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Decided to start this one on audio since none of my current listens were as cheery as I've been wanting
Loving it so far! The narrator does a lovely Irish accent for Muriel and I can't get enough of her and Kit's banter.
In the author's note, Lowell self-identifies as a cis-queer writer with a trans masculine historian partner, and used their experiences as a couple as well as archival research in writing this story
#TransRightsReadathon #TRR25
#CoverStories Day 22 #Pastel 🎨
My mind immediately went to Heartstopper and those pretty pale spines
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Happy #5JoysFriday! ? @DebinHawaii
1. Jolene asked me to do her hair when I visited and she was so delighted with her "Anna braids" ?❄️
2. My newest comfort rewatch show, Parks and Rec
3. Virtual book chat with some online friends ?
4. Flowers blooming along the driveway ?
5. Trees in bloom everywhere! (Even though the pollen is killing my allergies ?)
#CoverStories Day 21 #Clock 🕜
This is a 2025 release I'm looking forward to, as it has one of my wheelhouse items, reincarnation love stories
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#CoverStories Day 19 #River
Please ignore my messy shelves that I still need to reorganize
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#CoverStories Day 18 #Shoes 🛼
Kinda, a type of shoe, but the first thing that came to mind
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Here's my TBR for the #TransRightsReadathon
March 21-31
I probably won't be able to finish all of them but I like to have options to choose from. This is my third year participating in this event! I'll once again be donating to the Campaign for Southern Equality 🏳️⚧️
Wow, I've never gotten so many fun, unexpected goodies from a preorder like this! This is a debut, self-published novel that I came across because I follow the cover artist on ig. It's a queer cozy romance with floriography so I ordered it immediately lol. But opening the package was such a happy surprise! I was gonna save it to read for the #TransRightsReadathon but was so giddy that I binged the first 100 pages and it is so good so far!
#CoverStories Day 16 #Running 🏃🏼🏃🏾
This book comes out next month and looks so fun
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#CoverStories Day 15 #Reflection 🪞
I read this book years ago and it has weirdly stuck with me. Such an interesting time travel premise. Also I didn't realize until I went to look it up today that it was originally published in the 70s
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. I was complaining about lack of shelf space one night & the next morning my husband cleared off one of his random shelves for me. That's love, y'all
2. A couple friend of ours gifted me this gorgeous cat blanket just because! My husband also received one with a D&D style dungeon map on it. They know us both so well
3. Game night with said couple friend
4. The kitties, always
5.The anticipation of waiting for book mail
#CoverStories Day 13 #Chapel 💒
I can't hear the word chapel without immediately singing
🎶going to the chapel and we're... gonna get maaaaarried🎶
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#CoverStories Day 12 #Tuxedo 🖤
My favorite special edition has Luc in a suit, not a tux, so here are both versions of this cover 😁
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
"Funny how [censorship] boards wanted to protect women's sensibilities, but ended up stripping them of agency."
And still the guise of protecting people is often used to then suppress them... History is a lesson
pick"When talking about progress, people usually look to the future. This book looks to the past."
Such an amazing eye-opening account of the history of Hollywood & the huge role women played in its start. It follows the path of Helen Gibson, the first Hollywood stuntwoman in the 1910s, beginning with her involvement in rodeo & through her rise as a serial queen.
O'Meara brilliantly combines biography, history & humor, making this story easy to love
#CoverStories Day 8 #Trees 🌲🌳
Picked this one up during our trip to Scotland
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
I'm terrible at posting my #5JoysFriday ...on Friday 😅
1. Costco trips with the nibling. Her love of berries is adorable 🍓
2. I don't talk about Sally enough. She's the best dog ever and I love her enthusiasm whenever we return home 🐕
3. Harry the local heron sighting at the pond!
4. Reading while covered in cats 😹
5. Been reading two amazing ebooks this week that I haven't wanted to put down! 📚
@DebinHawaii
Bonus joy ⬇️
pick"Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence."
Lots of gems in this one! I didn't agree with everything she wrote but it gave me a lot to think about, much of which is still unfortunately relevant in today's society
Realized I never posted my March Bookspin picks
#Bookspin is any #roll100 book and #doublespin is the tagged audiobook for #QueerBC
@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper
February Fiction #ReadingBracket2025
I just love the world-building in this series 🔥
Starting my latest reread of Pride and Prejudice for #JaneAustenThenAndNow
It's been a while since I've read the print version (the last few times have been by audiobook) and I love this peacock edition I found last year 🦚
And of course, using my matching bookmark 🔖
@Crinoline_Laphroaig
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. I bought a new (to me) car!! It's hard to tell in the picture but it's a beautiful blue color, my favorite 🩵
2. First jonquil blooms and signs of spring 🌱
3. Cat cuddles 😻
4. Catching up with an old friend who is planning her wedding! So happy for her 💒
5. Lewis, always ❤️
#CoverStories Day 1 #2SimilarCovers
Any time I see either of these covers with the pool floats I think of the movie Palm Springs
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Wow, the end of February snuck up on me 😳
Here's my March #bookspin list ready or not @TheAromaofBooks
pickI'm really loving this series! This one reimagines the Dashwood sisters as a budding private investigator and chemist. When their father suddenly dies, they have reason to believe he was murdered and decide to investigate. I loved the sisterly dynamics. Marianne was much more brash and Elinor was still reserved but had a bigger spine when she needed it. I also loved Margaret's role, she was incredibly inquisitive, wanting new ideas for her writing
pickI read this last month so I could read the second in the series for #JaneAustenThenAndNow. I really loved this murder mystery retelling! The characters were great facsimiles of the originals - although their circumstances were slightly different, their motivations were true to the spirit of Austen. Lizzie's drive for an acknowledged role in her father's law firm leads her into a murder case with the proud Mr Darcy trying to block her every move
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Book mail 📚
2. We ate at our fav little Mexican place on Valentine's Day & they gave everyone carnations 🌸
3. Car shopping this past weekend was a bust but I got some good reading time in the car 🚗
4. Ben experiencing bubbles after my bath 🫧
5. It snowed a little this week (rare here in NC) & there was a moment at work where we all went to watch the snow fall out the front windows that felt magical & child-like ❄️
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. We bought a new mattress and it is glorious! 😴
2. Oakley tried a paste treat for the first time, it was hilarious to watch 😹
3. Arthur's new favorite nap spot is in a basket of clean laundry - adorable if frustrating lol 🧺
4. Mental health day + Jane Austen 🎬
5. After rewatching the Good Place for the nth time I was sad it was over until I remembered the Good Place Podcast & have been relistening to it during work
#WeirdWordWednesday @CBee
I've been reading a lot of Alexandra Rowland's books lately. They use a lot of lovely language to describe nature. I had never heard this term before but I like how it can describe multiple concepts.
I spent this afternoon working on my reading journal and watching the Sense and Sensibility movie. I've always loved this adaptation. I feel that it highlights all the best parts and portrays all the relationships even better than the book 😅
#JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig
