A little St Patrick‘s Day humor
#ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
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A little St Patrick‘s Day humor
#ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Very fun using one of my bookmarks from #Ireland (from our trip there last summer) for my #foodandlit books this month! @Catsandbooks
Too early to start enjoying St Patrick‘s Day? #foodandlit #Ireland @Catsandbooks
I‘m coloring all things Irish while I listen to the tagged book #bookedintime @Cuilin
Dickens makes another appearance! I think I know one of the reasons @Cuilin likes this book so much!! 😉
#bookedintime #whattheDickens @Cuilin #foodandlit #Ireland @Catsandbooks
Ha! Aspiring novelist Dixon doesn‘t have a high regard for Dickens!
#bookedintime #whattheDickens @Cuilin #foodandlit #Ireland @Catsandbooks
Another fun fact (if true) about our January #foodandlit country #Netherlands. 🤣🤣🤣
Y‘all! It took almost 8 years but I‘ve finally reached 500,000 Litfluence! Whoohoo! Ok, how about I do a big giveaway! Please post your favorite thing(s) about Litsy (make me smile) and I‘ll enter you into a drawing for a book from your tbr list. Remember to tag me if you make a separate post! I plan to have at least more than one winner. 😁🎉📕❤️♥️📚
FREE EBOOK and/or audiobook with Audible. Perfect this month for #foodandlit #Ireland! Expires in 4 days or less.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P5DS5JY?_bbid=259602286&_bbtype=email&tag=bookbubem...
@Catsandbooks
A trip to Sam‘s and oops! Three new books! I‘ve been anxiously awaiting the tagged book to come out in paperback
pickTwo boys, Pietro the city boy from Milan and Bruno a country boy, become lifelong friends in the mountains of #Italy. Pietro has a complicated relationship with his father, and as adults Bruno develops a much better relationship with Pietro‘s father, creating an unusual but ultimately a stronger bond between Pietro and Bruno following the father‘s death, even when Pietro moves away to #Nepal. A slow, contemplative book in the shadow of the ⬇️
pickAlmost the entire Irish village of Baltimore was taken captive by pirates in the early 1600s and sold as slaves in #Algeria. With little records about their lives as slaves, the author relies on a number of accounts by other slaves to try to describe what their lives could have been like. The author also posits a hypothesis that the taking was an elaborate plan of an evil mastermind who wanted to rid the coastal town of its inhabitants for his ⬇️
pickThis is a hilarious but informative take on all things Irish, both the Republic (south) and Northern Ireland. A few sections require some knowledge about Ireland so I didn‘t understand them but they were quite short. In fact, the book is very short, less than 100 pages. I can‘t believe I haven‘t found this series before! I love it! #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
National Proofreading Day!
I‘m starting this book for #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Always great to have a map!
My son toured the campus when looking at universities because Yale was heavily recruiting him. Fortunately he stayed closer to home, albeit still two states away. So this map made me think of him. Missing him a lot but will see him in one week when his spring break starts
#authoramonth @Soubhiville
Sadly I just finished this extremely fun book. Review to come. Here‘s one last fun tidbit.
#Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Irish humor
#Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
#Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
This is an EXCELLENT book, very fun reading.
This is my next ebook for #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
And it‘s the perfect book for #letterX #litsyatoz
pickA rich Brit hires Leo, an unlikely detective who started a website when his girlfriend went missing, to find his long lost daughter. She‘s drawn some money from her trust while in Kathmandu, so that‘s where Leo goes first. The first half of this book is well written and plotted. It goes to heck when the typos start and keep coming, and the writing deteriorates. On the one hand, the descriptions of #Nepal are excellent—the author is well- ⬇️
Happy March. I‘m taking a mental break thanks to a troubling day for my clients. Several of a client‘s employees are in immigration detention tonight and another client will have to terminate employees for not having proper documentation. I‘ve spent tears for families being ripped apart because these folks just wanted to work.
Even reading is too much of a slog. So I‘m coloring pretty pictures. Prayers to those who need them tonight.
#5joysFriday
1) Mexican food on night out with my daughter
2) watched Nicholas Nickleby (book was better)
3) was given loads of free spices and the family‘s cookbook from our local spice manufacturer
4) finished a great reading month
5) tried Nepali momos for #foodandlit
Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii
I‘m tagging my favorite book this month. It‘s one of the two chunksters (500 & 600+ pages) I read this month. I read 3 books by Roxane Gay for #authoramonth, 4 for #Nepal #foodandlit, and 1 for #whattheDickens.
I read less than half the books I read for January (17) but the books averaged 80 pages more per book than those read in January. In other words, I read some chunksters in February!!
Ignore the pages read each day. I read every day. I just sometimes forget to post my status. ☺️
Another fun fact about the #Netherlands our January country for #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGtz04quhmn/?igsh=OXBod2JkNnZpOHpo
I just love it when the books I am reading for #foodandlit describe the food culture. #Nepal @Catsandbooks
I‘ve long wanted to read about the Irish taken into slavery in the Islamic world. So this book is perfect for #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
so-soA judge who went to Oxford was educated enough to raise his standing but not enough to be considered white by the Brits. Now retired his granddaughter Sai comes to live with him, where she falls in love with Gyan, a Nepalese who—treated horribly in this Indian border town—decided to join the insurgency. The judge‘s cook‘s son, meanwhile, becomes a an “illegal” in NYC, where life is equally miserable. This is their story. It‘s a slow-moving, ⬇️
I haven‘t given myself much time to read one last book this month for #Nepal #foodandlit. But I need this book for #letterK for #litsyatoz. So at least I‘ll get it started in February
pickFlying to China, an airplane crashes in #Nepal. Tintin‘s friend Chang was on the plane and can‘t be found. So Tintin, cute little Snowy his dog, and his buddy the Captain head to the Himalayan Mountains to try to find Chang. Most of this early version of a graphic novel happens in Nepal so I think a small part happens in Tibet solely for the alliteration of the title. This was the first time I‘ve read Tintin even though my husband has all of ⬇️
pickReading this book about the same time i read Gay‘s Hunger, it is obvious it is partly autobiographical. Gay and the protagonist suffered much the same trauma and the recovery was/is a journey of a lifetime. They have similar internal dialogue, the disturbed response to people trying to help them, the revulsion of being touched. Gay‘s family was from Haiti, so there‘s that connection, too. There‘s the inability to forgive and the desire to know ⬇️
pickSuffering a despicable, traumatic experience at a young age, the author ate, a lot, to protect her body from future harm. But as a result, she became super obese (I like her personally acceptable description: a person of size). I gained a lot of weight last year (but significantly less than her) for health reasons, so I have a small taste of the shame she feels because of her size. But the bigger connection to this book for me is what I believe ⬇️
This is my next audiobook, which I‘ll be reading for both #foodandlit #Ireland and #bookedintime. @Catsandbooks @Cuilin
I‘m “borrowing” this awesome reading plan by @Cuilin for #bookedintime because her timing is just perfect for #foodandlit in March. I hope you‘ll join #bookedintime and #foodandlit to enjoy what looks to be a fascinating story about the Irish. #Ireland @Catsandbooks
pickSwinging from the deplorable to the humorous to humble and kind, this book has it all. Nicholas, a sweet soul with a temper, makes enemies of his wealthy uncle and a despicable teacher in his first job as his assistant. Saving a mistreated worker in the teacher‘s household, Smike, they join an acting troupe—until they must rush back to London to save Nicholas‘s sister from the machinations of that uncle. There he ⬇️
The movie was uneven. Stellar cast but the acting was hit or miss. Some sets were exactly as we‘d pictured from the book like the Dotheboy school, and some sets like flimsy pasteboard. Sometimes the dialog was true to the story to the word and sometimes completely made up. How could it be otherwise to condense a 34-hour book into a 2-hour movie? I‘m very glad I watched it but, as expected, the book was countless times better. #whattheDickens
