I was assisting my local library have a tech class on how to download eBooks and somehow found myself reading this. Might as well continue 😁
I have two audiobooks going at the moment. Will probably finish The Outsiders and then get back to Ray Carney, second in series. I really don‘t remember if I truly read the Outsiders waaaay back when, tho I am confident I saw the movie. I love listening for a reread experience. 🎧 #iLovePie #ApplePie
pickLast #ToB25 book of the entire list of 18!! Woohoo 👏
I would love to find a list of all the connections between stories cuz I think I missed a few. #Jan2025 Book12 #Completist Litflu 47863
so-soThis was a tough one. George was so annoying and so I give credit to the author for capturing it, terrific pacing, always up to the edge. “Oh George, I am worried about you.” “George, you need therapy.” Clueless and yet self-pitying. What a rough ride this was! OMG. I am so glad it is over but afraid I might be thinking of George for a long time. #Jan2025 Book11 #ToB
Last night I had the privilege to attend the Natl Figure Skating Pairs and had the best time with friends. Today, just couldn‘t settle in with any current reads and so I searched for “month” on Libby and I selected this. #MiddleGrade #ReadICT
Finally, my in-hand so-excited-for hardcover edition of #ToB favorite! Posed with a cooperative Copper - look at that face! Starting this as my last #ToB2025 entry that I am sure I devour but want to savor and not pressure through #ifyouknowwhatImean. Through my reading, I am having a lovely January ❄️ 🌟
Btw, Jan 23 is National Pie Day! 🥧 grab a slice 😁
Isn‘t this just THE cutest pic of my dear departed Esther? My current iPhone‘s screensaver. So, I am 5+ minutes in so far and will listen as I walk Copper or drive to/fro from work. Am just ready to endure this mediocre white boy. #LFG #ToB2025
pickAnother 5 ⭐️ read with a lady MC of the octogenarian set. A love letter to NYC in some sense, a trip through the history of advertising, and to some extent poetry, this was a wonderful read. Full of new-to-me words, with melancholy AND joviality, plus truth that strong women usually have had to walk through tough times. 💪 LOVED this. #Jan2025 Book10 #poetrymatters #HappyNewYear #WalkingisGoodForYou
The What‘s in a Name Reading Challenge has a category of First and Last Name in the title. ☑️ I have always wanted to read this. #eBook #Libby #WiaN2025
pickNot being a MiddleGrade student, it‘s probably unfair of me to rate, so let‘s call it a low pick. Born a girl but uncomfortable with culture messages of what she *should* be interested in, Bug is also mourning her recently deceased Uncle (who might be haunting her!) I could identify with the confusion of being told “just be yourself!” But WHO is YOU when you don‘t know what you feel and are uncomfortable in your own skin? #BannedBook #Transgender
I requested all three of these books because a friend told me that an Ohio teacher has been reprimanded for offering these to her students. I don‘t know all the details but I do know and fully believe in allowing books be available to readers. Letting my library know these books are valued. #readbannedbooks #heatedblanket #bringit #lfg
so-soThis was a book that absolutely did not grab my attention, I sensed an unreliable narrator who does things that make no sense; I went into it thinking it might be a devastating immigrant story, but once I put it down and then a few days go by, and then when I do open it back up with low motivation and hit a snag (drawn curtains are closed! Not open), WHAT DO I Do? I find many of my friends loved it. #sigh A case of “it‘s me, not the book.”
Current audiobook but showing finished puzzle. 🐧 🧩 🎧 #Recommended by a friend (Nancy the BookFool)
Starting now; fits category Graphic Novel of #ReadICT though I am fudging the requirement a tad. (It specifically says to be a GN adaption of a fiction book or memoir and this looks to be original/biography #ohwell) #CopperBopper #DogsofLitsy #Jan2025 Book7
pickA fabulous collection for the heart and the spirit. (Also lovely to hold and touch; love the feel of quality paper.)
(Pic from the break area at work with snow and cold outside 10th of #Jan2025 Wichita KS) #PoetryMatters Book5
so-soWhen books meet reality: the MC meets and gets a hug from Peter Yarrow, who died today, January 7, 2025. May he rest in peace.
Coming of age on a political campaign. #Jan2025 Book3 #Audiobook #AudioPuzzling #PieinLit #SweetPotatoPie
Just a cute pic of my snowy ❄️ lil Christmas trees 🎄 on my front porch…
Another out-the-window snowy day backdrop! Here‘s to nowhere to go so I can stay in and read. LOVE that Elif Batuman has a blurb. Have already found a book #coinkydink to BeautyLand 🐇❄️
#Jan2025 Book2
pickDefinitely a top book for the year ALREADY! 😆 Also a possible contender for #PieinLit Award nominee 🥇🥧 #OatmealPie #PieCharts #Jan2025 Book1 #ReadICT category: #StrongWoman
I would love to discuss this one. #LitsyToB? 😊
Rereading this. My book club chose this for January discussion. I listened to it years ago and was weirdly/oddly inspired to purchase. Which means, I loaned it to my Mom, who gave it to her bestie, who since got it back to me. This time, I am taking notes. #Jan2025 Book4 #BookClub #ReRead2
Am listening to this audiobook and am at 2x speed to hurry it along. It just makes me sad, is all. Not a book that inspires me to slow down, though I appreciate it all the same. In fact, it‘s one of those books that I seek out reviews by esteemed literary journals, enjoy reading, and tend to agree with! So I will finish, I try not to feel smug about that LOL, and I will quickly go to the next ToB book on my list. Tagging/thanking my Litsy friend
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. New Month New Year Blank Slate Fresh Goals
2. ToB brackets published yesterday!
3. Excited about my current reads
4. Volunteer Day at the Library 📚💕
5. Snowstorm forecast this weekend
#FirstBook of 2025
Goal = 100 Books -or- 35,000 pages
Complete #WiaN, #AsheCoNC, #ReadICT Challenges
Be a Tournament of Books Completist
Grow my Litfluence from 46227 to 70k? (Still not sure if I care)
Happy New Year 🎆
pickWhy do some books hit right? I dunno, but this one hit the right notes for me 🎶 Was it long? Yep - but I was ready for it and I was intrigued enough to settle in and enjoy the ride. It does feel like YA and I am not complaining; it had humor and teenspeak (hey I am old) and sex and crushes and twists and turns and magic with ambiguous good vs evil and I enjoyed it very much. #ToB2025 #Dec2024 Book119
Photo of Christmas 7 Fishes Stew 🌟
“It was as easy as pie. A big old slice of hypno pie with delicious whipped mesmerism on top.”
#LitPie #iLovePie #CaresBooksandPie
#PieinLitPrizeWinner 2024
I am trying to DNF this extremely interesting, sex-heavy, weird and kinda icky book. #sigh
Connected short stories? Or thematically-related, I cannot say. But UNCOMFORTABLE comes to mind readily.
#Dec2024 Book 118
“… affirmations to the sky full blast: I am ill! I am chill! I am phat! I am fly! I am clutch! I am fetch! I am based! I am bae! I am slae! I am cray!…”
(Prefer Mrs. Nash: I am a delight.) IF you read this, eBook is best 👇
A foggy frosty drive home from Nebraska but we are warming up as we travel southward. Started this last night for #ToBshortlist; was NOT aware it is a story collection (or forgot) and yowza! That first one is scary/unsettling. Not at all festively holiday-themed LOL but I did encounter a pie reference, so there‘s that.
Merry Christmas Eve EVE! While contemplating my year end summary stats, I noticed that the last 3 books I read all have colorful covers. 💖🌟 and I just wanted to post something here to all my Litsy friends a wish for hearty Happy Holidays and fun end-of-year book list posts!
Reading my next #ToBshortlist 📚 🐇
Photo is the latest full moon that shown like a huge spotlight.
#Dec2025 Book117
pickGet outside and be with nature! How to review a book that is outside “my” experience? Yet quite relatable what with career goal challenges, sense of self against expectations of culture, marriage + family dynamic balance quests? I was often in-wrestle with the turmoil going on and hoping for a win for Jane, mother and author, hoping to achieve her dreams. I appreciate the ending and give this a strong pick; a #notfittingin book.
#Dec2024 Book116
#Top24of24 + 1!
I love deep thoughts of contemporary lit, and I love interesting themes given wit and care. Make me laugh, make me cry, be silly, #FoundFamily #ExquisiteWriting, daring and considerate treatment of the human condition.
pickPrelude to my Top 24 (or 25) post, I actually managed to finish a photo bracket and continue to agree with my choices. BUT! The real question is… will any of my current reads knock off Make Envy Disco 🪩?! I doubt it.
BIG THANK YOU to @Catsandbooks for the bracket template.
My library copy of the book set in front of the color television 📺! Starting now, plane ✈️ take off is 7am so early to sleep and up at 🕓 4 a.m.
pickLovely, just lovely. Don‘t expect high drama and fast plot; the writing is quietly powerful. It‘s a good idea to know what this book *is* before reading. #ToBShortList #Dec2024 Book115
Roadtrip to KCMO to catch a flight to New England. I woke up with the bother of a cold; going anyway. I‘ll keep my distance from people, I promise.
🎄#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii 🎄
Just a few joys that topped my mind these few minutes as I get pretty toes and before I resume reading the tagged book.
I am looking forward to this the more I hear that people didn‘t like it. Not sure why 🤷🏻♀️ Hope this approach works in my favor: Tempered Affinity? #ToBShortList
pickPosing Copper with the🎄has been a challenge this season! Or maybe he only cooperates when I tell him it is for Litsy?! 😂
Audio 🎧 was a good way to experience this and I give kudos to the narrator Cassandra Campbell 🌟 Her voice was perfect for the present tense and the repetition. We get such interesting insight into a broad view of the female psyche; how diverse our wants and needs might be. We are fighters all.
“Her head feels like it is filled with undercooked pie”
#LitPie #PieinBooks #iLovePie #CaresPieShow #ToBShortList #ChocPearPie 🥧
pickThis one was a surprise and yet, I find myself wondering about my preference to know little about plot or theme when I begin a book. I admit, I was getting irritated- extremely irritated- with Isabelle. I still don‘t ‘get‘ her, but then she didn‘t really ‘get‘ herself. Many thoughts, thoughts that aren‘t landing. 🛬
Making a Chocolate 🍫 Pear 🍐 Pie today. #Dec2024 Book113
pickThis. Is. GOOD.
I hope it finds more readers. Our MC has basically run away from home in NYC to have a “work meeting” in Berlin post 911 (Pres. Bush era) and wanders around lost yet encountering interesting people. More dialogue-heavy than I usually read but IT WORKS! I fell for everyone ❤️
I probably didn‘t sell this well so read the synopsis and get your hands on it and let me know if you love it, too. #Dec2024 Book112
“The cherries 🍒 in the neighbor‘s garden always taste a bit sweeter”
FRIENDS!! This book deserves more readers! More awareness, more market exposure!!! I am very much enjoying and will soon give a glowing review. Stack it
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Yeah, I realize and readily admit a couple of things re: this post.
No, (1) the purple trees likely have nothing to do with this book but I have been saving it for a Litsy post (yay!), and
(2) this title is not on the ToB long list. Oh well!
A friend that I highly respect offered this title to me and now, 25% in, I am loving it. Witty banter, woman with a big heart, on a mission to fulfill a promise made to her nonagenarian BFF? YAAAS - all in.
pickBetween a so-so and a pick because I never felt bored though I was often confused and bewildered. I enjoyed the questioning of how and what translators DO, I was intrigued by the devotion of the translators to their Dear Author, I found the animosity between English and Spanish amusing in its presentation. One word I read in a review somewhere calling this “delirium” - it fits! I have no doubt that a “discussion” would find me liking it more.
Who told me to get this book? 😂 So… I ordered it. I guess someone somewhere said it is a must read. 🤷🏻♀️
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