Welcome to Litsy!

My husband surprised me with this amazing vintage Peanuts seance puzzle. Got a little more into my audiobook while putting this one together.

Fascinating discourse about trails, from multiple perspectives. Reminiscent of Susan Orlean's work. A must read for serious walkers.

One from Husband and I's private bookclub. Both hikers so it fit. Definitely supplied us with many interesting conversation topics such as the importance of animal research to advancing technology and using a hobby to bring nations together. Sometimes it felt like the author wanted to tell about his (justifiably) interesting experiences that didn't quite feel like they belonged. Good book - but needs a certain person with a certain mindset.

“From trains to automobiles to airplanes, each time the speed of connection quickens, travelers have expressed a sense of growing alienation from the land blurring past our windows. In the same vein, many people currently worry that digital technology is making us less connected to the people and things in our immediate environment.“ -Moor

Reading this with my husband. Both of us are climbers and hikers so we're excited for the new perspective this book will give us while out on the trails. #currentlyreading

There are some nonfiction writers you pick up and within minutes, the passion they carry for their subject feels like lightning in a bottle. Less than five pages in, I found myself wondering how come I‘ve never heard of Robert Moor? Inspired by a thru-hike completed in his twenties on the Appalachian Trail, Moor finds himself wondering about the existence and evolution of trails (animal as well as human). LOVED THIS.

I‘ve always been fascinated by trails and people that complete thru-hikes. I‘m looking forward to this book!

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All things optimize in nature, to some degree

Moor is an erudite fellow. I quite enjoyed this book: an intellectual trek on the heels of my PCT trek of 2017. He mulls trails of all kinds across cultures, species, & time. He piqued my curiosity regularly so that I made a related TBR list. The interweaving of his own journeys with his research was well done. Moor‘s book is thought-provoking, though I lost some steam as he waxed philosophic at the end. It‘s a pleasurable & satisfying read.

#TBRtemptation post 4! I love this cover! I should get this one since we live in a national forest and are surrounded by a plethora of trails 😊. This is a reflective, philosophical study asking fundamental questions, such as: how does order emerge; how did animals come from the seas and spread out on land; how has man's relationship with nature and technology changed; how do we pick our own path? #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

"The history of life on this planet can be seen as a single path made in the walking of it. We are all the inheritors of that line, but also its pioneers. Every step, we push forward into the unknown, following the path, and leaving a trail."

Much of my reading right now is history heavy and abstract, so I needed something comforting.📖❤️

Thanks for the recommendation Liberty!

Interesting look at trails of all kinds -- From the trails that insects follow to the Appalachian Trail and onto the information highway. Moor explores both the physical nature of trails as well as their impact on society. Themes about connection and separation run throughout the book

"It got easier-- or rather, I got tougher." -- There is a world of wisdom in that short quote.

I first read Robert Moor's book last year and highly, highly recommend. After visiting the AT this weekend for the first time, I'm even more intrigued by his experiences through-hiking and studying the many ways trails connect us to each other--and the world. This is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and one I'm excited to revisit.

This is me reading away the stress of attempting to make a decision on graduate school... do I go to this deaf ed program or decline and spend the next year preparing to study/take the GRE and applying to a speech-language pathology programs? Could someone make the decision for me? No? Ok, I will just read instead... maybe it will all go away and resolve itself!

Been a bit of a slow start, but loving the concept of this book so far.

With hiking and the Appalachian Trail as a jumping off point, the author explores trails made by current and historic humans as well as those made by animals. About half the book discussed animal trails, which I found to be the most interesting parts. Interesting and enlightening. (And I hate daylight savings time--it's made me stay up far too late!)

My motivational books have arrived! #OnTrails #TheHourofLand #findyourpark #hiking #backpacking

#outside #riotgrams Spent lots of time outdoors this weekend hiking and checking out these guys! 😄 Happy to have a nice sunny weekend after all the rain!

Did you know that slime mould can arrive at the same route-efficiency results as transportation engineers?

[P.S. Photo is of art. If you want to see slime mould, go google it.]

Environmental journalism, contemplative & wide-ranging. Understanding how humans interact with landscape & how social organization relies on physical ways to connect, from ancient pathways to contemporary long-distance hiking to Internet networks. Fascinating #audiobook.

On wild land, wild thoughts can flourish. There, we can feel all the ragged edges of what we do not know and we can make room for other living things to live differently. We must learn to infuse this sense of the wild back into the human landscape. For instance, to see even the trees in our backyards as wild things, and to reframe our understanding of the wilderness so that it can contain us within it.

Today's audiobook:
"From the 3rd grade on, I burned through books the way a chain-smoker smokes, picking up one even as I was extinguishing the last."
Happy #24in48 to those of you participating.

I love all your adorable composed pics where the book is perfectly highlighted with your cute little tea and coffee cups while I'm over here with a dirty lens drinking beer and trying to figure out how the hell to properly crop a picture. Long story short: Happy New Year! (PS - On Trails is absolutely addictive reading - so many facts wending their way to the same place. Fascinating.)

Have an eclectic group of books to finish out the year. I always make a goal of 52 books a year, no less. This year got away from me, so I opted for some shorter books that I've been putting off to help me reach that 52. On with my 2016 reading journey!
#almost2017

The concept of this book sounded interesting but after reading the prologue and parts of chapter one, I realised this book just isn't for me. I'd rather walk the trail than read about it...

This book should come with the warning: "Caution: This book will make you want to head immediately to the nearest trail. Do not listen on your way to work or when you otherwise need to be responsible."

One day, when I have all the time in the world, I'd love to write a book like this, that takes a relatively basic idea & follows it wherever it leads.

I'm wearing my "trails" shirt and look what I got today!

Few Americans can say with any certainty that they have seen an old Indian trail. But almost everyone has seen the ghost of one and even traveled along it.

"In bewildering times - when all the old ways seem to be dissolving into mire - it serves us well to turn our eyes earthward and study the oft-overlooked wisdom beneath our feet."