💗 First book of the new year! Now I have to wait for Vol. 6 . . . 😔

Merry Christmas to me! 💗🎄💗

Look. I got my hair cut. The salon is just steps away from my local indie. I was OBLIGATED to go

OMG. I got to go to Birch Bark, the bookstore that Louise Erdrich owns!

indie bookstore haul!

“If there is any clear message in the fossil record, any distilled takeaway that the entire history of life on Earth speaks to with a full and clear voice, it‘s that no species is inevitable.”

Got my copy!

“Folks like to talk about revenge like it‘s a righteous thing but it‘s just hate in a nicer suit.”

from the acknowledgments 💗

Oh! My sweet Seiji! 💗

It‘s here!!! 💗

“We must work to create a society with liberty and justice for all. We will fail and fail and fail at this goal. Our failure is the history of the world. But our humanity is in the fact that we never cease to try.”
Ann Patchett

Eager to read this!

“. . . I described my classmates as “a herd of mouth-breathing fucktard yokels who wade around in a miasma of cliché so thick you can practically smell the bacon and cabbage and cow shite and altar candles.” Even assuming I was having a bad day, I think this shows a certain lack of respect for cultural differences.”
This is my first Tana French. So far, so good!

I can‘t believe it‘s over. 💔 Many thanks to Ms. Tahir for the incredible journey.

Adorable! 💗

“We need not lose hope, we just need to locate where it dwells.”

Oh, how angry and despairing I am! I already knew and agreed with Synder‘s big points on healthcare in the US, but he is very good at weaving in the details, the effects, the havoc . . . This book is tiny, but mighty. Another one I wish I could make all people in the US read.

Doing my part to keep my local indie alive through the pandemic! 💗

Yes, this slim book of short essays is about the pandemic, but also about much more.

Steve West reads the Elias POV chapters in the audio version of the Ember in the Ashes series. I would like for him to read all the things to me. 💗

Listening to this to get ready for book 4. I read it so long ago that I can‘t remember enough. Besides, the people who read these books are excellent!

Please shop at indie bookstores either online or in person. Let‘s keep them alive during this pandemic. Remember that they make more money off non-book items, so indulge in candles, cards, and more!

That‘s quite the dedication.

Made blue cookies to celebrate.

First, I read it slowly - a few pages at a time- to make it last. Then I read it again in one sitting. A vampire and a werewolf fall in love. Not Sarah Anderson‘s usual Sarah‘s Scribbles stuff, but just as adorable.

This is the sweetest story. 💗

“Once the queen‘s head is severed, he walks away.”
Now, there‘s an opening line.

Read this!

I tried to go slowly, but I still finished too soon. Oh, my precious babies! 💗 Second book has a title (Disarmed) and a cover to die for, but no release date.

Oh, Seiji! My heart 💗

So if I just don‘t read the last three chapters, I don‘t have to leave these boys, right?

Oh, my boys! I miss the images from the comics, but I love getting inside the heads of all the boys. Gotta take it slow and make it last.

People! There is a Fence novel. While I really just want a hundred new issues of Fence, I‘ll happily take this!

Another book I wish I could make every American read.

Taylor Branch: “So the real question would be if people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?”

Ooooo. Hope there are more Virgil Wounded Horse books coming.

(In the summer of 2016) “. . . it was common to hear in certain circles the disbelieving cries, “This is not America,” or “I don‘t recognize my country,” or “This is not who we are.” Except that this was and is our country and this was and is who we are, whether we have recognized it or not.”

💗 to those roses in concrete . . .

Read this. ❤️ Warning: I love a book that makes me cry.

“It‘s always a matter, isn‘t it, of waiting for the world to come unraveled? When things hold together, it‘s always only temporary.”

“What use is Anne‘s child, the infant Elizabeth?”
Ack! What use indeed?! If they only knew . . . Re-reading Bring Up the Bodies to get ready for book 3.

Finished my re-read of Wolf Hall! On to Bring Up the Bodies. 📚👑

On Cromwell: “He can contain the fears of other men, and give them a sense of solidity in a quaking world: this people, this dynasty, this miserable rainy island at the edge of the world.”

“ . . . all our lives depend now on that lady, and as well as being mutable she is mortal, and the whole history of the king‘s marriage tells us a child in the womb is not an heir in the cradle.” Re-reading Wolf Hall.

Bookstore haul! Got these beauties. (Am currently re-reading Wolf Hall to get ready for the new Mantel.) Plus - cute kitty sticky notes. Remember, bookstores make a lot more money from the sidelines than the books, so get those socks, pencils, stickers, etc. when you get your books.

It‘s a dumpster fire out there. Let these two adorable dudes help you feel a teensy bit better. 💗

My second Jane Harper. Damn. She‘s good.

I need more! These boys are going to kill me. 💗🤺

Finished my re-read of Fence Volumes 1-3. I tried to go slowly. I will save Volume 4 for tomorrow. 💗