When you need a good cry or you need to feel helpless, read this book! It was so compelling. Sandra was just out of her teens when she wrote this, and no one shoyld have to deal with what she has gone through. It's a perfect non-fictipn book for #yawednesday!

@TheFunkyBookworm

Library book sale today! It's mostly kid's books, but the kids picked a few for themselves 😁

#bookhaul #librarysale #friendsofthelibrary

I work in a bookstore, and tons of people come in for the Dorothy Must Die series. I read the first book and was pretty disgusted with it. The main character was annoying and nothing felt very well developed for it. I always warn people away from it now.

#unpopularopinion @Libby1

1. The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
2. Either Charmed or Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Never--I don't watch any sports
4. Wherever we go for Father's Day--that'll probably be the best food I have
5. My dad does like to read!! History and historical fiction 😁

@jesshowbooks #friyayintro

Hey #YAWednesday peeps! I had a hard time with this one because I really do not read mysteries and thrillers. I had to go back in my goodreads for a year! From what I understand, her adult thriller, Behind her Eyes, is spectacular! I struggled with the beginning of this one, but the end made up for it!
@TheFunkyBookworm

So I gave up on the audio book. 26 hours just wasn't going to happen. But I'm reading it in print now, and I'm so excited!

This is harder than it looks!

1. I don't know if I can choose just one! One per genre maybe! Jaime and Claire? Acheron and Tory? Charley and Reyes? I DON'T KNOW!
2. Heathcliff and Catherine.
3. Can I say Jaime and Claire again? Is that cheating? Ok, Pam and Jim. And for movie--Beauty and the Beast!
4. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

#manicmonday @JoScho

I love how music brings people together. This just reminded me that before my husband and I were dating, he wanted me to listen to a new song that he liked, and that's how I knew he liked me ❤

1. The summer is made for stoop-sitting and since it's the last week before school starts, Harlem is opening its eyes to September.
2. 357
3. Basketballs
4. Peep Papote
5. Black, I think?
6. YA, Realistic Fiction
7. The and Capicu!
8. Black, white, and pink
9. E. A.
10. Nope, just a time of year
11. 2018
12. Laurie Halse Anderson blurbed it 😊
13. Haha no--starting it today, so on page one.
14. This is the first!

I spent most of my day off yesterday reading this because I COULDN'T STOP! I had high expectations, and it met every one of them 😁! A fantastic story that superbly dealt with race issues. Parts of it made me so angry! I loved Jane. I loved Katherine. I loved Red Jack. I can't wait for number 2!

I did not realize when I borrowed this from the library that it was so long. Now I have to figure out how to make time for it! Most of the books I listen to are max 12 hours!

I'm starting this beauty today! What's everyone else reading?!

I didn't do so badly for May! 10 full books read (forgot to write down The Serpent's Secret), two finished, AND I've started (but not finished): The Crown of Embers, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Rat Queens! My favorite for May was definitely the tagged book! Such a moving atory about rape culture and a tormented sociopathic-leaning young girl. It was amazing!

1. I could not finish The Little Paris Bookshop. I was so bored with it!
2. Tea. It's not a snack, I know, but that's what I have most often while I'm reading.
3. The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport is so good! I want to read her new book too 💖

#tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47

I love outside reading!!

Ooooh this is a fun one!! @joscho #manicmonday

1. Count of Monte Cristo
2. Children of Blood and Bone
3. A book of fairy tales--a really thick one. With lots of stories--not just Western ones
4. Six of Crows
5. The Forgotten Garden

Barnes and Noble had double discount days for members this past weekend, and these were part of a BOGO sale, so I got an even bigger discount than normal! I can't wait to read them! (Obviously, I have a mountainous #tbr...)

@joscho, something that makes me unique is that I have a lot of nervous fidgeting habits--and I have permanent marks from fidgeting. I have a bruise in the hollow of me neck from scratching, scars at the bottom of my knee; I push my cuticles down constantly. I once got a seaweed wrap during a massage, and it freaked me out because I couldn't do all the fidgeting I normally do!
#uniquelyou

I've taken a bit of a break from Litsy for the past couple of weeks, but not from reading! Anyone else get an ARC of Furyborn? I'm just starting it and it promises to be epic--a trilogy, and the first one is 491 pages!! I'm diving in!

1. WORK. work work work. I can't say it enough!
2. Probably something I don't need...because it's Target.
3. Late Summer, but On the Come Up!!
4. Chips and salsa (I'm at a Mexican restaurant).
5. @krissylovesbooks75 you wanna?

@jesshowbooks #friyayintro

I haven't read a physical book in 4 days...that's the longest I've gone! But I've been listening to this, and it's really cute 😀. Spent an hour on it while I cut the grass today.

Hehe get it?

And the kicker is, they're not awarding a Nobel Prize this year!

Went to a flea market this morning and there were booths with books stacked precariously everywhere! It was pretty fun to look through them and try to squeeze between the rows without knocking anything over. Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot I wanted. I only bought the tagged book.

My reading stack for vacation!

1. I'm in Myrtle Beach! Our 12 hour trip turned into 15 because the 2 year old had severe motion sickness 😣
2. Donuts
3. 2 books--Aru Shah and the End of Time and Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
4. I got promoted! That's making me happy over and over!

#friyayintro @jesshowbooks

This is our audio #bookhaul for a 12 hour road trip. Did we make good choices?

1. I have read 43 books so far. Hoping to get a few more done on my 12 hour road trip!
2. I'm hoping to read at least 100.
3. Children of Blood and Bone (though technically I read it last year...)
4. Reaper at the Gates, War Storm, Saga 9...so many!

My April Wrap Up! 7 books completed. Im in the middle of Snow Like Ashes and Aru Shah and the End of Time. My favorite of the month was Ash Princess!

Hey everyone, let's give a warm #litten welcome to @jskeldo! She reads voraciously and I think Litsy is perfect for her 😁

Julie, here are a few people you couls follow: @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @RaimeyGallant @C.Perone @JoScho @GondorGirl @krissylovesbooks75 @C.Perone @miralunasbooknook

@LitsyWelcomeWagon #welcomewagon

1. Red Rising. I don't actually read that much Sci-Fi.
2. ...I don't play video games...
3. I'm more of a 90s music person, but I like Pat Benatar.
4. Dirty Dancing!

Hahahaha YES! I love falling into books like that! I love to be so absorbed that I don't even notice someone calling my name. I used to get in trouble for that in high school...

Starting my next book while the kids play outside! And apparently, my head is about to be exploded...💣

So we are suddenly (and temporarily) a one car family, so since my husband had to work today, I did not get to participate in National Independent Bookstore Day 😣. However, I consoled myself by spending a good part of the day finishing this book, and it was so good!! Some serious rising to the occasion, coming of age, and such good villainy! Not gonna lie, there's some serious abuse in here, but the story was fantastic!!

This is the only world she knows, and though it's a nightmare to me, it's a world she is at home in. I suppose it's easy to be at home in a world where you are on top. It's easy not to notice those whose backs you stad on to stay there.

Powerful.

I work at Barnes and Noble, and yesterday I saw a girl walking around, so I asked if she needed help finding anything. She held up this book, showed me the inside front flap, and said she'd never seen a book with a character with her name. She was simply in awe. One of the many reasons #representationmatters. #ownvoices #weneeddiversebooks

P.s. The name is Xiomara.

How did I manage to be reading two books with 'ash' in the title at the same time? #whoknows #ashes #itsnotasign #weird

I haven't been able to engage much today so this is my pre-bedtime post! #tuesdaytidbits @JenlovesJT47

1. Six of Crows! (The cover of the book is actually the wallpaper on my phone--I might be a fan)
2. French fries. I adore french fries.
3. Not a lot of people have seen Lost Girl. It's really good! (The first 3 seasons, not the rest of it).
4. @lyradora your turn!

@IheartYA Giveaways are the best!! And I really do hear YA! #15kgiveaway

1. My top 3 most anticipated reads are Dread Nation, Reaper at the Gates (which Sabaa JUST officially finished!!!), and Circe (I've seen so many good things about it!)
2. I recommend The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl comics. They surprised me with how witty and uplifting the are!
3. I choose @krissylovesbooks75 @mmtrashcan @CheshireMellos

I think if I had read this 10--or even 5--years ago, I would feel differently about it. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a book that is really just a story about people, and not meant to be revelatory. But it seems like it aims to be revelatory--and it just wasn't for me. There were parts of it that were compelling and part that dragged by. It was enough to keep me reading, but I don't think I can say I loved it

#unpopularopinion #feminism

The great thing about living in the country: The kid's get to run around and play and learn outside--right now they're marveling over a caterpillar they found. The bad thing: There's so much wind!! All the time!

#Aprilbookishmadness day 22: #Earthday Books and Nature

He changes his name to Cory! This hits me right in the nostalgia feels!

#boymeetsworld #90s

Library #bookhaul from Friday! Some of them may have an underlying motive, i.e. How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

I got this book signed at Book Expo a few years ago, and when I read it, I was surprised at how much I liked it. It's about a girl who gets caught shoplifting. To get out of trouble, she claims to be a girl who went missing many years before. She gets more than she bargained for when the police take her home to her 'family.'

#Aprilbookishmadness day 21: Family Problems

There are definitely some family problems...

I LOVE this series! It's shelved in Sci-Fi Fantasy, but it reads like a YA. It's fast paced, brutal, and it just sucks you in. I work at Barnes and Noble, and we just passed this book around the store and raved about it.

#Aprilbookishmadness day 20: First in a series

@carebear thanks for the #happytaxdaygiveaway ! Something that makes me happy is watching my kids learn new things--my daughter just figured out how to tie her shoes and she is so excited about it!

1. @GondorGirl told me about it after we met at an author signing.
2. I use Goodreads, and I love seeing a recabp of everything I've read!
3. Mostly Twitter does, but I also get a lot of book related emails from publishers.
4. I'm starting The Female Persuasion. What does everyone think of it?

1. I am partcipating in the #cobabbuddyread. It's my first buddy read!
2. When I was in kindergarten, I started writing Irene as my name on all my work. I had an older cousin named Irene whom I adored, and I wanted my name to be the same. Now, I'm happy with my name ☺
3. New Rules by Dua Lipa. I blame my husband. He had me watch the video and it was very friendship centric.

@GarthRanzz #trivialthursday

I first came across Deborah Tannen in a gender studies class--we were learning about how people communicate, and what gets lost as messages travel back and forth. Her research is so interesting, and as a sister (and since I have two daughters), this book was such a fantastic read!

#Aprilbookishmadness day 19: #pinkcover

I got to work in the back today, so I got to listen to A LOT of my audio book. I'm actually really enjoying it. I'm gonna be honest--I didn't think I would!

#Aprilbookishmadness day 18: A purple cover.

This one was so hard to find!!! This is a book my husband backed on kickstarter because he loved the premise, and it is so beautiful!

And then Dwight is back there photobombing...

#bookface #photobomb #theoffice