The Reader by Emma Amos
at Crystal Bridges Art Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas

Doing a quick re- read for a Sunday author event. This book was picked for the state-wide Arkansas Read. It‘s about a 5 hour drive from Kansas. I‘m dragging my hubby w. me. We will go to Bentonville to go to Crystal Bridges Art Museum Saturday, & then on Sunday will stop in Gravette to see Patti Callahan Henry. 😂 just saw her in St Louis w my daughters 2 weekends ago when she was w. the other Friends & Fiction authors. Stalking?? 🍄

This book is a great summer read.
She‘s a new to me author, and I will be reading more! Here‘s the last photo of myself & my daughters. This is with Mary Kay Andrews of Friends & Fiction, at the beautiful St. Louis Library Clark Branch and Novel Neighbor Bookstore‘s launch event for Kristy Woodson Harvey‘s book A Happier Life.

The Friends & Fiction book event in St Louis was great! Here I am with my daughters & Patti Callahan Henry. We had fun meeting Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Kristy Woodson Harvey as well! Meg Walker & Ron Block were there also!
I‘ll next see Patti in Arkansas, her book was selected for Arkansas‘ If All Arkansas Read The Same Book. I planned that trip 1st, but couldn‘t resist the trip to St Louis to see all 4 authors.

This made me giggle. 🤭

#ChildrensClassicRead2024
 @TheBookHippie

I‘m behind on my ‘June‘ reading with #EuropaCollective
I‘m enjoying this book looking into the lives of the people of Dalton, Maine.
The story gives me the vibes of Beartown. All the feels.

Kristin Harmel was just a delight to talk to. This book was a great read, and I reread it before the book event in St. Louis with the Friends & Fiction authors.

The book event in St Louis was great! Here I am with my daughters & Kristy Woodson Harvey, whose book launched this week. We had fun meeting Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry as well! Meg Walker & Ron Block were there also!

In St. Louis with my daughters to celebrate the publication of a A Happier Life. Excited to see all four Friends & Fiction authors!

I‘m only about 1/4 through, but I‘m enjoying this book focusing on the women of The Trojan War. The story is still driven by men, but one could say that that is a reflection of what little power these strong women had.

 @LibraryBell #literarycrew #buddyread

Listening to MKA‘s latest book. 📕 🚗 📕
Heading to St Louis at the end of the month with my daughters to see the
Fab Four- Friends & Fiction authors
Patti Callahan Henry, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Mary Kay Andrews. I can‘t wait!!

Reading 📖/ Listening 🎧 to this emotional YA book for #litsyBookClub
A close-up look at Pakistani- American teens , their families, & their struggles.

Such a sweet book. I love all the different covers the book has had! #ChildrensClassicRead2024
( search it on google and go to images- the link is too long!! )

This Saturday is Pollyanna Glad Day!
Wouldn‘t it be fun to one year have a #LitsyMeetUp in Littleton, NH?!
#ChildrensClassicRead2024

https://gladdaynh.com/

A Goodreads Giveaway! 🥳 🎁 🥳

I enjoyed another of her books- The Book That Matters Most- I sent off that book for Round 2 of our #ListyGoesPostal #CoverToCover bookclub

( my husband cut down several cedar trees and planted all these Kansas native grasses & 19 redbud trees to create this meadow )

Sea of Tranquility is my favorite of the Station 11 ‘Trilogy‘. It evoked more emotions than the others,since it had a thriller feel to it. This was a complex, big story to write,& St John Mandel pulled it off!
*I think Station 11, The Glass Hotel, & Sea of Tranquility can be read in any order, or just by themselves.There are a few Easter Eggs linking them, which is a little fun, but not essential.
Thanks @Soubhiville for this #AuthorAMonth

Starting the 3rd in the Station Eleven ‘Trilogy‘. This one is supposed to have more connections to Station Eleven than The Glass Hotel. Thanks to #AuthorAMonth I was able to get Station Eleven off my bookshelf where it has been sitting since 2017!

Starting this since I finished Station Eleven & learned that there are connections with that book, this book, and Sea of Tranquility. I must say I‘m not enjoying the audiobook narrator - she doesn‘t do mens‘ voices well. Oh well…
#AuthorAMonth

I enjoyed the narrator‘s subtle sense of humor. Rebecca, Heidi, and Anne of Green Gables all have a happy, great outlook on life. I loved Miranda, the curmudgeon- and watching her evolve as well as learning her back story at the very end of the book. The Cobbs were such a sweet couple. Thanks @TheBookHippie for another great #ChildrensClassicRead2024 #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAAdjacent Fun to join in with @BarbaraJean

I found The Symphony on Instagram!
#AuthorAMonth

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C62yFx6Cd2r/?igsh=MTJtaTJuMG12bzlqNw==

This week I finally started this book. I had more anxiety while reading the ‘buy everything you can at the grocery store‘ scene than I did during our actual COVID pandemic. I‘m excited to see how this book plays out. Thanks @Soubhiville for hosting #AuthorAMonth and finally getting me to read this book I‘ve had on my shelf since 2017!! I do wonder what it would‘ve been like reading this BEFORE our pandemic.

Not a typical pairing at first glance, but once you start reading this book, you can‘t stop!! 🐴📕🐴

This book had a great sense of place. It also had some deliciously descriptive sensations regarding the taste & scents associated with cooking & eating. You can tell the writer is a chef & food writer! She‘s also a good storyteller. ❤️💙❤️
I loved the inclusion of a mystery surrounding artwork of a real painter & important muse/ art subject of Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Alfred Stevens, Toulouse-Lautrec & others.
I hope to read her backlist.

Just starting this book about Marion, who joins The Rockettes despite her father‘s objections. I love her character & courage! I know there will be some great NYC history tidbits also!!

Love the subplot involving the model/ muse for Manet & many other artists.
Victorine Meurent was an artist herself, but her paintings are lost. Another example of women being erased in history.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz9k68IRjSf/?igsh=dDRhdjdzYjFuemJt

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9802721/Manets-forgotten-muse-V...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Victorine-Louise%20Meurent&client=safari

🩷 Theo, Pauline & The Pagode from The Porcelain Moon make a cameo in The Phoenix Crown!!! 🩷

Starting this novel based in NYC & Paris. Love it when real people make cameos in a novel. Evelyn Shrifte was the longtime president of Vanguard Press, which published the first books of Saul Bellow, Dr. Seuss and Joyce Carol Oates.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/31/arts/evelyn-shrifte-98-publishing-house-presi...

Has anyone broken down and bought this Kindle holder with a remote in order to read in bed?

I went to the library to find Pippi to look at the illustrations. This edition is the cutest!!! #ChildrensClassicRead2024

Great quote I just saw again

I hate to leave my morning reading, but laundry & dishes call. Hopefully, I‘ll be back soon!

https://open.substack.com/pub/amystewart/p/illustrated-book-review-the-stone?r=1...

Here‘s a link to author @AmyStewart ‘s Substack about Margery Sharp‘s adult books. These may be fun compagion reads!
#ChildrensClassicRead2024 🐭

Starting this childhood favorite of mine for #ChildrensClassicRead2024
Our own #Litten @ahoffkosik has a podcast featuring Pippi!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-209-pippi-longstocking-with-clarib...

140,000 Chinese men formed the French & British Chinese Labor Corps during WWI. The British headquarters were in Noyelles-Sur-Mer, France because it was by a railroad line as well as near a forest, which was an important source of timber. During & after the war, these men repaired railway lines, tanks, cleaned up battlefields, dead bodies, and the rubble from devastated towns. #NeverForget #LitsyBookClub

Reading these books back to back is breaking my heart 💔 They are complimentary- his 2nd book, Wandering Stars, is a prequel & sequel to his 1st book- There, There. Tommy Orange is coming to Wichita to the Mid- America Indian Center in a couple of weeks. I‘m looking forward to this author event.

#5JoysFriday
1.Seeing the eclipse in Savannah b/c a kind museum worker shared her glasses!
2.Having a wonderful vacation w my sister in Charleston & Savannah!
3.Coming home to babysit my two youngest grandkids while my daughter & her husband go to Dallas where he received recognition for his work in young adult ministries for the Catholic Church.
4. My 4 yo twin granddaughters will be here tonight
5. Being part of this Litsy family!
🩵🩷💚

Great storytelling by Janie Chang. I didn‘t know the Allies during WWI used Chinese men as labor in Europe to quickly rebuild trains, cannons, tanks, railways destroyed by the Germans.
( St Sulpice in Paris) #litsybookclub

First day in Charleston & saw this cute bookstore!!!

Reading & learning about the history of 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe as noncombatant labor during World War I. This is a part of history I never knew about. #LitsyBookclub #DogsOfLitsy

While Twain‘s Huckleberry Finn revealed Jim as a caring, kind person, Everett has captured James‘ 3 dimensional character, intelligence, literacy, & compassion.

This is a cute quote: ‘At the moment when our story closes‘

The book on the left just has the first half of the story, whereas my Kindle and the book in the right contain both the first and second book of Heidi.
It is very interesting how different the translations are!!
(Why did the library put the code bar over the title???)
This was another fun read for #ChildrensClassicRead2024 Thanks @TheBookHippie

I‘m bewitched. Boston 1662. Mary Deerfield is a strong woman holding her ground and fighting for what‘s right.
This is another brilliant book by the master storyteller @ChrisBohjalian
🐶 Bandette is posing like many women on book covers- with her back towards us!

#LiteraryCrew #BuddyRead
#DogsOfLitsy

Re-listening to Slot Machine Fever Dreams before reading @chrisbojalian ‘s new book. It is the 2nd book I‘ve ever read with a 2nd Person Narrator!!

I went to a vintage store today and saw some books I resisted buying! But the photos warm my heart also!
Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys & Cherry Ames Student Nurse are the older ones that are hard to see.
🕵🏻‍♀️ 🐴 🪻 👩🏼‍⚕️ 🐰

I‘m reading the e-book, but there‘s no photographs. These are the library books I checked out.
The top Viking Press edition has very interesting historic information in the margins along with illustrations.
The bottom Julian Messner New York edition has some black-and-white illustrations throughout with a few colored as well. ( I thought Heidi had blind hair!)
#ChildrensClassicRead2024

So true! 🩵🦋🩵 #Orphan

I‘m not certain if you can access this article. I‘ll copy a few parts I thought were interesting about the author and her Great Gma. This photo shows something that amused me. I was trying not to look up all these addresses in the book and then the authors character also mentioned she did not need all the street addresses. Her mom Said they were all important though. 👇

#europacollective

For some reason, I cannot access the illustrations on my e-book. I went to my library and checked out a couple books. The illustrations in this The Whole Story Edition are really neat because they have historical information as well!
#ChildrensClassicRead2024 #March

A caper with Britain‘s first female crime syndicate!!

I‘m just starting this book & am reading the introduction. I‘m reading the free Kindle version, and I think the intro about the translator is interesting. I love the way he values childrens‘ intelligence!
#ChildrensClassicRead2024 #March