First read of the #newyear 📚🤓 thank you @Alora this is just my kind of book! #poutinepenpals

A ginormous holiday thank you @FantasyChick for the perfect gift package! I LOVE the books, (Paul Trembley is a fave!!) and cant wait to read them. Oh and to dive into those tasty treats! I‘ll have to guard my snowman as Tucker has his eye on them already ❤️🎄💚🎅merry Christmas!
#canuckchristmasswap #poutinepenpals @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

Yaaaaaaay my #canuckchristmasswap package arrived! So excited and happy 🤓🎄💌 thank you for the thoughtfulness @FantasyChick @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego #poutinepenals 🇨🇦🎄

December 24 can‘t come soon enough!

This book is right up my alley (and perfect for the season) mystery & magic with brilliant story telling. Treat yourself to over the holidays! 🎄📚❤️

Thank you for posting your reviews @AnneCecilie @monalyisha looking forward to this year‘s #newyearwhodis 😺

I completely enjoyed this new book by Toronto author Kerry Clare. Clare explores the aged question of why young women allow themselves to be exploited by older, powerful men and hold themselves to blame after the fallout.

Keep a lookout for a copy in your mailbox @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 💌 thank you for all you do for us #poutinepenpals 🎄❤️
#waitingforastartofall ✨

I was in such a tizzy at the post office I neglected to add #canuckchristmasswap #poutinepenpals to the package! 🤦‍♀️
@Alora Merry Christmas & stay on the lookout! 📬📚🎅
@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

#newyearwhodis list from @AnneCecilie 😀📚

Once again @monalyisha has paired me with a wonderful like-minded Litten!

First up is “Just Mercy,” which I am thoroughly enjoying. I‘ve not tried anything by Ali Smith so I‘m looking forward to reading Spring. The graphic novel Arrival is also on my TBR! I‘m not sure I‘ve the reading stamina to try Lucy Ellmans book but I am determined to give it a go in 2020 🙃

It‘s here!! #CanuckChristmasSwap WOOOT!! Thank you @pigeonsandcrows 3 great books, treats and the sweetest candle 🐻 can‘t wait to read Alone in Berlin 👌📖 to all the #poutinepenpals Merry Christmas 💚❤️🎄🌟

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

Thank you #PoutinePenPals wishing each of you only the best of everything life can bring ❤️💚 May next years reading surpass your expectations in every way! @pigeonsandcrows your gift arrived and I can‘t wait to open it!!

#CanuckChristmasSwap 🇨🇦🎁🎅
@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

This is such a physically beautiful book I‘ve asked for it for Xmas🎅 shortlisted for this years Giller Prize its the story of a Canadian logging family circa 1908-2038. 🇨🇦🌲

#CanuckChristmasSwap sent! @Tianarose look for it to arrive at your door by UPS next Tuesday! 🎄🎅 I was so excited I forgot to take a pic of the inside 🤦‍♀️ wishing all the #poutinepenpals a relaxing pre-Xmas! Can‘t wait till Dec 24

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 🌟❤️💚 🌟

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

His wife called him “Roald the Rotten”, aptly, as these stories are as dark and twisted as any modern horror I‘ve read recently. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Landlady” is not to be missed! 🙊

#Novemberstats #Novemberfaves
My reading took a dark turn last month. Life and books are closely tied. These were my faves 📚

🦋 The Whisperman father & son psycho thriller!
🎸 Daisy Jones & the Six rock band love/hate story, fun read!
💜 In-Between Days, graphic novel, heartbreaking, the isolation of a cancer
🦹🏿‍♀️ Come Join Us- 25 modern horror stories, all excellent!

So excited for this holiday swap with my #poutinepenpals

📖 historical fiction, modern horror, short stories
🥃 coffee, spiced rum
🖌 pens, stickers ,bookmarks
🛍 travel size anything!
🍪Shortbread & fudge
🎬National Lampoon Christmas Vacation 😂

🙏#CanuckChristmasSwap #xmasfaves

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 💚❤️⭐️📖

This is the story of the abducted Nigerian school girls in 2014. Insurgents disguised as soldiers break into the school to loot it. Finding no guns or supplies, they decide that “Girls will do”.. this shock sets the tone for the terrifying story of Maryam, “bush wife”, a reward, for one of the fighters. Best read of the year! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Edna O‘Brien knows how to write about women, no matter the time, place or culture.

#womenreadingwomen

I am a #booknerd and embrace solitude and quiet. i love the artwork but am only giving this popular poetry ⭐️⭐️ I was moved by #thehurt but the remaining sections were obvious or maybe I‘m too old to appreciate her writing 🙏

#poetry
#milkandhoney
#readathon

Hundreds of books were donated to our #blinddatewithabook coffee house! It was tons of work wrapping them up but so fun to see what people chose and the big reveal inside! 📖💜📚

Readathon day for #turningthepageoncancer! 📖📚 more than 20k raised for metastatic breast cancer research 💜

Have a peak at my Instagram to see my book nook pets & reading snacks! @Pricel101 📸 #litsyreadforacause @samjmitchell

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to the #poutinepenpals 🇨🇦

@PurpleyPumpkin @StayCurious @StillLookingForCarmen
SanDiego @sherryvdh @teebe @BookishTrish @throwmeabook @KarynGood @kelseynicburke @LA_Mead @FantasyChick @mcctrish @DaveNeufeld

Sending out my cards today!

LOVE to read & HATE cancer? Myself & daughter @samjmitchell will be reading for a cure October 20th! 💜

Can‘t decide what to read and welcome all your awesome suggestions... 🤓🧐 click the link to read our breast cancer story 💜🎀📖 #stage4needsmore

http://convio.cancer.ca/site/TR?team_id=464182&pg=team&fr_id=25275&s_locale=en_C...

Wishing a very happy birthday 🎉🎁🎈to @KarynGood and thank you for the gift of this wonderful book:) #poutinepenpals

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 🍟🇨🇦

Thank you so much for the birthday treats @teebe ☺️🎂 love #PoutinePenPals!

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego 😘

1- Currently reading The Wall, themes of climate change, anti immigration and slavery. One chapter to go will add a review!
2- Podcast- Broken Harts is a 6part series about a lesbian couple who adopt 6 African American children and the ensuing tragedy.
3- Book discussion- Tan France‘s (Queer Eye) new memoir! Love talking books with @samjmitchell 💜📖

Frannie is a slave on a Jamaican plantation named “Paradise” (a horrifying place) when the book opens she‘s been arrested for murders she can‘t remember committing. If that reminds you of Margaret Atwood‘s “Alias Grace” there is no comparison!

The author narrates in perfect patois. Great in audio!

#gothic #womenreadingwomen

1) Mama 👩‍👧‍👧💕
2) Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Grey!
3) just unsubscribed from the NYT book review! 😡
4) love book cover art, but don‘t judge a book by it 😉

@Freespirit @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @megzlynn @kspenmoll 👋📖 #wonderouswednesday @Eggs #shortstories4ever

Scammers, scallywags, hucksters & rogues! This compilation by GRRM features men & women #scoundrels from all genres. #shortstories 😈🖤📖

@samjmitchell knows me like a 📚 book! There is nothing better than having someone in your life who really “gets you” .. especially when it‘s your kid! #richardscary
🐰 📚💜🍂 #raiseareader

More short stories today! ☀️📖 the first sunny day in weeks and Tucker is saying “when is our walk time!?” 🐾

#litsywalkers #dogsoflitsy #shortstories

I love short stories! Some of the stories can be cryptic, but I enjoy a well written challenge.

“Full Service Shelter” is a must read for anyone who has worked in rescue or loves pit-bull type dogs. 💔🐾

In “Greed” a young wife spies on her husband being seduced by an older woman, a neighbour. 🍏🍏🍏
Read this book in a few hours and really liked it!

Happy Mother‘s Day! I musta done something right because my girls have always loved books 📚 Tagged was our fave when they were little 👭

@samjmitchell 💜
#raiseareader

#snailmail from my #PoutinePals could not have come on a better day 🙏 @samjmitchell is going in for a 2nd brain surgery tomorrow and all the cute cards and letters cheered my soul! 💜❤️💜

@KarynGood @kelseynicburke @mcctrish @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego thank you I can‘t wait to mail my cards to you! 💌⛺️🦄🦉🔥

Happy Easter! Don‘t you love these goldleaf decorated eggs by @samjmitchell ? 💛🐰🐣

Tagged book is perfect while hubby watches Maple Leafs hockey on a lazy Easter Sunday afternoon! Hockey has nothing on those ladies from The View!! 👊💥👭

It‘s a cold & rainy day but Tucker is willing me to put down my book and take him for a walk 😌☔️🐾🐾 how can I resist those eyes? #litsywalkers #dogsoflitsy

1. Call me a wild & crazy guy but take me back to THE 70‘s! Long live 💃🏼 disco! #kitchendancer
2. Audiobook 🎧 love a well told story
3. Ummm.. older!! 59 😊🍷
4. I‘ve lived across Canada, but settled near my home town
5. @samjmitchell @CouronneDhiver @rabbitprincess @ShyBookOwl @readordierachel @Crazeedi 👋😘📖

Littens you all make my day! 🙏 #litsylove #friyayintro @howjessreads

Reliving my favorite decades book by book. Here‘s my #80sretroreads list!

#bookbattle #betterwithage

The 80‘s! My love for books knew no bounds & I read every spare minute (I‘m a huge nerd but loved to disco too) 👯‍♀️🤓

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 👭😭
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy 🌊
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 🥇
Queen of the Dammed by Anne Rice 🖤⚰️🧛🏻‍♀️ @monalyisha

Lmk your faves! Any disco lovers?

#ThrowbackThursday
My fave books from the 70‘s!

The World According to Garp by John Irving 🐻
Sophie‘s Choice by William Styron 👩‍🦱👨🏻👱🏻‍♂️

I grew up in the 70‘s and loved the books & the movies (bawled my eyes out😭📖)

#Egg 🥚👦 or #Jan&Eva 👫
Who broke your heart more?

Throwback Thursday! 📖📆

Reliving my favorite decades book by book. Here‘s my #retroreads list!
#bookbattle #betterwithage

The 60‘s
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
The Godfather by Mario Puzo

#nurserachet 💊Vs. #Michael 🚬🖤🐟

Who would win that battle?! Do you have a fave 60‘s read? #nevertooold
@samjmitchell @youneverarrived

Happy April! Did anyone play an #aprilfool joke on you today? 🙃☔️🌈 I work in a fancy furniture store where everyone is a bit uptight. No jokes on me today 🤷‍♀️ (I love a good joke tho!)

Started my 2nd book for #readingwomen2019 love it so far!

Just wanted to say hey ? to these Littens and thanks for the follow! ?
@wordzie
@Libby1
1. Tagged
2. Ugh no (don‘t tell my mom)
3. -10°C ?
4. Toasted peanut butter & potatoe chip sandwich
5. ? Hi!
@Erofan
@ClairesReads

This print is in my daughters home 📚✌️ 💜 There isn‘t anything I would rather do than than read about, talk about and think about books with @samjmitchell

#justacoupleofnerds #raisingareader #books4life

A short but powerful read to begin #womensfiction2019! Teenager Sylvie goes on a 2 week trip to Northumberland with her overbearing and strict archeologist father to reenact life as Iron Age people. Love it!

Book sale fundraiser for our local hospital 🏥 love this book, have read and listened (superb narration) The story will never get old. Love, passion, death, grief, messed up family and what it means to overcome trauma with your humanity intact. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wow this was a wild ride! It started out as a “So-So” and ended as a PICK 👍 hadn‘t read a single review, so was completely taken off guard by the thrilling ending.

Is there a genre for contemporary horror? .. because this is it! I didn‘t “love” any character but thought the writing was great. POV chapters told by the cop, her daughter, the hipster journalist, a homeless man and the killer weave a gripping story I really enjoyed!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some of my fave #irishauthors are women, but I couldn‘t leave out Sebastian Barry 🍀💚

The Little Red Chairs is set in a small Irish village where our main character falls in love with the mysterious new man in town. She is married but rushes full tilt into a sexual relationship with the man. When she discovers he is a wanted war criminal the town and her husband shame her into moving away to London. And that‘s just the start! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#litsyquotesmar19

Words to live by 🧡⚡️🌥🧙‍♂️

A completely random find at the bookstore this week; I would typically never browse the Spirituality section. Sometimes the book chooses us, not the other way round.

Cancer has changed my family‘s life and this book has been good for my soul. 📖🙏

Adding to my #TBR and welcome all comments! I really enjoyed The Changeling by Victor Lavelle so I think this would appeal to me.

🧟‍♀️🌳🧟‍♂️ #magicalrealism

#friyayintro A day late! 🤓 @howjessreads
1. Love living in an apartment. It‘s within walking distance of a bookstore, movie theatre and pub! [and no snow to shovel]
2. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannigan
3. Audio books during the weekday commute and all weekend!
4. Pizza!!!

I‘ve read a lot about WWII but knew nothing of the railway through the Burmese jungle built by Australian POWs. The topics are HUGE- love war death obedience honesty loyalty forgiveness. Flannigan made me see all these in a different light. It‘s a brutal but brilliant read. I loved it in audio, the narrators New Zealand accent was very compelling.

2014 #manbookerprize winner 📖🏅

#Februaryquotes #indestructible

Happy birthday to John Steinbeck born this day in 1902.
🎉✏️ 🎂

East of Eden is my fave of his novels. Of Mice and Men was part of my high school curriculum and I loved that one too. Do you have a Steinbeck book that moved you?