I wasn‘t going to nominate anything but Audible is featuring the new David Baldacci book, A Calamity of Souls, and I would like to nominate it for #CampLitsy24. I haven‘t ever read any of his work but the description sounds intriguing.

#LitsyLove This arrived in Friday‘s mail but the weekend has been hectic so I‘m only posting now. Thank you, @Princess-Kingofkings for the lovely note and the wonderful bookmark. I believe it‘s a wonderful way of celebrating and honoring your mother.💕

#LitsyLove This arrived in Friday‘s mail from @TheBookHippie I‘m sorry that I only posted it today. You have made me feel very welcome and I look forward to getting to know you better. And thanks for hosting #SundayBuddyRead. I‘ve enjoyed participating in it since last summer. I confess that I haven‘t even started Zorrie but I will get caught up this week. I really like your 20 things about you and it makes me feel like doing something similar.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Book 0.5 of The Other Realm is a short-short intro to this English Urban Fantasy.

#LitsyLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Look what came in the mail today! Thank you so much. The bookmark, stickers, and postcards are amazing. But I especially like the cat and books sticker on the outside of the envelope! You and I are both bibliophiles and ailurophiles.

I‘ve been using Libby to borrow audiobooks from my local library. Someone on here mentioned that they use Hoopla to borrow from their local library so I thought I‘d check it out. If both apps are using the same source library, why don‘t they carry the same books? My library is closed for a couple of weeks for some maintenance, or I‘d call them. Is anyone able to enlighten me?

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Wow! This was a terrific book! I give it aaalll the stars. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#AuthorAMonth I had a difficult time when Nao was being abused by her classmates but when she started abusing someone else, I couldn‘t listen to the book any longer. I know that‘s usually the way things work but I hated it.

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12 Thanks for the tag @Princess-Kingofkings 1) The only specific plans for the week are to go to the Fiber Arts group at the library on Friday and to a Silent Book Club on Sunday. 2) I drink a lot of water and I have a cup of tea first thing in the morning. 3) I use a bookmark. Dog-eared pages are an abomination. 4) ✅ . I‘m tagging everyone. Please join in.

#ReadAway2024 When I first began listening to this book I wasn‘t sure whether I liked it or not. But loved it! Addie is such a clever woman.

Thanks for the tag @DieAReader - this is a tough one. 1) Paperback. 2) Yes. 3) Science Fiction. 4) Yes. 5) I love the taste and smell of coffee but it doesn‘t treat my gut well at all anymore. But I also love tea so I‘m still getting my daily caffeine hit. 6) Physical. 7) Audio. @TheBookHippie @StayCurious Wanna play?

March #TBRTarot #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Jim Butcher never ceases to entertain and surprise. And he writes such wonderful cats.😹😻

#ReadAway2024 #SheSays Cecile Richards comes from political royalty but she doesn‘t just ride her mother‘s coattails. She is a leader and a fighter for social equality. This book is inspiring and I give it all the stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#NancyDrew #NancyDrewBR As I was unpacking a box of old books I found four old Nancy Drew books. The copyright is 1959 but I have no idea when these were released. My parents gave them to me as a Christmas gift in the early 1970s. My brother suggested that I try to sell them on eBay in stead of donating them to the Humane Society‘s thrift store. If anyone sells them on eBay it will be my brother. Does anyone know if they have any financial value?

#ReadAway2024 When I first started this book, I found the teenage characters annoying. But they were just behaving like teenagers and by the end of this very enjoyable book Felix and his friends had grown up more than just a little. Felix is a 17-year-old trans boy who knows he‘s not a girl but is not quite sure he‘s a boy. As he questions his gender identity, an even bigger question becomes apparent: does he deserve to be loved? It‘s a (cont)⬇️

#ReadAway2024 Based on a true story, this was a wonderful book. It takes place in London during WWII when thousands of people who lost their homes to the Blitz lived in an unfinished Tube station. In Bethnal Green the library was destroyed on the first night of the Blitz and the Head Librarian is killed. Clara is the head of the library built in the Tube station. In spite of the sad things that happened, some things are happy. The author (cont)⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 Very entertaining! I‘m looking forward to the next book in this series. Recommended.

#BakerStreetIrregulars #ReadAway2024 And I‘m going to add #SeriesLove2024 because I suspect it‘s the beginning of a new series. I enjoyed this very much. There‘s so much of the background of the three title characters and Helene left to learn. And of course, mysteries to solve.

#BakerStreetIrregulars #ReadAway2024 And I‘m going to add #SeriesLove2024 because I suspect it‘s the beginning of a new series. I enjoyed this very much. There‘s so much of the background of the three title characters and Helene left to learn. And of course, mysteries to solve.

#ReadAway2024 A friend recommended this book and I am grateful. I don‘t know what I expected but the surprise was a pleasure. I loved this book!! Speculative fiction doing what it does best, social commentary from a different perspective. Bravo!👏

#ReadAway2024 I knew I shouldn‘t trust that guy.

I found this at my local used bookstore yesterday and had to have it.

I am in Audible time-out. I didn‘t know there was such a thing until this morning. I‘m not allowed to return anything for six months. I‘ve been participating in multiple buddy reads. Sometimes what I buy is not enjoyable to me. #HailTheBail I guess that, starting today, any books I don‘t like will have to wait for six months before I can return them. That might be a lot to return all at once. I think this might be a good thing (cont) ⬇️

#ReadAway2024 #LitsySciFiBookClub #HailTheBail I‘m learning to go with my first opinion about many things. When we read one of Ursula K. LeGuin‘s books for the #ClassicLSFBC (and I guess you can figure out that it wasn‘t my cup of tea because I can‘t remember the title) it was a reread for me. The first time I didn‘t like it but I wanted to give it another chance because it‘s been a while since high school. I still didn‘t like it. When (cont)⬇️

#readAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I enjoyed the relationships in this book, maybe because there are no developing relationships in Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes tales. I did have difficulty following Charlotte‘s train of thought in the deductions she made, which is pretty much the way I feel about the original Holmes.

#LitsySciFiBookClub Nebula Awards Nominees Finalists https://www.sfwa.org/2024/03/14/sfwa-announces-the-finalists-for-the-59th-nebula... @TheSpineView @Karisa FYI. Have you seen this list?

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I‘m still enjoying this entertaining and theologically unsound series after seven books. My favorite cookie is peanut butter just like it‘s Daisy‘s. Unlike Daisy, I don‘t have a friend like June to bake for me. Fun scene: teaching the angels how to speak Southern.

#InDeathLongReadalong #IDLR #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I‘m enjoying this series more with each book. There is some wonderful character growth in this book and things from the past are revealed. Recommended.

#PemberLittens #JaneAdjacent #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 When I read the introduction I wasn‘t sure I was going to like the 21st Century Emma. Somehow a spoiled rich girl living in Regency England was easier to like than one living on the Upper East Side in modern-day Manhattan. But I set aside my prejudices and by the time I was very far into the first chapter I loved Emma at NYU befriending Nadine. A wonderful story of family, (cont)⬇️

You‘ve got to love a guy who dedicates his book to his animal companions. He loves his fur babies.

March #AuthorAMonth #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This is the second Jane Harper book I‘ve read this week. It is the first book in the Aaron Falk series. The relationships are well written and the solutions to both mysteries come as a revelation. Two Jane Harper mysteries down, with three, hopefully more, to go.

@RamsFan1963 I know you mentioned in another post what the April selection is but I can‘t find the post. Could you please remind me of the title?

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This is the 6th entry in the Good to the Last Death series. There were many truly funny scenes but a scary cliffhanger ending.

#AuthorAMonth #ReadAway2024 A fine mystery with a shocking killer. I will read more books by this author.

April #SheSaid #ReadAway2024 I can‘t recommend this book of essays enough. I may decide to read it again, maybe this year or next.

#ReadAway2024 #NonFiction2024 MAUS is the fiction prompt and this is my nonfiction selection. #TBRTarot Choose a book whose author‘s name begins with C. This is a heartbreaking yet joyful book about the experiences of one of the leaders of the Dutch Underground during WWII.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This is such a cute series about family, friendship, love, loyalty, and forgiveness. I find it a little annoying that the writer needs to remind us that the heroine is 40. Like we‘re going to forget. And I realized immediately what Daisy was going to have to do to keep the calendar from being reset. But all in all it‘s a fun ride.

#ReadAway2024 A delightful story about growing up, reading and imagination. It‘s a pick.

A charming Christmas story from the author of Her Royal Spyness, Rhys Bowen. It takes place during the Blitz. #ReadAway2024 It‘s a pick!

#LitsyToB24 #LitsyLoveReads #ReadAway2024 I don‘t consider this a modern retelling of Little Women. And I don‘t know why I enjoyed it as much as I did. But I did enjoy it. That‘s my story and I‘m sticking to it.

#ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 There is a different, newer cover on the audiobook, but I like this cover so much more. This is the tenth entry in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery series. Just because the animals talk doesn‘t make this a cozy mystery. Both humans and animals cuss. But all the violence takes place “offstage” and there‘s no graphic sex.

#SundayBuddyRead #ReadAway2024 This was a lovely book and I look forward to tomorrow‘s discussion of the final section. I don‘t remember who said it was YA, but it didn‘t feel like YA to me. It feels like a tale of family and friendship. It‘s a coming of age tale. Yes, there‘s teenage angst but it feels more mature than YA. I‘m not sure if I‘m making any sense. One day during the week I read an article about the new Broadway musical The (cont)⬇️

In Maryland, concurrent bills have been introduced, the “Freedom to Read” Act. The bill would protect library workers and library material from discrimination and removal. Next door, in my home state of West Virginia the House passed a bill allowing the prosecution of librarians. WTF??!?? I don‘t live in West Virginia anymore, I live in the very red state of Tennessee. So what‘s next for this country?

#LiteraryCrew This is a pick but that‘s partially my way of justifying the Audible credit spent and the time I spent listening to this. The writing, the language, is beautiful! I think the storytelling is a bit weak, with lots of peaks and valleys. This is not her first published book but this was the first released in the US.

#SheSaid I‘m listening to the section we will be discussing tomorrow and took a news break. I wasn‘t looking for anything in particular, I just wanted to scroll through the news. This article about Fani Willis reminded me of what Anita Hill was put through during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/fani-willis-testimony-evokes-long-standi...

#LiteraryCrew I‘m trying to listen to this as an audiobook. But I‘ve fallen asleep twice. I‘ve finally finished chapter 2. Is anyone else having trouble with this?

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I came across the word chaplet in chapter 4 of the tagged book. I had heard the word before from Mom and a friend of hers referring to the Divine Chaplet of Mercy. But I‘ve never heard it in any other context. I think definition 2 is the meaning intended by Conan Doyle, a necklace.

#InDeathLongReadalong #IDLR #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 I still like the character of Eve Dallas and I find her relationship with Roarke a bit more believable in this book than in the first one. If I were casting the movie or TV show, I know who I‘d cast as Roarke. The actor‘s name is Franc Luz and I saw him as the detective on Broadway in City of Angels. Good show. Other roles I‘ve seen him in are as Jonny Depp‘s father in Don Juan (cont)⬇️

Today is my friend Richard‘s 74th birthday. I just got new glasses and was going to give myself a couple of days to adjust before I started this. But birthday. At least I‘ve picked out a bookmark.

#ReadAway2024 I can‘t remember the Litten who recommended this book to me. Thank you. This is a story, described as a horror story, of a Cree family. The the one cultural aspect that stood out to me is that men are rarely even mentioned. The Cree are not a patriarchal people, instead the family is cared for by the Auntys. I wasn‘t particularly horrified by this story but I was impressed with the female friendships.