Welcome to Litsy!

Have picked up the usual winter bug from work. I am consoling myself with looking at lovely new penguins.

Big news!
Two of my poems were published in “Sublimation Annual: The Best Of Volume 1“ (Edited by TS S. Fulk), under the pseudonym River Wilde. If you're into speculative poetry this magazine might just be your cup of tea.
It's availabe on Amazon.
Now this is a great way to start the new year! 🍻

#poetry #speculativepoetry #litsyauthor

This collection of 13 short stories is an exploration of horror and the paranormal. Dean brings fresh ideas to scare her readers, allowing them to reconsider the concept of fear. Dean does a great job building that feeling you get when you read horror - a combination of anxiety, fear, isolation, and terror. The atmosphere of each story creates a fantastic backdrop for the characters, allowing the unbelievable and unknown to take center stage.

Great weather for staying inside and reading...

Me with the 16/17 books I managed to read this year! Top favorites were An Echo in the Bone, All the Lost Things, and Iron Flame. Really enjoyed some of these! Not pictured is My Dark Vanessa.

What gracious, friendly, good people readers are! Merry Christmas! #LitsyCardSwap

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoha to Charleston, 1777 -1780 by Rick Atkinson

Babylonia by Costanza Casati

#Weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Hobson (and I) are wondering if this might be my #JolabokaflodSwap package?! It‘s got no markings to indicate that it is, but I didn‘t order anything and my name isn‘t spelled like a family member would. I suppose we shall see on Christmas Eve!

"Every reader of Singer is at home in Krochmalna Street, the heart of Warsaw‘s Jewish neighborhood, where the author lived from 1908 to 1917 and where he set many of his books. When you read Singer, Krochmalna becomes the center of the world. The feeling is even more powerful because the street now exists only in these texts... and a few black-and-white photos..."

https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-underbelly-of-krochmalna-street/

100 Notable African Books of 2024 from #BrittlePaper
https://brittlepaper.com/100-notable-african-books-of-2024/

The #JolabokaflodSwap package is all put together and ready to get mailed tomorrow! Thanks again, @MaleficentBookDragon for organizing this super fun swap!

🎅🏼 #Jolabokaflod has been sent @MaleficentBookDragon @merelybookish 📚 #LCS has also been sent @bookish_wookish @TheKidUpstairs ❄️ Both are arriving via UPS and should be there before Xmas 🤞🏼🎄

It‘s happening! #LitsyCardSwap

Love a book list!
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/25/g-s1-34679/npr-books-we-love-2024

(See previous post for the NYT free access link)

Yay! A list...

How many have you read? (8) How many do you want to read? (Well, I've ticked 9, but I think that's likely to rise).
100 Notable Books of 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html?unlocked...

Next up, NPR's list!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pretty frustrated with #botm. None of the selections since July have appealed to me (enough to want to own them) so I've been skipping, but there are some add-ons that I want!

For the first time, my book club has chosen to try themed readings. In 2025, we will pick selections that fit (in any way we choose) that month‘s theme. I‘m excited to try this. #FirstSaturdayReaders

I just signed up for my first swap, the #JólabókaflóðSwap hosted by @MaleficentBookDragon , and I‘m very excited to see how it goes!

The 2024 shortlisted authors are:
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry
Lana Makes Purple Pizza
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine
48 Stories of Exile from Palestine
Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit
Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba

It's a swap day. #LittleChristmasSwap @bookish_wookish hosting.

From recent research by the Literacy Trust [UK]. (I think, of course for adults too, it's just they only asked the youngsters for this research!)

Their programmes work to give more children access to books and reading.
They're looking for support and volunteers: https://literacytrust.org.uk/reading-for-pleasure/

🍬Sweet Candy
🎃Make
👻Ghost
🦉Owl
🎃Mummy
🎉Party
👻Carpet
🪄Spell
🕸Cobwebs
🎃Carved
🪦Graveyard

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

I can't believe November is Friday! Ugh! Where as the year gone.
@TheAromaofBooks here's my November #Bookspinbingo list! Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to do each month. 🥰

Translation (original language published) stats for 2024 so far.

Sorely tempted by these.

"The First Decade Collection is a limited edition series of ten hardbacks celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions‘ publishing over the first ten years. With a run of 1000 copies, each book is casebound in fine linen cloth ..."

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/first-decade-collection/
#LotteryWinnersOnly

Great day to sit outside and read with the boys. 📚🐶❤️

🎃📚

Rather than pretending to know the answers, be there to share your questions. Don't be afraid of saying, "I don't know". We are mudlarkers, walking by the shores of our civilisation, and through the muddle, we find discarded and unloved beauties: shards of ceramic, pieces of lapis lazuli.

5. Trust in the power of words. Both written and spoken, words are magic.

From Elif Shafak's substack.
https://elifshafak.substack.com/

Coconut cream pie cheesecake 🥰

I don't mean to blow my own trumpet, but I'm a very fast reader, and good at filtering out gibberish....

Is Ludwig a Litsy member?
#BBC

Darkness, Darkness by T B Crattie not in database.

I didn't finish this ARC. Got to page 80. I didn't care for the f word and mf word being used in every chapter. I read books that occasionally have the f word in them, but the author overused it and mf in my opinion

Going to San Francisco 🥹

☕️ Coffee
🟤 Brown
😂 Funny
🎧📚 Both
🦃 Thanksgiving
🧤 Glove
🎉 Low Key Group

Want to play? @SilversReviews @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @CoverToCoverGirl @RamsFan1963

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Goals for the week (18/10)

This Dark Country
The Persian Boy
Hitting a Straight Lick...
Body Kintsugi (Women in translation)

Not in database

5⭐️

Deader Than A Wet Hen is the second book in the Dixie French Mystery Series. Dixie visited Loblolly, SC, and fell in love with the small town. She found a little home and 3 friends. Mariam owns the dog grooming/bakery store. Ada owns the coffee shop that Dixie likes to write in. Toni is a deputy with Sheriff's Department.

love Dixie French and her friend, Miriam. They crack me up. Two older women whioseem to be ⬇️

I had to stop at my local library bc I was having trouble with Libby App. With 3 bookcases and my Kindle full, I leave with 4 books🤦‍♀️. I think I have a book problem 😂🤣😂📚❤️📚

#libraryhaul #needmorebooks

Autumn sale: 25 per cent off everything on our site with the code AUTUMN2024

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/

It finally cooled off enough, we can sit outside and I can read. My reading buddies, Lil Spot standing and Max pn the swing. 📚❤️🐶❤️

October #Bookspinbingo Board. For some reason I do better when I don't name books. 📚😊📚
@TheAromaofBooks

If anyone is wondering why I‘m suddenly following them again after being sure I already followed them - this app unfollowed almost everyone for some reason!
So ignore me - just passing through again…

Not in Database. A quick biography on Catherine Parr. Parr was the last wife of King Henry VIII. He was her third husband. She married him when he was moving England from the Catholic Church to Protestant. She was smart or conniving enough not to be put to death after Henry VIII's cabinet said she was going against him when she discussed church and faith with him. Interesting quick read.

😊Happy Reading😊

#bookbingo #offtheshelf2024

Quick historical fiction book about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Based on true events. Two different women. One in West Berlin. One in East Berlin. This follows their lives through 1989 up until the fall of the wall.
It's a good read. We get to see the difference between living in the two cities.

I won this through a Goodreads Giveaway. Thanks to Goodreads for the E-book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

##bookspinbingo

Book Mail! Won through Goodreads Giveaway!

Joseph Clampitt wrote a book of what I have only dreamed of doing. Going back to biblical times and talking with disciples. It was an inspirational book.

Clampitt talks to Paul in Ephesus. Taking a journey back 2000 years to learn why he can't hear what God says. I truly enjoyed it. I can't wait to get to heaven bc there's so many things in the Bible I want to discuss with the Disciples, Moses, Noah, David, and so many more.

When I can get my camera out in time to capture a reader, I feel like a spider. I got one. A lot of schools close their LFL, and I'm happy I could keep mine open and accessible through the summer. Ah, summers end... I'm going to miss my free time, but I'm excited to have the kids in the building again.

https://youtu.be/0maFGkGhJCE?si=-BWCHx4X1KcM1hn0 check me out on YouTube and feel free to subscribe 🇵🇹🤗

Wonderful cozy mystery! Ella Duke started the Dixie French Mystery Series off great. I fell in love with all the main characters in 'Something Dead the Cat Dragged In ', especially Dixie.

Dixie takes a vacation to Loblolly, S.C. to work on writing a book. She meets her landlord at a coffee shop, while there a guy drops dead. She's soon involved in a murder investigation, even though the deputy tells her to stay out of it. ⬇️