This made me LOL 😂🤣 I miss Anthony Bourdain 🙁

Just started Of Kings and Griffins by Judith Starkston, the third in her Tesha series of Hittite historical fantasy. Like 5 pages in and I'm already booked!

I'm reading this book because SUPPOSEDLY there is a movie coming out of it and Jason Isaacs is in it and I love him and will watch anything if he's in it. But since I can't seem to find a release date, I'll content myself with this surprisingly delightful novel.

We are drawn to stories, we live for them.

Who is this woman who rises out of the wilderness like a column of smoke from burning spices?

Re: Anne Boleyn's execution: And then, at the end, I hope that nature or God (it makes no difference) gave her no more to figure out, no more to regret, no more to say goodbye to, no more work to do, and took care of her dying.

Yass. Do things, turn off the social media and be present, for others and for yourself. #TheMinimalists

Words matter. The name you give things, it forms then when you speak. You must always be careful with your words.

Glendale LibCon loot. Deadly Rising by Jeri Westerson, and Hellworld and Mercy rule by Tom Leveen. They signed them for me. ❤️

Got an ARC of this from the author, Judith Starkston, who was actually my high school Latin teacher. The physical cover is just so shiny! Also, how can Hittite historical fantasy NOT be totally rad??

This seems especially apropos lately. 😞

This book made me ugly cry in front of my right year old daughter. Especially that last line OMG. I read it all the way through in one sitting.

So much murder...

No big deal. Just Dumbo and Toothless reading Lumberjanes.

Reading Small Country. I am getting gut punched repeatedly...

Doing a giveaway with Tor Books' #FearlessWomen campaign for Jacqueline Carey's new book, Starless. Leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win some awesome swag! https://hergraceslibrary.com/2018/06/15/fearlesswomen-blog-tour-starless-by-jacq...

Loving Bringing Up Bebe so far.

#playingfavorites, snagged from @Liberty
1. The Dragonriders of Pern
2. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
3. Red Rose, White Rose by Joanna Hickson
4. H is for Hawk. Helen Macdonald, which could also work for #2
5. Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
6. Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson

My weekend...

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert. There are so many things to love about this book. I'm just too lazy to make pics of them all.

I love this quote.

I loved this book. It was a quiet little story about a year in the life of one medieval peasant woman, Marion. Nothing happens, and everything happens, and all shall be well.

The truth is out there...

Best book of 2017 so far for me has been The Bear and the Nightingale. What a lovely fairy tale feeling of a book! @Liberty #tgifgiveaway

I just got the prettiest edition of this book in the mail from Book Depository. Everything is just better in England.

What a perfectly lovely book! This is exactly what I wanted to read right now. It made me have all the feels and cry in good ways.

This is so true.

This passage made me laugh. It's exactly like my mother's relationship with Brie...

Such a pretty book. I love the illuminations.

Taking car of yourself emotionally, physically, and spiritually is a profoundly political act.

I listened to this one by audiobook and while I really liked the book itself, the narrator kind of killed it for me. The words themselves were beautiful but delivered rather robotically. I think if I were to recommend this book, it would be as an eye-read over an ear-read if possible.

This should have been a book that was right up my alley but frankly I was just bored. I got through about a third of it before I DNF'd it. I was disappointed since I had high hopes for it. Oh well.

I thought this book was exceptionally well written and researched and ought to be required reading for all, especially those who claim to be pro life. Pollitt breaks down each and every one of the arguments people try to use against abortion with actual facts and logic. Highly recommended.

Loved it! What a cool way to revisit The Tempest. I adore Atwood. My only issue is that, as much as I like her, I think Hogarth Shakespeare should have had an author from the Caribbean write this. #ownvoices. But it was fantastic. Next time I teach the Bard, I'm going to use this as a text.

Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but you don't get to say when or how.

This was a beautiful book. Atmospheric and lyrical. I read an ARC but loved it so much that I preordered an actual copy for myself. Everyone should read this.

This is one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. I'm only 15% through it but gah! I... Feel... /Lal

"Barrett, put that fucking Bible down, we've got something serious to talk about." LOL. This line made me laugh. I'm not a very nice person.

"She had a drop or two of fey in her blood."

Still loving this series. What a vivid world! I wish I could write as beautifully as Marillier.

Best Festivus present ever!

Just started, have a feeling it's going to gut me.

Books and brownies. Yes, please! Also helps that the book is fucking fun!