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This book has fully captivated me!!!!!!!
pickI will admit, I couldn‘t stand the narrator at first—her ignorance, her naïveté, her prejudice. But seeing her in that way first only led to a deeper bond later on as I watched her grow and learn and become revolutionary. Sooooo excited for the next one.
pickI became immersed in this story, thinking about the characters when just going about my day, eager to get back to reading. At times a bit overwhelming in the desperation of the situations, but so realistic. I adore Kingsolver and the characters she creates. I will be thinking about this one for a while.
coffee shop reading with my new Kindle!!! 💖🤓🙌🏽
currently sitting in my car, outside the grocery store, NOT grocery shopping, but listening to this book and cryinggggg
Am I doing this #litsywalker thing the right way? 🤓
reading this while my students work on their Civil Rights poems seems very appropriate! 😃🤓🙌🏽
Started this morning and I‘m already in love/obsessed
some Sunday morning coffeehouse reading!!! ☕️ 🤓
Honored to have access to the beautiful minds of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich, in synergistic conversation. ♥️
very interesting read so far 🧐
pickWow! I‘m super late to the party on this one, but I‘m glad I finally read it. So much wisdom, but even more importantly, just a damn good story with a perfect ending.
Well, now I can say I‘ve been mentally rickrolled by Audre Lorde??
Locking myself out of my house this morning meant reading time on the way to work and on the way home!
“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” I am familiar with this quote, but was so excited to read it in the context of its essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”!
pickI loved all of these stories. They reminded me how much I love the short story format. All of them had a very strong sense of place—Washington DC—which is a surefire way to charm my literary heart.
“We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.” This has me thinking.... 🤔
“One day, when she is all grown with a little girl of her own and days when she must stay in bed, she will remember her toes sinking into the sand and know that this, too, is a kind of solid ground.” —from “Everything She Wants”
“Though Françoise was a vampire and I was a witch, we had reached unexpected common ground when it came to the idiocy of men.” ????
so-soA cutesy book that takes itself too seriously. Facile and exploitative at times. BUT some interesting historical tidbits and a hearty reminder of the magic of intention. Also counts for three different reading challenges I‘m doing this year. 💪🏼
pickAccessible, honest, feel-good introduction to some of my favorite things.
so-soOk, so I had issues with this book, but they were issues I knew I‘d probably have, so 🤷🏻♀️What I didn‘t enjoy was the typical Christian talk, as well as the heteronormative talk. What I loved was the stories—the ones about his kids, the “Ryan in Love” chapter and the one about Don Valencia. I appreciated his insights about “whimsy” and love in action. Lastly, the format and feel of this book was a perfect way for me to get back into audiobooks!
“Explore the possibility that you are not broken. Maybe, in spite of everything and because of everything, you are miraculously, perfectly whole.” About Six of Wands. 🔥
pickI will be thinking about this book for a long time. The character development was deep and slow and totally worth it. It just got juicier and more painful the further in I got. I cried my way through the last 100 pages.
About 100 pages left in this one for me, and a book club discussion for it tomorrow! 🤓💪🏼
