Five days until May😳 What happened to April? Did it fly up into the attic of the wind? Like lost balloons, or socks with no mates, or spent flowers and vintage love notes… join us for #StorySettings starting Wednesday May 1! Post a poem, quote, song, book, film or ? that expresses the daily prompt 🩵💚🩷
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pickI‘ve started reading Meet the Austins to my 10 yo granddaughter bc this has always been a favorite series, in addition to the Murrys and O‘Keefes of the Wrinkle in Time series. At some point in the chronology there is a mingling of the 2 families, and I hope to work on both series over the next 12-16 mos.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024
pickByron Graves‘ debut novel is a winner! HS sophomore Tre loves basketball and plays his heart out in honor of his brother Jaxon who died last year. It‘s hard for his mom and dad to “see” Tre when they are still grieving their older son. Tre is a strong protagonist - he is partly based on the Ojibwa author‘s life in Minnesota.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
pickNovel in verse by the author of Everything Blue: Thirteen yo Claire is an only child caught in the middle of an emotional standoff between her parents. But while the 3 are on vacation, her mom suffers a ruptured aneurysm-suddenly nothing matters except health and recovery…❤️🩹
#LitsyLove
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pickThis the background for the HF novel The Dollhouse (nickname for the Barbizon Hotel) by Fiona Davis - the temporary home for the likes of Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Grace Kelly, Betsey Johnson, Eileen Ford models, and many more in the 1950s/60s.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Andrew65 @TieDyeDude @DieAReader @Read4life
“Speak these truths aloud, for it is only in silence that horror can persist. The courage to call a thing by its true name galvanizes the human spirit to address it.”
#BreakInTitle
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
A truly memorable protagonist!! You will laugh and cry…elegant characterization that fits #Neurodivergent
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickBeautiful story and illustrations: the old handcrafted but abandoned red canoe waits patiently in the old shed, when a young boy from a new generation discovers it. The canoe is yearning to be brought to the waters again…
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
pickAbigail‘s dark cloud is a constant companion - it darkens her soul and the atmosphere surrounding her. Can she find a way to navigate life and find joy and color despite the grey blob?? Excellent story about a child‘s depression/melancholy 🌸🌼
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pickAniana, her 4 yo brother, and Mami and Papi live in Galveston, where my husband and kids used to visit every summer. Ani loves to swim and Papi encourages her to excel in swim team; but must keep it a secret from Mami…A novel in verse
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Happy Hump Day! Here are your #WondrousWednesday questions! Tag me and anyone else you think might want to play❣️Everyone is invited!!
1-My sister that was 10 years older than me-she was so sweet and kind and took care of me as if I was her daughter💞
2-My own 3 daughters—they keep me ‘young‘ and make sure I stay healthy and make me laugh💖
3-I loved the Austins from the Madeleine L‘Engle series. They are so real!
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
wanderinglynn, peaKnit, Crazeedi, iread2much, Kaylamburson, AmyG, Texreader, Deblovestoread, Read4life, Laughterhp, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, Velvetfur, Ruthiella, CoffeeNBooks, TheSpineView, dabbe, DaveGreen7777, marleed, Cupcake12, julieclair
💛 I live in a suburb where some farms still exist. To get away from the city, I visit my eldest daughter‘s ranch outside a small town in south Texas, with cows, horses, dogs and some years sheep.
💛 Tagged book is part of a series of Laura and Almonzo Wilder‘s life in the Ozarks; they built a home and had apple orchards. Their daughter Rose entrusted author MacBride to write a new series about those years.
#Two4tuesday @TheSpineView
“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they act when they are left waiting too long.”
#LieInTitle
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickA family remembers their beloved pet dog through the traditions of Día de Muertos - beautiful ?
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
Nothing makes me happier than gazing at the newly released MG/YA books at the library…🥰📚💝
Then I meander to the children‘s area to see all the newly released picture books 📚 And when the librarian is helping kids find books, I often help the littler ones find crayons, coloring pages etc…
#LitsyLoveBingoBoard April
#RandomKindness
#LitsyLove
1️⃣ reading, errands, still decluttering/organizing, walking/exercising, and The Littles❤️
2️⃣ My grands‘ big furry cat Waffles (crammed into a small basket just to entertain us)
3️⃣ Flying bird -freedom
4️⃣ ✅
#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12
"My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there."
#Tragedy
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickAudiobook: Sean and Jamie, AKA The Math teacher, buy a bicycle and recumbent bike, AKA the trike, and decide to have a bonafide adventure. They‘re determined to conquer The Great Allegheny Passage and the C&O Canal Towpath trail. Hilarious and heartwarming.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
pickThis novella title is not in Litsy database. At the art museum, two scantily clad lovers are found early one morning asleep on the floor; the young woman almost afloat in yards of frothy wedding dress fabric…they told the arresting police that the door was open during the night and they walked right in…
BTW the tagged book is one of my favorite Allende books.
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so-soCompanion to The Outsiders, this highlights the friendship of Bryon and Mark as they get older and have different interests from each other.
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#SeriesLove2024
pickObviously I‘ll read anything by Jason Reynolds. This is an ode to the “King of Letters” Langston Hughes of Harlem Renaissance fame and it happens at the Schomburg Library (qv The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford). The guests include Angelou, Baldwin, Butler, Brooks, DuBois, Walker, Morrison and the like. Reynolds‘ 1st picture book.
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pickGreg “Slam” Harris is 17 and his life is the basketball court, where he reigns! But his academics suffer, and his attitude toward them is no better. Myers navigates the dramatic struggle of a teen at the crossroads of his future…
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
pickA memoir/stream-of-consciousness piece that I‘m sure was not easy to write, but is relatable to: modern life, inspiration for writing, single parenting while writing AND teaching writing, and the question of love vs monogamy, and the self. She bites into a lot, but somehow it all works. Honest and amusing.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
pickA charming re-imagining of how Dickens was inspired to create his classic Christmas story 🎄
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#AwardWinner
#SpringSkies
Book of the Year 2023 for BOTM! It is calling to me from the small bookcase in master bedroom…
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Always I thought it would be my Knowing that killed me, when actually, it‘s going to be this rope.
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl @Leftcoastzen
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Crazeedi
“You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you'll never make them again.”
#2ndChanceRomance
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
1 rose after rain
2 walking in greenbelt
3 🧒🏻 little bear
4 & 5 community garden
#5joysFriday @DebinHawaii
“Of all that we're asked to give others in this life, the most difficult to offer may be forgiveness.”
#Powerful
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
“How odd that pretending to be someone else has made me happier then I was when I was just being myself. It's almost as if, once I got over the guilt of loving my future more than I loved my past, my old life dropped away and became make-believe, and my present life became my second birth.”
#MagicElement
#SpringSkies
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Happy Wednesday and Happy 3rd week of April!
Everyone can play🥳
1-Just a bit more disposable income so I could travel more. And more peace and quiet
2-The repetitive house chores, and noise in general
3-Achievement of particular life goals, and having 3 wonderful, kind-hearted, successful daughters. I‘m so grateful 🩵🙏🏻🩵
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
DebinHawaii, Kshakal, DieAReader, Susanita, Gissy, JuliaTheBookNerd, Blueberry, Born.A.Reader, Deblovestoread, Andrew65, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, ChelseaM6010, TheBookgeekFrau, CoffeeNBooks, TheSpineView, dabbe, Cupcake12, LiseWorks, julieclair
☀️ The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle and/or The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
☀️☀️ ✅
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
Thank you Andrew, Lynn, and Misty for the surprise package plus stickers!!!!!!
#LitsyLove ❤️🥰💜
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life
1️⃣ Reading, sewing, walking, hair appointment, library, grandkids
2️⃣ front yard: trees, shrubs, flag, porch
3️⃣ Central Texas near Austin, 75 F, overcast, breezy
4️⃣ 🏷️
#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12
@Read4life @iread2much @Deblovestoread @DebinHawaii @Born.A.Reader
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