Hard to feel embarrassed when we didn't know how bad it would turn out. Perhaps he is marginly better than the other main option would have been.

Maybe I'll just take the bookmark. 👀🥐

4? I can be easily intimidated by people I don't know well online. Our interactions thus far have been pretty good.

It's a mixed bag. You may have little control over who you love. You do have the choice to nurture it and let it grow in different ways.

ooo... those are gorgeous 🍄

I enjoyed the re-read. I was surprised at how much I remembered of the book and at forgetting the detail at the end for a large age gap relationship. Nothing explicit happens with latter. And it is mentioned in passing in the next book. I do wonder why it was put in here at all. It's weird.

the movies of where the dog dies were shown in school, I wish I had know that it was coming & could have excused myself

Oh lawrd... I bawled over that movie. And Where The Red Fern Grows. And Watership Down. 🙈

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, a book a highly recommend. Between that one and My Ishmael by the same, my perspective of world greatly shifted. Back in the early 2000s. It's another book that I'm not sure it would be considered a classic. I certainly hope it will be recognized as such if not already. 💙📚

I'm not a big classics reader. One of my most recent reads was Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu.

I enjoyed reading the Silver Chalice by Thomas B Costain. I don't know if it is a classic, published 1952.

Rascal by Sterling North & All Dogs Go To Heaven by Beth Brown, were two I enjoyed forever ago.

Unlikely for those born to riches, raised with the comfort of those riches, and always with the safety net to relate to the average person.

It's a shame Teen Vogue fired all of the staff that exclusively covered politics.

Here's hoping🤞 There are few more bumps expected. Better than a complete surprise. Wishing you serenity as well.