This book is so good!!! I couldn‘t put it down

Have gardened for HOURS and now it‘s time to read in the tub ( sharkie my reading buddy agrees)

Next up ( I love a good dedication)

Libby finally had one of my many holds ready for my drive to the farm today for eggs!!!

I finished this in the tub this afternoon. I really really enjoyed it! Granted I haven‘t read a TJR book I haven‘t 🤷🏻‍♀️

Lots of reading tonight cuz dinner is from McD‘s to support Ronald McDonald House Charities

Sometimes not reading books in chronological order ( even when they aren‘t a series) has moments of pure joy!! Like when you recognize a character from a future book that you have already read ❤️❤️❤️ I feel like I‘m a cool kid

Rounding out my day by starting another book

Happy Mother‘s Day 🌸 I‘ve finished this wonderful book ( makes humanity seem worthwhile ) and now I‘m going to do things

It‘s finally nice enough to read outside again ( we had a long week of overcast yuck)

My pantry reno is completed ( I emptied and took down old crap shelves and filled the holes and painted, a lovely carpenter built these beauties) and now I get to fill it! Where to start 👏🏻👏🏻 I‘m going to need a new book to listen to! This book is awesome on audio and so captivating

This book was a challenge to read. It‘s not written in a standard prose style and it‘s alarmingly true/real considering the recent news with the American Supreme Court‘s leaked document re: Roe vs Wade and politics in Ohio. It‘s good. It was just hard.

May the 4th Be With You

This cover makes me think of Oprah

I liked this book, but I didn‘t love it

Started today

I‘m not sure I would have finished this of I hadn‘t had so much driving to do. I think it‘s just a case of this not being my jam on audio. There were parts I really liked, but I lot was just blah, blah, blah soothing meditation to fill my rides #thebigjubileeread

Audio driving to get youngest and all his crap, I mean stuff ( this is not all of it )

Started this last night

I love this series and this one has just cemented my love further.

GORGEOUS weather today!!! I bailed on my pantry‘s second coat of paint and did some audio gardening. This circle in my yard was filled with bugleweed, which was bizarre looking. I‘m not freaked out by weeds, but this one was so unlike the rest of my non lawn lawn that it had to go. I‘ve seeded with some white clover 🤞🏻which I‘m going to put all over my yard once I get some topsoil delivered #thebigjubileereadinglist

Outside reading season is a go 🎉🎉

Started this to listen to while I finish my pantry #thebigjubileereadinglist

I finished this taking down these disgusting pantry shelves. Now to find my next read while I patch holes, sand and paint 💪🏻 I have never read Alice Feeney before and I‘m hooked! Maybe I would have seen some things coming reading in print but listening I was surprised every time as it all dawned on me ❤️

Started this last night. I‘ve been saving it and figured since The Guardian announced The Queen‘s Jubilee Book List ( which has made my TBR explode) now was the time. Here‘s a link https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/18/the-god-of-small-things-to-shuggie.... #thebigjubileereadinglist

All the ❤️ I heard for this book is valid!!! I loved every single minute of it

Bringing the oldest home from uni means I get to listen to my book while I drive there and back

Saturday morning is alright

This book ❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE how all the little things C. S. Lewis came across in his life could come together and make the magic known as Narnia. I won‘t lie, I was sobbing at the end

Woke up to snow flurries ( have we not all suffered enough!! 😡) thank god for treats from the local bakery delivered yesterday, all the coffee the queen can hold and a new book to start

This book was a wild ride!!! It has those short chapters that just fly by and you just have to start another and another. The main characters aren‘t really likeable but they are so real and flawed and you just have to keep reading. I loved this intense and compelling book

Started yesterday and planning some audio ironing today ( thank god for audio books making life interesting)

It‘s almost Friday 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I really enjoyed listening to this! I learned so much about how wine is made, served, tasted. As usual I wish I had a hard copy because some points are already getting fuzzy in my brain. If you are a wine drinker, this is really interesting

I‘m audio dinner making ( recipe is brussels sprouts and gnocchi from HalfBakedHarvest‘s new Every Day cookbook)

Reading in the sun ❤️❤️

Our Florida vacation sandwich from HalfBakedHarvest‘s new Every Day cookbook. It was super yummy and easy to make ( no grouper in Southern Ontario to buy so I used tilapia )

The first recipe I‘m going to make from my new cookbook. I wish I was on vacation eating a grouper sandwich instead of living in batshit crazy April weather Ontario, but it is what it is 🤣🤣 hopefully it turns out looking this good ( I know it will taste amazing, all of the Half Baked Harvest recipes do)

A book club pick I forgot about & grabbed from Indigo last weekend. A woman stops a man from jumping off a bridge, the story unfolds. I looked up reviews after I bought this and they were mixed. BUT I don‘t understand them. This book is lovely! It feels like a truthful look at how hard it is to get over/live with grief, and that signs are often there that we matter. Several times in this story I went WHAT?! and I just didn‘t want to stop reading

Sunday goals ❤️❤️❤️

Next up

This book has been reviewed a lot. It is heartbreakingly AMAZING. It is somehow filled with enough hope to temper the horror. Here‘s hoping the Vatican does the right thing 💔❤️ so healing can continue ( in this article an indigenous person said ( paraphrasing) “it‘s not the faith that‘s bad, but people “ and I‘m honestly not sure I have their grace

Happy to start this today 🎉🎉🍷

We‘ve gone to Toronto and I found a bookstore 🛍

I loved listening to this book, her voice is like a meditation. When she takes on her mother‘s accent to recount stories of them together it‘s lovely ❤️ listening to her talk about her life, racism and her marriage to Miles Davis is eye opening. I‘m going to miss her voice in my ear. I can‘t believe she was 96 when she did this and died shortly thereafter

Crap weather day so I baked my mom‘s coffee cake and finished this book. It‘s amazing 🖤by the same author as Mexican Gothic but NOTHING similar other than set in Mexico. It is so twist and turny and compulsive to read

“I love the coming of spring even in the most withholding March” when the sun shines I find it so much easier to feel love ❤️ yesterday was a gloom fest and this week looks crap. Today was for reading poetry after my swim in the tub

Saturday night

Next. Now I‘m travelling to Mexico

This was lovely. I‘m still decompressing from A Little Life so light and escapist is my love language. It‘s our spring break, so travelling vicariously is bonus points. I need to go to Italy now. A heads up that some might find this sad, the main character loses an important person but after the A Little Life trauma this is a light read for me