First Line Friday #208

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

In 1558, when John Knox, the radical Scottish religious reformer, published his misogynist tract, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, he called attention to what was strangely true in the middle of the sixteenth century in Europe: a remarkable number of women had ascended to supreme governmental power.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #67

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

I don't have as much experience with this as others, but I know how I would feel IF my favorite characters died. I would be traumatized for ages.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

First Line Friday #207

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Jolting along in his buggy through the freezing night, gripping the seat with his free hand, Dr. MacGregor Porter could see the bonfire from the road.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #66

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

Who else has this problem? I could never choose a favorite book of all time. I have categories that each have a favorite book. How about you?

Happy Reading!
Sarah

I Hate Everything

 I’ve been trying to work on blog stuff and posts and updates, but it’s just not happening. Tuesday was awful, Wednesday was worse. I had students asking me if they were going to be sent to Mexico, away from the only home they’ve ever known. Kids who were born here, who are US citizens. Kids whose parents were born elsewhere. It’s so fucking heartbreaking.

If you voted for this, embrace it. Own it. You decided that being racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, narcissistic, a rapist, and a convicted felon were not deal-breakers.

We are not the same.

First Line Friday #206

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

When I was nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a 'twat'.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #65

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

I mean...it's not wrong.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

Spell the Month in Books | November

I am FINALLY getting around to this one, which is hosted by Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks. I have seen Marianne do this one forever and keep saying I would start...and then forget because, well, I don't know.

It's really easy. Just find book titles which spell the month in question. Jana does post optional themes for the months, if you like having that guide. I will not be using them, as themes are usually harder to do with non-fiction.

November

N 

O 

V 

E 

M 

B 

E 

R  

All of these are from my TBR, so hopefully it is yet another way for me to focus on that.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

First Line Friday #205

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Despite the oppressive heat, a vast crowd had gathered, pushing and sweating their way into the wide plaza in front of the entrance and spilling over into the boulevards leading to the venerable centuries-old cathedral.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #64

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

For me when I finish a really, really good book, it feels like a best friend has gone away. It's depressing.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

Stacking the Shelves #309

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by Reading Reality. It is a chance to showcase all the goodies you've collected throughout the week, whether they're bought on-line or in-store, an ARC or a final copy, borrowed from a friend or the library, physical or digital, etc

Pub Gift via NetGalley

Library Treasures

Happy Reading

Sarah

First Line Friday #204

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

It was the eve of Epiphany, 1537, a night of the most dazzling moonlight.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #63

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

Ain't that the truth.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

Stacking the Shelves #308

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature hosted by Reading Reality. It is a chance to showcase all the goodies you've collected throughout the week, whether they're bought on-line or in-store, an ARC or a final copy, borrowed from a friend or the library, physical or digital, etc

Library Treasures

NetGalley

Publicist Gift via NetGalley

Happy Reading

Sarah

First Line Friday #203

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

As President-elect Abraham Lincoln's train prepared to chug noisily out of the Great Western Railroad Depot in Springfield, Illinois, on a cold, wet February 11, 1861, security officials far to the east worked overtime to prevent his aassassination.

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Monday Meme #62

I am reviving this little feature after eight years. You might see a couple recycled from when I did this in 2016, but they were funny then and they are still funny now. Occasionally they will be more introspective or comforting. No matter what, they will be about reading and books.

One of the few instance where I will begrudgingly admit Kindles are better than physical copies.

Happy Reading!
Sarah

What A Week! (and a half, basically)

So my little lady has been sick since LAST LAST Thursday. She missed five days of school and basically laid in bed except to eat or go to the bathroom until this past Wednesday, when she finally had some energy. Still not really sure what it was, but her doctor treated it as a sinus infection and we had to try two different antibiotics to make any progress. Luckily her school has been on Fall Break now since Thursday, so she doesn't have school again until Tuesday. She's feeling so much better finally, but this is what Wednesday night looked like for us, so she got to pick the movie (Titanic, of course) and we snuggled on the couch.

Other big news that's causing lack of blog-related activity - exactly three weeks from today we will be waking up in Indianapolis the morning after seeing Taylor for the second time on The Eras Tour. To say we are excited is an understatement. This is easily one of the best concerts I have ever been to in my life (tied for second with Niall Horan/The Show Live on Tour, as Green Day/21st Century Breakdown Tour remains my #1 of all time).

Between first seeing Taylor last June, and then seeing the movie several time in theatres (both regular theatre and at the drive-in), we've been busy bees making bracelets to trade. For the June show, we each made maybe 25 bracelets, and ran out well before the concert started.

   

 This time I am better prepared and I will never again have to tell another little girl I have no more bracelets to trade. This Momma will ALWAYS have one to trade. Or in this case...hundreds.

We still have more to make, as I typically focus on one album at a time and you can see that some groups are a little sparse. Bracelets are organized by album, each with their own shower curtain ring. That's 11 albums, plus an 'other' for sayings and phrases that Swifties new and old alike will know.

I am so excited to share this experience with my girl for a second time. I love concerts and live music; I can't even count the number of shows I have been to in my life, or all the songs and artists who have saved me time and time again.

And on top of that, our fave cousin and Eleanor's BFF are both coming with us. It will be Eleanor's BFF's first concert EVER. When we saw the film at the drive-in, she looked at me with huge eyes and asked, "This is what we are seeing?!" She was in awe and I can't wait to capture that moment on video for her mom.

Looking back over the last year and a half and counting Taylor coming up, we will have been to SEVEN concerts in about 18 months (Lizzo, Louis Tomlinson, Louis Tomlinson, Taylor, Olivia Rodrigo, Niall Horan, Taylor). After this show, we will be concert-less until Mr. Harry Styles announces his next one, and hopefully Zayn Malik adds more dates to his current tour. Then it will be time for Louis and Niall again, and eventually Ms. Swift once more.

We're off to make more bracelets now.

Happy Reading!

Sarah