Welcome to Litsy!

Introducing the latest member of #dogsoflitsy 🐾

This is ⚡️Zelda⚡️the sweetest little doggo soul!!
She came to us as a rescue dog from Romania. And also as a very cautious and yet courageous force of nature! We‘re super impressed with her and so grateful to have her in our life now ☺️

She‘s proving to be a wonderful reading companion 💘

This post comes with a special shoutout to @Cinfhen 🙋🏼‍♀️😘

This started as a thesis or dissertation (can't remember), and it reads like one, which is fine with me. My heart breaks and breaks for Zelda - she's buried near where I live, and I plan on visiting her grave and studiously ignoring Scott's. Man, I'd like to punch that guy right in the babymaker. What a perfect arsehole. This is a great book, but if you are a feminist, it will make you feel all the feelings.

“Read me a story, mommy? I can‘t sleep.”

Not to be dramatic, but I would die for my Zelda.

#catsoflitsy

Happy birthday Zelda Fitzgerald. I timed it just right for finishing. What makes this a genre busting book? I have no idea 😂 but it's listed online as a genre busting book about writers. I never tire of reading about her. I'm also going to reread Z for #LitsyAtoZ this year.

#Booked2019 (Genre Busting)
@4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen

It took me such a long time to read this — could only take a little at a time. So depressing and tragic. Milford doesn‘t wring hands in her well-researched bio of Zelda Fitzgerald. But it is so clear that Zelda‘s relationship with Scott was a toxic one and excaberated by her mental illness. Left me feeling so many “what if” 😢

Just started this. Think I‘ll like it, but the font is tiny. I think I need to up my glasses prescription anyway 🤓

#dancingqueen #abbainaugust Couldn‘t help but think of Zelda ,who studied ballet seriously but at the late age of 25, her teacher felt she could never become a first class ballerina.She wanted something of her own and one could speculate endlessly if her dedication to the rigors of dance helped her or pushed her to madness.

The unboxing continues, oh , I missed these so much.
❤️😀

#24in48 #readathon

Recently hit the 18 hour mark! I feel like I‘ve really hit my stride today! Six hours left to read, but I do have a few fun scheduled breaks. The BF and I will be working on a subscription box called, Hunt A Killer, where you try to catch a killer by solving clues, and then a disgusting game called, Jelly Belly Bean Boozled. I hope I don‘t get a rotten egg or dirty sock, yuck! 🤢

#24in48 #readathon

The sixteenth hour of reading has commenced for me! I ended my reading time last night at 14 hours, so I slept in a bit this morning and just started back a couple of hours ago. For the last few mornings, I‘ve been whipping together a yogurt parfait, with raspberries, pomegranate seeds, bananas and granola, I think I‘m a bit addicted to this morning respite!

Up next, Zelda by Nancy Milford. @24in48

Right now, I‘m rather pissed with F. Scott Fitzgerald (dude, get over your talented self). Oh, and I found out that Edmund Wilson, legendary critic and editor, was nicknamed “Bunny”, which is adorable and oddly out of character from how I imagine him.

It was on this date that #ZeldaFitzgerald was born in 1900. This was my mother's $1.50 copy of Nancy Milford's 1970 biography. Still have it. #amreading #biography "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." -- Zelda Fitzgerald

#booksaboutmentalhealth #readingwomenmonth #day21 Since I've read this I've been obsessed with Zelda. #zelda

#MOREORLESS @Liberty Always Zelda....

@Bitterbear - ❤❤❤!!!! Thank you so, so much for the amazing #CupidGoesPostal gifts!! I am truly thrilled and love everything to pieces! You so nailed the Valentine‘s theme visually and topically, and I am so excited about the three books, none of which I have read. I adore the tote bag from your local bookstore (and red is my favorite color ❤), and the chocolate, pin, bookmarks, and card are all so perfect. (continued in comment...⬇️)

This book is so good but it's also tormenting me. I love Fitzgerald but he wasn't that great of a guy to Zelda. And Zelda had a ton of issues as well. I find myself making excuses for Fitz because he's a struggling creative genius. It's so hard for me to separate the amazing author and the not-so-great person. I'm having a few old fashioned drinks for the Fitzgeralds tonight.

Love the Lost Generation...just saw Z on Amazon last weekend. Now reading Milford's biography about Zelda with my boxer babies.

It's been one month since I've been obsessing over Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. This might be the only 450 page biography that kept me eagerly turning each page! I feel like I understand the Fitzgeralds on such a new, intimate level. What a tragic, flawed, dazzling life they led with passion. My heart wrenched as I learned about Zelda's descent into insanity, but she was such a captivating woman and her story is one that begs and deserves to be told.

"She was the American girl living the American dream, and she became mad within it."

Oh Switzerland, you've been just as sweet and magical as this biography is captivating. It's time for my book and I to head up to Germany for more literary adventures!
#booksaroundtheworld

Antique bookshop in Zurich, Switzerland ♡
#booksaroundtheworld

Passport: check. Travel journal: check. Travel-inspired bookmark: check. Good book: check.
This transitional semester is the first time in my life that I have no school and no set plan! So I'm taking off to Europe (my second home) to make the world my playground for a few months. Not without a solid collection of books in my backpack, of course! My favorite "books around the world" photos are coming soon! :)

Because I am the preeminent Zelda Fitzgerald scholar in my house. #seasonsreadings2016 #XYZ #titlesStartingWithXYZ

For anyone struggling with "Z" in the #LitsyAtoZ challenge, here are a couple of ideas. Zelda is a biography I read many years ago and still holds as one of the best biographies I've read (IMHO). Last Train to Paris tells the story of Rose, a journalist working in New York, Paris and Berlin in the 1930's, describing events and circumstances that shape Rose's life. Hope this helps someone complete his or her list! #abecedarianTBR

I love this book so much... one of the best biographies I've ever read.

#photoadaynov16 #readingcompanion the organizers at the library booksale had chairs around the room so we could sit and read a bit of our books before buying. So today my companions were fellow book lovers. I had to "throw back" the books on the chair. ?only so much room.

Goofy, my darling, hasn‘t it been a lovely day? I woke up this morning and the sun was lying there like a birth-day parcel on my table so I opened it up and so many happy things went fluttering into the air.

I love Scott Fitzgerald so I read about her. She was such a tragic character. Their rise and happiness was so short lived. She was not mature enough or ready to begin her life with him when she did.