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The science of understanding trauma and the brain… I find myself understanding my knee-jerk, unsaid/unexpressed reactions, thinking, “That‘s just your lizard brain talking.” I listened to this book on Scribd, and loved the conversational format between Oprah and Dr. Perry. I wish they delved more instances of trauma, I felt left wanting more, but this was a fabulous read. A lot of people said this is a book everyone should read and I agree!
1. Articles here and there but not full blown mags and newspapers!
2. Yes!! My (future) mother-in-law too, we have a great relationship and share books with each other all the time!
3. Good pacing, good plot line, and a good ending! Some books were ALMOST a 5 star and then the ending docked it a star or half of one!
4. Good health, a roof over my head, and good friends!
Thank you for the fun Wednesday start @Eggs ! ☺️
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I wanted to love this book, but it just felt very flat in its storyline. Perhaps it was because I was listening to the audio version, which I do only here and there, but it just lacked the thrill I was expecting. Some points were exciting, and I enjoyed the different characters in Emmanuelle‘s village, but it just wasn‘t what I was hoping it would be!
Staycation is over, back to work I go, and all I want to do is lay in the sun and begin Voyager, maybe a few other books too.
pick⭐️5/5 ⭐️
Out of all the books I‘ve read over my lifetime, this is the first where the ending gave me chills. Throughout the diary I just kept thinking how intelligent Anne was at such a young age, how well she wrote and relayed the complex happenings of the war and the adults‘ conversations about it. I‘ve been thinking all day how she would have changed the world had she survived. This is definitely a pick for me!
pick⭐️ 4.5/5 ⭐️
Even though I‘m of Italian ancestry, I didn‘t have a lot of exposure to fundamentally “Italian/Italian-American” things growing up due to feuds that go back before I was even born, so I‘m a sponge for these books. Of course, I knew about the Italian horn, the malocchio, etc. (left), but there was more “magic” than I was expecting! A little too much “how-to” for me, I wasn‘t really interested in that, but I still enjoyed this very much!
Dragonfly in Amber was my favorite book in the Outlander series when I first read them. I‘m remembering why that as I read through again for the #OutlanderReadAlong — the styles (and scandals) of French court, the dinner parties, the seedy streets of 18th century Paris, the magic and superstitions…it still reigns supreme and I don‘t think other installments will dethrone it. I‘m enjoying it so much I‘ve forgotten my other reads. 😅
Nothing like sitting under your umbrella outside listening to the rain while reading! Elsa isn‘t stopping my peaceful morning routine!
Continuing the #OutlanderReadalong ! I‘m remembering why I fell in love with this series in the first place and I‘m able to take my time with it this go-around. I first read Outlander in between semesters in college and didn‘t want to waste any time so I feel like I buzzed through it! Taking my time is letting me pick up things I never noticed and reading them in succession helps me not forget anything! ☺️
The last time I read Outlander was in 2013/2014, and I‘ve been meaning to reread since then but never got around to it until the #outlanderreadalong was announced by Random House. I‘ve managed to find some of the peace I‘ve been looking for since I started retreading. I know what happens but it‘s still as exciting as the first time, and I‘ve managed to catch details that I didn‘t notice nor realize were foreshadowing events in the upcoming books.
Spending summer mornings reading on my deck is extremely important self care for me. Taking care of an unwell parent is hard, so if I can spend some time in the warm sun and fresh air with a book, I think things‘ll be alright. 📖📚☀️
Another grad semester in the books and back into books I go...#summerbreak
Giving Kindle Unlimited another whirl — I‘m noticing more of a selection than what was there a few years ago when I initially tried it out. Thanks to it I‘m plowing through my 2019 reading goal! School starts back up January 22nd and I‘m in no way mentally prepared for anymore academia. Last semester handed my ass to me. 😰
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — I could not put this book down! This woman‘s story is incredible. My heart was racing throughout the book, what she and other Jewish people endured during this time period was absolutely horrific.
1. 50 books — I haven‘t hit my reading goals in a few years. 😭
2. Not really, we‘re not New Years people. 🤷♀️
3. Deadpool?
4. August
5. 🖐🎉
#friyayintro Thanks @howjessreads !! ☺️
so-so⭐️⭐️⭐️ — I give this three stars because it started out extremely well. I found out more about my own introversion and quirks I have that are actually common introvert traits. But when it started going into how to manage being an introvert, that half of the book just wasn‘t for me. A lot of those tips I‘ve figured out long ago, but it may be helpful for those that have not!
pick3.75⭐️‘s — Happy New Year! I watched the movie on Netflix last night but it left me feeling INCREDIBLY unsatisfied with how many plot gaps there were. So naturally I turned to the book and spent the first day of 2019 reading it! It played out MUCH differently. I got some answers that I wanted but I didn‘t get anything more on the creatures that I was hoping for. 😤 so that‘s what made it shy of 4 stars for me. Overall, the book is worth the read!
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — Definitely a fun read and it kept up a good pace! Something was always happening and I wanted to find out what would happen next!
How my Sunday nights should be spent: under the covers with a book and a glass of wine. One more semester of graduate school in the books! #readinghiatusisover
It has been an utterly long and painful semester. I‘m only taking two classes and one makes it feel like five, but the irony is that one gave us off the whole week of Thanksgiving. 😳 Seeing that I had so much more time available and I wanted to enjoy it, I started this series. Come tomorrow I‘ll have to put it down and crawl back into my academic hole but until then...📚
I hope turning 28 doesn‘t mean I have to stop buying cute notebooks! 😂 I‘m so ready for the next semester to start! 📝
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I really, really enjoyed this book. It‘s a very different story about a woman diagnosed with a debilitating illness that renders her unable to stray too far from bed and she acquires a pet snail from a visiting friend. Throughout her illness she observes the snail and it becomes a new focus for her. Much of it is composed of research she found later on as she improved, and her observations make it a pleasant, relaxing read.
Summer blew by, classes start up next week, and I realized I never finished the book for my Sustainable Nutrition course! The concept of the book is interesting but the execution of it so far is not sparking my interest. Going to try and finish at least half of it before Monday! 😭 #gradschoolreads
1. I think Little Women — 700-800 some pages in the book that I had!
2. The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.
3. Julie Ann
4. Does life count as a skill? 😂😂
Other than getting to see “Crazy Rich Asians” this weekend (LOVED it!) this weekend has been pretty boring and still blew on by!
Thanks for the #SundaySurvey @alisonrose
Very frequently I wish I could do the same! 😂 In all seriousness, I‘m learning a lot about how complex and interesting a gastropod can be! 🐌 #saturdayreads #introvertdreams
This book is such a relaxing read, you really can learn a lot from a snail!
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I really enjoy this series! It‘s a perfect summer read, and so many moments and one-liners make me laugh out loud! I was taken by surprise at the end, and now I can‘t wait to read the next book! (Which I‘ll probably run out and get today 🤣)
@Mandigolightly #back2school
Great questionnaire! Haven‘t been very active lately, this week has been crazy!
1. Slytherin 🐍
2. 8th grade had an 18-book reading challenge and I clocked it at 25 😅
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Catcher in the Rye
5. I feel like a lot of the books can‘t be appreciated until we‘ve come out of school. But if I had to choose, I think “The Book Thief” is an excellent book that really got my attention when I read it in school.
1. The loudest little dog in the house! Miss Sophie, my boyfriend‘s parents‘ dog, runs the dog pack of 5, and when I‘m not telling her to stop barking at the neighbors trying to enjoy summertime on their own decks, I give her plenty of pets!
2. Today is my Friday! Hooray!
3. 🍕🍕🍕
4. 🤷♀️
5. Nope!
@MinDea #humpdaypost
This is another book I want to love but I‘m just not feeling it so far. I do notice that, oftentimes for me, classics don‘t really kick in until around the middle of the book so I have high hopes! And I hope it happens soon because Mr. Collins is getting on my last nerve. 🤣 #GARBingo
Ending a very busy weekend with some reading. Some very CAREFUL reading, I feel like this book is going to fall apart any minute 😂 although it‘s an incredible feeling to be reading from the same book my boyfriend‘s great grandmother read back in the 1930s. Looking forward to a short work week, then off to Maine!
Feeling very under the weather today so nothing like laying in bed with Netflix and a nice, hot cup of tea. (Reminding me not to watch TOO much TV! 😉)
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I couldn‘t put this one down! For an exhilarating read, I think it ended a little abruptly and was very anticlimactic, but I still had a great time reading it! 🦕🦖 Yet another Great American read that falls into my #GARBingoBonusRound 🤣 not on my bingo but weaseled its way into my lap!
1. Iceland...but we‘re going next June so that‘ll be crossed off!!
2. ...I‘ve never actually thought about this one. Widdershins comes to mind (for any Jordan Hawk fans out there!)
3. Diana Gabaldon
4. Just keep on traveling honestly!
5. Jamie Fraser 😍
#tellmetuesday @Ke633
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I enjoyed this book far better than I thought I would when I first started! I had trouble keeping up with what was happening in the beginning but when I started the Netflix series, it straightened things out! I admit I found myself skipping pages where Anne babbles on but aside from that, I enjoyed it! #GARBingo
I like how I‘m also reading #GAR books that aren‘t even on my #GARBingo 😂 I think I‘ll call it #GARBingoBonusRound. I can‘t help myself apparently. 📚
@Ke633 #tellmetuesday
1. Yes
2. Netflix
3. I love period pieces — Downton Abbey, Victoria, The Tudors...
4. Sometimes if I feel so conflicted between reading and watching a show.
5. “The Hot Zone” would make a thrilling mini series!
panEvery ounce of me wanted to be able to praise the Handmaid‘s Tale, but I just can‘t. I really didn‘t like how this was written: the lack of context to tell me what was going on, the lack of differentiation between memories and the present, the lack of damn quotation marks. There were a lot of places I just didn‘t give a fig about, and I felt myself skimming as I got towards the end. I really wanted to like it, but I just couldn‘t. #GARBingo
Getting back on track with #GARBingo and I have to say...I‘m really NOT feeling this one. I‘m halfway through and it just started picking up for me, but I wish it had done it a little bit sooner. 😕
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I had a great time with this book! This was my primary beach-read while we were in Aruba and it is perfect beach reading! It was fun, over-the-top, and met my expectations! I‘m looking forward to seeing the movie adaptation!
Visited one of the local bookstores near me to browse. I‘ve been dying to read “Crazy Rich Asians” for a while and I decided to get it to bring along with me on vacation as one of my physical books for the pool and the beach (“Pride and Prejudice” being the other!). I also got hooked up with a #GreatAmericanRead pin and bookmark for free! 😍
Pre-vacation nails with my boyfriend‘s sister! I decided take a little break from my #GARBingo and school required reading — I just plain wasn‘t feeling it. Right now I‘m reading “The Help.” Such an incredible read so far! That‘s certainly coming with me on the plane!
It‘s been a while! I‘ve been very tired lately, even too tired to read! (Say what?!) Currently in the process of changing my diet and cutting caffeine (oh, the horror!) which makes me cranky but I said I would try it. 🤷♀️ Except, my Starbucks dragonfruit refresher said “lightly caffeinated” so I‘m cheating a little today. 😉
Meanwhile, I jumped back into “Fair Food” and I find it boring :/ I hope it picks up, it seems very interesting!
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