Doodled the covers of some of my favorite reads of 2018. Only one to go on my read harder challenge! Come on, 2019.

Scored this signed copy with some AMAZING cover art, so pumped to reread the series.

😻 thank you so much, @Emiller !! Thank you so much for the lovely gifts. These books sound perfect! An art themed mystery and a Halloween-y one: you're covering all my bases. And the socks are the coziest! #letsgetcozy #bookmail

This graphic novel adaptation of Frankenstein is a great reminder for me of why it's my favorite classic. (And killing time at Barnes and Noble? 👌🏻)

Thanking my college desk job days for my ability to read a work document and listen to an audio book at the same time. Grading papers on Art Theft goes pretty well with kickass lady fantasy 🏹🤺✨

All signed up for @MaleficentBookDragon 'a #allhallowsreadbookexchange ! What better way to celebrate my favorite holiday?

I just love Lemony Snicket.

Paper Source has a deal on custom embossers! I've had a couple of people ask about it here on etsy, I got one as a gift a long time ago. Fantastic bookish gift 💖

#friYAYintro
1. Best Aug book: When Did You See Her Last?
2. Do you make your bed: yes but not well. Just sorta straighten out the comforter.
3. Today's high temp: 72*F! It's 64 now, it's been wonderfully cool.
4. Pirates or Ninjas: Pirates. 🌊
5. ✔️

Finished this one here at our camp site! We're in Straits State Park, in Michigan's UP right next to the Mackinac Bridge.
Lemony Snicket always brings it, so I knew it was a solid choice to bring with me. This one didn't disappoint.

#botm already picked and shipped! So ready for this one (and @Liberty never leads me astray)

It took me a while to finish, what with time-sensitive reading commitments forcing me to jump around, but Flavia always brings it 👏🏻👌🏻

🌱 veggin with the veg 🌱
(And a book)

#thisorthat
1. The couch 💖
2. Female
3. Salty
4. I think trilogies
5. Third! Third! Third!
6. 🌃
7. Bookstore
8. Usually colorful but it's gotta be well done
9. Plot but characters are what I'll care about most
10. My new rule is I have to read as many women as men
11. 🤷🏻‍♀️
12. Multiple. Many.
13. Own
14. Both!
15. Also both 💖

Oh. My. God.
This was AMAZING! I can't believe how good it was. I downloaded it on #netgalley mostly for the cover, I never imagined it would affect me so deeply. But it did.
It was beautifully written and beautifully drawn. And I don't even know what I'll do till vol. 2.

You're all hitting double digits on your #24in48 and I'm crawling into bed after twelve straight hours of party prep: my little brother's grad party is tomorrow and I'm exhausted. But I'll at least get a little reading in, and after the party tomorrow I will retreat and hibernate with books, cat, and leftover salsa (homemade from our garden 💖)

#tbrboost
1. @bookriot ! Maybe the #getbooked podcast (which I listen to religiously)
2. Goodreads & stacks around my home. It's not a great system.
3. Ebooks for convenience & because it's comfortable to read laying down. Physical because I like how they look on shelves 💖
4. Probably
5. Yes! The Girl With All the Gifts
6. I don't know
7. A Red Herring Without Mustard
8. Want by Cindy Pon
9. The Bean Trees?
10. I'm not hungry, but I could eat

#unpopularopinionsbooktag
1. Jane Eyre 😞
2. The manga classics adaptations come to mind--as an art teacher I think they're fantastic, but they get a lot of shit on goodreads.
3. The Summer I Turned Pretty (I haaaated that book. A friend lent it to me and I barely kept my cool.)
4. Romance. I don't know where to start!
5. Mr. Rochester
6. I can't think of one!
7. 🙅🏻 love shapes 🙅🏻
8. Divergent 🤷🏻‍♀️
9. Catching Fire 🔥

#BIRTHDAYSPACE
My current read! Possibly my favorite Flavia yet. (Gotta finish this up so I can jump to my #whodunitbymail book!)

#topfivemalecharacters tag!

🌕 Remus Lupin
💀 Nico Di Angelo
🌌 Kit Rodriguez
🍷 Baz Pitch
✨ Ron Weasley

#rapidfirebooktag
🔥Physical or ebook: I'm happy either way (but the collector in me says physical)
🔥Hero or Villian: What's the point if there aren't some grey areas?
🔥Standalone or Series: Series
🔥Last book you bought: Final Girls
🔥First book that comes to mind: Girl with All the Gifts
🔥Film that's better than the book: Catching Fire

1. 🍺
2. Covers. I'm a visual person, and a good cover does me in.
3. 🌳🌲🌳
4. Fantasy
5. Elizabeth Bennet for SURE. (Not a Jane Eyre fan, I kinda want to jump into the book and shake her by the shoulders)
#bookishwouldyourather

Game of Thrones on audio + Arya Stark 💖

Preach, Flavia.

It's thunderstorming out, which is my favorite weather. All I want to do is climb into my bed and read, but I have to grade 😞⛈

Returning to this audiobook after a long break while I do some painting 💖 🎨

Keep stumbling onto bookish quizzes today! Can't disagree with Modern Mrs. Darcy's evaluation here.
.
http://modernmrsdarcy.com/quiz

I read this in college for a course and paid truly the minimum of attention to it, as I had so much going on...maybe it is time for a reread!
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-your-next-read/games-and-activities/2017...

Big day: toured and applied to live in an (amazing) apartment in an area I've been wanting to move to. Part of the allure is their fantastic library. (The apartment has a huge balcony and a working fireplace, in a metropolitan area?? And I can afford it and it allows cats?? I'm pumped)

#sweetsummerstack
It was summer the first time I read this, and I've read it every summer since. The perfect summer read 💖
& thank you @Liberty for the giveaway!!

#asidefrombooks

Favorite hobby: Art! Digital (like that self portrait) And traditional.
Favorite drink: Espresso ☕️🙏🏻
Favorite food: Smoked Salmon 👅
Favorite color: Red
Favorite city: Detroit 🤙🏻
Where my dream house would be: On some windy, seaside cliffs
Favorite accessory: Layers of scarves
Favorite show: 30 Rock
Last movie watched in theaters: Wonder Woman
Currently reading: Redefining Realness, A Red Herring Without Mustard

This! Book!
It is NOTHING like the cover or the blurb would lead you to believe. It's gritty (for middle grade), and fascinating, and so page turner-y. I SO recommend it, especially for this audible deal!

Adding the text to some timeturner prints I'll be putting in my shop!

#whodunitbymail is here!!

Getting ready for an art market in part of in July with some HP themed bookmarks and other prints! ⚡️

#TBR selections for this month! By saying this, I probably seal the deal that what I read will be a completely different list. But I like to have goals.

#whodunitbymail #bookmail
@Captivatedbybooks it's on it's way!

!!! I'm so ready!

Confirmed and shipped my box! Poisonwood Bible is one of my favorite books of all time, and I haven't owned a copy till now. And the coloring book is a freebie I stumbled onto! #botm

Another month over and done! This first month of really settling into my new job has nearly doubled my books read this year 💖 onto July!

Oh my gosh. This book had me hooked from start to finish. There are a few things nagging at me about it, but a full review will come later. For now I'm just recovering from this psychologically fascinating, crazy-well-narrated audiobook (and wondering what I'll listen to on the last day of my 80-mile commute tomorrow.)

I'm driving two hours a day this week to teach a summer art camp, and this book is making it hard to get out the car.

#gryffindorpride 🤙🏻🤙🏻

My first #paperstreetbooks subscription box was a home run, but I open the letter to find it's their last! At least I snuck in one. (Spoiler comment contains what's in the box, in case anyone gets it and hasn't received yet!)

#riotgrams #childhoodreads
I read this book to death. A middle grade art theft mystery with clue-filled illustrations by Brett Helquist was basically the 9-year-old Lauren's heaven.

#riotgrams #truestories :
Just arrived from thirftbooks! I love all things #Frankenstein, so I'm excited for this thoroughly researched history of how it came to be.

#riotgrams #currentread :
I've never known how to read one book at a time. There's also Juliet Takes a Breath and Ink Mage on kindle; I just curl up and open whichever I'm feeling at the moment. (I think this stops me from DNFing a lot: I like it all but have to be in the mood, so I jump around.)

SOS: I need sticker removal tips!

Doing some book storage shopping in preparation to move later this summer! It figures that this is even more exciting to me than looking at actual apartments 😘

I got this one on #netgalley and it was exactly as fun as it sounds.

#readingwomenmonth prompt #womenofcolor and #riotgrams prompt #booksthatmadeyoucry collide! It's been a while since I read a memoir, and I'm so glad I picked this one up. She speaks so candidly and thoughtfully about the hardships she's faced, always pausing to explain what they've taught her and the things she's learned since: she's kind with the way she educates her audience. I admire her more with every page, she's a wonderful role model.