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This one has cleared space on my physical shelf and my digital shelf. #DoubleSpin for May is done.
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin #ReadOrDonate #readyourebooks #readyourTBR #TBRtarot

I needed an additional month but April‘s #WickedWords are complete now that I found #iceberg in the tagged book. 🤓

#WickedWords #iceberg

My #DoubleSpin / #ReadOrDonate / #TBRtarot book gave me the #WickedWord I didn‘t find in April.

#TBRtarot @CBee

It‘s time to get this #chunkster off my shelf.

#ReadOrDonate #Roll100
@julieclair @PuddleJumper

#Wintergames #DailyPhotoChallenge #Winter #SantasBookshELVES

I really will get to this one day…

Rereads are always risky. Unfortunately this one went worse than anticipated. If you retain nostalgia for this title, click away from this review now.
From when I originally read this as a teen, I remembered only a love story, when I picked it back up, I was hoping for magic and a connection to the past. My past as much as that of historical New York. Perhaps it was too high a bar to set. 1/?

✳️🌌❄️ Brilliantly, beautifully cold. Immersive descriptions.

Pfft,.
'Didja get the license plate for that horse?'
'Next best thing.' 😆

#TemptingTitles #WithaSeason

This chunkster is sitting on the bookshelf. I‘m hoping to read a couple of bigger books this year…maybe its time has come?

All sides of New York - the good, bad and magical - are on display in this beautiful, lyrical narrative. Consumed by the setting and characters as I was, I‘m still not sure what the point is. Perhaps that‘s the justice we‘re meant to find.

I read Winter‘s Tale in 2007. It is still one of the most atmospheric I have ever read. #adventrecommends

I loved this book and I‘m having a hard time putting into words exactly why. It‘s beautiful, contemplative, and seems to be from another time. Sit down (with a dictionary) and soak up this incredible tale.

❄️ The tagged.. I know it‘s a somewhat #unpopularopinion, but I loved the slow, snowy, homage to winter that was this book.
❄️ A personal goal is to find more time for art
❄️ Today, I am grateful for vacation days…
Of which I will be taking one tomorrow 😜

#WondrousWednesday
Thanks for the tag @Eggs ! 😘❄️

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#ConflictedWorlds

Day 17 - #Supernatural

Only one of these is still on my TBR

Next up on this sunny Sunday in Sydney is a cup of tea, some apple tea cake & a book that‘s been on my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom since 2014. I came across the movie last night & with a few exceptions, thoroughly enjoyed it before remembering I had bought the book after seeing it for the 1st time. Really hoping it‘s just as magical & sweet.✨

#AWintersTale #DecemberSong @Eggs

Years later and I'm still not sure how I feel about this book. So much potential, but I didn't really enjoy reading it, and yet I think about it all the time (seriously, it takes up so much space in my brain).

It‘s cold and rainy outside today so my afternoon is all about hot cocoa and finishing this book. 📚✨

☃️ Something dark, like horror or non-fiction about natural disasters, like climate change.
☃️☃️ Normally I'd say grilled cheese sandwich, but I've given up bread, so I'll pick a nice beefy spicy chili.
☃️☃️☃️ Clear & Sunny 42/28
@audraelizabeth @WatsonReads @ameliashley

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

🖤🖤

📸: Google images

A great city is nothing more than a portrait of itself, and yet when all is said and done, its arsenals of scenes and images are part of a deeply moving plan.

#FirstLineFridays

1. Yes
2. Sometimes. Not as much as I‘d like.
3. Snow and colder weather. I breathe better in the wintertime.
4. Coffee, and hot cocoa.
5. This is on my TBR. Planning on reading it soon.

#ThursdaySurvey

I really thought I would love this book, and now I‘m just disappointed that I invested so much time in it.

Really beautiful writing. I loved the first third or so... then it went off the rails, started to redeem itself, and finally fell flat. I don‘t mind verbosity, I like historical fiction with magic and romance, and I love a good, sprawling story. This book has those elements, but they did not come together in any meaningful way. 😕

⭐️⭐️

I‘m struggling... this a big book. I am supplementing with audio to help get through the giant paperback.

It‘s had funny parts, and I was enjoying things quite nicely, and then BAM. Everything changed and I‘m not even halfway through and it‘s wholly different characters and omg what is happening here.

🤪🤣

Should‘ve been magical but was just overeritten

This is hard to review. It‘s true the book is long-winded but the writing is gorgeous & the book can be read as an expression of the author‘s love of language & NYC. More of a story would have been nice. Peter Lake (great character) breaks into a house he thinks is empty only to discover it‘s not & he falls in love with Beverly Penn who is dying. I would have liked more Peter & Beverly, directly, & less of other characters. Good not great read.

After enjoying a brief foray into this week‘s new comic releases, it‘s back to the tagged book which I‘m enjoying even more than I expected to. Good Thing too since it‘s a big one!

Diving deep into my TBR stacks for my next read. How deep? Well, I‘m fairly sure I got this book around the same time the movie came out in 2014. So umm, this book has waited almost 5 years for me to take it off the shelf. I‘d say it‘s about time!

#MusicalNewYear #day1 #SeasonsOfLove I do have this book in my #MountTBR shelves but buggered if I can reach it atm! This is a rare case of movie before book for me, I absolutely adore this film, if you ignore Russell Crowe‘s overacting it‘s a sweet & sad time shift love story set in the beginning then the end of the 20th century in New York, between a thief & a upper class lady dying of consumption.❄️🗽Lovely story plus it‘s Colin Farrell!😍

#AWintersTale #WinterWonderland I have not read ... picture looks enchanting ♥️💙

Snuggling up post-festivities is one of the best parts. #merrybooksmas

#WinterWonderland #awinterstale
@TrishB @Cinfhen
I've seen the movie but never read the book on this one

Hmmm...beginning to suspect this book is nonsense. 12 year old tatooist of rich Chinese women? Bonkers mythology?

As if being sick as hell didn‘t put me in a melodramatic mood already, my PCP‘s office is, literally, in a Belle Epoch “high rise” building. #toopretty #consumptivemaiden

A new perspective that reading has brought to this privileged child: what happened to the people who came to U. S. Customs between 1880-1920 & were turned away?

Cozy winter nights ❄🔥📓

How cute is this card + these Harry Potter pins. ⚡️#secretsantagoespostal

This is one of my all time favorite books!

😂😂😂

(Seen on FB)

#bookmail from the wonderful @MeganAnn ... I just love my #LitsyGoesPostalOG people ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks so much, Megan!

About half way through this audiobook 📖 very different from the stuff I normally read but I‘m liking it so far. And I‘m really wanting to see the movie after this 😊
#audiobook #winterstale #booktomovie

It's probably silly to ask, given how I can't seem to read more than a couple of chapters of prose per day right now, but I'd love to find a thick book as weird and wonderful as WINTER'S TALE. Any suggestions? #30daysofreadathon

All the freaking stars! 👏👏 I loved it! Might be my favorite of the year.

I'm in love with this book. ❤️

I'm in the mood for something atmospheric and beautiful. I think this is supposed to be magical realism, I hope so! I need to be carried away. It's massive so I'll audio and book. #currentlyreading #audiobook #audiobaking

My haul from today's library sale!!

BEST book with the WORST movie adaptation? Like so bad you beg people not to watch the movie before reading the book—or watch it ever? For me, that distinction goes to WINTER'S TALE. I loved this epic, atmospheric novel so much (and apparently the Audible version is marvelous). Just please, for the love of all things literary, read the book. So much—too much—is lost in the atrocious 2014 movie (in my humble, grumpy opinion...sorry movie fans). 🤓