pickI LOVE this book. A bit of Harriet the Spy wrapped up in a coming of age story set in Montreal in the late 60‘s. Audrey Parker is befriended by a neighbourhood when she and her father move into a duplex in Notre Dame de Grâce. All the stars and all the love for this glorious story
It‘s 5 pm on Ontario‘s election night. Some might say I‘m self medicating. They‘d be right. Despite making idiotic campaign promises & never following up on them. Selling off green belt land to cronies, slashing health care and education budgets, spending bazillions of tax payer money to break contracts, negotiate deals with foreign investors and driving the province into a hole people will still vote for him because they are ignorant and selfish
pickRead with #hashtagbrigade and despite some parts being hard to read on an emotional/historical level I LOVED IT! I hope Esther went on to live a good life
Next up for #hyggehour I‘m laughing out loud on the first page #booksbringmejoy 🇨🇦
pick🇨🇦 what an absolute roller coaster ride of a delightful book! We meet 5 people and a fish who live at the Seville on Roxy and follow the chaotic domino effect of choices they all make/have made leading up to the 30 minutes we spend with them and see how it all plays out. So much fun, what an adrenaline rush this story is
so-so#sundaybuddyread historical fiction about the early days of the movies transitioning to talkies, based on the life of Colleen Moore. I don‘t know why I couldn‘t get into this, I‘m not sure I‘d have finished it without the group. Maybe the movie theme again, maybe the waste and abuse of power? Right at the end the museum curator says she wants to show Doreen‘s movies in another exhibit as a tie in but most of them are gone. The type of film ⬇️
pickMy Friday night. I was so tired all week and last night was the same. I stayed awake long enough to finish ACOTAR ahead of the #littensloveromance buddy read. I was starting to see too many spoiler reels on FB ( how does meta know what I‘m reading? 🤔) I quite like this romantasy rabbit hole I‘ve gone down and I think we are reading the second one together too ❤️❤️🎉
pickInhaled another book, AJ writes a fast and easy romance with a touch of magic
pickThis is touted as a love letter to books and reading so that‘s why I bought it. The story is told from 2 points of view, Erin and James, it was a slow start for me - both of them unhappy with jobs, parents, romance and not feeling too likeable, not bad just down. Slowly the changes start and slowly the light gets in and all the books and notes and new perspectives start. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Getting my Buddy reads read for tomorrow- The Bell Jar and ACOTAR are really engaging me, I‘m having a hard time with my other reads 🤷🏻♀️ there are worst problems to have on a snowy long weekend when the whole night can be #hyggehour
Sunday morning caffeination is a go
#5joysfriday #1. Happy Valentine‘s Day #2. Loving the ACOTAR Buddy read #3. Mona Lisa is coming along #4. I got ‘diet coke‘ nails - to quote myself - a French manicure with chrome base and red tips #5. Sometimes AI is god tier bonus #6. It‘s a long weekend with more snow forecasted and I just want to read and be a sloth
A stay at home day for me and after I did all my buddy reading and word games, I started this and vacuumed, washed the kitchen floor, did laundry, made an apple cake and a big pot of chicken orzo soup for dinner. I‘m quite liking this so far
Time for some comfort reading
A breath of fresh air #hashtagbrigade 🎉
so-soI read this for an irl book club and it‘s okay. Paige does an ancestry test that she gets free and finds out her dad wasn‘t her dad. Then it‘s two timelines while she tries to figure it out now and what actually happened back in the day. It‘s going to be a good book club as we talk about how everyone feels about choices that were made. Women have had to make hard choices forever
so-soPretty much ended the way it went all along - random people introduced, short tale about them, a sprinkle of Laura, a 90° tangent taken with the tale, more random people, repeat. ?
pick#5joysfriday Pretty low key week where I tried not to get overwhelmed by assholes in politics 1. My son brought home lunch for me today 🍔🥤2. I ordered a lot of books from Book Outlet #booksaremylovelanguage #selfcare 3. I had lunch with my sister on her birthday at a new chicken place 4 & 5 I am completely hooked on the Empyrean Series, I finished the first 2 this week and I‘m trying to wait until March to read the 3rd 🤷🏻♀️
My little #februaryreads stack for book clubs and Buddy reads and just because ❤️❤️ look what came @TheBookHippie your #naturalitsywintercardswap with the cutest birdie bookmark
pickWHAT THE ACTUAL F with that ending?!!!! I‘m exhausted from this roller coaster 🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭
Somehow this was in my Twitter feed today - I have no memory of this in what I‘ve read so far so maybe it‘s a spoiler for the few chapters we have left. This screening app also has Gilmore Girls and Midsummer Murders
Warning: be careful where you stop reading at night or your brain will wake you up repeatedly trying to puzzle out what will happen next! Note to self: KEEP READING you will be exhausted regardless and you might as well know what happens
@AmyG you are the BEST! What an absolutely lovely gift to come home to today ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I would totally be up for a Buddy read!!! Let me know what works for you - my email is pmcclure@rogers.com I‘m excited to read this ( I love books about libraries and magical creatures so much)
Finally getting on this bandwagon
pickThis was so good! What a fantastic story about a train wreck of a family
#5joysfriday thx @dabbe for tagging me, I‘ve gotten out of the habit of looking for joys and that‘s just sad 1. It‘s been a good month for reading and I have 4 on the go to bring in February 2. The #naturalitsywintercardswap cards keep rolling in and brightening my days ❤️ 3. My Lego Mona Lisa is amazing 4. Tarrif talk has me embracing ‘made in canada‘ 5. I have felt seen by all the memes about January and it‘s never ending self
Jumping ahead to February‘s #literarycrew read on audio and doing bags 5 & 6 #audiolegoing
Finally started one of my Christmas books
#bookwormslimited this chapter was a joy ( although the games Laura plays between books are a bit 😳)
pickTruthfully when I first started this I was a bit meh, but it grew on me and by the end I was sobbing. I‘m glad the nurses of Vietnam‘s story has been told, I can‘t even imagine how brave and strong you‘d have to be to finally ask for help and then be dismissed
pickHow is it not Friday yet?! So there‘s wine with my book because “wishful drinking” is happening here. I read this with #littensloveromance and I quite enjoyed it - I loved the public radio theme, the banter and dialogue was great and a superior villain emerged in the story ❤️❤️ it was spicy but not formulaic so I recommend
#naturalitsywintercardswap I FINALLY got my act together and sent out all my cards - 27 people should hopefully get a card to brighten their day soonish ❤️ sorry it took me so long, between the strike and the strike after effects ( backlog) and then having to hit the ground running teaching everyday I just dropped the ball. But I wanted all the cards to get mailed together 💌💌💌 so afterschool today all cards were successfully sent on their way
pickI think this was on the books that feel like a hug list? I read about it somewhere and it‘s just the loveliest magical escape from reality ( ish cuz there were a few passages when I thought they could be talking about Cheetos man and his peeps)
If you like TJ Klune, girl protagonists, choosing the right thing over the easy and a bit of magic - this is a book for you ❤️❤️❤️
Audio lego -ing with bag #3 and laundry, always laundry
CA writes historical fiction, this story is set in the summer of 1939 in the Côte d‘Azure at the inaugural Cannes Film Festival. It‘s exciting and informative. I like CA best when she is retelling history, when she is just telling a story it always feels rushed. I don‘t know why she can‘t just take her time with her part of the story ( I live for the day I finish Lark Rise to Boredom) #sundaybuddyread
pickI know you can hear this 🎶🎶
pickI took the day off work and cleaned my house and had a smidge of this story left so opened a new Lego set to get to the end. What could this be? I loved listening to Meryl Streep tell the story of Tom Lake ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Andrew Pyper passed away earlier this month. I read this book so long ago, set in northern Ontario in a place very much like where my in laws cottage is located. Every year when I get to the cottage and am going into the lake for the first time I think about this book and I have to pause. That is phenomenal story writing, that it haunts me decades later
I have had so many library holds come in at once I don‘t know what to read first #thestruggleisreal I started this last night and I had no idea this was how it was going to begin 🤯 I want to stay in bed all weekend and read all my books ( the books in the background are my TBR shelf/piles and it is ridiculous)
pickThis was the most wonderful book to read this week every night before bed ❤️❤️❤️ I loved being back in Marsyas
