1. Malice Domestic closing tea with a gift of the tagged book.
2. Nationals pet calendar cat picture when most months it‘s been a dog (also cute but not a cat).
3. New season of Welcome to Wrexham.
4. UMC eliminated the ban on LGBT pastors. I know some people who have been affected by this.
5. I just did early voting for the primary.
#5joysFriday
Started in March. Continued in April. Bailed in May. I have loved other books by this author, but March is too dour and dry.
OTOH I bailed on Thursday Murder Club and will also bail on this follow-up. I‘ll still go to book club, though, because it‘s the last meeting until September.
I finished the Pandian and read a bit of Emma, so I‘ve been reading The Lola Quartet and liking it so far.
#AwesomeApril #progressreport
A different kind of list today; read the above info. LINK TO THE MOVIE LIST:
https://bit.ly/3wjI50s
I erred on the side of caution and didn‘t include any of the movies I couldn‘t actively remember seeing (looking at you, Rocky sequels, Beetlejuice, etc.) and ended up with a score of 83/187 or 44%. Someday I ought to watch the National Lampoon movies…I guess? #TLT
This should right up my alley, but I found it kind of dry when I first started reading it, and now the moment has passed. Off to the LFL it goes!
It wasn‘t a good month for reading magazines either, but perhaps I can catch up a little in May?
Meanwhile, I managed to acquire “only” six books at Malice Domestic. Three of them were free, and of the ones I bought only one is for me. Just don‘t ask about the swag!
#readordonate #monthlymagazineblitz
It wasn‘t the best month for reading, but I managed to finish five books in April. #wrapup
BTW this book sounds adorable.
I‘ll be back later with April recaps, but first…May mysteries!
These are my “required reading” for this month but not all I expect to read. #preview
🚁 Of course I love the flowers, but it‘s not springtime without flying maple seeds (AKA helicopters).
🥐 Legends & Lattes
🗓️ I need some special plans for May!
#wondrouswednesday
1. This month I diverged from picking a mystery set in Northern California as my favorite. I did read one, but L&L was really a delight.
2. The Lola Quartet
#two4tuesday
This was a fun read. She‘s a charming speaker. Now I have another to add to #serieslove2024 and probably more still to add later.
This was my #FavBkOfMarch #springskies
While it didn‘t win the Agatha award for best first novel, I did recommend it to a mother and daughter I met at breakfast.
Now that I‘m home from Malice Domestic, I can turn my attention to what I plan to read for the next #readathon
-I met Gigi Pandian at dinner, so now I really need to finish her book!
-The Bullet That Missed is for next week‘s book club.
-A few more chapters of Emma 😎
-The Lola Quartet is for May‘s #authoramonth
-March is slow going, so we‘ll see how that goes.
There‘s one more book I plan to finish that‘s still in my car…
There are more than #2BksWSimilarTitle as well as at least three songs. Here‘s one them. #springskies
https://youtu.be/yVm8PjWCvLg?si=eRY6-qwirQzd5ftr
Alexia Gordon at an interesting panel during Malice Domestic. Topic: What scares you? Her answer: chihuahuas but not clowns.
1. I redid my bookcases and put my TBR shelves near each other. Top shelf also includes favorites that I‘ve kept.
2. I‘m at Malice Domestic! That TBR list is CRYING after a “speed dating with authors” session.
3. Live performance of Grieg piano concerto. Very dramatic!
4. Two ballgames with drastically different outcomes but fun to hang out with my “summer family.”
5. Book club outing at a brewery in a bucolic setting.
#5JoysFriday
As @dabbe said, this could change in five minutes.
1. Anything for You (Gloria Estéfan)
2. Take On Me (a-ha)
3. Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)
#TLT
1. I‘m so suburban, my area is between two cities.
2. Wilde Lake is about fifteen minutes away.
#two4tuesday
1. Finish the tagged book 😀
2. Kili says he can‘t change the channel because he doesn‘t have thumbs. 👍🏻
3. I‘d like to be an otter: swim around all day and break shells with rocks. 🦦
4. ✅
This book is due back in two days, and I don‘t want to renew it. I‘m not hating it, but I don‘t feel like spending seven more hours with it. Even though it‘s an #awardwinner and an #authoramonth selection, I‘m bailing. #springskies
1. A mama duck with several babies hanging out at the community center.
2. I bought a shredder. (Yes, I know I need to get out more.)
3. First pedicure since Christmas.
4. Selecting nominations for #CampLitsy (there‘s still time).
5. Singapore noodles at a new-to-me restaurant, and some of the proceeds went to a local cat rescue organization.
#5joysfriday
This book has a strong sense of place and sometimes insightful writing, but overall it needed more editing. I also didn‘t find the story very satisfying for many reasons. Apparently the following books in the series feature a different main character who‘s more compelling than the guy in this book, but even so I don‘t think I‘ll read any further.
In any case #Montana is done and there are only a few states left! #52mysteries
More travel, less cholesterol.
I‘ve managed to stay married despite not having the best example in my parents, in part because of sheer stubbornness.
#wondeouswednesday
1. Haircut, ballgame
2. Trees, apartments, parking lot
3. Maryland USA. It‘s a little muggy!
4. Tagged
Here are my nominations for #CampLitsy2024
See the post from @BarbaraBB if you‘d like to join in the fun!
Inspired by @julesG ‘s comment on my #sundayfunday post…
However, one could say that any book I read #InvolvesHeist 😎
#springskies
I have a copy of Hamlet that, according to the stamped label in the front, a relative of my mother-in-law used during the 1923-1924 school year. #sundayfunday
1. Partial eclipse. Photo courtesy of Capital Weather Gang.
2. Walks in the woods.
3. I finished the tagged book about two hours before the book club meeting. We had a good discussion and all agreed that it‘s not really a mystery.
4. Myspouse has been off all week, and dinner has been delicious every night.
5. After two months of instructor illness and pool issues, therapeutic aquatics class has resumed.
#5joysfriday
All #authoramonth edition of #wondrouswednesday
1. What‘s happening here?
2. The Lola Quartet
3. Tana French
Very interesting story about an army captain sent to survey Alaska, and his wife who was unable to accompany him. Epistolary novels are hit and miss for me, but their letters to each other were poignant and memorable.
A former coworker took a job in Anchorage and sent me this picture from her commute.
#setinsnow #springskies
Perveen leaves Bombay for the mountains and finds herself embroiled in palace intrigue. Interesting story. Now onto Book 3! #serieslove2024
1. A mostly quiet week of cleaning and organizing.
2. Nothing special, as long as it‘s not too messy.
3. I have a container full of bookmarks but will still just use whatever I have on hand.
4. Tagged!
#motivationalmonday
Congratulations to @DebinHawaii for reaching 500K Litfluence! #500Kgiveaway
Here are five things that give me joy
-my morning coffee ☕️
-fuzzy black brat cat 🐈⬛
-hearing my husband‘s key in the door 🔑
-bagpipes (I‘m weird that way) 🎶
-cheering for the Nationals ⚾️
This book #involvesart … and murder. It doesn‘t seem very popular on Litsy!
Picture is from the immersive Monet exhibit I visited last month. Hence the deck chairs!
#springskies
Interesting presentation at the senior center today about animals in the Civil War. (Spoiler alert: no elephants were involved.) Here‘s the same presentation a few months ago at a different venue. https://youtu.be/lPijg-c0lvI?si=T0M1yIxG0ZxizbfK
#animalPOV #springskies
1. I‘m going to Malice Domestic at the end of the month! Sujata Massey is the Guest of Honor, so that‘s a good reason to keep reading in the Perveen Mistry series.
2. Not preordered, but I put the tagged book on hold on Libby.
#two4tuesday
1. Baseball, doctor appointments, and hosting our friends‘ cats while they chase the eclipse.
2. Goodreads says 394…
3. Horror
#motivationalmonday
I completed two April #bookclubread selections and am reading a third (tagged). I made progress on Emma and March, and I threw in The House on Mango Street after moving it several times. #springskies #marvellousmarch
Also in March: evolving circumstances allowed / required me to accelerate my plan to move out a piece of furniture and relocate this little bookcase in its place. In the process I folded my #readordonate books back into the general TBR shelf and decided to donate the tagged book unread.
Magazines to be read are on the bottom shelf and stacked on the side. On top of the magazines are the “outbox” for books and a box for the Real Simple cards.
Two books for March book clubs. Two books for April book clubs. Two books read and returned to the LFL. One book read for #serieslove2024 with the next installment proving to be elusive.
My favorite read this month was the tagged book, though Tomorrow… is a close second.
#wrapup
Google says this book is set in spring. I haven‘t read it yet, but it‘s on my shelf! #sundayfunday
In 2016 I went with a friend of mine to see the Go-Go‘s during their farewell tour. This was a nice bit of symmetry, because I saw them in 1982 as the opening act for The Police. Anyway, I have no idea what song this is, but I‘ll pretend it‘s Vacation (All I Ever Wanted) for the sake of the prompt. 😎
#withvacation #ittakesallkinds
Today I finished the last March back issue of Real Simple, as well as this sad and insightful collection of vignettes about a young Hispanic girl in Chicago.
A couple days ago I got a free copy of the April 2024 issue in an attempt to lure me back. Nice try but no.
#readordonate #monthlymagazineblitz
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