The whole first layer is finished - up to bag #22 - from here on out it‘s details 🎉🎉 I am thoroughly enjoying this history, remembering my essays written on the Black Death in uni, but having completely missed the price the Jewish people paid ( W the AF ) when they were blamed even before the disease arrived in towns 🤬

The people Gabriële touched in her life blows my mind! Her relationship with Picabia was insane! That she was such an awful mother breaks my heart for her children, but not everyone is a good mother and what choice did G have in that day and age? Francis was such an utter twat. I loved reading AB and CB talk about their perspectives. The work they put into this ? #europacollective

My last audio book got clawed back before I finished so I started this while I do errands, putter and Lego ( this is Van Gogh‘s Sunflowers )

Peace out to the 2024-25 school year! It‘s cocktails and reading on a weeknight now 🎉

OMG this book!!!! I love it so much #camplitsy

I finished this #littensloveromance last night. It‘s probably the spiciest spice level I‘ve read becasue it‘s unrelenting. The Canadian settings are fun- Toronto, Guelph and cottage country, a fair bit was cringe and I feel like Violet became a different person as the book went on or the author wanted to cover too much on top of the non stop shagging

Cheers to The Weekend ? I‘ve got one more week of school to go ( probably only 2 days in person but who knows) I‘m still plodding along #europacollective Ch 17 - Gabriële & Francis have gone to America I continue to despise F who‘s pissed off they couldn‘t travel first class, F was going to sulk the entire crossing until most of the ship was seasick except him & an exotic dancer who put on a show every day giving him a reason to get up

#5joysfriday all my joys this week centre on my youngest, Beckett 1. 2. Convocation from TMU with a Bachelor in Fine Arts focusing on photography and dining out for dinner and lunch to celebrate 3. 4. Cocktails and dinner at Lao Lao, a Laotian restaurant 5. Lunch at Richmond Station - best fried chicken ever

This Cinderella retell with an LGBTQ twist is the perfect June read #sundaybuddyread

Before dinner swim and finishing the first half so I‘m ready for next Saturday #camplitsy my brain is SWIRLING with questions about this book. I‘m getting all kinds of crazy vibes from books I‘ve read before. I love how I can see this place in my minds eye

My Buddy read stack is a bit bonkers right now with #europacollective #camplitsy #sundaybuddyread #littensloveromance #littensloveacotar which should maybe morph into #littenslovesjm and #hashtagbrigade I also have an audio book on the go just for fun. They all have different due dates so it‘s manageable and most are light and easy

#5joysfriday 1. The biggest joy was the talent show at school today! It was AMAZING! All of the kids were so brave and so talented that I am literally filled to the brim with joy! It is days like this that makes teaching the absolute best job in the world! 2. Flowers growing in the parking lot at school 3. My garden - orange and magenta = JOY 4. Laundry on the line 5. Jane Austen Lego coming soon ❤️ best week ever

I LOVE Jenny Colgan! I laugh and cry and smile my whole way through every book she writes. This one is no exception. I dream about going back to Scotland too

Coming soon - June 19 to 27 - a GWP at Lego ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ you have to spend $150 to get it and I of course just ordered 😬😆😫 but I will order again

Getting ready for #littensloveromance facing off tomorrow, woo Nelly this one starts off 🌶️ fast, 3 chapters in and WOW (I‘m not mad the hot guy is 🇨🇦 😆)

I had three leftover geraniums from a plant haul at Costco and I had an inspiration just before I fell asleep. Finished this audio book up puttering around - some laundry, some planting, some dishes. Now I‘m at loose ends 😆 EH is always a lovely read. This one is about the importance of friendships at different stages of our lives and how different people can fill that role

I‘ve gone down a rabbit hole back tracking the chapters I‘ve read so far @tpixie ( I‘m about to start chapter 9) Thank you so much for mentioning this 😘 #europaeditions #europacollective

#hyggehour is starting early and now I‘m matching my toes to my next book

My nails look really good with this book 😂 truthfully I don‘t know what to say about this #camplitsy read. The first half felt like MC left most of her thoughts/words unsaid thereby creating tension/drama. The second half was an alternate universe what if? where she read drama into every scene in her real life. Maybe I‘m not as smart as I think? It was compelling to read- I inhaled it

#5joysfriday I‘m so tired that I‘m not sure I‘d remember all the joys without this prompt 1. I went for an afterschool swim this week 2. My rhubarb harvest was top tier 3. A local flower grower had a peony pop up after school today so I bought myself flowers 4. My book outlet order came today AND 5. My Sherlock Holmes Lego set got delivered today too #tgif

It‘s almost Friday #praisebe

When I should have been exercising or making dinner, I was making a giant batch of Nuts n Bolts becasue a neighbour gifted me with some bugles ( we can‘t buy them in 🇨🇦 anymore 😭) and listening to my audio book #summercanstsrtanydaynow

#camplitsy has commenced - I love the 🌈 ish cover

I was sad at the beginning because I was just not connecting with this but then Henry came along and I couldn‘t put it down

One more #camplitsy read has been acquired ( and treats)

I inhaled this on audio! I wasn‘t expecting to get it so fast for June‘s #literarycrew but here we are. I loved it. Please note I am a total grudge holder just like Hazel! It‘s a ♋️ 🦀thing. Also my vendetta against rabbits continues. I planted 2 cucumbers in my garden instead of my raised beds and I thought one had succumbed to cooler than usual temps BUT NO, it‘s the goddamn rabbits. This was was so healthy and alive this morning 🤬🤬🤬

#5joysfriday 1. May has been a good reading month - I didn‘t work a lot this week so finished up some books and got June reads all lined up 2. Gardening is an addiction, we‘ve had a lot of rain so everything except one cucumber plant seems to have settled in 3. A new Canadian winery to me wine order 4. Latest Lego set 🌻 5. Children‘s hospital fundraiser with my sister last night

A few more #camplitsy2025 books have made their way into my greedy little book hoarding hands thanks to Indigo‘s 20% off for teachers sale ( and my plum plus discount too 🎉 ) and my guilty pleasure #alihazelwood 🌶️🌶️

It‘s not often I find a dedication with my name. I‘m pretty sure V.E. wasn‘t talking about grudges here 🤣 ( which I‘m very good at 😣) and now that I‘m well into the story I get it, and I‘m so glad I kept going ( the 100 page rule of perseverance doesn‘t often let me down)

I‘ve kept going ( around page 150 now) and @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage you are right about the Henry parts ( I also like that Addie is finding her groove in both timelines and doesn‘t feel so desperate) I am intrigued by him and why he hasn‘t forgotten her

Despite having a house to clean and an unending to do list in the garden, I just want to build Lego a bit so I started Sunflowers to take a break from cleaning and gardening and not from this book for #literarycrew

The most wonderful time of year ❤️ Camp Litsy reads here I come

Getting ready for Sunday

I thank all the gods we have evolved from this puritanical codswallop than rams societal expectations down our throats and calls it literature. I am ENRAGED at this ending

Apparently fairy smut is my jam 🤷🏻‍♀️ last night when I was supposed to be reading my next 3 chapters for #littensloveacotar I accidentally read to the end 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️ oops I think this was even spicier than the other books 🌶️🌶️🌶️

On audio. Once again I put a hold on a book because the cool kids were reading it and I wasn‘t wrong to so
It‘s nice to read about women your own age being fierce and giving no fucks
I can‘t wait for the next instalment

I really enjoyed this sweet romance with a cross between My Fair Lady and Cinderella vibes. Thx #littensloveromance for the light hearted buddy read

This has been on my TBR for ages and it‘s also one of my irl book club picks but I‘m struggling - after 1000 Doors of January and A Short Walk Through a Wide World it just feels flat or more of the same ( I‘m only about 50 pages in so maybe it gets better - always try to do 100 pages just in case )

This was a quick, sweet and easy read - I‘ve always loved Tiffany & Co and I enjoyed this insiders peek at working there

I am LOVING this #littensloveromance buddy read although in this case it was dancing without gloves 😱

How did we live without audiobooks ?! This book features 4 60 year olds who are retired from being assassins and while on a cruise treated like doddering old fools while I, a 60 year old, shovelled all this dirt 🤬

A long weekend spent maniac gardening to this fantastic audio book! All the plants are planted and of course I want more but the dirt and mulch awaits me as I continue my sweep around the yard weeding and topping up all the beds. The rain comes tomorrow so I‘ve got to hustle

I loved Normal People but I LOVED this more
Again with the flawed people you aren‘t sure you even like and yet they are so REAL. You want so badly for them to get over themselves and work their shit out
All the stars

Maniac gardening continued today, thankful this finally came in from the library

#5joysfriday this week lasted forever, school is bonkers and TGIF 1. Wine delivery from Quebec, quirky and fun 2. Eurovision is LIFE, can‘t wait until tomorrow for finals 3. Weather has been so great I‘ve been reading in the ‘tub‘ not just swimming 🏊🏻‍♀️ after school we drove Beckett ( youngest son) to catch GO train in another town so he could go to Toronto to visit girlfriend & I could go to 4. Ikea for new lounger 5. Take out for dinner 🎉

I saw a random post by Mayim Bialik about her top 5 books and since this is the kind of thing I love on audio I looked it up at the library
MK is a fantastic writer - he is witty and clever and raw and so funny. He lived a lifetime before he could legally drive and somehow came out the other side alive and well.

Not as good as I thought 🤷🏻‍♀️I hope we can attack some of these with #hashtagbrigade

I‘m ready for #littensloveacotar

Happy Mother‘s Day to all of the kinds of mothers there are in the world. You deserve more than a day

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