We were watching Amanda Gorman talk about her life & perform her poetry in our freshman class today.Our students were mesmerized & immersed in discussing her work. This recent collaboration between Amanda Gorman & Jan Volger( playing Bach on cello)is stunning.
https://youtu.be/pWrCVWfNDf0?si=mSHNVaP3fkojZSs-
pickWhen I started this book,I immediately wanted to bail.Nahid,the narrator has just been diagnosed with cancer.She came across to me as a despicable person-angry,nasty, to her daughter & those around her.But something pulled me back into her story & I am so thankful I responded to that pull.As her life story slowly emerged,as she struggled to understand her journey herself & cope with her diagnosis,I began to feel empathy.A refugee of the Iranian🔽
pickPerfect book for #naturalitsy.A library find,it has a little bit of everything:magical realism,romance,storytelling, witching of the best kind.Three sisters have inherited family gifts: Sage communicates with & heals plants.she can marshal them to do her bidding.Teal can use emotions to affect the weather-when angry,thundering & lightening storms,the dead Skye tamed animals such as bears.How do they use these gifts?Love,family,loss are themes.
#SpringSkies #womeninsports
My heroine!
Wore my red “equal pay” shirts during A US Women‘s soccer Friendly played near me. Spearheaded by Rapinoe, the women‘s team was suing the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination and equal pay. Eventually They won the suit.⚽️💪🎉🎉
1) Back at work after a week‘s vacation, walking when weather is good!
2) Our blooming pink magnolia tree!
3) in state of Connecticut, Tariffville,USA It is sunny, 69 degrees
4) tagged
Consider yourself tagged Littens!
My suggestions for #CampLitsy24
—The Cemetery of untold Stories because I enjoyed her previous books & the whole concept of the book fascinates me.
— The Swans of Harlem- to learn more about the lives of these special women- intrigues me
— There‘s Always This Year- on Basketball and Ascension — I love basketball - on basketball & storytelling
— The Hunter - Tana French‘s novels/thrillers are engaging, at times disturbing, unique characters
#HyggeHourReadathon #litsolace
- Epigraph from tagged book
-my 2 pets, Em & Pie sleeping with me as I read
- discovered tagged book during library visit today
- blue flower planted under Magnolia tree
- picture of my son I found this week in a box,when he was at about 20 months - still a nature boy (man).Just had to share his adorableness!
This cover (library book) while not as colorful/ beautiful as the other posted with @TheBookHippie ‘s discussion questions, is sparse with gray to green hues which seems representative of Zorrie‘s life so far. “out of this shadow,into this sun” epigraph, I says it all. Just loving this book.
#bookreport
Finished top row. #readyourkindle #NancyDrewBuddyRead #AngusBrodieandMikaelaForsytheMurderMystery #3
#ReverendMotherAquinusMysteries
Bottom row I am currently reading .
~ Nature Tonic- a daily check in for 365 days #naturalitsy #litsolace
-Zorrie #sundaybuddyread
~Some Of Us Are Looking #Dingle #veteranianprotagonist
~ Femina #WomeninMiddleAges #nonfiction
#serieslove2024
~ Past Lying #KarenPirie #audible
Combining days 9-12
Day 9- NightBlind-#setinsnowice
Day 10- A Psalm for the Wild-Built #NFTechnology
Day 11- A Better Quality of Murder #cvrWfaceobscured
Day 12- The Art of the Heist #VillianPOV
pickThis book redeemed my last experience in the series.
I walked with Brunetti along Venice‘s cobbled streets & narrow alleys.We glided over canals & raced in water busses.We drank coffee & wine in its bars.A curmudgeon owner of a Murano glass making factory threatens the life of his environmentalist son-in-law because of his political stance.Then a night watchman in his factory dies under mysterious circumstances.Brunetti looks into both issues.
pickIt took me a month to read this harrowing & beautiful “biofiction”.I had to put it down at several points,as evil in the past & present merged.I resumed reading when I recovered & felt strong again.
A must, must read.
#generationaltrauma “ I carry within me, inscribed in the very cells of my body, the memory of an experience of danger so violent that sometimes I think I really lived it myself, or I‘ll be forced to relive it one day.”
Please read!
pickMaisie confronts political change in #14 in this series.
It‘s 1940.Britain & France are at war with Germany.Maisie is hired to investigate the disappearance of a young man who is working on a secret contract.During the investigative process,Maisie discovers links to the underworld,a beloved friend‘s son goes missing,& allied forces are stranded on the French Coast of Dunkirk.Each of these events affect Maisie‘s life. #serieslove2024
What a lovely, uplifting idea @DebinHawaii ! #5JoysFriday
1. Quiet vacation mornings on my porch,with coffee & a book.
2. Poe & his antics!
3. My eclipse cereal box viewer
4. Memories of Eclipse Nebraska 2017
5. Our first magnolia tree pink buds
Consider yourselves tagged: @emz711 @dabbe @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Tamra
Morning coffee with Em. 😻☕️#cofffeeandbooks #catsoflitsy #readyourkindle
It‘s rainy & cool outside so we are all cozied up together.
⭐️ 🕵️♀️ 🤫🐄
⭐️ All the Broken Places, John Boyne. #libraryfind
⭐️ Louise Penny, Donna Leon, Anne Lamott
#wondrouswednesday
This afternoon‘s library finds. #lovelibraries
“Oh, Nancy,” teased George, “ there you go again, dreaming up another mystery!”
#NancyDrewBuddyRead #LittenDetectives
Noonday reading. #cofffeeandbooks #porchlife
My son bought me this beautiful pottery mug from the Shelburne Museum (VT)where they witnessed the eclipse.
#NancyDrewBuddyRead #littendetectives
Late morning coffee. This book is lovely- perfect for my vacation week. I just hope I can keep up with this daily once I am back at work. Very simple prompts to remind you to sit with nature, hear its sounds, observe its emerging beauty. One prompt for every day of the year. #coffeeandbooks #porchlife #naturetonic #naturalitsy #litsolace
This book.
My morning reading. #coffeeandbooks
How many times in history did this happen? According to to the author, beginning with Reformation, libraries were decimated by varying religious groups, with the intention of burning “controversial texts.” There are lists of these books.available today.“ Femina” was the category that destroyed female texts were cataloged under. I am reading the into- so much to digest on every page!
1) hope to see the eclipse, but looks like it might be cloudy. on vacation the rest of the week I have no plans which is glorious.
2)coffee in the morning, water later in day.
3) I have tons of book marks which i do use, but often it‘s a found thing near me- tissue, mail, ribbon,etc.
4) current read is tagged.
Quote from Chapter Eighteen title page. Every chapter has a quote,often, but not always,attributed to Thomas Aquinas. I love this image. #readyourkindle
pickMy first Robert Barnard,& it won‘t be my last.The corpulent,despised,tyrannical,insolent Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs,collapses after a sip of an Apéritif at his birthday dinner.His wife is bewildered,his 3 children relieved,having suffered his nasty sarcasm & control all of their lives.A popular mystery writer, he bequeathed his wife, unpublished book that promises to be a sensation,is missing.Was his demise murder? #serieslove2024 #readyourkindle
#springskies ( I am waiting for them!) #twins
My sister gifted me this book, her book club read. Sounds fascinating. I have a brother & sister who are twins- although not identical they have a special bond & look out for each other always.
Up late last night watching UConn v Iowa game - nail biter- UConn lost, 69-71. They did a great job keeping Caitlin Clark from 3pt scoring, with only 8 players to depend on.
Consequently,late morning coffee & reading.Em is curled up on my lap, totally content.😻This is perfect to read right now-spring weather & flowers interspersed throughout.Our weather has been crazy-snow Thursday, cloudy,cold,windy the last few days.#serieslove2024 Hope for☀️
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#springskies #involvesart This is the 2nd Gabriel Allon book I have read.It is a fast paced,complex thriller,that is impeccably researched.Allon is an art restorer & and reluctant Mossad agent/assassin,who is painstakingly restoring a Bellini painting in a Catholic Church in Venice.There is a plot to assassinate the current Pope from within the Vatican because of his plans to heal the breach between Catholics & the Jews. 🔽
What I hope to read in April. Some my choices; others buddy reads.
#NDbuddyread #bookedintime #inquisition #philosophy #nunlit #sundaybuddyread #historicalfiction #libraryfinds not pictured: #readyourkindle, #audiobook
Started this tonight;happy to be in Maisie‘s world after so much excitement in my world!
Glued to TV-two nail biting Women‘s basketball games: Iowa with Caitlin Clark,beat LSU, 94-87 to make the Final Four, followed by UConn with Paige Bueckers,beat USC 80-73.Iowa & UConn play each other next.It will be beyond a miracle if UConn wins! #bleedblue #UConn This household is so excited.Both UConn‘s Women & Men‘s bb teams the Final Four! #serieslove2024
#MarchStats
~ 1 nonfiction/memoir
~ 1 historical fiction
- 1 political/ espionage thriller
~.1 dystopian novel
~ 2 Misty Isle mysteries
~ 1 religious/suspense
~ 1 historical mystery
~ 1 Rev. Mother mystery
~ 1 cozy
~ 1 Ancient historical mystery
~ 1 Brunetti mystery
#serieslove2024 - 9 books!
12 books in total for March. The Postcard was by far, the best of the month, if not the year. ***** 5+ stars.
#hyggehourreadathon #naturalitsy #litsolace
#springhassprung
I put many of my pots out to welcome spring & celebrate Easter, empty of plants, alluding to bountiful blossoms to come. My across the street neighbors garden is blooming with spring, spreading hyacinth‘s aroma when I walk by.Then there is Easter Dinner of leg of lamb, parsley carrots, mixed mushrooms & mashed potatoes. It was yum!
Winding down in bed…Blessings to all!
#marvelousmarch #serieslove2024
Read some wonderful books but by far the intense,heartbreaking,generational “survivor” story, The Postcard, is a stand out on its own- 5 ++++ Stars. The other 4 books are part of a series, or as in Murder in Westminster,the first in a planned for series.
What a fabulous #litsyfoundfamilyswap! Thank you so much Alexus! The books look like fun reads& of corse all the snacks have me all set up for reading sessions! You did a great job sussing me out!
Today‘s #libraryhaul. Getting ready for my spring vacation starting next week, April 7.
It‘s 50 degrees- some wind, but I am sheltered underneath Starbuck‘s porch. Enjoying a lunch of a ham & and cheese croissant with a latte,feeling the sun and hearing bird song.Oh for spring to really come & stay!!! But I am grateful for today‘s taste of the season. #naturalitsy
“Nature isn‘t just scenery,” he would say. “It‘s not around you, but within you. It is inside you, just as you are inside it.”—Uncle Boris
#naturalitsy #litsolace
Myriam & Vincente hike up a steep slope to hide out in “The Hanged Man‘s House.” There they make beds out of Spanish Broom. With so much horror, trauma, heartbreak & generational bone deep, cellular sorrow, this image of beauty spoke to me.
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