I read the fiction part first, and now there is no way to redo and try it anew beginning with NF. I do NOT have advice (other than to say that the print does have note on copyright page in front of NF side…) I honestly had to go review my notes on Biography of X to recall if I liked it or not, maybe ‘respect and being intrigued by‘ is positive enough. As to 💭 on this one, I found it fascinating. #Nov2025 Book 108 #ToBLL26 #ToB #Library

I love when books link: The Portable Veblen had some passages about relationships as well as philosophy “there is no past and no future- only now” and this book also explores existentialism.

Bottom image: “I was living so intensely in the present that the future had no meaning.”

In snapshot upper left: “even the copy on the peanut butter jar tried to offer advice— Separation is natural—“ 🤣

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1️⃣ My xmas cards using this pie image arrived
2️⃣ Family Thanksgiving (hub is missing from pic 😂)
3️⃣ We had 5 pies for 10 people!
4️⃣ Holiday Lights!! 🎄✨
5️⃣ Copper‘s Gotcha Day, 3yrs with us, he‘ll be 6 soon

Is this the front cover or the back? I am so conflicted about which end to start 😆 #ToBLongList26 or is it 25? Ack #ToB #MemoirVSFiction #Both!

Quirky ✨
I learned stuff; about Thorstein Veblen, squirrels 🐿️ , many vocabulary words… I think it would be a great discussion book with only your quirkiest friends maybe 🤔 I guess I enjoyed it? #Nov2025 Book107

And OH! How APPROPRIATE to post this on THE most capitalistic kind of day!😂😢 (Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption”. Also, the Veblen Effect: the more expensive an item, the more the hordes want to buy it.)

Loved it! I cried; it‘s rather heart-breaking 💔 LOTS of pie mentions! Strawberry Rhubarb, Pecan, etc. #LitPie

One thing I will need to find a print copy to look up the MC‘s address while in college: was it PI Street? Pie Street?

Library can have it back now. 4.5 ✨ I immediately put Writers & Lovers on hold. #Nov2025 Book106

These are the books I am taking to Thanksgiving 🍁

Theo and Mobius on 14 day loan 😳
Heart the Lover expires today 😱
Parable of Sower on request for MONTHS 😩

Guess I‘ll have to be rude with the family; I‘ve got books to read!!! 🦃🍽️🥧 < 📚 🤣

“Just then, a squirrel 🐿️ spiraled down the heavy trunk of the magnolia, nattering across the spotty lawn in fitful myoclonic jerks.”

had to look up myoclonic and I‘m now wondering if fitful & myoclonic together are redundant.

Copper would rather find the humor looking out the front door. I enjoyed reading this, but I think it was about 30-40 pages too long. “Figure it out already, Daphne” #Nov2025 Book105 #Romance

* After Kenyon *
By Jeanne Griggs, her latest, just published, not yet here in our Litsy database, too impatient 😂

Next up for my #PoemADay challenge; note also my bookmark listing every collection title since I started this personal project. By Jan 1 of 2026, that makes 365x5=1,825 poems! Probably more, I often can‘t stop at one, tho I missed some (not many!) days too.

“It‘s all a poem, if the letters in the alphabet are in a certain order.”

Copper literally took this book from my hand! He knew it to be EXCELLENT 🌟 Get yourself a copy of this wonderful impressive important collection of poetry. #APoemADay #PoetryMatters #Poetry #DogsofLitsy #CopperBopper #Nov2025 Book104

Had my weekend derailed by a late night text from an unhappy team member. Time to brush up on this and probably one of my “Listen Better” books 😢

Yes, there appears to be a lot going on here. Combo Post! #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. “a half amused, half scandalized smile over overtakes his face OK so I lean into him lift my chin index forehead and we have one of the top five worst kisses of my life….” Drinking G&T in a Massey‘s glass, sitting on the patio, no bugs, fun book, it‘s Friday!
2. Flowers still in bloom: Purple and orange.
3. My attempt to capture Northern Lts
4. WPG tee
5. 🐿️

I‘ve been invited to attend the Board meeting of the Friends of the Library as a guest. Found this in our donations. 😊 It is going to find a spot on my read-someday shelf.

Picked up in the library bookstore, my first EH! After Copper and I walked 3 miles, I needed a fun book with a bubble bath 🛀🏼

Watching football 🏈
Playing with the dogs (dogsitting my niece‘s pup) 🐶
Reading this library book 📕
Drinking wine 🍷
Content ☮️

#Nov2025 Book103 #NonFicNov

My library just informed me that the audio is now available for me to check out!! Squee! A read + listen combo is my favorite way to enjoy #NonFicNov

This was an interesting look at friendship from grade school through the growing up years, college, after that, relationships and children. I am finding it even more to my liking as I think back on these two pals and how their lives diverged and reconnected. #Nov2025 Book102

I can‘t help it, I love her. She‘s badass powerhouse of my kind of Jesus champ with all the goodness and love and kick in the pants, I probably need. If I had a lil angel on my shoulder, let her be the good witch KC!

#Nov2025 Book101 #NonFicNov

Overall, a fun read. Color me impressed! I am willing to read the next book. But it was wobbly at the beginning, our MC is tough to cheer for - she is mean! Thankfully, she comes to realize attitudes can be changed. #Nov2025 Book100 🌟💯🎉

📸 Look at this incredible mailbox!! 📬

Happy 🎃 Halloween

I am bailing on this; the mood/tone and impending sense of doom has me scrambling for air and sunshine. I did an internet search for spoilers so I could know what happens and now I am glad that I will stop reading this. #hailthebail #lifestooshort #timeforacozyhappybookplease ! #Oct2025 Book99

All due to @xicanti - here we go!

I have had this book on my tbr since reading Gone Girl and seeing that the author has lived in many places that I, too, have lived. Today, I looked at my Libby for audios-available-now and decided this title works for this time of year. 🗡️🎃👻🔪

Such a good boy! #CopperBopper #DogsofLitsy Finished another on the goal to 💯

I listened to the first half and was able to tear through the second half in print (found it on the library clearing out for sale table - I will put it back! 😆) #Oct2025 Book98 #BookClubBook Mild pick, interesting (and very sad) US history, not sure execution of plot was entirely successful but an okay read. I am curious enough to read more by this author.

Reposting for @Bookwormjillk

Who‘s looking forward to November?! 🙋🏻‍♀️
#NonFicNovember #TodayILearned #NFN 🗓️

New book in the house! Arrived by media mail today from @amyrabbitt in NC. Not sure when it will be in the rotation for actual READING; will try not to lose it to the shelves of somedaytime 🕰️ (Cool 😎 that she sent me her bookmark 🔖 of notes 📝)

A friend insisted I read this. The library comes through once again.

Next up audiobook, for book club.

📸 Finally made the Quince Pie! Quad of the filling, the top crust, then eggwash + sugar dusting, then final bake. Thought it turned out nice - will see later how it tastes. 🥧

🎩 hat‘s off to the author 👏 THIS IS SO GOOD! The audio is extremely well done.

#Oct2025 Book96

So is TODAY a good day to pie? Uh, maybe. First step: prep the quince ✔️ Baked at 350 degrees for 20+ minutes according to an internet search 👀 🔍 🔦 and now in the fridge til I get around to doing the actual pie 🥧
🫤

I love this murder pie series! Involves a sequestered baking competition TV 📺 show; our MC works her magic to expose the truth.

#Oct2025 Book95

Does the photo make you think, “Mmmm, pancakes sound yummy right now.”? It does me.

Soft pick, my favorite bits were the sometimes very funny lines and barbs and dealing with situations with a sense of humor, but. BUT, - and this is on me -, because I didn‘t realize it was a romance? Do I feel kinda stupid that I went in blind and didn‘t read the blurb? Yesssss.

#Oct2025 Book94

The weird fruit in the upper half of this photo are QUINCE and my hope is that I can make a pie out of these strange delicacies. And I started this book, second in a series - the first was really fun! Even if a bit … unconventional? Evil? Yep…

Absolutely loving this one! Pie in the first minute or two?! One of the characters is reading Crossing to Safety ?! Good stuff. Absolutely LOVING this so far.

📸 uh, lilacs are blooming? (Oct 18, 2025)

On way to go kidsit my grandnephew! Very possible that I will soon be reading a kids picture book of a green truck instead 🚜

#Oct2025 Book97 #ShortStories

I‘m so sad that I couldn‘t find the appeal in this European Groundhog day experience. I do not think I will be reading on. It took me forever, I stalled 20% in, finally got a bit caught up in some of the poetic paragraphs but powered through only because I admire y‘all and it‘s due back at the library tomorrow. I feel as trapped as the MC. Happy Red Wine 🍷 Day

#Oct2025 Book93 Note: my wedding anniversary is Nov 19. We will celebrate 37 years?!

Well that was a lovely and fast read! The conclusion of the Harold Fry Pilgrimage series; and though this one might stand okay on its own, it is helpful to already have an impression of who Maureen is and why she is prickly. ✅ #Oct2025 Book92

📸 Monarch on the Zinnias

Here Copper, pose with this book. Good boy 🐾

I laughed quite a bit but there is a lot in this that can‘t be laughed at. Journalist checks out, goes off grid, until his family needs him. The world is spinning out of control…

I will read everything Jess Walter writes.

Next audiobook, actually current audiobook, and they just mentioned apple pie… And also an onion Galette. #pielit 🥧

#iLovePie #PiePoetry

#Oct2025 Book90 (tbh, this one was boring. And it didn‘t really have pie. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

#MondayMood {{{hugs}}}

Sort of historical fiction? Based on true events but entirely fictional characters. Overall a pick, only very tiny silly things annoyed me (you do not just boat home from an island off Connecticut to Provincetown MA in a couple of hours! You just don‘t!! And one convo really didn‘t “sound” right - like, why would she respond with “why?” at a particular admission, blahblahblah) - overall SOLID. I will read more by this author. #oct2025 Book89

“I can‘t bring you back to life, Hannah,” he said. “You can choose to live again, or not. But I can make you remember what it was like to be alive.“

Oo la la ❤️ Reading while football 🏈 on TV 📺

Raise your hand 🙋🏻‍♀️ if you are a fan of Ballerini!! How and why this book title came first to mind when I checked my Audible credits, I may never know but seeing who narrates? SOLD! And then I see Ann Patchett blurbs it. 👏 👏 👏

I enjoyed this historical fiction story of Veronica discovering her ancestors, her birthright, her place in the family, and her strength.

📸 Veronica flowers taken off google image search, uncredited. #Oct2025 Book88 #LitPie

At the library picking up books… #sigh #AbundanceofRiches #toomanybooksnotenoughtime
#translation

(Love it when the blurbs on the back of a book feature some of my favorite authors ✅

#Sep2025 Review! Favorite is West With Giraffes! Ten books for the month, 1 poetry, 1 book fulfills requirements to complete TWO reading challenges, 4 nonfiction, 2 stories (perhaps 3) based on true events, 2 by foodie authors, 2 children‘s books, 5 mention pie; only 13 books to read to reach my 💯 books by year end! Happy October Dear Friends 🌟

Apparently, one benefit of joining the Kansas City Public Library is this “Lucky Day” feature. I am not one to read “popular” books very often (the ones churned out by authors whose names appear on book covers in bigger font than the title 🙄) but perusing through the offerings, I found a Martha Wells! Squeeeeeeeeeeee

Look what my library just done did! Gave me notice of a whole slew of titles now available on Libby!!!! VERY exciting 🎉 Happy (?!) Banned Books Week! #LibrariesMatter

I bought this for myself in a fit of “the world is a dumpster fire I need some joy please” 🥧