Happy #5JoysFriday ☺️ This week seemed to fly by! @DebinHawaii
1. Lunch at a great new Mexican place 😋
2. Love being back to regular aerial practice again
3. Met up with my sister's bookclub at the new all romance bookstore. Fun people and a great store!
4. Many bookstore trips for the Charlotte Book Crawl! It's so fun but I always buy too many books 🫣
5. Took a chance on a mystery book that turned out to be one I wanted 🎉
I don't usually buy mystery books like this cause I'm worried I'll have already read/own it, but this one sounded real cute and in my wheelhouse so I took a chance.
❔❓Any guesses on the book? ❓❔
This past week's #bookhaul from my first leg of the Greater Charlotte Book Crawl - a few favorites and a few from the TBR
🚨New Pride and Prejudice adaptation in the works!🚨
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/pride-and-prejudice-netflix-emma-co...
First Quarter Romance #ReadingBracket2025
The majority of my reads in March were romance, so it was tough to narrow down. But these two I read for the #TransRightsReadathon and really enjoyed them both. The tagged is moving on as my favorite for the quarter. (The bonus pick is The Dandelion and the Thistle btw, it's hard to read so tiny)
I came across this one today. It comes from 'elegy'. Another definition calls it wistfully mournful, which I liked
The book I read it in was describing a poem in which "she sees the woman she‘s in love with sitting next to a man, and admires his composure. Because she knows if she were the one sitting next to the woman, she would be at a loss for words."
I've been reading a lot more poetry this month so I appreciate this new word
First Quarter Fiction #ReadingBracket2025
This was a tough decision. I had to sit with the finalists for a bit to decide what went on. Ultimately I decided on this cozy fantasy, which was like a warm hug in book form.
First Quarter Nonfiction #ReadingBracket2025 complete!
Helen Gibson leading the race so far 😄
My #5JoysFriday are from our recent camping trip in Georgia. I got to read most of my book in front of the fire. We went hiking to Brasstown Bald, the highest point in GA, and also trekked to a few nearby waterfalls. We saw a huge snapping turtle in the lake of the park we were staying at. The trip was a meetup for my husband's Coleman lantern collector's group, so we got to visit with them. Spotted a few new birds in the mornings!
@DebinHawaii
My April #bookspin and #doublespin picks!
Any of my #roll100 picks and the buddy read for #riseupreads 🦋
@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper @Catsandbooks
Finished four nonfiction books this month, with an unintentional focus on history
#MonthlyNonfiction2025 @julieclair
#CoverStories Day 30 #Sea
A great book - which cover version do you prefer?
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#CoverStories Day 29 #Music 🎼🎶
Poston's newest that comes out later this year, looks like another good one
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#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1&2. My husband had to work over the weekend so I took the day to get a pedicure and eat at my favorite Mexican restaurant on my own 😋
3. Perfect weather for reading out on the porch 🍃
4. Sally is also loving the warmer weather 🐶
5. Browsing the library after work
#LibraryHaul! Ready to dive into some poems in April for National Poetry Month
I wasn't sure what I'd be in the mood for so I grabbed a few options. Plus I'll have one more, whichever author is picked for our #QueerBC selection
#aprilpoetrychallenge @wanderinglynn
Decided to start this one on audio since none of my current listens were as cheery as I've been wanting
Loving it so far! The narrator does a lovely Irish accent for Muriel and I can't get enough of her and Kit's banter.
In the author's note, Lowell self-identifies as a cis-queer writer with a trans masculine historian partner, and used their experiences as a couple as well as archival research in writing this story
#TransRightsReadathon #TRR25
#CoverStories Day 22 #Pastel 🎨
My mind immediately went to Heartstopper and those pretty pale spines
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
Happy #5JoysFriday! ? @DebinHawaii
1. Jolene asked me to do her hair when I visited and she was so delighted with her "Anna braids" ?❄️
2. My newest comfort rewatch show, Parks and Rec
3. Virtual book chat with some online friends ?
4. Flowers blooming along the driveway ?
5. Trees in bloom everywhere! (Even though the pollen is killing my allergies ?)
#CoverStories Day 21 #Clock 🕜
This is a 2025 release I'm looking forward to, as it has one of my wheelhouse items, reincarnation love stories
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#CoverStories Day 19 #River
Please ignore my messy shelves that I still need to reorganize
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#CoverStories Day 18 #Shoes 🛼
Kinda, a type of shoe, but the first thing that came to mind
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Here's my TBR for the #TransRightsReadathon
March 21-31
I probably won't be able to finish all of them but I like to have options to choose from. This is my third year participating in this event! I'll once again be donating to the Campaign for Southern Equality 🏳️⚧️
Wow, I've never gotten so many fun, unexpected goodies from a preorder like this! This is a debut, self-published novel that I came across because I follow the cover artist on ig. It's a queer cozy romance with floriography so I ordered it immediately lol. But opening the package was such a happy surprise! I was gonna save it to read for the #TransRightsReadathon but was so giddy that I binged the first 100 pages and it is so good so far!
#CoverStories Day 16 #Running 🏃🏼🏃🏾
This book comes out next month and looks so fun
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#CoverStories Day 15 #Reflection 🪞
I read this book years ago and it has weirdly stuck with me. Such an interesting time travel premise. Also I didn't realize until I went to look it up today that it was originally published in the 70s
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. I was complaining about lack of shelf space one night & the next morning my husband cleared off one of his random shelves for me. That's love, y'all
2. A couple friend of ours gifted me this gorgeous cat blanket just because! My husband also received one with a D&D style dungeon map on it. They know us both so well
3. Game night with said couple friend
4. The kitties, always
5.The anticipation of waiting for book mail
#CoverStories Day 13 #Chapel 💒
I can't hear the word chapel without immediately singing
🎶going to the chapel and we're... gonna get maaaaarried🎶
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#CoverStories Day 12 #Tuxedo 🖤
My favorite special edition has Luc in a suit, not a tux, so here are both versions of this cover 😁
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
"Funny how [censorship] boards wanted to protect women's sensibilities, but ended up stripping them of agency."
And still the guise of protecting people is often used to then suppress them... History is a lesson
pick"When talking about progress, people usually look to the future. This book looks to the past."
Such an amazing eye-opening account of the history of Hollywood & the huge role women played in its start. It follows the path of Helen Gibson, the first Hollywood stuntwoman in the 1910s, beginning with her involvement in rodeo & through her rise as a serial queen.
O'Meara brilliantly combines biography, history & humor, making this story easy to love
#CoverStories Day 8 #Trees 🌲🌳
Picked this one up during our trip to Scotland
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I'm terrible at posting my #5JoysFriday ...on Friday 😅
1. Costco trips with the nibling. Her love of berries is adorable 🍓
2. I don't talk about Sally enough. She's the best dog ever and I love her enthusiasm whenever we return home 🐕
3. Harry the local heron sighting at the pond!
4. Reading while covered in cats 😹
5. Been reading two amazing ebooks this week that I haven't wanted to put down! 📚
@DebinHawaii
Bonus joy ⬇️
pick"Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence."
Lots of gems in this one! I didn't agree with everything she wrote but it gave me a lot to think about, much of which is still unfortunately relevant in today's society
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