Welcome to Litsy!

#weeklyforecast

3 library books, plus ‘The Year without Summer‘ as a Kindle #arc.

I was struggling to get into the tagged book, for #bulgaria, but picked it up again this morning and now I‘m enjoying it. Also want to finish The Unwomanly Face of War for #belarus and I‘m loving Furious Hours so far.

This one tells of the author‘s return to the places she knew as a child, close to the ever-moving #Borderline between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece.

#Movember @Cinfhen

Some people travel to say they‘ve been there. Some people travel to BE there. To revel in a place‘s people, culture, and history. Kassabova went to rediscover her homeland but what she didn‘t expect were the claims her homeland would make on her. Beautiful writing.

Nonfiction November possibilities

Challenging read, but very interesting. The Bulgarian culture was unknown to me.

This book was so brilliant. Abstract yet personal, realistic yet surreal. A+

Bedtime reading 📖

This one always tries to stay in my bed instead of his own

Chosen this evening, this month‘s choice of my local bool club. My cat, Rioja, seems to be interested.

From preface “History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren‘t there, which is the same thing. I had a hunger: to look into the faces of those who are there, hear their stories, eat with them, learn new words. What does it take to dwell in a borderland so infused with ancient and modern myth, so physically magnetized?”

I love a book that starts with a map! I remember hearing about this on some @bookriot podcast and then saw it in the library featured nonfiction shelf yesterday. Complete impulse checkout but it does sound interesting

Something to think about.

#booksinnature
#riotgrams

Part memoir, part travelogue, part historical examination of the borderlands between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. I knew very little about this area and its history beforehand, so I found this fascinating. A little slow going at times, but definitely worth the read.

#TBRtemptation post 5! Just released. Kapka returns to Bulgaria, where she fled 25 years before, to explore the border it shares with Greece & Turkey. She remembers playing on the "Red Rivieria" on the Black Sea, only miles from an electrified fence whose barbs pointed inward. She looks at the history of the area, from the Ottomans to the Soviets; the people, from botanists to refugees; and, the geography. Interesting! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

What's up next. 50 pages in, I'm loving learning about the border areas in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.

Book haul from Labyrinth Books in Princeton. The drop cap Pride and Prejudice (swoooon), new nonfiction I've been exited about, and Chekhov for the hubby's birthday. #bookhaul