#motivationalmonday Thanks @TheSpineView for the tag!
1) crafting this weekend with girlfriends ❤️🩷💙
2) my little love
3) I love cats and bees (an animal?) but I think I‘d either want to be a songbird or a clumsy panda (because I have “clumsy” down already)
4) tagged
The opening quote of the tagged book
The book is a fictional take on Stevenson and Fannie and their crazy travels. I‘m looking forward to it!
#Samoa #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
pickI read this one for #ReadingOceania2024 for #Samoa. This is a coming of age love story and it's both lyrical and challenging to read and understand. Still, you will get so much culture and understanding of the people through their language. #bookspin @librarybelle @BarbaraBB @thearomaofbooks
pickThis book follows the life of Tauilopepe in his Samoan village as he strives to build a great plantation. We see the lives of his son and grandson as well. It‘s terrific and gives an interesting look at Samoan village life. The end is searing.
(That‘s a banyan tree in the background of my pic. 😬)
#ReadingOceania2024 #Samoa
Albert Wendt is a Samoan author and considered to be a giant of Oceania literature. Really interesting info about him here:
https://www.anzliterature.com/member/albert-wendt/
#ReadingOceania2024
Happy Friday!!
This is next up in the #Sharreadathon giveaway 🥳📚🎊
What are you reading today?!
#LitsyLove
pickThis is not a fun book like all of the author‘s books from Oceania—you will learn he‘s sadly and desperately recovering from alcoholism, which isn‘t much of a surprise if you read his prior books. So trigger warning. He takes a solo trip to follow Robert Louis Stevenson‘s travels to his final resting place in #Samoa, with stops in #Kiribati and islands in #Micronesia. Having listened to his other books, this is a sharp departure from his ⬇️
The author is touring islands in Micronesia in this book. At the museum yesterday I took photos of some of the artwork from Micronesia including this “Carved Male Figure,” from early 20th century
#readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB
I visited the Oceania gallery at the San Antonio Museum of Art, so be prepared for a few interruptions for pictures of artifacts from the regions I‘m reading about. #readingOceania @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle
