Being a passenger on the way to Toronto, construction is 👎🏻👎🏻but I‘m not going to run out of stuff to read with a 1400+ page book 🤣🤣
pickI was taking my time with this book and then BAM I couldn‘t put it down ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOVE IT
Errand running while the audio book plays and a mani/pedi to continue celebrating not biting my nails. At some point budget constraints are going to have to come into play 🤣🤣 but this was a birthday gift card so not today 👏🏻👏🏻
It‘s overcast so I‘m back to doing a section of my Starry Night Lego build
Those 10 chapters FLEW by, now I need it to be Sunday ASAP! 🙏🏻🎉🤯😱 #sundaybuddyread I was feeling badly that I hadn‘t stuck to my Thursday reading schedule but I had a headache yesterday ( and another today) but I‘m so glad I read this section cuz I‘m squealing over all the story development 💙💙💙 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED
pickI have piles of books everywhere in my house, read, unread and currently reading. This book is good. I love the cover so much, I liked the story. It was an easy and quick read to fill time between sections of The Book of Cold Cases and when I don‘t want to heft A Suitable Boy.
This is my current light read and by light I mean it‘s not 1400 pages like A Suitable Boy and will be finished in a blink
Started listening to this today while I was out doing errands. I‘m quite captivated already
pickThis was fun to read! It‘s historical romance detective fiction 🤣 the story reminded me of the tv show ⬆️ and the League of Extraordinary Women book series.
pickFinishing my audio book and starting my Starry Night Lego set. It‘s still so hot and humid here I needed something else to do so o have saved this beauty of a set long enough
Breakfast reading. I‘m going to do a section a day. Holi has started and it‘s a party
Tub reading material ( makes me think of the tv series Miss Scarlett and the Duke)
I am knocking this tome off of my TBR even if it takes all of august to read it
I just finished Book 2 and if I said WTF multiple times leading up to the end of this section, they barely count with the HOLY SHIT I just said out loud in my backyard 😱😱😱
Started for #sundaybuddyread and pretty thrilled my nails match 🤣🤣 I am a total scaredy cat and really have no explanation for why I love Simone St. James as much as I do! I seldom choose to read horror or scary but I can not pass up a SSJ book ( the covers are always amazing 🤣) but I know I will totally be chill with taking a break between sections unlike the last read
pickI will say it again, I love Lisa Moore. This book is about family. The one we are born into, the one we sometimes get to choose, the love that we have for them
I am not kidding when I say ripple bbq chips and cottage cheese is the best snack ever
Today I went and got my first manicure in more than a decade. I‘m a nail biter and have been my whole life. I spent the month of July, my birth month, trying to stop with the end goal being a fancy polish colour. I hate dirty nails so summer and gardening is a hot mess time to give oneself this challenge ( did you know soaking in polident gives you white nails? It saved me!) there will be many books and manicure shots henceforth 🤣🤣
pickIt was KILLING me to stop reading at all the #sundaybuddyread predetermined sections and now that I‘m finished it, I‘m so sad!!! What a perfect summer read! I loved everything about it, the history of the Borscht Belt, the multigenerational story, the twists and turns and the ending. I picked this book up because it had summer in the title and discovered a few days later @TheBookHippie was doing a buddy read with it ❤️❤️ July has been wonderful
pickI had a big morning of going to the dump ( household hazardous waste = paint, batteries, electronics) and then to another town to pick up some mid century concrete planters I bought off FB. Hot and sweaty jobs, so the afternoon was spent reading ( finishing) this book and floating. I love this series more with each book
I think we are going to watch Persuasion tonight so I‘m drinking a Lime-Arita from Gin Austen ( a cocktail recipe book with all drinks going with one of JA‘s books) a Persuasion cocktail
pickI am regretting borrowing this book from the library and not being able to add it to my shrine to JA. It was a lovely fictionalized look at the lives of Jane and Cassandra Austin from Cassy‘s perspective ( quite a few Bigheads in the story to keep it on the JA moral path)
pickMy laundry room needs new flooring ( the paint on the cement thing isn‘t working) and the walls need painting. What I wouldn‘t give for a fancy laundry room 🙏🏻 Today I reorganized, cleaned, purged and finished this book. Now I‘m filthy and tired but the room looks better. This is a fantastic book, heartbreaking and thought provoking. A lot of the science is beyond me so I appreciated that often it was being explained to a 9 yr old
In the NYT article about the new Persuasion movie on Netflix, GH sums up the basic moral issues in Jane Austen‘s work; “Nobody Likes A Bighead” has me laughing out loud and thinking of the chapter a day of Longbourn going on now with @BarkingMadRun and Mr Collins springs to mind 🤣🤣
Chapters 15-24 read for Sunday and I‘m not sure I‘m going to make it!!!! #sundaybuddyread So Much Happens 🤯👏🏻🎉😬
Driving around to appointments ( highlighter yellow pedicure) and errands is so much more enjoyable with audio books. I look forward to them, invent more errands to do when the book is good
Fitting in nicely with my prepping for Persuasion on Netflix
pickMurder mystery set in New Zealand with a strong Momento ( the movie) vibe that I literally had no idea what the hell was going on until almost the end and I still guessed wrong until it hit me over the head 🤣🤣🤣 I have learned nothing from all the mysteries I read and watch ( blame it on the unreliable narrator)
Cottage life = finish one book, pick up the next 🤓 this is the first of my birthday haul
pickIn a couple of weeks I‘m going to see Little Women at Stratford Theatre and instead of doing a reread I found this retell/reimagining to get ready with ❤️ it‘s really lovely, the perfect amount of modernization. I can‘t wait for the play
You can tell it‘s Friday cuz the boats and planes are all starting to zip up and down the lake
I love yoga but I‘m more of a yoga with Adrienne than with baby goats person. I‘m ready for Sunday #sundaybuddyread
David Aplay ( hallmark movie The Mistletoe Inn) is who I picture playing Charlie Listra
pickI did laugh out loud often at the dialogue and it‘s a great summer reading by the dock book. I expect to see it on the Hallmark channel sooner tthan later ( if it doesn‘t already exist 🤣🤣) and while I don‘t watch the Christmas movies all the time, I have been known to watch while I iron. There is an actor who I can visualize being Charlie Listra ( a dead ringer for a young Cass Winthrop - Another World ) but can‘t remember his name
We went for a drive today from the cottage cuz it is overcast and the power is off this morning for hydro upgrades. We went past Clevelands House which was a Muskoka version of the Golden Hotel. It‘s closed now 😭😭 I hope someone resurrects it, it‘s not too far gone 🤞🏻🤞🏻
The rain stopped so we might get a fancy sunset shot ( this will do in case the clouds don‘t clear )
My new favourite snack; cottage cheese and bbq ripple chips ❤️❤️❤️ all thanks for to my sister for creating this addicting combo
Driving to the cottage and trying to get chapters 1-6 read for Sunday #sundaybuddyreads
pickI love Lily King and the only thing wrong with this collection of short stories is that they weren‘t all books
pickI have to thank a neighbour who lent this to another neighbour who in turn lent to to me. I did return it and listened to most of this on audio. What a life AG had!!! My usual gasps and out loud laughs while I listened and drove/walk/gardened etc cementing the world‘s view I‘m probably off my rocker ( the book is great so you can see the photos in the middle )
pickLong weekend reading binge. We were liars blew my mind, so reading this prequel was a given. An idyllic setting that is anything but? The most non YA books, they are about coming of age but so much more
