Thank you @WilliamMorrowBooks for this beautiful bookmail. I am even more excited to read this after finding out that it takes place in Nebraska and the author and I both live in Omaha. #nativeNebraska
Done with work for the week. Now to get ready for #24in48. I think this is my final TBR, but it is so hard to choose.
Hour 12 Challenge. This book definitely changed my world view. It is so effective in describing the horrors of having to flee your home and try to build a new life in a new country. #24in48
Dewey Readathon photo challenge day 6: In the Wild. It has been so hot here lately that I haven‘t been able to read outside at lunchtime and it is making me cranky 😡 #deweyjuly #readathon #reversereadathon
Dewey Readathon photo challenge day 5: A Green Book. This one saved me during the 24in48 Readathon in January. Every time I needed a boost I would read one of the stories from this collection. #deweyjuly #readathon
#deweyjuly photo challenge day 4: Best of 2018 so far. This book is a solid 5 star read that really stands out against the perfectly fine, but average books that I have read so far this year. #readathon
Dewey Readathon photo challenge day 2: Favorite Book. If my house was on fire this would be one of the first things I grabbed. #deweyjuly #readathon
Dewey photo challenge day 1 #Shelfie. (Also a reminder that I am really behind with shelving new books 😳). #deweyjuly #readathon
Happy #readathon. I won‘t get close to 24 hours in today but I am hoping to put a dent in this chunkster.
Oh my gosh, I didn‘t think I was going to make it but finally after four attempts I got the full 24 hours in just under the wire 😱
Happy #readathon to everyone participating! @24in48
Great deal for this ebook. This book is great one of my favorites of 2017
Just started this book and it is amazing!
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is here in my hands. And a week early!!
pickBook number 2 for #deweysreadathon. What an interesting book. I loved the history and the story of a strong badass woman!
Some of the women writers on my #readathon TBR, plus one that I recently finished (This Must Be The Place) that I loved so much that I am tempted to turn this into a Maggie O‘Farrell readathon. #thereadingwomen
so-soJumping into the #readathon by finishing up this one. It is a bit like Invisible Monsters meets Ready Player One.
Well my goal was 12 hours so I feel pretty good with my progress. My brain definitely reached a point where it needed a break. Thank you to everyone involved behind the scenes and everyone who posted the last couple of days. I loved reading everyone's posts 📚💖💖Can't wait until next time. @24in48
"I don't know what this book is about. I know that as I wrote it I was angry because the bad guys always win. Maybe all books are written simply because in every game the bad guys have the advantage and that is too much to bear"
pickSo good. I know that I will re-read several of these essays. It is the perfect book to read today before heading out to the Women's March in Omaha tonight. First book finished for #24in48 #readathon
pickThis checked a lot of boxes for me, folklore, art, ambiguous ending, siblings. (Also checked off my choice for "W" for the #LitsyAtoZ challenge).
Hopefully this will keep me sane while watching the debate tonight
Bookmail! So excited to win this one from Goodreads. Can't wait to start it!📬
"I had all kinds of made-up hooks I'd have used to snag her. If Rebecca wanted to know what my interests were, my hobbies, I'd say I read books, and if she wanted to know which, I'd say it was personal. I'd say to me, reading was like making love, and I didn't kiss and tell." pg. 99
"I recited the lines to myself. Something in them moved me. I tried to put the feeling into words: "It is like a gentle kitten is licking the inside of my heart. "
"The point is the that the city of Kyoto has declared itself open during the war years, which meant that the Japanese promised, and promises were sometimes listened to during wartime, that there were no military facilities within its walls." pg. 99
pickEntertaining Read. I thought that it was kind of slow in the middle, I would have preferred more about the individual crew members and the Berlin Olympics than the training and constant changing of members of the crew. Once they leave for Berlin, it picks up again and finishes strong (which I guess is appropriate considering the crew's racing style).
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves." pg. 99
so-soI think this was a case of being over-hyped. I have heard so many people say that this is such a great book that I was expectIng something spectacular. It is good, don't get me wrong, but, I was expecting to be blown away and that didn't happen.
pickFinally finished this one. It was really good once I got into it. It definitely is not an easy, light read, but it was worth the effort. Marlon James does such a good job of sucking you into this world - one night everyone in my dreams had a Jamaican accent - that it is a little unsettling to spend so much time with so many unsavory characters. I can see myself thinking about this book a lot in the future.
pickFinally finished this one. It was really good once I got into it. It definitely is not an easy, light read, but it was worth the effort. Marlon James does such a good job of sucking you into this world - one night everyone in my dreams had a Jamaican accent - that it is a little unsettling to spend so much time with so many unsavory characters. I can see myself thinking about this book a lot in the future.
"Not something treasured and loved; something they might miss but would not grieve. No need to tear another hole, even a pinprick, in their lives."
"May I say, in all sympathy and love, that of all those who have passed through the veil since I have been here, not one has passed into Paradise leaving behind in our hearts the certainty of that future life more fully and realistically than was the case with your dear boy."
"Rooster took a step forward and gave the wallet a kick. Wow, did it ever slide. Right under a stack of risers. Like a hockey puck. There were the keys, alone now, underscoring the absence of the wallet. Yikes. "
My reading buddy Copper. I was going to try an audiobook while walking him today but it was way too hot to walk very far. #24in48 #readathon
About 100 pages in and I am starting to really get into it. Not sure I would have had the patience if it wasn't for #24in48 Readathon. We will see how I feel when I am still reading it tomorrow night📖
"Mabel stood and walked behind the girl, pausing for a moment to take in her fragrance -- fresh snow, mountain herbs, and birch boughs. Mabel allowed her hand to slide along the back of the chair, her fingertips barely touching the girl's hair. Perhaps it was not a dream after all."
So I am thinking of starting this during the #24in48 Readathon this weekend. It sounds like it may take a big chunk of uninterrupted reading time to really start to get into it. Any Lovely Litsters have any suggestions for the best way to get the most from this book?
"The other guests were straggling up from the lake by now and as they appeared I was introduced (by Siggy, who remembered my name) and so I shook the hands of the Woolfs, Huxley and one if the richest women in England. "
"In the city, their apartment overlooked the Hudson River, but the patio was dark most hours of the day, pointing as it did into the cold backs of several taller buildings."
#funfriday. Usually I am of the "whatever is lying around is my bookmark" school of thought, but I do love this bookmark that I got on a trip with my sisters. And it is actually a really good bookmark, it rarely falls out.
"Rosina speaks, off the stage, if such a woman can ever be said to be off the stage, with an odd slight, I suppose Welsh, accent which is all her own."
