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When you need something truly heart-warming... ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Dough Knights and Dragons 🐉
written by Dee Leone
illustrated by George Ermos

"A dragon & knight meet serendipitously then bond over their love of baking. The two secretly become friends but are required by law to duel in an upcoming tournament. Can the unlikely pair cook up a plan to evade the law, save their friendship, and spread good throughout the land?"

★"The lighthearted tone set by the clever title is reflected in the brief, buoyant, rhyming text, and further heightened by the cartoon style of the vividly colored illustrations." -Booklist

★"The peppy art keeps the action hopping & the tasty treats tempting… Cookery & chivalry mix together well in this cream puff of a tale." -Kirkus

★"Highly recommended… I could almost visualize myself walking right into that den & cooking along with them…" -Bookfoolery

★"Young readers will enjoy finding out how these two will avoid dueling with each other & if they can put an end to generations of hate. I love the message in this book, that fighting & hatred don’t have to be anyone’s destiny & two have the power to put an end to it & choose friendship instead." -Jana The Teacher

★"…loved it. A super sweet rhyming picture book about two enemies who become unlikely friends. Great read aloud with a big heart. Fun for kids of all ages. And adults too!" -Michael Mahin

★"Friendship!! Finding kinder solutions! Dragon & human competitions! Baking!! There isnt anything I don't love about this book." -dylaurora, The StoryGraph

★"This cleverly humorous book looks at getting along & creatively bucking the system. The illustrations are beautifully done & create a believable world to draw the reader in. This one is sure to be read over & over again." -Lisa Venditelli

★"Bebe & I both loved this one in equal measure. I was going to return it to the library today but am going to keep it to read it once more since we loved it so much!" -Rachel Willis, Goodreads

#deeleoneauthor #georgeermos #doughknightsanddragons #sterlingkids #sterlingchildrensbooks #unionsquarekids #unionsquarebooks #twogreykittensbookclub

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#CrookedHeart #HistoricalFiction #BookReview

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🌅"If you feel yourself forgetting how mighty words can be, try this: say something nice. It’s just a puff of air you put into the world, but you have moved a mood or erased a doubt or eased a difficult day. Words are powerful. Use them! Build each other up & we will all be stronger because of it." -KFrank

⛰️https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/37878/20190123/books-tomorrow-is-waiting

Tomorrow is Waiting🌇
written by Kiley Frank
illustrated by Aaron Meshon

"As a child dreams, their parent imagines everything they will someday be: independent & imaginative, kind & courageous, a listener & a leader. And each hopeful, heartfelt wish is paired with a promise of love."

★"This inspiring picture book soars with beauty & hope, awakening young readers to the infinite possibilities of their imaginations, as well as their humanity." -R.J. Palacio

★"A lyrical message of perseverance & optimism." -Kirkus

★"This book…explodes with bursts of color & warm fuzzy feelings from start to finish. Each page pops with whimsy…" -SLJ

★"Don't limit your thinking to this being a children's book. I'm buying a copy for myself! [T]his book offers empathy for the sadness & cheer for the happiness in life. I loved this book & can't wait to use it in story time…and leave it out on the coffee table when girls' night is at my house." -Michelle, Goodreads

★"I love [this] so much it brings tears to my eyes (and it's not a sad book). With absolutely gorgeous, eye-catching, bold illustrations, …talks about the many things a child has to look forward to… about courage, imagination, kindness, and hope… I can't think of a better way to put a child to bed at night than with such glorious hopes for the future." -Nancy Horner, Bookfoolery

★"…a great book for young children who are still trying to find their place in the world… how to follow their hearts & the world will take them on so many great adventures… illustrations really capture the beauty of the world & do a great job of instilling a love of nature & the world around us in children from a young age." -Jessica Lawson

#kileyfrank #aaronmeshon #penguinkidsbooks #tomorrowiswaiting #twogreykittensbookclub #tgkbcGRATITUDE

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Our good friend @books.and.furbabys challenged me to participate in, "The Book Gang Challenge".

Here goes!

Name of Gang: The Diary Keepers
Who The Members Are: The Feast of Fiction Kitchen
Where We Meet: In This Corner of the World
Our Next Potential Recruit: The Nightingale

I am tagging some awesome accounts to participate in this challenge but there is no pressure in this gang unlike the one that chased me when I was a missionary in Macon, Georgia (true story). Enjoy and love to hear everyone's answers even if I don't tag you!

#bookcoverchallenge #bookstagramchallenge #bookphotochallenge

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#spreadjoybookchallenge
One picture. No caption. Only books. No explanation.

(Tagging few peeps for the challenge)

@ankit.reads_ thank you so much for the tag 💛

#readerscommunity #readersofinsta #readersblog #literaryfiction #translatedfiction #bookstack #bookchallenges #bookchallenge #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booklovers #booksofig #spreadbookjoychallenge #bookreader #booksbooksbooks #personalblog #bookishpost #sadbooks #bookcommunity #bookishlife #bookworld #bookishlifestyle #bookishlove #darkbooks #bookrec #bookblogger #classics #contemporaryfiction #bookspread

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Are you the one? I picked you up, and put you on my shelf, but I’m not even sure. Your cover mislead me. The font, the illustration, the retro phone, I thought you were similar to others of your type, about crisis, being flawed, and running on existential angst.

I was floored and intrigued by the cover blurb that called you a miracle, so gave your back cover only a cursory glance

So, it’s my fault that I bought you and brought you into the house

I’ve been hanging out with you for weeks now, and haven’t got past page 45. It’s okay to take things slow, to savour, but I don’t know

This is a hurtful thing to say, something I can’t take back, that would end things before they truly began

I don’t know if you’re worth it

I’ve checked and you’re pretty thick clocking it at 273 pages. I say that only because you are consuming so much of my time, that could be spent on something more important

What if I have a stronger and more immediate connection with one of the other books?

But that’s not fair to you. I picked you. I invited you in. If it’s not too offensive to your artistic pretentions, I made a vow to finish what I started

Yes, you talk way too much about nothing, and show but never tell

Yes, I know, if you showed everything you’d take thousands and thousands, nay, an infinity of pages, but I don’t think you’re that deep

You speak of poverty, but is your author even poor, but does that even matter, and should it?

Write what you know, but we also need to invite, summon, create, translate, and channel, not merely think up, and be indulgent, be true to the character, kill your darlings, darling

It’s still only early days. You could be the wrong book, at the wrong time or the right book at the wrong time. But is there even a wrong time?

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It’s me, Rolly, reader of banned books 💪

On Wednesday, my new heroes PEN America and Penguin Random House sued the Escambia County, Florida School District and School Board over banned books ⚖️

(Swipe ⬅️ for the first page of the Complaint, as well as a couple of Washington Post remarks).

Speaking of Escambia county (Pensacola is the county seat), three months ago they banned “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson, M.D. and Peter Parnell, illustrations by Henry Cole.

In this true story, a pair of male chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo were given an egg a penguin couple couldn’t care for. The two male penguins, Roy and Silo, made a nest and sat on the egg ‘til the baby, named Tango, hatched. Then “Roy and Silo taught Tango how to sing for them when she was hungry. They fed her food from their beaks. They snuggled her in their nest at night.” How precious is that! 🐧🐧🐧

Not only should this book NOT have been banned, it should’ve been PROMOTED for so many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that this is scientific fact! This event happened! And what a wonderful way for kids to learn that there are all kinds of families in this world, in Escambia county too ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎

❓What’s the last banned book you read❓

#RollysReviews #rescuedog #dogswithjobs #RollyReads #andtangomakesthree #justinrichardson #peterparnell #henrycole 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 #banned #bannedbooks #ireadbannedbooks #penguin #simonandschuster

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It’s me, Sherlock Rolly 🕵️‍♂️ here with my finds from the #bookscavengerhunt (thanks for the 🏷️ @shelfishness) 🔎

Find 👀 a book that shows on its cover:

💁 A Face: James Baldwin. “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”

🚗 A Car: Agatha Christie. “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

🐻 An Animal: William Faulkner. “The Bear.”

📖 A Book: Charles Dickens. “The Life of our Lord.”

💐 A Flower: Evelyn Waugh. “The Loved One.”

🏠 A House: Jane Austen. “Northanger Abbey.”

I like uncomplicated challenges like this! Have a go at it if you’d like‼️

#RollysReviews #rescuedog #dogswithjobs #RollyReads #bookchallenge

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It’s me, Birthday Book model Rolly, showing off some of the books my Momager got last month for her birthday 🥳 …

🇺🇸 Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

🇬🇧 One Fat Englishman - Kingsley Amis

🇷🇺 Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov

🇬🇧 The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between - Patrick Foote

🇯🇵 Moshi Moshi - Banana Yoshimoto

🇯🇵 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima

I’m delighted with these books! And want to read all 6 at once 😂 The first 4 were on my wish list 🤞Thank you, sweetest @yono.literati for the last two wonderful surprises, plus the gorgeous bookmarks 💗💗💗

❓Have you read any of these❓I wonder which one to start with 🤔
❓Which would you pick❓

#RollysReviews #rescuedog #dogswithjobs #RollyReads #birthday #birthdaybooks #edgarallanpoe #mikhailbulgakov #bananayoshimoto #theheartofadog #yukiomishima #moshimoshi #springsnow #onefatenglishman #kingsleyamis

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We’re home from the Literary Roadtrip 🏡
and these are the last of the Faulknerland pix, friends:

📚 Some new Faulkner purchases meet the existing ones. I’m so looking forward to reading “A Fable” and comparing it to his outline on the wall of his office.

📖 Soldiers’ Pay, his first novel.

📸 This and the next pic were taken by @rowanoakofficial staff. Everyone was so welcoming 🙏 We’d definitely come back to Oxford to visit Rowan Oak again, browse @squarebooks and have dinner @ajaxdiner 😋

😂 As seen at Ole Miss. Gave me “Animal House” vibes (there’s no toga emoji).

⚖️ At the hotel, Dave after two Zoom hearings, hence the half suit. Solo practitioners never really get a day off.

🐶🚘 Rolly: ready to go!

🚗 Thanks for coming along with us on this fun Literary Roadtrip❣️We’re already planning our next one.

#RollysReviews #rescuedog #dogswithjobs #RollyReads #williamfaulkner #faulkner #oxford #mississippi #southerngothic #olemiss #roadtrip #literaryroadtrip #literaryadventure #rowanoak #roadtriprolly

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hey👋🏼 how is everyone doing?

while I haven’t been posting a lot lately, I’m still around— sort of— and lurking in the shadows of #bookstagram

I only read one book in January and I’ve finally made it more than halfway through my current read, Baby Teeth, so maybe I’ll finish a book this month too. Slow progress is the goal this year.

Things I’ve done lately…
- gotten a new book light and felt like a kid again
- went to a fun cider place
- took myself to see A Man Called Otto and cried in the theater more than once
- went out for a fancy dinner instead of watching the super bowl (or whatever it was that interrupted the Rihanna concert😜 don’t worry, I watched that later)

We are getting ready for a fun long weekend away and I am itching to get out and explore!

How are you all? How’s your reading going? Tagging a few friends because I miss chatting with you 💕

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what’s in my #hotgirltotebag 💁🏼‍♀️

Both @ayoungwritersworld and @thebooklifeof_hannah tagged me in this fun challenge, so I pulled out the most recent bag I’ve been carrying around a few things I usually include…

📖 A book, of course— this is one of my newest, One Italian Summer
📖 The book usually sits in my fun travel themed book sleeve
📖 My water bottle that I carry around everywhere
📖 My journal, with some pens in case inspiration strikes
📖 Headphones 🎶
📖 A tin of mints
📖 A tube of lipstick — although I also like to carry around chapstick, and
📖 My wallet, with all the essentials— but this one is a particularly fun succulent one I’ve been using these days

What’s in your bag or purse?? Any similarities??

I tagged a few friends but if you’ve already done this challenge or don’t want to, no worries!! It was fun gathering my bag and items together… I felt like I was heading out somewhere 😂

#bookbag #whatsinmybag #whatsinmypurse #bookstagram #bookish #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookblogger #bookblogging #bookstagramchallenge

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