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*Name a book that has coffee/dessert on cover or in title: I was reminded of Crosley's essay collection just this week. Still TBR, I hope to read it soon.
*Your favorite dessert and beverage: Tiramisu, cherry/apricot danish, coffee cake, pecan pie, cheesecake.
Ice coffee in it's glorious manifold forms & lately an occasional refreshing gin & tonic or cold pinot grigio.
#wondrouswednesday @eggs

1. Tagged

2. I love cake, just about every kind I can think of, but my favorite is Italian Crème Cake with coffee or tea.

Want to play @Bookpearl @Books_et_al @mom_of_4 ?

This was between a pick and a so so book for me. I really liked a lot of the essays and I generally liked the writing but some of this book did get to be a bit annoying in parts. It was a little forced in certain points and some of the stories just left me wondering what the point was. But, overall it kept my interest and I liked it!

New reads include: Sloane Crosley, David Rakoff and Chuck Palahniuk!! It‘s a #SantaThing. 🧡

This memoir-in-essays fell just inside pick range. She was going for humor, but I never found myself chuckling in my head. However some stories were very relatable, like how she ended up the maid of honor for a high school friend she barely knew. In her medical essay, it was likely a bit exaggerated given what I know about medicine, so that docked points. Not going to stick with me but a reasonably enjoyable library #audiobook. Onwards!

#quote #sloanecrosley #iwastoldtheredbecake #memoir #essays #humor #nonfic #nonfiction #litquote #literaryquote

Got a lovely note in the mail from @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks today! And one from @magyklyXdelish earlier this week! Thank you for this lovely quote. Only a week into my time with #LitsyLove and I‘ve already had so many days brightened by new friends! 🌻🌻🌻

These stories are so drawn out and uninteresting. I didn‘t enjoy nor could I finish reading all the stories.

A little late on this...
1. I Was Told There‘d Be Cake
2. Marie Antoinette
3. Happy Birthday 🤷🏻‍♀️🙃
#manicmonday

1. Book Tagged
2. Movie Sixteen Candles - Molly Ringwald's birthday cake at the end of the film.
3. Song Crunchy Munchy Honey Cakes - The Wiggles

#manicmonday #🍰 @joscho

🍰 I Was Told There'd be Cake by Sloane Crosley

🍰 Mrs. Doubtfire

🍰 Birthday Cake by Rihanna

#manicmonday @JoScho

The tagged ‘I was Told There‘d Be Cake‘
No movies come to me
“If I knew you were comin I‘d‘ve baked a cake”
#manicmonday #🍰 @JoScho

1. I Was Told There‘d Be Cake - Sloane Crosley (AWESOME book)
2. Bridesmaids (Kristen Wiig‘s character = baker = cake 😁)
3. Cherry Pie - Warrant (I swear it‘s the first song I thought of this early in the morning 😂)
#manicmonday #🍰 #canigobacktobednow @JoScho 😘

I‘m having a little trouble settling in to my next read. I keep jumping from one book to another. These essays are keeping me entertained while I decide what to read next.

Some cute and humorous essays in this collection. Sloane Crosley is quickly becoming a go to author for me.

Taking a quick lunch break to start this one.

#riotgrams Day 7 - Ice Cream/Sweet Treats : from the tbr pile!

If you're feeling down or just love to laugh when you read, this book is for you! Sloane Crosley's essays about her life experiencesmade me laugh out loud from start to finish. I also have her book How Did You Get This Number?, which I am very much looking forward to reading! I'll post a review when I get to it. 😊 #essays #humor

When I heard that our local bookstore/bar had a beer on-tap named after Sloane Crosley‘s “I Was Told There‘d Be Cake,” I knew visiting would be a major part of my Sunday plans. The bartender described it as, “Like, a strawberry banana smoothie beer?” He wasn‘t wrong.

#happyplace

#floralcover #readingresolutions @Jess7

Meh. Perhaps it‘s my mood but I really didn‘t like this. She came off as vapid and narcissistic in several of the essays. It also felt like she was just trying too hard to be funny. There were a couple essays where she could have taken about 500 words out and still gotten the point across easily. Read this at your own discretion a lot of others loved it.

Isabella was no help in picking my next read. I need humor so I‘m going with the tagged book.
#littenkitten #catsoflitsy #bibliokitty

A slightly off-kilter book of #essays. I laughed out loud. My favorite was the manicurist yelling at her in the subway station not to bite her nails. #noteworthyNovember @Jess7

Attended a wedding in gorgeous Vermont this weekend. Brought two books with me ("Still Life with Tornado" by A.S. King & a collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson) & didn't get to either of them -- but I was weirdly okay with that. Sometimes it's okay to just "read" love & nature in real life. ?

Book mail today! My shirt from @outofprint and two books from #ThriftBooks. #bookmail #thebestmailisbookrelated

I couldn't decide between pick or so-so. Crosley is certainly a talented writer and storyteller. Some of her essays were gems while others didn't work as well for me. She has some great insights and off-kilter humor. However, maybe it was because I read The Underground Railroad at the same time and this just couldn't compare, but I wasn't in love. It felt so trite and light and insignificant at times. But I'll just blame timing and recommend.

Almost finished with my first #springcleaningreadathon #audiobook
This has given me quite a few chuckles.😂

I've also been reading these essays and really enjoying them. Unfortunately, I need to take a break. After immersing myself in The Underground Railroad, I'm not able to appreciate a young New Yorker's neuroses and particularly the current essay complaining about volunteering at a butterfly exhibit. 🙄

However, I will return. Crosley is a really good storyteller and has some interesting insights.

"I could kill again if I had to". Something you don't usually hear when discussing volunteering at a butterfly exhibit. There are some gems in here.

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(Reluctantly) agreeing to be a bridesmaid. In pink plaid. New York City. Needing to have a locksmith rescue you. Twice. A (secret) collection of ponies. Volunteering at a museum's butterfly exhibit. Vegeterianism... sort of. Although some of the essays were definitely memorable, I wouldn't call this a MUST read. It was an enjoyable audiobook listen... but I'm probably partial to authors who are as obsessed with sushi as I am.

Equal parts hilarious, vivid, and poignant.

I ate and drank too much today, leaving me uncomfortable and with insomnia. So, time for a new audiobook.

I love the title of this collection but I was somewhat disappointed by these essays. #feistyfeb #flowersoncovers

This book was laugh out loud funny! Crosley is a talented storyteller; she takes an ordinary story that could read like a grocery list and turns it in to an adventure with her odd POV & sense of humor.

New library pick! 📚

Whoo-hoo! Three audiobook holds have come in in the past 24 hours. I guess there were a lot of folks listening while they prepped Thanksgiving food!!! 🍽

I started this audio this morning while stuck in a 2+ hour traffic jam. I might have been in the wrong frame of mind for it, but I just wasn't enjoying it as much as I thought I would. I'm putting it away for now, but may come back to it later. So I'm giving it a so-so instead of a bail at this point.

I did get a chuckle about the "pony drawer"...

A really great book of essays. Personal and expressive and relatable.

This is a delightful and insightful collection of essays. The audio was read by the author and she did a great job. I thoroughly enjoyed Crosley's wit and wisdom.

This guy got all up in my grill when I was trying to scroll through my Litsy feed. My 20 yr old boy needs some love it seems. Later peeps. #catsoflitsy

This guy got all up in my grill when I was trying to scroll through my Litsy feed. My 20 yr old boy needs some love it seems. Later peeps. #catsoflitsy

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous.

Suburbia is too close to the county to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

This book convinced me that Sloane and I should become great friends. She's honest about her flaws, witty in her story-telling, and earnest in her intentions. This is the most wonderful memoir of quizzically serendipitous moments captured in essays.

Bailed at page 115. Although well written, the more I read, the less I care about what she's writing about/the more I roll my eyes/the less I can relate. This feels strangely...unauthentic? I don't know. Just didn't sit well. A big ole "eh." (Although this cover is gorgeous.)

Was looking for something easy to read and saw this get a good review months ago, possibly on @bookriot 😃 It's based in NYC where we just moved! I love reading books set in places I've actually been.