1. ZORRIE ♥️
So so good.
2. Coming Home by Brittney Griner
#TWO4TUESDAY
1. ZORRIE ♥️
So so good.
2. Coming Home by Brittney Griner
#TWO4TUESDAY
#SpringSkies
I have to go with Zorrie for my #FavBkOfMarch 📚Read for #SundayBuddyRead it was an unexpected delight. 🩵 As I mentioned in my review, it will be a definite 2024 favorite for me.
#WeeklyFavorites
I know I have until the 30th for my next #WeeklyFavorites , but none of my current reads are going to displace Zorrie. Such a beautiful story.
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD @TheBookHippie
#ReadAway2024 #AwesomeApril #readathon
Finished last night for #SundayBuddyRead this book was a surprise for me. A quietly beautiful telling of the simple life of a resilient woman. Short in pages & it deserves a slowly savored read. Thanks to @TheBookHippie for choosing it & hosting it so well. It will be one of my favorites for 2024. Lovely.
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
This was the book I needed to read 🧡📙🧡
I‘m so grateful you all went on this beautiful journey with me. I‘m so very glad we read it slowly and took it all in!
A lovely breath of fresh air after last month!
Bring on MAY 🤞🏻
Happy SUNDAY ♥️
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Life slowing down
Zorrie resting more and seeing friends who passed before
Interesting way to end the book?
♥️a link to crabapple blooming from Sarah @Sargar114 ♥️
https://www.littletonco.gov/Community/Visit-Littleton/Parks-and-Trails/Trails-in...
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
The fair
TULIPS
AMSTERDAM
ANNE FRANK
Seeing the place her husband died…
Closure?
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Sheriff asks Zorrie to watch over Noah
Which she does with so much food
The descriptions!!! Yum.
Noah
Rejects Zorrie
“My heart is the same as an upside down flame.”
He loves Opal, still.
He makes her a glass bird
….
Sigh
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
A fire
Noah‘s trying to get to Opal..
Is he a little off or desperate?
Opals real story we get at last …
Interesting ?
I love this book! The cover is great too. It‘s a quiet, beautiful story about a life lived fully with grace and goodness ❤️❤️❤️
This is beautifully written. I would never have found / read this on my own.
#SundayBuddyRead @TheBookHippie
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
A bittersweet story of the triumphs and sorrows of life, and how we try to pick the pieces up after the sorrows; the friendships we make along the way that dampen the sorrows and amplify the triumphs.
#SundayBuddyRead
#LitsyLoveReads
This is exactly why I love letting other people pick some of my reads! You could seriously never have described this in a sentence or two in a way that would‘ve made me think I wanted to spend a month savoring this novella, but I would have been wrong. This was exactly what I didn‘t know I needed, wanted, was looking for right now… #sundaybuddyread
This was so good. The #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD group has our final discussion Sunday so I won‘t say much here.
It is beautifully written. Short but had a big impact. Thank you for picking this one, @TheBookHippie
#BookSpinBingo #readyourebooks #Roll100 #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
The beauty of this book is in its simplicity. From its beautiful cover to our titular character. A short read that follows the life of Zorrie. It is beautifully written and is incredibly efficient. I highly recommend! Delightful read for #sundaybuddyread and overlaps as my #doublespin!
I had really spotty coverage Friday through this morning so I‘ll be catching up on posts, #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD discussion from yesterday, #FreebieFriday spin winner, etc.
I have a ton of posts over the past 3-4 days to read through from this lovely community.
#BakerStreetIrregulars #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD #SeasonalCozies #LitsyLove
This quiet, unassuming novel is beautifully written and tells the story of Zorrie. Zorrie sees tragedy, heartbreak, but also joy and love. Her community is one of acceptance and caring, and Hunt‘s writing makes their quirks come to life. The narrative may be short in length, but the pages pack a punch. #SundayBuddyRead
#52BookClub24 #LowercaseLettersOnTheSpine
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Now we finish it 🧡
I‘m glad for the slow pace to really take this in. It‘s quite beautiful.
I thank you for joining me in Sundays 🧡
Any clue how this ends?!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Ruby dies…
Caves …
The aunts affect on Zorries life..
And NOW WHAT ???!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
A new record player- lol PAT BOONE🎶🤭
Blueberries
And a visit to Opal
Opal
Talking to Noah about it
He knew she would go …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logansport_State_Hospital
https://www.in.gov/fssa/dmha/state-psychiatric-hospitals/logansport-state-hospit...
https://www.visitindiana.com/listing/longcliff-museum/626/
https://www.in.gov/fssa/dmha/state-psychiatric-hospitals/logansport-state-hospit...
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Hello ghost girl
Janie dies
The cemetery all the other girls
Still glowing
So she knows
And wonders the affects on her
She keeps the box
Doesn‘t bury it
What?!?!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
PART IV
Crops trees birds butterflies
Four leaf clovers
Canned ham and green beans
Canned dill pickles
And a gentlemen caller..
Who sees all 👀
So, thoughts ????
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Virgil Alzheimer‘s ..dementia..
Noah his caretaker
A puppy!
Puppy antics
Reading aloud
Suppers with Ruby Virgil Noah
Oats & Virgil
Then Virgil dies
Zorrie inherits the book..
Montaigne https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montaigne/
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
HOPE
Zorrie seems to maintain ways to keep it alive, whether she knows it or not. Think it‘s innate or is she just surviving ?
To try to go to Chicago and land in Michigan at the lake.
Oy. I can commiserate…😬😂😵💫🤷🏻♀️
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
PART III
Bessie & Gus die
MONEY
New fields
Interesting the form her grief takes?
👩🏻🍳 https://www.lanascooking.com/wprm_print/20240
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
See you tomorrow!
Zorrie loses her parents at a young age and so begins the story of her life. I couldn‘t stop reading after finishing this week‘s section. #SundayBuddyRead I loved this short novel. 5 🌟
@TheBookHippie
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Places in the Heart is on Netflix 🙃
I‘ve not seen it since the 80s
Apparently my reading and visual life is farming 😂😅
See you Sunday … 🤫🤐🤫
This was beautiful! I can‘t wait to discuss with everyone!
📚 A to Z= Z
📚 #sundaybuddyread2024
📚 POP= set 24 years before I was born
1. I am off to Denver for a week with my daughter who has big plans for us….cleaning out the garage. 🤣
2. The mountains
3. I am in Colorado in the Rocky Mountains and it‘s getting ready for anow tonight. 😝
@Cupcake12 #MotivationalMonday
#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
1. Dr appointments, physical therapy, visiting my daughter
2. My backyard, patio, fire pit, Sherlock exploring 🐶
3. North Carolina. 86 degrees and sunny 😎
4. One of three current reads
Thanks for the tag @Eggs
Want to play @Gissy @AmandaBlaze @kelli7990
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
The prose is beautiful …… sigh
Happy Sunday ! I love the slow pace of this month. I also love the slow read of this to soak it in and contemplate it. I think it‘s the better experience for this book.
I thank you for joining me ♥️
On we read 🙃
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Part two
Harold
Marriage
Farming life
Multiple miscarriages ( This blame the woman then and now makes my blood boil)
War
Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57409/epitaphs-of-the-war
Harold dies
So visceral it all is…
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
PART I
We meet Zorrie and get her back story. What do you think of her childhood? Her Aunt 😵💫
Is this writing lovely or what ???
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Radium plant
Hard to read in hindsight …hard to read her having it with her…
https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-01-25/the-radium-girls-an-illino...
https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/radium-girls.htm
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/
https://www.historynet.com/radium-girls-vs-us-radium/
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
The first L Chicago talk made my heart swoon 🏙️💙
https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-by-l/sidetracks/history-l
https://www.chicago-l.org/history/
https://loopchicago.com/in-the-loop/then-and-now-a-brief-history-of-the-chicago-...
😊🏙️🚊
This cover (library book) while not as colorful/ beautiful as the other posted with @TheBookHippie ‘s discussion questions, is sparse with gray to green hues which seems representative of Zorrie‘s life so far. “out of this shadow,into this sun” epigraph, says it all. Just loving this book.
#WeekendReading
This weekend I‘ll be reading sections in the tagged book & The Second for #SundayBuddyRead & #SheSaid respectively. I‘ll also be finishing up The Secret of Red Gate Farm for #NancyDrewBR my #Roll100 audiobook Murder on Cold Street & Bad Blood.
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL
See you SUNDAY FOR PARTS I&II
🤐🤫
https://quaintcooking.com/2020/04/08/the-history-of-pineapple-upside-down-cake/
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/i-made-the-1926-recipe-for-dole-pineapple-up...
🍍🍒🥮
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
Zorrie Underwood had been known throughout the county as a hard worker for more than fifty years, so it troubled her when finally the hoe started slipping from her hands, the paring knife from her fingers, the breath in shallow bursts from her lungs, and, smack dab in the middle of the day, she had to lie down.
1. Tagged book
2. No…I never pre-order books.
@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday
Via @thebookhippie
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2719594
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL
Everyone welcome!