"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library" – Jorge Luis Borges
永久免费国际加速器
Email: real.life.reading.blog AT gmail DOT com
海外永久免费加速器
Follow Real Life Reading on WordPress.com
免费加速器看国外视频
Social
View reallifereadng’s profile on Twitter
View real.life.reading’s profile on Instagram
能上国外网的免费加速器
1330v
A Good Stopping Point
Beaches and Books
Beyond Eden Rock
book-a-rama
Bookfoolery and Babble
Buried in Print
Citizen Reader
Further Musings of a Librarian
Literary Lindsey
免费翻国外墙的app
Reading the End
So Many Books
蚂蚁vp(永久免费)
Tales from the Reading Room
The Boston Bibliophile
免费翻国外墙的app
国外免费加速器下载
The Indextrious Reader
We Be Reading
WOC Reads
Contact me
Email: real.life.reading.blog AT gmail DOT com
能上国外网的免费加速器
免费加速器看国外视频
Meta
Register
Log in
Entries feed
Comments feed
WordPress.com
蚂蚁vp(永久免费)
1330v
A Good Stopping Point
免费跨国加速器
永久免费国际加速器
book-a-rama
Bookfoolery and Babble
Buried in Print
Citizen Reader
Further Musings of a Librarian
Literary Lindsey
Pickle Me This
Reading the End
So Many Books
Stainless Steel Droppings
Tales from the Reading Room
The Boston Bibliophile
The Captive Reader
The Englishist
The Indextrious Reader
We Be Reading
WOC Reads
bySharlene
极光 vp
国外免费加速器, Books, library loot, Reading
kids books, library loot
3 Comments
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
Claire has the link-up this week.
Some holds for new books came in for me this week. Quite excited!
Oooh very excited to get this hold!
10 Things I Hate About Pinky – Sandhya Menon
The follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie follows Pinky and Samir as they pretend to date—with disastrous and hilarious results.
Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny-tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe.
Pinky loves lazy summers at her parents’ Cape Cod lake house, but after listening to them harangue her about the poor decisions (aka boyfriends) she’s made, she hatches a plan. Get her sorta-friend-sorta-enemy, Samir—who is a total Harvard-bound Mama’s boy—to pose as her perfect boyfriend for the summer. As they bicker their way through lighthouses and butterfly habitats, sparks fly, and they both realize this will be a summer they’ll never forget.
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She’s grieving the death of her father (who she has more in common with than she’d like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future.
Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled covered pizzas for her son’s happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other towards middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.
Bold, tender, propulsive, and unexpected in countless ways, Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world.
Beach Read – Emily Henry
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
蚂蚁vp(永久免费)
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
I had no idea one sunflower plant could have so many flowers!
A new-to-me plant – San Marzano tomato. I’ve usually planted cherry tomatoes.
The photo below is of hyssop anise.
We hit a couple of parks over the weekend and this one was nice and empty. We were a bit uncomfortable at the main park, which is pretty and has a huge lake to walk around, as there were quite a few people there didn’t wear masks. And also there was one family who had their masks around their chins. I mean what’s the point of that? There are signs around the park that say face coverings are required. We have mainly been sticking to walks around our neighborhood and to our nearest two parks (one walkable, the other bikeable) and there, most of the people wear masks.
Finally made some masks for the husband and myself. I had made some for the kids earlier too.
Currently…
Reading:
Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan Saga #1) – Lois McMaster Bujold
Watching:
The Umbrella Academy Season 1
Listening:
On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
海外永久免费加速器
Drinking:
Coffee – I woke up before 5 this morning…
Cooking:
Last week:
I read:
Ghosts of Greenglass House – Kate Milford
Frost Burned – Patricia Briggs
I posted:
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.
bySharlene
极光 vp
2023, Books, library loot, Reading
kids books, library loot
3 Comments
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from 免费加速器看国外视频 that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
Welcome to another Library Loot Wednesday! Please share with us your recent library haul, in the link-up or the comments below!
On the Come Up – Angie Thomas (audiobook)
Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri’s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri’s life as beats and rhymes. With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it—she has to make it.
On the Come Up is Angie Thomas’s homage to hip-hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families.
When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member. Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration and even stronger feelings emerge.
So in the ebook edition (cover above), this book was labeled as the first book in the saga. It was only after I downloaded it that I realised this was technically a standalone story, and in publication order was #4.
Leo Graf was an effective engineer…Safety Regs weren’t just the rule book he swore by; he’d helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students—till that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn’t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules…
Party of Two (The Wedding Date #5) – Jasmine Guillory
A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking.
Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her office with the cutest message, she can’t resist–it is chocolate cake, after all.
Olivia is surprised to find that Max is sweet, funny, and noble–not just some privileged white politician she assumed him to be. Because of Max’s high-profile job, they start seeing each other secretly, which leads to clandestine dates and silly disguises. But when they finally go public, the intense media scrutiny means people are now digging up her rocky past and criticizing her job, even her suitability as a trophy girlfriend. Olivia knows what she has with Max is something special, but is it strong enough to survive the heat of the spotlight?
What did you get from your library this week?
bySharlene
极光 vp
海外永久免费软件加速器, Currently Reading, It's Monday! What are you reading?, Reading
I made Lemon Bliss Cake and chocolate chip doughnuts
The kids had a playdate with friends in the neighbouring park. It’s how birthdays are celebrated these days! A few hours spent outdoors, masks on, scootering, biking, snacking, climbing trees, playing with frisbees and stomp rockets
免费加速国外软件
Reading:
I feel like I’m reading more again!
Heart Berries – Terese Marie Mailhot
Watching:
J-Style Trip on Netflix – Taiwanese singer Jay Chou and his magician buddies travel the world. The kids love watching this, surprisingly, despite it all being in Mandarin.
Listening:
I just downloaded the audiobook of On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Eating:
For lunch, leftover paneer masala pizza!
Drinking:
Coffee
Cooking:
Maybe some Mac and cheese because we could all use some comfort food.
Claypot rice too!
Last week:
I read:
Fence Vol 1, 2, 3 – C.S. Pacat
The Old Guard Book 1 – Greg Rucka
Noughts and Crosses – Marjorie Blackman
I posted:
海外永久免费软件加速器
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.
bySharlene
极光 vp
蚂蚁海外加速器永久免费版, Books, library loot, Reading
kids books, library loot
2 Comments
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
Happy Wednesday! And welcome to another Library Loot post.
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot’s mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.
Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn’t exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
I was excited to have my hold come in! I loved the first book!
Take a Hint, Dani Brown – Talia Hibbert
Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral…
When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae—and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. Turns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?
Next up are some comics via Hoopla. As you may have seen, I only recently discovered that my library had a Hoopla subscription that started earlier this year. Then, I realised that Hoopla has a limit of six per month, which is so hard because I want to read SO MANY!
Crowded Vol 2 – Christopher Sebela
Eleven minutes into the future, Charlie Ellison is the subject of a million dollar crowdfunded REAPR campaign on her head. Low-rated DFEND bodyguard Vita is keeping her safe for 30 days from a desperate population looking to get rich quick with a gun and a dream.
After escaping a big, televised attempt on their lives and the Reapr campaign blowing past two million bucks, Charlie and Vita abandon Los Angeles for the utopian desert paradise of Las Vegas in search of who started the Reapr campaign and how to shut it down. In the process, the human debris of Charlie’s past and the well-kept secrets of Vita’s old life will come spilling out too. As tensions rise and the attempted murderers keep coming, the only thing more unlikely than Charlie and Vita surviving their Reapr killers is them surviving each other.
Fence Vol 1 and 2 – C.S. Pacat, Johana the Mad
Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training to actually compete. After getting accepted to the prodigious Kings Row private school, Nicholas is thrust into a cut-throat world, and finds himself facing not only his golden-boy half-brother, but the unbeatable, mysterious Seiji Katayama…
Through clashes, rivalries, and romance between teammates, Nicholas and the boys of Kings Row will discover there’s much more to fencing than just foils and lunges.
Ooh I was excited to find this one!
Shuri Vol 1: The Search for Black Panther – Nnedi Okorafor
The world fell in love with her in Marvel’s Black Panther. Now, T’Challa’s techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! T’Challa has disappeared, and everyone is looking at the next in line for the throne. Wakanda expects Shuri to take on the mantle of Black Panther once more and lead their great nation — but she’s happiest in a lab, surrounded by her own inventions. She’d rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them down! So it’s time for Shuri to go rescue her brother yet again — with a little help from Storm, Rocket Raccoon and Groot, of course! But when her outer-space adventure puts the entire cultural history of her continent at risk from an energy-sapping alien threat, can Shuri and Iron Man save Africa?
What did you get from your library this week?
bySharlene
极光 vp
2023, 国外免费加速器下载, It's Monday! What are you reading?, 浏览外网的免费加速器
Also, this cake from Alexander’s Patisserie which may look familiar if you’ve followed this blog for a while, as the husband has ordered it three years in a row for my birthday. It’s that good – and that sinful, so only a small slice for each of us.
For dinner, we had delicious Malaysian/Singaporean food, as well as Burmese food.
What a delightful birthday!
Currently…
浏览外网的免费加速器
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Watching:
免费外网加速器
Eating:
免费加速器看国外视频
Drinking:
Coffee
Cooking:
For dinner tonight, spinach and meatball pasta
Last week:
I read:
Beyond Magenta – Susan Kuklin
Braised Pork – An Yu
I posted:
Library Loot (July 8 to 14)
Most-Read Authors #TopTenTuesday
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date.
bySharlene
极光 vp
2023, Books, 免费外网加速器, Reading
kids books, 海外永久免费软件加速器
3 Comments
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
Happy July! We are into the second half of 2023. And what a year it has been… and I’m going to just leave it at that, and just hope that things improve as we move further into 2023.
But we will always have books. Meanwhile, if you have Library Loot to share, join in the fun below!
Iris (or balletgirl_42 as she’s known on the Internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated by a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her friends–Maud, Grandma Suggs, Larry the Monkey, and a group of singing penguins–to comfort her, her fears begin to encircle her, and she clings to the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39.
The Inflatable Woman combines magical realism with the grit of everyday life to create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.
Contributors include: Jesmyn Ward (Sing Unburied Sing), Lynn Nottage (Sweat), Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn), Gabourey Sidibe (This Is Just My Face), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), Zinzi Clemmons (What We Lose), N. K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season), Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun), Rebecca Walker (Black, White and Jewish), and more.
I figured that the best way to find this out is to look through my Goodreads “read” list. But it turns out that finding out my “most read author” setting is no longer available!
My list does have 3416 books (as of July 6, 2023), so it was a bit of a task scrolling through to find out the most-read authors…also it doesn’t count all the authors I read prior to my joining Goodreads/when Goodreads was in existence…
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018.
bySharlene
极光 vp
2023, Currently Reading, It's Monday! What are you reading?, Reading
eating, 海外永久免费加速器, 免费外网加速器
7 Comments
It was a long weekend for the husband, whose office was closed from Thursday, to celebrate Independence Day. Usually my city has a parade down the Main Street, featuring motorbikes, gymnasts, school bands, wushu performances, floats and more. But this year, of course, that could not take place! The flyby still did happen though, and the kids loved watching the propeller planes go by in formation – three times!
For July 4th, we did a backyard barbecue with ribeye steak, sausages, asparagus, mini peppers, potatoes, and corn. And I had made my first ever lemon meringue pie!
Other things this past week – tired of waiting for the masks we ordered to arrive (they don’t seem to have shipped still!), I pulled out some old clothes, that small sewing kit tucked away for mending, and checked out a Youtube video for making face masks without a sewing machine
免费加速国外软件
Reading:
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
Watching:
Crazy Delicious on Netflix – love the fun set and the way the contestants get to “forage” for the ingredients instead of that silly race to the pantry that most cooking competitions have.
Strawberry and clementine water. That is, I chopped some fruits up, and popped into a glass jug filled with cold water. It sat there overnight. And is nice and refreshing.
Cooking:
I have lots of vegetables to cook up – broccoli in the oven, perhaps, if it’s not too hot.
I was considering making some lemon bars or my favourite海外永久免费软件加速器
Last week:
I read:
A Taste of Sage – Yaffa S. Santos
国外免费加速器手机版
I posted:
Library Loot (July 1 to 7)
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. This meme started with J Kaye’s Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the 蚂蚁vp(永久免费).
bySharlene
海外永久免费加速器
2023, 蚂蚁vp(永久免费), library loot, 海外永久免费软件加速器
免费翻国外墙的app, 免费跨国加速器
3 Comments
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.
Happy Wednesday! And welcome to the first Library Loot of July.
Lumi Santana is a chef with a gift: she can perceive a person’s emotions by tasting their cooking. Despite being raised by a mother who taught her that dreams and true love were silly fairy tales, she puts her heart and savings into opening her own fusion restaurant in Upper Manhattan. The restaurant offers a mix of the Dominican cuisine she grew up with and other world cuisines she is inspired by.
When her eclectic venture fails, she is forced to take a position as sous chef at a staid, traditional French restaurant owned by Julien Dax, a celebrated chef known for his acid tongue as well as his brilliant smile. After he goes out of his way to bake a tart to prove her wrong in a dispute, she is so irritated by his smug attitude that she vows to herself never to taste his cooking.
But after she succumbs to the temptation and takes a bite one day and is overcome with shocking emotion, she finds herself beginning to crave his cooking and struggling to stay on task with her plan to save up and move on as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Julien’s obsessed secretary watches with gnashed teeth as they grow closer and becomes determined to get Lumi out of her way permanently.
Polaris Rising – Jessie Mihalik
A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure—the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.
Ada eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head.
When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves.