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I colored this picture on one of my coloring apps and included some of the lyrics from Hakuna Matata because it‘s my favorite part of the song. I like The Lion King so I wanted to write a haiku about it.

Simba becomes friends with Timon and Pumbaa
They all sing Hakuna Matata
The warthog can clear the Savannah after every meal
The moment the animals smell him coming, they all
run away
Can you blame them though? He stinks

#haiku #haikuhive

This was a rather lovely little graphic novel set in a magical Benin-inspired fantasy world.

With Okupe being Nigerian, that's a wrap on the Formidable Reading Challenge! #urc2025 #URC @Faranae #frc #frc2025

I've put all the other prompts into a grid for the Ultimate Reading Challenge - and have only three to go there.

Anyone can play! Jump in or out!!! Just tag someone who‘s book has a boat of any kind on the cover- or the word boat…

Tag is current read, just started. Mostly posting to show you my finished beanie! #litsycrafters

Tag is current read, just started. Mostly posting to show you my finished beanie! #litsycrafters

A dark and beautiful fable, this graphic novel follows the orphaned daughter of witches whose debt to a magical well requires she fulfill three of the wishes cast into its depths. Recommended for fans of K O‘Neill!

I read these two pretty close together so I thought this was hilarious. 💀 🌅 The tagged book was my “book that is a graphic novel / comic / memoir” for #TBRTarot It‘s a very cute book about a skeleton that desperately wants to join the town band. Unfortunately, she terrifies the town every time she tries to show off her music chops until she doesn‘t. And the puns are top tier.👌

And for our Victoria Day reading we have ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES, Teresa Wong‘s deeply affecting comic about her life with her parents, and their lives before she knew them. It‘s yet another Canada Reads Longlist title that‘d be a great shortlist contender in a year or two. I really feel like the 2025 panelists chose the weakest books to defend when they had such bounty.

This week‘s library haul, straight from the bench under the overhang while I wait for the unscheduled rain to pass so I can cycle home. I got one more from the Canada Reads Longlist, an Alexis Hall romance, Tatsuya Endo‘s early short comics, and the latest volume of YONA OF THE DAWN, which was a lucky shelf find. Just last night, I thought I should check to see if they‘d ordered it yet and put in my request. Now I don‘t have to.

I am wanting to do a re-read of some of the Marvel Star Wars comics soon. I am familiar with Sana, but I only remember bits and pieces of her character, but this is a solid comic even without any history. A dysfunctional family heist/rescue mission with lots of twists and improvisation. Good art and entertaining characters.