Up next and I am so excited and hopeful that I will love it that I‘m almost scared to begin 😱

#ToF #LibraryBook so I best get started.

I don‘t usually give credit to short chapters nor consider the multiple POV of a story but #CampLitsy25 discussion has me grappling to explain what worked for me in this story. I do believe it was excellent craft of setting the tension, layering the mystery, being inside each character‘s fears and my questions of why on their actions. Perhaps pacing was perfect due to my only having many short time spans to read it, thus off time ⬇️

Listening to this now. I have heard good things (even if I had no clue and can never remember what rock band he is in! I am clueless with popular music these days)

Filler book to hit a category of #AsheCoNCReading Challenge : a book by Kristin Hannah 😂
I respect her ability to churn out books people love but she‘s not for me. I searched Libby for anything short of hers that was available.

#June2025 Book56 #iLovePie #RhubarbMeringue

For book club, local author (KS)

“I am a tunnel, wind screaming through me.”

(OMG the two sentences that follow the quote above. 😬😳😱🫣 ~page 67)

📸 Wall, MHK

I‘m not at the shore, but am starting this on a wild windy thunderstormy day; it‘s dark now, and the power across the street has been out since early morning. Ours came on around noon. Be safe out there. ⛈️ ☔️ 💨 🌱⚡️

So good. Took me way too long to get into but that was all me and too many freakin‘ mundane things to attend to (like cleaning and j-o-b). Gotta love a book that upon finishing the very last sentence, tears threaten and so I must laugh instead. Pick! Stack it!

#June2025 Book55 📸 Stormy sky in Kansas

Grand so.

“It‘s hope that makes us afraid, and I remind myself that a man should be grateful for his fears, ‘cause it means he has something to lose and to win.”

“Directors without a producer are like a ship without a sail, the medium of wind to endeavors nautical being equivalent to coin in all theatrical,…”

Some really great sentences in this! 🌟 #debut #drama #ToF

After difficulty finding an audiobook immediately available on Libby for Pride Month, I decided to search for a banned book. This is one that I selected. So important and so astonishing to me that someone, some “many”, would prefer that this book not be available. So sad. 💔 My offer to the Resistance is to celebrate empathy, respect, diversity, and inclusion.

Pic of my latest pie: Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day was June 9. Finished the book on June 10. #iLovePie #WiaN2025 Alliteration category #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge celebrity category #June2025 Book54

I enjoyed this, she is extremely driven and her journey has been full of adventure. I love the Pitch Perfect movies.

Next up! #ToF

I can see why many have loved this read but it just wasn‘t for me. I didn‘t get fully invested nor swept away and once I read a few meh reviews, I couldn‘t unread those impressions but only then found I was in agreement. On to the next read! #June2025 Book53

Going on a road trip and need an audio! Since I have a “celebrity memoir” category to fill for #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge, will listen to this one. #LibbyAudio oh! It also fits the Alliteration category for #WiaN2025! And 8% in, she mentions apple pie. #PieinLiterature #iLovePie

Apparently I forgot to blurb that I am now reading this. I happened to start it the same day that I had a lovely chat with an old friend who told me she just finished. It‘s fun to find these overlaps; however, we rarely like the same books 😂 #eBook #PieinLiterature

Audiobooked and skipped a few chapters; needed a “female leader” for the #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge. #June2025 Book52

Uh. . .

What WAS that?!

Cannot wait to discuss this! #CampLitsy2025
#June2025 Book51 (and yes, the plant is called Mouse Barley (aka Foxtail) which the bane of dog paws 🐾 everywhere and it is horrifically prolific this year in my neighborhood!)

LOVED THIS. And it truly did have me laughing out loud. Team Abigail!

#June2025 Book49 #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge Furniture 🪑 on the cover category.

A friend recovering from surgery asked me to pick up some audiobooks from the library - my choice! I have read Educated and the Doerr (no idea if she has) - does anyone want to chime in support for the other two? I have Born a Crime on hold - which is my favorite audio of all time that I recommend. Photo to help me remember! (Otherwise, slim pickings.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

I have three terrific and captivating stories that I have on rotation at the moment. I don‘t usually have so many fiction books going at once, especially if same delivery method: Audition and Woodworking are both hardcovers and due soon at the library. I have Broken Country captured on my Kindle in Airplane ✈️ Mode

Okay, sometimes this lovely meme is exactly what I need to realize remember and reinforce that my life does not suck, yaknow? Firstly, and non pictured here is that I received 4 personal letters today that cheered me beyond explanation. Also, as I prep this? Hub and I are having a terrific conversation and the weather is amazing. 2. Had my annual health check ✔️ 3. Zinnias!!! Cosmos!! 4. Red wine “happy camper” 🏕️ 5 . Upcoming trip to KCMO 💖 🪁

It‘s finally here!! And the dollar 💵 pays my fine. 🥴

Library hold ready for pickup!

Oh! Just realized that the cover art would count for a challenge of “Furniture on Cover”!! #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge2025

OooOOOooo! I like this cover more than the one on the hardcover I read (US, library) Anyway, I am giving this a “Pick with reservations” and truly, this is a case of “Book, it‘s not you, it‘s me”. I just couldn‘t overcome the reluctance I felt, the chore it seemed to get this thing read!! I don‘t have time for this, too many books coming at me fast and fury with deadlines. I made it to page 200 before I skipped to the last 4 chapters ⬇️

This made me laugh. Shout out to all the 🐈‍⬛ cat lovers! Yes? 🙌 #catsofLitsy

“Hanging out with Man Man, a humongous black Maine Coon cat who required the attention of a human at all times, was perfect.”

This narration is well done, I was on the edge of my seat often following along this tense adventure of mofos (humans) catching the end-of-times virus and morphing into zombies 🧟‍♀️ and worse! ALL TOLD by a crow 🐦‍⬛ who goes on a mission with his bloodhound sidekick. I may have shed a tear 😢 or two. #LitPie #PieinLiterature #iLovePie 🥧 #May2024 Book47

I have read and enjoyed a lot of 1000+ page books! Highly HIGHLY recommend The Count here for fun and adventure. 🌟 🏔️ 📚

#SundayFunDay @BookmarkTavern

Yoga! And beer!! And reading!!!

I‘m sorry, it‘s probably me. I can‘t figure out what is happening and I don‘t care. Where is this going?! I am bailing at page 105 - if you can‘t capture my heart or curiosity by page 100, I am outtahere. I have too many books 📚 coming off hold and not enough time! 🕰️
#May2025 Book46 (Going to go watch Murderbot now 🤖)

#May2025 Book45 #Memoir #AsheCoNCReadingChallenge #FurnitureOnCover

Really good. 🤗 ♥️ 🐶 🛋️

A friend recommended this to me; so excited that Libby had the audio available. 🐦‍⬛

Starting this now. #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #Griff

#May2025 Book44 #Poetry #PoetryMatters #APoemADay

#May2025 Book43

We only have one dog at the moment and have never had three at a time; THIS USA “MOTHER” Day, I am thinking of all my kids, my canine kids; they are top of mind 💖 Reading this because…. I somehow love a good grief story. Pic is Copper with my “new” iris from a neighbor. #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #WHPG #GriefLit

I had this on my library Libby eBook holds and too many came in at once. I delayed it and now! finally I can get to it. You may recall a recent post where I placed a block showing all the other great titles this compares to (but I got it confused with Cheerfully Refuse when I created the image 🤦🏻‍♀️) This pic shows all the mushrooms in my front yard after an all day rain.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday #1001BooksToReadBeforeYouDie @dabbe

Besides the Austens, my fave on this list is Vanity Fair. Thought it was a hoot!🦉🌟 📚

This jumped out at me when I was trying to find an available audio thru my library‘s Libby collection.

Just 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 should have bailed but I always get caught up in the “how will it end?!” drama; by the time the end was in site, I was at risk of eyeball injury and annoyed with the inconsistency and repetition. #May2025 Book41

Kudos for multiple strong female characters.

@Meshell1313 is having a giveaway!! Go to her page to check it out and help her celebrate #100kpages❗️(am posting under this tagged title because she did…)

Sharing a title on my tbr that I have been meaning to read for TOO LONG. And it has many pages 😳
I will likely audio it. I like chunkster audiobooks.

Congratulations Michelle and thanks for sharing your dreams and encouraging mine 🤩

“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 😵‍💫)

#ThreeListThursday @dabbe

57 which includes a few DNFs. I once carried around an old and old-smelling paperback of Rushdie‘s Midnight Children and finally got rid of it. #someday
I had Pratchett‘s The Color of Magic out from the library but it was returned before I read it. #sigh

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.

Honestly, this one is tough. I don‘t think I want to be as smart/clever as this one might require. Did I read every word on every page? No, I did not. Am I glad I attempted? Sure. 😐 If you want to be a Percival Everett completist, I recommend a good trial looksee at the format or trap yourself on a beach with no other books, maybe. 😂 It is absurdist philosophy or true brilliance, if you dare trust this poor simpleton‘s opinion. It is amusing…

#Audiobooking for #WiaN2025 Category NorthSouthEastWest #Thriller #Montana

Look at this amazing tree! It is a Bristly Locust

And, I very much enjoyed this book. 🐦‍⬛ I think Maggie Stiefvater is pretty good at what she does.

#Apr2025 Book39

Our city‘s Big Read book for this year; I am glad that our book club selected and decided to participate. The person who suggested it told us she is looking forward to our thoughts and this has me intrigued that she has THOUGHTS — I am eager to discuss. I regretfully turned it back to the library so I won‘t have a copy and I failed to record if it had pie, I did not note the quotes I liked. 😢 more…⬇️

Had a GREAT time on my “Me Adventure” exploring the #IndieBookstoreDay crawl. I somehow lost my punchcard after the third stop and though I visited the 4th stop, it was SO PACKED with PEOPLE that I decided just to go home. However! There were few cars at the downtown USPS so I stopped to buy $92+ worth of stamps!! 🧐🤓💌📬🤩😎 No line, a super nice clerk and they still had John Lewis stamps. MAKE GOOD TROUBLE