#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

Bookish problems

#5joysfriday Friday is always a joy but I love how I pay attention through the week for what brings me joy so I can post them here 1. New nails always bring joy 2. Memes that make me feel seen 3 lunch with a friend who is thinking about moving back when she retires 🤞🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 4 tonight we see an adaptation of P & P and I‘m so excited 5. Yesterday was Happy Meal Day and I treated my sister and my son to some happiness and Diet Coke

I‘m counting Floss because I‘m currently reading it with #hashtagbrigade and it has to count for something! I did start Ivanhoe that‘s on this list but I‘ve barely touched it so I left it off #TLT #Threelistthursday

It‘s the weekend now, right?

What a sucker punch of a book! A love story that encompasses every kind of love and all the ways they can go wrong and right ❤️💔❤️💔❤️💔

A new audio book to do the “to dos” with and some Lego breaks

#TwoforTuesday 1. I just prefer to be reading - sitting, lying down, leaning, walking - there‘s a book for it 2. I just started In Five Years in print, I‘m reading Summer at Tiffany on my kindle for #sundaybuddyread , I just started listening to Kasher in the Rye on audio and I‘m slogging on with The Mill on the Floss on the serial app with #hashtagbrigade ( I‘m following along with #littensloveacotar ‘s reading of ACOFAS which I inhaled )

I loved Brittney‘s voice! I inhaled this attacking my to do list today. The patriarchy wants to keep all women down and white women breeding. Stand up for your sisters

Next up on audio and bag #4 of pink flower bouquet Lego. White women wearing crosses on tv talking shit are doing feminism a disservice ( BC is not saying this, I am) women who aren‘t feminists are not living their best life

I love Finlay so much!!!! I thought so much was getting sorted out, finally, at the end BUT of course Findlay‘s life is still a complete mess! So more books for EC to write and for me to love. I‘ve got the 4th FD in my Book Outlet cart as I type

Sunday night #hyggehour I love Finlay

I enjoyed listening to this, at times it was almost meditative. The talk about art and being compelled to create and adrift when there was no inspiration was so interesting, listening to the struggles of addiction was hard. A quote that stood out for me that came from the Koran “Action will be judged by intention”. I‘d like to ask a few people in power about this. It was disjointed at times

Getting ready for May‘s #sundaybuddyread I could inhale this book

#5joysfriday 1. April lasted FOREVER and the weather sucked for the most part so a lot of books got read 2. Apparently the weather was perfect for magnolias! The tree has had its best year in ages 3. I was gifted a jewelry chest and I‘ve been sorting my beads into it ( composite jewelry like pandora, I‘ve got multiple brands and too much) 4. My sister bought me a custom coaster for my Diet Coke 5. Homemade pizza is the best

Thank you @dabbe for posting these, I love a good list! 1. My favourite is Pride & Prejudice ( an adaptation is playing in our local theatre and we have tickets next Friday 🎉 2. I‘ve never read The Great Gatsby and I don‘t think I ever will so my kids can always say they‘ve read something I haven‘t 🤣 3. I‘ve got On the Road beside my bed to read and maybe this will be the summer I finally do 🤷🏻‍♀️ no tagging cuz I‘m a day late

I‘m a day late for #literarycrew it started with a murder and a cast of characters I mainly abhorrd. 100 pages in and I wondered if I‘d keep going. Almost immediately I started liking it more and cared who died and what was going to happen to them all. The politics of the day aren‘t too far off today‘s

I‘m dilly dallying with my #literaryclub #buddyread I will join when I can hopefully sooner than later ( I‘m on page 100)

Next Lego set

For all the Sherlock fans here ( it opens to reveal scenes from stories) I hope this is a whole new category of Lego ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I finished my telephone box and put it with my ‘set in the UK‘ books

This was spectacular on audio imo and I was totally blindsided ( also someone tell what the hell the ending meant)

Stupid stickers ( still in pyjamas at 4 pm but my bathrooms are clean )

I read about this somewhere, got it from the library and read it at night before sleeping when The Light Pirate stressed me out too much. A light romance ( the male character‘s inability to remember condoms I think was meant to be scatterbrained but after reading Ejaculate Responsibly it just feels tone deaf)

Thankfully I‘m not finishing this during a snow-storm

Independent Book Store Day means a short drive to St Mary‘s to my favourite wee shop to buy myself some essentials 🤣🤣🤣 here‘s hoping Camp Litsy chooses Julie Chan to read and if we don‘t I will go back and buy the others #independentbookstoreday #booklover

This is just such a haunting story of how the end of times could/will happen. It‘s beautiful and got so fraught at one point I couldn‘t read it before bed because my dreams were stressing me awake. A perfect book to read in April for Earth Day which we should honour on all of our days 🌎

Friday night is lit with Lego, a gin & tonic and this audio book. All my loves together 🤣🤣

#5joysfriday why do short weeks sometimes feel longer? I‘ve worked 2 weeks straight in grade 1 and I‘m exhausted 🥱 random joys 1. I voted early 2. Puppy visit with Griz 3. The magnolia is having a MOMENT 4. My niece and I having matching manicures 5. My oldest left last night to work at a YMCA camp in Alberta for 6 weeks. An exciting and a bit nerve wracking new challenge for him. I‘m full of joy for him taking risks

New audio book so I can keep Lego-ing

Cold brew coffee float for breakfast #winning

#weekendtreads I need a new audio book but my holds are not cooperating

#5joysfriday 1. LONG WEEKENDS 🎉 2. Mixed media collage art I did with the grade 1 class I‘m in for 2 weeks is absolutely the cutest ever 3. The magnolia season has started, buds are splitting 🌸🌸🌸 finally feels like spring might be here 4. Date night last night at a Japanese restaurant we can walk to and whisky highballs ❤️ 5 started a new book with some chips and wine 👌🏻

Cozy mystery, demons, set in a library and the possibility of more books = love all around especially for @AmyG for gifting this book to me

I‘m always surprised to see what‘s included on the lists

MM is a romance writer & was looking forward to going to a Romance book festival in the US but the US is kind of unpredictable right now so MM decided to cancel her trip. I felt bad for her and so many other artists who are having to make such hard choices. So I bought a book
It‘s lovely. Not too spicy. It‘s well written, good dialogue, the main characters are interesting. I‘m surprised she hasn‘t got an editor but maybe everyone doesn‘t want one?

This book is important. It‘s also A LOT. It goes way back in time to how we gathered and why ( we love a unifying narrative) and all the ways those narratives have caused us harm or to do harm. We are the smartest and dumbest of creatures. It all leads up to the creation of AI and the good and bad it can and will bring. We need to create self correcting strategies. We need to fund education. We need to start yesterday.

Holding onto an outdoor reading day with both hands and in shorts 🤯

This is my first time making suggestions for Camp Litsy #camplitsy25 I‘ve included 2 Canadian Lit suggestions ‘Lake Burntshore‘ and ‘Julie Chan is Dead‘ 🇨🇦 ‘Second Chance Convenience Store‘ was a best selling novel in South Korea in 2021 and that had me thinking about Butter ( which was odd but I‘m really glad I read it ) and I love a translated novel. ‘Welcome to Murder Week‘ is just a vibe 🤣🤣 I can‘t wait for camp

To celebrate Indie month aka April I thought I‘d try an Indie author who‘s Canadian too. It‘s a romance and I saw on the socials she was going to go to a big Rom Lit festival in the US but has had to change her mind because of all the uncertainty with crossing the border. So many people are having their lives turned upside down 😢 so far so good with the story

Friday night: a new book from @AmyG to read together, fresh tulips that my husband brought home, a gin&tonic made by husband, salt & vinegar chips ( best kind) and I think the snow has finally gone for good

Building away. YNH is talking about how computer algorithms can go awry and referencing Facebook's involvement in spreading lies and misinformation against the Rohingya people. I read about this in Maria Ressa's How to Stand up to a Dictator. What's awful is even when people called out the lies and called on FB to stop the algorithms, the damage was done. CBC spoke this week about how easy and cheap it is to buy groups on FB with followers 😢

Reading for #sundaybuddyread thankful my husband took poetry courses in uni and we kept all the Norton Anthologies ❤️❤️❤️
I am certainly still waiting for the April
that comes like a babbling idiot strewing the flowers. I only have the mean AF one with snow flurries

I read all over the place and I think my results confirm this, as I read the synopsis of the books to choose I kept thinking “but is it well written? cuz if it‘s like Simon Winchester or Colleen Hoover then it‘s a maybe “
Want to try ? https://www.readyourcolor.com/red I think green must be the “how to lead the people to the promised cubicle category” not a fan

A Christmas gift and a book I‘d never heard off 🤯
A mystical magical story of a woman who travels the world alone to stay ahead of a mysterious illness
It‘s a lovely but odd story. There were times when I was captivated but others when I was just “wrap this up” and yet it went on. The ending was lovely

#5joysfriday I haven‘t taught all week so it‘s been a lovely quiet chill couple of days of doing whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it 1. I‘m obsessed with the Color Block Jam game 2. Finished the little flower arrangement Lego set 3. Started the telephone box Lego set 4. Book Outlet order came in ( cuz I need more books 😆) 5. Date night last night to a restaurant in the ‘hood we‘ve been going to try forever. Everything was amazing