Happy Halloween Everybody!🎃🧛👻🧙🏻♀️🦇
Happy Halloween Everybody!🎃🧛👻🧙🏻♀️🦇
AZ. has early voting, I voted today with a heavy heart . I am one of the holdouts that loves to vote in person ON Election Day. I hate that I had fears of people acting up or worse at polling places , that I might be disenfranchised on the day. If you had told me a couple decades ago that thoughts like this were even possible, I would have said no. This is a big one, please vote .
I have nothing in common on policy with Liz Cheney and don‘t get me started on her dad . In this moment, where she picks country over party she‘s my hero. A well written book with a bullseye view on the dangers of not defending the constitution & details of January 6th that could only be told by her. A memoir & a warning indeed! Go VOTE 🗳️
As I clean the guest room so it is suitable for guests I had to take a small bookcase out (never fun) I still am obsessed with these little Booksellers stickers they used to put inside the books. How can there be so many books in a small bookcase ? 5 boxes ? Really?
#WickedWhispers #Haunt My current spooky read . Slow build, liking it so far .
#WickedWhispers #Lantern This DK book is loaded with self sufficient skills that people like my grandparents were familiar with. That is why they saved everything, you might be able to fix it or use it as parts to make something else. I swear Grandpa could fix almost anything with duct tape and baling wire !
Enough vacuuming! We need to relax it‘s #caturday night ! Dusty is just gonna sit on the cord!
#CatsOfLitsy
#SundayFunday Unfortunately, I seldom seasonally read . I just have too many books going to make a plan for a holiday book. But even with my reading droughts this year I‘m gonna try to get to the tagged book that‘s been around since 1979 and is considered to be top notch in the scary category! 😁😬👻
These bums have convinced me to start the weekend a little early. 😁😻
#WickedWhispers #Bats I read this first in the Harry Hole series and enjoyed it . I haven‘t gone on with the series probably because I‘m in the middle of several series right now.
#WickedWhispers #Gruesome McNamara was obsessed with this case . So unfair she didn‘t live to see him caught .
#WickedWhispers #Pumpkin Though the weather is NOT turning to fall in Phoenix, some new additions to the Halloween decor! A dear friend got me the 2 pumpkins , cat & pumpkin was a Home Goods find!
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#SchoolSpirit #Lunch In high school we still had a cafeteria, but we also had a walk up window fast food style with picnic benches outside. Not sure if it was made by Deli Express back then but it would be embarrassing to know how many of these Chuckwagon sandwiches I ate while in High School!😂
#Booker an odd one ,but I liked it?A bit of a thriller w/ a woman for hire infiltrating a eco-terrorist group. Kushner adds so many ideas, philosophy, anthropology, w/ the main character having a hey, I‘m just doing my job kind of attitude.The scene that recalls a character finding a dead German soldier, taking his helmet, inherited his lice was intense. I can see why people bail, many layers in this one. I thought Flamethrowers was overrated.
#SchoolSpirit #paper An oldie but a goodie. Why we need good journalists who go beyond the obvious, beyond the propaganda.
Absolutely sick ! The fans turned out , despite the anger & pain . John Fisher SELL! Son of the Gap founders and Bay Area native, SHAME ON YOU!
Having a bad reading year , a tough year in general. I don‘t need Goodreads making me feel bad about my reading goal so I reduced it! Thanks for the suggestion @dabbe months ago ! I feel better already! A different kind of #hailthebail
I have yet to finish his Septology series , my reading brain is finding it hard to finish anything so took in this slim volume. I liked it the first grouping is very much like what stands out in a child‘s memory. A middle section about a dog is fantastical tw below. The 3rd segment about a boy & girl 4 & 3 how they get in trouble, much from the point of view of the 4 year old brother. Powerful descriptions.
#SchoolSpirit #Poems This book of poems has been in print since 1916. I have fond memories of it from grade school, a teacher selected it to expose kids to poetry, see if they were interested in exploring more. I don‘t think it‘s ever been out of print, most libraries have at least an e book copy. It‘s also in the Internet Archive.
As seen on X aka Twitter! 😁
I‘m in a reading slump yet I run out & get this right away. So not in love with the cover. My excuse to go to the bookstore was Halloween card shopping!🎃
#SchoolSpirit #Play A selection of plays from my collection. I was straining my brain trying to remember what plays were performed in my high school, I got nothing! 😁
#SchoolSpirit #Team John Irving was a wrestler in prep school, he also coached. An example of how your real life can inform your fiction, several of his books have characters who wrestle. Playing catch up , busy week!
#SchoolSpirit #Band my dad LOVED marching bands ! Me, not so much . Still , brings happy memories thinking of him. https://youtu.be/bl6U3QATtoc
1.tagged ! well, cheating a bit, I finished it July 31st & liked it more than anything I read in August .
2.Paper though do read ebooks , like my audio mostly while driving.
3.Mysteries & literary fiction. Mood reader , I‘m all over the place.
#WondrousWednesday
Play , people, play!😁
#SchoolSpirit #Essays I love Virginia Woolf ! There are many fiction writers who earned a lot of their living writing essays for magazines & journals.
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#TuesdayTunes when American Graffiti came out it was some young people‘s first exposure to 50s & early 60s music .The film had bit parts for the then not well known Harrison Ford & Suzanne Summers. What stands out from the Big Chill, Rolling Stones “You can‘t Always Get What You Want” could be considered a key song in the plot. Not uncommon in that era for a group to allow it in film but not the soundtrack. To garner sales for their album?
#SchoolSpirit #Paint Gabriel Allon is an international spy , but let‘s not forget his other job as a gifted art restoration specialist! 🎨
My friends mom made me these adorable bookmarks! She still spends a lot of time with her needlework well into her 90s.
I got this book when it first came out but since it‘s short stories , easy to read one or two then set it aside. I liked some more than others, one is more a novella. What always charms me about King ,he‘s always a craftsman with his writing, and delights in the details that bring characters and places alive.Long live the King !👑 This is the first day in months that Phoenix hasn‘t suffered record heat , it‘s almost driven me mad .
Someone was bad on Bookshop.org . How is that downsizing going? 🙄😬
#Two4Tuesday
1.That‘s hard ,love all museums !
MOMA NYC , The Art Institute Of Chicago
2. Tagged title. a fun book about coffee, friends, and a little artifact that gets lifted from the museum.
Everyone play !
I don‘t think anyone could put more good information in a fun & entertaining package than the guys from Pod Save America! Valuable tools about being a more informed voter, becoming a volunteer, canvasser, phone bank person, or even being a candidate. Went to the show in Phoenix Saturday, fantastic! https://youtu.be/p60qbA9iWv4
#SchoolSpirit #BoardingSchool I watched this fairly recently. It uses a common scenario, people finding themselves stuck , nowhere to go for the holidays, but find they may actually have more in common than they think and may have things they could learn from each other.
Wow! This is #6 in the Will Trent, along with evil acts perpetrated on women you might assume nobody is looking for ,you learn more of Wills background.Also, it flashes back to Evelyn Mitchell & Amanda Wagner in the 1970s trying their best to be good police officers when women basically were not wanted by the old boys club of policing. So much going on in this one .
#SchoolSpirit #Library a challenged book about two young people who meet and fall in love in a Japanese internment camp. It‘s a wonderful book .
#SchoolSpirit I was living in Tucson at the time Lute Olson turned UofA into a #college basketball powerhouse! Still on my TBR , may get to it before the new season.
The postage for 3 Ounce mail is Saul Bellow !
#Two4Tuesday
1.Good friends & family. Also, meditation ,I can tend to add stress to situations,often I recognize the need to pause .
2. Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird.
Consider yourself tagged if you want to chime in.