@TheBookHippie it was a double Litsy mail day for me 🥰🥰 I laughed right out loud when I opened this gem ❤️❤️❤️ you are a stellar book chooser and an amazing facilitator of Sunday Buddy Read, my Sundays are wonderful no matter the book thx to all your planning, prompting and when necessary, book throwing. This was an unexpected and thoughtful touch. I‘m so so glad I found #sundaybuddyread 🥰🥰

@dabbe Denise 🎉🎉🎉 look what I came home to!!! What a fantastic ending to my school day ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much for this unexpected, thoughtful, and generous gift #litsylove makes the world so much better 🥰🥰 I can‘t wait to read it

Snow White bag #11 Dopey has arrived, all dwarves are accounted for and more roofing has gone up. I love Amanda Montell books

I‘m glad I‘m not the only one who exhausts herself with thought

I honestly think more people should read/listen to this. It‘s eye opening how social media is being used to manipulate what we see/hear and how that influences us. It sounds conspiracy theory like but MR has exhaustive research and examples of when and how the public is manipulated using ‘stories‘ and algorithms. I understand why 🇨🇦 gov‘t blocked news being on FB and IG but the stupid shit is still getting through so it‘s a half assed attempt

Snow White bag #10 the roof gets a fresh thatch

Snow White bag #9 6/7 dwarves and a roof for sleeping under. I‘m flipping between this book and Taylor‘s TTPS ( so far my favourites are Florida and thanK you aIMee - I love a good F bomb )

Snow White bag #8 bed time for 5/7 dwarves, Snow White is reading Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach to them. This book is blowing my mind and illuminating some stuff I ignored irl. Facebook is the devil, as is Zuckerberg

I am loving the latest #janeadjacent #buddyread and so impatient to discuss our 2 chapters everyday 🤣 Melody makes my blood boil, I wish she‘d really twist her damn ankle #karma

Snow White bag #7 Bashful has arrived 4/7 dwarves are accounted for

My husband is half Swedish, and in Sweden they celebrate name days ( definitely not the only country to do this 😉) and I‘m celebrating by having chips and wine with my reading time on a Tuesday. I‘ve spent 3 days in the same grade 5 classroom and I have never been so ‘childsplained‘ to in my life #treatmyself

Snow White bag #6 and a new audio book with a lot to process

We are having beautiful weather today. I got off to a rocky start with this book, HW complains a lot - about his parents, his struggles, his life but he is always kind to those around him. His battles with dyslexia, I think he‘s 34 when he realizes that is what his problem is and its genetic ( his daughter and step son have it too) is a turning point and so is getting a therapist ( much later than that). His wife narrates too ❤️ which is smart

Snow White bag #5 no dwarf today 😢 but Henry is talking about the show Barry ❤️ I love that show so much, it is just bonkers

Snow White bag #4, dinner is ready

I had planned to reorganize all of our files and papers and crap ( I ordered new files from Amazon) but if it‘s DEAR Day then I will just do as I‘m told and consider my to do list dropped

Bag #3 of Snow White

Off the TBR and beside my bed now. The first seven pages is the cast of characters and family trees aka my first night reading and I thought “good grief, am I up for this ?!” and promptly fell asleep 😆 last night I got sucked right in with the story proper 🙏🏻

Lunch break at school. Getting ready for #sundaybuddyread I love this cover and I‘m loving Zorrie

Bag #2 of Snow White and started Being Henry. It‘s kind of a clash following The Postcard. Henry‘s parents are German Jews who escaped Berlin before the war really kicked off, his father misled his mom that they were just going on a work trip ( worked in the lumber trade) and then stayed in New York. Their entire family left behind perished. He is almost disparaging about the faux family they create to replace the lost one.

I raced after school to buy pansies and get home to finish this book. It felt like summer today (21°C) so perfect to finish this book. I love Elin Hilderbrand, I want to live in a cottage in Nantucket. This book was bittersweet and a lot sad

Soooo good! Best book I have read this year! What an amazing story! #europacollective

Enjoying my day off ( PD Day because of the eclipse) so I‘m cracking open Snow White, I hit the grocery store with every other person going out before the solar eclipse show starts, now for some sushi and Lego. I LOVE this story, I want to inhale it but I need to savour it

#motivationalmonday 1. Watching eclipse ( hopefully the clouds clear) and bookclub Thursday 2. Coffee, water, tea, Bubly, wine, and too many chips 3. I have so many bookmarks, but lately it‘s a Barbie sticker that I can‘t seem to lose unlike the bookmarks 4. 28 Summers ( for bookclub) The Postcard, Zorrie and Wolf Hall

Current buddy and bookclub reads that are on now or about to start #gettingmyducksinarow 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 I‘m not sure I can imagine only reading 1 book at a time 🤣🤣

This was sweet and spicy 🤣 I loved the descriptions of Scotland. A palate cleanser from March with The Bros and The Golden Notebook

Bag 3 of Wildflower Bouquet while I listen. This book 🤯💔

It‘s 5 o‘clock on a Friday 🎉🙏🏻❤️ so chips, wine and a super light read ( perhaps it could be considered research for the summer 🤔😆)

I stayed up past my bedtime to finish and I have to teach today #ineverlearn but it‘s just so good and I had to see it end. Sometimes it felt like it did weird jumps in time, and sometimes I thought bad things would happen and they didn‘t and sometimes awful things happened and I‘d think “what the hell was that for?” But overall I really liked it

Not my usual type of audio ( I usually do non-fiction) I‘m obsessed with this story and because it‘s talking to me, I‘m talking back to it #europaeditions #europacollective

My hold FINALLY came in so it was time for a walk. This brutal photo is of our boulevard grass that I‘m trying to turn into a wild garden. Some of my gifted and transplanted plants seem to be finding their way back 💚💚💚 I think it might be time to clean up the ‘beds‘ #europacollective

As a 🇨🇦 I grew up knowing who Rush/GL are/were but I‘m not a heavy metal/progressive rock fan so I didn‘t know a lot about them. GL is a well read, well spoken, hard working, intense guy and this was really interesting to listen to - I feel like I need to listen to more than Tom Sawyer to understand GL more

Freud “The most magnificent novel ever written”
Me “There has NEVER been a novel more filled with blah, blah, blah than this! The least murdery murder mystery EVER written. Absolutely boring and painful to read!”
I finished it.
Thank god for the #hashtagbrigade @BarkingMadRead and #dioramaqueen @Aimeesue I finished a week early cuz I just can‘t anymore #peaceout

Breakfast in bed on Easter Sunday

The struggle is real while I continue to clean, purge, reorganize and listen. Best quote just came up, GL was talking about masking/vaccines and all the division they came with “I prefer to live in a world that gives a shit “ and that‘s it in a nutshell. I want everyone to have a basic quality of life = education, healthcare, childcare, senior care, support services. It does look better now - but the Easter table scape is still a work in progress

Thank god that‘s over

I am loving this book. These are my special reading snacks

Dusting and reorganizing bookshelves ( some purging) to make room for more Louise Penny. My allergies have gone OFF! I need to remember to take allergy medicine 🤦🏻‍♀️

1. We are going to Toronto to see our youngest - he‘s got too much work to do for his thesis to come home ( it‘s not a long weekend for him) 2. The Phoenix Crown ( it reminded me too much of another book) 3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L‘Engle changed my life - I‘m not sure I had ever entered a different world reading before this and I have been escaping through books ever since

Next on audio. Already my mind is blown at how little I know

AT LAST, something I joyfully look forward to reading and finding Korean food/snacks to pair with it #foodandlit2024

I loved listening to LJ tell her story. She has been through some tough shit.

#MarvelousMarch readathon reading goals ❤️ to finish Golden Notebook for #sundaybuddyread Pachinko for #foodandlit Korea I am so over #thebros maybe this is the week that can finally end 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ I‘m almost done Leslie F*cking Jones so that‘s a for sure and I just grabbed Kilt Trip for no reason and it‘s green unlike my world covered in white

#pemberlittens #janeadjacent I had to finish this. Jane Austen retells are my comfort reads ( and cozy mysteries) and this is a lovely modernization of Emma. I really enjoyed it, it does get 🌶️🌶️🌶️ at the end which is okay but I think it could still be modern and not a romance formula ending. ( I think I‘ve read enough of these to see a pattern )

Found a little bonus set to build #wherearetheflowers #toomuchsnow #killthatgroundhog

OMG I love this series! I seriously too dim to figure anything out but I don‘t care. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ( that is my main TBR shelf/stack/floor looming in the background taunting me for getting these Lady Sherlock‘s from the library)

Just enjoying happy hour with this short story discovery I made on our bookshelves. What an absolute gem! My husband says he read it for his History of the Modern Family in Western Civilization class in 4th year. I can see why so many people mentioned it with todays prompt ( the sun is shining now after a day of grey and snow and tomorrow the weather network says a storm is coming so the afternoon commute will be a mess 👎🏻👎🏻)

Last bag for Friends The Apartments
🎶So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Your job's a joke, you're broke
Your love life's DOA
It's like you're always stuck in second gear
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month
Or even your year, but
I'll be there for you 🎶 now I have to figure out where this is going to go in my house 😬

Minor characters have an aisle at the drugstore #thebros #iykyk maybe @Aimeesue #dioramaqueen shops here?

#tlt #threelistthursday this is tough, I‘m not a big short story fan 1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout ( I do love connected short stories) 2. Foster by Claire Keegan - a novella and I love everything CK 3. Florida by Lauren Groff was horrible on audio because I didn‘t know it was short stories, in print it‘s bizarre and unsettling but understandable. I just found The Yellow Wallpaper on our bookshelves so I‘m going to read that