New bookstore opened today in my town. Cannot tell you how excited I am to spend all my money there! ☺️
New bookstore opened today in my town. Cannot tell you how excited I am to spend all my money there! ☺️
A week ago I did a leap of faith. I visited a neighboring country and our family was bigger after that. Let me introduce to you... TENGIL. Smooth collies are pretty rare here, even rarer if you want to give home for an adult who is seeking their forever home. This guy had already tried one home unsuccesfully and had been searching his family for months. I had to take a risk.
You shared my sorrow when I lost Hugo, wanted to share this with you.
The overarching joy this week is that both of my big kiddos are home for the summer! Other joys are of a suburban/urban scenery and fauna nature (although I suppose my kids are suburban fauna, too):
1) Bee snuggling in a rose.
2) Dewy spiderweb.
3) Cat sleeping in packing material.
4) Mom and babies in a bird nest on an electrical box.
5) Sky.
@DebinHawaii #5JoysFriday
My husband made this accurate AI picture of us today🤣
He often comes home only to find me at the library behind our house🤓📚, or walking back with more books😬
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
No pics from my week, so I thought I‘d share my parents‘ cat Millie 😻1️⃣Finally enjoying summer temps to sit outside and read in!2️⃣ I‘m off work today, my Aunt and I shopped our town‘s annual “community wide garage sales” 3️⃣ Had an ebook I was on hold for come in and I‘m enjoying it 4️⃣ A “Sunday Funday” planned with my BFF, looking forward to it! 5️⃣ Watching the breakup of Cheeto Taco & Muskmelon is hilarious 😂
I'm Currently Reading 2 books
Piercing the Darkness
'It could have begun in any town.'
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
'There was an old Jew who lived at the site of the old synagogue up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, Pa., and when the Pennsylvania State Troopers found the skeleton at the bottom of an old well off Hayes Street, the old Jew's house was the first place they went to.
@CBee #readyourkindle #readyourebooks
I forgot to post my official list but here are my options for this month's challenge. I am feeling pretty good about the possibility of me actually reading all for this month but I guess only time will tell.
#MidsummerSolace
#Fridaynightshare is back. Here's where we stack up the tbr pile. 📚📚📚
Let us know your favourite summer read this year. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
Comment on here or post pics with your recommendations.
@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit
Happy #5JoysFriday 💛💛💛
My joys this week:
1) a lovely trip with @VaniBarelyReads with a little shopping and an awesome dinner 🌸
2) bringing my dad to the station for his long needed vacation ☀️
3) the kids of my cousin who are absolutely adorable 🥰
4) Tiny car family has grown again! 🚗
5) I have a lot of overtime, so I'm only working 3 days right now 😎
@DebinHawaii
#5JoysFriday
1. My boys…always!
2. Zeke continues to show no adverse reactions to chemo.
3. Last weekend‘s birthday weekend, filled with books and my parents, who made my day feel special.
4. IRL book club
5. Catching up on the drama in Virgin River on Netflix.
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: D-DAY
Thanks 🙏 for the tag @Ddzmini #wondrouswednesday @Eggs A day late ⏰ 🤷♀️🐉 - my emojis 😂 - finding the funny side of things can help smooth out some of life‘s toughest moments -The Wedding People had me laughing at one point I may have snorted some soda over my work shirt oops 🙊 I did 1 and 2 in the wrong order
Lololol
Last night we unexpectedly had to say goodbye to our Sparrow. She wasn‘t feeling well and wouldn‘t eat. We took her to urgent care where we were told she had developed a very rare complication from diabetes that required a very aggressive treatment with a low survival rate. She was declining so quickly we had to make the hard decision to let her go. She was a good reading buddy; the kitty who liked to sleep with my books. She will be missed. 💔💔
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: WORLD ENVIRONMENT
Two Len Buonfiglio/St. Pierre Caribbean Mysteries!!
FULL SHOWCASE & GIVEAWAY IN MY BIO: https://tinyurl.com/2taf5xah
Brian Silverman
@partnersincrimevbt
This is an intimate short story about life, about death, about mourning, about laughing. It feels true. We temporarily lose ourselves and hopefully we come back to ourselves, but we will never be the same. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Came across this while on goodreads. So if u buy through Thriftbooks and spend $35 or more on books, you get a free Grumpy X Sunshine Trope tote.
1. Laugh, be kind, and travel (which I'm doing today)
2. 🤓🦈😂
3. Jumping on a trampoline with my friend and her kids
Thanks @peaKnit @Kshakal @Eggs #wondrouswednesday
I'm Vinting again if any UK folks want to check out my Vinted profile.
Plan on uploading more stuff in future too.
https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/220756078-raewatts
You‘ve got 21 days to determine what will get (at minimum) 25 minutes of your attention on June 25th!!
Do you already know what you will be reading? Tag it!!
Let‘s start getting excited about this now!! Why wait?!?
Also, in grade school do you think our teachers gave us more than 25 minutes of reading time, exactly that, or less?!?
#Read25Day
I currently have 57 books on my TBR from #BookishMonopoly and that's alot. So I decided to do a wheel for my books. My next read (after I finish The Spellshop... which I have under 2 hrs left) will be When Katie Met Cassidy which is perfect for Pride month! 🏳️🌈🌈🏳️🌈
Love is Love! Our Bodies Are Our Own! We Aren't Hurting Anyone! Can't Catch The Gays! Leave Us Alone!
Thank you @Eggs for tagging me #wondrousWednesday
1) Be happy wherever your at and appreciate everything
2) 🤣📚🥵
3) my hubby and I discussing our past escapes when watching some show … still love him 🥰
If you haven‘t been tagged or played and I‘ve tagged you play along 👍🏼😊📚
You know it's going to be a good day when three of your book subscription boxes arrive at the same time! 😍📚 #botm #fairyloot #owlcrate
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs 😊
Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView 💕
1) Don't say pizza and naps. Don't say pizza and naps. Don't say pizza and naps.
I think the most important thing in the world is connection to others. Reading On the Calculation of Volume really drove this point home.
2) 😅📚🍑
3) It was probably something really juvenile like a fart 🤣🤣
@The_Penniless_Author @CBee Yours?
This was one of my #roll100 picks in... April, I think? My library decided to get one copy and I was happy that I've been able to read this book. It was better than expected. It's YA but so, so good. I expected the story to go a certain way - but it didn't! Anna Dimitrova has a strong and very clear message and I would love that school in the DACH region would read this with their students. All the stars.
@PuddleJumper
#MidsummerSolace
I absolutely adore this. What perfect advice on how to live a life.
Artist - Grant Snider (Thanks @Faranae 😊)
@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: CHEESE
Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:
#JUNESPECIALS
@Eggs
@AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
TODAY‘S PROMPT: EGG
I forgot to do this yesterday.
Save the Pharao! I listed to this children‘s mystery because I was looking for something to play in the background while my students are working on their papyrusses in our project week. There is a conspiracy against the Pharao going on and two kids are the only ones knowing about it. Of course they are trying to save him. And the kids listening have solve quizzes along with them in a enclosed booklet. It‘s definetely entertaining.
#BookReport for May
📚 Finished
The Crimson Crown ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Beltane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Stand ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 In Progress
Protection Spells - Read five chapters. On page 181.
#WeeklyForecast
I‘ll be starting The Long Walk in The Bachman Books, and continuing with Writing Poetry in the Dark this week.
My May wrap up. 📚🌼
May was a slow reading month. Hoping to get more accomplished this month.
Finished one for #FairytaleReadingChallenge (2024)
Finished one for #SeriesLove2025
Finished one for #LosersClub
Still in Progress:
Writing Poetry in the Dark
Protection Spells
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
I think it's Tuesday today? Not sure... Whatever, here's a song for you. Or for me.
People like us we've gotta stick together
Keep your head up, nothing lasts forever
Here's to the damned to the lost and forgotten
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom
We are all misfits living in a world on fire
Sing it for the people like us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWbMz_aBlMU&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
#ReadYourKindle
I think I‘ve been reluctant to acknowledge June so am behind on all the things.
@CBee
My #ReadYourKindle2025 books for June are:
20: Under the Storm
2: Champagne Widows
3: The Block Party
9: Etiquette of Lovers and Killers
I'm hoping to get them read this month. I can't believe it's already June 🤯
@CBee #ReadYourKindle2025
In honor of #readyourkindle day, I present a haiku:
Today is the day
Trusty spinner thingie speaks
Which books will you read?
Have fun, friends! #readyourkobo #readyourebooks #readyournook