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I have so much more I want to read this month, and I thought I had a chance with the three day weekend, but I am stuck on Dead Dead Girls. I am forcing my way through it for LMPBC, but disliking it so much means I‘m not reading anything at all in an attempt to avoid it. Instead, I‘ve been watching new TV shows. I did finish some good audiobooks this week, though, so yay for small wins.

May has been an EXCELLENT reading month!!! I enjoyed all my reads this week, especially THREE by Valerie Perrin but Bodyguard & How High are both highly recommended. Seven Days was entertaining enough.
While Remote Sympathy is a difficult read, I‘m completely engrossed. Thanks so much for sending it my way @TrishB 😘
I‘m hibernating Devil & Dark Water @Kdgordon88 and I‘ll pick up something else for #NauticalNovel ⚓️❣️

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Really liked Ghost, and Eudora too, on audio. The Prince Philip book was good but a bit overlong for me.

The bottom row shows my ongoing books. How High is, of course, for #camplitsy and I‘m loving it so far. Also loving The Guncle. We Own This City is taking a while to get through….it‘s good but sometimes I just don‘t feel like picking it up. However it‘s got pages of index notes so I‘m probably nearer the end than I think! 😁

I watched movies at my friend‘s house and only read a little bit every day once I finished Sea of Tranquility. Maybe on the way home from my friend‘s house I‘ll listen to more of Prodigal Summer!

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I finished Hush and enjoyed it.
I‘m just over half way through Love Songs and love it so far. No reading last night, went to see My Chemical Romance, which was awesome but acting like you‘re 15 at a gig has consequences! Aching.
Champions League final tonight so not much reading either!

Between a lot of reading last Sunday, a couple of late nights, and spending almost all of today reading, I had a really good week. Murderbot is as awesome as everyone said. I‘m still not sure if I can get through my entire May TBR before the end of the month, but with a 3-day weekend coming, I just might come close. #bookreport

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
📖 Faithful Friends
🎧 Jane of Lantern Hill #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
🎧 Deep River

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 Eats, Shoots and Leaves
🎧 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 More audiobooks

Finished:
-Murder Between the Lines😀
-Of Women and Salt🤷🏻‍♀️

Sea of Tranquillity became available, and I started reading it right away so I can return it early and counterbalance my Libby karma for keeping Prodigal Summer for so long.😆

Making progress on Seeker and Ripley. I also had a nice road trip to the indie store to pick up a book I‘d ordered for a Facebook group read, and I bought a snowball from the stand in the lot.

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Not much reading done at all this week, been so busy with all the other stuff!! Finished Heretic‘s Treasure and currently reading Wrong Place, a thriller set in and around Liverpool.

I read some really wonderful books this week, lots of NF which I seem to enjoy more than fiction 🤷🏼‍♀️I LOVED Walking The Nile, I enjoyed getting to “know” Tiger Woods and the crazy antics that went on behind the scenes at WeWork. Dressmaker of Khartoum Khana was really inspiring and the Maud Newton had potential but just didn‘t work for me on the whole. An Island & American Spy were slightly disappointing.

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Well, this week‘s graphic includes no completed books and the same current reads as last week. School is busy, and I‘m in the middle of several long reads.

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 Eats, Shoots and Leaves
🎧 Deep River
🎧 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

Here is #BookReport for May 8-14 no amazing reads this week, and two DNF‘s

Finished:
🎧Part of Your World 4.5⭐️
🎧A Farewell to Arms 4⭐️
🎧Stuck With You 4⭐️
📔Solitaire 3.5⭐️
🎧Below Zero 4⭐️
📔Gallant 3⭐️

DNF - Sea Witch & Ruthless Stranger

Currently Reading:
🎧Written in the Stars
📖Juniper Hill

Not a terrible week, even though most of my reading has been done today. I‘m happy to have finished Mister N finally, and before its publication date. Murderbot is just as delightful as everyone says and I can‘t wait for more Twig. The 87th Precinct novels are about all I can tolerate on audio right now, so I‘m continuing my binge of that series. Slowly plugging away at Tongue‘s Blood and just started Master of Djinn. #bookreport

Finished Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ❤️

Didn‘t finish Pulse before book club, but after the meeting I decided to bail. Consensus of the group was that the female MC was poorly written and the story elements not very cohesive.

Meanwhile, I had some unexpected time to stop by the library and picked Travelling Cat Chronicles 😻 which I read over two days.

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#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 Writers & Lovers #LitsyBookClub
🎧 & 📖 Henry VIII #ShakespeareReadalong

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 Eats, Shoots and Leaves
🎧 Deep River
🎧 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads

My #BookReport for May 1-7
Finished:
📔Heartstopper Vol 4 - 5⭐️
📔When Heroes Fall - 4⭐️
🎧Words of Radiance - 5⭐️ new all time favorite
🎧Sunreach - 4⭐️
this winter - 4⭐️

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In Progress:
📖Gallant - 20%
📖Solitaire - 25%
🎧Part of Your World - just started
Up Next:
📚Fevered Star
🎧Sea Witch
📚The Poison Song

I had two activities from which to choose today, depending on which one appealed to me more, but they‘ve both been canceled due to the weather!

So instead I will stay inside working on my latest bookcase redo (long story) and watching hockey. Apropos of the Derby, I‘ll probably also go to the library and pick up Pulse from the hold list. I‘m also still waiting for Sea of Tranquility.

I did finish Girl… and made progress on the rest.

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I have too many books going now for comfort, so hopefully I can finish a couple this weekend. I did finish a great book (Denver Noir) this week, and two other fun, short reads. I‘m struggling again with audiobooks-bailed on one and just didn‘t feel like listening to the other (no reflection on the story). I think Mister N is going to be my focus today. Or maybe I‘ll try to cross off another quick read. 🤪 #bookreport

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At the Table was a good dysfunctional family read.
Sea of Tranquility was a pick, but only just and I didn‘t love it. Maybe the hype, maybe I peaked at Station Eleven 🤷‍♀️
Loved Cecily, good historical story telling.
Just started Eudora today.

Combining this week!
First my #BookReport for Apr24-20
📔Someday, Someday 5⭐️
📔Gossamer in the Darkness 4⭐️
📔Dearest Rogue 3.5⭐️
📚Heartstopper Vol 1-4 all 5⭐️

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In Progress:
🎧Words of Radiance 65% - so so so good
📖When Heroes Fall 30%
📖Gallant 5%
Up Next:
🎧Part of Your World
📖Solitaire

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This week was a fun reading week. All four of these were audio books, and I enjoyed them all (to varying degrees).

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I‘m hoping to finish Sea of Tranquility this week but take it slow with Call of the Wild on #serialreader. Then, depending on my mood I might start Alaska. (I‘m heading to Alaska this summer, so I hope to get to several Alaska-y books this month.) I should also have a library hold or two come in.

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🎧 Fear of Flying
🎧 Kilmeny of the Orchard #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 & 🎧 Henry VIII #ShakespeareReadalong

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Start The Tenant of Wildfell Hall #PemberLittens

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All of the books I completed this week are picks. I finished Perish and The Absolutist today. #aam Since I can‘t decide what I want to start May with I may have to spin the wheel for my weekly forecast.

It was a busy week of various meetings and appointments…and some reading.

Even with an extra week I couldn‘t finish the Jewell before the book club meeting. I tried! Turns out the hoarder MC just put me off too much.

I‘m setting aside Fuzz and A Traveler for…later. 😎

I finished The Theory of Death. It was…fine. Still plugging away at Prodigal Summer and waiting for Pulse to become available.

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It‘s been a week of lows and HIGHS. I may try to finish Denver Noir today, but The Diamond Eye has given me a book hangover. I‘ll save creating my end of month stat post for later, just in case, and go watch Dateline or something equally ridiculous. 🤪 Seriously, though, it‘s going to be hard to top The Diamond Eye for favorite book of the year. #bookreport

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🎧 The Borrower #LitsyBookClub
🎧 The Blue Castle
📖 Love in the Time of Cholera

#CurrentlyReading
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
🎧 Fear of Flying

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Still need to catch up on #ShakespeareReadalong
📚 Probably pick up another shorter book for at school reading

This was a week of starting things not finishing, especially trying to find something interesting, but not too interesting (textbook, please) to conquer the insomnia. Maybe I‘ll actually finish a few books next week. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #bookreport

I read a bit this week…just didn‘t finish anything. 😬

Tomorrow is the #LitsyCrafters journaling activity, after which I think I can finally return that book to the library. 😎

I‘m about halfway through the Kellerman, which I got from cloudLibrary when I was out in “the wild” without anything to read. If I‘m going to catch up with her for #seriesread2022 I do actually have to pick up the next in line at some point. 💁🏻

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These are in order of enjoyment. Loved Dear Reader, and surprisingly enjoyed the Boyne after a slow start. Memorial Drive was though but a fascinating read, and Herland was OK.

The Novik is my only ongoing book at the moment,on audio.

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The Last Thing was an ok thriller, already mostly forgotten.
Bailed on Remote Sympathy
Doomsday Prophecy- good all action thriller.
Should finish Unsettled Ground today.

#BookReport Loved Sea of Tranquility! Really liked Boyne‘s House of Special Purpose although the audio production wasn‘t the best. Still loving the Gaslight mystery series. Caught up on both buddy reads. Choosing entertaining light reads for now.

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I sort of felt like a reading machine this week, lol. Everything completed was pick.

I just couldn‘t get into Valley of Terror. I tried it in print and audio. Maybe it was because I thought it was going to be more horror or maybe it‘s the translation. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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🎧 North & South #PemberLittens
📖 The Rejected King
🎧 L‘Assommoir
📖 Ukraine in Histories and Stories

#CurrentlyReading
📖 Love in the Time of Cholera
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
🎧 The Borrower #LitsyBookClub

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads
📚 Catch up on #ShakespeareReadalong

I finished two books that I liked but did not love. My plans for a road trip to listen to the audiobook were set aside when I instead had to buy new tires. I‘m still hacking away at my journal. A little bit of progress was made on the other two. Not a great week for reading after all, but overall not a bad week.

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I‘d hoped to finish something else today, but I‘m probably going to spend the rest of the day watching stupid movies and napping. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I only managed to finish one terrible book and couldn‘t stick to an audiobook until I grabbed the next 87th Precinct novel on Friday. I still might finish listening to that today. Loving the Quinn, just started The Maid, and have no memory of the 40 pages of Tongue‘s Blood that I‘ve read. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Loved all my finished books this week, with the exception of Ariadne, which was just OK. 😬

Remote Sympathy is the only ongoing book at the moment (only reading one book?! - better remedy that ASAP!) and I‘m also loving that. I‘m sure it will make my shortlist for the #womensprize, unless anything drastically changes, as I‘ve nearly finished it.

Here is my #BookReport for April 10-16
Great reading week! 6 books done
🎧Under One Roof 4⭐️
🎧The Book of Cold Cases 4⭐️
📔The Bitter Twins 5⭐️
📔The Dragon‘s Bride 4⭐️
📔There is No Devil 4⭐️
🎧Wicked Abyss 4.5⭐️

In Progress
🎧A Good Girl‘s Guide to Murder - almost done
📖Indigo Ridge - 50%
📖Morrigan‘s Cross - 25%

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It‘s been a while since I picked up a Walt Longmire book, but I enjoyed book 7 so much that I read the short story between and book 8 this week.
Kira-Kira is for #Booked2022 #aboutsisters and I enjoyed it.
Calvin, I Eat Poop, and The Library Fish are children‘s books and all are picks. Calvin made me tear up a little, but I Eat Poop was my favorite.

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📖 Sleeping Beauty & Other Tales #ChildrensClassicRead2022

#CurrentlyReading
📖 Love in the Time of Cholera
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 L‘Assommoir
🎧 North & South #PemberLittens

#WeeklyForecast
📚 Continue current reads! Finish at least one of the #1001books in progress.

I finished The Undertakers! Looking forward to whatever comes next for Hetty and Benji.

I‘m pretty much done with the journaling book, but I‘m hanging onto it for a while because it‘s an inter library loan and was a little bit of a PITA to get.

I‘ve started Her Father‘s Secret and have read about 20% of the other two. Also took a drive the other day and listened to a couple chapters of Prodigal Summer.

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I finished 3 books this week and I didn‘t love any of them as much as I wanted to. I had hoped to make more headway in The Diamond Eye today, maybe even finish it, but my allergies are so bad today that I had to take Benedryl so I will be watching WGI World Championships and/or sleeping off the Benedryl for the rest of the day. 🤧 #bookreport

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I finished 4 really good books this week. My favourite was probably The Bread the Devil Knead, even though it was a tough read.

The Yanagihara is really enjoyable so far (about a third), and only just started Ariadne last night. Hardly any time for #audiowalking this week so not much further on through Rebel, but I‘m learning some shocking things about the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.

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Loved The Trees.
One Day in April was heartbreaking.
Do Not Feed the Bear was on a par with Flamingo- if you like one you‘ll like the other. I really liked it ❤️
Tally Stick was a good mystery read.
And I‘m currently back with Myron in The Final Detail.

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Here are the books I completed this week. All are picks. As usual, I really should review some of these. 😬

As some of you know, I am insanely busy getting ready to move back to Canada from Tokyo at the end of May so these book reports will be few and far between until then. Delighted to have had a few moments to prepare this one! 😍

I finished #bookspin selections for March and April. I read a few more chapters of The Undertakers.

Meanwhile, instead of a road trip to listen to Prodigal Summer, I met some friends for Indian food. On the way home I stopped at Michael‘s and bought a couple pencils for my journal.

The book club meetings were fine in spite of the fact that I didn‘t read the books. In fact, we had a really good discussion about Halfway Home.

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I probably won‘t finish The Heiress Effect tonight because I need cheery TV to cleanse my brain from the tough topics in The Smell of Autumn. Even without it, though, I had a good week and finally ticked a few challenge boxes. ☺️

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📖 The War that Saved My Life
🎧 Prairie Lotus

#CurrentlyReading
📖 Love in the Time of Cholera
📖 & 🎧 Ulysses #SandCoUlysses
📖 & 🎧 #BibleBuddyRead
📖 Ukraine in Histories and Stories
📖 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien #FellowshipOfTolkien
🎧 L‘Assommoir
🎧 North & South #PemberLittens

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📚 This week‘s goal is to catch up, keep up, and complete something.

I read more than I realized this week, although 2 audiobooks were each under 6 hours.
I really loved the Matti Friedman book, but I‘m not sure it‘s for everyone and I thought Make God Laugh was phenomenal. Matzah Ball was #braincandy, Fellowship was WORK (🙄) and Proud & Secret were ok. How are we in April??? Also, is Litsy being weird for any of you?? It takes AGES for comments to load!!!

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Loved The Exhibitionist but Will is just an all-round disappointment, isn‘t he?!

Couldn‘t get into Creatures of Passage at all, so bailed.

All my ongoing books are great, but couldn‘t me more different! The Bread the Devil Knead is on the #womensprize long list, I saw a review of Rebel in the paper and the stupa is at Harewood House not far from me at all.