Feminist macabre stories written in a sort of distant, snarky voice, lots of them as "advice." I did love "How To Be Grown-Ass Lady," which made me laugh out loud in a waiting room.

Readers dilemma: I pre-ordered a romance book by an author I once loved BEFORE she said something belittling to & about me on social media.

Now I'm stuck with the book (ooops) that I'll probably love even though I've sworn off reading/buying any of her books in the future.

Do I read it anyway...? Already paid for it...but she had all the power and was so mean to me...but it's on my e-reader....but moral fortitude...but....

HELP.

Winsome romance with a sweetheart heroine and steamy sex. FTW. Thanks for the rec, @Zelma

I loved this quote--she's right that the "unconscious slight's worse," because it always feels MORE true.

Most recently, A MAN CALLED OVE made me cry. But for years it was this book--and this copy of this book--that made me cry. I read it 55 times in a row in 5th grade before I realized I needed to pace myself or it would lose its meaning. I started a tradition of only reading it once a year, at Christmas time, which I continued until the first year I was married, and I read it aloud to my husband. #riotgrams #BooksThatMadeYouCry

This 13-second video from Boston library is amazing! Where can I get one of these? https://twitter.com/bplboston/status/855059133338406912
#librarylife

I LOVED this book--the voice was impeccable free indirect style and as a result, the character of Ove was developed so well that I couldn't help falling in love with the old curmudgeon. Bring Kleenex for the last few chapters!

Loving this sweet romance...and it gave me another find for the #rippedbodicereadalong #ya #romantsy

Alexie interviewed in NYT about this new memoir out today & said this. Made me wonder if college educated women are the main purchasers of most books in general?

Loved this sweet novella (and went right back into re-reading my favorite @EloisaJames THE DUKE IS MINE. But woe is me, I can't decide which #rippedbodicereadalong category to use. #romantsy

Mr. BG quoted this a moment ago at the views out our car windows

Loving this #audiobook on my #roadtrip

Elena Ferrante gives us the gift of exquisite (sometimes excruciating) close ups full of richly textured detail, alongside a ruthlessness about Elena's inner life. I've never read a book like this.

I am especially glad that I listened to it, as that made some of the names and phrases in Italian more easy to "read."

"She was." Two words that do say a lot, especially about a mom. #rereading

To be fair, no one ACTUALLY laughs. But I do think I spend a disproportionate amount of my life not getting it "right" somehow.

Read it in less than 24 hours because --as usual--it was PERFECT: gutsy, sweet heroine, hunky wonderful hero and plenty of loooooooooooove!

Plus, this book is also a great excuse for rereading BECAUSE OF MISS BRIDGERTON. (😍❤️) AND it makes me look forward to the next one...

Thank you @JuliaQuinn

#romantsy #recommendsday #bestofmay #maybookflowers

So my first Nora Roberts. Except for the first kiss, it was fine (yes, that's damning with faint praise) The inner conflict was really forced/heavy-handed, & the ending was too deus ex machina for my taste. Honestly the wedding business set up was the most interesting element.

I'll stick with Kristan Higgans & Susan Mallery for contemps, and I still prefer historicals a la Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, & Mary Balogh.

#romantsy #readalong @Zelma

Missed yesterday's #maybookflowers - so combining these two.

I think I'm really liking this book--though the wounding parent thing doesn't quite ring true; feels a bit authorial. #readalong #romantsy @Zelma

@Zelma 😄 #readalong #romantsy

Reading this one for dinner. "This will kill that" may be the most succinct insight I've heard or understood in a long time. The author presses us to consider what "that" our "this" (the internet) will kill, is killing, or has killed.

Put here with a table cloth my mother sewed, as she sewed everything in our home for so many years...the question is irrevocably pertinent.

So @Zelma and I are reading Nora Roberts for the first time--together. Feel free to join in! #romantsy #readalong

Love love love this West End theatre romance just as much as I loved the first one -- ❤️❤️❤️ #romantsy

Thank you for hosting gifts, done with school for the year gifts, and special day gifts...lots of reasons to give books and 20% off everything this weekend at my local indie, Prairie Lights. #bookhaul #gifts

I'm on team #romantsy when I'm #introverting -- just learned a little more about my go-to genre from this article (also where I got this graphic): http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7192588 #maybookflowers

1. I plead the fifth.
2. Dog ear
3. Off! I hate those things, except as art
4. Poetry. Though I'd miss Hoffman and Alexie
5. Including covers? Colorful. If not, black and white.

#bookishwouldyourather
@Kalalalatja

This is one of three books I tell my students comes with a "money back guarantee," because I've never had a student make it to the end and not love it--or at least be glad to have read it. Of course they don't buy their books, but the idea has gotten lots of kids to read this powerful work. They like knowing "this book will not waste your time.". #maybookflowers #setinthemiddleeast @RealLifeReading

Compromised into marriage story with an adventuresome heroine who has a penchant for scandalous reading. ❤️

Hip hip hooray for @KarenUK

Love love love OLIVIA books. In the tradition of Snoopy and Calvin and Christopher Robin, this young pig's imagination makes her world a wonderful, big, glorious, and (only sometimes) scary place. #maybookflowers #missing @RealLifeReading

If this is the trans moment, as many folks think, then IF I WAS YOUR GIRL is the trans YA novel. The author and cover model are both trans and the story is so much more than a coming out story. It's about a trans girl living her life. And it's gorgeous. #maybookflowers

Cool idea, @maich
1. Chicagoland
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Harry Potter, of course
4. You've Got Mail
5. Don't have TV
6. Whatever makes me feel like singing
7. Blue 🌊💧💙🌎🦋🐳
8. Romance. I read and write YA, but #YAisnotagenre
9. High school English teacher, author, MFA student, mom
10. A cat named Phoebe

#meetthelittens

The most epic cliffhanger--not a big deal now that the third book is out, but DANG. How she manages to make everything resolved but ALSO leave us hanging? Masterful. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

When your daily tear-off calendar fails, it's best to take your revenge swiftly.

Loving this...it reminds me a bit of ELIGIBLE, honestly. Something about the voice.

Some favorite picture books from that era with my kids--slightly less well known than Goodnight Moon and Snowy Day (which were also favorites), but just as good. #maybookflowers

HOW TO CHOOSE A BOOK: Today in the library, I loved this cover,
then the summary,
then realized it was by Anne Tyler (& swooned),
then thought "This will look good on my GoodReads" (& worried I was hopelessly shallow),
THEN realized it was a retelling of TAMING OF THE SHREW (& got a little skeptical).

Finally I brought it home, where Phoebe gave it a sniff, & I began reading.

#catsoflitsy (her debut) (she knows she's gorgeous)

This is an older book pairing the steamy nights of contemporary regency romances with our beloved Elizabeth and Darcy. So bad it's good for #maybookflowers #sobaditsgood #romantsy

"The ministry has fallen. They are coming."

I've thought about this book more and more this year-- #war in Book 7 is the inevitable outcome of Book 5's blustering, fact-ignoring leadership, which we are living in the US right now. #maybookflowers #litsygetspolitical

The first 2/3 are charming, the 3rd just so so.

One of my favorite books to teach has #peace in the title, even though it's mostly about war--both the world wars and the furious, petty social wars we too often participate in. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

Realized that finding friends on Litsy is as easy as seeing who else loved my favorites, Jandy Nelson and Rainbow Rowell. 😍

I fell in love with this movie as a junior in high school so much that I bought a pair of isotoners and wrote with fountain pens in the hope I could live so passionate a life. THEN I read and loved the book. So thank you #Hollywood for today's #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

RIP my once-upon-a-time #obsession with these books. For a while there, I didn't even want to be separated from them, TRAVELLED with them, and wouldn't loan them out. I hated the writing, but I loved the story--she made me feel the feelings of first love all over again. The emotional point was the whole point, as Cheryl Klein points out. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading

Charming little story with a whiff of magical realism.

I may not survive this #maybookflowers challenge!I'm limiting myself to books I've actually read, am reading, or own. Today I barely made it with this slim volume made for those of us who never want to leave Hogwartlandia. @RealLifeReading

This was the first book I added to my TBR from Litsy --almost a year ago now. And I am loving it now that I finally have a chance to read it. Well done, Littens! Good recommendation! 😍

I "met" Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, and Li-Young Lee for the first time in the pages of this book. It has been fruitful for my life and my work--both writing work and teaching work. Plus it has an apple on the cover. #maybookflowers #fruit
@RealLifeReading

This is a book about how your mom sees you even when you don't especially want her to, and how you often don't see your mom until it's too late. I lost my mom two years ago April (decorative frogs were her thing), and this book is close to my heart. #maybookflowers @RealLifeReading