Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Thursday, March 06, 2025

Call Me Cheap

Am so very thankful for access to my library card.
If I had to buy every book, I'd have no money.

The library allows me to read an ebook or a 'real' book, and to listen to audiobooks.

Some of the titles that I've enjoyed recently:

Joy Ellis: "Echoes On The Fens", book #15 in the DI Nikki Galena series, police procedurals in Lincolnshire.

Kelley Armstrong: "Cold As Hell", book #3 in the Havens Rock series, a secluded and exclusive town in the wilds of Yukon, Canada.

K. L. Armstrong: "Every Step She Takes", a thriller that moves from Rome to New York, with twists and turns when a past social media fiasco is splashed across the news again, with a very different ending.

Mason Cole: "William", artificial intelligence in ways you've never thought about, and they will scare you to death, with a complete surprise ending.

Dana Thomas: "Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes" is an overview of worldwide clothing manufacturing, the pollution caused by dyes, fabrics, the sweatshop mentality in all parts of the world, and those entrepreneurs who are rethinking the process to make clothing humans sustainable, healthy, economically viable, and aid a societal uptick in recycling, minimal waste, and healthy environments for workers and buyers.

Gillian McAllister: "Famous Last Words", a novel in which a London-based writer ends up in a hostage situation at the office building where he rents an office, but he's the one holding the gun. 

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Friday, February 14, 2025

Thursday, January 16, 2025

❤️ Mythical ❤️

January 16 is Appreciate A Dragon Day!


Dragon's WILL eat you, so it's best to be kind to them, and appreciate their immense power, their hordes of gold or books, and their sheer adorableness!

Like cats, but much bigger, with scales and wings, yet just as silly.
🐉

 I, for one, am thankful for dragons; whimsy is one of the joys of life.

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Thursday, January 02, 2025

I'm Staying Home

January 2 is World Introvert Day!
Yep, prefer to be a human cat bed with a book or five.

And a cup of tea.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Wright Bros

Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane, the Wright Flyer, that were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Let's take a look at my photo library for something to commemorate this day, using the word 'flying':

SR71 Blackbird Reconnaissance Aircraft at the USAF Museum, Dayton Ohio USA
No Dragon Ride for you!
Aww, darn!
✈️😹🐉

Friday, November 01, 2024

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Happy Bastille Day, France!

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (“liberty, equality and fraternity”)

Freepik Image
Haven't yet traveled to France, yet family members have, and they of course sent cat images to me!
Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Julie Manet With Cat", 1887
Musée d'Orsay
Pierre Bonnard
"Le Chat Blanc", 1894
Musée d'Orsay
Au Chat Bleu, Paris

I have read a few books that are based in France:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
Peter May's The Enzo Files, 7 books with more to come, we hope
The Paris Key by Juliet Blackwell
Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell
The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
🇫🇷

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

As A Reader

Know what scares me this time of year?

NOT HAVING BOOK TO READ!!!

Hahahaha...as if that will ever happen, as there are over 700 books on my To Be Read (TBR) list, plus the stacks of books on my night table, on my desk, in the cubby under the stairs, and oh yes...on the book shelves. 
I love to read!

And...
 🦇📚🦇📚🦇

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Garden Walk Cats

Our city had a garden walk yesterday, with rain included in the ticket price, and the starting point was the local history museum and garden.

Image my surprise when I found cats!
A sleeping cat stuffy, in the front parlor at The Crocker House Museum
This shy kitty was watching the garden lovers.
Cool mat!
Sly's humans opened their lovely yard to sightseers; I was greeted with, "Hiya, Sly's Girlfriend!"
Himself did not deign to appear; this image is from last week.
Saxifrage, according to my iPhone; the homeowner didn't know the name.
Some sort of succulent, on the edge of a delightful swimming pool.
Magnolia
What a delight chatting with the docents and homeowners, despite the wet.

Met:

-A retired cat veterinarian (!)

-A professional gardener

-A Michigan-loving UK transplant

Convos about:

Hummingbirds

Koi 

The library and a few book titles (!)

Architecture

Plants: bamboo, strawberries, milkweed, lavender, sedum

Garden decorations: Japanese dog sculpture, ponds and waterfalls, mosaic, wrought-iron chairs/railing/fencing, and the desire to use found/recycled objects.

☔🌼🌂🌿🐝

Friday, April 28, 2023

Not A Worm

😹😹😹

23-29 April, 2023

"Celebrate National Library Week with the theme "There's More to the Story." Libraries are full of stories in a variety of formats from picture books to large print, audiobooks to ebooks, and more. But there's so much more to the story."

 

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Purrfect Place to Nap: On A Book

Aww, so cute!

23-29 April, 2023

"Celebrate National Library Week with the theme "There's More to the Story." Libraries are full of stories in a variety of formats from picture books to large print, audiobooks to ebooks, and more. But there's so much more to the story."

Friday, April 21, 2023

National Tea Day

 21 April is National Tea Day UK!

I love tea, almost as much as I love cats and books.

Lift a hot cup of your favorite brew to toast this wonderful beverage today.
💖🍵😻

Thursday, April 06, 2023

Tartan Day

 Tartan Day is a North American celebration of Scottish heritage on 6 April, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320.

Tartan Day originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s.

Go to https://www.facebook.com/terryrunyancreative for more cat art!
*groan*
💔Puppy in a kilt!💖
Today, I am BEYOND grateful to my bestest friend JB, who years ago suggested that I might like to read a newly published book: "Outlander".

Believe it or not, I ignored her advice, until thirty years later, in Autumn, 2021, I happened across the audiobook on my library phone app, and decided to give it a try.

I am now an official Outlander fangirl, having read the entire book series twice, AND watched the TV show on DVD from...wait for it...the library.

Therefore, one more tartan photo:

Actor Sam Heughan, portraying the hero of the Outlander stories, Jamie Fraser.
The tartan worn here was created by historians and costumers, using 1700's technology and dyes, for the most accurate re-creation of clothing at that time.
The actor makes it all look SMASHING!😽
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Thursday, March 02, 2023

Celebrating National Read Across America

Let's create and celebrate a nation of diverse readers!

Images gathered from social media only for the enjoyment of our readers.

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I am thankful for educators, libraries, and books!

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