I love narrative nonfiction, and In the Heart of the Sea is the best of the genre that I‘ve read in a while. The story of the shipwreck and its survivors is riveting, and I also found myself very interested in the brief history of Nantucket. For a story from the early 1800s, it has a lot of relevant things to say about racism and classicism and family. Very highly recommended.

#tfob22 #tfob

I am so thrilled that the Tucson Festival of Books is back after a 2 year absence. It‘s a wonderful event, a source of great pride for the city. ♥️ #tfob22 #tfob

My #tob22 books in order:
1. The Trees
2. Several People are Typing
3. Subdivision
4. Klara and the Sun
5. The Sentence
6. All‘s Well
7. Book of Form…
8. The Echo Wife
9. Matrix
10. Nervous System
11. Our Country Friends
12. Intimacies
13. Confession of Copeland Cane
14. Libertie
15. When We Cease…
16. In Concrete
17. Beautiful World…
18. No One is Talking About This

At the eleventh hour, I am a #tob22 completist! I‘ve never read every one before; I generally have one book I dislike so much I bail. I hung in this year but I found that I was onto something with my decision not to finish this one during #camptob. For me it was a big mishmash of words and thoughts that didn‘t add up to anything much. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Still, so excited for tomorrow, woohoo! 🙂

#200PnPcovers #PnPcovers #conveyances @CrowCAH

Miss Bingley‘s petty jealousy is delicious. #200PnPcovers #PnPcovers #country @CrowCAH

London was cruel to both Marianne and Elinor. #200PnPcovers #PnPcovers @CrowCAH #city

🤣 #200PnPcovers #PnPcovers #children @CrowCAH

I hope it‘s okay to be weird with the prompts. 😂 I see the word balls and of all the connotations, I think of this book that was my son‘s absolute favorite when he was a toddler. 😭❤️ #200PnPcovers @CrowCAH #PnPcovers

I know I‘m late to this party, but chiming in to say Project Hail Mary is SO good. I‘m reading my very last #tob22 book so picked whatever struck my fancy for my latest listen and this was it. Great pick by me. 😂 The narrator was excellent and the production did a really good job with the alien voice, very clever.

This #Newbery honor book is a beautiful, touching story of two young girls coming to terms with the loss of their baby sister. #ItHadToBeYou #lovelost @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Playing catch up! #ItHadToBeYou #soulmates @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

I don‘t completely understand this book, yet I love it. I was all in for the strange world the narrator inhabited, and in trying to follow what it all meant. I need and want to read it again. Another book I would never have gone anywhere near if not for my beloved #tournamentofbooks! #tob22

#ItHadToBeYou #lovepoem @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

5 #tob22 books and 1 #bookclub pick make up my #FEBtbr list. I‘m currently listening to Our Country friends and reading Subdivision in print. #ItHadToBeYou @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

When my book club chose the 4th title in this series and I saw it was narrated by a dog I admit I thought it would be the corniest thing ever. In fact, I was charmed by it and have now read several in the series. They are really great on audio. #ItHadToBeYou #bestfriends @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#captainkangaroo gets as much credit as anyone for my love of reading. I never missed his CBS morning show, which always included his reading aloud a picture book in its entirety. No moralizing or teaching before or after; the captain read engaging books and let them speak for themselves. There has never been a show like it since. ❤️ 🦘#ItHadToBeYou #FirstLove @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#tob22 progress and opinions.

Currently reading:
Nervous System, nearly finished
Country Friends, just starting

Picks:
The Trees
Klara and the Sun
The Sentence
Matrix
All‘s Well
Book of Form and Emptiness
The Echo

So-so:
Intimacies
Libertie

Pans:
Beautiful World
In Concrete
When We Cease to Understand the World

4 stars for Matrix. I very much liked Marie‘s story and her strength, and the writing was really beautiful. Visions and mysticism aren‘t my things at all; I think Marie had what she needed within herself. But since her visions are part of the meager historical record, I put up with them. 😂 #tob22 #historicalfiction

It‘s another February and time for me to push my favorite Valentine‘s Day picture book! I‘ve read it to literally scores of kids and it‘s always a hit. #SecretAdmirer #ItHadToBeYou @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Beautiful book but with so much #heartbreak. #ItHadToBeYou @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

It‘s been a few years but I really liked this one. #ItHadToBeYou #GroundhogDay @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I honestly wanted to like Beautiful World, but for me it was pretty bad. #ItHadToBeYou #JanuaryStats @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #tob22

My #tob22 picks in order thus far:

1. The Trees
2. Klara and the Sun
3. The Sentence
4. All‘s Well
5. The Book of Form and Emptiness
6. The Echo Wife
7. Intimacies
8. Beautiful World, Where are you
9. In Concrete
10. When We Cease to Understand the World.

Where am I wrong? I can take it. 😂

Matrix and Nervous System are in progress. If I finish everything including the remaining play-ins, I‘ll give No One is Talking another go. 🙂

#tob22 progress!

#tob22 progress report such as it is! 😂 Read 2 and The Sentence and Libertie are in progress. I loved both Klara and Trees but Sentence got my zombie vote even though I‘m not finished. 😬 It‘s so great thus far that I took a leap of faith that it will hold up for me. I have 11 days off at the end of the month and expect to get lots of tob reading in. 🌲

This isn‘t something I would normally read; seems to work just fine as a podcast. But it was a #bookclub pick so I did my duty. 😂 About 2/3 of the “episodes” were excellent and the rest were just okay. Still a pick. #nonfictionnovember

View from my recliner while I finished up Silent Patient. It was good but not great. #catsoflitsy

I‘m just not sure about this dedication. 😂

#readinggoals I have 3 of these on the go and for book club, my friend picked the two plays. Virginia Woolf will be a reread which is fine because it‘s great. I don‘t know anything about God of Carnage. These will probably be it for September. Some count for my ongoing #gilmoregirlsreadingchallenge and #aty2019 #selfimprovementsept

I really enjoy preserving food. Here is strawberry jelly. Next week we‘re going apple picking after which I‘ll can applesauce! 🍎 🍏 #labouroflove #soulseptember #hobby #selfimprovementsept

Sweet, beautiful, simple wordless story about a little girl talking a walk with her father. #adayinthelife #redroseseptember

My kids got so sick of me saying bored people are boring. 😂

Wow, I literally suck. 😂 I read two whole books in August. (Read 10 in July!?!) At least they were both excellent. I did read the grownup version of Hidden Figures, I just liked the kiddie cover better. In my defense, I stepped in a hole some weeks ago and my injured foot has kept me from exercising which has limited my audiobook time. On a more positive note, I‘ll definitely finish Don Quixote in this month. 😬

Word perfect. #africa #letstraveljuly

Love Ian McEwan and I‘m also working on the #1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie list, so clearly I must read this one soon. #hymnfortheweekend #julycoldplay

You'd never know from my staff lounge white board that I work in a library.

I owe Hemingway an apology. I tried to read Old Man and the Sea 30 years ago and found it so dull I gave it up almost immediately. Ever since I‘ve thought of him as a crap writer but I gave this one another try and LOVED it. Such beautiful, spare sentences and such a powerful story about man‘s relationship with the rest of nature. I can‘t square Hemingway‘s respect for all life here with his love of bullfighting, though. 😡

I never missed the TV show as a kid but had no idea it was based on a book. I read it to my kids though and it‘s beautiful. #homecoming #startreksummerjune

This is the only book set in #Miami that I‘ve read that I can think of. I want to try Carl Hiaasen‘s books soon. #songsofsummer

This cover! 😍

I am thoroughly enjoying this one. Delightful! #inthepalemoonlight #startreksummerjune

I have this on my shelf. Like the author, I grew up on Florida‘s gulf coast. I love Tucson but I‘m very sentimental about my childhood home. #soakupthesun #songsofsummer

This is how we do The Three Little Pigs in the Sonoran Desert. 🌵 #retellings #riotgrams

The world was not worthy of the young men and women whose stories are told here. #defiant #startreksummerjune

I love this cover. #summertime #songsofsummer

I have the audio but haven‘t gotten to it yet. It was a bestseller and a film in Japan. #biginjapan #wanderingjune

This book is so cool! It‘s a library copy but it‘s going on my Christmas list. #booksaboutbooks

May finishes. I loved Dolphins, Fahrenheit, Red Clocks, and Marriage. Outsiders and Meditations were okay. #thisisit #amonthofsongs #gilmoregirlsreadingchallenge #bookclub