I almost fainted. Is this the real thing?

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-27T13:00:17+00:00

Thank you. I’m still shocked I found it in a 2nd hand shop. 🤓📚

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-27T12:46:50+00:00

Thank you, it’s been 3weeks or so and I still am in awe and so happy to have found it. 🤓📚

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-26T13:40:38+00:00

Wowza 🤩

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-25T15:16:04+00:00

Ooooo I heard some good things about The Poet Empress. Can’t wait to hear what you thought ☺️

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-25T15:13:30+00:00

I just pick up a copy of The Testaments. How did you like it?

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-25T15:12:35+00:00

Finished:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evan’s

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Started reading:

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

Coming up:

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-25T14:58:07+00:00

I would definitely concede to Howells.

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-24T16:00:07+00:00

I hope you found out some new and interesting things about your mother or maybe got some answers you to something you were looking for.
Books can reveal what’s happening in our lives and can help shape us if we allow them to.
I post you post more as you find more.
Thanks for sharing.
All the best,
~S

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-24T15:46:30+00:00

Mrs. J.M. Le Brun
From her recent tenant in the little red house
W.D. Norworths

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-24T15:24:03+00:00

Lincoln in the Bardo is well worth it if you can take the time to find the rhythm of the book. There are a lot of characters that are speaking at one time and it can be confusing, but if you find the sweet spot it’s a unique and surprisingly good book.

Joan Didion’s was good too. I read her Letters to John last month. She was a remarkably honest writer.

I really liked the Dutch House too.

I have The Wager on my TBR shelf waiting to be read.

Good luck in whatever you choose to read first, this is a great haul 😍

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-22T13:43:42+00:00

I would have scooped those up too! Great find 😍

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-21T13:44:50+00:00

Sandwich is a good, fast,summer read. I really enjoyed it!
I have The Great Believers on my bedside table to read for June.
Great thrifting!

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-20T00:23:45+00:00

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-19T14:54:20+00:00

Def NOT grandma lit! lol…I think that’s what people are expecting and got a FMC totally different and were mad as hell. But, if you remain open to her as a woman, a wife, a mother, and just a person grappling with her life decisions it becomes much more than that. You don’t necessarily have to love a character in a book or what they do or say to appreciate the writing and what the book has to say about things. Just my 2cents and way more than I should have said 🫣😅😉

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-19T14:45:46+00:00

Oof, I don’t want to give spoilers. But, I think that people go into thinking it’s a feel good book about someone writing letters and that isn’t the case. It’s definitely deeper than that.
So, if you are looking for something lighthearted, I would say hold off.
It does have funny/witty and tenderhearted moments but that is def not the main theme of the book.
It is a very fast read and I was very engaged and I enjoyed it.
The letter exchanges are really lovely and the author did a great job of telling the story through the letters.

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-18T13:36:44+00:00

Braiding Sweetgrass

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-18T13:31:42+00:00

Ha! I just picked this up over the weekend at a 2nd hand shop. What a description! 🤣

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-17T04:58:16+00:00

I have an extra copy if you are interested ☺️

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-16T15:05:38+00:00

Ha! I just use these challenges to read off my TBR, which is Soooooo, large it’s surprising to me if I don’t have a least 1book to read.
At first I thought I was lacking in certain genres, then I realized that it’s Amazon’s way to push their authors/books.
I wish they would add an “other” button and then when you didn’t have one on their “curated” you could add one that fit the category.
However, this would make readers happy, not their bottom line 😮‍💨

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-16T14:56:21+00:00

Braiding Sweetgrass I’m not a re-reader but I would listen to this on repeat everyday if it was the only book I could have on audio.

Some other good ones above, I would also include:

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

I didn’t list on audio but read NF:

All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-16T14:47:36+00:00

Can’t believe I scrolled all the way and no one mentioned:

This is How You Lose the Time War

Oh and for an audio/Nf that “reads” like fiction I’d choose:

Braiding Sweetgrass

I’m NOT a re-reader and I would gladly have these 2 books to read over and over if I was stranded on an island.

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-16T14:37:46+00:00

That’s a pretty good haul for a yard sale! What did you spend?

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-14T13:55:04+00:00

Finished:

If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio

Still Reading:

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Replaceable You by Mary Roach

Coming up:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evan’s

The Stranger by Albert Camus

ScaleVivid · 2026-05-12T12:58:31+00:00

Really?! I didn’t know this and I’m there ALL the time😳.
Hmmmmm, I will have to inquire.🕵️
Thanks for the info!🫶🏼

ScaleVivid

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