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Officially kicking off the #turnthepage readathon today!

My goal is to just make headway in any or all of the three novels I have on the go at the moment. Unfortunately I have work tomorrow and a busy weekend with some drive time. But I do have the Fleming and the James titles available on audio via Hoopla, so maybe I can listen a bit, if I‘m not too stressed by traffic. 🤞

Current read. Nice cover.

I don‘t often reread nonfiction but this was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me several years ago. Talked my book club into reading it & the excuse to reread it is a definite bonus. Two chapters in & it is every bit as good this read through as it was the first time. As much a biography, if you will, of A Portrait of a Lady as it is Henry James, this book offers a fascinating analysis of the author, the book, & the world in which it was created.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/14/brooklyn-and-beyond-colm-toibins-b...

Happy Birthday Colm!! Look who you share a birthday with @dabbe

The only change I would make is swap out The Testament of Mary for House of Names. I haven‘t read Long Island yet. Great list!!

I forgot to post my #WeeklyFavorites for April.
~The Lioness of Boston (Isabella Gardiner)
~Witness
~Jane Kenyon‘s Collected Poems
~Watching the Perseids
~Man in the Brown Suit
4 books are #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth

#weeklyforecast
#sundaybuddyread #LaneWinslowMystery #Naturalitsy #ReadYourKindle

#25Alive!

I can‘t choose just one #AuthorYouLove so I am going for 5 authors that over the past year or so I have “discovered” & now love. I‘m on a quest to read all of their work or if I have, I‘ll continue to read any new work they put out. 📚📚📚

-T.J. Klune
-T. Kingfisher
-Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock Series)
-Richard Osman
-Abby Jimenez

#daysdevotedto #kindness

A dysfunctional family story which is apparently a retelling of James‘ The Ambassadors, which I haven‘t read. I mostly enjoyed reading about the interplay between these characters who, although they are family, are essentially strangers, but end up wreaking all kinds of havoc in each other‘s lives.

Once again, I've been away & I'm back. ☺

It's been a busy season - in May, my older daughter graduated from Boston University & my younger daughter finished her freshman year at Dean College. I'm teaching a summer course right now which is keeping me quite busy, but in two weeks I will have much more time on my hands! I've missed you, Littens! Here's to being more consistent on the beat social media platform ever! ♥