#shelfsweeper #historicalfiction
I know so much about the transcendentalists time & its men from reading & teaching, but not enough about Margaret Fuller, who is neglected in history.This is fiction, But I will see if I can find a biography as well to eventually read as well. Anyone know of one?

May Possibles.
Two are #ShelfSweeper: Finding Margaret Fuller & North Woods.
#4Elizabeth

#BookReport

#sundaybuddyread #nonfiction #hummingbirds #poetry #audiobook #DCIBanks #WesleyPeterson #DorothySayers

Saturday morning porch reading. After a week of clouds & rain, it is heavenly to sip coffee on my porch. #sundaybuddyread

#5JoysFriday
🌸 National Indie Bookstore Day my-My choices are displayed on my couch.
🌸 our magnolia tree lost lots of petals due to rain-still beautiful
🌸 Spirit week at the HS-staff & students had such fun following a daily schedule of creative dress ideas- to match the first letter of my name,I was a kite for day- clipped to my back with a semi-tail! High energy, joyful chaos!
🌸 immersed in poetry thx to #AprilPoetryChallenge
🌸 Em-cat!

My April 2025 stats via StoryGraph.

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day30 #glitter

“…rocking the glittering coach”.
The Dawn is a poem written by William Butler Yeats which was in a poetry book I own titled, “Poems for Morning”. It is not in Litsy‘s database.
The photo is one I took a recent early morning at dawn.
Lynn I loved reading everyone‘s poems each day this month! Thanks for creating this challenge!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=7&issue=5&page=1

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day29 #cat

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day28 #midnight

This is from Watching the Perseids by Jeff Myers. This book of poems chronicles his father‘s treatment for & death due to cancer, as well as his own responses to the aftermath of his father‘s dying & death. It is authentic, raw, heartbreakingly beautiful.
This book was not in our database.
If you take a photo of this post & enlarge you can read the poem.

#HyggehourReadathon
A little tea, some penuche walnut fudge, a book& my kitties makes for a lovely hour. 💕💕💕

#weeklyforecast
Top row: Summer at Tiffany -start #sundaybuddyread; continue with Have His Carcase #HarrietVane; You Are Here-#poetry;
Bottom row: The Bone Garden #WesleyPetersonMystery- finish; The Hummingbirds of Summer #nonfiction -read at least 1 ch; Death in Focus- #audiobook #ElenaStandish-start

Finished TMITBS. I thoroughly enjoyed this!Anne Beddingfeld,the protagonist is intelligent,curious,self aware,independent,& seeking adventure & travel.After she witnesses a terrified man fall onto train tracks,she observes the doctor who came to his aid going thru his pockets,then hurrying away.She notices a paper by with a few numbers on it. What does it mean? What terrified the man? Convoluted plot where all is not what it seems. #ChristieCapers

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day27 #find

Top row: Just started Man in the Brown Suit today-thoroughly enjoying Anne Beddingfield as she creates her own adventures! A Summer of Hummingbirds, Have His Carcase #ChristieCapers #nonfiction #HarrietVane

Bottom row: took me most of the month to listen to The Queens of Crime, #audiobook #DCIBanks #poetry

A pick me up afternoon coffee & Agatha Christie to read on this dreary, rainy day. #ChristieCapers #April

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day26 #tulip

This #8 in the DCI Banks series is a stunner.
A man is charged with the murder of a wealthy, prominent politician‘s daughter.Prior to his trial,the accused spends months in jail,which he narrates in minute detail.I don‘t want to give anything away, but suffice to say there is a clever multi layered plot,& an in-depth character study. The surprising ending left me cynically wondering if her murder will be avenged or court justice will prevail.

My blind date book: The Alaska Sanders Affair by a Swiss author. I am intrigued! #NationalIndependentBookstoreDay

A morning of visiting my local Indie bookstore,& breakfast at a nearby diner.My friend & I were greeted at the door with a mimosa,games with prizes,buttons, bookmarks & a a blind book date.Purchased 2 books: Bibliophobia, & the tagged book.
The dinner,The Quaker Dinner is 93 years old- a place of nostalgia for me,as it was a destination of choice when my sibs & I were skipping Mass & it rained.The local reservoir‘s was for sunny days.😏

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day25 #Time

Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii
#5JoysFriday
1) sunrise
2) immersed in poetry - 💚💚💚 thanks to @wanderinglynn - such a heady experience discovering poems & so enjoying discovering other Littens choices
3) protest on Saturday
4) daffodil- favors at my niece‘s wedding 6 yrs ago-
5) Our magnolia tree in bloom

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day24 #fountains

“from the center of my life
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.”

#NationalPoetryMonth #AprilPoetryChallenge #day23 #green

Gideon Oliver is enjoying his Dorchester honeymoon with his new wife Julie when he hears that at 3:30,000-year-old skull was stolen from a nearby British Museum.A body is discovered in the sea & Gideon is asked by the local coroner to use his forensic skills to help identify the body. Meanwhile,Gideon hears from an old college professor that a colleague is directing an archeological dig where this dead man worked.As Gideon‘s & Julie‘s detecting ⬇️

#AprilPoetryChallenge #day22 #earth #AlexDimitrov

Top Tow: #sundaybuddyread #diaries #ChristieCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3 #foodanslit #Rowanda #readyourkindle #DorothySayers #poetry
Middle Row: #AprilPoetryChallenge
Bottom Row: #bookedintime #ChinaQuingDynastyPost1912+ #nonfiction #hummingbirds #audiobook #QueensofCrime

#bookreport
Top Row: #sundaybuddyread Trying to catch up this week; #Audiobook #QueensofCrime; #nonfiction #hummingbirds #readyourkindle #DorothySayers
Middle Row: #poetry
Bottom Row: finished books #memoir #DCIBanks #GideonOliver #forensicanthropology

#NationalPoetryMonth #day21 #broken #AprilPoetryChallenge

#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #day20 #sky #AprilPoetryChallenge

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Starting my Easter morning with coffee & a book. We are going to brunch at my sister‘s at noon-lots of family coming. Happy Easter! 🐣💛

I love this book! My sister introduced me to its splendor. 🪽

“ In this final phase, which remains our own, the best picture of God is the hummingbird.”

Agatha Christie humor.

Today I feel spring around the corner- reached 71 today. I feel exhilaration after attending a protest in Hartford, always coffee, the “ Robert Tree” our Magnolia is starting to bloom, kitties, tonight‘s sunset, Litsy friends, the ocean at Banks Street Beach, Harwich Port,Cape Cod,books!, my first porch day with coffee & a book, sisters, hummingbirds yet to visit my garden. #hope #joy #love #gratitude #resist #nature #moodboardcontest #mbc

Spent #chatterday at Hartford‘s Capitol building joining in the National protests. #protest #democracy #resist 🇺🇸🇺🇸 ☕️

In the 70‘s today. A day to be outside in nature! #daffodils #hyacythscyllia #magnolia #RobertTree #birdsong

The closest I could get to “mostly.” #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #day19 #RobertFrost #AprilPoetryChallenge

#NationalPoetryMonth #April #day18 #water #AprilPoetryChallenge
These poems were translated by Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsky Dunham in 1985. They are included in her book, Collected Poems, which is how I was introduced to this Russian poet.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

My #weekendreads
Listening to The Queens of Crime , which is a delight, while cooking & driving. Diving into Aaaron Elkins‘ novel, began A Summer of Hummingbirds, & trying to catch up with Edna St. Vincent Millay. #audiobookmurdermystery #forensicarcheology #hummingbirds #sundaybuddyread

‘“A cadaveric spasm had caused Rothwell to grab and hold onto a handful of dust at the moment of death,and Banks thought of the T.S.Elliott quotation, “I will show you fear and a handful of dust,”which he had come across as the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel.”‘
A wild,ingenious plot, with unforeseen consequences for many of the characters.Bank‘ nemesis “Dirty Dick reappears to the consternation of Banks.At Banks request,big, bumbling,but astute ⬇️

“ I soon discovered that almost all the actors I‘d begun to assemble on my little stage…were fanatical about hummingbirds…my attempts to trace the origins of this informal cult of hummingbirds,kept leading back to the Civil War…American during and after the Civil War gradually left behind a static view of existence…they came to see a new dynamism and movement in their lives…This dynamism… found perfect expression in the hummingbird.”

#5joysfriday #gratitude #Joy

Top row: 3 days on Cape Cod, MA with my 3 sisters! 💕💕💕💕
Bottom row: all today- in the 50s, my first day of the season on my porch. Neighbors out walking, bikers cycling by, birds singing. Coffee & a book! 🚶🏻‍♀️🚴‍♂️☕️📘 🪶🐦‍⬛🎶☀️ A taste of spring…

First coffee of the day; first coffee on my porch!
In the 50s today -I am so excited!

1) tagged book
2) A Time for Defiance - too much military/fighting WWII & rather pathetic sister left behind in England. Probably others but this was a recent DNF
#WondrousWednesday

Music to soothe the soul. Song is more incorruptible than love. Songs endure & pass through generations while love can be transient.
#ElieWiesel #Akhmatova #DCIBanks #EdwinMarkham #MairaKalman

#nurseryrhyme #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #day17 #Thursday

https://music.apple.com/us/album/5-childhood-lyrics-i-mondays-child/445486835?i=...

#poetry #EdnaStVincentMillay

Sister love. Ocean love. Sand love. Seashell love.
Wine & zucchini fries at The Hot Stove in Harwich Port- shared stories, constant laughter. Celebrating sister love.#sisters #grateful

Lunch & book shopping with my 3 sisters today- so much laughter & book talk!
#NationalPoetryMonth #vacation