But can we talk about how The Age of Innocence is such a subtly amazing book? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pig.

Good morning and happy first day of Fall!!!

I'm getting nostalgic about my middle school days while reading these books by McKinley. ❤️

It's a scientific fact that coffee tastes better in a bookish mug.

Currently rereading a favorite. I love it so much! I'm torn between savoring it and devouring it. Kind of like a delicious piece of cake. 🍰 😋

This is one of my favorite Victorian novels. I think Wilkie Collins does not get nearly enough attention! I picked up this biography at the library yesterday; I think it will be interesting to learn more about his life.

They did such a great job transferring this gigantic (and amazing) novel to screen. I love this mini series!

Library day!

Such a great play. Can I be cliche and call it life changing? I read this in my university class on Doubles In Literature. #plays #collegeliterature

Today's book mail. I will not apologize for my love of all things Star Trek Voyager. 🤓 #bookmail

I have been hesitant about this one, because it is a "throwback" book, so it's out of order in the series. I really wish he would have written it before book 5. But I think it will still be a good read. #yalit

💔💔💔💔 Oh, Will. #victorianmen

I have to finish this blanket before my friend has her baby, but I want to read so badly! I need to get some audio books so that I can listen and crochet.

What a blighter....Dorothea is a better person than me. I would have poisoned the guy on the honeymoon.

I liked the physicality of this story...it was extremely body-centered and that made the fairytale aspect shine, in my opinion. I do think OSC needs a wider "canvas" than this book allowed. The short length didn't give him room to flesh it out, and some characters and ideas fell flat. 3.5/5 ⭐️

I never have enough Agatha Christie (or pizza) to satisfy me.

One of my favorite coffee cups. Jane Austen is queen.

I'm reading by flashlight because it's stormy and we have no power. 🔦

Excited to crack this one open. 👏🏼

"And what is a portrait of a woman? Your paintings and Plastik are poor stuff after all. They perturb and dull conceptions instead of raising them. Language is a finer medium."

So true...I have such a nostalgia for the Arkansas Ozarks where I was born and raised. I have seen many pretty sights while traveling, but none surpass the beauty of those hills in bloom.

(July 4th road trip to STL ??) Poor Dorothea. She actually said, "There would be nothing trivial about our lives. Everyday things with us would mean the greatest things," about her prospective marriage. Nothing like the rude awakening of marriage and the familiarity it brings.

This book could have been SO good. As it was, it had pages wasted in repetitiveness that could have been used to round out the story a little better. I'm not sorry I read it, but it was somewhat disappointing.

"We all own a beast called anger."

Having more trouble reading this than I thought I would. It is really slow going and repetitive. It's just now getting really good, with about 1/4 of the book left.

"Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another."

I'm feeling a rereading of Middlemarch. I have a lot of respect for George Eliot; she lived a unique and somewhat liberated life as a woman in the 19th century, but in her writing she chose to represent the majority of women who did not have the same opportunities.

When you find a typo that should have been caught before it was published. 🙄

Woke up late and I'm not ashamed. Saturday reading is seriously the best.

Ooooh a serial killer is taunting Poirot. What a foolish serial killer.

These books will not necessarily blow your mind, but they are cozy, feel-good little reads. Would recommend.

Every time someone in a book drinks coffee, I get an almost desperate hankering for it. ☕️

This started out kind of "meh," but I think it was because there wasn't enough Miss Marple to begin with. It ended up being really good. She's a cute old lady with a brain like a steel trap.

Decided to get some books from the library because I'm broke from buying too many books. 💸 The library really is the greatest thing.

Sometimes you just have to read some YA.

I love these little moments in Christie's novels.

This explains a lot about some people I know.

This was a fun little swashbuckling tale.

This book, while good, wasn't quite on par with the first three books in the series.
This line was strikingly beautiful, though.

Doing some outdoor reading. I bought this book in Pirate's Alley in NOLA, and it doesn't get more perfect than that.

One really can't say enough about Brave New World. It is just too truthful to be beautiful.

There's always room on my shelf for an old book with a new cover.

I'm enjoying my day off by starting a new Christie novel in the fresh air.

Agatha Christie had a wonderful understanding of the human condition. Even the perpetrators in her novels are more than their act of murder...they are humans even as they act inhumanely. It makes her stories surprisingly complex and meaningful.

I love to eat while I read. 🙌🏼 I'm continuing my streak of Agatha Christie books with Death on the Nile. I only wish I had kept this one for my cruise in September.

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