Helloooooooo!
In defence of the the tagged book this man was a super hero! I want to be in a book club with him.
Canada reads (survivor for books, canadian style) is the platform where he defended this book. It was not my favourite of the 6 (5?) books. But he was my favourite defender of all time! I want to be in a book club with him!

Oh my goodness!!! Edited to add this is Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (Appa from Kim‘s Conveniwnce)

@throwmeabook
Godiva hot chocolate!!!??? Spoiled!
Such thoughtful choices for the books! Both of them look right up my alley. Super adorable ornaments. Can‘t thank you enough!💓💓💓💓

And @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego thank you for organizing. Such a cheery thing to plan for and then look forward to!
#canuckchristmasswap
#poutinepenpals

#fridayfeeling.

Tagged book! I snorted many times. Soooo funny!

Not for everyone. To be sure.

Also, a YA read... Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry. On audio book especially! The dry wit is pitch perfect!

Thanks for the tag! Such a cheerful place to put my brain! 💓

#poutinepenpals

#canuckchristmasswap

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

Feeling so festive! It arrived @throwmeabook ....
I will wait. It is taking all of my will power but I will wait.

Thank you so much. A much needed lift to this day!

These arrived on the same day!! #lpmbc 🖤💚🖤. You are all gems! Just glanced at the mark ups and can‘t wait to peruse them a bit more.
Thanks for all the fun! Looking forward to one more after Dietland!
Would definitely recommend joining #lpmbc. So fun! And love that there is a Canadian option!

Ps... the chocolate was eaten in the car...before a pic could be taken. 😬😬😬😬.

@StayCurious
You know me as well as Instagram knows me! And Insta is scarily accurate in their marketing I must say!!!
Loving my #staycationintime books and swag so much!!! 😍

1. Hamnet (auto correct REALLY wants me to type hamburger) and Judith
2. Tagged book. An old favourite... but I did just re read it yesterday. Taking this prompt literally 😬🤣
3. New house with a wood burning fireplace 💚

And you @Andrea4 and @FantasyChick have you partaken? Do tell.....

Why yes. Yes I did put glasses on The Stone Angel.
As I finished this I realized i had read another accidental #readcanada entry!!! #manitoba.

The reason for this re-read was because we decided to downsize and bought a sweet little stone cottage. The people we bought it from have named it Stone Angel; inspired by this book. Strange choice for an homage. Any interpretations welcome!

The house has a “home of homes” vibe. 💚

On many lists this one one was listed as one that could fulfill the #Nunavut part of #readcanada. It does..... but not exclusively. It talks equally about the people of Northern Ontario, BC, Finland, Brazil etc. etc etc.

Transcribed Massey Lectures. Highly recommend.

#lpmbc Cannucks. @FantasyChick @ShelleyBooksie @BookishTrish @Andrea4 the insults in Shakespeare for Squirrels are way craftier than most of these but the book is still very entertaining.... even if you aren‘t a 12 year old!

@FantasyChick forgot about this book on my son‘s book shelf... I will post another shot of how the book works!

Dropped one off and picked one up! #lpmbc

Looking forward to this one.

Got here in plenty of time @ShelleyBooksie

#lpmbc canadian edition. Last book of previous round! Finished it ages ago but life went a bit sideways. It is in the mail! @ShelleyBooksie many thanks! It also ticks the box for #readcanada. #novascotia. Sweet! @Book_Fiend_Melissa

Am clearly a multitasking genius! 🤓🤓🤓

#lpmbc canadian edition! Coming your way @Andrea4 going in the post tomorrow morning!

I am so sorry! Firstly because I had THE most thoughtful, creative generous swap partner. Sorry guys but I won with @StayCurious as my partner! There was an exciting backstory to my #staycationintime and even a packing list! Also, see that bright spot bottom right, it‘s gold. Thank you so much for putting so much thought into this! You are the best!
Also, Sorry also for taking so long to post.

(Also a map!!! To my claim!! Yukon ho!!)

I knew it would get here early!!! #staycationintime

@FantasyChick and @ShelleyBooksie they arrived on the same day. Yay! So finishing off round 8 #lpmbc and beginning round 9 #lpmbc.
Will do my best @ShelleyBooksie to get the tagged book back to you ASAP! Looking forward to it!
@Andrea4 the Grownup will be coming your way soon!
Hope you all are having a decent summer!

#Litsybitsy

#1 narrator with a different accent. I could listen to the Australian accent All. Day. Long. !!
#Summerreadscavengerhunt

This is the book flap pic of the author.

I saw from someone else‘s feed that this one fit the bill for Saskatchewan in #ReadCanada
All the way through I kept thinking that was a seriously tenuous link....
Oh how wrong I was. The opposite of tenuous. #Saskatchewan is everything. 💓 🌾
#duh

#integrateyourshelf

Looking forward to seeing everyone‘s posts for new TBR in this category.
Eddie Izzard has been one of my fav comedians for over 20 years.
It was so good to read his memoir. He has always been an enigma to me. So I recommend his stand up as well as this memoir!

@Andrea4 I am heading to the post office tomorrow! This densely worded yet fairly light read is coming your way!!

Ps if anyone in our #lpmbc #teamcanada would like the marked up Running with Scissors I will happily post it directly to you.

Thanks for the tag! #top6reads
I haven‘t read very many. So these are not all mind blowingly stellar.

But, of those that I have read so far this year, these were the most entertaining/enjoyable.

I tag @KVanRead and @Soubhiville if you haven‘t already

#Litsybitsy
Lucky enough to get both sunrises and sunsets on our lake. 🌄 🌅
#4 on the #summerreadscavengerhunt

Also #heycarrots just settling in. Anticipating the wedding. Sigh....

🇨🇦 famous last words
🇨🇦Thomas king
🇨🇦 Caesar or butter tarts
Thanks for the tag @suvata always fun!
#happycanadaday

As an aside... the password for my lap top is maple syrup

@KVanRead

Late in the day but I tag Hmmmmmm! Everyone I know who is canadian has already done this!!!
How about @thegirlwiththelibrarybag since she is doing the #heycarrots tag!!!

@FantasyChick sent me magnetic bookmarks and I have used them to solve the problem of wanting to comment in the #LPMBC book but also not wanting to stop reading to do it!

I just stick one of those book marks in the spot pointing to the paragraph or word and move on! Later I go back and put the comments in.

Many thanks!

Got a start on the book yesterday. No comment here....just huh.

@BookishTrish @Andrea4 @ShelleyBooksie

Out of 29 read only 6 had LGBTQIA+ characters.
None were own voice. (That I know of)
@jenniferw88 posted a couple of lists that I will definitely delve into!
I know last year most of the LGBTQIA+ characters I read were own voice. For steamy sex I recommend The Change Room by Karen Connelly. Sissy was a great own voice one for me and my evolving trans understanding.

Thanks for the challenge (literal)
Loved the tagged book!!!!

Audio walk with this one. Whew. Lots of book marks and rewinds. (Is it still called rewinding???)
#litsybitsy. 5miles (8 and a bit kilometres). #17 (?)

I would never have walked so long today except for this prompt and this book. Thanks for organizing!!!💚💚💚

but I finished the book. 🙃 gossipy and at times irritating Anne made me more forgiving of the folks I run into at the same stage of life. (And myself at that age! I was awful!). She took some of the grumpiness out of this old lady. But those twins! Gerald and Geraldine Raymond were horrific!

Downloading Anne‘s house of dreams as I type this!

#heycarrots

Thanks for the tag @NeedsMoreBooks
Number 2 for sure! And I am reading it as each year you choose a different book.... is that cheating?
The tagged would be my first year. I have never been to New York and I have always wanted to go!

#litsybitsy sorry baby bird.... not your mama. Merely paparazzi you gorgeous beast you!

Summer read scavenger hunt. #10 #wildanimal.

Second nestful so far this summer! They are such good parents.

I have read 29 books so far this year.
Black authors 2
Non black POC - 3
Indigenous - 0
LGBTQIA+ - 0

Interesting. Work to be done.

Actually one of the books I read this year was written by some one claiming to be indigenous who was not. So I perhaps have a negative number there...
Thanks for the challenge. #integrateyourshelf

I really should have headed out on my wander earlier! So stinking hot! But, as always, entertained by the randomness of Nightvale!

This was a pod cast that got my kiddos in to podcasts... if they aren‘t going to read at least they find some creative and clever stuff to listen to! And we talk about it. I live in hope that podcasts are the gateway back to books for them.🤞🏼. This one is number 29 I think in the prompts #podcasts #litsybitsy

Reposting for @Cuilin
I have never done one of these before but this looks fun! Documenting my summer adventures (such as they are/will be 🙄🤓😬) makes summer feel official!

Ok! Updating my thinking to books I am pretty sure I can get in time to get started! I have back ups if these don‘t move you! Let me know what you think #lpmbc

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
1. Earth...(with some air tendencies )
2. Tagged book.
3. From the Ashes

Late in the day I know... but I tag @ozma.of.oz and @Cupcake12 if you haven‘t played already!

Thanks @JaneyWaneyB ! Always fun!

@FantasyChick @ShelleyBooksie @BookishTrish

Looks like you are stuck with me again!
Here are 3 that just popped up. (Top two I thought of because the names made me smile and they are collections of short stories bottom one ... seems ridiculous and so i am intrigued). I am not strongly attached to any of them. You won‘t hurt my feelings if they all get veto‘d. 😬🤓
I will keep thinking....
#lpmbc @suvata

#Two4Tueaday. @TheSpineView
1. My bookish plans for June..... reflect, regroup, stumble forward.

2. Well, I do enjoy bourbon 🥃 with a western, and wine with everything else. I like the idea of pairings... I bet there is an instagram account out there that does it!

Thanks for the tag @Cuilin I am way too late to tag anyone 😬🤓

#heycarrots @Flingogal @thegirlwiththelibrarybag

All this talk of Pringles is making me feel a bit snacky.....

I read A Fine Balance about 3 years ago.
I am still overwhelmed by it.
This book helped me feel a bit less overwhelmed.
I don‘t think it is in the same league as Rohinton Mistry‘s novel in terms of depth and detail and craft. It was a more comfortable read. Perhaps not a selling point always. But some days it is.

#favs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks great prompt!

Thanks for the tag @Cuilin and @NeedsMoreBooks

This was hard. I went a bit zen with this one. Just whatever popped into my head when I closed my eyes. Probably different books on a different day... or even a different hour. Lol! 😬. (I opened my eyes after 3)

In no particular order.

Deadwood

Charlie Parker Played Be Bop

Night

@ManyWordsLater @WorldsOkayestStepMom You are tagged!!

Does anyone else get a teeny tiny thrill when they get to move someone‘s -like- number to one of their favourite numbers? No? Me neither. 🤷🏼‍♀️

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

🖤 Calamity Jane from Deadwood

🖤🖤 bookish pet peeve... I can‘t think of one. Oh wait! I saw someone else say book covers with a movie still. That‘s a nope for me!

🖤🖤🖤 tagged book! Although Ramona could maybe also be my answer for number 1😬😬😬

Sorry so late! Tagging @charl08 @Librarybelle

#heycarrots
@Flingogal @thegirlwiththelibrarybag

I just found this copy of Anne in my basement. I feel I can say with a high degree of certainty this is my 3rd copy of Anne. Also I know I bought it solely because of the cover illustration. Lauren Child is my fav.
It was hard but I passed the book along to our 9 year old neighbour. She is a voracious reader.
Side note. There is a glossary in this one with words like cordial and aid-society!

@MoonWitch94 #thoughtfulthursday

🎓 🚗 On hold - seeing my son and all his friends graduate from grade 8. Also, Seeing my oldest get his drivers license Small things that have been replaced with the things I get to do because we are all stuck in the house together! All the board games!😬😬😬 Etc!

📖 just started tagged book (a pallet cleanser after a controversial read)

👀 started a sexy vampire series on Netflix!
@NatalieR @readingjedi

A mermaid-oligist and a late night DJ cross paths.... tres charmant!
Solid 3 stars.
I think this story could have been meh if not for Carols Sheilds being its shepherd. 😬

Hot, thought the Parisians.
@ShyBookOwl #bookhunt
This was tricky... authors are wordy folks. (Duh)

@Wife it arrived today! Highlight of my day! Many thanks for the work you do. And the sacrifices you make. #litsylove
Hello neighbour! (In more ways than one😄). Wondering if my note got to you yet?

🖤 I am afraid I am so far out of the new releases loop! I have no idea what is due for release.😬😬😬

🖤🖤 tagged book. Keep in‘ it real.... I have cooked NOTHING from this gorgeous book. I was put off because the first recipe required pomegranate molasses! Say what now?! I knew i would never be able to find it. I was wrong.

🖤🖤🖤. Christopher Moore

@Eggs @NeedsMoreBooks Belated #wonderouswednesday
Thanks for the tag!!!!

#litsybitsy
My teenage boys came with me on all my walks this past weekend. No chance of an audio walk with them! So rare that they voluntarily just hang out with me ....there was bound to be some talking! And there was.
Back to my solitary audio walks on the weekdays!
6k today.
Anne in this one is driving me crazy and I also feel so aggrieved for Dora!

Look at that bright bit of green on a grey day. (Channeling my inner cheery Anne). First time the hash tags blend.... #heycarrots and #litsybitsy
Nearly 5k and an hour in to this audio book 💚. @Cuilin

I loved first year university! This is a lovely double memory... reading Anne and going away to school! @Flingogal @thegirlwiththelibrarybag
Will try to savour this one a bit more. 😬