Welcome to Litsy!

#WhereAreYouMonday
I'm in Waikiki, where Maya is struggling with her move back home and is caught up in a murder investigation.
And in London, where single Lauren came home to a husband she doesn't remember and has proceeded to have the weirdest couple of weeks.
Really enjoying both of these.
@Cupcake12

#WhereAreYouMonday

I'm in a seaside English village after WWI and Washington DC (there isn't a strong sense of place in this one but Dupont Circle has been mentioned repeatedly)
@Cupcake12

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake

1. I am having surgery on Wednesday so getting ready for that and then recovering after
2. Omg… hundreds (if not more)
3. I don‘t like scary so I tend not to read horror

1) an Easter brunch at my grandparents care home on Wednesday morning, Good Friday service on Friday morning, Easter service on Saturday evening, Easter dinner on Sunday.
2) Evidence of Things Unseen
3) The Ramona Quimby series, The Little House series and The Babysitter Club books.

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#motivationalmonday @Cupcake

1. Dinner with my mom, aunt and her family
2. The one I just finished, hex appeal
3. I loved all things babysitters club

1. Ringing and singing at church then later going to dinner with my husband.
2. I heard about Sea Wife from a podcast and thought it sounded interesting for one of my book clubs. It didn‘t really work for me, but some other members liked it better…
3. I still have my tattered copy of a book called I‘m Suzy, which I liked because it featured the correct spelling of my nickname. It‘s also pretty stinking cute.
#motivationalmonday

1. Celebrating my husband's birthday and attending a zoom board meeting
2. I have no idea what my average per day is, but I do know that if I don't get at least one hour of reading time each day, I get cranky. 😂
3. It would either be fantasy or a book of essays. Fantasy because it was my first favorite genre, and essays because there are so many essayists I admire.

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1. Work on my portfolio and handle some chores.

2. At the moment, I‘m most looking forward to a new series that‘s being released later this year: The Witch‘s Compendium of Monsters by Genoveva Dimova.

3. Definitely fantasy!

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12

1. I just got laid off from my job, so this week will be spent looking for a new one.
2. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson and Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde.
3. Science Fiction
@Cupcake12 #motivationalmonday

1. Some walks and yoga, and picking up my daughter from college Friday.
2. Familiaris by David Wroblewski, local author of Edgar Sawtelle, I‘ve been waiting for this - it‘s 980 pages yikes!
3. Historical fiction
#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12
Want to play @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal

1. Make sure my son‘s room is ready for him when he gets home on Friday. Make a dinner menu for next week.
2. Snow White because she keeps all those men in line. 😂
3. Working in my gardens.

@Cupcake12 #motivationalmonday

1. Pay my teacher fees ( professional college dues) and plan meals + grocery shop 2. Moana because Hawaii and music ( used to be Snow White b/c she had dark hair like me ) 3. Longer days, sheets on the line and gardening 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thanks for the tag @peaKnit

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

1. Take care of mom after her surgery tomorrow and spend my week get rejuvenated for the rest of the school year since I am on spring break this week!
2. Belle… she has the best library and Elsa … she doesn‘t need a man to save her
3. Rebirth of things

1. Quite a few of them, actually! An assortment of medical appointments to go to as well as a dinner date with my husband, coffee date with a co-worker so we can discuss a buddy read we just finished (Shark Heart), and another dinner date with my favorite indie-bookstore-supporting gal pals.

2. City on a Hill - Mon Rovîa

3. BTS 💜

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12

1. Try to survive without child. She travels to an outdoor school for the first time. It will be her first time and I'm trying to be strong that she won't know how hard it is for me to be separated.
2. Honey Are You Coming by Måneskin
3. Ed Sheeran, Måneskin, Westlife, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bon Jovi... (I'm a sucker for boy bands🤣)

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@Cupcake12

1. Last week of a sugar detox and I‘ve learned a lot, I feel happier, and I can live without Pepsi Max and coffee. Will I live without, we will see.
2. I love the holiday for the reds and pinks. I made my fav cookies and handed them out in heart bags to everyone because see 1. Sugar detox, ack! I sent some Valentines and a package to my college kid.
3. I‘d be picking berries in Maine 🤔 #motivationalmonday

A day late but better late than never!

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

1. Survive… it has been a rough couple of weeks
2. I live and die by lists and my planner
3. LA

1. Work 2-3 days ( I‘m a substitute teacher) and I know have them booked plus read, work on my Lego set and get bathrooms cleaned 2. Still working on Other Birds and The Brothers Karamazov, I started Wham! George Michael and Me, and The Secret of a Heart Note ( I want to finish Other Birds and Wham this week) 3. Introverted and distractible🤷🏻‍♀️ #motivationalmonday

#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

1. My major goal for the week is to clean/organize my bedroom closet
2. I just started the fourth wing
3. Loyal and fun

Is anyone in touch with Jody (@joscho)? I emailed her to see if she‘d mind me starting/taking over her #manicmonday challenge. She hasn‘t posted in a long time - Jody, we hope you‘re okay! Anyone interested and think this would be okay with her? Tagging a few of y‘all but feel free to pass this around!

Happy PI day!! @BkClubCare

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12

1. Ha! Miami and Minneapolis are my most frequent places.
2. Stephen King, John Boyne, Anne Lamott to name a few.
3. Reading, volunteering at our local covid vaccine clinic on Thursday and seeing vaccinated friends on Saturday for dinner!

Come play!!!

1. Spain, Morocco, Portugal, UK, Tennessee, Louisiana.
2. Well...none. I have access to great libraries!
3. Vaccine, book clubs, work webinar, ballgame.
#motivationalmonday

1. So far, I‘ve traveled to North Carolina, Mississippi, California, NYC, and Hell.
2. Sherry Thomas, Rainbow Rowell, David Arnold
3. My sister & I are going to a state park & to see Rosemary Clooney‘s house this weekend. In case you don‘t know—George Clooney is from Kentucky.
#motivationalmonday @Cupcake12

So glad to be relaxing after a mad day! Would be rude not to have a g&t on national gin and tonic day!

📖 When She Was Good (my current read) and Where the Wild Things Are
🖊 William Faulkner (my mom‘s fave) and Jesmyn Ward
🍿 Working Girl and West Side Story
📺 Weeds and Will and Grace
🎤 Wham and Rufus Wainwright
🎵 Wake Me Up (Avicii 💔)
#manicmonday #letterw @JoScho

📚 Under the Banner of Heaven, An Untamed State, Us Against You
🖊 Ursula Le Guin and Umberto Eco
🍿 Uncle Buck and Unforgiven
📺 Unsolved Mysteries
🎤 U2
🎼 Under the Milky Way (The Church)
#manicmonday #letteru @JoScho

-Under the Dome - Stephen King
- Leon URIS
- Uncle Buck
- U2
- Uncle John‘s Band - Grateful Dead

#ManicMonday #LetterU @JoScho

https://wellreadneck.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/monday-monday-elizabeth-crook/

📚 Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
🖊 Sager, Riley and Steinbeck, John
🍿 Starman and 📺 Six Feet Under
🎤 Sam Smith and The Shins
🎶 Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price) and Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot)
#manicmonday #letters @JoScho

📚 Queenie
🖊 Anna Quindlen
🎥 Quiz Show and 📺 Quantum Leap
🎤 Questlove and Queen
🎶 Que Sera, Sera
#manicmonday #letterq @JoScho

📚 Pretty Girls and Pachinko
🖊 Ann Patchett and Rosamunde Pilcher
🎥 The Princess Bride and Pulp Fiction
📺Pop Up Video 😁
🎤 Paul McCartney and Prince
🎶 Pancho and Lefty
#manicmonday #letterp @JoScho

📖 Olive Kitteridge
🖊 both Barack and Michelle Obama 😍😍😍
🎥 Office Space and 📺 Orphan Black
🎤 Otis Redding and OutKast (band, sorta?)
🎼 Octopus‘s Garden (Beatles) and Ocean Eyes (Billie Eilish)
#manicmonday #lettero @JoScho 👋🏻👋🏻

📚 Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
🖊 Naomi Novik
🎥 Napoleon Dynamite 📺 Nip/Tuck
🎤 Nine Inch Nails
🎼 Nowhere Man (The Beatles)
#manicmonday #lettern @JoScho

📖 Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
🖊 Marissa Meyer ❤️❤️ and Madeline Miller ❤️❤️
🎥 Mallrats and 📺 MASH
🎤 Morrison (Jim and Van)
🎼 Manic Monday (OF COURSE 😂)
#manicmonday #letterm @JoScho

Well just got the news we are back in school fulltime from Monday. Local authority have deemed it safe 🤔 Definitely need a gin whilst I read in the sun after that news 🍸📖

📖 Just Kids - Patti Smith
🖊 Jewell, Lisa
🍿 Juno
🎤 Jem and the Holograms (fictional band, but a fave of mine as a kid 😁) or Johnny Cash or Jimi Hendrix 🙂
🎼 Jackson (Cash) or Jackie Wilson Said (Van Morrison)
#manicmonday #LetterJ @JoScho

📚 Into the Wild
🖊 Irving, John
🍿 Inception
🎤 Indigo Girls
🎼 Islands in the Stream
#manicmonday #LetterI @JoScho

Where did the time go? I somehow missed letters F and G 🤷‍♀️ So here goes #LetterH
📖 Howl‘s Moving Castle
🖊 Hoover, Colleen and Holly Black
🍿 Hope Floats
🎤 Heart
🎵 HandClap - Fitz and the Tantrums
#manicmonday @JoScho

I may have a smile on my face but my coffee mug says it all this morning!

📖 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
🖊 E.E. Cummings
🍿 Edward Scissorhands
🎤 Ella Fitzgerald
🎼 Edge of Seventeen (Stevie Nicks)
#manicmonday #lettere @JoScho

📖 Daisy Jones and the Six
🖊 Dostoevsky
📺 Dead to Me
👨🏻‍🎤 David Bowie
🎼 Drive My Car
#ManicMonday #LetterD @JoScho

The new Monday afternoons... very different to the olds ones 🤔
Keep on shining sun ☀️☀️☀️

📖 The Cobra Event
📖 C.J. Cherryh
📽 Cars
🎶 Elvis Costello
🎶 Cool For Cats - Squeeze

#manicmonday #LetterC @JoScho

#ManicMonday @JoScho
Thanks for the tag @LiteraryinLititz I‘m late to the party but it‘s still Monday here.🤣
1️⃣ Novelist I think 🤔
2️⃣ I have dreams of owning a little cafe with a bookstore attached to it 📚🍽
3️⃣ Have a book dedicated to me (either by Neil Gamin or a cookbook dedicated to me by Yotam Ottolenghi) 😍
4️⃣ if I have to pick, I guess ripping it up so at least it could be recycled or repurposed but both are cringe-worthy! 😱

1. Novelist, hands down!
2. That‘s a toss up; perhaps a bookstore called The Library?! 🤷🏻‍♀️
3. Dedicated to me (play it safe)
4. Yikes! Burn, I guess...but can I pick one that I didn‘t enjoy?
#manicmonday @JoScho

1. Novelist
2. Bookstore
3. Inspiration for a character
4. Rip

#manicmonday
Welcome back @JoScho