I‘m behind on my reading (April 13) since I‘ve been traveling on the weekends, so maybe I can get a little reading in at work! I‘m so thankful that Cossette is with Jean Valjean! 🇫🇷💙🤍❤️ 🇫🇷
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I‘m behind on my reading (April 13) since I‘ve been traveling on the weekends, so maybe I can get a little reading in at work! I‘m so thankful that Cossette is with Jean Valjean! 🇫🇷💙🤍❤️
#READLESMIS

Happy National Tell A Story Day!

Happy Quasimodo Sunday, now more commonly called Divine Mercy Sunday

🇫🇷 Some Victor Hugo Trivia 🇫🇷

How Victor Hugo‘s the Hunchback got his name:

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/41133/quasimodo-sunday-how-the-hunchback...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/world/notre-dame-hunchback-art-trnd/index.html?ci...

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Ready, Set, Go! To your local bookstore on Indie Bookstore Day!
#IndieBookstoreDay

Reading and drinking my coffee before my 7.5 hour road trip to Windsor, Colorado to see Kristin Harmel at the #ClearviewReads2025 Library Community Reads Event on Saturday evening. Hoping to do a little bookstore browsing in Ft Collins during the day tomorrow for #IndieBookstoreDay

This book has been optioned for a movie, so I thought I‘d read it. It is one she wrote before writing historical fiction. There seems to be a a time warp in which she is able to see how her life would have been if her husband hadn‘t suddenly died. 🐶 Bandette is a little embarrassed by her shaggy look this morning! #DogsOfLitsy

The Book of Lost Names is a beautifully written tribute to quiet heroism. It is a story about the courage to defy, the strength to remember, and the quiet rebellion of a woman with a pen. Eva found a way to remember as well as save displaced children
#FrenchResistence
#ResistenceForgers

For those who have read or re- read Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby for its 100 years Anniversary,
The Double Bind is a great companion read with its nod to the classic.

📣FYI JD Robb fans! I just preordered this In Depth inspired cookbook from her husband‘s bookstore-which I really want to visit, esp after reading Nora Robert‘s Boonsboro Trilogy
Girls' Night Out Thursday, May 15th 5-9pm &
Thursday, Nov 20th 5-9pm.
Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb,
Carla Vergot, Misty Lynn and S.P. O'Farrell
Toni McCannon will be offering tarot card readings (for a small fee).
#IDLR #InDeathLongReadalong
💥Link Below

Pg 342 April 2
The Caracara polyborus vulture

@centerforbirdsofprey/video/7348911368772308266" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://www.tiktok.com/@centerforbirdsofprey/video/7348911368772308266

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I couldn‘t get to any of her author events, so I did the next best thing- bought too many bookish gifts for myself & listened to Patti Callahan Henry‘s online talks on YouTube!
🩷🩵🩷
Trifecta! A magical morning with The Story She Left Behind, English breakfast tea from the March #BrendaNovaksBookBox , and sitting cozy in my #PrintFresh PJs with Bandette
#DogsOfLitsy

FYI- for any #Littens that live nearby
#EuropaCollective

Such a cute book with adorable illustrations! 🐭 🏡
I finally read an archive book that @TheBookHippie shared the link of.
It‘s much easier to read on my computer than my phone. 🤩
I love the library card 🩵
Juniata College Library is now named L A Beeghly Library & Juniata College was founded in 1876 by members of the Church of the Brethren.

#ChildrensClassicRead2025

For those who loved The Road to Dalton for our #EuropaCollective #BuddyRead, the 3rd book in the trilogy will release in the USA on Oct 7, 2025

Is anyone interested in a #BuddyRead from the author of The Postcard from #EuropaCollective ?
The book will be published APRIL 22.
Let‘s read it in JUNE!

This “spell book” was written & illustrated in response to the Oxford Junior Dictionary dropping 40 common words concerning nature & substituting words of the indoor and virtual (eg. otter vs blog).
The illustrations of 20 of these words with poems are indeed spelled binding.
This book is part of the inspiration of Patti Callahan Henry‘s new book The Story She Left Behind.

Listening to 9 yo Barbara Newhall Follett‘s House Without Windows & Patti‘s audiobook while waiting for my book mail of The Story She Left Behind. Patti Callahan Henry once again swept me down a Rabbit Hole of research!
BNF @ 4 yo learned to read & type. At 9 yo created her own land & language. Reading Barbara Newhall Follett‘s Letters, The Lost Words, & about Beatrix Potter & HER secret language, and THEIR love of nature
#Farksolia
#Farksoo

What defines a Real American?
A multigenerational story told by 3 points of view. Looking at parent- child relationships, ethnic backgrounds vs citizenship, with a slight sci- fi twist.

#LitsyBookClub

@DieAReader lol 😂 another attempt
#Waterloo
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I can‘t find a great map though @DieAReader
#READLESMIS

#Waterloo

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Waterloo_map.png

@DieAReader pg 286 gives a description of the areas as an ‘A‘ I drew a too small picture of that in my book, then tried to screenshot the google map. Not the greatest but it helped… 🤭😀🤣🤪😝
#READLESMIS

#Waterloo

6/18/1815 4:00 PM
The Germans (Hanoverians & Dutch) fighting for the English were outnumbered & out-munitioned by Napoleon‘s French army and could not defend La Haie-Sainte
42 survived, 3000 died.
#Waterloo
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The Story She Left Behind releases Tuesday! Meanwhile, I‘m reading The Lost Words & Barbara Newhall Follett Letters. BNF inspired Patti Callahan Henry‘s latest novel.
BNF had her 1st book published at the age of 12 yo. At 26 yo, after a spat with her husband, she left the house & has never been found.
As a child, she created a complex imaginary world & complete language to go with it!

The Southern Gate. Restored in 2015 for 200th Anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo

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#Waterloo

Hougoumont prior to The Battle of Waterloo

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Bandette reading with me while I read Les Misérables. She brings me comfort while reading about poor Fantine. ❣️????❤️ ?? ❣️
#READLESMIS

It was wonderful re- visiting a favorite childhood author. I have saved a couple of her books- oh my, could they be 50 years old?!. ( Stormy still has the cover paper!)
Sadly, I can‘t find my Misty of Chincoteague.
Thanks @TheBookHippie for a walk down memory lane. Now to start March‘s book! #ChildrensClassicRead2025

This was a great interview with Leigh Bardugo at the 2018 National Book Festival in Washington DC.
I went with fellow Litten Erin @Bookworm83 , & met Chrissy @Chrissyreadit & her daughter, and Jen Moyers @Jmoyers = @UnabridgedPod
#NatBookFest #AuthorAMonth

Here‘s the link

https://youtu.be/-Iu9VLldn6U?si=yYYs7VrZX8Trnhaf

Operation Cowboy
@Daisey reminded me of this book about rescuing the Lipizzans. Here is a Disney movie about it as well. - Based on another book, My Dancing White Horses by Colonial Podhajsky
Miracle of the White Stallions 1963 🤍🤍🤍

https://youtu.be/N_XDeZvyDIs?si=cgoFLXOiuRvBtlck

#ChildrensClassicRead2025

Operation Cowboy - WWII

Here‘s an interesting WWII story about how the USA & Germany worked together to save the Lipizzans, as well as other horses from the Russians! 🤍🤍🤍

https://www.historynet.com/patton-saves-austrias-white-horses/

#ChildrensClassicRead2025

Oh my! After the courtroom scene, how am I to wait for tomorrow to continue reading?!
What a compelling book this is turning out to be!!
#READLESMIS #BuddyRead

Here‘s a great short video showing the Airs Above the Ground maneuvers of the great lippizans #ChildrensClassicRead2025

https://youtu.be/r8ktmC5pTvU?si=N4DZS4w26ErTzlj1

I‘m a little behind on my February reading for #ChildrensClassicRead2025 I love going down memory lane rereading a favorite book of mine and remembering when I got to watch The Great Lipizzan‘s perform. Here‘s an example of an Levade & a Caprriole- two Airs Above the Ground movements.
This book is a great way to learn about the horses and a fine example of self- actualization and working hard for your dreams.

Bandette is happy I‘m back home so we can catch up on Les Misérables!!
I hope to catch up this weekend and then go through all the previous posts!!
#ReadLesMis
#DogsOfLitsy

An appropriate read for this 2degF snowy Kansas day!! ❄️🩵 ❄️
All the schools are closed, but unfortunately, I still have to go to work. I suspect a quiet day, so I‘ll bring my book just in case!! So far, this is a wonderfully written book with a lovely midwife and a mystery. 🩵 ❄️🩵

I‘d like to be in bed right now… 🩶🤍🩶

Just started listening to The History of Love for @LitsyBookClub & I know I‘m going to love it.
The first few lines are great.
Funny thing is, the narrator, George Guidall, narrated Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower series. So I keep thinking about Stephen King. And SK would write like this also!!
#LitsyBookClub

My 2 day old granddaughter, Hazel Anne is helping me through the vomiting 🤮
Here is a blurb about Plath‘s real benefactress, Olivia Higgins Prouty, referred to in the novel as Philomena Guinea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Higgins_Prouty

#hastagbrigade

Oh, my heart goes out to Fantine!
Running behind- nursing my sister in KC after cataract surgery, now in Dodge City helping my daughter with her 5th child 🩷 Little Hazel Anne. Will keep reading as I can! I‘ll eventually catch up!

Here are the 2 sets of books mentioned in my earlier post

Isn‘t it interesting? How within six months of each other two books get published about librarian spies in Lisbon?

It reminds me of when two books were written about the horseback librarians of Kentucky: The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek & the Giver of Stars 📕 🐴

These covers also have a similar color scheme

Isn‘t it interesting? How within six months of each other two books get published about librarian spies in Lisbon?

It reminds me of when two books were written about the horseback librarians of Kentucky: The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek & the Giver of Stars 📕 🐴

These covers also have a similar color scheme

Enjoying this newly published book about librarian spies in Lisbon during WWII. Portugal 🇵🇹 was a neutral country & was an important site of espionage, as well as a place refugees sought sanctuary. It has a strong sense of place, reminding me of the wonderful trip we had there in September.

This is a well done debut ( fiction) novel. I can‘t wait to see what else she writes.
I went to the University of Kansas, so those references were fun! 💙❤️
The author played basketball at the University of Colorado and then played professional basketball for an Irish team. She then did sports journalism before writing this book.
Here‘s a Friends & Fiction interview with her

https://www.youtube.com/live/o_zqEYVP8cw?si=3mxlxBVuBHAKMtKD

#Chatterday

I‘m enjoying my visit with my sister. I‘m staying with her this weekend after her cataract surgery. I‘m a little nervous about leaving tomorrow and having her drive herself. Next week I come back for surgery her other eye!
Luckily my son lives in the same town, so I got to see him also.
I‘m reading Eight Hundred Grapes 🍇 🍷 and enjoying it.
#ChatterDay2025 @AllDebooks

I‘m a little behind, with work, grandkids, and driving to KC to nurse my sister before and after cataract surgery ( yesterday). This 5 page chapter with NINE pages of notes took me 2 days!
As Hugo writes, “Yet these details wrongly called trivial do serve a purpose. The features of the years are what the face of the century is composed of. “
Next: Two Foursomes
#READLESMIS

Eight Hundred Grapes 🍇 was the 1st book of this author that I wanted to read- but it turned out to be the 3rd book of hers that I‘m reading. She may be becoming a favorite author of mine!
Did you know it takes 800 grapes to make one bottle of wine? 🍇 🍷 🍇
#ReadYourKindle

Finished this novella, a retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses. It was a fun take on the Grimms fairytale. I feel the writing was probably not the best, but I had fun reading it as part of #ChildrensClassicRead2025
She also has written retellings of sleeping beauty and beauty and the beast.

Part One: Fantime, Book 2: The Fall, Chapter VIII: The Deep & the Dark

is this chapter a metaphor of
drowning in the sea 🟰 Jean Valjean‘s despair?

#READLESMIS #Sharreadathon #LitsyLove

I‘m finishing up my last 12 Dancing Princesses book for the month of January for #ChildrensClassicRead2025
This is a fun novella retelling.
She‘s also written a Sleeping Beauty retelling and in August, a Beauty and the Beast retailing will be published.

Read this for free if you sign up for her newsletter:

https://www.rlperez.com/crowns-of-the-fae