Welcome to Litsy!

Alexa, bring me a cup of coffee please. I seemed to have gotten myself trapped by the cat.

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳 What is your 1st 2021 book?

“A book is a block of frozen moments--of time without time, which can nonetheless be reintroduced to time, by a reader who runs her attention over it at the speed of living.“

“If speech was made of such spiky characters it did not surprise me that they got caught up in my throat and tangled up in one another. The marvel was to see them in such quiet and orderly ranks upon the plot of the page. One thought of cemeteries. Perhaps it was their spirits that rose, silent and vaporous, to the reader's mind. The reader was then God, bent avidly over the charnel ground, inhaling souls.“

Nice and creepy Victorian gothic novel about a school where children who stutter learn to channel the voices of the dead. Told through letters, documents, photos, and other ephemera.

1. Riddance
2. Slytherin
3. You
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

Checked out Classic Lines bookstore in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh today. They were out of the Edward Gorey biography I was looking for to gift a friend, but luckily they had plenty of other books. I went with the tagged book, which isn‘t getting rave reviews from Littens but sounds right up my friend‘s alley.

Had the best time at the Portland book festival! Met several local writers and a few big celebrity writers and got 10, yes 10! autographed books!!!!
#saturday #bookhaul #pdxbookfest #wordstock2018 #portlandbookfestival

What a cool night! Out of the many events going on tonight I took a chance on the one for Shelley Jackson‘s new book (B E A U T I F U L BTW), and I‘m glad I did.

She‘s such a cool woman, with weird thoughts that make such an intricate book. I mean, just look at how she personalized my copy!! I‘d picked up a library copy yesterday but it was too lovely not to buy for myself.