I wouldn‘t say it‘s the worst book I‘ve ever finished, but it‘s pretty damn close. If listening to a 17 year-old boy‘s stream-of-consciousness thoughts about post-Trump rural Indiana is your wheelhouse, then try it, but even for trying to do that well, I wasn‘t impressed. Just a bunch of random nonsense!

0⭐️

Really enjoyed this tale of love, forgiveness, and healing. It is the story of the winding paths two families take over 40 years. I particularly appreciated the subtle perspective shifts throughout the book and how it shaped the narrative‘s pacing.

The stories of Francis and Lena‘s and Peter and Kate‘s marriages show the patience and adaptation a long relationship/marriage needs. 4.5⭐️

My #bookhaul from yesterday! I‘ve started all three already! 🥳🎉📚🎧🎉🥳

It‘s just utterly fascinating that people looked at cheap, mass-produced bean bag animals as a long-term investment?! I mean really. But who didn‘t know someone circa 1998 (my aunt) that owned tag protectors. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And Ty Warner is a fascinating person. He‘s full of sorrow, yet completely cunning. Really interesting #audiobook! 4⭐️

Thanks so much for the #dollarscoregiveaway @britt_brooke !! ❤️❤️ For more information on her generous share, head to her posts!

Nary a likable character in the bunch (except maybe poor trampled Tessa), this is still an amusing diversion of a book. No high literature, but it‘s fun candy. I read it fairly quickly for 400+ pages.

It‘s totally believable. Overachieving parents go to great lengths to get their bratty, mostly average, progeny in the new super Gifted school. The twist at the end was a different one than I thought and a fun addition!

Tressie is hands-down brilliant in her analysis of race, gender, and intersectional feminism. She didn‘t just take old popular essays and stack them in this book. She wrote new ones that took into account feedback she had received from the public and opinion leaders.

She is biting and thoughtful at the same time. Great for fans of Roxane Gay. And soooo much better on audio! #audiobook #audible

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 7!! #audiobookcovers

I signed up for MTV Hits on Amazon because I haven‘t felt my best this weekend. MTV has consistently made me laugh with their reality fare since the first Real World.

However, 16 and Pregnant does make me sad and angry sometimes. Beck is like a full-grown, twice-married, trust-funded version of most of these teen dads. Nothing but bad decision on top of bad decision.

❣️I love to hate characters like Beck!❣️

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 6 #audiobookcovers

An affair with an au pair was #GroundsforDivorce for one couple and another is fighting a Cold War. I‘m only 77 pages in! Trouble in paradise for sure! #redroseseptember

#7covers7days #covercrush Day 5 #audiobookcovers

My beautiful sleeves, including the custom-size smaller fruit one, from StoryTimeSleeve on Etsy! Jena was great to work with on the custom sleeve, and it perfectly fits my YA and other smaller hardbacks as well as paperbacks! (Her regular sleeves take hardcovers up to 350 pages and large paperbacks!)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/StoryTimeSleeve/

Yes, yes, yes! This is an excellent essay collection and a steal at $1.95 as the US #audible #dailydeal! Glad to have the #audiobook in addition to my written copy. 👍🏻❤️🎧

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 4? 🤣 #audiobookcovers

I‘m sorry I‘ve been away. Family has come to town, and I‘ve been in a lot of pain because of entertaining them. I did make time to contact my neurosurgeon, though. 👍🏻 I‘m just trying to hang on! Still love Litsy! 😁😁

I did get some booksleeves in the mail today, which I‘ll post tomorrow!

Hugs 🤗💙

This is the kind of YA romance that I can get behind. Read it if you don‘t like YA. Read it if you don‘t like romance. Because really, it transcends both. It took me right back to making those friendships that last a lifetime. That kind of crazy bonding that doesn‘t happen after 25. Fantastic characters I could really love and root for.

That said, the audio is shit. Definitely read, don‘t listen!

I was worried. I really didn‘t enjoy Truly, Madly Guilty, and I was afraid I wouldn‘t like this either. Reader, I had nothing to be worried about! Thoroughly enjoyable with excellent pacing, fun dialogue and an engaging premise.

Yesterday, my frustrations with my life came to point, and now, I‘m trying to clear my head. It was really great to finish a book this morning about people getting on with life. Sometimes shit works out! 👍🏻

Enjoying every moment with my guy! His kidney disease continues to worsen, but I‘m doing everything I can (without making him miserable) to keep him healthy. The last three days were rough, but he seems to be stabilizing. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻❤️🐩❤️ #henryclay #dogsoflitsy

So I actually went to VEVO to watch a Dire Straits video, but this came up next, and I finally started smiling today. I mean you can‘t help but sing along and remember the words 30+ years later!!

Any other first generation MTVers agree?

#paulsimon #callmeal

#7days7covers #covercrush #audiobookcovers Day 3

If anyone else would like to post a cover they find beautiful for the next 7 days (no explanation), please do. Lord knows we could use more beauty in the world!! 😊😊

So some people on audible have already finished SK‘s new 18 hr audiobook, including this fellow who is very confused about centuries. Normally I try not to make fun of people, but Mr. King: author of the future!! 🤯🤪

I kept on trying to give him a typo benefit of the doubt, but 🤷🏻‍♀️

#7days7covers #covercrush #audiobookcovers Day 2

I‘m posting 7 audiobook covers that I love with no explanation. @cobwebmoth would you like to play? Yours don‘t have to be audiobooks.

I‘ve been listening to this #audiobook while running around town all day! The audio itself is terrible. Sam‘s narrator sounds like the Marlboro man, not a 21-year-old college student, and I just don‘t like the VO artist doing Penny.

HOWEVER, the story is fantastic!! It‘s so good, it is overcoming the audio limitations!

This book is an exploration of Kate‘s parents‘ deaths and her family‘s closeness.

Kate‘s father passed away quickly from stage 4 cancer. He was aloof and the first half of the book reflects the short amount of time to reconcile this difficult relationship.

Her mother died slowly from Alzheimer‘s. They had a fun, loving relationship, and the second half expressed the difficulty of watching her mother‘s vibrancy taken piece-by-piece. 4.5⭐️

Thanks for the tag @Cinfhen 😘 #7days7covers #covercrush #day1 #audibookcovers

I‘m choosing 7 audiobook covers I love over the next 7 days, no explanation. I‘m tagging @Meaw_catlady if you haven‘t joined/want to. (You don‘t have to do audiobooks, any book is okay.)

Mail call!! 📭📦 #oop #outofprint #botm

Starting with WWZ for something totally different!

All the feels. 😭😭😭 One of my favorites of the year. I don‘t want to share more than that. 5⭐️, easily!

#booked2019 #muslimauthor

📷 www.kayswindowseat.com

I hope the doctors and drug companies #neverforget how they ruined so many lives, mainly by releasing so much unfettered OxyContin onto the market. If you‘re interested in the opiate/heroin/opioid crisis in America, these four books are an excellent place to start! #redroseseptember

@Reviewsbylola and @emilyhaldi I thought we were bad with our three accounts a piece in 2017, but this definitely puts my collection to shame!! #botm #botmchallenge

📷 bluestockingbookshelf on Instagram

1. My depression is not as severe as yesterday. Thank you for your support! It means the world!
2. I have 2 OOP shirts coming tomorrow!
3. And my BOTM, too!
4. I still have very mixed feelings about Three Women, but I‘m reading it again.
5. I‘m loving AWINM! Fantastic! Halfway through.
6. I‘m enjoying Kate‘s book, but while Born with Teeth endeared her to me, I can‘t say this one is having the same effect.
7. I‘ve been bingeing on MTV‘s True Life

For anyone familiar with depression, you probably know about feeling numb. The past three days I have felt so numb/indifferent/whatever you call it. My psychiatrist had a death in the family, so my appointment got canceled. I‘m just having trouble pulling myself out.

I‘m trying a new book. Other suggestions??

Lovely sunrise this morning. I ate breakfast at the east-facing windows in the kitchen. 👍🏻👍🏻🌞

Have a great day Littens!!

👆🏻👆🏻😡😡

Now that‘s out of the way...This is the story of three American women in Hong Kong. Mercy is Korean-American, a young, unlucky Columbia grad hoping to find her place. Margaret has the “perfect life”: loving husband, three kids, good looks. Hillary is having trouble getting pregnant and considering adoption.

There‘s some story. Soapy drama. And then a very unlikely ending. I really enjoyed it, but it‘s not a great book.

I found another signed copy at Ollie‘s! For those of you with an Ollie‘s Bargain Barn nearby, definitely check out the books section. Lots of great books that are cheap!

Lovely map and family tree as well!!

1. There are few things I hate as much as being mansplained to! 😡
2. Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
3. I just had gf cornbread and iced tea! Yum! (Southern AF)
4. US Central
5. Green Expatriates...that‘s kinda cool!

@howjessreads #friyayintro

Afternoon, some unsweetened iced tea, and the poor woman‘s Theranos documentary. (The ABC 20/20 one instead of the HBO subscription one.)

I enjoyed Bad Blood, and I‘m not sure there‘s going to be any new ground broken on TV, but I just want to relax. 😊

A cross between Dreamland and Bottle of Lies, this book takes a comprehensive look at synthetic drugs from Spice and K2 to fentanyl. From users of fentanyl-laced heroin in St. Louis to makers or fentanyl analogs and precursors in China to harm reduction efforts in Spain and Slovenia, this book will hit the spot for lovers of science, history, and sociology. A must-read for those following the opioid crisis! 5⭐️

Mornin‘ y‘all! I‘ve got my Starbucks and my book. Ready to have a good day! 📚☕️👍🏻

Woo hoo!!! Big congratulations to @GrilledCheeseSamurai !!! Much love to you for reaching 100k!! 🍾🥂😘🎉🎉

The tagged book has probably become my favorite nonfiction read of all time. Such an eye-opening important read!

I am tagging @bromeliad whom I have loved having on my #BFCr3 team and is an outstanding Litten! 💜

#SixDigitSamurai

I can‘t sleep, so I‘ll play! Thanks for the tags @KathyWheeler and @TheEllieMo
1. I checked this whole series out of the library in first and second grade!
2. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
3. Ugh. Not a fan in general, but I do love All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
4. Lately I‘ve been into Udi‘s gf breakfast sandwiches with a side of frozen blueberries 😋
5. Any lovely person reading this

@Eggs #wonderouswednesday

I finally have my own copy and just finished reading it. This is one of those “idk” books for me, as in idk why it‘s so compelling that I‘ve read it three times now!

Also a fav bookmark and booksleeve are making an appearance!

I‘ve been #audiocleaning this morning, and so far this book is fascinating! Y‘all know I‘m always up for the latest #nonfiction, and this is been hitting the sweet spot between science and history. But it would be better named “Designer Drugs, Inc.” as it covers K2, Spice, Molly, etc. as well. #audiobook

Ollie‘s #bookhaul! 🤫🤫 I‘m supposed to be on a ban, but is it my fault the pharmacy is next door? 🤣🤣

Fascinating #audiobook! I‘d recommend this over Quintland Sisters, which I also liked.

It seems we haven‘t learned anything. The fervor over the quints during the Great Depression and their subsequent exploitation caused them psychological harm, alienation from their family, and trouble adjusting to the adult world including problems with marriages & their own kids.

This will definitely make you think about the kids on Outdaughtered, etc. 4.5⭐️

Emoni has something special and so does this book. Despite being a single mother at 15, she is on track to graduate high school and has the amazing talent to bring people‘s emotions out through her perfectly spiced food.

It seems like a perfect fit when her school starts a culinary program, but the chef tests her to learn the rules before a life-changing trip to Spain.

Acevedo brings lively prose and storytelling to Emoni‘s life! 5⭐️

I have a strange #hobby. Other than reading, I like to look at real estate listings in semi-random places. For example, I was watching a TV show that mentioned Cranston, so I decided to look at houses there! 🤷🏻‍♀️

#selfimprovementseptember (maybe my improvement needs to be a better hobby! 🤣)

Today‘s one of those wonderful days where
a. It‘s a holiday! 🎉
b. I‘m 3 hours into a great, new audiobook (see previous post). 🎧
c. I also started this **gorgeous**, both physically and lyrically, book (tagged). I‘m 70 pages in and don‘t want to put it down!! 📚
I‘m a lucky gal! 😁

New #audiobook this morning! So far, so good. I‘m enjoying it more than the fictional Quintland Sisters. 👍🏻🎧

👆🏻 This!

I enjoyed her (later) book First in Line (about the VPs) so much, I decided to read this one. Unfortunately, it was really disorganized, and by the last two hours, I was extremely frustrated! It was really hard to finish.

The stories were interesting, but I just wished she had organized them chronologically or topically or any way. I just couldn‘t make heads or tails of it!! 🤦🏻‍♀️😬 There‘s a good book here, but she didn‘t write it!! 3⭐️