pickWhat happens when a mother can‘t bear the grief of her loss? She learns the truth about what really happened and it gives her a new purpose. Not a happy purpose, but new understanding of how she should move forward. Are there ghosts involved? Maybe. This is a sad, spine tingling short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
An intimate conversation with Ocean.
Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000705949596
pickThere is no such place as paradise. An island where there are vacation homes and a strict vacation season. Just follow the rules and ignore what‘s under the surface and you‘ll be OK. This short story is horrifying. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
May‘s picks for #readYourKobo. We‘ll see how many I actually get to this month. 🙄
So many great and fun books this month! And I actually did pretty well keeping up with my NetGalley ARCs! #MonthlyRoundup
#AprilChallengeUpdate
Read #Bookspin & #DoubleSpin
Read 1 #ReadYourEBook
#WickedWords:
The Briar Club: Gambling
King A Life: Singer, Massachusetts
Wild Dark Shore: Fish
The Martha‘s Vineyard Beach and Book Club: Portuguese
#ISpy
April: 5 remaining
March: 4 remaining
February: 2 remaining
January: complete
@TheAromaofBooks @CBee @AsYouWish
#AprilWrapUp
Loved Wild Dark Shore and P & P as always. Enjoyed Midnight in Soap Lake and The Briar Club immensely. Learned so much from King.
DNF‘d 3 books
pickIt‘s impossible to see the future, isn‘t it? Can a normal conference room transform into a crystal ball? Things like that just don‘t happen. It‘s certainly not a gift to Jennifer. A very eerie short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I‘m letting Lil Bit have my chair today! Now I know why my flowers aren‘t coming up!! Miss Priss 🐾 🌺 and Tux looking all handsome!!
#Cats
#Bibliophile
Happy Caturday!!! 🖤 🐾 🤍
pickJudgement comes in strange forms. A man who is only thinking of doing something morally questionable, but is discovered, and whose life starts to spiral downwards. His judge, jury, and potential executioner is something wholly unexpected. A disturbing short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finally starting #ShelfSweeper. This is my ever growing TBR shelf. And we won‘t talk about what‘s on my kindle and kobo. Now… where to start….
@Andrew65 @Tove_Reads #4Elizabeth
#RantTime
With the proposed elimination of library, museum, humanities programs, and PBS funding, among other entities, it is imperative that voices are raised against these measures. My lifeblood is all about humanities—I‘m a librarian, after all—and it is terrifying that my skills are considered to be unimportant to the government. I‘d rant more, but I‘ll save that for another day.
Please contact your representatives. See link below. ⬇️
1. Happy Color App
2. Reading
3. Checking things off my to do lists
4. Mexican food
5. My helpful husband.
#5JoysFridays. @DebinHawaii
Tagging anyone who is reading this 😁
1. The rose my husband planted for me is blooming like crazy! So many flowers!
2. I bought some fabric on Etsy and finally made a valance for my bedroom window
3. Got tickets to see Head & the Heart at the Greek in September
4. Spontaneous library haul
5. Angel City beat Washington 4-3 tonight! Crazy game!
#5joysFriday
1) My faith- prayer works 😊😉 2) The trips to the library with my mom this week 3) The problem with the neighbor above us now has a logical explanation. 4) I have been reading a lot more this week. 5) You guys and all of your pet and flower 🌺 pictures 🩷🫶🏽😊 #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
💛 our baby boy is healthy 💙
💛 my flowers are coming along!
💛 my daughters and their significant others!
💛 my kitties and hubby are doing great! I love my new facial products!
💛 back porch reading with the birds singing 🎶 🐦
#5joysfriday
1. Frankie
2. This sticker by number book
3. Independent bookstore day
4. Coffee
5. Flowers and trees blooming
Thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii #5joysFriday
pickTranslates as: The White Spot. An Instructin to antiracist thinking.
I got angry, I got sad and I felt shame. But I've also learned a lot about racism in Germany (Switzerland isn't any different when it comes to that), where it comes from and also, what we can do about it. Sadly, many things the author warns about, have already come true. That's why it's so important to read those books. Even if it's uncomfortable.
#roll100 @PuddleJumper
From Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya:
Except for the Native Caves - tucked high in the hills above town - the city of Chilesworth presents nothing extraordinary.
From Skin & Bones by Paul Doiron:
The wind moved across the surface of the lake like breath upon a mirror.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Happy #5JoysFriday 💛💛💛
Life is finally getting better again 🙌
1. Visiting an exhibition about foxes with @VaniBarelyReads
2. Having a picnic in the woods with a new friend
3. Working so many early shifts to make our bookshop beautiful
4. Surprise package from a dear friend
5. Finding out that our library has expanded their Gender and Diversity section 💖
@DebinHawaii
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Going for Hiabchi tomorrow to celebrate my husband‘s birthday!! Yum 😋
2. Discovered some new emojis with the new IOS update: (this last one is my spirit animal 🤪)
3. Everything is so green and lush right now! 🌷🌿🍃🌱
4. Coffee ☕️
5. The SAVE Act will be DOA when it reaches the Senate 😮💨 Thanks for doing something, Chuck Schumer
If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged!
Happy Friday☀️
1 & 2 serious Easter cookie decorating, and LB‘s first experience with cascarones
3 I fashioned a book spot from a vintage picnic basket
4 another book case
5 LB and big sis at the library‘s children‘s area
Thanks for the tag❣️
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
Play? @monalyisha @Blueberry @Leftcoastzen
Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-the-bbcs-big-read-100-1
My score was 44
#TLT @dabbe
Play? @julieclair @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @lil1inblue
#ThreeListThursday
Lots of favorites on this list: Jane Eyre, Watership Down, War & Peace, The Shell Seekers to name a few
Unpopular opinion stinkers: The Alchemist and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin
@dabbe
30%
Some of my favorite
Anna Karenina
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
To Kill A Mockingbird
Little Women
#TLT ##Threelistthursday @dabbe
#StartASpark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wAYbTVRovc
here is the link to the video of the artists redesigning 1960s books.
#StartASpark
https://colorifyai.art/
or if you are really feeling creative, try making a new cover of your own.
Hello Littens. It's #StartASpark day. I thought I would post about something creative this time. I watched a video on Youtube the other day (will post about that too), where a couple of artists did a challenge of redesigning book covers. I really liked that idea. And it gave me a thought. Can we make coloring pages of books that we read? The answer is yes.
If you do audiobooks and love to be artsy, why don't you try this out.
For some reason it feels like April was a lame reading month. I think that this was due to extra work pressure,, looking at my stats the following were my favorites (in no particular order):
*Wake Up & Open Your Eyes
*Nutshell
*Bad News
*Bad Dirt
I'm currently nearly finished with Matheson's Shrinking Man, which I'm very much enjoying. A real master of existential horror.
I only read 28 books in April. In all fairness, I got lost in Stardew Valley. It‘s a great game to play while listening to audiobooks, but I‘m so into the game that when the book ends I just keep playing. Go figure.
#AprilWrapUp #StoryGraph
April Book Wrap-up
Only 11 books read this month. Better than I thought considering I was sick.
4.5⭐️
The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo (Audiobook)
Something I Keep Upstairs by J D Barker (Physical Book from Barker)
4⭐️
The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis (Audiobook)
A Hidden Secret by Linda Castillo (Audiobook)
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead (Libby)
After the Storm by Linda Castillo (Audiobook)
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I completed 4/6 of the Goodreads challenges that was on from Jan 1st to April 30th. Hopefully I will do a bit better on the next one!!
Happy May Day! Please join us in our new challenge, starting tomorrow 💜🤍💛
#Bibliophile
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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