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Starting off my day with a little rea — 🤣🤣🤣

#dogsoflitsy #stealthcat #thegirls

Taking a quiet moment with birds books and coffee on this near-perfect Saturday morning before the heat rises and the day gets moving.

The Quick and Pithy of MY READING MIND…
If you‘d ever thought to “record” an entire day, there would be a surprise over how much you thought about.

Mark Beyer
author of What Beauty and Max, the blind guy, and The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America. To sample and buy: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
#ReadersWanted #GoodRead #bookworm #booklover #ianmcewan #Saturday #bookclubs #library #booktofilm

Hi there.

Happy Saturday.

#dogsoflitsy #dogandabook #saturdaystandard

On #groundhogday not a book about Punxsutawney Phil & not a book about Déjà Vu, rather a circadian novel (a book that takes place over the course of a single day). I really like this unusual structure for novels. One of Tana French's DMS is a circadian novel. Ian McEwan's, which happens to be set in Feb, '03, sounds like it might have a few outdated politics but I'm still a bit intrigued by it. #ithadtobeyou

Jajóme, Cayey! If you like to run, this place is perfect! But you have to go early in the morning. I‘m a slow runner, actually I‘m a power walking or jogger but in my mind...I‘m a runner😜Now, back to the books📚🙌

Today I ran 17.33 in Jájome Cayey. As you can see the location is in the mountain but you forget about the hills because it is so beautiful the view and so fresh. We started at 3:45 am, it was pretty dark but we use some lights and reflectors. Ahhhh now this activity just inspires me to read in the afternoon📚🙌 and to post my last readings for the month of July🤗

Happy Saturday! I hope to spend much of the day drinking coffee and reading.

So, my Summer pile has been curated. After John Williams 'Butcher's Crossing', I start on these badboys..anyone recommend pushing any up to the top?

This one will produce a book hangover, and not just from all the drinking that goes on. A well told story that manages to balance meditative sect with high-stakes action. You could get lost in the neurosurgery, or the political situation, or the family dynamics and the roles of poetry and music in the world. There‘s a lot here. #authoramonth2020 @Soubhiville

I‘m reading the tagged book today, which seems kind of meta. My daughter suggested this was a way to tell the days apart in quarantine. 😀 To keep it “real” we eliminated children‘s books. And I added the Woolf because I might actually read that one. 😂

How I wish this weren‘t so relevant right now. #authoramonth2020

Dipped my toes into my #authoramonth2020 selection that was also recommended by my Oxford book “prescription.” Depending on my reading speed, I could add two more from this author this month. But since I now go in to the office 3 days and work from home 2, I‘m not sure how far I‘ll get. @Soubhiville

I got my literary prescription from Oxford professor Sandie Byrne, and it includes the #authoramonth2020 selection. 😀

https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/literary-clinic-prescriptions

So this was pretty much the most boring book I‘ve dragged myself through to finish. I just had to see what would happen. The day is saved by a poem. It is romantic, intellectual and political, but just a bore to read. Also the chapters are way too long. I was relieved to finally start chapter 4 on page 180... overall okay. If this was the first book I read by Ian McEwan, I probably would never read another.

I‘ve read McEwan before (liked Black Dogs, LOVED Atonement). I thought this would be a quick read, but it took me 22 days to read 289 pages. 🤪

The writing is meticulously detailed, but the story is so damn boring. When things do finally happen, it doesn‘t come to much. Perowne has a perfect life and super successful family. He‘s kind of pompous but sneaky about it. It gets ridiculous at the end.

So anyway, this was not for me.

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#1001books

There's a Great Dane under there somewhere...😂❤️🐶
#saturdayvibes

HELP! I‘ve never read Ian McEwan! So what would you recommend based off of these books currently available via Libby?
Nutshell
The Children Act
Sweet Tooth
On Chesil Beach
A Child In Time
Amsterdam
Solar
Saturday
Black Dogs
The Cement Garden
The Daydreamer
In Between the Sheets

Thank you!!

Love Ian McEwan and I‘m also working on the #1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie list, so clearly I must read this one soon. #hymnfortheweekend #julycoldplay

I have mostly horror novels, so I had a hard time putting something together for spine poetry. When I was hastily getting things together while also getting ready for work, I thought this sounded good. Now that I‘m looking at it, it doesn‘t. Haha! Oh well.

#day12 #30junebooks #spinepoetry

1. I have, in the U.S. and I‘m a fan of the big cities plopped down in deserts but not fan of the CSI-esque middle of nowhere.

2. No, I‘m awful. Just awful.

3. Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware and How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper... and both are wonderful. ❤️

@saguarosally @ReadosaurusText
#succulentsaturday

💚 California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico
🌵 I have been for certain plants: ferns, succulents, geraniums, coleus, ivy
💚 reading my first ever Nancy Drew mystery
#succulentsaturday @saguarosally @ReadosaurusText

1. Yep, Mohave Desert, Las Vegas, Cali
2. No. I really wish I did. I try to grow things and they just die 😔
3. Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh & will probably start In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

#SucculentSaturday

#succulentsaturday @saguarosally @ReadosaurusText

🏜 Yes several including the Arabian Desert.
🌻 So-so... I do good with some things and not so good with others.
📘 Circe and The Memory Tree

🌵 Yup! My grandparents live in Palm Springs in California.
🌱 Oh man, I wish. I like to garden but I‘m not very good at it!
📚 Dark Matter, Long Road to Freedom, Born a Crime.

#succulentsaturday @saguarosally @ReadosaurusText

Hope you guys are all enjoying your Saturday. It‘s 8pm here, and we‘re just getting started on painting the living room 😂

I am the #saturdaylibrarian for the last time for this semester... so no snuggling up on the couch for me. But maybe I can get some readjng done while I‘m there. 🤫

Went to a coffee shop this morning and they had this bookcase with a lot of great titles; HOWEVER, they cut the durn books in half so that they didn‘t stick out 🧐

#quotsyfeb19 #weather

This is another one I read for a literature class. I thought it was great. So much can happen in one day that can change your whole life.

Lazy Saturday morning. Current view #CatsofLitsy

Not Saturday but Thursday book shopping with lovely @JulietteGF at Literarity independent book store (in El Paso). Be sure to drop by if you happen to be in the area ;). @JulietteGF - what was the name of the book and author that you recommended? I didn't write it down ...

Shop Small at your local Bookstore! #TatteredCover
#Denver #shopsmallsaturday

Enjoying my Saturday! (waiting for my Georgia Bulldogs to play) ❤️🖤❤️🖤

Great day of book shopping !! LOVE supporting Indie book stores. 📚📚🤘😁

I'm late to the #friyayintro @howjessreads, it's Saturday here.

1) read, enjoy the balmy autumn
2) CET, at the moment CEST. We still have Summer Time for two more weeks.
3) no favourite read for this season, I have a ginormous TBR to go through. Hence,
4) no time to reread.

Here's to the weekend!

My little humans picking their reads for the week
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Typical McEwan brilliance covering the events of a single day. The details of neurosurgery are utterly compelling though not the main focus of the novel. I had to finish the book in two sessions, very hard to put down.

After a long day of errands and cleaning, I got to sit down to this delicious dinner of filet mignon, salad, and let‘s not forget the pink moscato! #deliciousdinner #bestfiance

So I had to work today so I thought I would share a collage of some of our awesome Graphic Novel Collection for my ‘Saturday Shelfie‘. The bulk of our Marvel and DC collections are not shown here but I am still proud!

#ReadingResolutions 📚Saturday Shelfie📚

An interesting premise—one day in the life of London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne. A day that turns out to be not an average day. But this book started so slowly I was already bored by the time it picked up. It takes place between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq—and feels dated. Not McEwan‘s fault, if things had gone differently it might have aged better. Not his best. #1001books My 20th 1001 list read in 2018!

Only when enough of them have been torn down, will it be possible to start loving them p.78

Library book sale! I got the tagged book and so many more. I‘ll post the book haul later. Now I‘m off to my granddaughter‘s birthday party.

Happy #Caturday from my sweet boy, Chance!

More browsing at the second-hand bookstore 📚