As a musician, I feel seen. 😄🎺🎶
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“Dixie‘s voice warbled from bass to soprano, replete with all the outraged disbelief of Lady Bracknell at her most handbageous.”
“Dixie‘s voice warbled from bass to soprano, replete with all the outraged disbelief of Lady Bracknell at her most handbageous.”
pickMy final book of the #24in48 readathon! I liked this Golden Age mystery and thought the plot was very clever. It‘s interesting that the book focuses far more on the detectives than on the victim and suspects; I would have liked those characters to be a little more fleshed out. But a good read overall!
pickI found this book, frankly, adorable! There are a lot of disparate plot lines, which sometimes annoys me in novels...and I do wish some of the stories had gotten a little bit more fleshed out...but overall, it‘s just very charming and sweet! The perfect way to end day one of the #24in48 readathon.
pickIt‘s always a pleasure to spend some time in 12th-century Shrewsbury with Brother Cadfael! That‘s my second book completed for the #24in48 readathon.
so-soJust finished my first book of the #24in48 readathon! It‘s a fun fantasy novel that involves knitting, technology as magic, and a revolution...I enjoyed it overall but thought it had a little too much going on.
Prepping my book stack for the #24in48 readathon this weekend. Can‘t wait to dig in! 📚😁
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don‘t you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world‘s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
“Great music has much the same effect upon humans as cyanide. . . . It paralyzes the respiratory system.”
pickSo I‘m actually kind of burned out on YA fantasy...they‘re all starting to seem the same to me. But this retelling of Beauty and the Beast is really fantastic! I‘m actually not quite done yet, but 75% of the way in, I‘m super invested in both Yeva and the Beast and dying to see how everything will turn out! I‘m reading a library book but might need to get my own copy of this one!
panGot this one in a subscription box that a friend gifted me for Christmas. I liked the story of this YA fantasy, but I found the main character super frustrating and HATED the overly flowery writing style!
📖 The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon
And that‘s all I‘ve got for the #letterZ! Thanks to @JoScho for creating this fun #manicmonday event!
📖 You Don‘t Have to Say You Love Me by Sarra Manning
✒️ W.B. Yeats
🎥 You‘ve Got Mail
And I‘m blanking on a Y food!
#manicmonday #letterY @JoScho
Look, I got nothing. So I‘ll just say Merry Xmas to you all, and I‘ll see you next week for Y! #ManicMonday #letterX @JoScho
#manicmonday #letterW @JoScho
📖 Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
✒️ Connie Willis, Patricia C. Wrede, Lauren Willig
🎥 While You Were Sleeping
🍿 White cheddar popcorn
#ManicMonday #letterV @JoScho
? The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
✒️ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
? Veronica Mars
And I‘m drawing a blank on food, except for vegetables, which would obviously be a lie!
OK, so I‘m a little late with #manicmonday, but better late than never, right? #letterU @JoScho
📖 Uprooted by Naomi Novik
✒️ Sigrid Undset (I‘ve only read half of Kristin Lavransdatter, but she‘s one of the only U authors I‘ve read!)
📺 Ugly Betty
🍣 Unagi
📖 To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
✒️ J.R.R. Tolkien, Megan Whalen Turner
🎥 That Thing You Do!
🌮 Tacos
#manicmonday #letterT @JoScho
Forgot to do #manicmonday #letterS on Monday, so here‘s my late entry just in time for Thanksgiving! @JoScho
📖 Sorcery and Cecelia, by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
✒️ Maggie Stiefvater
📺 Sherlock
🍣 Sushi
📖 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
✒️ Rainbow Rowell; Kate Ross
🎥 Return to Me
🍽 Radishes
#manicmonday #letterR @JoScho
📖 The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer...you pretty much can‘t go wrong with her!
✒️ Julia Quinn
I don‘t have an answer for movie/TV show or food, but I still wanted to play along! #manicmonday #letterQ @JoScho
#ManicMonday #letterP @JoScho
📖 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — my all-time favorite book!
✒️ Sharon Kay Penman
📺 Parks and Recreation
🍕 Pizza
#manicmonday #letterO @JoScho
📚 The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley; Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
✒️ Baroness Orczy
📺 The Office (US)
🍽 Oysters, fried or on the half shell
📖 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
✒️ Naomi Novik
🎥 Notorious (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
🧀 Nachos
#manicmonday #letterN @JoScho
My library‘s semi-annual sale is this weekend! I scored these three books for $8...not amazing, but they‘re in perfect shape and I really wanted all of them! 😁 #bookhaul #librarysale #win
📚 Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), Middlemarch (George Eliot), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Winifred Watson)...I absolutely could not pick just one!
✒️ Robin McKinley
🎥 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
🍦 Mint chocolate chip ice cream
#manicmonday #letterM @JoScho
📖 Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy
✒️ C.S. Lewis
🎥 Lilo and Stitch; Laura
🍝 Linguine with clam sauce
#ManicMonday #letterL @JoScho
pickI adored Naomi Novik‘s Uprooted, so I was simultaneously very excited about this book and worried that it couldn‘t possibly live up to my very high expectations. Happily, I was wrong — this book is AMAZING! A bit slow to get going, but once it does, it‘s completely enchanting. This will definitely be one of my top books of the year!
📖 The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (the whole series is great!)
🖋 M.M. Kaye
🎥 The King‘s Speech
🍫 Klondike bar
#ManicMonday #LetterK @JoScho
Book: Interior Freedom by Jacques Philippe
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Movie: It Happened One Night
Food: Ice cream 🍦
#ManicMonday @JoScho #LetterI
“I was neat, clean, shaved, and sober, and I didn‘t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”
One paragraph in and I‘m already loving this!
Book: Howl‘s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Author: Georgette Heyer
TV show: Happy Endings
Food: Hamburger 🍔
#ManicMonday #letterH @JoScho
Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
TV show: Gilmore Girls
Food: Grilled cheese sandwiches
#ManicMonday #LetterG @JoScho
Just another #manicmonday! #letterF @JoScho
Book: Faithful Place by Tana French...I‘m not usually a suspense/thriller reader, but this book is so good!
Author: Jasper Fforde
TV Show: Firefly
Food: French fries #friesbeforeguys
Book: Emma, by Jane Austen
Author: Jennifer Echols
Movie: The Emperor‘s New Groove
Food: Eel and avocado sushi rolls
#ManicMonday @JoScho
Book: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Author: Agatha Christie
TV show: Chuck, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (couldn‘t pick just one!)
Food: cheese
#ManicMonday @JoScho
I bought these GORGEOUS covers for the Raven Cycle from http://www.megmakesthings.com, and I absolutely love them!
My birthday was earlier this week, so of course I had to treat myself! #bookhaul #myprecious
Apparently I‘m a letter behind, so I‘ll do “B” today as well! #ManicMonday @JoScho
Book: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Food: Bread (seriously, I love bread)
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Movie or TV show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
This is fun! #ManicMonday @JoScho
Book: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Author: Jane Austen
Movie or TV show: The Americans (although I‘m super behind!) — editing to add Agent Carter as well, can‘t believe I forgot!
Food: Apple pie
The banter between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in this book is EVERYTHING. 😍😍😍
My local library had a sale this past weekend...
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Lizzy and Darcy, but also Beatrice and Benedick, Anne and Gilbert, Gen and Irene, Cecily and Little John...
3. Tulips and daffodils
4. Reese‘s cups and peppermint patties
5. Pink
#manicmonday @JoScho
When you buy a used book and then discover that it‘s signed by the author! 😍
