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1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
2.Tagged
3. Butterfly Milkweed
#weekendreads
pickThis is EXCELLENT. It‘s been a long time since I‘ve been so utterly captivated by a MG fantasy.
1. Begone the Raggedy Witches; Beauty Like the Night
2. The Unhoneymooners
3. Lilac
#weekendreads
My Anticipated May Releases along with the TBR Shelf
April Wrap-Up: These four are my favorite April Reads
#springintoreading
9 New Books
1 Reread
3 MG
2 YA
5 Adult
5 Realistic Fiction
5 Fantasy
My next non-fiction read. Wonder what #lessons we can lean from this 100 years later?
#springintoreading
pickSO GOOD. Part Rumplestiltskin, part Beauty and the Beast, it is really the story of three incredible women whose fathers all failed them different ways. They learned to cope, took what life gave them, and made places for their brilliant selves to thrive. I love it so much.
1. Spinning Silver
2. Merci Suárez Changes Gears
3. Green (any and all shades)
#weekendreads
so-soI think Meyer has great potential, but I had a lot of issues with how she chose to approach this tale. Relationship dynamics in reworkings of East of the Sun, West of the Moon/Beauty and the Beast/Tam Lin can be tricky. I wasn‘t satisfied that the hero was worth the sacrifice here.
Self-Care Sunday
This actually a weekly Sunday evening ritual. A little time of absolute silence and rest before the chaos of the week begins again.
#springintoreading
pickThis was a bit predictable, but still so so good. I love both Rafi and Maud as characters and their journey was fun to go along on even when I knew where it was going.
April TBR: I did not make much of a dent in this. Still no library books and somehow there are more books not less. Funny how that happens.
pickExcellent story about a girl struggling with faith, independence, and sexual desire in an extremely conservative and totalitarian household.
March Favorites
Stats
New: 7
Reread: 4
MG: 2
YA: 3
Adult: 6
Realistic: 9
Fantasy: 1
Non-Fiction: 1
1. For Me: The Poet X, A Thousand Sisters, A Wish
Upon Jasmine
For Teaching: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn
of the Screw
2. The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu
3. The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
#weekendreads
1. Nay-I‘m intrigued by the concept but often side-eye the book choices.
2. I tripped on the stairs and fell sideways into some guy‘s lap during Freshman orientation for my scholarship group.
3. Tagged
4. Eastern VA to visit my parents.
#wondrouswednesday
1. It has my whole heart.
2. Every Day
3. 59 F
4. I don‘t think I have any truly weird ones. I love both black and green olives on my pizza, and that grosses a lot of people out.
5. 🖐
#friyayintro
pickREAD. THIS. I‘m about to attempt a thoughtful review for the blog, but my emotions are compromised. For every girl who‘s ever felt lost, isolated, terrified of failure, or misunderstood, this book was written for you.
Happy International Women‘s Day to my favorite women authors who created the fierce, savvy, capable girls/women in books I looked up to and identify with.
#literaryluck
My TBR Shelf: I‘m making March a read-the-books-I-bought month. I managed to get my library books read and my outstanding holds down to two!
#literaryluck
pickThis was so cute and fluffy, yet all the characters had depth and nuance too. I love it when those two things come together so well.
Day 23: Smitten Love
One of the reasons I love this book is because the hero is smitten with the heroine at first sight, but he also really SEES her for who she is.
#literarylove
1. Dog-Luna
2. Seeing How to Train Your Dragon 😥
3. Knitting
4. Hawaii, Alaska, Pacific Northwest
5. What is your favorite fairytale to read retellings/reworking of along with the book you think did it best? Mine is “Beauty and the Beast” book tagged
#friyayintro
Day 15: Flowers
#literarylove
1. Bet Me (But it always makes me hungry thanks to the decadent food descriptions.)
2. Going to Nashville.
3. So cute!
4. I can touch my tongue to the tip of my nose. 🤷🏻♀️
5.🖐
#friyayintro
1. Disney Animated=Tangled
2. Belle
3. Gaston
4. Mushu
5. Not actually about a story, but my grandfather owned the cable company that did the original underground cable work for Disney World when it was first being built. And he went to his grave hating Roy Disney with the burning fury of a thousand suns.
#frideas
Day 14: Be My Valentine
Our Valentine‘s tradition is going to the bookstore and getting a new book...or two. These were my choices this year.
#literarylove
Day 10: Sentimental Sunday
This quote makes me feel all the things.
#literarylove
💗”Placetne, magistra?” “Placet.” 😭😍
2/14 Valentine‘s = new book+treat day in our house
💏 Tazwell (That is for reals his name. My in-laws were weird.)
😊 I can handle sad if it‘s well written, but I don‘t go looking for them.
📚Peter from tagged book, Gen from Queen‘s Thief, Parsons from Earth Bound...I have a Type™️.
#frideas
2. Our V-Day tradition is to go to a bookstore as a family. Everyone gets a book and a treat.
3. Orange-unfortunate that I live in Knoxville-home of the TN Volunteers
4. They had no boy names picked out. I guess they lucked out.
5. ❤️
#friyayintro
I have the cover reveal for the third book in this delightful MG series about chocolate, dragons, and princesses at my blog today.
Go to http://randommusingsofabibliophile.blogspot.com to see the full cover!
