#SundayFunday

📖 Tagged, if I am not wrong 😊😊

📖 Yes, and I want to resume reading in Tamil, my mother tongue. Hoping to pick up one soon

Can't comment on the differences as its been practically decades since I last read a Tamil book

📖 Hindi!
(those who speak the language, care to guide me along?? ;))

#BoundTogetherJune Paradise

A forgotten title in my #TBR - oops!

#QuotsyJun20 Warrior

#QuotsyJun20 Gardening

#ReadYourSign 1/6
#AuthorAMonth
Not familiar with speculative fiction, so I chose Butler's short stories.
An unexpected surprise!
Perfect for night & I had to restrain from continuing in the day 😉😆

A Necessary Being succinctly captures paradoxical hierarchy, where the Hao is apprehended to rule the captors.
The second, A Childfinder, is a brief tale of budding telepaths and their mentor facing danger.

Looking forward to more of her books.

#monthlywrapup #santhiReads2020
May sees the end of novels from #ReadingMM 😔😔

5 #ebooks
Only #rereadingRamotswe20 was a paperback
Except for the NF, the rest are worthy of 5 🌟

I remember I bought Mayle's series of memoirs even before I had finished the tagged. So I actually have 2 copies of this 😍😍

So clichéd if I may end up visiting France on my first trip to Europe... But Provence is MUST for me -
for the vineyards and pastis, for the weekend market, to view one of the ranges of the Luberon and Mont Sainte-Victoire.

I can't wait to read A Pig in Provence for #ReadYourSign ;D
#BookHunt

#BookHunt
After 5 titles in this series, the Judge and the History Professor marry in the 6th title.
While both live in Aix, they choose a church in a Ligurian village (3hr drive from the Provençal city)
Wedding takes place in early April, when the story begins.

#QuotsyMay20 Design

#Favs

The Hungry Tide, ADSOM series, A Gentleman in Moscow, The Storied Life of A J Fikry, any title from tagged

Will stop now 😁😁

More epicurean delights than crime fiction
The light-hearted series led me to the world of wine and the Provençal paradise for gourmands

#BiblioMAYnia Wine on Cover 😋🍷 😍

#poetryMatters Allure

https://allpoetry.com/poem/12972521-Autumn-Paths-by-Escaped-Poet

#poetryMatters champion

https://poets.org/poem/rider

#BuzzwordBookathon update
alas, haven't completed any of the #buzzword titled books

All that I take for granted now... Yet a hundred years ago, how different the expectations and available options were
#BuzzwordBookathon #nowReading

#BiblioMAYnia Lost Love

#MagicalMay Dreams

#BlameItonLitsy pick that I didn't expect to zip through

The time travel was the initial pull but eventually the compelling characters kept me glued.
Café staff don't try too hard to please customers. The stoic owner & bubbly wife, with a heart condition.
Kazu, the café waitress reminds the time travelers of the rules before sending them with steaming coffee.
My favourite was outlandish unconventional Hirai. All Different yet share common bind.

#FirstLineFridays

Once you finish your milk, please put the carton back in the box.

#poetryMatters Capture
-anonymous

#poetryMatters Bliss

https://poets.org/poem/leda

#poetryMatters Sweet

#PemberLittens Chapter 21
Introduced to the Steele siblings thanks to the 'Benevolent, philanthropic man!'

https://drama.uktv.co.uk/sense-and-sensibility/article/we-love-john-middleton/

#ThoughtfulThursday
⚀ Irene Pollock from the 44 Scotland St Series - truly annoying and overbearing mother. The titles where she was absent, were certainly more enjoyable! 😁😁

⚁ Geranium, and any citrusy scent

⚂ Toggling among the various titles - #PemberLittens
#MonthofMemoirs
#BuzzwordBookathon
Plus couple of other 'distractions' 😉😉

#tellMe @Tove_Reads

📚 ideally spend an entire day at the library, shop at the local bookstores as soon as they reopen (buying online is still not the same right ;)

🍵 Meet friends for cuppa and enjoy people-watching together.
A dimsum date plus birthday celebration remain long overdue

Received an email with book news! 😍😍

I had gifted signed copies of the children's books by local writer. The mother recently purchased online, the newer titles by same writer, from the local bookstore. She emailed to share the news with me.
Some of the books surrounding the busy reader!
#KeepLitsyPositive #MarvelousMay

I shouldn't be starting on another St James book, a #buzzword title when numerous other #currentReads are in progress
Esp when I should be sleeping to rid of the cough, while work remains to be cleared

Yet, I find myself quickly intrigued by the time period, when driving was 'dashing skill for a girl'.
Enticed by the mystery of dead uncle's unusual profession & unease plaguing the protagonist who had to identify the body

No turning back now

Claims his merry wifey 🤣🤣
at the start of Chapter 20

Catching up with the #PemberLittens

Bond's earliest discovery of literary treasures were these gems after avoiding excursions to the jungle.
Prior to these, his reading included abridged versions of Robinson Crusoe & Gulliver's Travels, Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare7 (retold), The Coral Island by
R M Ballantyne.
PGW was forefront of his discovery & this chapter included excerpt from #buzzword 😆 'Love among Chickens'

Titles & series, new to me and
to discover!
#MonthofMemoirs

#BuzzwordBookathon with the tagged
❤️ #buzzword and the other titles for #MonthofMemoirs (a little late to start) for #overbookedClub

Bond's mention of familiar and new (to me) #books keeps me grinning and squealing with joy! Tagged is also part of #BookSpin

From 3 books for #NutsinMay
✔️Sleeping Murder #ReadingMM
✔️Tears of the Giraffe
#rereadingRamotswe20 (2)
✔️Love Letter to the Planet
(Story of More - 48% read)

Moving to #BuzzwordBookathon - #buzzword Love
Goal - Finish 2 books &
at least 25% for the listed titles which are all part of #BookSpin

#MagicalMay Feast

#BiblioMAYnia Purple cover

#BlameItonLitsy library loan #TBR

The Obamas are at It Again! 😍😍
Besides reading this story online, they're bringing a branch of the Chicago library to the Obama Presidential Center.
The former President echoes all our love for libraries and words
#KeepLitsyPositive #MarvelousMay

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1260955716644470784?s=19

📚 Tagged + Sense and Sensibility (need to catch up with the #PemberLittens ;)

📖 Origins - unimpressive prequel to Ruby Iyer series
Love Letter to the Planet (NF) - most recent short book but not a story

📓 Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (400 plus pages)
#weekendReads

I just realised all the listed titles are #ebooks ;o so 'relying' on GR to gauge length of the books

#poetryMatters Change

https://youtu.be/hM0wo6Yypls
Sonnet 123

#QuotsyMay20 Hype

That figure in her accounts would be a very large one.

🥰❣️Indeed each title in #rereadingRamotswe20 swells my Happiness column 🥰💞

It was a slowly savoured journey with Precious, who remains happily engaged while gaining 2 children. Her fiancé is glad one of them understands happiness and feelings of engines. Meanwhile the Lady Detective solves cases & brings peace to her clients.

This is my April #BookSpin & 📖 3 for #NutsinMay (as planned)

#MagicalMay Midnight #matbib
(re)Posting my own post from couple of years ago 😉😉

#poetryMatters Meek

https://poets.org/poem/patience-taught-nature

Completed the last novel in #ReadingMM (sigh, denial it's end ;o)

After reading her mysteries, I feel Miss Marple has led me through evils of people in her time. Plots have become predictable despite the twists.
3 & half ⭐⭐⭐ for this

Nonetheless, the company of Miss Marple makes her books a WIN for me. Will move on to the various short stories with the 'old pussy'

Still on track to finish 3 books for #NutsinMay just not the planned titles 😉

#QuotsyMay20 drawing

#QuotsyMay20 Flowers

#MagicalMay Mountains

#ThoughtfulThursday
thanks @JoScho for tagging
Staycation to celebrate daughter's 21st last month was cancelled (her diploma grad as well) we kept changing birthday plans as situation was not improving then.

A Rescheduled concert

Shopping trips across Causeway poof'd as neighbouring country closed that border & here we were advised against non-essential travel.

📚 Tagged for #NutsinMay tho it wasn't on initial list😉

🍫 Enjoyed almond choc

Set in different corners of the planet, the common factor among the various characters, predominantly Mizrahi Jews from Israel, is the 'search for their place in the world'.

#BiblioMAYnia Home

#MagicalMay Sunset

@Tanisha_A this is the poem I mentioned in your post ;D

#MagicalMay Animal on the cover

#NutsinMay - 70 plus pages to go in the tagged 📙
Though I may end up completing the Agatha Christie just before this 😄😄 #rereadingRamotswe20

#BiblioMAYnia Ripped my heart out
The book that kept me sobbing through the second half