What are your favorite genres? HF, MG, some YA
• What are a few of your desert island reads? NOT SURE…
•What's your go-to reading snack?decaf latte and berries
•Weirdest or most interesting place you've read a book? middle school dance
• What do you do when you're not reading? Walk, time with these 3 women ☝️and my grands
@monalyisha #bibliologistbio

Langston Hughes, “Waterfront Streets”

#waterfront

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

#waterfall

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

“And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.”

#Dish #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1 & 2: Flashbacks - me and my girls early 1990s, and me and my firstborn girl 1976
3 & 4: The roses are exploding with blooms
5: Finished another Meissner audiobook

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

You‘re invited to play: @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Blueberry @TheBookgeekFrau

A few years back, I enjoyed this series about the friendship doll exchanges between US and Japan; in which US children sent more than 12,000 Friendship Dolls to Japan in hopes of avoiding a future war.

#Doll #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-the-
great-american-read-2018-from-100-1
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!

#TLT @dabbe

Play? @Blueberry @TheBookgeekFrau @AmyG

#Water #PoetryMatters 💦

@TheSpineView

“You're more than your work... More than whatever contributions you think you're supposed to be making. More than whoever people think you're supposed to be.”

#Dessert #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Wednesday!

1-Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

2-I dnfed Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy -seemed irrelevant after reading his Road novel. Also Hidden by Fern Michaels.

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Happy Wednesday!

1-Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

2-I dnfed Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy -seemed irrelevant after reading his Road novel. Also Hidden by Fern Michaels.

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

from All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan. 1967

#Watch

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#Dice

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1 - No, I filed in February.
2 - historical

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

From The Wasteland - T. S. Eliot

#Waste

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#Denial

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Discovery

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Wasp

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”

A favorite HF from Quinn! I like both covers❄️

#Diamond 💎
#DynamicDs

From The Wash by Sarah Getty

#Wash #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“A sociopath is often described as someone with little or no conscience. I‘ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile, but there‘s no question that her moral compass was badly askew.”

#Deceit #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1. The roses are blooming🌹🌹🌹
2. Rain has made everything green 🌳🌿🪴🍃
3. LB is 20 months old!
4. Pool opens tomorrow 💦
5. I‘m moving in 12 days 🏡
Almost forgot the pic - baby in the rocking chair

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

#Wary

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

Alvin Ailey American Dance Company weaves together the most beautiful songs and stories❤️ I have been fortunate to attend two full length performances in my life, and would love to see them once more…
#Dance #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Here's list #5 covering 2010-2024! LAST ONE!
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-
award-nominations-list-5-2010-2024
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.

I‘ve seen 35. Faves: Black Panther, Extremely….Incredibly Close, Midnight in Paris, 1917

#TLT @dabbe

#Warrior #PowtryMatters

@TheSpineView

Carl is my favorite literary dog 🐕‍🦺! He lives an extraordinary life 🖤

#Dog

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren

#Warren #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.”

#DynamicDs #Dream

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1- I love so many kinds of flowers…roses, gladioli, peonies but also we have some stunning wildflowers like the poppies above.
2- I‘m grateful for flowers, rain, and friends 💞

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Tagging a few:

📚Most definitely! However I rarely want to own/keep them. They‘re heavy and space is an issue for me🤷‍♀️

📖 tagged

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

Play? @Read4life @Sleepswithbooks @iread2much

Excerpt from Tapestry by Stephen Gregory

#Warp #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Everybody thinks they are protecting and defending their people. But we are all people, right?" -Papa

A beautiful inspiring story ??

#Diary #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

#DifferentlyAbled

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Warning, by Jenny Joseph

#Warn
#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“And I remember that moment, when I knew. That you‘d broken loose in me the stuff that only love breaks loose.”

#Doctor

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1997

#Warm

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#Warlock #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#Dots 🔴🟣🔵🟠🟡

#DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Welcome to Poppy Land! A visual representation of Joy! Which includes poppy tiaras

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Play? @KadaGul @Cupcake12 @Deblovestoread

To My Ward-Sister by Vera Brittain 1893-1970

#Ward #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“I know you feel lost now, but it won't last forever, and this will make sure that you can always find your way home again...where I'll always be waiting.”

#Dock #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

March #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

All audios, BC: no time to actually read!

Thanks for hosting Sarah ❣️

Here's list #4 covering 1987-2010! I think we'll all do a lot better on this one!
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-
award-nominations-list-4-1987-2010
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Liked so many of these! Esp. Moonstruck and Awakenings
#TLT @dabbe

“That‘s all it takes sometimes. Just one person who really knows you and who‘s got your back.”

#Doorway #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

by Kevin L. Cole

#Warblers #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#War #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”

#DoubleLetterTitle #DynamicDs

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

🌿 Pretty much all the way through grad school; I wanted to absorb everything like a sponge 🧽

🌱 tagged was delightful

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

From Auguries of Innocence

https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/auguries_of_innocence_18433

#PoetryMatters #Wanton

@TheSpineView