He looks very serious. Do you think he‘s trying to tell me something? #morningvibes #catsagainstpoetry #catsoflitsy

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Reflecting on this week I really only did one thing that matters. I haven‘t lived through an election that felt this important. If you‘re in the US please vote! 🗳️💙✊🏼

#WickedWhispers #Lantern @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#WickedWhispers #TheUnknown @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#WickedWhispers #Candy @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#WickedWhispers #Tombstone @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#weirdwordwednesday @CBee

#verify #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Dark @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#verge #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Zombie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

Even in spooky season this is always what I think of first when someone says the word zombie. Plus I love this song, and it seems appropriate to the moment we‘re living right now.

https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts

#verdict #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Spells @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#WickedWhispers #Howl @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#verbal #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Cadaver @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#5JoysFriday @debinhawaii

1. A New Year filled with new possibilities 🍎🍏🍯

2. Livestream services at the Shul I used to work for 🕍💻🧎‍♀️‍➡️

3. Cedric and Cassandra are being good company while I recover from getting updated Flu and Covid vaccines 💉🐈🐈‍⬛

4. Starting to get into the Spooky Season vibes with #hashtagbrigade‘s Dracula read🦇🧛🏻‍♀️📕

5. Spin Day! 🗓️🎲📚

#voracious #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Disguise @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#WickedWhispers #Bats @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

#weirdwords #weirdwordwednesdays @CBee

I love those moments when you realize the stunningly obvious meaning of a word that you were somehow oblivious to your entire life, like “sour cream is *sour* cream!”🤯

George Johnson narrated one of those new connections for me this week and it made me super happy 😃

I love Spin Day!!!!! @TheAromaofBooks Thank you for giving me something exciting to wake up to! Looks like this is shaping up into a month of rereading for me since #Doublespin is a group read, and I‘m joining #hashtagbrigade for Dracula which is an old favorite, and #Bookspin is a seasonal mood read and I recently picked up a copy of The Turn of the Screw, another old favorite, with this amazing pulp cover so it feels like fate to reach for that.

#venture #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#WickedWhispers #Pumpkin @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

Bring on October! My favorite month of the year!#bookspin and #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

I‘m so excited to start reading Dracula today with the #hadhtagbrigade crew!!!! This little copy with its somewhat uninspiring cover says it‘s a B&N collector‘s library edition, but I can‘t remember them having a cloth bound pocket classics line and I have no memory of how it came into my life 🤷🏻‍♀️ Mystery aside it‘s one of my much loved volumes and I‘m thrilled to dip back into it 🖤 @BarkingMadRead

#vent @TheSpineView

#SchoolSpirit #Desk @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ReadAway2024 Update: Of the 11 books I finished in September 5 were from my own shelves. 45% is good for me with all the mood reading I‘ve been doing lately, but I‘ve also been out of control with book buying, so I predict that in 3 months my number of owned, unread books will actually have crept up. @DieAReader @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES

#venom #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#SchoolSpirit #Lunch @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I rarely predict what books will stay with me or end up one of my top reads of the year, but this one will do both. I was especially impressed with how Orringer mixed historical fiction closely tied to research to shed light on a niche pocket of this history, with invented characters and scenarios to represent broader themes that were occurring all around them at the time. Looking forward to reading more of her work.

#SchoolSpirit #Paper @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#vengeance #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

I‘ve always meant to read this one and I‘m glad #bannedbookweek inspired me to finally pick it up, it really is as powerful as everyone says. Johnson‘s story does a wonderful job of illustrating how even if you‘re lucky enough to be surrounded by loving family and friends, being part of a marginalized community inescapably increases the chances that trauma, violence, illness, abuse and mental health struggles will affect your life.

#venerable #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. If you sit still long enough you start to see beauty in the unlikeliest settings.
2. I saw a new mural on my drive through town
3. Surprise (to me) fireworks visible from my rooftop.
4. #Sundaybuddyread!!!!
5. Mabon - it‘s now officially my favorite season!

#SchoolSpirit #Crayon @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#velvet #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

What didn‘t work for me - I didn‘t learn anything new about self care either in general or for ADHD and I can already tell I won‘t remember most of this even though I jotted down a few notes. What did work for me - It goes into a wider range of symptoms and behaviors and the science behind them that I‘d heard before, and since it‘s often hard to pinpoint what is causing a specific pattern or symptom it was interesting to consider in that light.

#TLT @dabbe

My takeaways from this list:

1. There are a lot of books this list that I don‘t actually remember if I‘ve read or not, banning them definitely seems like more trouble than it‘s worth.

2. Who banned the King James Bible? I don‘t get that rationale coming from any political agenda. 🧐

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#SchoolSpirit #Backpack @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I can see this is her first novel. It isn‘t polished like other things of hers I‘ve read, and you can see from these vignettes why it makes sense that she goes on to write novels, short stories and nonfiction, which is pretty unusual. There‘s plenty to criticize here, but I enjoyed it enough that I want to pick up another of her later novels. (& I definitely want to see the film version, which will be an instant cult classic 🙃😂) #hashtagbrigade

#weirdwords #weirdwordwednesday @CBee

I got annoyed after needing to look up 3 words in this 11 line poem this morning, and decided the poet was being pretentious and not achieving the tone he was aiming for🙄😂… but the word clepsydra struck me as really cool, and I‘ve actually always wondered how water clocks worked before, so time well spent in the end

https://poets.org/poem/time-1

#vein #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#SchoolSpirit #Homework @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#veil #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#SchoolSpirit #Poems @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#vehicle #poetrymatters @TheSpineView

#SchoolSpirit #Bicycle @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks