Welcome to Litsy!

1) today is my Friday!! Long weekend just because!

2) reading, watching tv (The Outsider!), knitting, building a puzzle, petting cats

3) Bats by William W Johnstone 😂 which is amazing and I‘m slowly working through the tagged and City of Women.

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

Loved it! The focus of the book is on the lives of the people who built, owned, crewed and sailed aboard the Titanic. Voyagers of the Titanic was written with such detail that it allowed me to gain a clearer understanding of the class stratification aboard. Ironically, in the end it was not class that determined whether a soul had the best chance of being saved; it was gender (and to an extent which side of the boat you chose to board a lifeboat).

"Such sentiments were no solace to the bereaved families of Southampton. The majority of its 900 crew lived in the city: almost 700 of them died. At a single school, 125 children lost a father, a brother, or an uncle. What place, in these eulogies of chevaliers beyond reproach, could be allotted to the Southampton husbands, fathers, and sons who had perished by the order "women and children first"?"

"The stores needed by an Olympic-class floating hotel were reckoned at 75,000 pounds of fresh meat; 11,000 pounds of fresh fish; 8,000 head of poultry and game; 6,000 pounds of bacon and ham; 2,500 pounds of sausages; 35,000 eggs..."

"Nobody can eat 50 eggs." Dragline, Cool Hand Luke

This is my bookshelf organization style in my microcosm. Mr. Spock is my guru.
"Dream in a pragmatic way." - Aldous Huxley

"If you want to marry, be as good as gold. If you don't, be expensive." - Lady Duff Gordon

The suites had varied styles: Second Empire, Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, Tudor, Early Dutch, Old Dutch, Adams, Hepplewhite, Regency, Italian Renaissance, Georgian, Colonial, Jacobean, and Queen Anne.