‘Had about as much to do with the issue as the great love-song of Mozart‘ 😂
Ok, I suppose this ends well, with diatribes against concentrated capital and a biased press, but this was definitely a fascinating wild ride!
We can substitute ‘dr suess‘ for Mozart today...

Kind of a slog with interesting political and cultural diatribes at intervals...not sure what to think of the fellow. 🧐🤔

The first chapter didn‘t hold my interest, but then the author goes into her childhood experience of being Ida B Wells‘ great grand-daughter (!! Talk about burying the lede!), and her early life is totally spellbinding. She‘s 25yo currently... 🤩

Reading...deceptively simple? Will have to do some research to prepare for live bookchat on wed with a real live early 20th century historian!! #booktube 😉

Photo: today‘s #springwalk

And my enchanted cat, who likes the blanket in the empty Tupperware.
3.75? It was very delightful in both its luscious prose parts and its cutting humorous observations but it ties up too neatly and not deeply enough for me to feel it to be really Excellent. What do y‘all think?
#beancat #beanreader

This was a Great book, I just didn‘t feel that wowed by it. The writing style is dreamy and evocative yet piercing between actions, and it gave me a lot to think about but I don‘t find it staying...buddy read discussion on YouTube much more interesting!
How I did my hair for #EdwardianHairAttempt #marchofthemoderns 👒

What I used to imagine #historicalpeople ate based on fantasy books, before I did real #historicalresearch for my books...
Lololol 😂
#authorlife #fantasyfood #itsnotalwaysstewOK

Quite a marvelously satisfying stack so far for #MarchOfTheModerns!
Will be whipping through more #whipple soon 😍

#persephonebooks #modernwriters

I am just ADORING this novel by Dorothy Whipple from Persephone Books (UK)!!
A good bet for #MarchOfTheModerns, happening on #booktube 😊🍀🥳

I‘ll be chatting with author Camille Di Maio about her #dualtineline #histfic THE FIRST EMMA, which was a very good read.
Anyone else like strong women? Texas beer? Women standing up for themselves? Happy homecomings?Sweet love stories? 🤗
https://www.youtu.be/W-V4AZ6T2c8

This is the look I am giving this book. Too many historical slips, too much purple prose, 24% DNF. I need to find a better series of #regencyromance for comfort!
Suggestions?

Choosing to slay
Today
With Earl Grey
🤗
And this book is going better than my feb BHM reads!
#tea #slay #blackhistory #blackclassics #marchofthemoderns #booktube

Blanket upon blanket for comfort, that is what I‘m betting I may need (and the cat) for my reading of this book. Although it‘s starting out pretty mild-mannered, nothing like Invisible Man...

#blackhistorymonthcontinues #marchofthemoderns #booktube #readathon #bookishcat #beancat

Lots to contemplate on my first good walk in a week.
Getting out feels GOOD, and like I‘m wasting away at home mentally, socially...anyone else?
#pdx #skyline #cloudy #feelincrisp

After a significant amount of DNF time, I picked this book up again as 1st pick for my Patreon Book Club: BOOM! Accountability.
There were glimpses of intention, reform, passion but the packaging (voice, format, word choice, range of content) made it pretty inaccessible/off-putting.
I‘ve never hate-read before, but I feel like this was necessary for part of this book.
Necessary for learning, perhaps.
Photo from yesterday‘s walk in SE #PDX

Magic mountain.

A wonderful, entertaining, dignified regency romance.

#wintersunrise #mthood #pdx #technicolor

A job worth doing, a job well done. No black ice on my watch!
Back into Survival Math for the #PatreonBookClub coming up this Sunday, 2/21! Check it out! https://bit.ly/2FFnZmt​
Our first book, for #blackhistorymonth and for #pdxhistory! #bookclub #litcommunity

‘Winter conditions‘ indeed, here in Portland!
Good time for reading, although I didn‘t know I was settling into a horror ... 🥺😳😓
#blackhistorymonth #booktuber #snowyreadingday

We have no dreaming spires to be taken for Oxford, but Portland can put together a divine sunset!!
Reread this book last night and this morning. A dashing plot and fun setting in Japan and Oxford.

#nofilter #pdx #mystery #comfortreads

Starting my February strong.

#blackhistorymonth #blackclassics #1903 #blacklitchallenge #diversereads #nonfiction

I was here when I heard, “how do you measure the soul of a city?”
Such a great, honest, timely, curious, big-hearted book.
Listened via #librofm #moderncities #pdx #viewfromawalk #pnwonderland #mentalheath

That was a quick snowstorm. Are we done for the winter, Portland?
Back to cold and cloudy. Still good reading weather.
Excited for this stack of Persephone books I just received, more info to come for #MarchOfTheModerns on #booktube!
Lean Out is really good, too!

The cat and the current read.
Look at that eye.
I should rename him Smaug.

#catsandbooks

Just starting this book but buoyed by a return to reality in our nation...now for unity and progress...looking to hope with the new dawn.
❤️

Omg—such a quick read, but leaves me with life-altering questions. I‘ve loved the movie for ages, put off reading the book for silly reasons, but now excited for a livestream chat on Booktube about both!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHWGdqzEFdA
On Saturday, 9 am pst if you also LOVE AUSTENLAND! 🥰🤗🤩

Rearranging my natural found objects vase... seemed like it fit in with the theme of Trace, which I‘m finding more musing and memoirish than illuminating so far..
#moss #lichen #foundobjects

Yes there is magic in the world.
Still reading Priory... each scene is so tight as to be surgically taut but I find it leaves little room for heartwarming moments...
What is the general consensus in this one? I‘m angling toward 4 stars, 75% through...

And the book we‘re reading is really good too!!
Hear hear for Priory! A breath of fresh air from actual strife and strain...
#SFF #dragons #wyverns #magic #catsaremagictoo

Haul time!
What, you don‘t use your books as wall-to-wall carpeting?
😁
Recognize any from YOUR favorites pile??
All from the eminent #backstorybooks in #pdx

Help me decide?
>>also help me, my cat won‘t get off my lap...
Should I listen to
1)))How to Fail at Flirting
2)))Starless Sea
3)))Yes No Maybe So
4)))Square Haunting
????

Orange sky in the morning, readers take warning??
Starting a new book, back in my own bed:
Ahhhh....
#thatview #pdx #sunrise #dawnoftheday #worldbuilding #skyline

The optimistic physical stack for January.
Any feedback? Survival Math will be Patreon book club pick for Feb 10, if anyone is interested in a discussion!
#pdx #race #caste #bookclub #variety #buddyreads #icontainmultitudes #diversereads

New year, new paper organization.
Notebook, anyone?
I‘m an author; I‘m allowed 😅😇

#paperhoarder #cleanpages #newyear #cleansweep

And a happy new year!
Probably won‘t get to finish it for 2020, but started this audiobook yesterday...very hyped but two chapters are not giving me joy...yet!
My fabulous book-listening-walking ensemble for Sacramento, USA winter.

Walking and listening...and seeing evidence of the World‘s and especially America‘s consumption problem on my walks...it‘s an interesting amalgam of personal experience with her mother‘s hoarding, societal analysis, and historical storytelling so far. Guess which part is my favorite...

#victorianlover #clutterbegone #konmari (she does seem to be down on Marie, though 😢)

The memoir parts were fascinating and heartfelt, and the tree—ogham part was more like a meandering through a forest of interesting details—will want to go back to listen to that one, as my phone was having tech issues...
Loved listening to Diana!

Yep. This is about my speed at the moment.
Big book fest coming up with #Jolabokaflodpdx and I‘m really hoping we do our authors proud.
Uploading to YouTube in bed, totally past my bedtime.
Packing up house again tmw, ready for the #finalcountdown... help me, readers, you‘re my only hope! 😂🙏

I‘m no good at cropping but this. Book. Is. Beautiful!
So far it‘s got Brehon law, Anglo-Irish feuding, aristocratic child neglect, mental health discussion, and plant lore. And the author reading it is delightful.
SIGN. ME. UP! 😁🌿

#plantlore #brehonlaw #ancientireland

I didn‘t like the book but that doesn‘t mean I wanted to turn it into a towering inferno!!
😂😂😂

Buddy ol‘ pal is here for a cuddle while I start my next buddy read for #Booktube!
#beancat #cuddlyvibes #homefortheholidays #havecatwilltravel

I‘m just starting Worthy Brown‘s Daughter and so far it‘s got tight pacing and a no-frills, very direct description style, like I imagine most Westerns have. Happy that I get to learn about #Oregon‘s history!

And this is a screen cap from a #tiktok I did for #Jolabokaflod PDX, the litfest I run: you guys want to hear from authors on Dec 19-20?? Check out our schedule! Www.jolabokaflodpdx.com 🎉🥰🤩

So I got this book during the summer, and it‘s my first Audre Lorde. She‘s pretty striking, going by the moniker: Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet.
She‘s talking deeply, philosophically, about the pains of intersectionality, but also positive ways to relate across specific differences, in a way that is understandable and touching.
#pullsnopunches
& the pic is the full moon through our frosted bathroom window (right blob) —so weird right??

Thanksgiving baking makes me think of the bubbly pies Piemur was so fond of in this nostalgic series...
Excited for this Sweet Potato Delight today: no marshmallows!!
#dragons #comfortfood #southernrecipe

A little disappointed in this book after so much anticipatory hype. It a fascinating story of injustice nonetheless...I hope there‘s some comeuppance in the end...
A neighborhood decoration to go with the title.
#scaryneighbors #orangevale #nativereads #indigathon

My mom worked on this for four hours. It was DELICIOUS but please, bakers, CONSERVE YOUR ENERGY! It‘s a long week!!
#pavlova #meringue #magazinerecipes #idratherbereading

And I‘m back to The Huntress as I‘m on a long trip tmw and this one has 10 hours left, just about right!!

Let‘s hope whatever this weather is doesn‘t happen to me in my way to California ...

But srsly: 😳😳😳 #apocalypse #cloudporn #sky

#beammeup #alienabduction #roadtrip #pdx #pnw

Oh, loves. These stories are so raw and affecting.
I did not expect to be brought to tears by this early morning reading but here we are.
Such brilliant portrayal of snatches of Native life.
#yourecrying #bethpiatote #nezperce #pacificnorthwest #turtleisland #indigathon

Why, THANK YOU, Mr. Trollope for introducing me to a truly delicious word I‘d never known existed!

#victorian #learn #vocab #inadvisable

And so, after waking absurdly early, I am reading about Black Goth culture, the difference between terror and horror, and why Black people in America have a ‘spooky‘ relationship with the gothic—with a hey-ho and the wind and the rain...

Such a good discourse. #library #goth #spooky #earlymorning