A lot late but I had to play on this one:
1. Garden Spells
2. Surely there was a Supernatural movie (Dean loves pie!)
3. American Pie by Don McLean
@JoScho #manicmonday
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A lot late but I had to play on this one:
1. Garden Spells
2. Surely there was a Supernatural movie (Dean loves pie!)
3. American Pie by Don McLean
@JoScho #manicmonday
pickWhat a gorgeous, enchanting, extraordinary, heartbreaking, joyous book! Col. and Mrs Forrester‘s diaries and other ephemera tell the story of his travels through Alaska territory in 1885, and her life while she awaited his return. A 19th century travelogue of sorts, and an equally enchanting story of the descendant who inherited the Forrester diaries and artifacts. If only they had really lived, I‘d fly to see the museum of their collections! 5⭐️
Book coincidence! This from the tagged book, while the mc in How to Stop Time talked about playing Greensleeves on his lute, and its inappropriate subject matter. I had to google it to understand the alleged vulgarity. And my innocence is shot: I always thought it a sweet lovely song and especially the Christmas song to the same tune. Now I cannot hear it without thinking why someone‘s sleeves might be green. 😊
I found this map illustrated for the tagged book on the internet. It is a fictional map based on the story. I cannot wait to get the book (in addition to the ebook I‘m reading now), so I can see all of the illustrations and photos, etc other than on my small screen.
Fingers crossed.
Read in Quartz: https://apple.news/AJ26AATcHQG6Oi3Nz4HOGOA
I love the mc Sophie Forrester in the book and I would feel the same way she does, anger at how many of the officers‘ wives are treated this way by their husbands! I get angry just thinking about it. 😡
This is such a cool ebook, with photos and maps and told from diaries, letters, newspaper clippings etc. I‘m loving it. I wonder if the IRL version is as stunning as I guess it to be. I think an investigatory trip to a bookstore is in order. I may have to get a real version if it‘s what I expect.
My fave writer ever has signed up to write fantasy, not my genre, at all! 😬 But then I read this article and it looks pretty good! I fear it‘s the end of Sigma Force though. He‘s working on the next book called The Last Odyssey. Sounds ominous. Oh please don‘t let it be the end! You can do both!!
I didn‘t know he started out writing fantasy as James Clemens. I guess I‘ll have to dip my toes into fantasy.
I listened to this one for about 2-1/2 hours while doing housework. In that time the mc has met both William Shakespeare and F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.
Ebook on sale today. I really liked this book but especially the audio version due to the lovely violin pieces in it.
Set in 1885, Col. Allen‘s wife is thrilled to be going on the first part of her husband‘s expedition in Alaska but her fellow officer wives don‘t agree.
“Leave it to the men to throw themselves off the face of the earth. They are quite adept at it by themselves.”
Sorry guys but this was hilarious. 🤣
This is the next ebook I‘ve chosen to read having had some breathing room since finishing Still Alice. It‘s long been on my tbr list and looks amazing.
A quote from this article, Literacy Might Shield the Brain from Dementia, quoting the tagged book (yes I‘m still recovering from Still Alice). You can read the article here:
Read in Scientific American: https://apple.news/AarGXF-oSTyewESlQ74ZrWg
Ok y‘all I‘ve been posting some emotional stuff after reading Still Alice. So here‘s a hot chocolate break. Even though the fam all had dinner together we all gathered round for hot chocolate again this evening and it was nice to spend more time together with the people I love so much. I strongly recommend family time as often as possible. No really, that book leaves one a bit needy.
My query: what book can possibly follow Still Alice?
pickDid you know this book was originally self-published? It deserves 5 stars plus. The quote here is from the author‘s letter to readers. I‘m convinced. This book will convince you, this disease must be conquered. Read this book, when you are emotionally prepared. It is gentle and thoughtful but heart-rending. A must read for anyone who loves anyone.
“In truth, she‘d lost the ability to compose words out of the alphabet letters on the keys. Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She‘d said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.”
Alice, with early onset Alzheimer‘s, gives a speech with this soul-stirring sentiment.
#moonreflections @sprainedbrain @Meaw_catlady
1. When time permits, I go to the lakehouse and read, build Legos and puzzles, and do crafting. Unfortunately it‘s every few months at this point and often I just sleep when I‘m there.
2. Tags back to: @Eggs @TheSpineView 😘 and @GingerAntics @Crazeedi @Reggie @Karkar @Kshakal @Bookzombie @Aloisi_tribe @readordierachel and everyone else who needs to relax.
During bad insomnia last night, I decided to start this ebook. It‘s quite addictive.
This book describes England‘s substantially better army: British soldiers fighting in America averaged 9 years of fighting experience; the rebels, 0-9 months. General Washington had to be at his most persuasive to embolden his army to fight:
“The time is near at hand which must probably determine whether or not Americans are to be free men or slaves. . . . The fate of unborn millions now depend, under God, on the courage . . . of this Army.”
1. Tagged, plus Crucible, In Cold Blood, and How to Stop Time
2. “To quash this nascent insurrection, the Crown planned to intimidate the rebellious colonies with a show of force.”
3. Water
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
I had to buy this one. It‘s been on my tbr list for a long time.
#IAmThankful for my family, my cat, my friends, Litsy and Littens, my job and my clients, our home, my books, my hobbies, and enough food and security that many around the globe lack.
Beautiful idea @TheReadingMermaid
Eversion of this excellent book is on sale on all platforms today.
“It was premature dusk under the trees, but still the birds sang with the extreme and violent joy that seemed loud enough to shake such fragile instruments into dust or burst the hearts in their breasts. There were windflowers quivering in the grass.”
A lovely description.
Thanks to @merelybookish I‘m starting this one tonight.
No words. The story I‘m sure will speak for itself.
I met the author today and heard her speak. Her stories are amazing and she‘s an amazing person.
Totally small world, I came home to tell my husband about it and he knows her husband, our sons are the same age in Boy Scouts together, and my husband has even met her not realizing she was “famous.”
I added this book to my tbr list after reading this article about the movie adaption. I would have never guessed the amount of misogyny in the first-world country of South Korea. I would have expected this in North Korea. What a surprise. Movie review here:
https://apple.news/AMirujacmT9GwRZSCJGzZGA
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Rose Wilder Lane, author of the tagged book. She‘s my hero.
2. Did you ghost write your mom‘s books (Laura Ingalls Wilder)? And... How would you convince the world today about the importance of freedom?
3. I don‘t know. When husband and I married, we both brought about 1000 books each to our marriage. 31 years later, and having built a guest house with a library, whose to say? A lot.
These two ebooks are free today on Amazon.
I get to hear this local hero speak on Thursday. I‘m looking forward to it. Hope they have her book for sale there.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Quite inadvertently, Crucible by James Rollins, it‘s about witches
2. The tagged book. Only my second 5-star read for 2019
Jenny Lawson‘s bookstore in my neighborhood is slightly delayed until the new year. Darn! I was hoping to do Christmas shopping there! But I am still so excited about it!
You‘d think I‘d get enough of reading about the Alamo, I‘ve been there too many times to count and driven by it hundreds of times, but I don‘t. And I like this author‘s style of writing non-fiction. So I‘m very excited to see this new book! Tagging my fave fictional account by a brilliant Texas historian in the comments.
Thanks @AprilMae for this great idea!
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Our street is the best (Byers‘ house is a friend‘s place a few blocks down)!! The street is closed and we get a food truck and we attract the “worst” sorts.
Always good to hear how we can squeeze in more reading, BUT...why isn‘t Litsy mentioned? Clearly someone needs to introduce Oprah to Litsy.
Read in O, The Oprah Magazine: https://apple.news/AvG2jl17PRd-j3WiDGVNuNA
Is anyone else excited to see if this version can do better than the last (at least the Gary Oldman version, which was terrible)? Here‘s a link to this article: https://apple.news/AnSeHUMFHOXmFk25NkzVRKw
I keep hoping to see a movie made of The Historian, my fave Dracula story next to Stoker of course
I‘m not sure how much longer this free deal on Amazon will last but I was able to get it just now, almost midnight central time.
Just finished some audio-gardening (mainly weeding). I‘m enjoying this one!
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