This entry has stayed with me.
November 21, 2024
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life | 
This entry has stayed with me.
November 21, 2024
pickThe author chronicles tiny tidbits of her thoughts and feelings by category, alphabetically. It is charming and best devoured in small bites, a few entries at a time. From needlepoint to piñatas each topic gives us a snippet into the author‘s world.
“Our lives just feel so impossibly big to us.”
“It‘s really something to return home after a month away. It would seem that the world should have changed in someway.”
And here is my #TBR #BookSpinBingo for March (and a pic of the book I am currently reading). I have a lot going on in March writing wise (continued work on novel and entering the #SOL21 writing challenge) but I am hoping to make room for reading as well.
Also thinking of changing my username on here. Does anyone know if that will cause problems?
What an original book! So many unique features for this #newyearwhodis read. Thank you @megnews for such an interesting suggestion.
@monalyisha
Reorganized my book shelves last night. It took longer than I expected. Definitely not because of the "two million books" my son said were here.
#shelfie
pickThe author weaves together her thoughts about life in a unique encyclopedia format. It could be my ordinary life or yours. Reading this was like sitting with a close friend or across the table from yourself, listening to ordinary thoughts about an ordinary life.
4⭐️. Recommend. Looking forward to reading Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal next.
Book 107/165 3/30/19
I read this piece of advice in a travel guide years ago and appreciate the fact I have a picture of my girls with Mona Lisa, not just Mona Lisa.
I never thought about it before, but I feel like this might be a thing I do.
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Glad to read I‘m not the only one who learned this the hard way.
#lunchtimereading
pickRosenthal wrote this memoir in 2004 as a series of short posts in alphabetical order, much like an encyclopedia . She celebrates and reflects on the ordinary, day to day moments we all experience. The reading experience was bittersweet, knowing she passed away last year from cancer.
pickOh what an exquisite book. It‘s heartbreaking that the author should have died so young (at just 51 in 2017) but what a wonderful thing to have left in the world. Textbook is her second memoir, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life her first and it‘s lovely. Funny, articulate, self effacing and poignant, I‘d recommend it to anyone. @Cinfhen & @CarolynM : she revised her opinion on Fiction but the quote was too long to post. ? Précis: People Change ❤️
Wow... sounds like our day...😂🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️
😂😂😂 YEP!! (I do this, especially with kettle chips!!).
@Cinfhen - okay, I‘m at not *quite* this bad ... but she does have a point...😜😜😜😜
The things I learn...!
😊😊😊 From the quite lovely tagged book (we‘re all in a time out. Dash because he decided bitey was an appropriate response to being foiled trying to escape his room, Puff because she decided whacking me was an appropriate response to Dash scaring her and Me lest I decide to flee the scene. 😡😡😡😡) AKR is helping.
I really adored this book. I read the ebook and then borrowed the print because while both versions contain the same WORDS, there's so much that's in the print-quirky little drawings and charts, author content on the back flap, etc, that just isn't the same when consumed in the digital format. Even looking at this bright cover makes me happy.
AKR loved #seredipity and so do I, especially when it happens in my reading life. I really enjoyed her essay about it Textbook AKR and even had a serendipitous moment while reading that book, a little story about #honey that I shared here. Today, I noticed that the two memoir-like books I'm currently reading, including Amy's, each have 240 pages. I had to smile at this latest bit of #BookSerendipity. I think AKR would have smiled about it, too.
I love books with fun little nuggets on the copyright page. "Not responsible for the short, edible window between the banana is not ripe enough and the banana is rotten." from "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: 1" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal?
We lost Amy Krouse Rosenthal yesterday. I'm so heartbroken, but today I am celebrating her life - she was filled with the sincere joy and wonder of being alive, and she shared it with all her readers, and made our lives more interesting and magical.
pickRest In Peace. 😢😢😢
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-hu...
After reading AKR's NYTimes essay yesterday (and crying on finding out about her cancer) I see how stupid I have been to postpone reading this - life written in alphabetical entries! Funnily, she has not lived an ordinary life - she is creator of many magical picture books, and is a pleasure to read or watch her videos. She's created a lot of light:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my...
pickLoved this and am now 1. constantly thinking of my own "entries," and 2. eyeing Rosenthal's latest, which I knew I would want to read and which just arrived in today's mail. Rosenthal accurately and entertainingly captures what it is like to be a regular, wonderful, flawed person with a normal existence. This is the kind of book I want to order for my best friend and have sent to her house as a nice surprise.
DOGS
Dogs can be very persuasive when they want your attention.
Thanks to the "Encyclopedia Spine" entry, I'm going to have to check the spine of every "M" Encyclopedia Brittanica volume for the rest of my life.
I don't know if I can sign this agreement. Especially because of the not bitching about Monday and not acknowledging almost-Friday part.
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Lighthearted musings that make me smile. #bookphotochallenge #augustphotochallenge
Lighthearted musings that make me smile. #bookphotochallenge
