pickFantastic audiobook! Loved listening to all the experts, and interviews with Jim Dale, Stephen Fry, and Jim Kay; and how they worked in little clips of the HP audiobooks. If you love the world of Harry Potter, and want to learn more about the history of real-world magic that inspired JKR, this is a great listen. Natalie Dormer also has a lovely voice tying it all together.
I cannot listen to this because the acting is so bad. I really enjoy both audiobooks and podcasts so I thought the audio format would be best for this book. The problem is the people the podcaster is supposed to be interviewing, and the reenactment of phone calls. They do not sound like people speaking naturally but people *reading* a script. I'm totally taken out of the story by the (lack of) acting. Will have to try in print.
🕵️♀️ Another mystery delivery from Amazon without a note. Can I please know who to thank for this?
Went to another bar/bookstore this weekend (Afterword Tavern & Shelves in KC) and my Bookworm Irish Coffee came in this. My friend and I agreed to go back in a few weeks for a meeting of the Silent Book Club. 🤓
#gratefulreads #Over500pages
I don't read books over 500 pages if I don't really like them so it's tough to choose a favorite! 😆 But I do particularly love the seventh installment of the Outlander series. My best friend is currently reading the third book and I hope she continues because I can't wait to discuss this one with her.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
I saw the film Harriet last week and loved it; adding this new biography to my TBR. 👍👍 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/03/harriet-tubman-she-came-to-slay-er...
I also started reading Hex this week. Now that I'm finally feeling the Halloween spirit, I had a major craving for horror. Perfect weird, creepy vibes from chapter 1. 🎃
Thank you so much for the #AllHallowsRead gift, Mikala! @Laughterhp I have been interested in this series for a long time! I see that not only did Deanna Raybourn blurb the cover but the author also thanked her for feedback in the Acknowledgements so that's👍. Also this cover is 😍
Sleet outside, hot apple cider and spooky stories inside. 🍂🌧️🍎
Went to Harry Potter trivia brunch today. I won two rounds! 😄 Also had butterbeer with bourbon and my friend had a Slytherin Spritz. Proceeds went to the worthy cause of Kids in Need of Defense supportkind.org and I have some fun prizes!
1. The Witch of Willow Hall
2. Not sure! But definitely will be reading The Supernatural Enhancements within the next month for LMPBC!
3. The Cuckoo's Calling
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
❤️ Lawrence, Kansas
🧡 38
💛 I work in insurance. I blow my budget on books. 😂
💚 Single
💙 She/her
💜 It has a couple meanings for me. It's also included in multiple songs' lyrics, which is probably how it first came into my head. ☺️
#gettingtoknowyou @JoScho
I'm so excited to be joining #lmpbc for the first time! I don't usually make firm tbr lists because I'm a mood reader, but I'm really pleased to know I'll be reading these this winter! 🤓 Round 7 Group E - Epistolary/diary
@Jerdencon
@ladyneverwhere
@Sward7
Shared today on IG by Belletrist ❤️❤️❤️🍂🎃💀🍁🏚️
1. Finally got around to joining the Cormoran Strike club. ❤️
2. Navy
3. Toured a historic dam power plant.
4. Can snap. Keep trying to whistle but no.
5. ✅
#friyayintro @howjessreads
I just got home to a surprise package! But I don't know who it's from. 🧐 Have ideas but don't want to call anyone out and be wrong. 😁 Anyway, I'm very excited because this book has recently been at the TOP of my TBR but I didn't have a copy yet! Yay, fall reading!
🖤🧡💜
October 1. Dearest Autumn, Where are you? Eagerly anticipating your arrival. Your friend, Christine 💙
Can't move, there's a cat on my lap. 😼
Reading the tagged for book club. Super interesting but maddening.
I took a photo of this poem on a wall at the Tate St. Ives.
From her website: "Ella Frears is a poet and visual artist based in south-east London. Her pamphlet Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published by Goldsmiths Press 2018. Her debut collection, Shine, Darling will be published by Offord Road Books 2020."
#poetry #bookishtravel
#7covers7days #covercrush Day 6
(This is one of my favorite artists - Thomas Hart Benton - and this painting's home is my local museum - The Nelson-Atkins. 😍)
#7covers7days #covercrush Day 4
Group nomination here because these are all so fun! Also I'm playing catch-up and posting twice today because I had no time to post yesterday. #RulesShmules 🤣
#7covers7days #covercrush Day 2
I just bought this when I was in London a couple weeks ago! 😍🇬🇧🥰
📘 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Hermione!)
🎬 Cinderella
🎶 Devil With the Blue Dress On
#manicmonday @JoScho
I was in Cornwall last week and Ross and Demelza are everywhere, of course. I snapped a couple of my favorites. 🤣
I was in Cornwall last week and Ross and Demelza are everywhere, of course. I snapped a couple of my favorites. 😄
#7covers7days #covercrush Day 1
Thanks for the tag @Laughterhp! I've been off Litsy a while so I hope a challenge will help me get back in the swing. 🎈
LaGuardia Airport, waiting to board for the flight home after working in NYC all week. It's been amazing but I cannot wait to get home! 😴💤💤💤
First borrower! This was unexpected since I just requested the library purchase it yesterday. 😄 Thanks, KCPL!
My reading companion this morning is looking wistfully out the window at the rain that is keeping him from adventures. Otis is my brother's dog and is staying with me while his people are on vacation. He's a sweetie even if he is high maintenance. 😁
Happy birthday Denise! I hope it's a great one. Thanks for doing such a nice giveaway! 🎉🎁🎈🥳
#49bdaygiveaway @Jerdencon
#Audiobiking on this early spring day! No green yet, but at least the snow is finally gone and it's a glorious 55°. Scott Brick kept me company on the trail. 🎧🚴♀️🐴
I just got home and opened the most wonderful package from @AmberWB Thank you so much, Amber! This is really an above and beyond, lovely gift. 🤯😊 I love all the Maryland things, especially. The books, snacks, and beverages! all are just perfect. 🤩 And what a great magnet. Cheers to you! 🍻
#bbsredacted
@Jilly6183
Books 9 and 10 in the Mary Russell series. ? The Language of Bees ends with a "to be continued..." (er, hopefully that's not considered a spoiler?) so naturally I felt I should keep going to the next! LoB wasn't my favorite, but The God of the Hive really has me hooked. Tonight I'm going read and hopefully turn in early bc Long Week. ???
#FridayNightBookClub
@JoScho @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@AmberWB this is going out today after work. I'll email you the tracking number! 🍻
@Jilly6183
#bbsredacted
📚 The Great Gatsby
🎬 BlacKkKlansman because last night I texted the 🎉 to someone when one of my college professors won an Oscar! Kevin Willmott for the screenplay.
🎶 1999 - Prince
#manicmonday
@JoScho
1. Rural
2. Any! Though usually I'm on the plains and I'm not that into the desert. I like a lot of trees.
3. 🥾🚴♀️🛶
4. I really want to try some kind of glamping!
5. I want to read more of this author, this book is the only one I have. His Instagram is great too.
#hellothursday or Friday... 🤷
@wanderinglynn 🙋
pickI guess I only read half of the back-cover blurb before deciding to read this (it was really the setting that got me), so I was surprised by a key plot point. But I'm actually glad that I didn't know what to expect going in or I might not have even picked this up. It was a sweet and moving story that I think will stick with me.
❤️ #MountTBR
#HelloThursday 🙋 I just started using Goodreads account recently! I'm going to go add some friends now. 😁 https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/64917619-christine
@wanderinglynn
1. Practical Magic was a real disappointment.
2. If I have to choose, sweet! 🍫
3. Bob and Betty; Isabel and David.
4. My brother and I wore out the tapes of the Back To The Future and Indiana Jones movies.
5. London 🇬🇧
#friyayintro
@howjessreads
1. 31° and ☀️ and it's so amazing compared to yesterday's 0° that I walked to get lunch. 😊
2. 60-70°
3. 70°
4. Warm and dry to sit outside. 😎
5. Best read during deepest darkest winter, I think.
#hellothursday
@wanderinglynn
My #JustABookSwap book revealed. 💜
Charlie was checking out the box, of course.🐱🔎
@Jee_HookedOnBookz
Thank you so much, Jee! I loved your fun clues and deducing what it would be before I unwrapped it (happily I was right 😊). I am really looking forward to reading this!
@Jee_HookedOnBookz
#JustABookSwap
@thebookkeepers
@TheBookKeepers My#JustABookSwap package is on its way, should arrive Friday! 📚💌
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