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🥀 own the tagged book but it‘s still TBR

🥀love to garden. Have perennials, which I border with marigolds.

#🥀 I read in my porch

🥀 spring water

The only thing pretty about this book is the cover. It‘s not a clever retelling of Little Women. Only thing similar is the names otherwise the girls are almost unlikeable. I‘ve picked up and put down this book for months. Had to force myself to finish it. Seriously don‘t know what I didn‘t just bail. #readingchallenge2022

I wish I'd bailed on this. As a retelling I think this was bad. While the girls have the same names their characters and actions are so different that I couldn't see any of the original in this. I started to enjoy it as a story of it's own but it was so bleak and depressing that it was a struggle. Finally it just.. stopped.Everyone's storylines and concerns laid out but left completely up in the air. I was quite disappointed.

#CurrentRead and admiring my roses that are STILL blooming at the end of September! Guess a late heat wave is good for something.

Woohoo! 🎉🎊🎉 A huge shoutout to @Megabooks for reaching 250,000 Litfluence! That‘s one heck of a #LitsyMilestone! Congrats and thanks for such a lovely giveaway. ♥️ I‘ve tagged one of my favourite reads so far this summer. If you haven‘t read it yet, I suggest you check it out! 🌟

#25Etsy

Today‘s procrastination is to brought to you by this audiobook. I should be studying, but instead I‘m walking to the store to pick up some chocolate chips so I can make cookies. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why did I do this to myself? For me this was an absolute pan. The characters had none of the lightness or charm of the original and the relationships between the girls was almost none existent. As a stand alone contemporary It was poor, having been a military wife the opportunity to explore that impact on family life was missed or made trite. Genuinely can‘t believe I finished it

#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

1. The budding trees and warmth.
2. Allergies.
3. Getting new books.
4. Be grateful it's warm.
5. It has the word spring in it, I haven't actually read (nor do I own) this yet so I'm not sure.

I‘ve never really read little women just a revision of the books for the individual girls. This is a good retelling if a classic story. I‘m a sucker for modern retellings and this is a another good one to add to the list. It really gets into the rat race of life. Although some of the storylines left me confused it was a solid 4 Star. It does have a slow start.

I‘m just devouring this book once it got passed the first couple of pages.

Rainy day calls for reading although I still need to finish belgravia by Julian Fellowes for book club this week! #toomanybooks

#April #tbrpile
A couple reading challenge books thrown in here, a library book and some that have been on my shelf for years! #books #sunshine 📖☀️📖☀️📖☀️📖☀️📖☀️
#ahouseinthesky #cityofbones #ettaandottoandrussellandjames #thespringgirls

I‘m one of those ppl who likes contemporary retellings of classics. This is a reimagining of Little Women. Frankly, if I didn‘t have to listen to it for a freelance assignment I would have bailed early. 🎧 Decent (not stellar) performances couldn‘t save this novel. I hate to pan it, but there was no charm here.

1. Cool book swag
2. Parenthood (yes, I‘m out of it)
3. The Spring Girls — I‘m reserving judgment. Audiobook is good but I‘m not yet sure of book itself (I‘m on chapter 2)
4. Snow
5. No tattoos and only a single piercing in each ear.
#HumpDayPost @MinDea

#5 for 2018
If you want to read this because you like the 'After' series you will be disappointed.
Ok read but wouldn't recommend it.

"Having four daughters aged twelve to nineteen was not only the hardest job I'd ever worked, but would be the most important thing I would ever do. My legacy wasn't going to be that I was an army wife; it would be that I raised four reliable, responsible and capable little women to unleash out into the world."