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Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is having a fabulous week! Here are today's #Two4Tuesday questions. Have a wonderful day!

❤️ Chocolate
❤️ Beaches (tagged)

Tagging a few Littens to get us started but all are welcome to play. @Eggs @dabbe @JessClark78 @Read4life @wanderinglynn @MallenNC @Klou @Cupcake12 @Read4life @Susanita @The_Penniless_Author @Bookwormjillk

This was such a good book!! And I still love the movie. Y‘all need to read this!

#snowflake #snowflakes #papersnowflakes

#HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Friendship

#VolumesandVocals @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#GoodHeartedWoman - Waylon Jennings

This song reminded me of the characters in this story. Always there for each other in times of crisis.

#NovemberNarrative @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Friendship

#LovePrevails @Eggs
Prompt: Platonic Love

The friendship and love between Cee Cee and Bertie in extraordinary.

#BoundTogetherJune @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BestFriends

#JamminJune @Eggs

This book came out in the 80s and is what the movie with the same name is based on.

Here are my picks for the #ReadYourSign

Book published by birth year 1985 - Beaches by Iris R. Dart

Fire - Girl of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Sunflower - Sunflower by Rebecca West

Gold - Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

Leo Author - Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

Ruling Number 5 - Legendary by Stephanie Garber

So far I‘ve mostly opted for family time over reading time, but I‘m finally getting in a little beach side reading today. ☺️

#songsofsummer @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
#SomeBeach

This is a rare one. I actually liked the movie as much as the book.

#literaryluck @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88
#BestBookFriendship

Does anyone remember the movie?

I‘ve recently had an urge to reread Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart. It just arrived via the Calgary Public Library. I have so many friends who are CeeCee to my Hillary/Bertie and I love them all. #WindBeneathMyWings #catsoflitsy

#SeptemberDanes #FlyOnTheWingsOfLove Makes me think of the theme song from Beaches...Wind Beneath My Wings, which brings me straight back to the 80‘s 💕💕💕and check out adorable Mayim Bialik who looks like a SUPER young Bette Midler 🙌🏻💟and I‘m still up & cooking at 2am....

1. Kite flying at the beach
2. Laundry 😒😒
3. Evening, love a good tub read
4. Meh not really everyone keeps to themselves
5. Move on to something else

#happyhumpday #humpdaypost

#AugustIsATrip #Beaches @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkoiss88

I adored this movie as a preteen and never knew it was a book. Loved reading about the friendship between Cee Cee and Bertie that starts on the Atlantic City boardwalk and lasts through adulthood and follows them through the ups and downs of love and loss. I will admit since singing is so much a part of the story that the movie adds that element and this is the rare case where the movie is at least equal to the book. #beachread #booked2018

It‘s been an extremely stressful week, so I‘m happy for my current view...Happy 4th Littens!

I‘m about to start one of these 3 books for #friendship for #booked2018. Not sure which to pick. All are about friendships and friendships over time. Reminds me of #frommetoyou I always try to send friends cards or even texts “with love from me to you,” whenever I see something that makes me think of them. Anyone read any of these?? #heyjune

Newcastle beach is my front yard but I also love Mookerwa where I spent my childhood summers waterskiing, I love to swim but conditions are rarely good enough for that ie. warm water and gentle waves so I am going to say sunbathe with a book and sunnies, picnic hopefully with champagne (Much more elegant), potato salad. I hate store bought macaroni as it makes me sick. RV I am a glamping person unfortunately my partner and step kids are campers!

Beach
Reading in the sun
Both picnic and BBQ
Neither salads
Neither tent nor RV

@Arcana #ThisorThat

I think I need this beach towel in my life!! #bookandabeachtowel #readingreaolutions @Jess7

1. By car, I like to see the scenery up close and personal. 😊
2. I‘m going to borrow @MicrobeMom ‘s line here...”anywhere with a beach!”
3. The family is heading to Florida for a week the day after my son graduates high school later this month. Plan to take a boatload of books and chill to the music of the waves (and try to avoid sunburn! 😳).

#TrivialThursday

1. The last book I remember reading on a beach was The Lying Game, I think.
2. Dolphins, I think?
3. Presque Isle, Erie, PA #manicmonday

1. I'm in Myrtle Beach! Our 12 hour trip turned into 15 because the 2 year old had severe motion sickness 😣
2. Donuts
3. 2 books--Aru Shah and the End of Time and Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
4. I got promoted! That's making me happy over and over!

#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

my spot for today...the sound of waves crashing is sooo relaxing 🌊 🌊 🌊 he picture doesn‘t do it justice 😏😒😐#booknerdforlife #inmyownworld #shuttingoutreality #bookishgal #myreadinglife #readersgonnaread #todaysreadingspot

#thisremindsmeof #⏰

Time to relax and enjoy the long holiday weekend!

Sunset on the beach! So, so happy to be on vacation. There is a perfect reading chair in our room! And there is a library in the hotel! I will take a photo tomorrow. So excited.

Cee Cee & Bertie (who was Hilary in the movie) have made generations of us cry. I‘m sure they were helped by the song “Wind Beneath My Wings.”

#YoureMyBestFriend
#Rocktober

If I'm not reading, you'll usually find me on the nearest beach...just strolling by the water, watching the waves and carousing with the sea life: sandpipers, sand crabs, seals, starfish. Sand dollars are my favorites. I often catch them walking around and sometimes, they'll even smile my way.
#nonreadingpursuits
#uncannyoctober
@RealLifeReading

Cee Cee and Bertie are still the most memorable #girlfriends in my book. And in this popular beach read. 😊🙌🏻
#anditsaugust
@RealLifeReading

I've not read the book but remember the movie, starring Bette Midler, which was wonderful.
#girlfriends #anditsaugust @RealLifeReading

The movie Beaches has long been one I love. I absolutely cried at the end, and Cee Cee Bloom was a role made for Bette Midler.

While the book has some differences, I still really enjoyed it. As a loner who has lost a few best friends (they aren't dead, I just realized how that sounded) along the way, I wonder if I'd have the patience and strength to be there at the end.

I can't believe I'm the first to post about this book. It's one of my favorite best friend books. I hear there will be a movie remake with Idina Menzel!!