Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.
This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

See More
#DaysDevotedTo
25 users recently
#5joysfriday
45 users recently
#BookSpinBingo
15 users recently
#TLT
37 users recently
#serieslove2024
21 users recently
#readaway2024
15 users recently

Trending Books

See More
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
49 users recently
How to Build an Insect
How to Build an Insect
Roberta Gibson
10 users recently
If Sharks Disappeared
If Sharks Disappeared
Lily Williams
8 users recently
The Grizzly Mother
The Grizzly Mother
Hetxwms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson
6 users recently
James
James: A Novel
Percival Everett
7 users recently
About | Help / FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Press | Resources
Lost Words
Lost Words | Nicola Gardini
3 posts | 1 to read
Winner of the Viareggio Prize, a vivid portrait of Italy on the brink of social upheaval in the 1970s. Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence on Chino. Ms. Lyndan elderly, erudite British womancomes to nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that hes known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of-age tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on language, literature, and culture.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
bookish_wookish
bookish_wookish
Lost Words | Nicola Gardini
post image

Congrats @Linsy on 1,000!! 🎉🎉
Thanks for doing the giveaway! #linsyloveslitsy

My favorite word is tchotchke! Its yiddish but it replaced an obsolete word in polish. my grandma was polish and this is one of the first polish words i learned! Just saying it makes you giggle. It refers to a knick knack that has no function. My family still uses this word allll the time! Its funny!

AmyG Hahaha. I am Jewish, so we always “pepper” our conversations with yiddish. 👍🏻 7y
Molly_the_mezzo Great word! My mother uses it all the time, and it‘s one of my favorites. 7y
bookish_wookish Some words just sound better in yiddish!!! @AmyG 7y
See All 8 Comments
bookish_wookish Yes! @Molly_the_mezzo 7y
Kitty_Rochsmith I use that word all the time although I‘m not sure I know where I came by it!! 7y
bookish_wookish love it! @Kitty_Rochsmith 7y
BookishTrish Great choice! 7y
Linsy I love it!! I am definitely going to try to make this a thing in my family. 💖 7y
51 likes8 comments
blurb
Eggs
Eggs
Lost Words | Nicola Gardini
post image

@TheWordJar #TheBig40Giveaway Happy Birthday!!
It's been a long time since I turned 40. What I'd say to you and to my distant 40 yo self: appreciate who you are at this special crossroad of life. Pace yourself mentally and physically; cultivate your best self and be grateful each day so you will enjoy an abundant life 💝

65 likes
blurb
TaylorMay
TaylorMay
Lost Words | Nicola Gardini
post image

The word appears to have originated in the southern US. The earliest written record comes from an 1829 issue of The Virginia Literary Magazine in its glossary of Americanisms. The magazine states that hornswoggle came from KY, its oddness matches nicely w/ other 19th-century Americanisms, such as sockdolager, absquatulate, callithump, slumgullion, & skedaddle. It joins bamboozle and honeyfuggle as colorful ways to say "to deceive." #WordOfTheWeek

TaylorMay So I decided to start a #WordOfTheWeek post. Why? Because we all have a love of words so why not? This one is from the word of the day on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website. I'm going to try and make sure to use it this week. Anyone want to join me in this adventure? 7y
Dolly Good for you! I think you will get some strange looks😂. I‘m old and have heard a few of these words used but most sound odd. 🤔 7y
TaylorMay @dolly thanks! The only one I had heard before was skedaddle. And I do use it! I feel like I want to use it at work if one of my employees is trying to mess with me. 😂 they may look at me like I've lost my mind though lol 7y
See All 8 Comments
Reecaspieces Well..Being from the south...I have said this a time or two. And keep this up. I will enjoy this. 7y
SilversReviews @TaylorMay I know skedaddle. I have used it. 😍😍😍 7y
TaylorMay @Reecaspieces really?? That's awesome. Did you know any of the other words they mentioned? And it's my plan to keep it up thanks. I'm integrating it from my #BulletJournal so I'm sticking with one word a week for now. 7y
Reecaspieces @TaylorMay yes...skedaddle and Bamboozle. I use skedaddle regularly lol. 7y
TaylorMay @Reecaspieces ❤❤❤ 7y
33 likes8 comments