Look what came in the mail today!! Thank you @CatLass007 for the letter and the cute book labels!! Glad you're on the mend💟

#litsypenpal

Congratulations on your Litsy milestone @britt_brooke !!

#250kgiveaway

1. Ice cream
2. Pool
3. Strawberries
4. Both
5. Print
#manicmonday @JoScho

Great read about a single mother named Anna and how she was forced to become the mistress of a German SS officer during WWII. The story tells how Anna carried this shame with her the rest of her life and unintentionally passed her shame onto her child.

Thanks for the tag @CatLass007
#tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Gone with the Wind even though it barely resembles the book.
4. I tag @Bookzombie

The incredible true story of 4 women who married US soldiers who were stationed in Britain during WWII. These extremely strong women had to wait while their husbands were sent back to the US after the war. Many of them travelled pregnant and/or with small children across an ocean to a strange country to find their new husbands weren't always complete truthful about everything. This book was so good I couldn't put it down!!

1. No set plans except a pedicure on Saturday.
2. Jelly Donuts
3. Nope
4. The muched needed rain coming down right now.
5. I tag @Bookzombie and @CatLass007

#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

#thisandthat @BiblioLitten
1. Both
2. Amazon mostly
3. Lately Couch Potato
4. Watch a play
5. Road trip

@CatLass007 look what came in the mail yesterday afternoon!! I was so excited to see this special letter waiting for me. I had my grandson last night so had to wait until today to post. I'll be sending another letter your way really soon ✉

#Litsypenpals

What an extraordinary book!! The story of two sisters along with their friends and female neighbors who lived through occupied France and the brutality of the Nazis during WWII doing what they had to do to survive. Some did heroic things to save France herself. Kristin Hannah drew me into their lives word by word and page by page until the very end.

This cozy blanket and pretty book was a sweet surprise to arrive home to this afternoon after work. I'm already enjoying the blanket.
Thank you @lrh9 !!

#blanketandabookswap

@Tiffy_Reads

1. buy or borrow
2. definitely dark ... very dark
3. paperback
4. one at a time
5. kettle potato chips with sea salt

@RealLifeReading #thisorthat

1. Must, must have my morning Coffee!!!!
2. Reruns of Mom
3. Just started The Nightingale. If the first few chapters are any indication ...ABSOLUTELY.
4. Sunny here today but a bit cool for us at 59°F
5. Pierced ears
#HumpDayPost. @MinDea

Very enjoyable book. I loved all the characters . I laughed and cried with them from the beginning of the story to the end. The book is much more detailed then the movie. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to escape to Whistle Stop for just a little while.

#THISORTHAT
@RealLifeReading

@lrh9 I'm excited to say your blanket and book are on the way!!!
#blanketandabookswap

1. Can't think of one of the top of my head.
2. Rome
3. My bucket list trip is visiting all of Great Britain
4. Flying is my favorite way to travel but a road trip is fun if you have enough time.
5. Neither sadly I'm lactose intolerant 😣
#manicmonday
@JoScho

Pink and Green
Summer
Historical Fiction
Reading
Popcorn and Kettle Potato Chips (I can and have eaten a whole bag of chips all by myself)
Cabernet Sauvignon
I like my Kindle but love the feel of an actual book
I tag @lrh9, @CatLass007 and @Bookzombie if you haven't already been tagged
@Tiffy_Reads
#gettingtoknowyou

1. Reading and perhaps dinner out...maybe?
2. 5'5"
3. 29 years
4. Fried Green Tomatoes and Seriously I'm Kidding
#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Latest favorite is Darkest Hour
3. Down with Love and 24 Dresses
4. Largest popcorn they have!
#manicmonday
@JoScho

Often in a patriarchal society history is written by men about men. One of the best lines in the book is "In a place with deep and binding tethers to the past, Katherine Johnson, a black woman, was midwifing the future." As were all the many women written about in Hidden Figures.

The movie was good but as is often the case some of the scenes in the movie were not even mentioned in the book (poetic license?) many more were left out.

Please welcome my friend @Tiffy to Litsy!

1. Historical Fiction
2. 8.5 or 9 depending on the shoe
3. Popcorn of course🍿
4. Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond
5. @Bookzombie if she hasn't been tagged yet😁
#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

1. The untold story of female black mathematicians.
2. Dark chocolate
3. Baby Boomers
4. Purell hand sanitizer
5. Nada so far

#HumpDayPost @MinDea

This remarkable book is a fictional story based on the lives of real people and real events. It's set in 1940's Paris as the world is set to go to war. A young woman learns that she has a grandmother who‘s reputation is less than pure. As the story progresses both women begin to know one another on a deeper level and a true relationship soon blossoms. Alyson Richman has the ability to wrap her characters around your heart.

Thanks for the tag @Bookzombie ❤
1. No
2. Bookmark
3. I prefer to stop at the end of a chapter.
4. Either or both
5. No
6. One book at a time
7. Everywhere
8. Silently
9. No
10. I Like to take care with my books but don't stress about it if the book belongs to me.
11. No
12. I tag @lrh9

Check it OUT @TheBookKeepers hit 1K followers and are celebrating by giving away 3 free books!!
To enter see their original post at #bookkeepersgiveaway 📚

Patrick Phillips tells a chilling story of racism in the U.S. I had no idea how much I didn't know. Everyone needs to read this book!!! What took place in the southern U.S. is nothing less then terrorism. On this MLK day I pray that Martin Luther King's dream becomes reality and let it begin with me.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks you just inspired me to order this Alyson Richman novel.

I really enjoyed this book set in the 1940's WWII London blitz. The author brought to life the story of the British resolve to go on with their everyday lives while living through those dark unpredictable days.

1. Tex Mex
2. Not really
3. Slicer
4. We Were the Lucky Ones; The Killers of the Flower Moon; The Nightingale; An American Sickness; The New Wild West
5. Sweet
6. I don't know. I don't cook as much as used to.
#FeedAReader #TheChefsLibrary
@MinDea @TricksyTails

Enjoying my last afternoon of my holiday vacation break with a warm fire, a glass of wine and a good book.

1. Maintain the status quo.
2. Not participate in any.
3. Only backlist books.
4. TBR from scratch.
5. Choose 10 of my choice.
#NEWYEARWOULDYOURATHER @SWISHANDFLICK

Based on the true story of the St. Louis transatlantic ocean liner that left Berlin in 1939 with 900 plus Jewish passengers bound for Cuba. The German Girl is the fictional account of the Rosenthal family's fate on board the ship and in years spent in Cuba as seen through the eyes of young Hannah.

1. Gift from my sweet daughter.
2. Home with hubby. Both of us will probably read unless we babysit our grandson.
3. Sugar cookies.
4. Bird anything
5. Wild thing🎼

I really enjoyed this book that shifts from modern-day America to Germany before and during WWII. The main character Anna attempts to unlock family secrets long buried by her recently deceased grandfather Max. Who was he really???

Thank you so much #TheKidUpstairs for the adorable bookmarks! All my favorite colors! I love the cute little magnetic ones too! My favorites are the bird one and the one with my name. #bookmarkswap

1. Chatty Cathy
2. Giving Counting with Curious George among others to my Grandson for Christmas.
3. Older...old enough to be your mother😁
4. No. I grew up in the Great lakes region and now live in South Texas.
5. Absolutely♥️ #friyayintro @jesshowbooks

1. Designated Survivor, Call the Midwife, The Big Bang Theory (for comic relief) and Chopped.
2. Pot Roast with roasted potatoes and carrots.
3. Almost
4. Dinner and night on the Riverwalk with hubby enjoying all the Christmas decorations.
5. Last Thursday but none now.
#HumpDayPost #MinDea

Work Christmas dinner and White Christmas at Majestic Theatre in San Antonio.

SNOW in South Texas!!

Hidden family secrets. #smalltalk @IamIamIam

Look what I got! Thank you @Andrea4!! They're all beautiful but my favorite is the bird one. #bookmarkswap

Congratulations on your milestone @Tiffy_Reads and #payingitforward with your #threeformegiveaway.

Thanks for tagging me @Bookzombie
1. Holiday spirits
2. Scarf
3. TBR
4. Popcorn
5. @TheKidUpstairs @Andrea4 @TheNextBook

1. Bookmark swap
2. Time off work
3. Salvation Army is my absolute favorite
4. Cookies
5. Disgusting
6. Hate it
7. Not so much

A little light after Thanksgiving reading.🎄

Happy anniversary @Bookzombie !!

1. Scorpio
2. Joined Litsy and I just figured out with help from @bookzombie how to do this
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Weekend with my daughter
5. #friyayintro

Thrilling fast paced incredible story of the how and why of the Magnisky Act. It is the gripping true story of the 2009 death of Russian attorney Sergei Magnisky at the hands of the Russian authorities. Bill Browder is called the man who took on Putin. The Magnisky Act and Russian adoptions have been the subject of the latest news about Trump Jr's meeting with some Russians before the election.