Help! A prisoner is trying to escape!

I got part one of Winston's Halloween costume today. 😂 Who do you think he's going to be with that hair?

Tonight's book thrift 📚 How'd I do?

The only orange monarch I want is a butterfly 🧡🦋

What a perfect read for a cozy, rainy Saturday. 🌧

I saw the most incredible adaptation of Hamlet last night. I had no idea that I was buying tickets to a wordless ballet, but I was pleasantly surprised. I'm struggling to describe the genius of Guillaume Cote and his company, and I fear I won't do it justice if I try. Just know that I've never been so sucked into a performance that I didn't want to risk looking away even for a moment. I'm very grateful that they decided to come through our town.

I just couldn't resist a book with a cheeky title, now could I???

I liked the concept of this book more than I enjoyed its execution. Some of the most important action happened behind the scenes, and I would have rather been inside the character's head more with fewer descriptions of the forest. It should have been grittier given the nature of the crimes that happened in the story.

I was indecisive at the library today. Here's my haul. I got started right away on the tagged book and I'm very much enjoying it already.

I was in desperate need of a puppy couch day 🧡🧡

I 🧡🧡🧡 library sales

Getting some background knowledge for my new favorite Taylor Swift song 🧡

I'm in a Materials for Youth class this semester and I get to choose a picture book for an upcoming project. I picked this one because it's set in the town in which I grew up. I moved away almost 9 years ago and it made me feel so incredibly nostalgic for all my old favorite places. There's something so magical about a kids book tailored to your childhood home. ✨️

It's officially butternut squash soup season

Happy Sunday! This sounds like such a fun concept. I look forward to diving in. 🤓

Haven't cried over a book like this in a while

Can you guess who I chose to research for my children's illustrator biography assignment? 🤓

I gave myself one day to read this before it's due back at the library. ? I just spent 6 hours grading 8th grade writing, so I'm very excited to have some "me time" for the rest of the night.

Not even through with the prologue and I'm already emotional

I love that I *typically* read dark books, but this is my favorites shelf...

I scanned the book section at Goodwill twice before this one just popped out at me right on top of the shelf. I'm now completely sucked into reading it, and now I'm only looking up when the Huskers score (which is actually a lot tonight!)

I'm reading this one for school and the concept is so intriguing. Earth is dying and a group of people are sent to colonize a new planet. Only one remembers Earth and she is in charge of telling its stories.

Top row: books that I've had on hold FOREVER.
Bottom row: this week's assigned reading for my Materials for Youth class. 🤓

I did not think I'd love this book as much as I do. It's just perfect for day one of the first -ber month of the season. I'm ready for crunchy leaves, chunky sweaters, and pumpkin everything. 🍂

(📸: somanybooks blog)

You can tell what day I went back to the classroom. 😂

Picked this one up today! I'm laughing at the Abby Jimenez references since I literally just finished her book.

Abby Jimenez is just sooooo good every time

Pinch me! I swear I just graduated, and now I'm a 5th year teacher. Happy first day back for many of you Litsy teachers whether it's today, already happened, or coming up soon! 👩‍🏫📚🤍

Update: our power is back on! We were in the dark for 37 hours during which time our house reached 91 degrees on the top floor. I'm very grateful to not have to sleep in that again, because we were seriously considering going to a hotel.

Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes! I was kind of spying on the linemen as they worked, and it looked like they had to entirely rebuild a pole, right next to where the fire was. Very thankful for them!

Okay, so this is weird right? I decided to start up my booktok again with a slideshow of books that I read over summer. Two of my slides have blurred text: one where I say "enslaved people", and the other "Toni Morrison". The rest show up crystal clear. TikTok censorship is so racist, which like duh, but damn.

32 hours without power. I know they're working hard, but I'm starting to feel a little forgotten about. My neighbors across the street have power, but the block on my side of the street all do not. I've reported 3x via phone and online, and do not see our address on the outage map. Doing my best to not let the dogs overheat & crossing my fingers this passes before I have to go back to work tomorrow and leave them alone all day.

13+ hours without power. Reading by lantern light now.🕯 Crews from neighboring counties came to help out, but it looks like we're probably out of luck until tomorrow night at least.

We're going on 9 hours without power and it's starting to get hottt in the house. I took a walk down to the little free library on the corner and saw this. There's downed trees all over town. Thankfully we just had our scary tree out front taken out less than two weeks ago, because this was a "200 year storm" with very little warning. No damage to us, but our neighbors had a tree fire from some downed lines. It'll be a while before we have power.

I interrupt your book scrolling to show you this sunbathing ween. That is all, carry on. 🐶📚🤍

Oops, I was supposed to have an early night tonight because tomorrow because I go back to school tomorrow, but this book is toooo good. It was recommended by a good friend of mine who knows my taste in reading. I'm excited to figure out what the twist is. 🧐

Library haul! I borrowed All Boys & Rock, Paper, Scissors. The rest came from their book nook. 😍

It's a weirdly chilly day for August! I've got a fuzzy blanket, a hot cuppa, and a stack of books to rotate through this morning.

Last night, some friends and I went to see Rainbow Kitten Surprise. They were sooo good live, I'm still dancing just thinking about their set. 💃

Well, I can now say for myself that I do not think Fredia McFadden is worth the hype...

Another month where I primarily went for books that were emotional, reflective, and dark. 😂

July was likely my last good reading month for the year. I go back to school on Tuesday to set up, and I have kids in class next Wednesday. At that point, the brain goes into teacher mode and I just cannot find the time or energy for this much pleasure reading. I'll keep trying, though.

This one is starting off very strong!

Today's book haul from the library sale! I tried to set it all out so I could see everything at once, but it took up our entire dining table. 😅📚

Ahh, the controlled chaos of our living room on any given night.
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And of course, I perused the book nook and came away with a good haul from there as well. 🤓📚

Mid-week library trip! I don't remember who recommended the top one to me. I had to see what the Freida McFadden hype was about, and Orbital is the first book is Stephen Colbert's book club. I'm still so upset about his show being canceled.

Getting a bit of a late start to my reading morning. My husband and I slept in & took our time getting up. We finally decide to take the dogs out and within 2 minutes, a minivan come speeding up the side street near our house, flips, and plows into the old folks home across the street from us. We saw the whole thing & have been talking to officers & neighbors all morning. It's a very active street, thankfully nobody was hurt. Driver was drunk. 😳

This was definitely...strange. I wanted to like it more than I did. It got very tedious and unbelievable, and I found it hard to finish. That said, I was really interested in the idea of the drawings mixed into the storyline. The amount of charts and tables as the book went on got a bit annoying to deal with, though.

Today's library haul!

I picked up this book to get some new ideas for the upcoming school year. It has some good advice and tips that I plan to implement, but when I Googled the author to find his Pengiun blog, I found that he was fired from his district for old allegations of sexual misconduct. He started a class action suit against the district for firing teachers who were close to retirement to save on benefits, but that's kind of leaving me with a bad taste now. 😐