Reading with a sprinkle of ☕😜

#firstlinefridays

“Why would it matter, daddy, if you‘re not here?”

“We want what we‘ve made to stay long after we‘re gone. That is how we seek immortality,” he said and because he hardly spoke in this solemn way about a future without him, I felt tearful at those words, seek immortality.

Write the book you would like to read yourself. Write the truth about life, whatever genre you‘re in. Write what you know and do it convincingly.
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Started reading my official first book of the year today 😏. It's never too late.

Listened to In a Holidaze while mixing this traditional fruit cake.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

Carnegie's Maid

Baked by yours truly. Please 🙏 follow, like and share on Instagram @fabriziabakes. Thank you

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I ate this Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake without the cheese 🧀🧀 while I listened to Matt Haig. I decided to use Greek yogurt which I absolutely love, in place of cheese in this recipe because the price of cheese is prohibitive in my corner of the world. It turned out really divine 😋😋😋

Habit tracking also keeps you honest. Most of us have a distorted view of our own behavior. We think we act better than we do. Measurement offers one way to overcome our blindness to our own behavior and notice what‘s really going on each day. One glance at the paper clips in the container and you immediately know how much work you have (or haven‘t) been putting in. When the evidence is right in front of you, you‘re less likely to lie to yourself

Salut...Starting now with an afternoon snack of home made cookies and milk. I think I'm in for the best Friday afternoon ever.

How I started my Do-Nothing-But-Read-All-Day Tuesday☺

What do you do on Sundays? Have a wonderful one.

Always😏

Which is your favorite bookish luxury? Mine is reading a sequel right after a cliffhanger 😊

I knew that was ridiculous, that abusers often went for the trophy girlfriend, and then ground them down. Perhaps half the triumph was in slashing down the tallest poppy.

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A quote so true 😄

1. My Litsy handle comes from my blog, fictionaddictbookblog. Thoug I'm more active here than on the blog these days.

2. Love to listen to audiobooks while baking and walking.

3. The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe

@eggs #WONDROUSWEDNESDAY

"Regret is a wasted emotion."

I really enjoyed reading this particular one. So many twists you wouldn't see coming. ?? to Liv Constantine.

Amber Parrish's plan to check out the Delacroix painting of Liberty Leading the People at the Louvre in Paris struck me as being appropriate and felicitous given her new found independence and wealth.

Started this one today and I love it. It's been raining 🌧🌧🌧 cats and dogs since 4am and it's the perfect weather for reading 📖

I think this is the best life hack ever🙂

Source: @letsbookhuddle on Instagram

Been reading the Camino series back to back and having a good time while at it. However the segue into the capture of slaves from Africa, the conditions they suffered, their jouney to Savannah was quite traumatic to read and reminds me too much of Roots by Alex Haley.

See my review at
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/37372164-3c61-449b-8ff2-7a81b8b134c7

This one has my adrenaline pumping already🥵

Hushhh.. Reading in progress

An AI generated image of a scene from the tagged book😍

They would repeat it for years to come in times of strife: the most fun I've ever had.

Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

Listened while I took a walk this morning and I'm super exhausted now🙄

I listened to the tagged book while I made some mango coulis and I love how it turned out.

Though I'm a bit worried for Frankie since she returned from 'Nam. She's not doing well in the real world and I fear she'll return to the war only to die. Fingers crossed

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

I love both tea and coffee but I'll choose coffee over tea any day. I prefer audio books only when I have to use my hands to do other things like baking, doing dishes... Yeah that's about it.

Almost through with the Violin Conspiracy and I feel like it shouldn't end. I wonder if there will be a movie based on it.

Sometimes when I can't get enough of the book I'm reading and I've become so attached to the book, I do all other things while reading. I eat while reading, I play the book while cooking, doing dishes , baking, and even taking a shower🚿
Who else does this?

First time learning of this quote by Whoopi Goldberg was from the tagged book.

At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country

#memoir #Nigeria #war #history

I've wanted to read There Was A Country for the longest of times but I'm really glad to be reading it now. From what I've read so far it looks like not much has changed since the last 60 years particularly with respect to our politics. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Current read🙂 and first time reading this author.

* Hardcover
* Slow reader
* Stand alone
* Buy
* Read any time
* My favorite place to read is in bed
* Friends to lovers
* Without music
* One POV
* I'm really indifferent as long as the writing ✍️ is good

@monkeygirlsmama
@Yuki_Onna thanks for tagging me

Feel like playing? @Susanita @BeeCurious @marleed @Librarybelle

“We have an obligation. Things won‘t be better for any of us until they‘re better for all of us.”

#firstlinefriday @ShyBookOwl

“People can tell you they love you three times a day and still treat you any kind of way when it really comes down to it.”


I have known and experienced this quote.

“There is a mythical bird we have here, Anna. We call it sankofa. It flies forward with its head facing back. It‘s a poetic image but it can‘t work in real life.”

Chinundu Onuzo, Sankofa

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