#5joysFriday @DebinHawaii

1) reminiscing with my kids about our NYC adventure a few years ago
2) my neighbor‘s cat who spends summers in our yard came by last night
3) teaching my son to drive- he‘s not bad!
4) flowers everywhere, favorites this week are green dogwoods and columbine
5) this weekend should be calmer than the last two have been

Listening to something easy on my audiowalk tonight. Last weekend I was wearing fleece and now there are buttercups. Made me smile after a long week.

At one point I almost bailed on this, but I decided to keep going. I‘m glad I did, because I ended up loving it.

It‘s hygge time! (I say time not hour because I‘ve been out in the sun all day and honestly don‘t know how long I can stay awake.)

Starting this book which I‘ve wanted to read for years. #Naturalitsy

My 4 picks for #CampLitsy

I am so excited for summer reading!

Listening to this and working in the yard. Does anything good happen in this book?

This book. Imagine going to that war and coming home to a country that didn‘t even believe you had been there.

I almost gave up at one point because I was frustrated with all of the love stories. I‘m glad I didn‘t though because the last 1/4 of this book was extremely powerful.

Finally getting some #LitsyLove out. Sorry for the delay friends!

#5joysFtiday

1) the flowers this year are so full and vibrant
2) loved looking at all the eclipse pictures this week
3) my cats are very excited to have the windows open and watching them run from room to room has been entertaining
4) many sporting events this week
5) planning to catch up on #LitsyLove today

Thanks @DebinHawaii this is a great idea!

Whew this book. All the trigger warnings, but I tore through it. My grandmother was born in Southie, but my family had moved to the South Shore by the time I was born. Still Mary Pat seemed real to me. Would it be weird to give this book to my mom for Mother‘s Day?

It was warm the other day and I was in the mood for summer reading. I tried a few titles before I tried this one from last year‘s Modern Mrs Darcy Summer Reading Guide. It was exactly what I was looking for- different without being too hard to follow.

Camp Zero is a post climate change dystopian novel told from 3 points of view. I enjoyed the addition of the flick- a social media gadget that gets implanted into the brain.

April has barely started, but I‘m getting ready for May. I‘ve wanted an excuse to read these three all in a row for a while now. #AuthorAMonth

I have to give a presentation on cybersecurity this week and decided to re-listen to this audiobook. I absolutely love this book about a woman making a career in the early days of ethical hacking and penetration testing.

Happy #HyggeHour all! I‘m feeling satisfied after spending some time in the garden and then cooking dinner with my son. I‘m chilling in bed trying to finish the tagged book for a work bookclub discussion tomorrow. #Naturalitsy

POV you decide to read the last few pages of your book before you get up to feed your cats.

Traveling south always makes me nostalgic for this sweet series about a Episcopalian priest in North Carolina. Since we were in the Georgia islands last week I returned to this one which has our preacher filling in on the coast.

My wild Friday night continued

Friday in the couch with a warm blanket and a cat.

This recent history of Venezuela once again made me realize how little I know about what‘s going on in the world. Thank goodness for books and reading challenges. #FoodAndLit @Catsandbooks @Texreader Still #ReadingTheAmericas @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

What even was that?

I got to the epilogue and decided to finish. I was surprised to see even the epilogue had three chapters 🤣

One star for the book and five stars for the company. #HashtagBrigade #TheBros

@BarkingMadRead if I had known you in high school I would have had better grades in English class. Honestly I don‘t know how you do it every day. @Aimeesue I really hope you publish a book of your hilarious scenes.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1) The Martian
2) Field of Dreams (Shoeless Joe)
3) Big Fish (thanks for jogging my memory @TieDyeDude )

Thanks for hosting @dabbe

Just a couple days late here is my April #BookspinBingo

@BarkingMadRead #HashtagBrigade instead of my usual #BoringKindle cover this month I‘m going with the audio version I already owned. The audio for this is kind of cool. There are subtle sound effects so every once in a while you hear a tea cup hitting a saucer or melancholy music. (Also has anyone watched this on Netflix?)

Catching up on my #BookspinBingo after a few hectic weeks and then a trip. I‘ll post my April list tomorrow. I need to print out a board and I can‘t quite face turning on my laptop yet.

#WondrousWednesday Thanks @Eggs

I‘ve been gone for a week and I‘m so happy to see my neighbor‘s apple tree is still blooming. It hangs over my fence and I put a bench under it for the perfect reading spot. #Whatsnewednesday @Read4life @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude

My top 12 books from March. I started slow, but have picked up the pace recently. Hoping to carry that focus into April.

Finished this one on the beach today and loved it. It‘s about nuns and their various social justice initiatives. I‘ve been pretty heavily involved with an environmental ministry this year and I am going to recommend all my tree hugger ladies read this empowering and motivating book.

(Beach is Cumberland National Seashore in Georgia. So worth the logistics involved!)

I spent most of today reading this ARC in various outdoor locations. The story of private detectives in post war California searching for a missing estranged wife and her spirit lover was a great vacation read. (ARC sent through the LibraryThing early readers program)

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs Thanks for the tag @Read4life

1) Mine are Louise Penny, Alice Henderson, and Emily Henry

2) This is a tough one. Maybe How The Light Gets In from Louise Penny‘s Gamache series

3) Louise Penny again. Love her.

A promising start to a mystery series about retirees solving crimes in Florida.

I love that song!

I didn‘t like this book as much as when I read it 10ish years ago, but I do still think it has value.

It‘s #hyggehour ! I‘m eating cookies and catching up on my ARCs.

I say it‘s time for yard work. Daisy says one more cup of tea.

This is a #LMPBC book so I don‘t want to say too much. Looking forward to hearing what you all think @bookandbedandtea @ElizaMarie @TheBookHippie

I‘ll stick this in the mail soon.

Looking forward to taking part in #MarvelousMarch this week with @Andrew65

This stack is overly ambitious, but it is spring break so who knows!

Reading in the car and waiting for soccer practice to end. Sometimes a cozy mystery is the only answer. It‘s almost Friday friends!

I had high hopes for this one, but I just wasn‘t that into it.

My spring mood board- I‘m all about road trips, flowers, Easter baskets, tea, and reading outside. #Naturalitsy #Litsolace #SpringEquinox

I really liked the first 3/4 of this book, but the last 1/4 dragged. It was all resolved but for some reason kept going. Still pretty original for a WWII book. 3 1/2 stars.

This was interesting. I never thought so much about fens, bogs, or swamps. A short book worth the time.

Finally settled on an audiobook to walk with on this cold and blustery day.

There are a lot of drawbacks to living close to DC, but for a few glorious weeks we get the cherry blossoms. It‘s a beautiful time of year and I wish I could send you all a bouquet. Thanks for hosting #Litsolace #SpringEquinox @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @AllDebooks Looking forward to #HyggeHour soon.

Audio gardening while listening to the tagged today.

There‘s nothing earth shattering here, but I enjoyed listening to the Bush and Obama social secretaries give examples of civility during their times in the White House.

This book was so atmospheric you can feel the salt water drying on your legs while you sit in the sun.

This was interesting, but dated at this point- it was published in 2016. I read it for #FoodAndLit #SouthKorea but the Latin American chapter was my favorite.

It‘s a beautiful night for an audiowalk. I‘m listening to the very weird Strange Bedfellows Death-march Through Middlemarch podcast. Members of the #hashtagbrigade might get a kick out of it.

https://open.spotify.com/show/3qhQK56wn0mbTmXGgEnKgX

1) Get my headlight fixed and plant some lettuce seeds
2) I wanted to own a restaurant called Alice‘s Restaurant because I loved to cook, my mom‘s name is Alice, and my dad made us listen to that song every year on Thanksgiving
3) Visiting the Georgia islands in a few weeks
4) Just finished something so going to look for something new tonight

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12