Xingu | 
1) It was the name of a character that's spoken only once across 9? novels in a web-published series from the early 2000s. I'd been using it for a while as my preferred name as well, but I've got a new one of those that fits better.
2) Puzzles, laundry, minor repair work (eg fixing christmas light strings), rote data entry (like finding word counts for books on my for-stream list)
3) Tagged! Thanks Librivox!
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#Bookreport #WeeklyForecast. Finished A Treacherous Curse for #ProgressitNovember. A good mystery and I love Veronica Speedwell. I may bail on Early Riser. I love Fforde‘s imagination but I‘m not sure about this one. Might just be me. If you‘ve read it, what did you think? My next ups are my remaining 3 choices for #LitsyAtoZ. Thankful for #CrushtheRush helping focus my reading on completing this challenge.
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📖 Xingu by Edith Wharton
🖊 I‘ve only read two... so I pick Zhang Xianliang
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📺 The X-Files 👽
🎤 X Ambassadors ❤️
🎶 X.Y.U. by The Smashing Pumpkins 🤩
pickOh, Mrs. Plinth. I‘m sure I would hate to be in a book club with you.
This short story about a dignified ladies‘ book club was very funny as it mocked their prudishness. I definitely need to read some more Edith Wharton, but just didn‘t get a chance to do more this month. #AuthoraMonth #AAMEW (1)
Read via @SerialReader
pickThis was a fun little short read about a lunch book club and their interactions with a famous author. Wharton‘s take on society women is sharp.
This made me laugh because it‘s just like me. The character has a book of references to use, which she can remember in her own home, but can only ever remember one when she‘s out: “Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? “ Of course she can never find a reason to use that. 😄 I don‘t have such a book but I only remember the smart or right thing to say way after the conversation is over.
pickWhat a fun story about a women‘s book club trying to do and say the right thing for appearance‘s sake. When a visiting author treats them horribly, one of their own—Mrs. Roby—takes it on herself to make it clear to the author she was not superior to the rest of them. But will that make Mrs. Roby the villain instead? I‘m not a fan of Wharton‘s style, which I find hard to read, but it worked to an advantage here! #authoramonth #litsyatoz #letterX ⬇️
pickThis was recommended to me by @Lcsmcat - thank you! Such a witty little story about a book group that is more concerned with being thought is as intellectuals than actually knowing what the hell they‘re talking about! So fun! #authoramonth #authoramonth2020 #bbrc #yeahbaby #recommendedbyalitten
pick@RachelO - your recent post inspired me to pick this up via @SerialReader - it was such a delight. A quick and amusing short story of a women‘s Lunch Club.
pickRough day, but this was an unexpected delight. I hadn‘t been planning on doing April‘s #authoramonth as I expected Edith Wharton to be stuffy/polite/heavy. Turns out not. This short story about a snooty bookclub was laugh-out-loud funny & very clever (but not TOO clever!). I need to go back & read the middle bit again, to peer a little more into Xingu‘s depths.
Will definitely read more Wharton -but might head for Mapp & Lucia in the meantime.
pickI got a kick out of this short story about a lunch club and their politics. #authoramonth2020 #litsyatoz
pickHILARIOUS! Ruffled feathers have never been so amusing nor entertaining... If I may dare say, this is Emperor's New Clothes meets Elephant and the Blind Men 😂😉🤣
Plus I read the 3 issues on #SerialReader in an hour or so! Hehehe
#AuthorAMonth ✅ #24B4Extend book 2
I seem to take 2x as long for what should be my daily clock in ;o 🤦🏾♀️
But hey! I completed the tagged #novella
Finishing 2 titles in 2 days is awesome for me... I may not hit target time but I am happily cruising the pages 😁😁
Those 5 are my #TBR for #24B4Extend, most are partially-read books ;p
#KeepLitsyPositive
pickEnded up reading this for the #letterx for #litsyatoz . I had hopes of reading another book but it was not to be...
Anyways, this was a quick easy read about a snooty bookclub which tickled me.
With this book I managed to complete the A to Z challenge for the year. 😄
@BookishMarginalia
pickRead this from a recommendation for Letter X of #LitsyAtoZ . Such a clever hilarious satire on snobbish book clubs. I‘m going to have to read more Wharton now!
#SerialReader
This story is hilarious and fun to read. Centres around a group of (pretentious) ladies from the ‘Lunch Club‘, a book club meeting. Read it!
#GratefulReads #AShortStory
pickI wanted to read this on #SerialReader @SerialReader but the app is glitching too much, so I read it on the Kindle app instead. 😢 Read this short story in bed with a stomach bug and loved it. It pokes fun at a pretentious book club of society women and just cracked me up, perfect distraction from being sick! Love Edith Wharton. 😂❤️ Book 4/4 for #BFCr4 so I guess I'm upping my goal to 6 books! #BFC is helping me read more, as is being sick. 👍
pickPreposterous, snooty ladies partake in the book club from Hell.
Amusing.
Thank you for the opportunity to read this, @SerialReader !
pickI thoroughly enjoyed this snarky comedy of manners. I‘m also happy to have knocked out #X for #LitsyAtoZ early this year. 😁#LitsyAtoZ2019
Loved this very short sarcastic comedy of manners. Can you imagine if the ladies of the lunch club had seen this photo when looking in the encyclopedia?! #litsyclassicsatoz
pickWhat a delightfully snarky story! A clever piece of social commentary about a snotty bunch of women in an exclusive book club in the early 1900s. Only a 27 page story, but I highlighted the heck out of it, including an opening line:
‘To this end, she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.‘
I‘m SO using that in my bio.😂
Mrs. Roby is savage, and I ❤️ her.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickSo clever! I love a classic with bite! In the public domain, you can download this one free from Amazon and at 27 pages long, this Wharton classic is the perfect ‘X‘ title for the #litsyAtoZ #challenge
pickThis was quite hilarious: a short story about pretentious book club ladies in the early 1900s. Fun social commentary. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#litsyclassics #letterx
#goodreads just keeps on giving! In case you are wondering, Xingu is a humorous short story about book club ladies hosting a lunch party in the early 1900s.
How savage of them!
#goodreadsrecommendations
pickStarted and finished this in a single lunch hour, and I could hardly eat for laughing. Very funny send up of, well, just read it. 😀 #litsyclassics #letterX
It‘s almost May already, and I‘m looking forward to this photo challenge by @Sarah83 and @Bambolina_81 😃
Perfect for those of us doing the #litsyclassics challenge and anyone else who loves classics, and I hear there‘s a prize! See our hosts posts for more info and use #maylovesclassics to play along.
Well, someone wouldn‘t like Litsy at all. Who doesn‘t like sharing their opinions of a book? It‘s generally the only opinion I‘ll listen to from anyone in life. 🤷🏼♀️ #litsyclassics #25infive #whyamiawake
pickWitty, funny, and entertaining. The pedantic ladies of the Lunch Club have the tables turned on them in this short story. What is Xingu? Everybody knows, nobody knows. 👍🏼👍🏼
#LitsyAtoZ
#Litsyclassics
pickWhat a delightful and funny short story! A satire on the pretentious display of some high society ladies who are members of a book club called the Lunch Club. Really amusing and I was smiling to myself all the way!
Read this on Project Gutenberg for my #LitsyClassics
pickThis is everything I love about Edith Wharton! This short story takes to task both the socialite need to one up your peers and pretentious know-it-alls. It is funny and clever and should‘ve required reading before joining any book club. #LitsyAtoZ
pickI‘ve seen several positive reviews of this short story recently so I decided to read it this evening. It was a very fun quick read!
Also, Gandalf has been spoiled with me being home all weekend and seems to think my only purpose is to provide him with a comfy place to rest no matter where or how I sit down. #CatsofLitsy
pickWhat a clever and funny short story. Be careful of pomp and putting on airs you don‘t possess or it can be quite easy for others to poke fun without you even knowing it.
#LitsyClassicsAtoZ
That‘s quite an opening line to this short story!
Reading my classics Q and X first this year, LOL #LitsyClassicsAtoZ
#litsyclassics #litsyclassicsmatches
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pickPersonally, I look for amusement in most of what I read. Or at least entertainment! And this fit the bill - so funny. Lesson - don't be pretentious! #LitsyAtoZ #LetterX
pickQuick little read (so quick it feels like a little cheat) for #litsyatoz !! My other half said it looked like I was reading a pamphlet... Very fun little satire about a pretentious little group of women. I love Edith Wharton's style.
