📕 In the Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber
✍️ John Irving
🎥 The Incredibles
🎤 Icona Pop
🎵 I Love It by Icona Pop
#manicmonday #letterI @CBee

A day late, but I was #grateful for beautiful weather for my very last homecoming parade yesterday as well as a long walk/talk and dinner with a great friend. Life is good ❤️ thank you @Eggs for helping me get back into a gratitude practice.

#grateful for yummy BBQ and a successful first college visit.

#grateful for book mail and a virtual author event. @Eggs

1. My first reaction was no, but then I recalled enjoying the tagged book so much.
2. Yes, both the tagged book and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I absolutely loved them on audio and would recommend them.
@TheSpineView Thank you for the tag @Kshakal
Tagging all who will join #Two4Tuesday

#grateful for Kevin and the random pictures my daughter frequently sends me of him when he is looking silly.

📕 Haruki Marakami
✍️ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
🎥 Happy Days
🎤 Haelstorm
🎶 Help by the Beatles
#manicmonday #letterH @CBee

#grateful for cooler temps and puffy clouds on my run today.

#grateful for the fun my kid has running. @Eggs

#grateful for a 5 ⭐️ listen. This is my favorite kind of book, lit tinged in magic. The story was dark at times but well told. The accents were perfection for the story and the verbiage. It was so much, I feel like I may have a book hangover and need to revisit some high points. @Eggs

📚 Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
✍️ John Green
🎥 Good Will Hunting
📺 Game of Thrones
🎤 The Go Go‘s
🎶 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

@CBee #ManicMonday #letters

#grateful for #audioknitting a scrappy hat with the tagged book. #knittersoflitsy @Eggs

#grateful for my familiar trail where I feel safe. 3.1 ✅ @Eggs

#grateful for coffee, and love when they make fun designs on it.

1. Magical realism or light lit.
2. I have just to relax with an “old friend”
3. The tagged book is a yearly re-read for me, I have also enjoyed the Tales of the City series many times since college as a reset at different times when I just needed to chill and hang with the San Francisco gang.
@MoonWitch94 #ThoughtfulThursday

#grateful for these two - chatting away and making a snack so I can chill out after the day.

1. I think I have enjoyed both but post-apocalyptic wins by a thread.
2. The Road, I gobbled it up and it still haunts me. When I worry about the state of the world, I thing of this book becoming reality, it‘s chilling. I‘m not sure I “recommend it” but it scared the hell out of me.
@TheSpineView You have a nice day too!☺️
Thank you for the tag @Kshakal #Two4Tuesday

Grateful for this little knucklehead. He is the best co-worker ever. Leo rescued me. @Eggs

1. Book 📚 First Frost
2. Author ✍️ Alice Feeney
3. Movie 🎥 Footloose
4. Singer or band 🎸 FOO FIGHTERS (F is also for Favorite)
5. Song 🎵 Fade to Black
#letterF @CBee #manicmonday
Join me??

#grateful for a rainy, cool day mostly because I have this book I‘ve been wanting to savor.
@Eggs

#grateful my teenager is excited about yarn at the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool festival. She picked out sparkly sock yarn inspired by Carrie by Stephen King for some new socks. @Eggs

#grateful for an impromptu vacation day, it is an absolutely stunning day. I ran on my favorite trail and will knit on my deck until lunch at a local Mexican place. Great start to a weekend, I wish you all the same. @Eggs Thank you for starting this prompt, great reminder that life is good when you pay attention to the details.☺️❤️

I‘ve been remiss on posting but I am truly #grateful for a wonderful weekend in Chicago with knitting friends from around the country. The good feels and rejuvenated knitting mojo will last a long while. And three of us were reading Carrie Soto is Back, so it doubled as a book club! I‘m very grateful to have found this group, almost 14 years. ❤️ @Eggs

1. I‘d like to get to Sardinia or Sicily or both to eat all of the local fare.
2. I would take low brain space investment beach reads so I could focus on relaxing. 🏝
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Thank you for the tag @JenReadsAlot

1. East of Eden
2. Elizabeth Berg
3. E.T.
4. The Eagles
5. Everlong ❤️❤️❤️❤️
#manicmonday #letterE @CBee

#grateful for this kid @Eggs
Celebrated the last first day of school with a cross country meet. 🏃‍♀️

@Eggs is sharing gratitude In lieu of #wondrouswednesday for the next 31 days. I just restarted my gratitude practice this week, so great timing. I believe in the power of being grateful, thankful, blessed - like a sign in my kitchen says. My kids enjoy playfully mocking me for my positive signs. It brings them together in laughter. I‘m #grateful those girls have a sense of humor with their ole mom.❤️ please join the practice and spread joy!

New finished project and a new book all on one day calls for an impromptu afternoon off to enjoy them both. #knittersoflitsy

1. This is hard because I had TWO 5 ⭐️ books in August, but to pick just one…Remarkably Bright Creatures.
2. I loved the characters, I‘m drawn into books more if I like and am rooting for the people I‘m reading about. It gave voice to an Octopus as well, literally, as it was audio lol, he is an important character, he tells part of the story no one else can.
@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday If you care to join, please consider yourself tagged. ☺️

Book: Dark Matter
Author: Anthony Doerr
Movie or TV show: Deliverance 🪕
Singer or Band: Dave Grohl 🎸
Song: Dancing in the Streets
#manicmonday #letterD @CBee

“Happiness was a net - that was it. You had to build a life that happiness would snag in. When it did, you took it up and used it…then you put down the net again. Nothing guaranteed you‘d haul it up full every time. You wouldn‘t. But sometimes happiness would catch, and you‘d have what you needed, a least for a while.” This quote summarizes the book for me. Laurel struggled but kept laying her net. And was a nice reminder of our UP trip.

1. Tagged, about the UP of Michigan, purchased on my trip there yesterday.
2. Remarkably Bright Creatures, it‘s a treasure.
3. Kailua HI, Newport Beach, CA and Sanibel Island, FL - Beach is the theme of my loves…
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

A little morning reading after a little morning run…edited to add I read it all today, well spent vacation day.

1. I have!
2. The Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber just arrived from my holds, so that‘s next. Next week two coveted ones are coming out!!
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView Thank you for the tag at @Kshakal

1. I have!
2. The Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber just arrived from my holds, so that‘s next. Next week two coveted ones are coming out!!
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView Tgank you for the tag at @Kshakal

Quick stop on vacation. 📚

1. Carrie
2. Wiley Cash
3. Clash of the Titans (the original)
4. Credence Clearwater Revival
5. Californication
#manicmonday #letterC @CBee

Enjoying a new book at a sweet little Airbnb in the Upper Pennisula.

Wrapped up the work day and now this book. Something was dark but good here, I wanted to keep at it but in the end it was just ok for me.

1. Probably chick lit/beach reads if I had to pick ONE
2. The second half I think, I would have a better shot of figuring out the beginning and would be frustrated to not know how it ends. A life of always waiting for the an epilogue, that‘s bibliophile hell.
@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday @Kshakal

I absolutely loved this book, the narration was delightful and the story was unusual and clever. I shed some tears with these folks, so so good.

Oh this sounds fun! And good to get me thinking!
1. (The) Bodyguard
2. Benjamin Alire Seanz or Benjamin, Chloe
3. Band of Brothers - epic
4. Beastie Boys
5. Bulls on Parade
#manicmonday #LetterB @CBee

While listening to my book and icing my neck, I have a rapt audience. ❤️🐶

1. My very special grandma and 2nd grade teacher, Miss Lindell
2. Nikolas Butler, Katherine Center, Stephen King, Sarah Addison Allen
3. Only a quarterly Buddy read here but I‘d be game @JenReadsAlot ☺️
@Eggs @Kshakal @BethM #wondrouswednesdays

Truly enjoyed this audio. At first the narration seemed a little stilted, staccato but it fit. I walked, ran, weeded, knit to this to keep at it. Very good story following two and then three friends through their tomorrows together…

1. Yes, every day.
2. I must read at bedtime, a habit I‘ve had since I learned to read and I often listen to audiobooks while walking, running, commuting.
3. Magical realism. Sweet a sugar.
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs thanks @JenReadsAlot

1. Magical qualities
2. Tagged, this author is a favorite. 27 days until her new book is out.🥳
@TheSpineView @Kshakal #Two4Tuesday

1. My biggest pet peeve is when my husband walks in almost every night and starts chatting as he gets ready for bed, I know he sees me reading. He thinks he‘s funny. We‘ve been married for 28 years, stop talking when I‘m reading, Mister! But alas…it is a lost cause 😂
2. I don‘t collect anything but if money were no object, I‘d simply buy more with NO regrets, leaving them behind me like bread crumbs to share.
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView @Kshakal

Someone is scared of thunder, so the closer - the better. ⛈

When half of your holds ( maybe a third?!) come In at once! First world bibliophile problems.