It's been ages since I've posted here but I just started this last night and it's so good. Thought you'd want to know. 😉

I've found myself in the car traveling back and forth from Chicago to Cleveland quite a bit lately. On one of this trips I listened to this book. Noah's explanations of life during and after Apartheid and the history of South Africa were interesting and horrifying but he tells his stories with love and humor. Highly recommend you listen to this one.

This book was fantastic.

These Biden/Obama memes are everything.

Has anyone read the new Megan Kelly book? I'm intrigued but I'm kind of at peak outrage right now...

I've been off Litsy for a bit busy with work and kids and focused on this election. Time to refocus on the things that make me happy. This community is one of them.

Got a trip to the bookstore in the weekend and grabbed these signed copies. #signedsundays

Just finishing this up on my way back home and I'm ready for it to be over. Just so overwrought and the protagonist is a bit of an idiot (maybe quit drinking and pick up the phone). Not loving this one.

Ann Patchett is hilarious! Had a great time at her book tour event last night.

Squeezing in a little lunchtime reading. #currentlyreading

I wasn't quite ready to let go of the Wimseys so I picked up this one that Dorothy Sayers started and abandoned and which was subsequently finished by Jill Paton Walsh after Dorothy Sayers' death. It was OK but definitely lacking the spark the other books have.

Certainly no one would accuse Mrs. Burroughs of being mother of the year. #worstparents #octphotochallenge

These books have been in my TBR pile for several years and I'm so glad I finally got to them. These are two characters who are equally matched and I loved seeing them work together and figure out how to be together.

OK, I'm ready for Harriet and Lord Peter to figure their $#*% out now.

Catching up on yesterday's #longtitle challenge. This is an odd little children's book by John Irving and was first part of his novel A Widow For One Year. My kids still talk about it.

I'm choosing Locke and Jean who are each other's #bestsidekick for today's #booktober challenge.

A #memorablememoir about #disastrouskids and also one of my favorite books. To tell of a childhood filled with tragedy with such humor and compassion. What a book. #booktober #octphotochallenge

Lord Peter Wimsey is adorable. So happy to have made his acquaintance. #currentlyreading

My #firsteverlitsypost about a book I'd just set aside. I wonder how @Victoria_C 's third attempt went. #booktober.

I'm stumped by the #80stoyinbookform challenge so I present for your consideration books by two '80s playboys. #bestIcoulddo

#fullofadventure for me definitely means a fantasy series. #booktober

Best #antihero? Lymond. Obviously. #octphotochallenge

An excellent #debutnovel. #booktober

I so rarely have a proper bookmark but turning down the corner of a page is inconceivable. #boomark #booktober

I'm changing my answer to the most anticipated read question from the other day because I just read that Arundhati Roy is publishing her second book. Cannot wait. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/03/arundhati-roy...

Making time for Lord Peter Wimsey.

This was really slow to start and I nearly stalled out on it completely. The story did pick up in the second half but I never really connected with the characters. So-so read for me.

A fascinating book about Pablo Escobar #setinsouthamerica. #booktober

Now that it's fall I'm ready for an epic. I can't believe I haven't read this yet. #mostanticipatedread #booktober

I read or listened to nine books this month but this one was my favorite. #somethingforsept

If we're talking #shortstories, you have to start with the master. #somethingforsept

Books with maps are the best. #somethingforsept

Pretty.

Hannibal Lecter. And he's not even the killer! #favevillain #somethingforsept

Working my way through this one and it's not nearly as compelling as Room. Hoping the pace picks up a bit in the second half.

This is a wonderful series that I tore through in just a few days. #couldntputitdown #somethingforsept

If I vote early will this election be over?

My lovely sister got this book signed for me for my birthday last year. Confession: I never finished it because I'm immediately turned off by books set during WWII or which are about WWII or have anything at all to do with WWII. It's irrational and intellectually I know I'm missing out on some great stories but I can't seem to get over it. Anyone else have an irrational book bias? #signedsunday

I've never understood the thinking that goes "this offends/confuses/frightens me so you can't read it either." #bannedbooks #somethingforsept

You guys! I was so good at the bookstore. Only one of these is for me 😉.

A good reminder to be kind. #somethingforsept

It's a bit gloomy out this morning but I won't have many more days to #readoutside before the garden is filled with snow rather than flowers. #somethingforsept

Finished this audiobook on my way home tonight. I love her descriptions of Kenya but found the depictions of Beryl's relationships with men a little too melodramatic. I did like the alternative look at Denys Finch-Hatton and Karen Blixen and her relationship with both of them. Ultimately a pick for me.

As usual with Charles Frazier, the writing was excellent, but this book was too scary for me to finish. I wish I knew it all worked out OK for that little family in the woods. #scarybooks #somethingforsept

I love Geraldine Brooks and this is my favorite of her novels. It's set in 1666 in a small town in England during a year when the plague ravages the village. It's told through the eyes of a housemaid who tends to the sick. Exquisite storytelling. #recommendsday

A few #translatedbooks from my shelves. I thought The Dinner and Blindness were incredible. The other two are still to be read, but I've heard great things about them 😉

A few #translatedbooks from my shelves. I thought The Dinner and Blindness were incredible. The other two are still to be read, but I've heard great things about them 😉

I'm not quite sure what I just read but I'm glad I read it. I must say, that was the most erudite fetus I've ever come across.

I'm not quite sure what I just read but I'm glad I read it. I must say, that was the most erudite fetus I've ever come across.

Set not so much by the sea as under it. It's the fictionalized account of Chappaquiddick incident as told by the young woman in the car. #setbythesea #somethingforsept