“So often fatigue – mental or physical – will stop you from caring…The moment you stop caring is the moment you‘ve lost your ability to climb.”
Especially when there‘s a killer on the mountain…
#Snowstorm
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickThird of 3 books about Kristina Snow and addiction. This one holds the voices of her 3 older children: Hunter, Autumn, and Summer. These 3 live with different guardians and have different last names. Two more, boys under 13, live with Kristina‘s mom. Her children are troubled and angry, fearful and psychologically empty. Shows how addiction and abuse affects family and friends.
#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024
pickBeautiful, honest, heartfelt - Kingston was 11 yo when her mom passed on from cancer‘s ravages. But before she got too sick, her mom made videos for her and her brother Jamie. She also made memory boxes with letters for them to open on birthdays, graduations, marriages, and babies. I kept thinking ‘I wish my mom or dad had done that for me…‘
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
Family Family Family!!!
#WhatsNewWednesday
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
“In the end, it's not the height of the tower that matters, but the strength of the friendships built within.”
I read the first of this series but never got around to the others…
#Skyscraper
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Happy Wednesday!! Thanks to all who shared responses last week🙏🏻 Everyone is invited to play❣️
🩵 grateful for having 20/20 vision every day since October last yr. Also for AC! (Texas heat/humidity) And 3rd, for a quiet neighborhood
🩷 Hope I can fit into that dress that I really want to wear 😀 Also hoping for prices of necessary items could stabilize for a while. And for continued good health! Onward and Upward🤗
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
DebinHawaii, Bookgoil, AmyG, kspenmoll, Judybskt, Kshakal, Gissy, Deblovestoread, Read4life, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, Sleepswithbooks, Arvena, CoffeeNBooks, TheSpineView, dabbe, DaveGreen7777, ElizaMarie, IndoorDame, Cupcake12, bthegood, lil1inblue, LiseWorks, THill, KadaGul
pickWritten in verse, this is book 2 of 3 about Kristina Snow, an addict. After birthing her son at 17 and staying sober for a year, Kristina throws it all away for ‘Glass‘. Will she hit rock-bottom this time?
#ReadAway2024
#SeriesLove2024
pickWhile lost in the woods, Carl and his cousin seek shelter with a man known as Fox Man. Though his face is horribly disfigured, (WWI) he is generous and intelligent, and becomes a sort of mentor for the boys. Great story
#ReadAway2024
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
pickBeautiful writing despite the sparse sentences with few commas or demonstrative pronouns. But that had a firm purpose-it was the way that Ash spoke. She leaves her husband to manage the farm while she goes off to fight with Union soldiers in the Civil War. Hard to put down with an ending that may surprise you.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
💛 Bread recipes and the making of bread, of all kinds and flavors
🩵 Cass, who has a ghost for a best friend, is able to pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead and enter the world of spirits.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Want to play?
@DebinHawaii @Gissy @lil1inblue @SaceReads @KadaGul @dabbe
“Anna opened the letter with trembling hands. ‘My darling, if you‘re reading this, I haven‘t managed to unravel my parents‘ secret. But you can. Will you finish the search for me, find out who they were, and who you really are?‘”
#Attic
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soDarkly dark twisted fairy tale that grabs you eerily from the get-go. There is so much that would earn it a Pick, but it's offset by some confusion later on and murky metaphors. And yet I couldn't put it down
😳-I was riveted to my 💺 Be great for a spooky Halloween read!
#Litsylove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril
#Bookspin
pick“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
19th Cork O‘Connor mystery!! Cork and his visionary adult son Stephen are in a race against time to save his wife Rainey, a mysterious stranger, and the Ojibwa healer Henry Meloux from bloodthirsty mercenaries. Such wonderful characters
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
Last batch of Happy Snail Mail today ready for USPS!
#LitsyLove
#LitsyLoveBingoBoard May
#Sendapostcard
#Sendajustbecausecard
@dabbe @Mimi28 @LiseWorks @Read4life
#postpicofbookwithfloweroncover
#LitsyLoveBingoBoard May
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julieclair @Read4life @TieDyeDude
Really enjoyed this collection 💕
Welcome letters to new #LitsyLove members❣️We‘re glad to have you💕💕
@SaceReads @lil1inblue
#LitsyLoveMayBingoBoard ~ #writetonewmember & #writesomeoneyoudontknow
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julieclair @Read4life @TieDyeDude
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.” Louis Zamperini
#Unbroken
#PoetryMatters
@TheSpineView
The story of Louis Zamperini is amazing and humbling.
“He realized that he was not always right, was, indeed, often not right, and at the same time he found that others were not always wrong.”
#River
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks made a 2024 open-a-book-a-month box for me at start of new year. Today I opened the May box to find a bee card, stickers, a bee pin, and this beautiful book❣️ So lovely🥰🥰🥰
You know, I heard once that bees are not aerodynamically designed to fly ~ but the bees don‘t know it and fly anyway 🐝 💛 ✈️! A good-luck charm💞 Thank you Misty for delighting me each month this year with your love and thoughtfulness 😘
#LitsyLove
pickGrace is 49, in prison on death row, for a crime she did not commit (as far as we know). She‘s writing a journal for her daughter, who disappeared after Mom was convicted. When execution nears, events transpire that will shake up everyone directly or indirectly involved. Captivating and suspenseful
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
Audiobook Fiction: Vanessa, Tony, and Conner have been through unthinkable physical and emotional assaults from stepdads, prison mates, and parents. They meet at a psychiatric hospital for youth who have attempted suicide. Raw and real.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
Written and performed originally in French in 1953, this play is interpreted as humans‘ inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett‘s minimalistic language evoked an existential literary wave in post-World War II Europe. It‘s impossible to rate but seems to stand alone in its absurd nature, and produces subjective reactions from readers/watchers. What are we waiting (or striving) for, and what do we do while we wait? I‘m sure Dr. Viktor Frankl (of⬇️
"What we believe we want is like knocking on a closed door. Better to open ourselves to what we have and what we know. The beauty of this moment."
Cork and his son Stephen are investigating a tragic plane crash on Desolation Mountain…
#Mountain
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickWhat an interesting life - first being married to the famous (or infamous) Charles Lindbergh; second finally finding her own ‘voice‘. And of course the kidnapping of their first born son. HF
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
Reposting for the coordinators of #LitsyLove: If you are interested in joining this group, reach out to one of the people tagged below.
I‘ve been a member since October 2023, and it‘s lovely exchanging letters and getting to know other #Littens 💌
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
The backdrop is the 1906 earthquake and flames of San Francisco. Two women, wronged by the same villain, follow him, Henry Thornton, to France. Wanting to retrieve a valuable relic (and restore personal justice) they show up at a Paris costume ball to do just that.
#LitsyLove
#FreebieFriday
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
#LitsyLoveBingo May
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @julieclair @TieDyeDude @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
Top left-9 yo granddaughter at award ceremony
Top middle-this wonderful book
Top rt-Little Bear playing dolls with big sister
Bottom left-another good HF
Bottom right-started putting quilt together
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
“Wind rises up and fades away, but a river flows endlessly. And our suffering? This too shall pass. The
wind is not a river.”
WWII: When John‘s plane is shot down over the Aleutian Islands, he survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.”
#AirportOrPlane
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickRumors have a lot of power once they‘re generated and spread. Alice is slut-shamed at HS bc of rumors made up about her. The resolution was unusual but okay. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the ‘truth‘” is called the truth-by-repetition (TBR) effect.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
pickSweet picture book that is a Coretta Scott King award winner; shows that family love is comforting and all around us in nature too.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
pickIsabel is so connected to trees and plants and gardens - her ‘green‘ life is a metaphor for how she survives, both physically and emotionally. She has learned from her Lolo and Lola that no matter where you live, a garden can thrive. “Bloom where you are planted.”🌿🪻🌺 MG novel in verse💚💚
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024
#AwesomeApril Readathon
Little Bear almost 9 months old!
My Belinda‘s Dream rose after rain ☔️ 🌹
Flower within a flower!
#WhatsNewWednesday
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
Happy Wednesday! Happy May! Everyone can play🩷
🎈Mud!!
🌺 tie between Void Moon (Michael Connelly) and Heroes (Alan Gratz)
🎉 a HS graduation, a piano recital, 2 family birthday celebrations, Mothers Day with my daughters🩷
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Tagging a few to get the party started🥳
DebinHawaii, wanderinglynn, Mimi28, iread2much, Kshakal, Gissy, TheLudicReader, TieDyeDude, Deblovestoread, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, Andrew65, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, Princess-Kingofkings, BookwormAHN, Sleepswithbooks, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, dabbe, Cupcake12, lil1inblue, LiseWorks, julieclair
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
#Unbearable
#PoetryMatters
@TheSpineView
Repost for @TheSpineView :
Enjoy poetry! Participate in a month of prompts for poems, quotes, songs etc
#PoetryMatters
Haven‘t read this one! But it‘s definitely a #SkiResort setting ⛷️❄️ 🏔️
#StorySettings
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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