“What is not good for the swarm
Is not good for the bee.”
Marcus Aurelius

Love is not blind... Love blinds us. It is a thief.

Completely serendipitously I found this book yesterday at our used book shop and I started reading it. I had to buy it because I love History and I love Halifax. Little did I know that today is the 101st anniversary of the great explosion! This book is well-researched and very readable.

Such a sweet colour for this very well-researched and important new book! And it matches my morning coffee so I‘m blissful 😊

Timely...

Just starting this book (with an incredibly beautiful cover), for #ReadAroundtheWorld #Korea is the country we‘re reading for the month of #June . This book is also written by my 'author for the year' Margaret Drabble, so I am hitting two birds with one stone 😁

I‘m at the end of this really great story... loved it!

#readaroundtheworld
#Ethiopia #May

I devoured this book! Ok, I may be completely crazy about Ondaatje (I‘ve read The English Patient at least a dozen times), but I honestly rushed through the first reading of Warlight and can‘t wait to read it again. I read a library copy but I am going to buy this one so I can mark it up, highlight phrases, and make margin notes. I love the way Ondaatje writes- it‘s so beautifully and carefully done. 451 characters isn‘t enough for a proper review

Oh how I love Ondaatje‘s obsession with maps... this is going to be good!

When I can I check out new cookbooks from our library before buying them, (I have 100‘s!), and this is one that I really want to buy! The recipes look so delicious and are so close to my cooking style!

It‘s taking me a long time but I‘m getting there!

Here‘s my #LitsyAtoZ challenge so far! And I‘ve already got the books for the rest of the alphabet. 💕📖💕

“It may be that Books have this reassuring quality because we don‘t really possess them: Books possess us.”

“We read to ask questions.”
~ Kafka ~

“Lovers can no longer be absent, or acquaintances long gone: at the flick of a finger we can reach them, and they can reach us. We suffer from the contrary of agoraphobia: we have become haunted by a constant presence. Everyone is always here.”

Ohhh my this book. This writer. 💙

So happy! Three books that were on my wish list this month but our library doesn‘t have. One was 30% off and the other two were 25% off and I paid for them using my Optimum points (a Canadian thing). All I had to pay was the tax! Yippee!

A pile of the books I picked up at the used bookstore yesterday. Most are for the #LitsyAtoZ and the #ReadHarder challenges!

So I was in Walmart yesterday and curated this Ike of books. I wanted to make one with males but couldn‘t find even one similarly titled book. Hmmm...

“Book regret.” Sigh....

#the bookinyourhands @Kaye

1. I saw Lila for the last time five years ago, in the winter of 2005.
2. 418
3. Cardiologist
4. Nadia
5. White
6. Literary fiction
7. A‘s/talked
8. White
9. EF
10. Years
11. 2013
12. Alice Sebold
13. Yes- just
14. Yes

What a delightful book!

What I have on hold at the library. Also- Circe and one that is ready for pick-up: Children of Blood and Bone.

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Sweet find inside a used book today- someone's book club menu for French Women Don't Get Fat 😁📖😁

Just starting book 3 in this amazing series! I'll take it with me this afternoon when I volunteer at out library's used book store. Can't wait to get started!

I just about did it... 24 in five ... Not quite #25inFive but I finished Beartown at about 8 last night (absolutely enthralling story!) And I didn't want to read anything else after that. Just needed to bask in the writing style of Beartown for awhile. 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I‘m reading the 2nd section for the #LitsyGroupRead of #Beartown today and I can hardly read without tears welling up in my eyes as I think of the tragedy in Saskatchewan on Friday evening.
#25inFive

Quick shot of my #LitsyAtoZ challenge for 2018. Some letters are definitely more difficult than others but I am working my way through the alphabet!

Finished this early this morning for one of my #25inFive books. It was great because my Kindle told me it would take me 5 hours and it was just about spot on! This was a particularly nice book for me since I have lived so close to the place where the book is set and I‘ve visited some of the villages. It made me feel ‘homesick ‘ for an area that‘s not even my home.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Here‘s what I‘m reading for #25infive starting right now. As long as my eyes don‘t give up I‘ll do my best to get this done.
@Andrew65

Since the downage is starting at 3 am I‘m going to try to sleep right through it. Lol! Who am I kidding??? I usually wake about 4 or 5 am and read for an hour or two before getting out of bed, so that‘s what I‘ll be doing... maybe a little longer than I normally do though. 😍📖😍

Here‘s what I read in March! I finished all of these except for Sarum (1344 pages and I‘m working on it). If I finished a book it means I liked it since I always bail on a book that I don‘t enjoy. My favourites on this list were Educated and The Little Red Chairs. Jezebel and Fever Dream were probably my least favourite. Now on to April!

Okay I am going to dive into Edward Rutherford‘s first epic novel Sarum. It‘s 1344 pages long! I have no idea how I got this copy but it is inscribed inside the front cover by none other than the Custodian of Old Sarum Castle (1995)!! I think that‘s really cool 💕📖💕📚

Volunteering in our local library‘s used book shop sometimes means there‘s not much to do, so yesterday I decided to search for inscriptions inside the books. This one is awesome, don‘t you think?
#inscriptions #DrSuess

Ohhh I think I struck it lucky today while volunteering at our library‘s used book shop!

The most painful book I‘ve read in a very long time, but a very important book as well. Having lived in the Balkans for several years I am well aware of the history of Bosnia so this twisting of truth was riveting and impossible for me to put down. O‘Brien is masterful and I‘ll be looking for more of her books. I ended this one in tears, but with a heart full of tenderness for all whose lives are touched by war.
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So I‘ve never heard of yerba maté before in my life and it has turned up in this book and the last book I read.... hmmmm...
#strangehappenings #dejavu

I‘m volunteering at our library‘s used bookstore today- one of my favourite things to do! I think the most common book we get as a donation is this one and I‘ve never read it. I think I stubbornly refused to so far.
Should I read it this year?? Hmmm...

This. Is. Not. Light. Reading.
(Especially early on a Saturday morning).

#thisorthat
@RealLifeReading

Starting this small novel right now for #LitsyAtoZ #J #LetterJ

Just flipping through my next book from the library and spotted someone else‘s post-its. It feels like a secret message to me 😁📖😁
#postitnotes #secretmessages

This book breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes. If you read memoirs- read this.
All I want to do is wrap my arms around Tara and comfort her, but knowing she wrote this book reassures me that she found her voice eventually. Thank God.

1. Well sometimes but not usually.
2. Oh yes! Usually twice a week!
3. Always, or renewed in time.
4. Never, ever. No.
5. Yes, several per year, but I look for shorter ones in between.

Ok Littens- how do you decide which books to keep and which to get rid of????

Here‘s my first post for a Litsy photo challenge- a stack of some of my green books. It‘s definitely not the most common colour on my shelves but it does come in a pretty sweet variety of greens 💚
#ReadingResolutions
#PhotoChallenge
#MarchPhotoChallenge
##LitsyChallenge
@Jess7

I‘m 59 and my father who lives with me just caught me organizing my 2018 reading journal and asked me about it. I told him I was organizing my reading challenge and he asked me what do I win- a Pulitzer?? We laughed and agreed that there really should be a Pulitzer Prize for Reading! Don‘t you all agree???
#PulitzerPrizeforReading

Can someone help me please? I like doing challenges but I can not find the original posts without scrolling through several hundred. Is there an easy way/place to find the Litsy challenges for 2018?