Twins provide valuable research opportunities in the areas of biology, law, psychology, sociology, and environment.

#Indivisible

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I participated in the 4th of July parade with American Heritage Girls and their color guard, with kids on decorated bikes, parents/grandparents, city council, fire department, and police officers. In the pouring rain we marched with rain gear, greeting those who stepped out on their porches to wave 🇺🇸
However the fireworks show has been cancelled due to rain☔️Also 2 pix of glorious clouds this week!

#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

"There's nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

-Bill Clinton

#StarsAndStripes ❤️??????❤️

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Today I‘m grateful for a quiet peaceful life with no one telling me what to do, financial independence from a long working life, and living by myself with my own decisions 😌

🎶Stand By Me🎼 by Ben E. King

#Loyalty

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Most of us are mysteries unto ourselves, and part of our lifelong quest is an effort to understand our authentic selves and our purpose.”

A delightful afternoon read! It‘s 1931 and calling themselves the Queens of Crime, 5 mystery writers (including Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers) band together to test their prowess at solving a recent murder of a young nurse named May Daniels. HF 5🌟

#Read2025
#Bookspinbingo

Easy read, and part of a series maybe? Setting is Nantucket at the Whitley Hotel, about the lives and relationships of the staff and their families.

#Read2025
#Bookspinbingo

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks

“No matter how hard I try, I can't escape him and our secrets. I tell myself it's only one lie, but…”

Soft pick-dual timeline 1996/2021. I stayed interested to find out what happened in the end, but the writing was less than stellar.

#Read2025
#Bookspinbingo

@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks

#Bookspin is The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall-Smith

#Doublespin is Game of Cones by Abby Colette

#Bookspinbingo

@TheAromaofBooks

Amor Towles or Flannery O‘Connor

I would ask them about their childhoods, their best friends, and what most influenced their writing.

Happy Wednesday! Everyone is invited to join *

#wondrouswednesday

@Eggs

Smil explains how manufacturing became a fundamental force behind America‘s economic, strategic, and social dominance. He describes American manufacturing‘s rapid rise at the end of the 19th century, its consolidation and modernization between WW1 and WW2, its role as an enabler of mass consumption after 1945, and its decline. Penguin Random House

#MadeInUS

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Though I read 63 books, at least 15 were novellas under 50 pages. 9 of the 63 were part of series. Page total was 11,752.

#Read2025
#Series2025

@DieAReader @Andrew65

I like to do brief reviews here on Litsy, though I do record and give star ratings on GR.

How about you?
Happy Tuesday Littens!

“I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.”

#CanadaDay Canadian author

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

A Gentleman in Moscow

#sundayfunday on Monday!

@BookmarkTavern

Play? @Meshell1313 @Blueberry @kspenmoll

Merry Monday and Joyful first week of July 💙🩵💙

Since I retired, Monday is muted for me! I will be reading a backlog of #BOTMs this week and enjoying family and fireworks as well. what about you?

“This is your Monday morning reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.”
— Unknown

#MellowMonday @Eggs
Tagging a few-

“You weren‘t best friends. Not like some moms and daughters.” Did we need to be best friends to entitle me to grieve? If that was true, why did my blood feel like wet concrete churning through the barrel of a mixing truck?”

This book was just right and so good!

#Read2025

@DieAReader

My personal favorite ❤️

#Sportscar

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.”

#Camera 📸

#JuneSpecials #Read2025

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @DieAReader

Dual timeline 1936/1978 - NY MET, Cairo and Luxor

All the stars 🌟 for Fiona Davis. I do enjoy her author notes and research, and a “See Also” list.

#Read2025 @DieAReader

Setting: LosAngeles/Hollywood postwar McCarthy era. Three women of different backgrounds navigate challenges: one is a DP from WW2, one a screenwriter, one an actor suspected of communist activity. Includes the 1956 devastating wildfire in Malibu. HF

#Read2025 @DieAReader

#Foodie

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“It is these moments that bring an ordinary life into the realm of the extraordinary. It is these moments that are doorways from a life lived to eat and drink and sleep, into a life lived to do monumental things.”

Another winner from Dave Eggers! MG story also for grownups, in which a family named Flowerpetal with 2 kids moves to a town called Carousel 🎠, where strange things are afoot…

#Read2025 @DieAReader

1 & 2 it‘s been a wonderful week for clouds

3-5 3 audiobooks I finished this week

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Play? @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @kspenmoll @quietjenn

“There is no map to paradise. There is only the dream that such a place exists, as does the desire to possess it, and the determination to find it again when it's been lost."

#Sunglasses

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“How extraordinary it is that so much before our eyes is upside down. Flower seeds buried in the ground rise up to grace the branches of a thousand trees. The moon hangs high in the heavens, but its light sinks to the bottom of countless waters.”

Unusual book, but important!

#Read2025 @DieAReader

💛🩵💛

Read/listened to these free-from-Prime novellas in the last few weeks: creepy, creatureey, horrifying, (and a couple of bizarre) unique stories. Most memorable was The Indigo Room.

#Read2025 @DieAReader

Happy Wednesday at almost Thursday!! Thanks to all who played last time🩵

1-honesty, loyalty, kindness
2-between the ages of 30 and 45! I was happily married raising 3 daughters
3-The Long and Winding Road, Beatles, Let It Be album

https://youtube.com/shorts/nBGvy30Suyw?si=KHnSPYw3FIOUY8u2

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Not exactly #chocolatepudding but even better - French silk pie! 🥧 Heavenly!

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

ATTENTION: Due to error, this ⬆️ is the correct & updated version of #JulyJazz

Are you ready for July?? 6 days away🩵 July symbolizes summer, freedom, and celebration. It's the heart of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Hope you will join us in a red, white and blue month. Post a book, poem, song etc that matches the daily prompt! Tag us and others if you like❤️

#JulyJazz

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LitsyEvents

#Beatles. 🎼 Here come the Sons 🎶

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Well, we are the stars", Joan said. "And the stars are us. Every atom in our bodies was once out there. Was once a part of them. To look at the night sky is to look at part of who you once were, who you may one day be.”

A PICK. But not sure if it was of the same caliber that I usually expect from TJR…the relationships were good though. And I found myself rooting for Joan, Vanessa, and Frances-truly great humans.

#Read2025 @DieAReader

Shapiro is a common-sense writer who relies on scientific research. I was hoping for more recently published essays (this was written 2019) but many of the ideologies and inconsistencies of which he speaks are still relevant. He sees “America as the story of a nation founded on eternally good and true principles, principles only fully realized for many Americans at the cost of blood and sweat and death.”
#read2025 @DieAReader

Not to be confused with Canada Day on July 1, this Canada Day celebrates all French-speaking Canadians - also called St Jean Baptiste Day. 🇨🇦

#Canada

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

At a time when Japanese Americans were being herded off to remote “camps” during WW2, this account explores the fighting heroes: Japanese American men and their sons who volunteered to fight for America in France, Germany, and Italy. Well written.

#favoritesofjune

#Read2025 @DieAReader

So many significant quotes!

Here‘s one “Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” NYT

Solid pick, extraordinary. Beautiful memoir💖

#favoritesofjune

#Read2025 @DieAReader

June ‘25 #BingoBlackout

@TheAromaofBooks

Favorites: The Right Call, Gamechanger, TheRivals - all by Tommy Greenwald; and You Could Make this Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 🩵

#Bookspin: Carson the Magnificent
#Doublespin: Akimbo & The Crocodile Man

I got a little ambitious….dont know if I‘ll get all these read for July!

#Bookspin
#Doublespin
#Bookspinbingo

@TheAromaofBooks

#Pink

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Kissing

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#haikuaday 6-22-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

#haikuaday 6-21-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

#Music

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

1 popsicle boy 🧒🏻
2,3,4,5 Books/novellas I read this week—all great. Amazon Originals (free) scores again 👏🏻👏🏻

Everyone is invited to play

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will occur on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 10:42 p.m. Eastern Time.

#SummerSolstice #JuneSpecials #haikuaday 6-20-25 #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Haiku “Rain‘s Fury” by K. Balachandran

#Whoosh #PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

In service from 1943 to 1991, this ship (Lady Lex) sits in the bay at Corpus Christi. Often called the “ghost ship”, it was converted into a floating museum and it is awesome.
#haikuaday 6-20-25 #haikuhive 🖤🐝💛

@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @Mimi28 @lil1inblue
@Itchyfeetreader @Jari-chan

From Birthday
By Robert William Service

#Whoop

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

“Freedom was a long time coming, but it was mighty sweet."

#Juneteenth

#JuneSpecials

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks