Saw #PumpkinStackChallenge on Instagram and it looked fun. Didn't have a ton of green and orange books but I did manage a Mini Stack - a Sugar Pumpkin Stack as it were.🎃
💚 Defy or Defend
Gail Carriger
🧡 84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff
🧡 Adult Assembly Required
Abbi Waxman
🧡 Pumpkin Heads
Rainbow Rowell
🧡 Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris
🧡 Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon
pick4/5⭐ I love when Carriger's books focus on a particular household. The pure chaos of all the characters & one person (also chaos) trying to wrangle them is absolutely delightful. Dimity and Cris are so stupid (for each other) & I love them. The empowerment & validation Justice received from literally every character to be herself without fuss (aside from, of course, the paramount business of clothes shopping) made my heart swell. #bookspinbingo
“May we all find our safety and our sparkles, in whatever form they take.“
Ahhhhh such a beautiful sentiment made even more so in the context of the story.
“She read the letters she was purported to have written very carefully, wincing a bit at the grammar. No serial comma, really? What did they take her for? An artist might be a tad lax in her missives, but to drop a comma? How ghastly.“
I do love a good reference in support of the Oxford comma.
Only Gail Carriger can finish the physical description of a character with “he now resembled a surprised but cuddly mongoose“ and have a perfect image of a human instantly enter the reader's mind. 😆
"It was pleasing to trail behind a woman who walked like she had places to be and people to kill."
pickGail Carriger creates fantastic characters, and this book was filled with them. At some point I'm going to have to reread the Finishing School series and then this series so that I can better remember the characters.
#RippedBodiceBingo: Meddling matchmakers
#SummerFun: LGBTQ+ book/author
#SummerFunJR: Female heroine, Set in another country
Well I'm not English. So here's a fabulous book quote for all us who grew up with less than stellar dads on this Father's Day. One of the many things I love about Gail Carriger is she includes characters like Crispin who not only survive but thrive. That's something all us readers from dysfunctional families need.
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#great2020parasolversedoover
May Reading has been my Challenges, Sense and Sensibility Readalong which will finish in June, and catching up on my Book of the Month reads.
Favorites: Defy or Defend and The Jane Austen Society. 📚
#mymonthinbooks #may
#bookofthemonth #janeandtheyear2020
#top10challengedbooks #pemberlittens
#shadowhuntersreread #malec
#great2020parasolversedoover
#fhbookclubchallenge #mymonthinchallenges
pickMy Books and Brews Club have been inspired by Book of the Month to make our own drinks and books things.
I have a habit of barreling through books I've been looking forward to. Especially when it's series or world that I love. I loved this new book so much, I turned around and read it again and savored every word.
This is destined to be a happy read that I return to over and over. It's sparkly fun.
#great2020parasolversedoover 🥂 🍾
pickAfter yesterday's humidity & storms, beautiful spring morning today. Cuppa of Irish Breakfast tea will set me to rights after late night. Read until I was bleary-eyed. Couldn't put it down. It sparkled! New characters & old friends. Dimity was her charming self. Ending & Epilogue gave me all the feels.
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#ireadpastmybedtime #justonemorechapter
#great2020parasolversedoover
#booksandtea #lifeinthecountry
?"OKLAHOMA, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains." We don't have cows yet ? but I've grabbed my Go Bag and taken my Tornado Precautions. ?
#springtimeinoklahoma #ohhailyeah
#wevegotcows #twisterthemovie
#gobag #tornadoprecautions
#fraidyholeparty #itwasastormynight
#laphroaig #pistachios #dimity
Dimity is here! The reason for the #great2020parasolversedoover.
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