This Perfectly Imperfect Life

Up first for my #SheReads #summerreads is The Book Of Summer by @mgablewriter: Living on the coast of NJ where we experience (too) many storms year after year, especially more recently the Nor'Easter of '08 and Hurricanes Irene & Sandy, which were way too close for comfort (saying the very least) the struggle to maintain generations old ways of life, and now watching them vanish is a very real & relate-able subject for me. Always love a Nantucket setting for a Summer read! (I actually enjoy it when the finicky coastal weather is captured just so, because it's like that here where I live!) Wanted a little more of Cliff House itself and Bess because of how much I enjoyed them. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks again to @stmartinspress for this beautiful copy!  A more traditional review coming here soon (having internet issues today). @shereadsbookclub  #bookrec #frommyshelf  #bookish #booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookreview #bookblogger #summerreading #read...

This evening's #nofilter #sunset from my walk 🙌🏻 64* again with little humidity and gorgeous! I've started PT and as part of it I'm taking the short walk to the end of our road & back, with a gradual incline one way. (This was the first). Let the road to recovery begin!  #spoonie #spoonielife #RAwarrior #rheumykidneys #rheumatoidarthritis #rheumatoiddisease #anothernewnormal #kidneyfriendlylifestyle #upheavalintorevival #nofilterneeded #june #summer #clouds #walkabout #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisisfortysomething #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

'Julia Child' 💛 First bud of the season opened (finally!) today 🎉 I've been puttering around since I awoke this morning: cleaning up the mess Saturday morning's early storms left throughout #tinyyard (nothing like being woken up by a tornado warning 😳), making fresh lemonade (hey when you've got lemons 🍋) and fresh ice decaf coffee, plus that potato salad I told Big I was going to make yesterday 😬😁 Windows & doors open wide, it's beautiful! Some days you just need to putter...  #homemade #mondaymonday #foodie #gardenwalk #rosechat #roses #juliachildrose #juliachild #june #summer #upheavalintorevival #mondaymusings #simplepleasuresgreatestjoy #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

Happy 20th Birthday #HarryPotter 🎉  #bookish #booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #bookphotography #readinglife #readersofinstagram #frommyshelf #harrypotter #harrypotterseries #happybirthdayharrypotter #simplepleasuresgreatestjoy #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

For this #fridayreads and #fridayfavorites, I'm sharing something a little different! I'm sharing with you John Grisham's new podcast, Book Tour With John Grisham, because I listened to the first episode earlier today and loved it! I hope you will too. The first episode features him and author Jodi Picoult talking book stores, and writing. I listened via iTunes, but it's also available on Google Play, and wherever podcasts are available.  #bookish #bookworm #booknerd #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #authorpodcasts #readinglife #writinglife #podcasts #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

Happy Summer Solstice! And Happy Birthday Big 🎉🎂🎈 #welcomesummer #happysummersolstice #happysolstice #happybirthday #summersolstice #june #summer #nofilter #morningmotivation #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

#currentlyreading @joshilyn_jackson's latest The Almost Sisters, due out next month! Thank you again Ms. Joshilyn for the ARC *and* for signing it! Which I missed the day I saved it from the flash flood heading towards our porch just as I got home from one of my kidney surgeries 😬😂🙈🤓 Also a @shereadsbookclub #summer selection! 📚 #booknerd #bookworm #bookish #fiction #shereads #bookstagram #summerreads #summerreading #readinglife #readersofinstagram #spoonie #southernlit #frommyshelf #coastalliving #coastalsummer #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife @williammorrowbooks @harpercollinsus

Happy #SummerSolsticeEve y'all! It's also Big's bday Eve 🎉🎈 We lucked out with the storms yesterday so it wasn't bad, just a few hours of needed rain, now the giant hosta is about to bloom 💚 Windows wide open working through piles of paperwork that grew over recent months, and it's about time to dig out the Summer journal. Happy Tuesday!  #springintosummer #june #thejoyofhome #gardenwalk #hosta #gianthosta #inmygardentoday #apartmentgarden #springgarden #chores #journaling #writinglife #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

Have I told y'all lately how much I 💚 hostas? This is one of seven in my garden, and I'd love more! 😁 But, anyhoo, Monday's nearly over, I'm more than half way through day two of a kidney function test, and we're awaiting severe t-storms ⛈ Aside from that I've taken photos of the hostas, done some straitening up, more research, and writing. Still trying to settle on my next read. How's your Monday looking? #mondaymonday #gardenwalk #gardennerd #hosta #inmygardentoday #apartmentgarden #junegarden #springgarden #thejoyofhome #spoonie #RAwarrior #rheumykidneys #writinglife #simplepleasuresgreatestjoy #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife

Deadheading the roses on this cool & cloudy Friday morning. 🙌🏻 Usually it's a more peaceful time, but the family of squirrels living up in the maple tree was causing a ruckus most of the time I was out there with their shenanigans 🙄 So I found myself more annoyed than usual, but for me, deadheading & weeding are always a time for me to get things out of my system (like journaling, or prayer, or rearranging my bookshelves), as is much of my time in the garden, so it's never time wasted. What do you do to work things out, de-stress, or heal? Enjoy your day peeps!  #morningmotivation #gardenwalk #upheavalintorevival #rosechat #inmygardentoday #apartmentgarden #gardencritters #friday #june #junegarden #springgarden #fridayfavorites #booknerd #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife 

I finished @maryalicemonroe's #BeachHouseForRent earlier and I'm still 😩💔 because this is my favorite series of hers and it's over 😢 But I loved it, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Classic MAM writing, transported me right to the Lowcountry, making me yearn more than ever to take that trip back which we just haven't gotten around to yet. So grab your copy starting 6/20! #bookrec #digiARC #reading #amreading #readinglife #bookblogger #bookreview #readersofinstagram #bookish #booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #kindle  #springreads #summerreads #beachreads #fiction #womensfiction #frommyshelf #southernlit #junereads #myperfectlyimperfectview #thisperfectlyimperfectlife @gallerybooks