pickJust finished, this being our last day of a 6-day trek from KS thru MO+KY to a wedding in TN. Homeward bound took us more southern thru AL, MS, LA to last night with friends in AR. These flowers are at her house 💖 I started this book in earnest, thanking the road gods that I can read in a moving vehicle. LOVED this! Adored Rainy & Lark, eager/scared to follow escape and trials of sailing “Flower” to freedom unknown. #May2025 Book42 #dystopia
“… our job always and forever (is) to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it.” #Resist #PushbackagainsttheNonsense
I also like “Her kindness was like water over smooth stones.” #BeKind
Pic of Louisiana bayou.
“I liked imagining F‘s world, … its appreciation for pies, its competent mariners and tonking diesels.”
LOVE all the pie references and this is now in the running for my annual Pie in Literature award 🏆
(Ignore the other block! I got confused 😵💫)
No one cheerfully refuses pie! Yesterday was Blueberry Pie Day, but I made a mixed fruit crumb top instead.
A break from all my backgrounds of spring flowers. My first Lief Enger; this is for the Tournament of Favorites. I volunteered to be an alternate judge.
pickIf you enjoyed Peace Like a River, this novel by Enger will have a familiar (and yet very different) feel to the writing. A dystopian novel, an odyssey, and an unlikely found family relationship, this cli-fi is a warning and a threat. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-i-cheerfully-refuse-by-leif-enger...
pick4 ⭐ Kids who really like non-fiction are going to love this book. This book is about the history of the lakes where they came from the and the life that they have sustained since then.
Wow, all #tob25 for this month's favorites. It either says something about the quality of the longlist, or it's just a reflection of the fact that I read most of this month's books from the longlist so my favorites are statistically more likely to be from among those titles.
#WeeklyFavorites @Read4life
pickI wonder if this novel would have hit me quite like it did if I'd read it before January 20, 2025. Because right now it feels practically prophetic. But in addition to being prophetic, it's also a beautiful story of persevering through hardship and maintaining integrity (defined in this case as acting in alignment with one's core values) in a world geared towards profit and self-interest at all costs. #tob25 longlist
"But this was clear...he could not tell left from right. Which in itself was not the problem. The problem was that when he turned, and the world turned round him, he could not adjust. The evidence was not enough. He had no compass of his own, yet wouldn't follow the one before him, its trembling needle pointing out directions for anyone with eyes."
This quote hits hard, especially at this time in history.
"Lark and I once took life a year at a time. As the world shifted we went to a month at a time, later a week. At this point an hour would do. I'd take twenty minutes in the sun."
Does this novel stay devastating? I love it, but it's breaking my heart.
