#5joysfriday TGIF 1. I have been coveting these leopard sambas FOREVER and the universe heard me at last 2. Canadian wine order coming soon ( we make good wine in Ontario) 3. I taught art in grade 1 today and we did mixed media daffodils ??4. Spring is so mean sometimes 5. Drinking Ontario rosé and eating Canadian Cheezies while I type this #livingthedream this week felt long! I hope all of you are having a great Friday

Oh #hashtagbrigade how I loved this
An early work of detective fiction with a gothic vibe that kicks off with an unknown woman dressed completely in white on the run from an asylum. Oh what a wicked web we weave …… so many bizarre over the top characters doing nefarious things ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I laughed and I railed and I held my breath assuming the worst at all times while the good guys tried to triumph.

I read this at school today. Nothing like being blindsided by a story you are reading aloud and wanting to sob but managing a poignant pause and pulling yourself together

This follows George through his life, he‘s a likeable child, his uni years are good too. You like George, it‘s a great audio book. Adulthood hits and there is this undercurrent to George, and I am not liking him so much. He isn‘t mean, but he‘s thoughtless. I am raging at my audio book. FFS George, get it together
It‘s well written. I enjoyed it when I wasn‘t raging 😂😂

So spicy. I love AH

I really struggled with this one ( a Christmas gift) when I really enjoyed The Guest List previously. I hated everybody so not a lot of desire to read it. But the ending was good so I‘m glad I finished it

Oh what a wild ride this series is!!!

#5joysfriday it‘s been a glorious week of nothing much thanks to March Break. 1. I finished Mona and hung her in my bedroom ( a little gallery wall moment is happening) 2. John and I went out to dinner Wednesday to a new place in the ‘hood ( no pics) and breakfast on Thursday to an old place 3. I had a massage, got my haircut and my nails done and walked to a McDonald‘s for a fountain Diet Coke because I could 4. It was 11° C yesterday

Just flipping between an audio book, buddy read books and my just for fun book

Artsy Cats puzzling

Caffeinating up this morning to stay on top of all my reading 🤣 I love March Break! Truthfully I‘m not sure how much longer I can stick to the 3 chapters a day with #littensloveacotar I need to know all the things but I want to talk about all the things #thestruggleisreal

I started this today - very easy listening

I loved listening to Orbital! What an amazing tribute to earth and humankind. Mona is finished and ready to be hung up

Oh I loved this cozy story about the power of books to unite all of the people

Continuing down the ACOTAR rabbit hole - a bit spicier to start and a bit sad

#5joysfriday TGIF 1. I did art with 2 grade 1 classes this week and in one class we painted robins and I put them up on the Artis-tree today 2. A friend makes book memory ornaments filled with all the books you read in a year, mine arrived this week ❤️❤️ 3. Pancake day is always delicious 4. Canada is getting her sass on 5. This meme speaks to me but I‘m more of a 3 days of rest person at this point 🙏🏻 it‘s March Break this week

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Week End! 🎉🎉🎉 and March Break is a go 🙏🏻

Every audio book I‘ve started this year I have bailed on for a variety of reasons. Some haven‘t been great, all have been clawed back by the library but it‘s mainly been more anxiety driven. I want quiet in my brain when I walk, clean, cook. Today I thought I‘d try again since my hold for Orbital is almost over. I‘ve tackled the mountain of ironing and now I‘m tackling Mona

I don‘t know what I am going to do with myself now

Pretending it‘s the weekend

Loving our latest #hashtagbrigade

Taking a Diet Coke break

I LOVE this book. A bit of Harriet the Spy wrapped up in a coming of age story set in Montreal in the late 60‘s. Audrey Parker is befriended by a neighbourhood when she and her father move into a duplex in Notre Dame de Grâce. All the stars and all the love for this glorious story

It‘s 5 pm on Ontario‘s election night. Some might say I‘m self medicating. They‘d be right. Despite making idiotic campaign promises & never following up on them. Selling off green belt land to cronies, slashing health care and education budgets, spending bazillions of tax payer money to break contracts, negotiate deals with foreign investors and driving the province into a hole people will still vote for him because they are ignorant and selfish

Read with #hashtagbrigade and despite some parts being hard to read on an emotional/historical level I LOVED IT! I hope Esther went on to live a good life

Next up for #hyggehour I‘m laughing out loud on the first page #booksbringmejoy 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 what an absolute roller coaster ride of a delightful book! We meet 5 people and a fish who live at the Seville on Roxy and follow the chaotic domino effect of choices they all make/have made leading up to the 30 minutes we spend with them and see how it all plays out. So much fun, what an adrenaline rush this story is

#sundaybuddyread historical fiction about the early days of the movies transitioning to talkies, based on the life of Colleen Moore. I don‘t know why I couldn‘t get into this, I‘m not sure I‘d have finished it without the group. Maybe the movie theme again, maybe the waste and abuse of power? Right at the end the museum curator says she wants to show Doreen‘s movies in another exhibit as a tie in but most of them are gone. The type of film ⬇️

My Friday night. I was so tired all week and last night was the same. I stayed awake long enough to finish ACOTAR ahead of the #littensloveromance buddy read. I was starting to see too many spoiler reels on FB ( how does meta know what I‘m reading? 🤔) I quite like this romantasy rabbit hole I‘ve gone down and I think we are reading the second one together too ❤️❤️🎉

Inhaled another book, AJ writes a fast and easy romance with a touch of magic

Long weekends are the BEST

This is touted as a love letter to books and reading so that‘s why I bought it. The story is told from 2 points of view, Erin and James, it was a slow start for me - both of them unhappy with jobs, parents, romance and not feeling too likeable, not bad just down. Slowly the changes start and slowly the light gets in and all the books and notes and new perspectives start. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Getting my Buddy reads read for tomorrow- The Bell Jar and ACOTAR are really engaging me, I‘m having a hard time with my other reads 🤷🏻‍♀️ there are worst problems to have on a snowy long weekend when the whole night can be #hyggehour

Sunday morning caffeination is a go

#7 in the Gamache series and I loved it! The art talk especially but also how important hope is 🇨🇦

#5joysfriday #1. Happy Valentine‘s Day #2. Loving the ACOTAR Buddy read #3. Mona Lisa is coming along #4. I got ‘diet coke‘ nails - to quote myself - a French manicure with chrome base and red tips #5. Sometimes AI is god tier bonus #6. It‘s a long weekend with more snow forecasted and I just want to read and be a sloth

A stay at home day for me and after I did all my buddy reading and word games, I started this and vacuumed, washed the kitchen floor, did laundry, made an apple cake and a big pot of chicken orzo soup for dinner. I‘m quite liking this so far

ACOTAR is a go

Time for some comfort reading

A breath of fresh air #hashtagbrigade 🎉

I read this for an irl book club and it‘s okay. Paige does an ancestry test that she gets free and finds out her dad wasn‘t her dad. Then it‘s two timelines while she tries to figure it out now and what actually happened back in the day. It‘s going to be a good book club as we talk about how everyone feels about choices that were made. Women have had to make hard choices forever

Pretty much ended the way it went all along - random people introduced, short tale about them, a sprinkle of Laura, a 90° tangent taken with the tale, more random people, repeat. ?

#5joysfriday Pretty low key week where I tried not to get overwhelmed by assholes in politics 1. My son brought home lunch for me today 🍔🥤2. I ordered a lot of books from Book Outlet #booksaremylovelanguage #selfcare 3. I had lunch with my sister on her birthday at a new chicken place 4 & 5 I am completely hooked on the Empyrean Series, I finished the first 2 this week and I‘m trying to wait until March to read the 3rd 🤷🏻‍♀️

My little #februaryreads stack for book clubs and Buddy reads and just because ❤️❤️ look what came @TheBookHippie your #naturalitsywintercardswap with the cutest birdie bookmark

WHAT THE ACTUAL F with that ending?!!!! I‘m exhausted from this roller coaster 🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭

Somehow this was in my Twitter feed today - I have no memory of this in what I‘ve read so far so maybe it‘s a spoiler for the few chapters we have left. This screening app also has Gilmore Girls and Midsummer Murders

Warning: be careful where you stop reading at night or your brain will wake you up repeatedly trying to puzzle out what will happen next! Note to self: KEEP READING you will be exhausted regardless and you might as well know what happens

@AmyG you are the BEST! What an absolutely lovely gift to come home to today ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I would totally be up for a Buddy read!!! Let me know what works for you - my email is pmcclure@rogers.com I‘m excited to read this ( I love books about libraries and magical creatures so much)

Yep.

Might be obsessed now