up next.
spring break, i love you.
tomorrow we hike - walking and reading hasn't worked well for me in the past, but i may have to give it another go. :)

read with my girl & despite my initial hesitation (Charlotte shares a habit with her great great great grandfather) & some language, this was a fun read together. If you're a fan of the originals (or even of the show), pick this up. perfect spring break reading.

a family read (listen, actually). 4 out 5 thumbs up.

'Dear old world,' she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.'
~ Anne of Green Gables
so so good. five stars.
(Can't believe this is my first time reading it & trying not to take issue with the adults in my life during my apparently deprived childhood. 😉)

"The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time. For that moment on the porch is not a now that was but a now that is and will be...."

afternoon tea on what should've been a snow day.
trying not to hold a grudge by indulging in a few minutes right here with Wendell.

"The Psalmist declares, 'This is the day that the Lord has made.' This one."

The sun's shining, it's somewhere around 70 degrees & it's Thursday. In an effort to reclaim a day 'off' & together, there's also coffee & books.
This one.

also - glad i didn't wait another second to start this one!

"And so it was literature that brought me back to life during this time." - Paul Kalanithi

Though he had always been a careful planner, life on the frontier had long ago convinced him of the fragility of plans. The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible.

"There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between."
Listened to this & the narration was perfect -don't miss the interview @ the end if you do the same.

I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about, and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, Weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened.

well, i already love it.

the beginnings of a new project + Chief Inspector Armand Gamache = this coffee break may last longer than it should. 📚☕️

friday night, y'all.
i know here, the ideal nature of the way it's being spent (& the likely disproportionate excitement experienced as a result) will be understood.
Happy weekend, fellow readers!

really should document this more often. ❤️

here i go - hooked right outta the gates & looking forward to this adventure!

a dusting of snow + twinkle lights + coffee + poetry...winning saturday morning

so enjoying Jacqueline reading this to me while finishing up a blanket. beautiful - the writing, the narration, the storytelling. after reading 'Another Brooklyn' earlier this year - if Jacqueline Woodson writes it, i will read it. hope to finish up tonight as my last book of 2016.

i won't lie, i'm reading this because i've wanted to -
but also in hopes of convincing these boys o' mine to wake up wanting to put a book in their hands as opposed to a screen. always looking for the ones that will capture their attention & imagination.
(irony - i gave in so i could read 😂)

Christmas afternoon reading. oh happy day.
swiped this one from my girl's new pile.

Happy Birthday, Jane!
i'm honored to share it with you. 🎉

the common reader "differs from the critic and the scholar. He is worse educated, and nature has not gifted him so generously. He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinion of others. Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of whole"
❤️
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takin' a break to read (or, rather, be read to) & knit on the porch in the sunshine while my youngest shoots hoops. ❤️

because i must abide by my own rule.
#booksbeforemovies

"Either way, he figured a cup of coffee would hit the spot. For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn, calm the reflective at noon, or raise the spirits of the beleaguered in the middle of the night." -the Count
Raising my mug to the Count & to finishing AGiM on this fine, fall afternoon. One of the most well developed characters i've had the pleasure of knowing.

Ah! There is nothing like staying home for real comfort. ~Jane
Knew y'all would 'get' the joy & delight of staying in and reading on a friday night. 📚

All the necessities for our semi-annual family 'read-in.'
and a pumpkin. because fall.
finished The Gilded Years & returning now to Moscow...
#fallreading

pumpkin o's & commonwealth in bed for the win. brought to you (or, rather, me) by the resident teenage boy while his younger brother sleeps off a fever beside me.
hoping it's (commonwealth) riveting (is it??) - much as i'm enjoying the company of the Count, it's taking me too too long to finish.
#agentlemaninmoscow #commonwealth #fallreading

because i'm a litsy rookie & a 'blurb' is more what i was going for with this - as opposed to a review.
BOTM delivery & wondering which Tana French to start with - this or The Likeness?

BOTM delivery = perfect timing for the long weekend.
Thinking of starting The Trespasser as my first Tana French. The Likeness is in my TBR pile - start with that first? Tana fans? #mmdbookclub #tanafrench #botm