Litsy

Doing much better now. 🤍

If I hadn‘t left
you when I did, I‘d still be lost —
alone in the snow.

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry

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JenlovesJT47 @dabbe @TheBookHippie @DebInHawaii @lil1inblue @Kristy_K @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @bellabella @AnnCrystal @Eggs @Reggie @jdiehr @vivastory @CBee @Mimi28 @Jari-chan @Itchyfeetreader @Susanita @kelly7990 2d

AnnCrystal I'm glad you had the strength to leave and that you're healing 👏🏼🐝🙏🏼❤️‍🩹🌨️💖🐝💝. 2d

dabbe #ahealinghaiku 🩶🐝🩶 2d

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jdiehr 💜 2d

Jari-chan Glad to hear you're healing 🫂 2d

julieclair You are an amazing, strong woman. 🤍💟🤍 2d

Itchyfeetreader This is so powerful. Well done 1d

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Before Morning | Joyce Sidman

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As I'm reading all this illustrator's work we have in our library, I'm just in awe of the art and the detail put into this book. With very few words, the picture really tells the story in this book. It's basically what happens outside your home while you sleep in the winter. Just beautiful.

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Texreader

Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel | Peter H�eg

Daughter of a Greenlander mother and a wealthy Dane, Smilla is a most unusual character. In Denmark, alone, she befriends a lonely boy Isaiah. A huge stuttering man, the Mechanic, becomes her lover. Isaiah, afraid of heights, dies falling from an apartment building leaving only his footprints in the snow: Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow tells her this was murder. This brick of a novel follows her attempt in painstaking detail with help from ⬇️

Catsandbooks

Texreader the Mechanic and a Danish company‘s accounting expert to prove it was murder. Her search takes her back to two mysterious trips to a remote island off #Greenland in the 1960s and 1990s, the death of Isaiah‘s father on one of those trips, and a new trek to the island. Smilla becomes a stewardess on the new ship crew and she takes every risk imaginable, with muñtiple attempts on her life, to discover what these people are seeking in Greenland. ⬇️ 3w

Texreader Smilla‘s remarkable sense of snow, and ice, helps resolve the mystery. The vague ending left readers upset, but I felt the conclusion was final. I struggled with all the tiny details, and the character herself, with few redeeming qualities. The narrator of the audiobook made her seem on the spectrum. I wasn‘t sure if that was the case, a character quirk, or a description of Greenlanders in general. She definitely was a no holds barred character! 3w

Texreader #foodandlit 3w

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Texreader

Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel | Peter H�eg

I‘ve also decided to start this audiobook between listening to Kristin Lavransdatter. #Greenland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

marleed Oh I read the Kristen Lavransdatter series for a college course - many moons ago. My roommate was in the class and years later named her daughter Kristen after the book. 1mo

Texreader @marleed I read it about 30 years ago! Gulp! It was memorable. Looking forward to reading it again. 1mo

Catsandbooks ❤️🇬🇱 1mo

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Suet624

Snow Day | Mercer Mayer

Well it‘s snowing where I live in northern Vermont today so I‘ll be reading about the Challenger, dipping into the New Yorker, watching the Red Sox play baseball and the Celtics play in the playoffs. Except for the snow, it sounds like a great day!

ChaoticMissAdventures I am reading this currently too. It is incredible the details he goes into on how the parts work (or don't) and the politics of it all. So many people raising alarms who were just ignored. 2mo

Suet624 @ChaoticMissAdventures you‘re the reason I picked this book up at the library!! And yes, the politics is infuriating. 2mo

quietlycuriouskate You've got snow... I'm sitting here in a t-shirt getting in some anticipatory apprehension for the heatwave that's in the forecast this coming week. 2mo

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squirrelbrain Snow! 😲 2mo

Suet624 @quietlycuriouskate oh no! My Lyme Disease goes wild when there‘s a heatwave. I hope you find some cool comfort during the week. 2mo

dabbe Lovely picture! ❄️🩵❄️ 2mo

TheLudicReader Blech. Snow. 2mo

Suet624 @TheLudicReader exactly my feeling. 2mo

Amiable Such a good book! 2mo

Suet624 @Amiable I‘m so impressed by people who can write a book like this. The author includes so much info and yet I never feel that I can skim because it‘s all so interesting 2mo

Amiable @Suet624 Have you read his book about Chernobyl? It is amazing.

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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Suet624 @Amiable I think I took it out of the library but never read it. Then I watched a documentary about the event. Should I check it out? 2mo

Amiable @Suet624 The documentary was probably the one that was based on the book, so if you liked it then you may also enjoy the book. I found it absolutely fascinating. 2mo

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