April #bookspin #doublebookspin
Hoping to get some outdoor reading happening. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
After a mild Winter, Spring has been slow to come!❄️💨💦🌞🌷
April #bookspin #doublebookspin
Hoping to get some outdoor reading happening. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
After a mild Winter, Spring has been slow to come!❄️💨💦🌞🌷
March? How? We really haven‘t had a proper prairie winter here yet. It seems so strange. I‘m a mood reader so every month when I think about my #bookspin list I think “what do I feel like.” This month‘s answer was “Rupaul, and I have absolutely no idea what else.” So here is my list. 🤷🏻♀️
I got Come and Get It from Libby on release day! Never happened before so I‘m starting there! #bookspin #doublebookspin
I‘m late but I haven‘t checked the numbers yet. I just realized today is the second! 🤦🏻♀️ #bookspin
I really do hate to DNF when I‘m this close to the end but I can‘t. I think people know that people with intellectual disabilities where once referred to as something else and when authors use the “r-word” I usually bail right away. The author decided this needed to be explained. So I gave this a pass at the beginning, the author has now used this word at least six times and I can‘t let it go. If your job is words, choose a different word. ⤵️
October #bookspin #doublebookspin
I have never been so happy to have been influenced by a cute cover! This was so much fun! Narration by Will Wheaton was perfection! Just what I was looking for.
I feel like a broken record (dating myself) but I‘m really hoping this is the month I find my reading mojo again! I‘ve been off for months now! I just want to find something that I just can‘t put down. I want an audiobook that will make me want to clean out my closet. I want to read outside in my hammock for hours. Nothing is sticking 😞
Hoping the answer comes this month! 🤞🏼🤞🏼
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I really liked this with one small exception. There is some animal death that seemed long and drawn out and ended up making the end of the book feel emotionally manipulative to me. I wish the end had been different but I still really enjoyed the book overall. 4⭐️
Technology and I are not friends right now. Sorry for the bad photo.
I am having no luck finding my reading mojo. Continuing to hope!!
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#bookspin #doublebookspin I really haven‘t found my reading groove so far this year. I‘m hoping the key is in here somewhere. I can‘t believe I have three celebrity book club picks on my list this month! I guess we‘ll see if I should get over my aversion. 🤷🏻♀️
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My May bookspin list. Looking forward to this list!
I‘m really hoping I get some outdoor reading done in May. Still waiting for Mother Nature to turn the heat on!
Pretentious twaddle.
I have been so bad at sticking to my list so far this year. I continue to try! #bookspin #doublebookspin
Demon Copperhead got me in a hangover I‘m struggling to get out of! Hopefully the cure is in here somewhere! #bookspin #doublebookspin
I have to finish Demon Copperhead (which I am LOVING) first but let‘s see what comes up this month!! #bookspin #doublebookspin
Ann‘s got a new book coming this summer!!! I don‘t even know what it‘s about but I‘m excited!!!!
January bookspin.
Thanks again Sarah for continuing this challenge. I‘m really enjoying sitting down and figuring out what I really want to read each month. (Even if I don‘t always stick to the list 😝)
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I‘m hoping December goes better than November!!! Looking forward to buddy reading this month. #ACarolADay #KindredSpiritsChristmas
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A few #nonfictionnovember picks, leftovers from months past, irl book club pick. I hope I covered all of my seasonally affected mood reader bases!
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I think that if I preorder a book long before Reese Whitherspoon chooses that book for her book club that my copy should not have that stupid stamp on it. #dontneedacelebritytotellmewhattoread
October! September flew by and I didn‘t get as much reading done as I wanted, hopefully I‘ll do better this month!
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If I‘m honest I have to say that I struggled with this book. It took me an entire month to finish. I couldn‘t stay focused on it and wasn‘t always compelled to pick it up when I had time to read. HOWEVER, part six (the last 27 pages) wrecked me. It is absolutely beautiful and made the pace of the rest make sense and totally worth while. I DNF a lot but I‘m glad I wouldn‘t let myself give up on this one. Thanks “Past Angie”.
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Another month I‘m really excited about! I still have some summer reads that I didn‘t get to but it‘s not technically fall just yet and I‘ll hang to summer as long as I can!
I put my crochet down to grab some lunch. Sadie had some other ideas so I guess I‘m reading! 📚🚫🧶
I‘m ok with that! 😄
So far, I‘ve had a pretty decent summer for reading but it has also been full of disappointments. This was definitely one of them. To me, this felt like an outline to a really great novel, not a great read. It‘s short, choppy, and I didn‘t like the third person point of view. There were some very poignant sentences, a few laughs, and some gut punches. I can‘t “pan” it but I didn‘t love it as I was expecting. #unpopularopinions
My favourite book of the year so far! I first heard about this one in the Modern Mrs Darcy summer reading guide. I almost skipped over it but then I read what it was about and figured I better try it. It‘s not easy, breezy summer reading but it‘s EXCELLENT!!
The narrator‘s southern drawl is perfection. I had a hard time putting it down.
#wonderouswednesday
1. I am currently reading Unlikely Animals set in Everton, New Hampshire and Book Lovers set in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina
2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 💜
3. So many! Fredrik Backman, Celeste Ng, Blake Crouch, Alexis Hall and Becky Chambers all have books coming out this year that I can‘t wait to read.
Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead 😄
This book is far more sad than it is funny. I don‘t find mental illness “riotously funny”. Had this been marketed differently I may have enjoyed it more. It wasn‘t what I was looking for right now. I am still curious to see what Byron Lane writes next as this was well written.
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#bookspin One thing you have to know is that I hate it when my husband asks me what‘s for dinner. I almost drove off the road this morning as I listened:
“When he was young my father would, as all children do, ask the question, “Mom, what‘s for dinner?” His very sweet mother …. would respond with “Cazzi e patate” this translates directly as ⤵️
May #bookspin #doublebookspin
The weather has been so bad here in Manitoba. We are currently experiencing our third Colorado Low in three weeks, in a year where already more snow than normal. At least it‘s not more snow this weekend.We really do not need any more moisture but it‘s coming anyway. 😬😞
I‘m really hoping May brings outdoor reading weather! ☀️🌱🌷💐
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I‘ve been trying to stick to my list but haven‘t been posting my reviews. 😕
Maybe that should been my goal for this month. 🤷🏻♀️
I am currently culling my shelves. I‘ve already donated a ton. I‘m pretty proud of myself actually! I have had this one since it came out in 2010. It looks to me like a chunkster about people I imagine I‘ll have a hard time liking and I‘m guessing it‘s fairly bleak, none of which I‘m very interested and in right now.
Might future me like it? Or at least finish it?
You decide! Keep or donate?
Not loving this at around 20%. I‘m definitely considering bailing. I got it from a list of books that are like Eleanor Oliphant. The rec said quirky characters which this definitely has but I thought Eleanor was a loveable character and not finding that here.
I don‘t usually track my DNFs but I think I might this year. Do you track your bails? Do they count for your challenges?
My #bookspin list for January is somewhat winter themed. My life in Manitoba is decidedly winter themed at the moment!! It‘s super cold here, like colder than Mars cold!! Happy New Year!
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Over the last while I have been binging Rupaul‘s Drag Race. Basically, if it doesn‘t involve drag queens my brain can‘t handle it. So when this was an audible deal I thought “Graham Norton, the drag race judge?” (I know he does lots of other things but…) Low and behold, it‘s that Graham Norton. I had no idea he writes fiction! I was very impressed and I will read more. This is the first book in a very long time that I couldn‘t put down.
#sundayfunday
1. I have been in a book club with my mom for almost 20 years.
2. We choose books by suggesting books we want to read, not ones we have already read and recommend. I like this because then no one gets their feelings hurt by bringing something they love that others end up hating. One I really loved was Water for Elephants. Also Ragged Company.
3. The conversation is most often more interesting when we don‘t all love something IMO.
If you liked A Man Called Ove you will probably enjoy this one. I liked Ove more but this is still a pick for me. It kept me reading which is saying a lot these days! #bookspin
I have been in the worst slump lately! I haven‘t even been able to put a book spin list together. But I‘m going to go with this. #bookspin #doublebookspin
I feel like I have been so busy lately! While I have been reading it‘s been very random. I couldn‘t even put lists together the past couple months! Feeling ready today! I have two weeks off work at the end of the month so I‘m hoping to make a good dent in this pile. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
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