Pre-dinner whiskey

📚Book Review📚

Title: Whale Fall: A Novel
Author: Elizabeth O’Connor
Genre: Coming-of-age Fiction

Synopsis:
A dead whale washes up on a remote island off the coast of Wales in 1938 (on the cusp of WWII).

📚Nonfiction Books that Blew My Mind Book Stack📚

I usually read fiction with an occasional nonfiction thrown on the TBR stack just to keep me on my toes. Some nonfiction bores me, but every now and then, I find one that blows my mind. 

These nonfiction books blew my mind. Seriously.

The hubs and I enjoyed a fantastic dinner with this friend.

🏛️Book Review🏛️

Title: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Author: Agnes Callard   
Genre: Nonfiction (philosophy)

Synopsis:
This book addresses Socrates’ suggestion that we should all be preparing ourselves for death by devoting ourselves to philosophizing about our life’s purpose.

📚Kindle & Cigars📚

Is it cold outside ? Yes.
But is enjoying some much needed Kindle and cigar time worth enduring that cold? Emphatically yes!

Book: Leviathan Wakes (Book 1 of The Expanse series)
Cigar: Rocky Patel Dark Star Toro (6 x 60)

There comes a point in every man’s life when he finally realizes that his TBR stack has turned into overflowing TBR stacks. It’s at this point that the man understands it’s time for restraint and increased self-control.

This book, y’all!

Rainy day happy dance!

📚Book Review📚

➡️ My photos make more sense if you understand this book’s premise.

Title: The Day Tripper by James Goodhand

This book will leave you in a state of literary equilibrium. It tells the story of a young musician who wakes up each day in a life lived completely out of order.

Book nerd epiphany:
I’ve dreamt about living in a block universe. 🤯

A block universe is a model that suggests all events - past, present and future - exist simultaneously.

The idea is fully in my head at the moment, and I keep finding myself wondering, not where I am, but when I am.

💜Birthstone Book Stack💜

Amethyst is my birthstone. I scoured my shelves for inspiration and realized that I don’t have a lot of books that exude amethyst. I had just a few, but hey - these are great books!

I’m in need of some quality deer stand time.

This is me grappling with the fact that I can’t sit under a blanket on my couch and read all day. The struggle is real.

In honor of Black History Month, here’s a stack of my fave books written by black authors.

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dark Princess by W.E.B. Du Bois

⛰️Book Review ⛰️

Ever read a book that both massages and prods your mind and your soul?

I can’t seem to put this book down. I am reading it for a second time in two weeks, but I have reread several of the individual writings multiple times now.

When you’re making sure your hubby doesn’t see you going into the bookstore. I’m definitely NOT buying new books.

These beautiful people.

Afternoon cigar and book time.

Peanut butter brownie cake should be its own food group.