Great pick for #WithTheBanned @Jadams89

This was my first time reading Perks. I watched the movie many years ago and pretty much just remembered the scene pictured above.

Difficult topics dealt with respectively and with hope.

Looking forward to #CampLitsy25

All The Other Mothers Hate Me, Sarah Harman
Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
My Name is Emilia Del Valle, Isabel Allende
Happy Land, Dolen Perkins-Valdez

@squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

Anyone else listening to songs mentioned?

#WithTheBanned @Jadams89

A grand story, with grand lessons and symbolism all in 145 pages.

Forward by Ann Patchett, who brought this book back into print.

While visiting Nashville, I toured Cheekwood Estate. This is a dumbwaiter in a nook off the library. They used it to easily get books up to and down from the second floor for reading in the bedrooms. Genius.
(I started the tagged book while on this trip.)

I tagged along on my husband‘s work trip to Nashville. While he was at his conference I visited Ann Patchett‘s bookstore, Parnassus Books. Luckily she was there and I spoke with her briefly. She was friendly and gracious. I‘ve listened to The Dutch House and Tom Lake. I‘m currently reading The All of It which she got back in print and wrote a forward to. I look forward to reading these signed copies soon.

This is a retelling of My Fair Lady with an Elijah instead of an Eliza. Higgins and Pickering are young women. I‘ve seen the movie many times and used to listen to the soundtrack on repeat so I definitely picked up on the nods given by the author. This was the lighthearted romp I‘d hoped for.

I listened to the audiobook and it was superb.

Finished # 17.
Ready for our #NancyDrewBR tomorrow!

I‘m reading ND 17 for our BR on Saturday while I wait for the eclipse. Kinda cloudy where I am so I‘m also watching the livestream from Griffith too. https://www.youtube.com/live/BguB5KSBYd0?si=OdK92PWQUeviTD9X

This is a reread for me of Anne of Green Gable # 7. I read it the first time over ten years ago and I didn‘t remember much. A nice happy escape with some laugh out loud moments. I look forward to the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead discussion on Saturday.

Started this today and enjoying the escape. My Fair Lady is my fav movie. I read Pygmalion a few years and enjoyed that too. This audiobook is well done and I‘m enjoying the nods to the original story.

I listened to the audiobook that was over 16 hours long. The book is only about 290 pages. Leslie covered the same stories in the book (and added some) in her own words that she felt in the moment of the recording. She laughed a lot and she cried a lot. She shared her testimony more than once. This was incredibly moving and I‘m glad I heard her story. Amazing. Four stars for the unending, absolutely countless f-bombs. lol She knows.

“Mr. Wiley used to mention hell when he was alive. He was always telling folks to go there. I thought it was some place over in New Brunswick where he come from.”

- Mary Martha Lucilla Moore Ball Vance, age 12

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Macomber leaves the reader with a few cliff hangers to head into the next and final novel of this easy read series.

This has been on my tbr for years. Knowing the dark topic, I put it off til later. When the opportunity to read it with a group arose, I figured it was time. I‘m really glad I waited to read it with others, much better experience than I would have had going it alone. A HUGE thank you to @BarkingMadRead for hosting the BR. #hashtagbrigade

Super fun. A Delight. Full cast, great comedic timing.

I didn‘t research this enough before reading it. I might not have chosen to read it the same time as The Bell Jar. I thought it was simply a whimsical rom-com. It is more than that.

Happy Valentine‘s Day #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I finished mystery 16 and look forward to the #NancyDrewBR discussion tomorrow.

Illuminating. The great migration extensively researched and told through the personal stories of three families. Definitely worthy of the Pulitzer.

Ridiculously amusing.

Read this for the second time #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
It has been more than ten years, so all the details were as fresh, surprising, and emotional as the first time. I adore this series. Glad to revisit it.

I enjoyed this dark thriller. I‘ve read the first three in the Ripley series, so this is my fourth Highsmith. Glad there are still more. #HitchToScreen

“Thanks be, I‘m done with geometry, learning or teaching it,” said Anne Shirley, a trifle vindictively, as she thumped a somewhat battered volume of Euclid into a big chest of books, banged the lid in triumph, and sat down upon it, looking at Diana Wright across the Green Gables garret, with gray eyes that were like a morning sky.

I enjoyed #20 of this very fun cozy series with lovable characters.

This was another fun one with the impeccable Nancy and her supportive, able friends solving another case.

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This was a reread for me. Over ten years has passed though, and I didn‘t remember much. I adore the characters of Holmes and Watson and enjoyed digging in with #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

This was my first time reading,
and oof, heartbreaking.

#WithTheBanned

This is a reread for me, but enough years have passed I did not remember the details that keep the reader in suspense in this one. I adore this whole series. Very enjoyable to read it this time with #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Without realizing it, I chose a very appropriate listen to start a new year, and I love Mae Whitman.

I read 125 books this year, and know I won‘t finish another today. For me, these were the best of the bunch.

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Bittersweet, festive, and bookish. Just 127 pages.

kindle unlimited with audio option

Soft pick, 3⭐️

Just 175 pages, but still a little wordy. Too many paragraphs of people explaining or considering obvious ideas.

Stella Partridge never expected to move back to her hometown. She never expected to be a house-sitter for the twelve days leading up to Christmas as a desperate bid to earn some extra money. And she definitely never expected to recognize the thief that breaks into the house she's watching: Jack Piorra, her childhood best friend…

Fun holiday rom-com. Just under four hours.

These short stories are a delight.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Many categories of fun. I will read more from this author. 5⭐️

I read this for the first time seven years ago. Always figured I would reread it because I enjoyed it so much. Finally did this year. I‘m surprised I didn‘t revisit it sooner.

Celia approached the vicar, who stood alone for a few moments in the shadow of the rounded arch above the doorway, sheltered from the rising wind.
#FirstLineFridays

The Christmas season is perfect for novellas and this is excellent.

This is a sweet Christmas romance with a twist of You‘ve Got Mail. 5⭐️

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I enjoyed this, second in the series, quick read. It reveals lots of POVs and covers one festive (and messy) weekend in December.

Everything a fan wants in a Nancy Drew mystery.

This gem made me laugh:
“Oh, I wasn‘t going to trespass,” Nancy told her.
I think that might be the first time Nancy ever said that to George! lol

‘Tis the season for suspenseful thrillers.
I give this one 5⭐️

She sneaks out behind the hotel and lights a cigarette. #FirstLineFridays

I read Winter Street two years ago, and loved it. Meant to read this last year but starting it today.

I took this from my mom‘s bookshelf years ago and finally read it with #RandomClassic

Turns out this is a 1967 copy that belonged to my dad‘s mom. I‘m glad she stuck an address label inside so I‘d see it all these years later.

I really enjoyed learning about this time and community which I had little knowledge of before.

And what an ending!!!!

I read Rebecca a couple years ago and was happy to read another by Du Maurier. I liked this dark tale, extra enjoyment reading it the same time of year it is set. #HitchToScreen

A deal is a deal.
#FirstLineFridays

The third in the series, I really enjoyed this one too. Clever, funny, and unpredictable. 5⭐️

This is sweet, fun, and has heart.