@dabbe I pulled out my Wordsworth collection yesterday after reading your post. Gosh I love Wordsworth 🧡 So I‘m joining in on #APoemADay
#September #Autumn #Harvest #Reaping
pickThe Age of Innocence is a wonderful novel. Yes, the characters are infuriating as they navigate the social constraints that they themselves create and willingly participate in. I love a novel of manners especially when the writer is witty. Wharton is masterful, laconic, controlled, and sardonic with a touch of empathy. Perfect 👌 Thanks #HashtagBrigade for the journey and our own witty hashtager @BarkingMadRead
#WDNCW #FirstTimeCaller @dabbe
We do not care that socks and sandals do not go together and my hair was pulled high upon my head rather like a rats nest. It was dusk and I wanted to see the deer in my neighborhood. The curtain twitchers can deal with it!!
#FallCardSwap2025 @TheBookHippie
And off they go!!! Best of luck, guys🤞
#WhatTheDickens Martin Chuzzlewit
I got so lost in Little Dorrit that I decided to be a touch more academic and do some character research. I found this little gem on course hero!!!
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#WhatTheDickens Martin Chuzzlewit Chapter Two
I‘m enjoying it so far, the writing is both beautifully descriptive and also mocking as though the writer and the reader are in on a little secret. 🤫
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#BookedInTime
We are going a-Viking, to travel, explore and possibly raid!! I‘ve Blood Eye lined up as I enjoyed other books by Giles Kristian. What are you reading?
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@megnews @sblbooks
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@annececilie @jenlovesJT47
#WhatTheDickens
This novel follows the young Martin as he navigates the world of hypocrisy and fraud. It is described as a satirical novel on selfishness. Who‘s in?
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#WomenWhoRunWithTheWolves @Chrissyreadit
I grew up in a family of four girls, lots of aunts, all girls school through high school, and an all women‘s college. Pictures of four women together always speaks to me. They‘re linked together yet each one is unique.
pick#WhatTheDickens @Texreader
A rags to riches story. Has all the usual Dickens themes of social inequality and injustice. This was a little more nuanced as it explored the idea of the corruption of wealth. Honestly not my favourite Dickens but probably a me issue as I was too distracted by other reads to give it the attention it surely deserves.
#ATreeADay #NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks
I‘m not sure who is doing this buddy read but tag people if you know. The Boston liberty tree was today‘s entry. I‘m just showing some pictures of the area (Liberty Tree District) today. It‘s part of the theater district. They have a monument for the tree. And some art on a building. ❤️Boston
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/boston-liberty-tree
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @dabbe
We Did It!!!
After some calculation of four novels divided in two parts, plus 56 stories made for 64+ Litsy discussion posts, spread out since December of 2023. Denise and I wanted to give a major shout out to @Librarybelle who participated in every single discussion!!!! You are a star. Thank you for making this buddy read extra special. Keep an eye out for a little something heading your way.
#CharacterCharm #Thief @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“Oliver is lured into a den of thieves”
This is still one of my favorite Dickens‘ novels.
pick#VirginiaBloomsberries @AllDebooks
This is my favorite VW novel. It‘s so difficult to write a review of this book. The plot: a family staying on an island wants to visit a lighthouse, but they do not. I guess you don‘t read VW for the plot. It‘s all in the writing and the emotions evoked. See above for details.
#CharacterCharm #fairy-elf-pixie @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Part memoir and nature writing this also includes some Celtic mythology and fairy folklore. It should come with a warning “might make you run away to Ireland, Scotland or Wales.”
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
First line of our last story #NoPlaceLikeHolmes @dabbe
“Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning.”
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
-Both daughters had flights this week and both landed safe and sound 😌 -Found an egg cup at a thrift store, the exact one I had as a child in Ireland!! -Beach day -First time at a drive in -Sitting under the maples in my garden.
#CharacterCharm #Nurse @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Not his finest, and Nurse Barkley can best be described as male wish fulfilment. There are better WWI novels but this always makes the list. Sigh.
#CharacterCharm #elderly @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
"Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks” ?
#CharacterCharm #scientist @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“DIANA BERESFORD-KROGER, a botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined "renegade scientist," brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world.”
#CharacterCharm #seamstress @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I‘m a day late, the air quality in New Hampshire took me out yesterday with a massive headache. Anyone else?
Anyway, I never read this book but I loved the movie. (Normally I hate a movie cover on a book, but this one has Kate Winslet so she gets a pass).
#CharacterCharm @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Spy
I saw this movie as a child when I was too young to fully understand it. The book is based on the true story of SOE agent Violette Szabo who was executed by the SS in 1945.
#CharacterCharm @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
King
Book 2 in the Raven King Series, a Robin Hood reimagining. 👑
#CharacterCharm @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Mother&child
I don‘t like the tag line on this “the poignant true story of a mother and the son she had to give away” because she didn‘t give him away, he was taken from her.
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts on differences and similarities?
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts on clues?
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts?
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
“Catastrophe is never convenient”
This is the first line of the preface and I have to say in all my years of reading, this is one of the most beautiful prefaces I have ever read. The last paragraph is so moving I‘ve read it a few times and I read it out to my husband and to my eldest daughter.
#NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks
#HashTagBrigade @BarkingMadRead
I found two editions, one is a Collins Classics and the other is a Signet Classic from 1962! I‘ll think I‘ll donate the Collins and read the Signet.
#CharacterCharm
A favourite read from 2024!
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#JustBecause
I feel all the things!!!
#BookedInTime #BookedInTimeAugust25
#BookedInTimeArgentina
I spent some time researching this one as it‘s not a location or period I‘ve read much about. I recommend Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín. I‘m still deciding what to read. Thoughts?
#PoetryMatters
When you go for a wee evening stroll with your husband, and you pass a Little Free Library and this gem is sitting inside. #NewHome 💚
#MentalHealthMonday @Kerrbearlib
Relaxing for me, usually involves water somehow. Whether it‘s hydrating, taking a bath, skin care, crying, walking by a river or lake, swimming or floating in a pool, beach day even in winter or listening to the sound of waves. 🌊
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts?
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts?
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
Thoughts?
@pageshifter @AnneCecilie @indoordame @librarybelle @theAromaOfBooks @Aimeesue @kelli7990 @5feet.of.fury @Read4Life @AnnR @mom2bugnbee @pageturner1 @eeclayton @erzascarletbookgasm @aroyse @dabbe
#ThreeListThursdays #TLT @dabbe
Being neurodivergent makes it so hard to choose favourites.
1 Saturday Night Fever
2 Pulp Fiction (didn‘t care for the movie yet love the soundtrack)
3 Forrest Gump and Dirty Dancing
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/14/brooklyn-and-beyond-colm-toibins-b...
Happy Birthday Colm!! Look who you share a birthday with @dabbe
The only change I would make is swap out The Testament of Mary for House of Names. I haven‘t read Long Island yet. Great list!!
#NaturalLitsy @AllDebooks
I‘m only on ch 7 but I‘m loving this. I demand a dramatized TV series!!
“What speaks to the soul escapes our measurements” Humboldt
Love this!!
Feeling very grateful to whoever long ago, planted the huge maple in my garden, under whose shade I am enjoying this lovely summer morning. Thank you 🙏
#BookedInTime #BookedInTimeJuly2025 #BookedInTimeCamelot
So much to choose from: poetry, graphic novels, mythology, retellings, travelogues, seriously the list is endless so it begs the question what will you read?
#WhatTheDickens
We stayed at The Parker House in Boston this weekend. They have an historical display in their basement. Ho Chi Minh was a pastry chef there from 1911 -1913! Lots of Kennedy connections and Dickens stayed there!!! Such a cool hotel on the Freedom trail and so close to Boston Commons. (This is not a sponsored post lol) @Texreader
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
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#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
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