One of my all-time faves. The poem and the poet. ❣️
#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#skate
TheBookHippie 💙💙💙💙 3h
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One of my all-time faves. The poem and the poet. ❣️
#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView
#skate
This is my favorite Dan Fogelberg song and in my top five favorite songs of all time. I still can't believe he's gone.
If you'd like to listen/watch, click here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEL_qqXGjHU
#poetrymatters (songs are poetry, right?)
@TheSpineView
#siren
Congratulations, @BennettBookworm, on reaching 20,000 Influence points, and thanks for allowing us to enter in your contest! 🤗
My favorite bookstore is Changing Hands, where you can buy gently used and new books as well as all things bookish. You can also trade in your used books for store credit. There's one in Tempe, AZ (their main location) and one in midtown Phoenix (nearer where I live).
“I address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England.“
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
#LitsyLoveWinterBluesSwap is on its way, @DinoMom! Should arrive next week, so be on the 👀-out! 2nd official swap: still excited! 😀
Thanks again, @bookgoil, @deblovestoread, and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for organizing this! 🤗
#Muglove23 coming your way! Be on the lookout @escapinwithbooks! It should arrive next week! 😊❣️😊
Many thanks again to @Cinfhen and @TheKidUpstairs for organizing this! My first official swap! So excited! 🤗
I entered a contest for a book from #LitsyLove and won! So, I was expecting said book. Do you think that's what I got? Nope. I received a beautifully wrapped purple package today with incredible notecards, fun little stickers, postcards ... oh, and the book.😀 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and @StayCurious, I am blown away by your thoughtfulness and kindness. Been a rough go lately, and your generosity brought tears to this ol' gals eyes. Thank you. ❣️
Thanks so much for the tag, @Eggs, @jdiehr, and @Read4Life. Of course I want to play! 🤗
1️⃣ All the mass shootings stress me out. Also, health issues lately for the hubby and me and our one German shepherd, Pip, who has epilepsy. The seizures are fierce. I manage the stress by exercising, cuddling with the pups, breathing exercises, and taking baths.
2️⃣ I wish everyone that aha moment of epiphany when you #findyourbliss, as J. Campbell said.
pickThree worlds collide: female college basketball, garage-rock bands, and intrigue in a college academia department. Holly Winegarten, a 6 ft. 9 inch basketball player encompasses all of these worlds as she attempts to forge her her own path to self-discovery. Part bildungsroman, part satire on the brutal world that professors inhabit, and part literary fest when Holly falls in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry, it was hard to put this book down.
To be kind, just act like a peanut! (I couldn't resist!) 😀
#ComplimentDay
#JanuaryJazz @Eggs @AlwaysBeenALoverOfBooks
1️⃣ The idea that it can actually be below 115 degrees is my favorite thing about winter. Being snuggly with the pups (and sometimes hubby) in front of the fire, drinking coffee and reading a book = best winter day ever!
2️⃣ Two faves: Hercule Poirot's Christmas and the short story The Blue Carbuncle, Sherlock's only Xmas story.
@TheSpineView
#Two4Tuesday
@Read4life (thanks for the tag!)
What a great way to end a Monday--with some #LitsyLove! Thank you so much, @beatlefan129 and @jdiehr, for the lovely letters! Be looking for a note coming your way soon! ❣️🤗❣️
This introvert wholeheartedly agrees. #batterydrain
pickWow! What a book. I couldn't put it down. The story reminded me of ATOMIC BLONDE in many ways, but obviously, the book is better! le Carre doesn't flinch from the brutal reality of the spy business and the atrocity that was the Berlin Wall, and both sides are equally to blame. What an excellent book to teach point-of-view. Author Graham Greene said of this 1963 novel, that it was “the best spy story I have ever read.“ I have to agree.
Just started the war part. Definitely a chugging-along chunkster.
#ChunksterChallenge2023 @Amiable
“Leamas said nothing, just stared through the window of the checkpoint, along the empty street.“
I, too, am lucky to have a huge public library with many satellites. Does anyone remember Bookmobiles as a child? I remember seeing that Bookmobile drive up to my local grocery store; I'd be there the whole time my mom was grocery-shopping, and I always came home with something.
Nowadays, our library has embraced the online world, and I couldn't live without Hoopla, where I can borrow ebooks. I cannot live without libraries.❣️
I was not lucky enough to have known this lovely lady, but it is heartwarming to know how much she was loved by the Litsy community. I will be thinking of her and her family this week as I continue to read Remarkably Bright Creatures.
❤️💔❣️ @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #sharreadathon #LitsyLove
Took this photo on New Year's Day from my front yard. A new year with hope for better things to come for all of us. Rainbows do that to me. 🌈
@Eggs @Read4life
Really feeling the #LitsyLove today! This group is WONDERFUL! Many, many thanks @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, @AmyG, @BookNAround, and @sleepswithbooks for the lovely letters and stickers. I'll be writing to you soon once my new stationery gets here! Can't wait! ❣️🤗❣️, Denise (@dabbe)
pickI've been living on Turtle Mountain for a few weeks, and I am sad to have to leave. What an homage to Erdrich's grandfather and all he did for his community. I am honored to have spent time with them and to have learned their stories. I am also humbled and shamed by our treatment of all people who were here first. Thomas and Pixie (oops, Patrice), I'll miss you the most, but your story will stay in my ❣️. #AuthorAMonth 2023
@Soubhiville
Sooooo happy, and not just because it's Friday! Just received my first #LitsyLove card in the mail with two adorable bookmarks. Many thanks @catiewithac!!! You made my day! Oh, and you have the coolest handwriting I have ever seen! 🤗
I thought getting a hysterectomy the week before Christmas is what has me in such a good mood (good-bye hormones!), but I REALLY think it's because of Litsy and all the wonderful people that are here. You rock! 😊
@TheBookHippie gave a wonderful idea (as usual!) #pemberlittens, if this 102-page LitChart helps with Middlemarch, here ya go! (just a mini-preview in the image)
Click here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1absbuCRm9clyml0JNj5I3deNaDgYDeu2/view?usp=shari...
I'm the first year of the Gen X generation, having just missed the Baby Boomers!
1️⃣. The Police. “Every Breath You Take“ was the number 1 song of 1983, the year I graduated from high school (gasp!).
2️⃣. Acid-washed jeans with Reebok high-tops, long socks with the jeans tucked INSIDE the socks. Lordy, what were we thinking? 🤣
Thanks for the mini-stroll down memory lane, @Eggs! 🤗
Another fun one to say out loud, and how it sounds is exactly what it means! 🤣
#weirdwords @cbee
