📔75% voracious reader, 15% bibliophile

📗📘 Lots of books I must keep for a variety of reasons, but many more that I donate or share with friends and family.

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

#militarymom #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Day 3: finished the fifth book for #MarvelousMay readathon ~ it was so good!!! Presented as a ‘prequel‘ to We Were Liars…which was great, but this one is even better!

@Andrew65

#play #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

I am never #lonely with these wonderful women in my life 💞💞💞💞 - my 3 daughters and me at my eldest granddaughter‘s college graduation

#MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Days 1 and 2:

3 audiobooks and 1 ebook. I bailed on 2 also. I‘m getting more selective as time passes…

#MarvellousMay readathon @Andrew65

#plate #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#Writer Anna Quindlen is a mom and grandmom
#MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#plant #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

HF about kids being stolen away from parents, taken to crowded orphanages, then sold to #adoptivemoms.

#MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#planet #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

A compelling novel of a #SingleMom who must flee her abusive husband and start a new life with her son with their new identities…#MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

It‘s readathon time🧡💜🧡💜🧡

Choose your own goals! Saturday May 14 ~ Sunday May 22

#MarvellousMay #readathon @Andrew65

1️⃣ If I take good care of my body, my mental/emotional health improves.

2️⃣ I went to the shoe 👠 store on my day off, and bought a pair of shoes that I rationalized i couldn‘t live without🤫

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, 1869-1944
“The Plains of Peace”

For complete poem, visit poets.org.

#plain #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#moviemoms #MayMoms

One mom I enjoyed was Rose Castorini, played by Olivia Dukakis, from “Moonstruck”.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#plaid #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

There are so many great sitcom moms! I‘m going with Patricia Heaton as Debra Barone, and as Frankie Heck.
#MayMoms #TVMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Wednesday❣️Here are your queries👆🏻

1~I enjoy walking and paper arts like bookmarks, cards, and scrapbooks

2~I read them occasionally. I don‘t physically write reviews, but I do rate and analyze each one in my head. There is something to be gained from every book, odd as it may be.

3~A leather chair and ottoman in my room.

Care to share? I love reading your responses -

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

…for whoever needs to hear this today besides me🧡

#thinkpositivebepositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Share a positive thought and tag someone

🌟 All.The.Books!! I have been gifted some incredible books during the last 2 years, and I crave reading them.

🌟🌟 I do! But no words. I like something enchanting and imaginative like light jazz, unusual classical, flutes and violins 🎻

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

by Thomas Nashe

#plague #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

There are some #courageous moms in this book

#MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#placid #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Max Ehrmann

Since her mom and siblings perished in a car accident 5 years ago, Coyote and her dad Rodeo have been crossing the country in an old school bus…

#Missing #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#pizza #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#MothersDay #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My dear mother as a child 1913-2007

#pixy #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

There is an evil stepmom-to-be in this suspenseful Hitchcock-like HF novel - took my breath away 😳😱

#MayMoms #Stepmom @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#pitch #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Ma and her son Jack live in a room somewhere, and they are locked in. Incredible story unlike anything you‘ve ever read

#Memorable #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#thinkpositivebepositive @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Fourteen by Mary Doris Russell

from donttakepictures.com

#photo #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Astrid‘s mom Ingrid would fit many of the #MayMoms prompts…but for today I‘ll choose #unhealthy

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Isn‘t this a delicious cover? I choose Marilla for #MayMoms #Loving @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Just the mother Anne needs💕

Happy Wednesday and Happy May! Thank you for all the “wondrous” responses to all my questions 💕

💫 yes! Especially after watching or reading twisty compelling mysteries

💫💫 Jerry Seinfeld‘s Halloween - I believe I‘ve read it 3000 times minimum for my grandkids over the years 🤣 and I still reread Dandelion Wine to myself

✨✨✨ Intermittent fasting!! Until my pants feel looser 🙄

Everyone can play🥳

🎧 I make sure there are 5-6 audiobooks loaded for hiking/walking, and 1 or 2 ebooks for bedtime reading.

📚📚 I try not to, bc they add weight to the backpack/luggage…

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

#phase #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

These 2 memoirs were tough to read…but similar in terms of the dysfunctional parents…sad for the kids.

#MayMoms #Judgmental @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Day 4: finished Amelia Unabridged (so-so)and read an hour into Gone to the Woods- Gary Paulsen‘s life story. Managed to read/listen for 17 hours, I was hoping for 20 🥳

Another fun readathon! #20in4Readathon #MayDaySpecial @Andrew65

Here it is! @TheAromaofBooks

#bookspin
#doublespin
#bookspinbingo

#pharaohs #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

Day 3: Finished The Shape of Thunder-a great read!
So far, 11 hours for #20in4Readathon #MayDaySpecial @Andrew65

Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn‘t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia‘s worried.

When she doesn‘t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong.…
#MayMoms #Evil
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I adore Tiffany D. Jackson‘s amazing plots!

#phantom #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

The poetry challenge for May from the lovely @TheSpineView !!

#poetrymatters

Miss Honey loves books and tea parties and flowers, and being a mom to Matilda 💗

#Readers #MayMoms @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Day 2: finished Kate Quinn‘s newest HF 8 hrs. And it was awesome!

#20in4Readathon #MayDaySpecial @Andrew65

#pegasus #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

The tagged is the book for which she is most remembered 🦜

#WeRemember #MayaAngelou @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks