#5joysfridays is brought to you this week by flowers and Coldplay 1. I bought myself flowers 2. My hibiscus bloomed 3. I bought some more pollinators for the garden and #knockwood 💀rabbits are leaving them alone 4. I finished Lego Sunflowers and it‘s better than I thought it could be 5 all the memes about the outed affair at the Coldplay concert, not even Coldplay knew how relevant they could be with the right marketing 🤷🏻‍♀️😆

My book outlet order came, perfect timing, and now I can reread Sense & Sensibility to prepare for seeing it at Stratford in a week 🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻

Delightful romance, part 2 in the ‘part of your world‘ series and just as good

All week ( it‘s Tuesday FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️) I‘ve been stressing a bit about reading Woodworking cuz it‘s the 4th #camplitsy book so that means we are on the other side of camp and summer. Less books ahead than behind, my basement glow up still not started, effing back to school ads because of stupid states that go back to school on a ridiculous time line 😖 but OH MY GOD I love this book! I have stopped at the halfway mark, I am DYING to talk about it

Planting more pollinators despite the heat wave, where are the bees 🐝?

The ending of this !!!!! Just ARGH! I loved being back with Gamache and Beauvoir, I missed Three Pines, learning about Gregorian chants was so cool- it feels like yesterday the entire world had that Gregorian Chant CD playing - but oh my god, that mother fucker of a Superintendent Francoeur 🤬🤬🤬 rotting in hell won‘t be good enough

Happiest of birthday days to @dabbe I hope you have a lovely day in a joy filled birthday month

#hashtagbrigade at this point in the story we are not reading fast enough!!! I have read ahead to tomorrow‘s ch 45 and I am losing my shit over how callous and self centred Cynthia is - like every chapter SHE IS WORSE! If Molly ends up dead because of the usual Victorian nonsense re:there is no coming back from trial and tribulations and that narcissist ( #notclare) and her soul sucking offspring live on I will implode FFS🤬

#hyggehourreadathon closing out Wimbledon with a Pimm‘s Cup and kicking off the next #camplitsy read for July #livingmybestlife

Just a float and read day here

#5joysfriday 1. It‘s my birthday today and there will be ☕️📚🍷and my gift to me - red light therapy mask 2. My husband got me A&W bacon and eggers for breakfast 3. He also made homemade lemonade 🍋 (which is joy in a glass) to drink with my new book 4. My coneflowers are in bloom ( I love the colours so much and I saved these from the rabbits 🤬) 5. We went to the beach this week to visit friends from Denmark and a highlight is always a sunset

My reading corner has a beautiful addition ❤️ thank you @dabbe for thinking of me. What a beautiful and thoughtful gift for my birthday 🥰 Litsy has brought me such a wonderful community of readers and friends, I‘m grateful every day

I don‘t know why my copy has a canada sticker on it. I can‘t wait until Saturday to talk about the second half of this. I can‘t believe how many layers there are to this story and someone was smart enough to bring it into being 🤯 #camplitsy

Van Gogh‘s sunflowers build continues while I finish this book. I loved learning where the food we associate with France came into existence and what was happening at that time. I have travelled a fair bit in France so I could picture so many of the places the author talked about and the food too. It‘s time to go back

#wdncw I am so over meal making

Birthday week, month? means wine with reading every night ✅ enjoying this #littenslovesjm rabbit hole we are going down ( still can‘t remember anything much in these stories)

I‘m was laughing and crying out loud while I read about The Madness that overtakes Andy when he is blindsided by Jen dumping him

#5joysfriday what a week! 1. Canada Day 2. No vodka for Bloody Caesars meant tequila as a substitute and it‘s BETTER 3. Summer holidays kicked off with leaks in our storage unit and from our A/C but in both cases we got amazing prompt help and this meme made me laugh so joy was found 4. I was able to get a Jane Austen Lego gwp off FB marketplace 🥰 5. Today is our anniversary- 27 years of us 🥂

I love reading a book with summer in the title in the summer and I want to go to NYC and do all the things Sawyer and Nick do on their Summer Fridays

Continuing with Van Gogh‘s sunflowers and this audio book- I am going to NEED a trip to France after this

#wedonotcarewednesday #wdncw 1. we do not care that we wake up crabby because we haven‘t slept through the night for so long we forget what it feels like to sleep through the night 2. We do not care for leaks, in storage units or air conditioners- get your shit together things! Adulting is bad enough already without this nonsense

My copy has a different cover from the dust jacket 🤯 also breaking in a new floatie for camp #camplitsy

I have books from the library to read BUT I need to deal with my physical TBR death tower. This is delightful. I‘d like to thank Book Outlet for enabling me and possibly causing my death when all the books I‘ve accumulated fall on me

A reread for #littenslovesjm and apparently 9 years was too long for me to remember anything 😆 I‘m looking forward to reading the series again for the first time 🤣🤣 Goodreads says I read the first 4 but my brain says otherwise

I love AH - her dialogue makes me laugh, I like how she empowers her female characters, her 🌶️ level isn‘t too much. This story centres around an age difference and she handles the misgivings well. #loveislove #theheartwantswhattheheartwants I need to go back and read Not In Love the first in this series ( how I missed it is beyond me )

I was saving this for summer vacation and that starts now

Initially I had R. F. Kuang‘s Yellowface and Cinderella vibes which then morphed into Mona Awad‘s Bunny. It‘s dark and twisted and crazy. 🇨🇦 lit for the win

#5joysfriday 1. Cancer Szn is here 🎉🎉 so school is FINALLY out and my birthday is almost here 2. My boulevard garden is growing into itself quite well 💚🧡💛 3. We got part of our backyard fence replaced to match fence by the house and it looks so good I‘m throwing out an old table and that lounger too 4. Lego sunflowers is coming along and reminding me of an abstract art piece 5. June is a slower reading month but all good reads

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