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YES SHE IS RIGHT
#mountTBR
OK OK. Chesterton. I understand you predate the whole C.S. Lewis allegory juggernaut (I think). Seriously though. Is...what are you doing? Is it a Narnia adventure allegory, but for boys who wanted to be Inspector Lestrade? Or accountants? I am very Daniel Craig Knives Out about this.
#classicsivebeenputtingoff #MountTBR
I love that the Ransome Swallows & Amazons books are on Hoopla, I love that my library caved & joined Hoopla, it's awesome. This old-school children-roughing-for-the-heck-of-it British holiday stuff is what my brain needs right now.
That said. You guys. These kids are making my anxiety spike every other chapter. 😰
Listening to this on Scribd audio b/c i'm too impatient for the e-library hold to come in - listening in 10-15 minute fits, and loving the (kind of difficult) west-African-accented narration, and it's **GOOD**
I'm only 20% through. 🤯
Maybe cliche? but I finished this series about a group of 4 young track team members by Jason Reynolds this year, and it was so well worth it. I needed to hear those different voices in YA as someone who loves lots of classic YA literature (but it's nearly all about English/white kids).
#blackvoices (from @shyBookOwl)
ALSO this year some good ones (tagging below) 🔽
OK I didn't think this would be as interesting as it is, from some mixed reviews I read - it's very sparse of dialogue but it's working. Fable-like. I'm only 28% finished but this is encouraging.
#ReadHarder #readharder2020
I will admit. I was not prepared, on finally reading this (it's been on the list for years), to have it parallel a 21st century pandemic/quarantine lockdown & the varied reactions to it so faithfully. YIKES. (60% through)
Can‘t quite believe it but I have a lineup for the #readharder challenge sooooooo. Here goes! yes I know. It‘s mid-February 🤓🙄
#readharder2020 #bookriotchallenge
HEY I'M ALIVE 🤗 Just wanted to put this link out in case anyone is still looking for 2020 reading challenges, b/c this masterlist seems to have something for everyone:
https://www.girlxoxo.com/the-master-list-of-2020-reading-challenges/
#readharder #2020challenge
Just realized I've been spamming Twitter/insta w/ my !!!! about this book but I forgot Litsy! THis is just DELICIOUS & accessible & fascinating, the freshest but most lucid take on modern language change I've ever seen.
#becauseinternetbook #linguistics #nonfic2019
I'm reading 2 delightful short books at the moment and it's nice. It's really nice, and restful.
(Also reading a Shakespeare history play and mideast spy history and fanfiction, because i cannot help myself. But having short sweet books is a wonderful break in all this.)
HOMG it may be the jet lag talking, but i forgot how hilarious the english novel of manners can be 😂 😂 😂
1. Reading multiples again 🤷♀️ tagged book (yay Streatfeild), Reduced Shakespeare, Captain America Castaway in Dim. Z if I get to it tonight
2. Captain Marvel!!
3. Ovaltine, or ye standard black tea, strong with milk
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
This is from yesterday but I love this anthology already! I remember this one from school. This sonnet was written about (and is somewhere inscribed near) the statue of liberty. #Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
I didn't really read #poemsbeforephones today, but it's been a reluctant slightly midlife crisis-y morning because I'm turning 40! And the sweet Litsy people sending bday notifications is a really nice start to the day 💞💕💞 thank you all so much @LitsyBirthdays @Cinfhen @mrp27 @robinb @Librarybelle @JessClark78 @Crazeedi @Eggs
I did not have any idea about this history of Ray Bradbury. 🤯📚 #libraries #nonfiction2019
I read a bunch of poems from my Galway Kinnell collection this AM but none are really quotable ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So here's the last of the Neruda instead!
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
This really is a delicious book. I'm slower getting through this, bc it is demanding both attention and savoring from my ADHD brain.
#nonfiction #libraryhaul
Wow, finished this collection! There were a lot of gems. It's "early" Neruda so I'll have to look up more of his work later.
#Poemsbeforephones #poetryreading
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
I left this in my mom's car after our movie date today augh! #weekendreading #interrupted
Neruda on a militant artichoke. 😊 #Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
OK, a decision has to be made, and I'm making it for my own good.
Zafon, you have a gift, but now is not the time for me to appreciate it. I just. there's too much to read.
#whatsoproudlywebailed
I read several poems this morning and there was nothing eligible to post! 😬
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood
Hello cute side of Yeats
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana #poetrymatters
This is one that's been on #mounttbr for so long, and it's a CHONKSTER and I will. not. be intimidated. Come at me book!
#librarydeadlinemotivation
It's been a long day and this fish. is sending me
#comics
Showing its age, but here's today's non-sad Yeats
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
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#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana
There's a lot of prose in this poetry book! But it's all still lovely. This is the last poem and Oliver does not disappoint. 😁
#Poemsbeforephones #poetry
@monalyisha @cocomass @Redwritinghood @DivineDiana #poetryreading
I'm initiating a new hashtag to knock some sense into my completionist soul. Bailed on 2 books already this year! This is not failure! This is progress!
#WhatSoProudlyWeBailed