I was in town today & got this ... the Litsy love is big & reviews good ! But I need to get in before any more hype. Wine is poured ... ready to go 👍🏻💙🍷

So good! I‘m thinking of the name of Neil Young‘s band *Promice of the Real* .......Tana delivers the real here .. The characters, the hard hit of the recession in Ireland , setting - ghost estate in Dublin , a smooth read from start to finish. My favorite Tana so far.

#7covers7days #CoverCrush #Day7

@CarolynM @Severnmeadows @MamaGina @Well-ReadNeck

#7covers7days #CoverCrush #day6

@CarolynM @MamaGina @Severnmeadows @Well-ReadNeck

@LapReader would you like to join in - 7 covers in 7 days & no explanation ♥️👍🏻
Or please Any Litten who‘d like to join

#7covers7days #covercrush #day5

@Velvetfur would you like to join in ? 7 covers in 7 days - no explanations.

@CarolynM @MamaGina @Severnmeadows @Hazel0303 @Well-ReadNeck

“ That slow- motion silence inside the amber was over : the second we stepped out of the house , before we even stopped walking quietly..... “

Still reading & this is my favorite Tana so far 👍🏻♥️💔

#7covers7days #covercrush #day4
@Well-ReadNeck would you like to join in.
7 favorite covers in 7 days & no explanations

@CarolynM @MamaGina @Severnmeadows @Hazel0303

#7covers7days #covercrush #day3
@Hazel0303 would you like to join ? Share 7 covers in 7 days - no explanations

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#7covers7days #day2

@MamaGina would you like to join in ? 7 covers you love - no explanations

Thanks @CarolynM got the hashtag 👍🏻♥️

#WondrousWednesday

1. Im on my 4th Tana French .. the quote above says October.. I don‘t know where the story will take me .. but excited to be reading Tana again
2. Yes. Going to Killarney for a week late October- cannot wait
3. My little grand doll started senior infants .. year 2 in school 💕♥️

I‘m spreading the love Sherri 😘

@Eggs

Thankyou for the tag @CarolynM I‘d love to join in.
#7days#7covers#covercrush#day1
I tag @Severnmeadows : 7 covers you love , no explanation ... will you join in ( if you arnt already 😉

The Death Of Mrs Westaway. Just got from library ♥️. I always was haunted by seeing magpies & believing the rhyme ( one for sorrow, two for joy ... )
Thinking out of the box ... she has changed the rhyme... 👍🏻 “ I‘ll change that rhyme. One for joy. One for love. One for the future.
Loving the new rhyme- I won‘t see magpies the same anymore 🤞🏻! Thankyou @Melissa_J for this recommendation

Starting this now on a friends recommendation.... she has a good eye for the books .. so I think it will be good 👍🏻♥️

One of our ladies chose this for our IRL Bookclub for September. So I had to read it early- but I took notes & I‘ll join in the buddy read discussion later on in the year @Cinfhen .... Loved it ! Dealing with serious issues. Amazing writing, poignant. And still a great sense of humour too - I havnt laughed so much sinse Eleanor Oliphant ... Brilliant!

Thanks @RachelO I got it 👍🏻👍🏻And I have to say it sounds great !

5⭐️The most thought-provoking book this year for me. The metaphor/symbolism of this story .. like taking a dive deep into the psyche -pun intended. To be a carer for your child, to be an immigrant & have your family torn apart. We see the characters under severe pressure, we see their darkest thoughts & acts & they are ashamed , remorseful. exploring the underbelly of feeling- desperation, regret, cruelty, torment ,envy
#Booked2019 #NewIn2019

New album ! So excited to hear his perfect voice singing more new songs COLORADO
MILKY WAY

She was looking like a friend of mine the first time I saw her face, I was approaching at the end of the line the first time I ever saw her smile at me that way ...” I was sailing in the Milky-way lost track of memories that weren‘t that day
Right by her side
As the stars flew by - I did collide with memory and somehow I survived
And became free

Thankyou Sherri for the tag 😘

1. Reading Alice with my granddaughter at the moment.. I love it
2. Eleanor Oliphant I laughed & cried out loud
3. Tough one as it‘s one of my 2 fave genres. Raven Black 👍🏻 and presently Miracle Creek
4. Fave guilty breakfast- scone/jam/cream & coffee ♥️
5. @TrishB @youneverarrived @squirrelbrain @erzascarletbookgasm @batsy @CarolynM @JennyM & @Birdsong28 &
All Littens who want yo join in 😘
#wondrouswednesday

I‘m ready to relax after the day ... and after a few failed attempts to start this one ( timing is such a factor) I‘m now hooked on this riveting court room drama .. with good writing on immigration, family , relationships ... a compelling read. I think this will be my #booked2019 - new in 2019 pick. So good 👍🏻

I‘m afraid I‘m bailing #unpopularopinion it‘s not that I don‘t like it ... I just don‘t like it that much to invest time in it ... 🤷🏻‍♀️

I‘m giving this one a Pick 👍🏻. The second half dragged a little for me - but ultimately redeemed itself. There were some truly poignant moments that made it all worthwhile. 👍🏻♥️💔 very glad I listened. Will be thinking about this one ... I think it has every right to make the Booker short list 🤞🏻

Sunday morning coffee & enjoying my #lmpbc read 👍🏻♥️ beautiful writing

Hi 👋🏻 guys @RachelO @jenniferw88 @jhod

Finally finished this one ... I‘m loving this series... love Jimmy Perez ♥️ & how the guilty party is so unpredictable ( for me anyway ) .. 2 down 👍🏻

I‘m half way through The Wall on Audible & my blue tooth battery just died. So I have to wait. I‘m very surprised, as I had no interest in it & Im finding that it‘s really good so far... it‘s giving me chills about the future of our world. It‘s also very quotable:
...” relief is probably the purest form of happiness there is “ ... I can identify with this.
Looking forward to the second half .... 👍🏻

#AyUpAugust #SwingTheMood I have not read this but there is a great swing to her step on the cover ♥️👍🏻💃🏾I love her red shoe ♥️
Thanks Cindy & Helen for a great month of prompts & chats 😘

1. Loving tagged current read - been reading it for over a week I‘d say ... busy busy week.
2. Hopefully dog walks & reading & chill out time ( after cleaning the house with an audio The Wall , got a great deal today @Ms_T 😉
3. Not a fan of ice cream , but vanilla
#FriYayIntro @howjessreads
4. I don‘t ... not musical 🤷🏻‍♀️
5. I will ofcorse 👍🏻

#AyUpAugust #SleepingSatellite this title came to mind. I kind of remember the movie, maybe the book would be good 🤷🏻‍♀️

#AyUpAugust #AllOfMyHeart Heart of Darkness is the only one I can find. I love this cover , it‘s my sons book. ♥️🖤🖤

1. Rebecca 👍🏻♥️ I saw the old Hollywood movie... really want to read the book ( I hear there may be a prompt in 2020 that could work, not sure yet 🤞🏻( inside info)
2. None. I did reread Wuthering Heights & In Cold Blood ( not twice though)
3. God only knows 🙄
4. Ann Rule - The Stranger Beside Me - ( I don‘t read non -fiction .... 🤔
5. Any Littens who would like to join in
Thanks @Bookishthoughts for the tag 😘#Wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Home from town with my library books. When I finish my present read I will start the tagged one .... inspired to try it after @TrishB review 👍🏻😊

#AyUpAugust #ChasingRainbows this book came to mind , but I‘m chasing memories because I can‘t remember if I read this or not. 😳🤷🏻‍♀️.... maybe years ago, must have a look & see

Tagged book read for #Booked2019 #ComicOrGraphicNovel the review by Neil Gaiman was lovely ... the book was only ‘So-So‘ for me ... lovely idea ! Graphics 🤷🏻‍♀️and my first graphic , so maybe I need to explore a bit.
All of my other summer reads were 5✨stars. Loving the challenge! 🙏🏻 favourites : BONE CLOCKS . &
SMALL ISLAND

#AyUpAugust #TaintedLove I enjoyed this when I read it. I wouldn‘t be going for the reread though. ! Tainted love times a million 😱

1. Siddhartha ♥️
2. Maybe not superpower strength, but more strength 💪
3. Aries
4. Gym / farmers market/ read/ family / my favorite Saturday
5. Have a fab weekend all 👍🏻♥️

#FriYayIntro @howjessreads

There is so much beautiful writing about nature & the sea , I love it all so much! Here‘s a random quote that made me smile. I feel Ann Cleeves is so much in the mind & the community of the people she writes , she has them down to a T .... the dancing ♥️there‘s a lot of talk about the dancing 😊

On to the 2d in this Series... 🥰loving it

#AyUpAugust #DownInTheWoods I picked this up last year .... I havnt read yet 🤷🏻‍♀️

Raven Black has been on my kindle for so long .... so delighted to finally read Ann Cleeves ... I loved this murder mystery, & the characters, and the setting !! The setting , Shetland .. I‘m looking forward to the next in the series.

#AyUpAugust #Human from the poem On Raglan Road... Patrick Kavanagh

‘ A creature made of clay‘... , a mortal person , made of flesh & blood

#AyUpAugust #UnderneaththeStars Hubby gave me this a few years ago ... I still have not read it ... Soon 👍🏻♥️

#AuUpAugust #Temptation

“An apple tree with its December-glinting fruit we saw- oh you eve were the world that tempted me
To eat the knowledge that grew in clay
and death the germ within it
Now and then I can remember something of the gay garden that was childhoods. Again.
My father played

written alone in his Dublin flat around Christmas , remembering his childhood ... one of Patrick Kavanaghs best known poems ‘ A Childhood Christmas‘

#AyUpAugust #HappyHour I spent a happy hour today joining the library - havnt been joined sinse I was 12. I got a graphic novel for #Booked2019 , then my summer books will be done ✅

Nightmarish reading - yet compelling ! Everything is revealed bit by bit. This was extremely creepy... the tension !! I‘d read another of his now , but just looked Jeong up & his next book isn‘t out till 2020. I have it pre-ordered 👍🏻. I thought it was really ‘good‘ @erzascarletbookgasm , Thankyou for your review, which was why I stacked it

#AyUpAugust #PillowTalk Has any one read this & remember the pillow ..... 🤐😳 saying no more ( spoiler) .. I also read Wind Up Bird ..... but this Commendatore is my favorite so far

#AYUpAugust #Tequila I‘m out drinking coffee ( not tequila) & will start this book later .... there is tequila on the shelf behind my kindle ... I asked permission, I‘d say they think I‘m mad 😳

I had to keep reading till I finished, after Tea Cake arrived things really got moving. A lot of the rhyming lines & the story made me think of Bob Dylan‘s writing too. A powerful story on every level. I feel shook up inside. Look forward to hearing everyone‘s thoughts whenever all are finished. Feels like a book that will be bonding. Must think more about it myself now ....
#TheirEyesWereWatchingGodBuddyRead2019

I‘m halfway till tomorrow.... ( wish I could read tonight ) Storyteller ! So quotable... & what she really does for me is that she brings it all home. We are no longer talking about issues & points of view out there ... I find myself thinking of my family history & of the pain , of people I loved ... of how they were hurt , In ways that were seen as nothing & in more visible ways .. #TheirEyesWereWatchingGodBuddyread2019

#AyUpAugust #PutYourRecordsOn this is a book Hubby got in the Library yesterday ... he will be telling me all about it ... he is the library- goer & the talker in this house 👍🏻

Such a vivid story - I felt I was sitting with the characters. Meditations on : dying without reconciliation , immunity to violence, love , youth & old age ... war ... 5⭐️ Soldiers Story

#booked2019 #soldiersstory

1. Chips ( French fries )
2. A pair of boots ♥️ can‘t wait to wear them all the time in the Autumn/ Winter ( have been wearing most of summer too
3. The Absolutist 👍🏻♥️💔
4. Tagging any Litten who wants to join in

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs