Paula W
@toomuchbrudders
Voracious reader 📚💙(inherited Folio Society collection), family-tree researcher/storyteller ☘️, TooMuchBrudders.com family blogger. Married to 5th generation farmer. My grandson calls me Goose. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
A guillotine ornament adorns our home library’s Christmas tree year-round, in the best and worst of times.
Happy Bastille Day! 🇫🇷 My literature-themed Christmas tree stays up year-round in our home library. #BookSky #Dickens 📚💙 #ClassicLiterature #NowReading
This hung in my office (head of communications) until retirement and is now in my study. We all need reminders.
#NowReading Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin … on which Cabaret was based. #BookSky 📚💙 #FolioSociety
#NowReading Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 💙📚 #FolioSociety
My grandson read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz aloud to me last summer. We wrapped up in my poppy comforter from college as he created a different voice for each character. 📚💙
Weighing in at 10 pounds 11 ounces, our middle son was born 35 years ago today. Happy birthday, John! ❤️ #FamilyHistory #OTD
What a relief this sort of situation will be a thing of the past! 🤦♀️
Was contacted in an Ancestry private message a few days ago - offering to send me photos and papers of her former step-dad. She said I was the first to respond to her queries in two years! The package just arrived - what a treasure! #SecondCousin #ancestry #FamilyHistory #WWII
Need a timely read for the weekend? The Longest Day is about D-Day, written following the author’s call for first-hand stories to include. Astounding. #NowReading #BookSky #BookRecommendation #FolioSociety 📚💡
The manipulative antagonist in this 1857 Anthony Trollope classic reminds me of him, to the point it’s nearly unreadable. 😖
Mom got the beautiful red hair - but I got the cookies! 🍪 #WorldRedheadDay
On World Redhead Day, here’s our youngest son and his copper hair. #WorldRedheadDay
I just realized the inherited book I assumed was a Trollope biography is a similar “encyclopedia.” Thank heavens - my dad bequeathed me his full collection, and I’ll need all the help I can get!
I love how he makes an appearance on my “Author Forecast” gizmo when the battery needs a charge. 🔎 📚💙