#5joysfriday 1. I did a collage art project with 3 grade 1 classes and covered the artist-tree with birds on Monday 2. I got my nails done in pastels ( abstract Easter eggs) 3. My favourite clothing store shares my views on Spring weather 4. I went out on a Friday night 🤯 to see the funnest band ever and everyone I know was there 🤣 I danced for hours ( they play covers of hits from the 70‘s through to the 00‘s ) 5. The sun shone today ☀️

I‘m part of the cool kids now #sundaybuddyread thanks to @TheBookHippie for her amazing gift and fearless leading 😘😘😘

Reading outside today 🎉 this is my second book by this author she‘s an automatic buy for me from now on ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ another perfect multi generational story of friendship and love and community and total delight

A day off #praisebe listening to this gem of a book while I did errands all morning around town and finished it off with the V in Lego. This book is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and should be read by everybody. I learned a lot, I understand so much more and I am hopping mad at the shaft women get over and over. We have drunk the koolaid and it‘s time to spit it out

Wednesday and yes that‘s snow/slush/sleet out my window WTF

It seemed to last forever ( but shorter than January 🙏🏻) and it meant lots of books although none of them really from deep in my TBR 🤦🏻‍♀️

I might try to track down a print copy but in the meantime I‘ve got Serial #hashtagbrigade

Learning some things

Reading on my prep at school

Written 20 years ago, PR creates an alternative past for the US that hits way different in 2025 than it must have in 2005. As powerful as The Handmaids Tale and just as freaking scary

I love this fantasy world

Set in 1920‘s London, involving the murder of a Chinese man that was beneath the police to investigate. Two very different Chinese men combine forces to investigate the murder and find themselves looking for a serial killer. Absolutely needs to be made into a BBC tv series

My take away so far ( last 1/4 of ACOWAR) Feyre chooses to be kind over and over again despite warnings and common sense. The world needs this kind of energy. All of us live here and all of us belong. If your actions keep someone down then you aren‘t living your best life. #teamfeyre #girlpower #choosekind

#5joysfriday 1. It‘s Friday #praisebe and my mini pack of Canadian wine order came 2. Fairy porn aka ACOWAR 3. Spring art with a grade 1 class because 4. Spring is psycho 5. Federal election is a go and I have mostly positive feelings that the Liberals will win ( the premier of Alberta is bonkers for trump and sinking the conservative ship 🤞🏻🤞🏻 with her nonsense)

Happy almost Friday! Celebrating with a slutty red and fairy porn #livingmybestlife

I blasted through ACOMAF and I‘m rereading it while #littensloveacotar continues the 3 chapters a day buddy read but I‘m weak and have started ACOWAR

Starting a new Lego set

Rainy Mondays call for staying in bed

Told over 2 weeks, an immigrant family faces off against the American dream and learns the cost in real time. I fluctuated between wanting to scream and wanting to cry, I was crying by the end.

Reading in bed all day. Probably. I don‘t know whether I want to rage or cry at this book.

#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