Today's BART #audiobook for #AuthorAMonth 🎧
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now | 
Today's BART #audiobook for #AuthorAMonth 🎧
Instead of review: this book is really not for me, and it seems unfair to give it 👎
#AuthorAMonth
My current book is Cruel City by Mongo Beti, which I will finished today. Cultish is my companion for audio-walks , one big and two slimmer books - all for different challenges. I‘m a little hesitating with Cloud Cuckoo Land, because I really didn‘t like All the Light We Cannot See (I think that is overwritten in every sense), but almost every reviewer says that Cloud isn‘t anything like All the Light … we will see 🤞 #weeklyforecast
Other people‘s check-out receipts, circa 18 years ago. . . #foundinbooks
#BookReport Feb 23-29, 2020
Completed: 3 books. 2 were books I started ages ago that I read instead of finishing Interesting Times as planned
Wouldn‘t Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Some wonderfully thought-provoking essays in this book. The briefness of each allowed me to slow down, savour the words, and spend some time digesting what I‘d read. There were some essays I wished were longer but overall, I loved it! ⬇️
Another warm day means sunny Sunday reading time with Minerva outside & I found yesterday‘s #QuotsyFeb20 word #humble in the essay Power of the Word: “That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I‘m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.” #readingbuddy
It was warm enough today after work that Minerva & I got to enjoy a bit of front step reading time before moving inside to enjoy the sunset. The tagged book works well for reading quick bits here & there when I‘m pressed for time because the essays are short. The quoted passage is from the end of the essay “Style”. #ReadingBuddy #CatsofLitsy #CatwithBooks
It is time for the preachers, the rabbis, the priests and pundits, and the professors to believe in the awesome wonder of diversity so that they can teach those that follow them. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
—Maya Angelou, Wouldn‘t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. She must have convinced herself, that she, her values, and her choices are important. In a time and world where males hold sway and control, the pressure upon women to yield their #rights-of-way is tremendous. And it is under those very circumstances that the woman's toughness must be in evidence.” #QuotsyDec19
pickBehind #Adventrecommends door number 2 is this series of memoirs by an incredible woman. Don‘t stop at the first one. From Angelou‘s work in the theatre, to her travel abroad, to her work in the Civil Rights movement, they just keep getting better and better.
#QuotsyJuly19 Day 8: We all deserve a #Vacation. My family and I are heading off to the Bay Area tonight for a month-long #vacation with family based in the US. Heading off to Nashville for a week as well for a conference.
pickEvery time I read something Maya Angelou has set to paper, I want to curl up inside of it and never leave. I can‘t get enough of her voice.
http://www.amyyuki.com/books/2018/04/12/wouldnt-take-nothing-for-my-journey-now-...
pickRead this in one sitting. It was short and sweet. With everything going on in the world, and everything going on in my life, this was the perfect little book for me at this moment 😏
I‘ve decided to listen to these 3 short audiobooks while I work today. I‘m already happy about it. ❤️ #Audiobooks
pickI enjoy reading books that inspire me and I think this is why I like reading Maya Angelou.
Mrs. V. B. Really liked it.
pickPBS just aired a wonderful program about the life of Maya Angelou. What an extraordinarily gifted and intelligent human being! I enjoy her writing and her wisdom.
pickI honestly just really wanted to read Maya this morning and I breezed through this book this morning. It was a simple collection of her thoughts on a range of subjects, all short, to the point and sweet.
pickA fantastic, honest, and engaging book! Angelou's writing is so accessible (something I'm always so conscious about), and the short sections made it even easier to read. I would definitely recommend her words of wisdom to anyone 📚
pickEvery section of this spoke to me. Her wisdom and perspective resonated on so many levels. #NonfictionNovember2016
