An AI generated image of a scene from the tagged book😍

They would repeat it for years to come in times of strife: the most fun I've ever had.

Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

Listened while I took a walk this morning and I'm super exhausted now🙄

I listened to the tagged book while I made some mango coulis and I love how it turned out.

Though I'm a bit worried for Frankie since she returned from 'Nam. She's not doing well in the real world and I fear she'll return to the war only to die. Fingers crossed

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

I love both tea and coffee but I'll choose coffee over tea any day. I prefer audio books only when I have to use my hands to do other things like baking, doing dishes... Yeah that's about it.

Almost through with the Violin Conspiracy and I feel like it shouldn't end. I wonder if there will be a movie based on it.

Sometimes when I can't get enough of the book I'm reading and I've become so attached to the book, I do all other things while reading. I eat while reading, I play the book while cooking, doing dishes , baking, and even taking a shower🚿
Who else does this?

First time learning of this quote by Whoopi Goldberg was from the tagged book.

At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country

#memoir #Nigeria #war #history

I've wanted to read There Was A Country for the longest of times but I'm really glad to be reading it now. From what I've read so far it looks like not much has changed since the last 60 years particularly with respect to our politics. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Current read🙂

* Hardcover
* Slow reader
* Stand alone
* Buy
* Read any time
* My favorite place to read is in bed
* Friends to lovers
* Without music
* One POV
* I'm really indifferent as long as the writing ✍️ is good

@monkeygirlsmama
@Yuki_Onna thanks for tagging me

Feel like playing? @Susanita @BeeCurious @marleed @Librarybelle

“We have an obligation. Things won‘t be better for any of us until they‘re better for all of us.”

#firstlinefriday @ShyBookOwl

“People can tell you they love you three times a day and still treat you any kind of way when it really comes down to it.”


I have known and experienced this quote.

“There is a mythical bird we have here, Anna. We call it sankofa. It flies forward with its head facing back. It‘s a poetic image but it can‘t work in real life.”

Chinundu Onuzo, Sankofa

#firstlinefriday

African Writers section of a bookshop somewhere in Kigali. I just love the burst of colors🥰😍

It has taken forever for me to post this... my reading wrap for 2023. My goal was to read 52 books and I read 39 book (75%). I'd say it was a good year 😃. I go harder this year.

The weather is quite hot in my corner of the world at the moment so frozen coffee it is.

I've been very busy I didn't get to say Merry Christmas on here. Is it too late to say merry Christmas? Well, I hope you had a merry Christmas and are enjoying the holidays.

“And when you hate someone, it leaves deeper scars on your psyche than loving someone ever can.”

The Family Upstairs 02-The Family Remains
Jewell, Lisa

Nobody ever knew what had happened inside a marriage apart from the two people in it.

Ps:Been a minute since I posted a quote from a book 📕. I've not read any book in an eternity because I've been super busy and life's been happening to me.

Dare to be different 😍

I had gone almost halfway reading the tagged book before realising that Nina Hill made a comeback in Adult Assembly Required, though not as the main character but as a friend of the main character, Laura Costello. It made a nice read but I can't understand why it took so long for me to finish reading it.

I hand painted these faux ball which I used to decorate a birthday cake while I listened to some parts of the tagged 📕😉

It was a sad truism of her work that not everyone who needs help wants help, and not everyone who gets help uses it.

#BookBinge
#IncludesRecipes

Arsenic and Adobo

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My first time reading Alice Hoffman even though I've had some of her books 📚 for years😕

A man who overestimates his intelligence is a man who can be easily manipulated.

Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

“It is the absolute shittiest day for a walk.”

He was comfortable with her. He could make the sort of stupid comments that were only a little bit funny and made no sense. The kind one made when one didn‘t have to weigh every word and worry about judgment or scorn.

Julia Quinn, First Comes Scandal

“This is the trouble with meeting people in real life: They don‘t come with profiles attached.”

― Sophie Kinsella, My Not So Perfect Life

Listening to the tagged book while I baked this orange upside down cake for the very first time was very entertaining.

...life is lived forward but only understood backward. You can‘t see the landscape you‘re in while you‘re in it.

"We were going out to dinner. I won't say which restaurant, because next time it might be full of people who've come to see whether were there." - The Dinner, Koch Herman

#firstlinefriday

Very close to finishing this one. I can't understand🤷🏾 how I've ended up reading two novels in a row about married life.

Happy birthday @Hestapleton 😘🍬🥂🥃🍹 #BirthdayLove

One of my favourite things to do is baking while listening to a book. I started listening to the tagged book while baking my favourite lemon cake loaf. I find that my lemon cake loaf gets better with each new one I bake.

You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you‘ll never make them again.

I think its safe to say that this applies to 70% of us on this app. Good night folks!

#TemptingTitles Day6
#WithAnOccupation

@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#TemptingTitles Day 4

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs

It made no sense, but guilt doesn't have to. It simply exists, weighing you down and choking you until you can't breathe anymore.

Simone St. James, The Book of Cold Cases

#MarchMagic
#FaceOnTheCover

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs