#Two4Tuesday
1. Yes. I am the type of person who has a plan A, plan B and plan C. I make lists, maps, schedules, etc.
2. I am currently rereading a book from childhood called Tallahassee Higgins. This book is filled with things not going how Tallahassee planned.
@TheSpineView
pickA child that has superpowers and as soon as she starts to walk, she becomes a blur. How does the family deal with her. This is a second grade reader book. #ISpyBingoJuly @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
One of my closest friends (pictured) received news that his mother has terminal cancer. He‘s amazing & so is she.
She had him when she was 16. She worked to give him & his 4 younger brothers a full life. She‘s 54-years-old, & a hospice nurse. She lost her mom young & volunteers with kids who know that same loss. She teaches yoga. She goes zip-lining. She dances freely & grows beautiful flowers.
There‘s a GoFundMe to help with medical bills.👇🏻
pickI‘ve been hearing huge praise for this book for about 15 years so I think my reading experience suffered a bit from sky high expectations. But it is charming, with some lovely nature writing and the relationship between the little girl and her elderly grandmother is touching. Sophia Jansson‘s delightful afterword underlined the strength of the connection, both to the people and place. The photo is an outer island in the Stockholm archipelago.
The dark wood was green and gold, green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen twisted trunks, red-gold where the great smooth beeches lifted their branching arms to the sky.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
I have the day off and would love to spend it reading…but every book I pick up feels wrong for the moment.
What I *want* to be reading is tagged. Unsurprisingly, for how my (and every sane person‘s) luck is going right now, I can‘t find it at any bookstores or libraries near me. I can‘t even buy it on Amazon. ?
It‘s described as “a short, brittle book" & "an oddly satisfying jumble" featuring several of Jansson's recurring tropes…??
pickEnjoyable memoir of a girl growing up in India in a large family that was very much into English ways also. Includes recipes too!
1- sunrise
2 - farming - village- school
#two4tuesday
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@TheSpineView
pickI understand why this is such a beloved book. Strange, beautiful, grotesque, contemplative… for a book that was under 200 pages, it will stay with me for a long time. 💗
