I've yet to complete either of my #bookspin picks for June, and my husband and I just started an 1100 page opus for our book club, but #BookSpinBingo sounds like WAY TOO MUCH FUN to pass up. You've done it again, Sarah! @TheAromaofBooks #LetsDoThis 😎
Somehow I managed to knock 5 titles off my TBR this month, including the tagged book. (Six if you count the one I decided not to read after all!) Hooray for #bookspinbonanza!!!! 🎉📚❤️
I already have four titles on the go for June, but I'm excited to see which of these I'll be adding to that list. Thanks, as always to Sarah @TheAromaofBooks for hosting the ONLY TBR takedown that has ever worked for me ... ever! 😆😆#bookspin
May #triplespin complete!!!! 🌞 The “wheel“ was kind to me this month, putting a couple of quick reads up front, the tagged title included. // Left me feeling: like it's time to circle back around to “Dune: Messiah“. #bookspinbonanza @TheAromaofBooks
April #triplespin complete! May not count for #bookspinbonanza, but I'm feeling pretty proud just the same! 🤓 This installment feels like it read more quickly than the last one, and I enjoyed the many varied characters it introduced. (Book 5 of 14). Left me feeling: pleased, accomplished and content.
Litsy has started cropping my images in a manner I find hella frustrating, so I'm just going to stick with words for the time being. 😶
May #doublespin COMPLETE!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Yes I may have skimmed most of the book lists, but that is not meant to reflect poorly on the authors' selections. I'm still learning how to balance reading for work with reading for myself, and both of my corresponding TBRs are already stacked to the point of overwhelm. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Most readathons conflict with my work schedule, so I decided that this weekend I would hold my own #12in24. I didn't quite make it to 12 hours, but I did finish my May #bookspin ("Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways") and made it almost half way though my #doublespin! 293 pages, plus 2 read alouds = one happy reader! ☺️?☺️?#bookspinbonanza
Given that I only recently started my April #triplespin, it's unlikely that May will be a #bookspinbonanza for me, but I'm still super excited to play!!!! Thanks as always to Sarah @TheAromaofBooks for hosting!!! Stay safe everyone, and happy reading! ☺️📚🎉
"Self-decoration is one of the greatest joys and priveledges of being a woman." -Clara Pinkola Estés
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I wound up listening to a heavily abridged audiobook version of this book, and while I managed to find a couple of gems, like this one, I think I may have come to it too late in my reading life.
Left me feeling: uncertain, unsettled and a tad disappointed
The last couple of Thursdays seem to have vanished without a trace, so I'm going to break the rules a little and answer this tag today, since @JoScho was kind enough to invite me to play. ☺️?☺️ Thanks, lovely!
1. Photos from the families who usually attend my storytimes in person who've been watching them online at home.
2. Justin Timberlake. "Mirrors" never fails me. ❤️
3. Dark chocolate mint Aero. One square at a time.
"Being squelched for loving beauty is possibly the worst thing you can do to a woman." - Clara Pinkola Estés
1. Tremendous!
2. Nope. But I have made a few trips to the library where I work, and I always come home with something new.
How about you @Librarybelle ☺️
#TwoForTuesday
Series abound for my April #bookspin!!! The tagged book is a comic book retelling of "Alice in Wonderland" that I've had for more than a decade. ? The pictured book is the follow-up to my March spin, and my #triplespin is book five in the Wizard of Oz series, "The Road to Oz". It's unlikely I'll finish all three, but it'll be fun to try!!! Stay safe, Littens! ???
Though I feel lucky to be able to work from home, it hasn't left me with any extra reading time, so much of my April #bookspin is a carryover from March ... including my March #doublespin, which I put off because my hold on the tagged book came in on Libby. 🙃 Nevertheless, I was pleased with the number of slots I ended up needing to fill, since I also used the list as a sort of makeshift March TBR. ☺️ Thanks again to @TheAromaofBooks for hosting!
I hadn't planned on reading this collection of novellas in its entirety, since only the first one is part of the series I've been reading, but it was my first ever #booskpin, so I wanted to see it through. I'm really glad I did! 👍 Thanks, for the extra little push, Sarah @TheAromaofBooks! ☺️
Found this guy while capturing quotes from my current read. #AllWeHaveIsNow
"At her first bleed a woman meets her power. During her bleeding years she practices it. At menopause she becomes it." - Native American saying, p.47
Happy #FirstDayofSpring to all the amazing Littens who continue to #KeepLitsyPositive.
This. Is. Everything.
I've spent the last year reading the stories in this collection during their corresponding seasons, and this moment meant so much to me, as both a musician and someone who now works with kids herself.
It's definitely a standout scene for me. This and the turnip. 😂😂😂
Left me feeling: pleased, proud and peaceful. #ThreeWordReviews
... second nature." -p.58-59
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I agree with Karin @8little_paws' review that there's a notable, and in my opinion, unfortunate, change in tone in the more recent interviews, but that probably says as much about the world of journalism as it does about Bourdain.
Left me feeling: wistful, amused and contemplative. #ThreeWordReviews
"I found a dead body in the cucumber patch," I told them.
"How very like you," Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows. -p.27
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I know I'm supposed to be Team Flavia, but Ophelia for the win!!! ???
"When I moved to New York, I was blissfully naive; oblivious to the city's history and what was happening around me." - "One Year in New York" by Darcel Disappoints (book not in database)
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This was a super quick read. Left me feeling: disillusioned, amused and understood. #FirstLineFridays #ThreeWordReviews @ShyBookOwl
February has been *rough*, so I'm super excited to start March off with my first ever Litsy #bookspin!!! (Thanks so much to Sarah @TheAromaofBooks for coming up with such a fun TBR takedown game. 😊🙏😊)
The first half are the books I currently have out from the library, and the second half are titles I wanted to read badly enough that I brought them with me when I moved. Can't wait to knock at least one of these out in March. 📚❤️📚
So excited to have been tagged to do this!!! (Thanks so much, Santhi @BookishMe 😊🙏😊)
1. Keeper turned donator. We recently moved to temporary housing for my new job and I donated almost 300 books in the process.
2. Shortest timeframe for a novel (of late): 2 days. Longest ... 2 years.
3. Tagged. Expected something extolling the beauty of winter; this seemed more concerned with convincing me it no longer exists. A tough sell in -30C weather.
"And if ever there were an origin world, it was Old Earth." -p.253
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Maybe that's why Hollywood keeps incessantly cranking out reboots and origin stories... ???
#truthinfiction #currentlyreading
1. Tagged + "Spider-Verse" by Dan Slott, "Daring to Rest" by Karen Brody and "Home from the Vinyl Cafe" by Stuart McLean
2. "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. (Now I'm waiting for my husband to read it so we can watch the series together. ☺️ #DavidTennantGivesMeLife)
3. That even after 300 pages, my brain still doesn't register "Spider-Verse" as *actual* reading, b/c "comics don't count." ???
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads
"Life doesn't slow down when you don't sleep." ??? -p.98
#currentlyreading #truth
"Strange, random thoughts skittered through her mind. I will remember. I will remember. Freaky craziness." -p.299
QIWI!!!! ???
#currentlyreading #quotesthatcrushedme
#weekendreads w/ @rachelsbrittain
1. Good Omens (tagged), Fear-Free Food by Nicola Jane Hobbs, Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook, A Deepness in the Sky by Vernon Vinge and Home From the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean. Phew!
2. Batman Vol 5: Rules of Engagement (Rebirth)
3. The Girl on the Train. - As much as the actors tried to bring it, even the best parts of this book didn't translate for me. ☹️
"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell." -p.151
"So even in hell, there are clowns." - p.172
