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#allergictochunksters #2026
Interesting fact. I will be able to finish it in one year if I read three pages a day. 😳
#allergictochunksters #2026
Interesting fact. I will be able to finish it in one year if I read three pages a day. 😳
7) Everything is Tuberculosis ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Writing is good, subject matter is interesting, and the commentary is relevant. LSS: Tuberculosis weaves a long, miserable path through humanity, but the masses bear the weight of suffering far greater than the moneyed elite, who apparently turned it into a status symbol once it reached them. Also, it still exists because rich countries are greedy and cruel.
#12booksof2025
Photo time: 12:30 AM. Middle child is off to Seoul. I had to take them down to the city to fly out of LAX. Much more pleasant drive at midnight than midday. I got home at 3:30 am and I suppose I might not sleep until he tells me they are on the plane. (The tagged book is a Korean light novel I read a couple years ago when the anime dropped. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😊)
4) Lonely Castle in the Mirror—⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My second favorite book of the year.
5) The God and the Gumiho—⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read this (late) for a reading group here on Litsy. Would not have finished it otherwise because I didn‘t like the main characters at the beginning. By the end, however, I really loved both of them and was a weepy mess (well, as much as I can be without being able to cry). I really ended up loving this story.
#12Booksof2025
3) Yeah, this was likely my fave of the year. Tripped over the series at the library and am dying for the next book. I love the theme of found family. It is my favorite “trope” if you want to call it a trope.
#12booksof2025
#dnf Life is too short to read books you don‘t like. Unless you‘re in school, then you have no choice.
1) The Trial of Anna Thalberg—⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Maybe not a book for everyone, but I felt the writing style added intensity and feeling to the horrors of the story.
2) The Book That Held Her Heart—⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ .5 I originally gave it four stars, but time has made me reconsider. The final book felt rushed and was really all over the place. A death from the end of book 2 that was so gut wrenching doesn‘t even receive a mention in this book.
#12booksof2025
This was my haul. Some Dodgers books and magazines and a B&N gift card. 📚 So some nice book stuff. And my long longed for Craftsman toolbox. 🧰
Happy holidays everyone. I hope you all got a lot of bookish gifts. :)
#hyggehourreadathon
It‘s not my favorite book ever, but it seems I like it enough to try to finish all 500 pages. 🤨 🤷
1) Reading about tea—library magazines & books
2) This fantastic tree decor I saw online. It‘s probably not this nice. I‘m guessing it‘s ai. But it made me smile.😊
3 & 4) went to a meeting for the Peace & Freedom Socialist Party last night. I‘ll be going out to work with them this weekend.
5) Finally, my final exam for my Spanish for Librarians class.
#5joysfriday
So, I seem to have started this at the end. Not sure if I‘ll go back and read the beginning. It‘s OK, but ridiculously gory. That‘s not my thing. I‘m fully aware that if you gut someone there‘s blood everywhere, my imagination works just fine, I don‘t need someone telling me what to think. ;)
pickWell, this was splendid. I picked it up at a moment when I could deal with the poetry style. Loved the journey of self-discovery from childhood into university. It gave me some things to think about that I hadn‘t before.
My StoryGraph is @ books_baseball
Painful. Especially since it‘s all worse now. So far it‘s a hindsight roadmap of how we got to where we are.
pickA fairly thorough account of the events leading up to, around, and after of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I think it would be easier to follow if reading a physical copy just because there are so many people involved and it was difficult to follow each thread because so much happened. ⬇️
Finishing The Black Flamingo and hopefully Midnight in Chernobyl this weekend. MC is pretty hefty and I have things to do this weekend that—horrors—don‘t include reading.
#weekendreads
I fell for the B&N marketing ploy and got this for $5. The last time I did this, I wasn‘t disappointed.
Introduced my daughter to this series. That was a mistake. Because I cried, even though I knew what happened. Or, maybe, because I‘ve already read the second book? Not sure. It reminded me of the quote from the movie Romancing the Stone; when Joan takes her new book to her editor she says, “Read it and weep, I always do.” 😂 😭
Uplifting Christmas tale about the vast generosity of humanity and… No, just kidding. The Soviet Politburo sounds like MAGA. Loyalty is rewarded, knowledge is silenced and ignored. Lies spread en masse, and bullying to ensure the compliance of the people. Inevitably, all is lost. The future of all authoritarianism.
I found the folk singer Mon Rovîa the way I find all music these days, through YouTube shorts. ?
#tuesdaytunes
pickA lot of great information and insight. Hopeful, but not saccharine. A deep dive into how creatures evolved over time to survive the harshest conditions and how many of them are fighting for survival against the onslaught of climate change. Good if you like biology or science books. Not too technical.
#weekendreads
Just started for my weekend read.
#weekendreads
A few of the books I‘m working on this week. The God and the Gumiho is a repeat. I‘m reading it with my daughter.
#readinglists
My son went to Seattle and brought me home a souvenir sticker. When he first went last year, I was studying SPL‘s strategic plan for my Master‘s program. His hotel just happened to be next door. And his room happened to have a lovely view of SPLC. It was a happy coincidence that now has him enjoying this library every time he visits the city. #supportpubliclibraries
It‘s been very difficult for me to concentrate on reading for long lately. Lots of stress, been sick, etc. I picked this book up hoping it would hold my interest. Unfortunately, it is yet another bouncing timeline book. I do not usually complain about that, but when you can barely concentrate for 15 minutes, a story that‘s all over the place is worthless. :( I think I‘ll go read some picture books to my kid. Probably better. 😔 #hyggehourreadathon
Went with my son to his favorite gluten free bakery and had some great coffee and read a little.
pickA great sequel to The God and the Gumiho. Good humor, good tension, good mystery—though, this time I figured it out more quickly than in the first. The only thing I didn‘t care for was the smut. A virgin isn‘t going to do certain things for very physical reasons. 🙄 4/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
I pulled out a Fall food magazine to look for some seasonal veggie recipes, and I found this photo from 2016. My daughter, then 9, and I attended her school's family movie night, where they were showing Coco. My son, then 7, refused to go with us because he hates sad movies. I should have heeded his warning. I'm still crying. 😭 😉
I loved the first book, so I‘ve been hesitant to start the second. I was afraid the author would just rehash the first, due to the way it ended. Fortunately, that‘s not the case. Very good, so far.
pickThis was originally for #riseupreads but we got started late. So glad we went ahead and read it though. Great book. My youngest son really enjoyed it and it‘s usually difficult for him to enjoy books without visuals. I liked a story about the importance of being who you really are. And also having a trans character as the main character.
At park day today. Decided to finally go to an Autism Society event. Nice thing about this is, unlike the park events we‘ve attended with LGBT and city groups, they limit the number of people. Everyone can spread out when they need to.
We are the champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #dodgers #worldserieschamps
It‘s always kinda weird to read a book and the day‘s date pops up. 😆 🎃
Re: the candy. We hope there are people who bring their kids around here. In our last place there weren‘t very many kids. But it‘s already nearly 6:30 here and no one yet. 😞
Go Dodgers. 😊
#screamteam #hauntedshelf
My kids picked out some interesting pumpkins this year. They wanted to try something new. So we have a pumpkins twins on the left and a white kitty on the right. :)
bailedThe whole “kid who can talk to animals” has been done a ton of times, but I usually enjoy it. This time, though, the animals sounded more like the kid‘s thoughts. And the animals behaved more like plot devices in the kid‘s story about himself. I couldn‘t make it past the second chapter.
My daughter had a Dr appointment with her new doc in DTLA, so, since it was only 2 blocks away, we visited the LA Library. I have wanted to go for a long time. It‘s one of the few libraries on my bucket list that was realistic. I‘ll definitely be going back because I only had time to look through about 1/10th of it.
For a stand alone, this story is certainly taking it‘s sweet time getting going. Good, but I expected more by nearly halfway through.
pickA cute couple of books in this B&N exclusive found at a Friends of the Library store. Both feature characters with relatable difficulties and how they overcome them. As for the baseball book, it‘s a coffee table book that has a two page spread for each year. Pretty hefty. Very brief overviews. But it‘s baseball, so it‘s good. :)
Good Monday morning. Game 7 of the 1960s World Series. Pirates v Yankees. And reading during the commercials. Last week was a rough one here, so I‘m hoping starting things right will help things along. 😊
#baseball
#reading
#bestnerdstuff
Spent a fun half hour with the TK class, reading and singing songs. *sigh* One day maybe I can do this every day.
