I‘m spending the morning elbows deep in @bookriot business, and it‘s sufficiently rote for me to get my audiobook on. I usually listen on a higher speed, but the Irish accents are charmingly challenging.
1️⃣ CatsAway. Hasn‘t been updated & doesn‘t work anymore. But deleting would 💔
2️⃣ 🤔🤷🏻♀️ But I‘m squeamish, so anything that‘s not gory horror.
3️⃣ Jelly Belly jellybeans—but only certain flavors! 🍉 is 💯
4️⃣ @JonathonLynch who just joined because he‘s married to me & I have access to his phone 🤣 But srsly, I need him to bother other people for 📚 recommendations.
5️⃣ I‘ve been neglecting Litsy! Making my spouse join might fix that. 🤗
BB-8 has competition for the position of best New Republic droid.
The dialogue in this series is great in audiobook format because it is written by Chuck Wendig and performed by Marc Thompson. Couldn't wait for my audiobook hold to come in, so I went ahead and borrowed the ebook. But I can still hear Thompson switching between the plummy ex-Imperial and the bratty teenager and it's delightful, even though it's slowing my pace.
I'm staying up to finish this, but also playing with photo editing apps to postpone the conclusion of the series?
so-so100% borrowed this just because of the cool cover design. 100% crammed it in before bed last night because I forgot I had it, and the digital loan was about to expire.
Enjoyed the world and the kooky instructors (probably excellent audiobook material), but the ending felt rushed and all too deus ex machina.
Just finished this #reread inspired by my most recent @bookriot Thursday video.
And this is me every day with my two-year-old. And I'm sure the feeling is mutual. #parenting
Lap cat and I were in the mood for a #reread this evening. Well, it's been over a decade for me, and he wasn't even a twinkle in a tomcat's eye back then. But doesn't he look nostalgic here? #catsoflitsy
I almost forgot! #24in48 Hour 42 Literary Dinner Party
Taking this #24in48 #readathon to my stoop while I try to head off the fro-yo delivery person before they buzz my toddler awake. Sugar and fresh air keeping me going now!
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Doing some #24in48 #rereading for a potential #BookRiot Thursday video...
#GraphicMemoir #signed
Toddler's in bed, spouse is at rehearsal, and I'm about to dig in to a book and some GF cookie dough. It's okay, the container gave me permission.
pickThese are the people who just reminded me that short stories can be incredibly satisfying.
I don't know why I laughed so hard at this.⚡️⚡️⚡️
Yes, Peter Pan is #SetOnAnIsland too, but this desert island comedy of manners is actually my favorite Barrie play. Excellent class commentary for its time. #SeasonsReadings2016
#bookmail early Christmas present to myself (as if I actually justify book acquisitions)
My toddler, all day, every day.
I'm aiming for something soothing post-HOMEGOING, and in the prologue I find out Alexander von Humboldt was worried about manmade climate change in 1800. SMH. Our failures as a species are going to keep me up tonight (and rising sea levels are going to drown my descendants).
pickYou're going to feel so many things—about slavery, civil rights, identity, the flavors of love. You're going to want to learn more about the history covered in the book. And you're going to want to learn more about your family's history, even if that includes trauma inflicted on or by your ancestors. You're going to fiercely hope you live to love grandchildren, or at least long enough to talk about this book with one generation after you.
#abecedarianTBR Part 3 for @BookishMarginalia 's #LitsyAtoZ challenge!
pickDoing #Advent with the toddler. Randomized titles of Christmas and winter books. This was today's read and it's one of my favorite books ever. 🎅🏻
Raise your hand if you're uncomfortable with how much this resonates lately. 🙋🏻
Having worked in Chicago theatre, I can tell you this is 💯 plausible.
🙌🏻I just found out the NYPL lets you pay your overdue fines online!!! 💻💳💸
I told the spouse that when I'm elderly I want a long white beard I can stroke wisely. "That doesn't surprise me, but I need time to adjust." "Okay, I'll only wear it on Sundays." If I can negotiate an additional day of the week every ten years, I'll be set. #thankfullyreading
Been putting this DRC off, but he's moved on whether I read this book or not. And eventually, I always want to read him.
so-soI liked the writing, and the setups were intriguing, but the follow-through was kinda dull.
pickHe meditates on commencement addresses, funeral orations, and invited lectures he's given, weaving stories in and around the original texts. Unsurprisingly, then, it's a bit self-congratulatory. But it's also a fair portrait of a person who keeps fumbling around the big questions of life, occasionally touching something that may be adjacent to an answer.
Appropriate advice for practicing my calligraphy (noooo I'm not fishing for compliments—don't invalidate the quote!).
Alan Alda gives "now" too much credit.
pickI was so tempted to peek ahead, but I'm so glad I didn't. The last couple chapters were especially good, adding layers upon layers to already richly drawn characters. One of my favorite coming-of-age books.
pickMy Gilbert frequently sits upright, like the titular Taylor. He does not share these cats' temperaments, however, and would be a miserable library cat. I came away from this delightful read appreciating that not every cat is well-suited to a library (and vice versa), but dearly wishing every library had a couple of feline occupants.
I'm a Montessori-educated person who is simultaneously 😱😳😂 by the tone of this book!
I'm taking respite in cemetery snobbery.
Gimme one more minute.
Okay, I'll keep reading about the aftermath of WWII.
Not quite able to review this yet. This reading experience has gotten all tangled up in my feelings about my mom. Right after I finished I opened a pancake mix she sent me and cooked up half a dozen, all of which I ate there and then. I never make pancakes.
