What I am reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller & The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman
What I have been watching: The Mandalorian & Stumptown
Every month I take part in the My TBR List Poll, asking my blog readers to vote on which book I should read next. If you want to cast your vote, visit my blog and scroll down to near the end of my post:
https://www.literaryfeline.com/2020/01/weekly-mews-happy-2020new-booksjanuary.ht...
#FirstBook2020 #nowreading
Every time I considered which book to start the year with, this one kept popping into my mind.
Happy New Year everyone!
One of my bookish goals this coming year is to read more poetry and books in verse.
My daughter's dance studio is putting on the ballet Le Corsaire this next summer based on a Lord Byron poem. Perhaps I'll give that a try.
Do you read poetry? What do you recommend?
#poetry #readpoetry #poetrymatters
#Two4Tuesday
1. All of the re-reading I did in 2019 was children's books (and a couple middle grade books) I read with my daughter. The most memorable was an old favorite of mine: Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
2. My favorite December read: The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor. I love Gaynor's writing and the way her words breathe life into her characters and the setting.
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I received this beauty for Christmas. I can't wait to read it!
"Enchantment is a fickle mistress, Mr. Emmerson. We would all do well to be wary of her." - Grace Darling from The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
"I didn't scream." Suddenly the tears were an ugly waterfall, hot and gushing, and someone has to know after all this time, I had to tell someone. “He . . . Edwin made a mistake, you see, because I was so shocked that I stayed quiet, which misled him, so it was entirely my fault, you understand, that he . . . that he . . . because I didn‘t scream.” [pg 326, Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
"I think that interpreting events as signs from God is a slippery slope," I begin... [Chapter 7, 21%]
"I guess it ain't something you get over, though. You keep on going through it." pg 30
Loving May's My Lit Box which just came in the mail!
I treated myself to these four books, finally using up my e-book settlement money. They've been sitting in their box unopened for about a month or two now. I don't know why I tortured myself that way. Maybe in case I didn't get any books for Christmas, I would at least have these to open. But I did get books. Many books, and now I have these too! Yay!
It's been a rare bookish Christmas! ❤️
So excited about the November #MyLitBox which arrived in today's mail! Looking forward to coloring with my new pencils in my new coloring book (I'm sure my 5 year old will demand I share). And I can't wait to read Nicola Yoon's The Sun Is Also A Star. [As you can see, my cat insisted I share too.]
What better way to get in some reading time than at the hair salon. I just started The Unit.
Am I the only one who gets excited when an author remembers to include the little details in a book? Like making sure the cat has a litter box upon arriving to a new living space?
What better way to enjoy a Saturday morning than laying under my tree on such a beautiful day reading?
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