from.

Yesterday‘s rain became today‘s snow. Good thing I have books and tea because this sucks

It‘s gonna rain all day so maybe I will read all day

Oh. My. Gosh! This book is SO wonderful! It‘s soul crushing and haunting and sad and horrifying and amazing! All the feels. All the love.

I can‘t handle any more bad stuff. I want to read happy books after this

A quick and fun read. I loved the sewing and costume details.

YA from the library chosen for the paper doll inspired cover! It‘s reminding me of Geekerella with the cosplay, comic books and geekery but no evil stepmonster

It starts with a mom concerned for her teenage daughter who has skipped out of school. There is an excessive amount of gingerbread made that is presented to PTA members, maybe as a bribe? Then a back story begins describing the mom‘s early years where you forget this story began in present day so when it picks back up with the present day storyline it‘s unsettling. It‘s magical and nonsensical and quite an eccentric tale is woven.

I‘m struggling to stay focussed with this. It‘s just so crazy

@howjessreads #friYAYintro
1. Station Eleven
2. ALWAYS ( the thought of getting into an unmade bed at the end of the day completely sucks the joy out of getting into that bed 😂)
3. 1 C ( feels like -5 C) yay Spring in Ontario 🇨🇦
4. Cucumbers sliced on peanut butter toast
5. Hello to all the new Littens out there 👋🏻 I‘d love to follow you, tag me

Look @Laru79 it‘s already here thx again for the inspiration

This starts off with a bang

This is quite the thrill ride. I can imagine making a popular movie

Reading all the way to Hockeytown

I‘m going to have start baking. All I can think about is gingerbread in all its gloriousness while I read

Shopping at the Penguin store today 🧡🖤 and I really want this entire store. Please

I spotted this book somewhere on social media a while ago. I think it was released in England/Europe before North America and consequently I struggled to find it again. It was the elusive “book with a blue cover” for about a year, luckily the Gods smiled on me and I was able to nail down the title again. It‘s just a delight of a book. I bought a new bather yesterday so I can start doing laps at my outdoor neighbourhood Lido, if it ever warms up.

Sometimes it‘s all the books from your holds at the library, sometimes it‘s your Ikea order and the coffee table from Structube ( ordered at Christmas ) it‘s all or nothing!

I can‘t wait for summer so I can swim at my local pool. 🏊🏻‍♀️

A beautiful heart breaker of a book that ends full of hope

When all your holds come in 🎉

Taking a break from laundry 🧺

Winter is killing me, I need sun and warm and green things

Starting this and I can picture exactly where it starts #Winnipeg #universityofmanitoba #imatrailblazer

This reminded me a of The Circle by Dave Eggers, it‘s a more realistic futuristic tale and very well written. You get quite lost in the story and there‘s a 6 degrees of separation to the characters so I found myself pausing at points going “wait, who is this?” as we switched point of views. It‘s a quick enjoyable read

I have been feeling like I‘m going through my Christmas book pile too fast, my reading game has been strong lately. So I bought 4 books between today and yesterday plus borrowed a library book off my sister. I get a bit crazy when the stack beside my bed isn‘t big enough