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Current essay collection for daily reading “dips”

#CopperBopper #whpg #Griff #DogsofLitsy #ReadICT

QUESTION??? Do you think JOY is a virtue? To satisfy a challenge category…

Look at this face! Nothing whatsoever to do with this book review but I don‘t have the energy to find the book and create the scene. #CopperBopper #Griff #whpg #ToF2024

I am giving this 5 star because it made me feel and made me think. It made me mad and it made my heart ache. It impressed me mightily as a debut! And I love that Elizabeth McCracken is one of the author‘s friends. (My dog is a weirdo, so am I.) & I embrace theme 👇

Boooorrrrrrriiiiinnggggggg - not for me. I thought it would have more geese. #audiobook #tob2023 #itcouldbethatiamjusttired #feelingexhausted #longday

#DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #whpg #griff 😴🥱

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Next up for my Poem Every Day Challenge. Posing Esther with the collection and a piece of art from when I was in High School. #PoemADay #PoetryMatters #EstherFest #DogsofLitsy #WHPG #Griff 🚲❤️

In my quest to read everything by Sue Monk Kidd, because I really enjoyed her thoughts about how she came to write The Book of Longings. I set this as #FirstBook2022. Mostly because I had just lifted it off the shelf to fit #WiaN for Mythical Being category. And #ReadICT! But this had problems. I enjoyed reading with a more critical eye rather than a hope-to-love it expectation. #DogsofLitsy #EstherAssisting #Griff #WHPG

This book didn‘t work for me. I felt the characters were flat; I was not at all hooked into the story - I found it tedious. I would let days go by or would pick it up, read a sentence and ...put it back down. Do I not like plot plot plot? Sigh. Marking this so-so, but truthfully, I wanted to bail. What I ended up doing was reading the last 20-30 pages, commented to myself that the book is TOOOO long, got annoyed by how many times the phrase 👇🏼

If the TOB had been around in 1980 (81?), this would have been selected. What a weird odd story!! Not what I expected; cannot wait to watch the movie 🎥
I can‘t give it 5 slices of pie because it just confounded me at the last page but now, as I think about it, (and I realize she hd some very worthy pie mentions, ahem), I just may bump it up to a FIVE. Definitely a PICK 👏 But what WAS this? Mental health in families? Living on your own terms?!

I love these books and am enjoying the heck out of ‘em. This one seemed even more fun and snarky - I laughed out loud and shared pieces with my husband (who only raised his eyebrows at me; but didn‘t discourage me, so…) Dang humans. 🤖 #MurderBot #SciFi #DogsofLitsy 🐶 #EstherAssisting It was Esther‘s 11th birthday yesterday 🥳 #Griff #WHPG #Series #iRARELYreadseriesbooks

LOVED THIS. I cried. I needed a good cry. (Who doesn‘t?) #ClassicsClub #inthehouseforyears #finallyread #thanks to a bloggerfriend who mailed it to me in 2012 #DogsofLitsy #EstherAssisting #Griff #WHPG #Estheris11onthe17th #WiaN #ONECategory #WiaN2021 #WhatsinaName #MothersandDaughters #FathersandDaughters #AssistedSuicide #Cancer #Book2Movie

This had a slow build to a five slicer rating but I was enthralled and extremely pleased with the experience of reading this by the end, including through the acknowledgements. I loved thinking about what inspired Walter to research this, curious about his thoughts and creative process. My esteem for this author continues on a logarithmic scale! (LOL debating with husband how to spell that 🤣) History, strong female characters, empathy, craft. 👏