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For the time being, I'm going to try to read this book for #Tuvalu for #readingOceania

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Tuvalu Traveler Chronicles | Eshaan Sombhatta
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I‘m sad to say I‘m bailing on this one. The premise is interesting but the writing is so amateurish it is difficult to read. I‘m opting for a #Tuvalu tour guide book that has history and culture and I can skim the “how to travel there” parts. I also put a library hold on a book called Pacific by Simon Winchester that comes up in GoodReads when I search for Tuvalu. It looks really good. #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Librarybelle I have a feeling the Winchester book will be more enjoyable! 2h
dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2h
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Help my fellow Litten cooks. I fried up cabbage and onions thanks to the tagged book describing the family‘s garden, and it looks amazing and smells amazing and was bland as heck. Any suggestions?

#SouthKorea #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Captivatedbybooks Did you put any seasoning on it? Maybe some pepper? 3h
Texreader @Captivatedbybooks salt pepper and garlic 3h
KateReadsYA I like to add sweet chili sauce to my veggies :) 3h
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LapReader Bacon 3h
Sapphire Tony Cachieries 2h
Deblovestoread Fresh lemon juice 2h
LeahBergen Chili crisp! 2h
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TheBookHippie is a master chef 🧑‍🍳 1h
TheBookHippie You need to shred a carrot into it. Sometimes a little dill. Otherwise use a bit of egg and flour and fry it into a fritter. 1h
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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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Ben Kella is the aofia (the leader) of his people in the #SolomonIslands and a police sergeant working for the Brits as they are slowing turning the Islands over to independence. Sister Conchita is the new nun posted to his island, some of whose people are Catholic but many remain true to their mystical roots. A series of murders and other illegal activities lead the sergeant and the nun on the hunt to unravel this complex web and do their ⬇️

Texreader best to stay alive. It is a complex plot, with likeable main characters, and extremely well-written. I didn‘t mean to start out reading a series, but I will absolutely read the next two in it. #readingOceania #serieslove2024 1d
Librarybelle Sounds interesting! 1d
TheSpineView Awesome! 💜📚 1d
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Second in the Aaron Falk series, this time he‘s pulled into heavily forested land to find a missing woman, who he‘d “recruited” to help him uncover financial wrongdoings at the company where she works. The company planned the team-building retreat, but Alice doesn‘t make it back. Meanwhile, her young teenage daughter is undergoing her own trauma. The convoluted story finally all comes together to reveal a surprising ending. If I had any ⬇️

Texreader complaint, the rapid jumping back and forth between the retreat itself and the search for Alice gets a bit tedious. But it works! I will definitely read the next in the series and anything else this author writes. #Australia #readingOceania #authoramonth 1d
Librarybelle Awesome!!! 1d
BarbaraBB I enjoyed this too. So atmospheric! 23h
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Tuvalu Traveler Chronicles | Eshaan Sombhatta
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I‘ve picked this for my next ebook for #Tuvalu #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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I feel so fortunate. I have a few hours to read tonight with my reading buddy. I‘m about to finish the tagged ebook, then I‘ll pick up my IRL book again, Beasts of a Little Land. 😌

How are you spending your Sunday evening?

#SolomonIslandsw #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB #SouthKorea #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Librarybelle Looks like a cozy reading night! 1d
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1d
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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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This sure makes me want to look up these two books!!

#SolomonIslands #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB 😂😂 23h
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Reread!! I loved it the first time. So I‘m doing an audiobook this time. #SouthKorea #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks ❤️🇰🇷 1d
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So perfect when my #foodandlit choice describes the food. Here‘s a breakfast in #SouthKorea. @Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie How fun is this!! 3d
Catsandbooks Perfect! 🇰🇷 3d
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Librarybelle Thanks for posting! 4d
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The Lost Man | Jane Harper
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Cameron, middle son of the Bright family in the far far outback, is found dead miles from his well-stocked truck. It looks like an unpleasant suicide but why end it this way? His older brother Nathan, the town outcast for many years, has his own demons but manages to slowly put unusual pieces of information together to find out what happens—and it truly is a surprise! I did feel like things ended a little too well, everyone‘s problems solved. ⬇️

CatLass007 What happens really is a surprise. 6d
Texreader I tried reading The Dry at the same time as this one and that was a no-go. Too many similarities. Outcasts trying to figure out apparent suicides. It turns out the books have a tenuous connection that really threw me for a loop—causing such confusion! So I put this one down and finished The Dry first. This was a much slower read than The Dry and until a child in the story spoke up revealing a deeper mystery, I struggled to keep my attention. ⬇️ 6d
Texreader But the ending is such a surprise it absolutely saved the entire book. #authoramonth #readingOceania #Australia 6d
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Librarybelle Hope to get to this one soon! 6d
Susanita It was fascinating to learn about how people live in the Outback, such as the grocery delivery and the generator. 6d
Texreader @Susanita And that the outback is a character as well, how it can kill so quickly!! 6d
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The Dry | Jane Harper
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Aaron Falk‘s childhood best friend Luke apparently killed his family and himself. Falk, the smalltown outcast for years, is now a Melbourne white collar crime investigator and wrangled into helping the town cop to investigate whether Luke really was the culprit. The ending isn‘t at all what you‘d expect—but entirely logical once you know everyone in town a bit better. This one was hard to put down. #authoramonth #Australia #readingOceania

BarbaraBB She‘s an excellent writer! 6d
CatLass007 She‘s tops in her field. 6d
Librarybelle It is so good! I enjoyed the series with Falk‘s character. 6d
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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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Hmmm. We humans are “long pigs.” Quite a history of cannibalism in Oceania.

#SolomonIslands #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Wow 😮 6d
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Daughter and I take turns completing a bag of Legos building the Natural History Museum. When it‘s her turn I‘m reading the tagged book. #SouthKorea #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks That's so fun!!💕 7d
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I finished The Dry a few days ago and just finished The Lost Man. So I‘ve picked this one as my next audiobook. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

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We just loved our dinner made with food from #SouthKorea

We had Korean BBQ, Korean dumplings, Korean black raspberry wine, and sticky rice (made in India). I didn‘t like the kimchi as much as I thought I would. It was fine but I don‘t anticipate eating it again. For dessert we had the Korean chocolate waffle cookies. We plan to have everything (except the kimchi) again. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie Yummm 1w
Catsandbooks That's awesome! Looks great! 🇰🇷 1w
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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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The plans for #SouthKorea inspired dinner! #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

KadaGul @Texreader For Winter ❄️ I mix up my soup. This is one ☝️ of the soup 🍲 i make Yukgaejang (Spicy Beef Soup with Vegetables . If you have any Asian store you'll be able to get ingredients. https://www.koreanbapsang.com/yukgaejang-spicy-beef-soup-vegetables/. 1w
Texreader @KadaGul Mmmm! Thank you! The store is only about 15 minutes from our house so I anticipate visiting it again. It was marvelous!! 1w
Catsandbooks I really want to try rice cakes! Can't wait to hear what you think about everything! 1w
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Daughter and I went shopping today here so we can make some Korean food tomorrow night for #SouthKorea #foodandlit. I‘m so excited!! @Catsandbooks

TheBookHippie Fun!!!! 1w
Leftcoastzen So cool. 1w
Catsandbooks Oh that's awesome! 🇰🇷 1w
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Happy International Women‘s Day, what little of it is left. I have made so many wonderful female friends here on litsy. I‘m so grateful for you and all the friendships I‘ve made here!

Bklover Same to you!!! Litsy friends are wonderful!❤️❤️ 1w
BethM Same!! 1w
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Devil-Devil | Graeme Kent
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The Dry | Jane Harper
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I tried reading the tagged book while also reading Harper‘s The Lost Man but it was too confusing. Both have main characters who are snubbed in town for something they allegedly did years ago, & there now was murder, deep in the heart of #Australia. To top it off, they are slightly linked. I‘ve decided to finish this one first. I just learned the “who done it,” and dang was I ever surprised! Did anyone else figure it out before the big reveal? ⬇️

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Mensun Bound was the Director of Exploration to attempt to find Ernest Shackleton‘s shipwreck at the bottom of an Antarctic sea, the Endurance, which sank during his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. This book covers both attempts in 2019 (unsuccessful) & 2022, which was successful. The 2022 search was bookended first by the pandemic, and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both affecting the morale of the crew. Even so they ⬇️

Texreader persevered through extreme conditions and amazingly discovered it. I‘m sad I don‘t remember it in the news. I too was overwrought about the Russian invasion. This probably won‘t be a favorite of mine, the book can be extremely technical, and you have to know a lot of boating terms, which escape me. But I appreciated the history, and the palpable joy from the author from finding the ship. This is my 2nd book for #Antarctica #readingOceania 2w
Librarybelle I don‘t remember the discovery mentioned in the news either! 2w
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I started this book tonight, my second for #SouthKorea for #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

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An LA cop accepts the position of chief of police over all the Micronesian islands in the late 1970s to 1980s, and dang was it ever an adventurous true story. Sometimes it was downright scary and at least twice it was hysterically funny thanks to very real cultural differences from island to island. I don‘t think any book could better describe the islands‘ cultures, and adapting to them than this book. Very readable nonfiction. The author is ⬇️

Texreader impressive for his creative solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems. His success paid off and he continues to enjoy success in his subsequent careers. #readingOceania #Palau #MarshallIslands Just 3 countries to go to finish this challenge!! (edited) 2w
Hooked_on_books I read this recently and really enjoyed it. I really appreciate how he was so respectful of the local cultures. 2w
Librarybelle Amazing progress on the challenge!! 2w
ShelleyBooksie This sounds great! Thank you for sharing. :) 2w
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Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
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Hoonie is born in the late 1800s with a cleft palate and twisted foot but he‘s very strong, a hard worker, and loyal to his wife Yangjin. Their only surviving child is Sunja, and this book mainly tells her life story, her mother Yangjin‘s story, and Sunja‘s children and grandchildren through the late 1980s. Pachinko, a game of chance, makes this poor family eventually very wealthy. I like family histories but this one didn‘t work well me. ⬇️

Texreader What I liked was the book rarely delved into gory facts, such as dying. We knew a main character was going to die…& then in the next chapter, time has gone by, the death is in the past, as a matter of fact. I appreciated avoiding some cringey scenes. It was a good book. It just didn‘t flow well for me. I even waited to review it in hopes I‘d think better of it over time. Nope. So it‘s a low pick for me. #SouthKorea #foodandlit 2w
Catsandbooks I actually bailed on it 15% through. 😬 2w
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The Dry | Jane Harper
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I‘ve discovered the reason not to read two books by the same author at the same time. One is slow and drags, but still interesting. The other, however, is my pick when deciding which one to read. So it‘s hard to be motivated to read the other one. I won‘t tell which is which, but I‘d be interested to learn if anyone else has a favorite between these two.

mcctrish I have read The Dry and it made me want to read more by Harper 2w
AvidReader25 I‘ve read and love both, but they are definitely different stories with very different pacing. 2w
Ruthiella I read The Dry first. In fact I read all her books in publication order. The Dry is my least favorite. Force of Nature is probably my favorite because I really enjoyed the plot. But The Last Man was very good too. 2w
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DHill @mcctrish same. But I loved The Lost Man just slightly more. 😊 2w
mcctrish Looks like it can only better for me and JH ❤️❤️❤️ 2w
Susanita There‘s a little reference to The Dry in The Lost Man that amused me once I realized it. 2w
CoverToCoverGirl I actually loved them both, so I‘m no help. 🤭 2w
Texreader @Susanita I‘m so glad you dropped that hint. I was so darned confused when I read the reference, because like an idiot I was reading the books at the same time and got the storylines all messed up in my head. Then I read your comment and it all clicked. Now I‘m going to finish The Dry before I finish The Lost Man to try to eliminate the confusion. 2w
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I ❤️ book mail today! This is a monster! The fattest Hardanger book I own now, and I own lots!!

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The Dry | Jane Harper
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I‘ve picked my next ebook, and I hope it‘s different enough from Harper‘s The Lost Man, which I‘m also reading right now, so I don‘t confuse the two.

#authoramonth #Australia #readingOceania
@Soubhiville @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

Librarybelle I‘ve not read the Lost Man yet but really liked The Dry! 2w
Texreader @Librarybelle The Dry has started out a lot faster than The Last Man. So my first reaction is to read this one! 2w
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Museum | Gutenberg-Museum Mainz
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I just learned about this site for free class ebooks.

https://www.gutenberg.org

KadaGul "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be".#KhalilGibran #ProjectGutenberg #freeepubNKindleEBooks (edited) 2w
Lcsmcat I LOVE this site! 2w
AnneCecilie What @Lcsmcat said, this site had made it possible for me to participate in so many buddy reads in here. 2w
BeeCurious I often download Kindle versions from Project Gutenberg. Sadly Amazon has removed a lot of the free public domain ebooks and now only offers versions that cost $1 or more. I guess that makes more sense if a reader wants an annotated version.
Wikisource.org via Wikipedia also has quite a few public domain ebooks available to either read online or download a .PDF version.
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This book works for the #MarshallIslands too! It‘s a very good book. #Micronesia #Palau #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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I started this audiobook today for #Antarctica #readingOceania. I decided to forego Greta and Valdin. I‘ve read way too many books on #NewZealand (6 or 7) and once I started listening to it I wasn‘t too keen on it. This will be only my second book for Antarctica

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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The cards are finally coming together as I listen to this audiobook. #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Antarctica #readingoceania @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
Read4life Love the hedgehog 🦔 💙 2w
ShelleyBooksie Beautiful job!! 2w
Gissy 😍👌💛💚💛💚 2w
Librarybelle Adorable!! 2w
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Gnomes | Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet
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Starting early on my gnomes for #litsylove! Top row are done. Bottom row, all the little pieces ready to go. Assembly takes some work! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Read-y_Picker Those are too adorable 🥰 2w
Read4life So cute! 💙 2w
ElizaMarie These are absolutely adorable 2w
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Captivatedbybooks OMGGGGGG THESE ARE SOO STINKIN CUTE!!! 2w
CoffeeNBooks Those are so adorable! 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Too cute!! 😊 2w
TieDyeDude so cute! 2w
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Untitled | Anonymous
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@Gilly18 #SeriesLove2024 is another awesome challenge because it encourages us to finish those series of books on our shelves.

@TheSpineView and @Andrew65 host

Let them know if you are taking part in this #readingchallenge and what series you are looking at targeting, or are you more freestyle and just read books from different series as the year progresses.

LiseWorks I'm freestyle lol, and of course now I'm finding I'm adding to the series TBR list😏 2w
TheSpineView We love those series! Thanks for reposting!❤️📚❤️ 2w
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Oceania | Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, Noelle Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarherou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond
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@Gilly18 —this is the reading the continents challenge

repost for @BarbaraBB

In #Oceania the new year has started already and with it #ReadingOceania24!
You can read authors from the countries and/or books set there.
You‘ll find the prompts and reading suggestions on Storygraph:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/ece66821-f9a2-4e67-b74d-15d70c8...

original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2685588

Librarybelle Thanks for sharing this, @Texreader ! Let us know if you have any questions, @Gilly18 ! @BarbaraBB 2w
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I‘ve already read my first book for #SouthKorea this month so I plain forgot to repost this! Thanks @Catsandbooks !! Your art is marvelous as usual!

Read a book set in or about South Korea or by a South Korean author. And enjoy some South Korean cuisine and post your photos!

Catsandbooks Thanks! ☺️ 2w
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Gnomes | Wil Huygen, Rien Poortvliet
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Tonight I‘ve started making gnome cards for spring I hope to share with my #litsylove friends! Hopefully I‘ll make a lot more progress tomorrow @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Jari-chan It's so cute 🥰 2w
LiseWorks Oh I love your cards.🥰 2w
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dabbe Too adorable! 🤩🤩🤩 2w
julieclair So darn cute! 2w
SilversReviews So cute. 1d
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I‘m so excited to welcome my friend @Gilly18 to Litsy! Please welcome her! She‘s a huge book lover (and a talented crafter where we met). I want all my dear friends here on Litsy to show her how much fun we have here! Please share all we have to offer and follow her so she can start following you back. 😄

Gilda, check out @LitsyEvents for buddy reads and challenges, among many other events, that are going on in the Litsyverse right now.

BarkingMadRead Welcome!!!! 2w
Ruthiella Welcome @Gilly18 ! 😃 2w
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TheBookgeekFrau Welcome to Litsy @Gilly18 👋🏼 2w
thegreensofa Welcome @Gilly18 ! 🙂🎉 2w
squirrelbrain Welcome @Gilly18 - thanks for the tag @Deblovestoread ! 👋 2w
LeahBergen Hello, @Gilly18 ! 👋 2w
mrp27 Welcome @Gilly18 ! 2w
BarbaraBB Hi @Gilly18 welcome to Litsy! 2w
julesG Welcome to the Litsy Family, @Gilly18! 2w
Megabooks Welcome @Gilly18 !! 2w
Birdsong28 Welcome to Litsy @Gilly18 🎊🎉📚📖 2w
Dilara Welcome @Gilly18 ! I think you'll like it here 😁 2w
StayCurious Welcome this is a great place to be! 2w
LiseWorks Welcome it's always fun to have new friends 😊 2w
TheAromaofBooks Glad to have you with us @Gilly18 !! It can be a little overwhelming at first, but just feel free to ask if you see any challenges or hashtags that interest you!! 2w
Librarybelle Welcome to Litsy, @Gilly18 ! And thanks for the tag, @Deblovestoread ! ❤️ 2w
JessClark78 Welcome to Litsy! @Gilly18 🙂📚 2w
TheSpineView Welcome! This is such a great community and hope you love it here. I cohost the #SeriesLove2024 challenge with @Andrew65 and the daily #PoetryMatters photo challenge. I also lead the #LitsySciFiBookClub if SciFi is your thing. @Gilly18 2w
DaveGreen7777 Welcome to Litsy, @Gilly18 Hope you enjoy your time here! 🥳🎉📚 2w
CBee @Deblovestoread thanks for tagging me, Deb ♥️ And welcome, @Gilly18 😊😊 2w
dabbe Welcome @Gilly18! And thanks for the tag, @Texreader! If you love snail mail and getting to know even more closely some awesome Littens, consider joining #LitsyLove; just tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks (our lovely leader), and let her know! @Cuilin and I are cohosting #NoPlaceLikeHolmes if you love Sherlock. There are also tons of other buddy reads: #NancyDrewBR, #pemberlittens, #hashtagbrigade, #AuthorAMonth, #BookSpin ... so much fun! 🤩😍😃 2w
Read4life Welcome to Litsy, @Gilly18 🤓. This really is a great community. 2w
Cuilin Thanks for the tag @Dabbe welcome 💐. @Gilly18 you‘ll love it here. I also host #BookedInTime if you enjoy historical fiction, join us. (edited) 2w
dabbe @Cuilin Dang! How could I have forgotten that one? Actually, I ran out of spaces, but still! 🤩😍😘 2w
Cuilin @dabbe I nearly forgot too. I was thinking of what to say after welcome, and then I remembered 🤦‍♀️ 2w
Blackink_WhitePaper welcome @Gilly18 It is a great place. Hope you will have lot of fun. 2w
marleed Welcome to the neighborhood @Gilly18 - it‘s a wonderful place! 2w
CoffeeNBooks Welcome to Litsy @Gilly18! 📚 2w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Welcome to Litsy @Gilly18 🥰🩷🎉🎈 2w
Eggs @Gilly18 Welcome to Litsy 🥰📖🤗 2w
Gissy Welcome @Gilly18 👋🎉🎊📚📚📚📚❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏 2w
julieclair Welcome to Litsy @gilly18! 😀😀😀 2w
Roary47 Welcome @Gilly18 💛 2w
CarolynM Welcome to Litsy @Gilly18 2w
Andrew65 Welcome @Gilly18. 🤗 2w
Sleepswithbooks Yayyyyyyy @Gilly18 !!! Welcome to the Happy Place!!! 2w
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Springtime Stories | Enid Blyton
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I spent the day working on cards for #naturalitsycardswapspring, and made a total of FOUR cards. There‘s a lot of little parts and pieces to prepare so tomorrow I will be assembling these babies, so I can have enough to mail. @TheBookHippie

PS. Those are not spiders in the top right corner. Those are butterfly bodies. 😉

marleed They are so pretty. I took some card making classes with a friend a few years back. Although our finished products looked quite similar, she was able to produce hers in less than half the time it took me to create mine. I just have slow hands I guess! 2w
Read4life 🦋🦋💙💙 Beautiful! 2w
maich So beautiful🥰💕 2w
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Gissy 😍 🦋 👌 💚💚💚 2w
TheBookHippie Addresses sent ! 💚💌these are beautiful 💚 2w
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2w
Texreader @TheBookHippie Received! Thanks! They‘re even cuter in real life. 2w
Texreader @marleed These took me a day and a half! 😫 A lot more work than expected. There just so many steps to make each one. But it is rather relaxing. 2w
Texreader @Read4life @maich @Gissy @dabbe Thanks y‘all! They were a lot of fun to make because they turned out so darned cute. I kept losing those little tiny butterfly bodies!! 😂 2w
PaperbackPirate So pretty! Can't wait! 2w
dabbe @Texreader These are true works of art! 🤩🤩🤩 2w
KadaGul @Texreader I look forward to receiving your handmade cards. They bring me true delight! #handmadecards 7d
Texreader @KadaGul Awwww!! ❤️🦋❤️🦋 7d
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The Black Rose | Thomas B. Costain
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#tlt #threelistthursday Thanks @dabbe for the tag!

1) Tagged (my favorite book): Saxon bastard Walter of Gurney trekking to the farthest reaches of the earth during the dark Middle Ages: Cathay (China)

2) Bilbo in The Hobbit

3) and from this month‘s reads, British women Helen and Gwyneira traveling to New Zealand to meet their unknown husbands in the 1800s In the Land of the Long White Cloud

This was fun! Tagging everyone!

dabbe #'s 1 and 2 sound fascinating! On the TBR! I reread THE HOBBIT last year and forgot what an incredible Hero's Quest story it is! #bilboisthebest Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 3w
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The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton
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My February books read, 4 fewer than January but then who‘s counting? I‘m trying to rationalize: 3 books were 29, 22, and 19 hours long—so not a lot of extra time there. I also bailed on one book (not pictured), and had to stop midpoint in another to save it for a challenge in September. Ok, rationalizing done.

Six of the 10 were for #NewZealand #foodandlit & #readingoceania

The tagged book was probably my favorite this month.

BarbaraBB Wow, it ended up being your favorite! 3w
Graywacke That‘s a lot of reading. Interesting The Luminaries is your favorite. I‘ve thought about reading that one. 3w
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Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
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I wrapped up this audiobook tonight with my little reading buddy. #SouthKorea #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Adorable kitty! 🖤 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
BookmarkTavern What a beauty! 💖 3w
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3w
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I had a lamb burger for lunch today—the closest I could get to #NewZealand food for #foodandlit before the month was over. The whole meal was delicious, but of course it‘s in a restaurant belonging to one of our celebrity chefs here in town. Mmmm! @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Looks great! 🇳🇿 3w
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Untitled | Untitled
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#wondrouswednesday Thanks @TheSpineView for the tag!

1) vanilla—because vanilla
2) cinnamon—because cinnamon
3) black tea—it makes me feel all is right in the world for that brief moment when the smell hits me

Bonus round: mountain laurel blooms—they are in bloom right now in south and central Texas and it feels like we‘ve been dropped into a vat of grape juice. They‘re beautiful, look a little like bunches of purple grapes, & smell delicious

TheSpineView You're welcome 3w
Eggs I concur on all of these, especially mtn laurel, they‘re so pleasant 💕💕 3w
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#two4tuesday

1) The best practical joke was played on me by my Dad on April 1 back in the mid-1980s. I was trying to get to high school one morning, driving my little 1969 VW bug and I couldn‘t get it to go reverse out of the driveway. Finally I got out of the car and Dad was doubled over dying laughing—he‘d put chocks behind my tires. Still to this day, best practical joke ever

2) tagged main character, an author, is supposed to be funny. Nope

TheSpineView Funny! 🤣 Thanks for playing! 3w
dabbe Your dad is awesome. 🤩 3w
Texreader @dabbe Absolutely. I will remember that moment for the rest of my life. I‘m sure I was absolutely disgusted from fear of being late to school, or I may have died laughing too. It was too good of a joke not to laugh. And my dad laughing is something to behold. It wouldn‘t happen often, maybe once or twice a year, but sometimes when I lived at home, he‘d get to laughing so hard he‘d slide right out of his chair onto the living room floor. 😂 3w
dabbe @Texreader That is simply lovely. 💚💙💚 3w
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