@DebinHawaii #JoysFriday
1. Successfully led an art museum field trip for 100 6th graders + parents—Whew! 🙌
2. Hearing students spot art they recognized from class as if it was a celebrity (There‘s the Kehinde Wiley! There‘s the ceramics I did my project on!) 😎
3. Going to visit my daughter at college today 🚙💨
4. Random three day weekend 👏👏
5. #SundayBuddyRead on Litsy 🥰
Happy Spring, everyone!
My #SpringCardSwap is in the mail! 💌🌸🌺🌷🌼
Time for an audiowalk before the pre-spring showers get going here! 💗
Three different countries and time periods for me this weekend. 😊
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
🎬 https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-awards-for-best-picture
🎬I‘ve seen 40 of them! I didn‘t realize that I had watched so many.
🎬 I especially liked Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (watched it probably 10 times), Coda made me cry in the best way, and Chicago is my favorite musical.
Written just a decade after Brontë‘s Villette, but Braddon‘s book feels more modern somehow. Going into this without knowing much but enjoying it so far ? #weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
Very random ?
Type "Literally my character" into your Pinterest search bar and see what you get!
#literallymycharacter @TheBookHippie
Enjoying this classic even more than I expected! Lucy‘s story is full of twists and I like her so much. Thanks, @Librarybelle for putting this back on my radar with #LiteraryCrew
Eye-opening and so informative! I feel so seen listening to this book by a doctor who specializes in menopause (after going through it herself).
A friend recommended it to me today when I told her about the strange, intense shoulder pain I‘ve been having lately. It‘s called “frozen shoulder”—I‘m not the only one!
Time to bury myself in a book. . . Um, but this one centering on a divisive, cluelessly(?) cruel speaker with a cult following might cut too close to home!
Merry #Jolabokaflod, everyone! Thank you, @Laughterhp for choosing the perfect book for me. I can cancel the library hold I put in forever ago and enjoy it over the holiday break. 😊 The chocolates look yummy too. Can‘t wait to dig in! @MaleficentBookDragon
My gift was mailed out on Saturday. Can‘t wait for opening day! ⛄️📦💗🍫📚
#JolabokaflodSwap24 #JS2024 @MaleficentBookDragon
pick#10 in the Chief Inspector Gamache series had me laughing like the others but also crying hard. Crying hard over a duck at that (#iykyk)! The main plot would have seemed inconceivable to me 10 years ago. However,after seeing blatant corruption in the highest levels of our government embraced in the real world, it feels sadly plausible. Another great read by Penny—entertainment with heart that makes you think. 👩🍳💋
pickI finished The Brutal Telling (Gamache book #5) and Bury Your Dead (book #6) this month. Both are fantastic detective novels with so much art, history, compassion, and culture of #Canada incorporated into them. I just can‘t get enough of Chief Inspector Gamache or Three Pines though these two novels took very sad turns.
Also enjoyed the fun Canadian treats from @mcctrish and will need to be finding another Coffee Crisp someday yum! #FoodandLit
pickI didn‘t fully grasp the switches from first to third person or the nuances of being an influencer in the online sex industry. However, I loved the found family feels of this book featuring a strong protagonist who finds her own path through some tough times.
Election Night in the U.S. is like waiting to get to the final chapter of a book with an unreliable narrator 😬
Hurray! It‘s like Xmas came early! Thank you, @mcctrish for all the Canadian style treats. I will enjoy them while binging Chief Inspector Gamache novels this month as this is the most correct way to celebrate #Canada month for #FoodAndLit I believe😅🍁
@Catsandbooks @Texreader
pickThe village of Three Pines grows more dear with each book! In this one, the mystery that shrouds the whole series deepens as Gamache works to solve a death at a seance at the creepy Hadley Manor.
Book #3 of the Chief Inspector Gamache series is terrific! I listened to the audiobook version because it had a shorter wait. What a voice! Makes me want to try learning French. I guess I‘m in my Three Pines era now. 🌲🌲🌲
Dear Libby, You‘ve been saying “available soon” for 2 whole days. Waiting is torture… 😅
So hard to wait for the next book in the series sometimes! Would it be awful to load up the next 10 in my holds? 😂 Might be asking for trouble if they all come in at once or out of order… 🤔 #BookNerdProblems
pickSo freaking good! This series has been on my #tbr for a while, but the size of the series was daunting… It has so much more depth than I expected. I love Penny‘s take on the bookish detective with Chief Inspector Gamache. Plus the village of Three Pines is swoon worthy! Lives up to the hype!
pickI think I‘m on a short, strange novel kick for autumn. This one is twisty, timey-whimy with a splash of romance and magic.
The heroine is brave, young, and ready to break her family‘s curse. Are all the Farrow women destined to go mad or is something else at play?
pickGothic, campy, strange, and yes, fun. Great, fast read for October.
Vesper has never felt like she fit in and returns to her strange family home to seek some answers. Then things get creepy… and creepier…
Robbie Stumblecheese, pleased to meet you. 😊
pickI‘ll join my voice to the choir signing this book‘s praises. Fantastic read takes you like a summer blackfly buzzing around hearing family and community secrets when a child‘s disappearance in the same woods years after her brother‘s disappearance sets everyone on edge.
Saw this video posted on an Art Teacher Group for ways to reuse out of use hardcover books as art journals. Beautiful! Link: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1258676978632801?fs=e&mibextid=0NULKw&fs=e&s=TIeQ9...
pick😅 Might have gone on an EH binge this summer in lieu of actually getting an island vacation. Sigh, maybe someday I‘ll make it to St. James or Nantucket… 🏖️
pickLove these characters! GUP (Gay Uncle Patrick) is back dispensing wisdom to his niece and nephew when they are uncertain about a new stepmom. I liked the original most, but it was fun to see what happens years later in book 2. The beginning has them traveling through Europe-fun! The middle of lagged but the ending made it worth the read. Just a sweet, warm fuzzies book about love, family, and letting more people in. 😊
Took my phone out of my pocket and somehow Kindle had selected this font. Fits the book‘s creepy tone perfectly! 😅
Fun to see what they selected as the “best” and definitely some more good books added to my TBR. 😅
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
Saw this video in an Art Teacher group post and thought of #SundayBuddyRead 💗😂
Pablo Picasso Song: https://www.facebook.com/reel/786171760326795?fs=e&mibextid=0VwfS7&fs=e&s=TIeQ9V
pickWow! Just finished this powerful book recapturing the voices of women of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and even a few from The Aeneid. I listened to the audio version since that‘s what Libby had available and am so glad I did. It‘s read beautifully by the author and her passion for these women‘s stories comes through in every sentence. The ending had me in tears. Just gorgeous!
It‘s Cosmo‘s first birthday today. He‘s happy to be a #PrideMonth puppy! 🌈 Littermates reunion is tomorrow—can‘t wait! @slategreyskies
pickJust finished the audiobook read by Russ Bain. Fantastic voice, fantastic read set in a time I had not read of before, the Scottish clearances of the 1840s. The three main characters pulled me right in to this distant world. I would have loved even more of Mary and that ending—whoa. It‘ll be a great #CampLitsy discussion!
All my #weekendreads are inspired by Litsy and span genres from Historical Fiction to YA to Nonfiction!
*A Scatter of Light (#SundayBuddyRead #PrideMonth)
*Clear (#CampLitsy)
*Doppelganger (#SheSaid —I‘m late to the party 😂)
#rachelsbritton
so-soPros: Learned of some cool women from the 1920s like Winifred Lenihan, Margaret Leech, and Jane Grant. Always love dissecting books with #SundayBuddyRead 💗
Cons: The author took way too much liberty with these real lives. Too much fiction to be historical fiction for me. Almost slandered Dorothy Parker whose work I love. Disappointing!
Wow! Learned this from #SundayBuddyRead video link from @TheBookHippie today. I didn‘t realize just how cool Dorothy Parker was before! https://youtu.be/ud3-3-SPW-A?si=xHDMJ_2FUWfJiF8F
Waiting to hear RuPaul at Book Fest. So excited! 😊
pickThis one took a bit to get going but is such an intriguing premise that it‘s a pick for me. It‘s set on a remote reservation in Canada. Even their small links (power, cell service) to the outside world start faltering and the group realizes they need to depend on each other and might have to return to the old ways to survive. There‘s such a pervasive sense of dread throughout the second half that now I really need to read the next book. 😅
What a wonderful bounty of beauty to wake up to this morning after traveling! Thank you, @TheBookHippie ! Every page is an art piece in this Rumi collection and the Whitman feels like a bible (cover is so soft)! Dark chocolate too and it all fits perfectly in the tote—I‘m ready to take some great books in it on my next adventure! You know me well!
Sorry, @KateReadsYA for the late post! Airport fun had me home past 1am. 😊 #LitsyFoundFamilySwap
On our DC 8th grade trip and one of the students posted this photo to the group chat. She wrote: “Out of all the amazing pictures I took today, I'm posting this one in honor of World War 2 and Women's history month. The name of the woman who spoke this quote was Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby. . .
The quote from our school's bulletin this morning. God, I love my school! 💗
pickThought provoking read that was as much social commentary as it was story. It features 5 young women in Seoul working and reflecting on life. The societal pressures to be “perfect women” are high. Fascinating and insightful.
For my Korean food, I‘m using it as an excuse to go get some Somi Somi AhBoong down the street. I‘m sure my daughter will be wanting BonChon next week to while on spring break too.🍦
#FoodandLit #SouthKorea @Catsandbooks
*I have to read every night before sleep in bed
*Smart, helpful, magical Hermoine Granger. Maybe she‘d take pity on me and magically organize my house and garage 😂
*House on the Cerulean Sea and American Gods
*Foster (tagged), Kindred, Handmaid‘s Tale…
*I need reading glasses but am always losing them🤓
#LItsyFoundFamilySwap @KateReadsYA
On its way to you, @TheBookHippie ! So excited for #LitsyFoundFamilySwap opening day! Thanks, @KateReadsYA 😊
LA Festival of Books schedule is released 😊 https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule/
Any others out there planning on attending?
