pickWhat a lovely story of how so many peoples' lives are changed, in both big and small ways, by Nightingale Books, the little Bookshop in the town of Peasebrook. When Julius Nightingale passes away, his daughter Emelia comes back home and temporarily takes over his bookshop. Everyone in town stops by to make sure Emelia knows how much her father and his bookshop meant to them.
#LitsyLoveReads
#ReadAway2024 #AwesomeApril Readathon @andrew65
#WeeklyForecast
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop
📚 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
📚 May #BookSpin
📚 May #DoubleSpin
📚 Mother's Day Murder- May #SeasonalCozies
📚 The Manhattan Girls- May #SundayBuddyRead
#SpringSkies #2BksWSimilarTitle
In this case, I found 6 books with the same title- I've only read the London Calling by Sara Sheridan.
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickAndrea Morales moves to Portland in the 90s to escape the constraints of her hometown in Nebraska. In Portland, she feels free to live her life as a lesbian, and has the support of the family of friends she meets there. Then she meets Ryan Coates, the drummer of local band The Cold Shoulder, and everything changes when they have an affair.
#LitsyLoveReads
#ReadAway2024 #AwesomeApril Readathon @andrew65
#SpringSkies
Just wanted to give a shout out to a few other books I enjoyed with #Secret or #Secrets in the title!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#SpringSkies #Secrets
This is a favorite book of mine, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a favorite author.
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BookReport
📚 Stray City- still reading
📚 Naughty in Nice- finished
📚 Resurrection Walk- finished
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- finished
📚 Zorrie- finished
pickA bittersweet story of the triumphs and sorrows of life, and how we try to pick the pieces up after the sorrows; the friendships we make along the way that dampen the sorrows and amplify the triumphs.
#SundayBuddyRead
#LitsyLoveReads
pickLady Georgiana vacations on the Riviera and finds herself in the middle of several crimes she must solve in order to prove her innocence.
#LitsyLoveReads
#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#ISpyBingo @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick
#5JoysFriday
🌸 flowers blooming in my yard
🌸 one of our neighbors has bees, and I got a bottle of the honey this week and it's so good!
🌸 swimming in my pool, and floating in my pool reading a book (also, listening to yacht rock while swimming and floating 🎶)
🌸 I got my membership card and lots of great bird information from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
🌸 that it's Friday!
#debinhawaiii
pickMickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer) represents a woman who had been convicted of killing her ex- husband, a police officer, 5 years before. She insisted that she was innocent, and with Harry Bosch's help, they decide to take her case.
#LitsyLoveReads
#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge: Josie Packard @Yuki_Onna
#WeeklyForecast:
📚 Stray City #BookSpin
📚 Naughty in Nice #DoubleSpin
🎧 Resurrection Walk
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate
📚 Zorrie #SundayBuddyRead
#BookReport
📚 Stray City- still reading
📚 Midnight in Austenland- finished reading
📚 Naughty in Nice- almost done
🎧 Resurrection Walk- almost done
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- still reading
📚 Zorrie- trying to catch up with this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead
#5JoysFriday
🌸 my husband will be home tomorrow from a week-long conference!
🌸 listening to the Somewhere in Time soundtrack
🌸 finishing a puzzle
🌸 that @TheBookHippie shares journal prompts each month
🌸 swimming in my pool
@DebinHawaii
#WhatsNewWednesday
🐈⬛ When I got home today, there was a surprise package from my mom with these adorable magnetic bookmarks! 🐈⬛
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4Life @TieDyeDude
so-soThis was definitely not as good as Austenland, but good enough to listen to while I was working on a puzzle.
#WeeklyForecast
Finish this week:
📚 Stray City #BookSpin
🎧 Midnight in Austenland
📚 Naughty in Nice #DoubleSpin
📚 Resurrection Walk
Start this week:
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate
Keep reading:
📚 Zorrie #SundayBuddyRead
Saturday morning #coffeeandabook ☕️
#BookSpin
pickA colonel and his wife ask Phryne to check on their daughter, who they worry is being poisoned by her husband. Phryne travels to Australia and finds herself investigating not only the situation with the colonel's daughter, but other crimes as well, including a drug ring involving a Russian ballet family.
#BookReport
📚 Cocaine Blues- finished
📚 Stray City- still reading
🎧 Midnight in Austenland- still listening while working on a puzzle
📚 Resurrection Walk- still reading
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop- haven't started yet
📚 Zorrie- read this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead
#5JoysFriday
🌸 sitting outside listening to my windchime and the birds chirping, watching the bluebirds fly back and forth to the new bluebird house where they're building a nest
🌸 spending a little time most evenings drawing simple little pictures/designs or practicing hand-lettering (I am no artist, lol!)
🌸 my cat Smoky
🌸 getting a text from my friend Cara, who I've known for over 40 years
🌸 coffee! ☕️
@DebinHawaii
#WhatsNewWednesday
🐦 A couple of bluebirds have discovered the bluebird house I just got over the weekend, and have made a nest in it.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
#WeeklyForecast
Finish Reading:
📚 Cocaine Blues #ReadOrDonate
📚 Stray City #BookSpin #ReadOrDonate
📚 Midnight in Austenland 🎧
Keep Reading/Start Reading:
📚 Resurrection Walk
📚 How to Find Love in a Bookshop #ReadOrDonate
Read this week's discussion section for #SundayBuddyRead:
📚 Zorrie
My manatee stamps got here today! Where I grew up, Snooty the Manatee was a local celebrity that we were able to visit. Here's an article about Snooty and why we love manatees where I'm from: https://bishopscience.org/remembering-snooty/
#LitsyLove
I'm not sure if I'm feeling ambitious this weekend, or feeling like I don't really know what I want to read. 😂
#BookReport
📚 Resurrection Walk- still reading, but slowly
🎧 Midnight in Austenland- mostly listening while working on a puzzle
📚 Cocaine Blues- started reading this because Naughty in Nice isn't available at the library yet
📚 A Brew to a Kill- finished reading
pickI always enjoy the Sloan Krause mysteries, and even this short novella didn't disappoint! Sloan and Garrett are looking forward to the spring farmer's market and working on some collaborations with local businesses, a couple of infuencers, and the beer they brew at Nitro. When a visiting hiker dies at the local hostel, though, Sloan and Garrett help Chief Meyers figure out what happened.
#WhatsNewWednesday Sitting on my patio listening to the windchime and the birds chirping in the distance.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
So far, I've only got one book on my #ReadOrDonate list for April, but I'm sure there'll be more as the month goes on!
@julieclair
And even though I don't even usually get even one Bingo, I like to make a Bingo board each month anyway, and it helps me pick what to read. 😁
@TheAromaofBooks
#WeeklyForecast
📚 Resurrection Walk
📚 Midnight in Austenland
📚 Naughty in Nice
📚 A Brew to a Kill
pickThe Royal Spyness series book#4: Lady Georgiana is asked to attend a royal wedding to represent the Queen, and finds herself trying to solve a murder in a creepy old castle in Transylvania that she's convinced is full of vampires.
#LitsyLoveReads
#MarvellousMarch Readathon @andrew65
#ISpyBingo @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick
#TwinPeaksReadingChallenge: Twin Peaks @Yuki_Onna
#LitsyLove Read Every Day in March
I didn't set a specific goal, and didn't keep track of total pages read, but I read every day this month. 🌸
pickJo (the one with muscle), Nessa (the one with intel), and Harriet (the one with secret weapons) won't back down when local officials refuse to believe a string of deaths of young women are anything more than drug overdoses, so they take on the task of looking into it themselves.
#LitsyLoveReads
#ReadAway2024 #MarvellousMarch Readathon @Andrew65
#BookReport
📚 Royal Blood- a little over halfway through, and I'm really enjoying this one, book #4 in the series
📚 The Change- almost done with this one
🎧 Resurrection Walk- just started, mostly listening to the audiobook while working on a puzzle
🎧 Austenland- finished, it was a great book to listen to while working on a puzzle!
