Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend?
How‘s the book going?
I‘m a chapter behind, but hoping to catch up tonight, but still really enjoying this one. I hope you are too.
Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend?
How‘s the book going?
I‘m a chapter behind, but hoping to catch up tonight, but still really enjoying this one. I hope you are too.
Hello #SheSaid!
I‘m enjoying this so far. I want to get back to Planned Parenthood, but this backstory of organizing on multiple levels is very interesting, and something we all probably need to pay attention to and get involved with again as we need to fight for rights we thought we had, all over again…at least in the US.
Up next for #SheSaid….and somehow it‘s falling at a very good time for reading it, bad time for women in the US.
So put in your library holds, interlibrary loans for this one starting next weekend.
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Another one in the books! I‘m not quite finished yet, but still moving along slowly. I am finding that I need to take these slow, read one and let it percolate for a bit before starting the next. How are you all feeling as you finish up this section and this book?
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How are you doing this weekend?
Hello #SheSaid!
I hope you are having a good weekend and enjoying these essays by different authors. Some are so very powerful and relatable.
See you in the comments!
Hello #SheSaid!
I hope your weekend is going well….and I hope you are all enjoying this one. See you in the comments ⤵️
Up Next for #SheSaid!
Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
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Sorry for the day late post!
Hello #SheSaid!
How is everyone doing this weekend? Read picking up any for you? I‘m going to have to skip this one for now and circle back later… moving my nephew and his girlfriend into my house right now so quiet reading time has disappeared for awhile. Hopefully it will settle down again soon and I can catch up again.
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Very late post! Sorry I got way behind…. How are you liking this one so far? Please post when you can, sorry I missed Sunday.
#Pantone2023 card too for last year, it‘s also not finished… oops 😂…. I blame way to much Zelda this past year! @Clwojick
My end of the year #Nonfiction2023! Not a complete card, but boy some great books in there!
And I can see I‘m way WAY behind on reviews 😂. New Years Resolution, go back to reviewing right after I finish or I won‘t get back to it. 🤣
#Nonfiction2024 is here! And it‘s a big challenge this year.
First, these are not the books you need to read…although if you haven‘t read them, I encourage you to read them.
These are banned books, and they are banned for subject matter they contain that we find objectionable for some reason.
Your challenge is to read a nonfiction book about a similar subject:
Examples below⤵️
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Put in your library holds and inter-library loans for January….and until then, Happy Holidays!
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Can‘t wait to discuss this in the comments!
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I don‘t know about you, but the more they all forget, the more questions I have come to mind… I‘m really curious where and how this story will end!
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How are you “enjoying” our fiction this month? It‘s a nice change from non-fiction, but I‘m not sure enjoying is quite right. 😱 so far I‘m sucked into it though, very curious on where it‘s going next.
Up Next #SheSaid!
Sorry for the late schedule post!
Are we ready for some fiction?
Hello #SheSaid! Sorry for the late post, got distracted with the family this long holiday weekend here in the US. I hope you all are having a great weekend wherever you are AND enjoying the end of this book.
Hello #SheSaid! Here‘s our schedule for the rest of the year AND Nominations Are Open for the rest of next year!
Please add your nominations to the comments section!
Hello #SheSaid! How are you doing this week?
See you in the comments 😉
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I‘m a bit behind, please feel free to start without me, and I‘ll check back later today when I catch up 🤷♀️ So sorry….my Saturday reading time disappeared yesterday somehow.
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I wasn‘t sure how this one would be, super dense studies and theory, or more readable?
I‘m finding it a great mix of both, very readable, but with studies and great examples to back up the concepts to make it easy to understand.
How‘s everyone else doing with our newest selection?
And how about that question/conversation with her son… heartbreaker 😞
My thought for the day: Tolkien does such a good job ending each book and internal book with cliffhangers. And making you wait through another whole internal book until you get back to that cliffhanger and those characters as he shifts focus back & forth. I couldn‘t help but think of a few authors now, who have left series uncompleted because they got busy with TV show adaptions or prequel series or real life. ⤵️
Post 2: The text to go with the map in post 1
I read the first chapter of the long ride to Gondor, and then I had to dig out my map book and share a few pictures. I‘m still amazed that someone plotted & mapped out the entire journey, but I love it.
Post 1: The map
See Post 2: The text
Up Next for #SheSaid in November!
Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
I‘m flipping around the tv this weekend & passed a show on cryptids… creatures that may be myth or real. I stopped immediately as they were showing Shelob on the screen at the time, then Aragog and discussing giant spiders and the stories passed down about this monster myth in stories by the locals for ages. Who knew Shelob descendants infested both Mirkwood & the Congo 🤷♀️😂 There are even grainy videos like with Sasquatch & Nessie. J‘ba Fofi😱
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How is your weekend going? Another book done way to soon.
So how did you like the last section? The book as a whole?
This scene at the crossroads always reminds me of this Shelley poem.
They are literally and figuratively at the crossroads, and the “easy way back” wouldn‘t be as easy as they think since the legions of Mordor march towards Gondor and war…and are between them and their friends. And would lead to the doom of all.
And right here Tolkien places this scene, a scene that alludes to this poem in my mind, ⤵️
Mid-week here #SheSaid!
Anyone see the new VanDerSloot confession in Natalee Halloway‘s murder. Talk about the empty consent we (mostly women give) because deep down we know where a “No” might lead us. Talk about a stark reminder why “No” is tough, and dangerous to say. 😱
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How are you this weekend?
This book continues to make me think in all the right ways, and regret some ways in which I have not been Taking Care of Myself because I didn‘t feel that it was the right thing to do at the time. Disturbing the more you actually think about it, isn‘t it? That good girl, take care of everyone but yourself syndrome. How do we get out of that spiral of feeling responsible for everyone else‘s feelings?
I may be late, and left my handkerchiefs behind… but I finally made it to Book 4! #LOTRChapteraDay #FellowshipOfTolkien
Hello #SheSaid How is everyone doing this weekend?
Discussion begins below ⬇️
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How is everyone doing today?
Ready to discuss this new book?
Up next for #SheSaid!
Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans!
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See you all in the comments ⤵️
Hello #SheSaid!
How‘s the weekend going for everyone!
This book is going to fast for me, I hope it is treating you all well too.
Hello #SheSaid! How is your weekend going?
I‘m enjoying this read, the chapters are short but she has a way of writing about her childhood that just draws me in, and she does such a great job showing how little things said and done OR not said when they should have been…can effect children and their sense of self so much. It‘s very powerful.
Hello #SheSaid!
How is everyone this weekend?
I‘m all caught up this week, and finished my last SheSaid book too. 😂
See you in the comments! ⤵️
Next up for #SheSaid in September
Put in those library holds & interlibrary loans!
The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone….I‘m using for the prompt: Strange Fruit. It is definitely a sanitized version of what that phrase originally stood for, and someday I will read The Red Record, but I think The Sum of Us Does a great job encapsulating so many unexpected and strange outcomes from the seeds we have sowed.
#Nonfiction2023
If you are planning ahead, our next book for September will be Unbound by Tarana Burke!
Put in your library holds and interlibrary loans.
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Hello #SheSaid!
How is everyone doing this week?
How is the book going? I‘m catching up slowly, but surely…
So far it‘s a great read, covering so much in each chapter. I‘m also seeing a few great books I‘ve read referenced. If you haven‘t read the Color of Law or The New Jim Crow, read them, they are great works. I‘ve also added Democracy in Chains and White Fragility to my to-read list. How about you? ⤵️
Those are some insane numbers…that 1.2 percent of the population is funding 71% of all campaigns
…which really means that 1.2% of the population is getting 71% of governments ear and policy writing time and legislation written in their favor.🤯
About 158 families are making the decisions for a whole nation. No wonder they don‘t get issues like universal health care or minimum livable wages… they don‘t have any experience with most of those.
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How are you this weekend?
I‘m still running behind in my reading, how is everyone else doing this week. Starting to catch up?
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How are you this weekend? I finally got my library book yesterday and have just started it, so I‘m way behind. Sorry again, my apologies. But please carry on without me….what I‘ve read so far is very good, and hopefully I‘ll finish our first week‘s section later today and can comment on that post.
Still loved, even after many reads now…and this ending has always struck me as quite a great one.
Little did even the author know just how much this past episode would weave into a bigger trilogy to come, and the part of prophecy here… oh so very important to the future of that world, in ways the author hadn‘t yet quite even dreamed of. 😉. Without those, the wider world would not have faired quite so well. “Roads go ever ever on” indeed!
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I‘m still waiting for my library book, I might have to cave and buy this one. How is it so far?