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Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal Pg 251

Hosted book club today! Loved this book and all the moments of connection and joy the author spread during her life.

A good mix of books during this big month of transition in our house. 📚

Rosenthal finds the beauty in the mundane & reminds us to cherish each moment. The book is even more poignant when you find out she died. I loved the interactive elements. You can text a phone number & vote in surveys & receive audio clips. I've never felt so connected to a community of readers. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing & trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring & heartbreaking at the same time.”

I didn‘t really love Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, most likely because it was a novel inverse or because it was mature and for adults. The book was pretty confusing, but there were some subjects and topics the author said that were relatable and funny. I think when I‘m older I‘ll try reading it again and maybe then I‘ll understand more of the book.

This book was sweet, quick, interactive and brought tears to my eyes. I loved the parts prompting a text, that brought me to a video or sound clip, to curate a feeling the author was intending. It is obvious she was a beautiful loving soul who wanted everyone to live a spirit-lifting, lovely life.

#bookspin
@TheAromaofBooks

I can‘t bear to rip out the page, so I‘m sending to all of you who happen to read this!

Just starting this #bookspin... looks like it will be quite a different reading experience!

September #bookspin & #doublespin
@TheAromaofBooks

Izzy would like to present to you today‘s Dollar Tree finds 😻

3.5/5
Quirky, charming and interactive book. I wanted a bit more, but still fun to read. Felt like talking to an old girlfriend.

#ReadHarder2019

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an even bigger (& smaller) & even more beautiful soul than I knew. Her memoir confirms this. Reading it reminded me of something Sylvia Plath wrote in her journal: “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.” What must it have been like to live in her world, day after day, & not only for 32 (or 317) pages?🌈

How is it possible that these are the near-final words on the penultimate pages of this memoir? 😭

Part of me wants to frame these words & hang them.

I could do a series.

This selection; then Merricat‘s “Melody, Pegasus, Gloucester” (is that tempting fate?); & finally, Mary Oliver‘s “One, Wild, & Precious.”

“About my midlife crisis. I did not get a sports car... I did get: weepy, chronically weepy. I wouldn‘t describe the origin of my tears as “Boo-hoo, I‘m so old,‘ but more, ‘Oh my, here I am, living, and I would like to keep on living, preferably perpetually‘... I didn‘t exactly have a midlife crisis. I had a midlife cry-bliss.”

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💖 All of the Above 💖

Working on my Major Author/Illustrator project for my Children‘s Services & Materials class, & reading the tagged. I was supposed to focus on an author I don‘t know very well. I might be cheating a little. I mean, I don‘t know *everything* there is to know about Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Can one person truly ever know another? 🤔🤓

#sorrynotsorry #authorcrush #RIPyouwonderwoman

The first time I read this little book, I posted about a contemporaneous experience with serendipity, which Amy loved as much as I do. I‘m listening to the audio now (which is wonderful) and got to this part. Not 20 minutes before, I read an article about the 25th anniversary of Shawshank 😮 Image from the PDF that accompanies the audiobook.

I read this on paper and loved it but listening to her read these words, written entirely before she was diagnosed with the ovarian cancer that would take her life at 51, is something else. If you haven‘t read her Modern Love column, You May Want to Marry My Husband, you should. But have the Kleenex ready before you start. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-ma...

#JazzyJune #MeaningfulMemoir I loved this book!
@Eggs

I finished reading this today, and loved it so much! I got this for the #BookRiotReadHarderChallenge: an epistolary novel or collection of letters prompt, and I'm so glad I read this one! This is full of short thoughts, notes, and ideas addressed to the reader.

I just started reading this book today, and I laughed when I read this. I do this. So, to my #LitsyLove and #JustBecause friends, I'm sorry if I offend you with my little arrows showing you where to read next, lol! 😂

7 5⭐️ reads this month!

Pick. Pick. Pick. This is the 2nd Amy Krouse Rosenthal book I‘ve read & her second & last “grown-up book.” She died a short time later. I feel like sobbing because her writing is both so real & down to earth that I feel like I just lost a friend. But I also feel like she‘s the type of person whose family would say, “Don‘t cry. She would want you to be happy.” It is our loss that we only have 2 books from her but we are richer for them.

Book 125

#GetMovin Day 23: There are #NoExcuses to a life well-lived. Here, AKR wrote quite movingly about loves, family, friendship and all things in between. Paired with husband‘s chicken afritada.

Lovely - breezed through it but enjoyed every moment. Parts feel like prose, parts feel like poetry and parts feel like confessions between lifelong friends. The indescribable Music section might be my favourite, just for the laughs, but pick this up, you won‘t regret it. Highly, highly recommended 😊

The amazing light Amy Krouse Rosenthal passed away in March 2017 at the far too young age of 51. The above page is from her memoir Textbook so any Litsy people scrolling past, to honor the spirit of this amazing writer: I‘m choosing to give it to you.

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Oh, SO the delivery truck. #readingimpaired

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(Page is blank.)

"If you are the hundredth person to do so (text author with a purple-flower-moment), I will bake you a pie and FedEx it to you. You will have to trust me on this."
#iLovePie #PieInLit #readinginbed

Listening.

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Vacation read #2!

So happy I made it to the post office before the rainstorm (which quickly moved on) because I got the delight of bookmail! A friend sent me a tee with the book - such fun. Made my day.

This was such a unique book. Interactive (you can "text" Amy & connect with others reading the book through a website) and so clever, it reads like a love letter to her life. The world lost a great writer and human being this year.

I'm a huge fan of Amy's writing and I love that I can "text" her throughout this book. So bittersweet knowing she's gone now ?

I have one of those super cute grandmas that gives you a check every year for your birthday in the amount corresponding to your age :)
I cashed my check and headed for a book sale and came home with these books from my TBR 📚

Perfect audiobook for my hour long drive to a library board meeting! Very funny!

Short, sweet and thought-provoking with an interactive component that's still live at https://www.textbookamykr.com/. Reading this after the author's recent death was especially moving. #serendipity #honey

Um....guys....there's a #honey packet in my car's cup holder that's been there since I ordered tea at Starbucks a couple of months ago...for the first and only time ever. I do not know why I haven't tossed it yet. I think about it every time I get in the car. Ya know that Book Serendipity thing I just posted about?....😮

I adore what I call Book Serendipity-those little reading moments when,for example,something you never heard of pops up in two books in a row. Or something you just read about makes its way, out of the blue and completely unexpectedly into your real life. In fact, I just commented about it on Litsy yesterday. So it's a bit of a Meta Book-Serendipity moment when this book, that I randomly started reading today, has a whole bit about Serendipity ❤️

I love this little book. And, I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal's soul. What an awesome outlook on life she possessed. I have no doubt she is missed by many. ❤️🌈

Please read this. Pretty much every page made me say, "oh, Amy."

You can text this book and it's super cool but also hard — hard to read Hi, it's Amy, knowing she just died.

I liked this book! Lots of gems of wisdom and truth here. Yes, lots of white space too. But I see that as an invitation to collaborate and get out a pen to write in the book! That's what I'm doing! #loveforanykrouserosenthal

I see this and tear up!

RIP AKR