I love China Mieville, but he is waaayyyy too fond of the word “puissance.”
Don't know the meaning? Neither does anyone else.

#thesaurus #ilostcount

Judith Ivey narrating this tale is an absolute delight. I couldn‘t say whether her Minnesota accents are accurate but I sure am enjoying the heck out of them!

#audiobooks

Reading on the patio, late summer edition.

“Yes, technically it is still summer,” she said, a bit over-emphatically.

Thanks for the tag @emilyhaldi 😊

#7covers7days #covercrush

Reading about ravenous, terrifying mosquito-women right before bed is a perfectly sensible thing to do, right? 😬 #nightmares

Only on page 5 and I‘ve already had to look up three words in the dictionary. I love China Miéville!! ?

tfw when you just want to slap the stupid out of a character!! 😠

It‘s delightfully cool and breezy today, after the heat wave of last week. A lovely morning with a good book and a glass of homemade cold brew!
#summerreading

We are taking a humidity break at the Sister Bay, Wisconsin library. 🥵 📚

Gotta love libraries!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
#doorcounty

FINALLY I get to take a #bookandpool picture too!! Perfect pool day up here in #doorcounty , and I‘m enjoying this book.

#summer

View from our motel window in #doorcounty Wisconsin. It doesn‘t suck.

#summer #vacation #wisconsin

#thehat #lilithjuly

I‘ve never met anyone else who knows of this Seuss, but it was on my shelf as a kid and I reread it often.

@Cinfhen @KarenUK

“Which shall I choose? A, B, C...? Red, green, purple...? I think I‘ll read—oh, look, A FLY!!”

-Maddie the Cat
#catsoflitsy

“Bring the books to the kids, not the kids to the books.”

Putting books in barbershops and laundromats in struggling neighborhoods so antsy kids can practice their reading or enjoy the pictures...best idea I‘ve heard in a long time!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/books/kids-books-barbershops-laundromats.html...

Maureen Corrigan raves about Denise Mina‘s new standalone thriller in the Washington Post #thriller #newbooks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/in-conviction-a-womans-innoce...

I chose this when aimlessly searching Libby for an audiobook. I‘ve never read a James Bond book and I learned through a little digging that there is a set of audio editions read by British celebrities. This is not in and of itself a thing to be sought out. But so far, Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey fame has just the right sort of smooth purr I would associate with James Bond. #audiobooks #jamesbond

I was very excited when I was reminded of this book by @alanacristin It‘s a follow-up to the His Fair Assassin YA fantasy trilogy, which is awesome! Girls being trained to become assassin nuns in the service of Death in 15th century Brittany/France! 🙋🏻‍♀️

And I was glad to learn that the tagged book is the first in a duology. Not every story needs to be a trilogy; too often there ends up being too much book and not enough story.

A perfect morning in the garden, reading Jasper Fforde‘s Shades of Grey (no, not THAT Shades of Grey!!).

It‘s an enjoyable, funny satire despite the prodigious amount of time Fforde spends showing us the world he‘s created. I‘m listening to the #audiobook, which is excellent, as well as reading it on my #kobo.

The Washington Post says that it “captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes.”

Also, it‘s #lgbtqai #lgbt #queer #pride 🏳️‍🌈

It may appear as though Maddie is using my book as a pillow, but she is actually ensuring that all future borrowers know that This Is Maddiez Buk.
She is a compulsive marker. 🤷🏻‍♀️😻

#catsoflitsy

Mini #library #bookhaul just now. I skimmed a couple of pages in the Arikawa book and it sounds charming! 😻

I‘m visiting my dad and spent a good part of the day hiking around the Presidio in San Francisco, some of it inadvertently 😆. The third Maisie Dobbs book is my vacation read on this trip.
#sanfrancisco

🎶Another one bites the dust, hey hey, another one bites the dust 🎶

This Bosch book is getting DNFed at 25% read. I‘ve enjoyed other Bosch titles, but this one so far hasn‘t featured much of him at all. I‘m flying to California on Sunday and I want something for the trip that I‘m actually looking forward to picking up again when I have to put it down. #bosch

I am using my new Kobo Clara HD for the first time and so far I like it much more than my 2nd gen Paperwhite. It‘s easier to hold because it‘s lighter, and the orangey Comfortlight is a welcome improvement for night reading. I even accidentally borrowed a library ebook with it last night, as it has integrated OverDrive . #kobo

The Dud Avocado has been quite a ride! Looking up from the book and realizing I wasn‘t actually in Paris in 1955 was disorienting. Sally Jay might not be the most sympathetic or likable of characters, but her immaturity and self-absorption are pretty authentic for a 22 year old. And it‘s FUNNY!!
#nyrb

I pulled the trigger and converted from being a Kindler to a Koboite (the Clara HD). Well, not completely, if I‘m honest. I still have a lot of books on my Kindle and I also have a Fire. But it will mostly be Kobo going forward. It‘s considerably lighter than the Kindle (yes, I weighed them on my food scale 😆), and I love the warmer Comfortlight. #kobo

I just can‘t anymore. I am 25% into this book, and there are SO MANY characters, 80% of whom are men. I like the story and I know that the male-centric cast is somewhat due to the setting (16th century Spain), but still.

If you‘re in the market for an excellent fantasy adventure, look no further than the Gentlemen Bastards! This is a super adventure-y, heist-y read, and it is one of a very few 700-ish page chunksters which I did NOT feel would have benefited from considerable trimming. It‘s pretty great on audio, too! There is a fair amount of violence, however. 5 ⭐️

#catsoflitsy #nationalpetday

Maddie 😻

I have a problem here and I‘m not talking about this atrocity of a cover. 🤢
The Hoopla audiobook app makes backing up or going forward a royal pain. The scrubbing bar is SO TINY! If your book is more than a couple of hours long, it‘s an exercise in frustration. Am I missing something?
#awfulcovers #hoopla #audiobooks

Her Majesty letting me know that I have a caused a Disturbance and she is Displeased. 😆
In other news, I am currently enjoying my newest heist novel. #catsoflitsy

Despite living in Chicago forever, I have never been to Door County. Soooo...we are planning a visit there this summer, and I would love bookstore recommendations! Or any
“must do” recommendations, really. 😊
#wisconsin #doorcounty

Anyone else watching Russian Doll and thinking they need to read Emily of New Moon now? I was a fan of Anne of Green Gables but I never read the Emily books. But if Nadia likes ‘em, that‘s good enough for me!
#russiandoll #lmmontgomery

#currentlyreading The Tempest to prep for Miranda in Milan. I‘ve never read The Tempest before and I don‘t have much background with WS in general, but I‘m enjoying it. It seems as though people are very divided on The Tempest, that you either love it or hate it.
I‘m also listening to the Arkangel production of the play, to round out the whole experience. 😊
#shakespeare #thetempest

In 16th century Germany and Switzerland, Dismas tracks down the relics of saints for his two wealthy and powerful patrons. But that pesky Martin Luther is acting up and the relic trade is in peril. So Dismas and his painter friend Dürer decide to fake a relic so Dismas can retire to his beloved Alps. What could possibly go wrong? Funny historical heist fiction, if that‘s your jam. #currentlyreading #historicalfiction

1. Tagged
2. Working
3. Nope
4. Yes, a looonnggg time ago, and I would love to go back!! I even got a sunburn there, and I didn‘t think that was a possible thing! 😉@wanderinglynn #hellothursday
5. Hello @BookishMeanderings 😊

#veryshortintroductions are so perfect for filling the glaring gaps in one‘s knowledge base...

And very helpful for background information to complement one‘s reading...

1. Going to northern Michigan with my cousins.
2. Half-brother nine years younger. Never had contact with him until seven years ago and now we are quite close.
3. Two years ago
4. Tagged
5. Anyone who feels like it!! 😊

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

I‘ve been having miserable luck with audiobooks lately. I have started and rejected three in the last week. I find that I am becoming pickier, with more requirements for my audiobook choices.
But this sounds good, in both senses of the word. And it‘s a #canadareads book. Even better! #audiobooks

My late entry for #loveyourpetday. It‘s about 30° out this morning, but our living room gets unobstructed southern exposure, so it can get pretty warm even in the winter. Maddie luxuriates in the infrequent winter ☀️

Here‘s another vintage cookbook for you guys, @Leftcoastzen @LeahBergen!!

I‘m actually shocked Litsy has it in the database.

My brand-new read! I know very little about that time period—the Weimar Republic of Germany—but I am very interested in learning more about it. #historicalcrime

I loved this ending to the trilogy!! A fairytale ending and yet...

I‘d like to start a fan club for Ded Grib. Anyone with me? 😆 #dedgrib

(I couldn‘t decide which little guy I liked best)

Starting this audio tonight. I‘m looking forward to it, but this cover...🤢
#worstcovers

So I have what may be a dumb question, but how does someone living in the US go about ordering UK editions? Can you just order from Amazon UK? I covet the Penguin UK versions of the Winternight Trilogy!!

I love this cover! It‘s a fantasy that picks up after Shakespeare‘s The Tempest, which I suppose I will have to read now. Royal intrigue, magic, maybe a queer love story...
#shakespeare #lgbtq #coverlove

The Wedding Singer 🎥
It‘s My Party and I‘ll Cry If I Want To 🎶
All About Cake (a cookbook by Christina Tosi ) 📖 tagged book

#manicmonday @JoScho

#audioshowering is where it‘s at! 🚿🛀

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. These days, a lot of fantasy. I need the escape!
2. I don‘t think it rises to phobia but I am scared of bees. I get a nasty reaction to stings.
3. Archaeologist
4. 29 and snowing. And snowing. And snowing.
5. On it!

#hellothursday

1. 🇺🇸
2. 🇺🇸
3. 🇬🇧
4. 🇵🇹

@wanderinglynn