Jane Austen writes my #FavoriteClassic novels. There are an endless number of stunning editions of her work. Lately I‘ve been seeing these online and am obsessed! I‘d so love to own something from this collection โค๏ธ#MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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Engrossing and affirming. I cried happy tears!
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Rivers Solomon is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors! The Deep is at once devastating and beautiful, as you might expect if you‘ve read anything else of theirs. It is mythic and visceral. Even though it‘s short, it contains a full and rich world. I couldn‘t read this at anything close to my normal reading speed, it demanded and deserved time.
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The Bobolink makes frequent appearances in Dickinson‘s poems. Not being a bird person I had to look them up to even be ๐ฏsure this was a bird ๐๐ . But the word is soooo fun to say!!! #WeirdWords @CBee
My favorite #EnemiesToLovers story! I wish I owned the illumcrate version of their books!!!! ๐โค๏ธ๐ค๐#MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Thanks for the tag @Eggs !
Mine would be Lillian Boxfish, who reminds me SO strongly of my favorite grandma, Miss Lavender Lewis (I just reread Anne of Avonlea and fell in love with her all over again) and Elizabeth Best from the Thursday Murder Club. Oooh it would be so fun to have a dinner party with the 3 of them!
#WondrousWednesday Want to play @dabbe @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @Johanna414 ?
so-so#TransRightsReadathon Book 5 The writing style wasn‘t my favorite, but the art was great! There were a handful of full page black and white panels scattered throughout that were sublime, and it was worth reading this just for those. And I loved seeing an honest representation of sex work. That‘s a community that‘s grossly underrepresented in media, and usually either romanticized or demonized when it is portrayed. #transrightsarehumanrights
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Pet is the story of the world after the social justice revolution succeeds but people become complacent. It does a fabulous job of exploring ideas of willful ignorance & the inability to believe people within your personal circle are at fault, all in a way that‘s age appropriate for young readers but still subtle and nuanced.
Is anyone else getting sick of Waterloo?! I flipped ahead and we have 10 more days of the battle before we get to the next book and back to our story ๐ฉ#LesMisCAD @MatchlessMarie @dariazeoli
One of my all time favorite books! My copy has him standing in front of the window, but I saw this cover and thought it and thought it better captured the spirit of this being #SetInThe1920s #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pick#TransRightsReadathon Book 3. These poems by Kayleb Rae Candrilli were devastating and heartwarming by turns, and occasionally both at the same time. I want to read everything they‘ve written! #transrightsmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
pick#TransRightsReadathon book 2. YA fiction by Kai Cheng Thom. This was raucous, angry, and in your face, but also bubbly, charming, and cheerful. Basically everything the cover art and title promise it delivers. I really enjoyed the sporadic hints of magical realism that served to highlight the importance of truth over fact and challenge the traditional idea of a trans memoir. #transrightsmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
@Pigpen_Reads @5feet.of.fury I‘ve been under the weather so #LMPBC packages only went out to you this morning. Happy reading! ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ
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Moonflower by Kacen Callender was the perfect book to kick off the readathon with! So many authors shy away from writing nuanced stories about suicidal ideation for young readers or with young characters, but Callender completely embraced the darkness that they struggled with as a child while still managing to write a life affirming story.
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Neil Gaiman is one of my #FavoriteMaleAuthors. My reread of Sandman has fallen by the wayside lately, but I‘m hoping to pick it up again next month. #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI‘m so loving revisiting Avonlea ๐งก๐งก๐งก I‘m noticing how well drawn the older characters are much more than I did as a child reading this. #MiddleGradeMarch @megnews @sblbooks
pickOne of my #Roll100 books from last month. While I own the physical book, when I learned that Maggie Gyllenhaal narrated the audio version I grabbed that too. I‘ve been embracing reading and listening in tandem more often lately and it‘s really been helping with my brain fog. This one is a classic for all the best reasons. @PuddleJumper
pick#SundayBuddyRead Libby is getting ready to take this one back so after our chat this morning I devoured the final section. I won‘t give anything away ๐คซ๐คซ๐คซbut this was a fun month. Thanks for choosing this one @TheBookHippie !!!๐งก๐งก๐งก
My TBR for the #TransRightsReadathon keeps growing! Good thing it starts tomorrow or Iโd have no shot at getting through a decent portion of my list.
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pickWhen I heard this was being turned into a movie I had to revisit it and I really enjoyed the trip down memory lane. #MiddleGradeMarch @megnews @sblbooks
#BookYouOftenRecommend One of my most frequently recommended books of the past year. I finally watched the HBO documentary last night, and while I didn‘t think it captured the spirit of the book or did it justice, I know it will reach a lot of people the book won‘t and I want this story to be told. #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
bailedI‘m finding this too esoteric. #Roll100 @PuddleJumper
For next month‘s #Roll100 I‘ll definitely be reading Millay since it‘s poetry month. 33 was The Age of Innocence which I just finished with #WhartonBuddyRead and I haven‘t been substituting new titles for ones I‘ve finished on the list so I‘ll try to read 34 instead, but I‘ll wait and see if I have time for either Brody or Heidegger. @PuddleJumper
#BookReport #WeeklyForecast This week has had a few disappointments, but also a lot of nice surprises! I started the tagged book a few days ago for #MiddleGradeMarch and a few chapters in realized that a Kacen Callender book would be the perfect thing to add to my list for the #TransRightsReadathon so I‘m putting it on the back burner until Monday even though I‘m dying to find out what happens.โฌ๏ธโฌ๏ธโฌ๏ธ
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn‘t know what I was doing in New York. #FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
#Pemberlittens, 10 more days! Who else is feeling done with this one?
pickWith an afterword written by Cat Stevens directly addressing the children reading this, Reynolds does a great job of bringing this song to life with his illustrations. But I still had to listen to the song while I was reading it to get the full effect, so I‘d probably play it for kids as part of a read about.
Claire Keegan is my current favorite #IrishAuthor #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soUsually I‘m able to enjoy Nancy Drew despite a few minor racist or sexist comments that pop up in the text just because of the era they were written in. But the tagged title (the second book of this twin thriller) was set at an archeological dig looking for Native artifacts and the attitudes in this one really got to me. It‘s not one I‘ll be reading! #MiddleGradeMarch @megnews @sblbooks
My favorite #BkBasedOnPainting and one of my favorites of all time! #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I havenโt been participating in #MarchMadness but Iโm grateful to @Andrew65 for reminding me that today is #EqualPayDay
โThe reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.โ -Emma Watson
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pickI‘m so glad this was one of my #Roll100 books this month! It‘s been on my shelves forever but I‘d basically stopped seeing it, and it was fantastic! It‘s a quick read, but it contains an entire world. I got totally swept away, and that feeling of complete absorption has been really rare for me lately. Gaiman wrote himself into this, which made it light and funny, and the art was sublime which is always a big draw for me. @PuddleJumper
I turned a page in the middle of this and found my favorite childhood bookmark!!!! I hadn‘t seen it in years so I just assumed it was lost or given away or somethingโฆ Faded after many years of use, I picked up this painted green velvet suede piece on my first trip to Israel in the early nineties.
When I came upon this in my reading I initially assumed it was the past tense of dissipate. This made more sense in context, but I was pretty shocked that the words weren‘t connected at all! #weirdwords @CBee
#FocusesOnMentalHealth Starting this one today on audio for #MiddleGradeMarch
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1. Mostly nay. In fiction I‘m usually meh about prologues and very rarely find an epilogue I like. I do like author notes, and in classics I like introductions by other authors.
2. Illustrations!!! Also pretty endpapers, maps and nice paper weights.
3. Summer- hammock, Winter- fireside.
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Thanks for the tag @Eggs !
Want to play @dabbe @Chrissyreadit @Addison_Reads @batsy @Gissy
so-soI enjoyed the art style, especially the coloring, but overall this didn‘t capture the magic of the original for me. #MoreMehThanYeah #MiddleGradeMarch #BirthdayPixieReadathon @megnews @sblbooks @Lizpixie
#FaceOnTheCover I adore the cover art on the edition of Anne of Avonlea I‘m currently reading!!! There are so many beautiful editions of this series that I kind of want to collect each of the 8 books in a different edition (apologies to all my friends who are currently freaking out imagining the disharmony of my shelves if I go through with this plan ๐คฃ). #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI was having trouble concentrating on this so I switched to reading while I listened to this full cast recording version and the combo was fantastic! #Bookspin #BirthdayPixieReadathon @TheAromaofBooks @Lizpixie
Thank you to @TheBookHippie for reminding me this was happening next week! Iโll be joining Christine and over 150 others on various platforms in this #TransRightsReadathon from March 20-27. Iโll be posting here and on instagram, you can check out my instagram post for more info.
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My favorite casting of any book #AdaptedToANetflixSeries. Anya Taylor-Joy IS Beth Harmon! #MarchMagic @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
