Welcome to Litsy!

Late 1950s and Florence Green decides to open a bookshop in her small town - the first bookshop in town. But does everyone want one?

Shows the dynamics in a small town and how the people with power isn‘t necessarily the men with the powerful positions.

Book 158 of the year.

My 12th independent bookstore visit on the #HTXBookCrawl24 was to Candescent Books, which is a pop-up bookstore that was set-up at Native Coffee in downtown Houston. The owner not only has a good amount of popular books available, but also homemade candles. The historical fiction candle was my favorite, even though that is not my favorite book genre. This a great spot to hang with friends or just sit with a good book.

Luckily, the book is starting out better than the ( unnecessary, don‘t waste your time) Introduction!
A short read - while I figure out what to read next!

Book or movie? Read my full review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#the-bookshop

1. Missing going to The Hill of Content and The Paperback Shop in Melbourne
2. Not usually. Maybe have a title I‘m looking for but usually make new discoveries
#twoforTuesday
@TheSpineView @MrsMalaprop

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ◾️Here‘s my review of this one….but prepared for the onslaught of book reviews….sorry in advanced. #november #litsylove #backinthesadleagain https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321629713

Undone by seasonal allergies. The day has had a horizontal viewpoint. I filled the between sneezes and itchy moments with this book. It‘s a slim novel telling a quiet story that felt right for a Sunday afternoon. Never once did I feel the urge to assume a vertical viewpoint until close to the end when I realized that sometimes unkind schemes result in a permanent alteration to sweet hopes and dreams, unlikeable people often remain unlikeable,👇🏽

#awesomeaugust hosted by @Andrew65
one goal achieved (no 4)
Close to my first finish - Wild Island, a Scottish murder mystery
And we had good weather yesterday, so some pruning and weeding achieved.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Appointment shopping at Houston‘s lovely children‘s bookshop Blue Willow Books! Isn‘t it a grand feeling to be in a bookstore? #indiebookstoreday #buyindie

Thank you @EadieB for these awesome books!! Can‘t wait to read them! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁❤️💚

#3books #thathavebeenmadeintomovies

I‘ve read and watched these three titles as movies and enjoyed them all in both formats.

This wasn‘t at all what I expected. The writing style was different-not bad, just different than what I normally read. It had some funny moments but in the end it was kind of sad.

#doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

I just recently learned that our Barnes & Noble closed back in May (haven‘t been getting out much lately 😷). The space is going to be converted into doctors‘ offices. ☹️ I didn‘t even shop there much but I liked knowing it was there.

I thought of this song as I sit here and write!!

“I‘m still writing yeah yeah yeah” 💌📫📝🎤🎹

https://youtu.be/ZHwVBirqD2s

#LitsyLove

A lovely little read more about the characters in the quirky small town than the bookshop, itself. It reminded me of Parnassus on Wheels.

Book 4 finished for #bookspinbonanza

Sad and funny. This was short but not particularly quick to read. I enjoyed the writing style.

This wasn‘t what I expected, but I really enjoyed it. It was far less bookish than I anticipated, instead focusing on the petty grudges of an English village—with a bookshop as the stage for playing out those social machinations. It‘s a bit quirky, a bit funny, a bit sweet, a bit sad. And it‘s thoroughly British—so much is in what‘s not being said. Recommended, with the caveat that it‘s not a cozy bookish read—it‘s much sadder & sharper than that.

#BookReport #WeeklyForecast

I finished three books this week, two of which were from my TBR. And I need to post reviews for all of them, as well as for everything I read last week! 😬

This coming week, I‘m planning to finish a re-read of The Golem & the Jinni for book club, and will continue reading Immortal Diamond. I‘ll probably pick up something else as well—still TBD!

1. I like ☂️. Generations of my family were umbrella makers in Glasgow.
2. Project manager
3. Working from home, little one‘s schoolwork, telly, reading ebooks, wasting time on my phone
4. Agatha Christie novels, St Mary‘s, The Bookshop, other fiction
5. Clearly I need some as evidenced by being awake at four in the morning.

#allaboutme

This isn‘t a simple “feel good book” as much as we might wish for a bookish escape novel right now.
I should have known as my previous experience of Fitzgerald was biting and incisive character portrayals. In this novella, as beautifully as Fitzgerald paints the bookshop and its eccentric owner, she removes our rose coloured glasses - there is small town villainy afoot.
I love her writing and I must read more of it - this was just a tiny taste.

Thanks @Chrissyreadit ! Yes our Nashville indie The Bookshop is on bookshop_org where you can buy online and support Joelle! We Nashville littens love it there! Great reminder to support indies!

such a touching, heartbreaking story. Penelope Fitzgerald mixes moments of everyday life with snippets of firework truth that leave the reader melancholy and satisfied.

Hope it turns out nice enough for framing and hanging next to my bookshelf! 🖼

I‘ve started a new project and I‘m finding it much more relaxing than doing puzzles while listening to podcasts or audiobooks... 👩‍🎨 🖼 🎨

It‘s @DeweysReadathon day! This is my first readathon with two kids, so it should be interesting. I was able to spend a quiet hour at Starbucks this morning by myself though. #DeweyOct #readathon

I‘m in Portland, Oregon visiting family. Is there a more wonderful spot than Powell‘s bookstore on a drizzly morning?

Of course we had to take a stroll over to #NYC‘s arguably best bookshop, The Strand! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Have you been there?!

This was a very quiet and lovely movie. Just finished watching it.

Bill Nighy was simply fantastic in the movie adaptation! What body acting, subtle things that make his character real.

I just finishing watching this on Prime. Has anyone else watched it?

In between books, I can‘t quite decide what to read next.
So tonight I shall be watching a bookish movie & resting my weary soul 🍿🎥🍷

I liked the sparse writing and I know it will have its charm for some but in all honesty I found it a bit dull and boring. ⭐️⭐️ #booktomovie #booked2019

I should absolutely *not* be allowed into a bookshop unsupervised....

Most of these were picked up at the pop-up Waterstones at the #CheltenhamScienceFestival, which is basically the same as the #CheltenhamLiteratureFestival, but wholly non-fiction. The other two books I picked up in Waterstones Gloucester while on my way to the Science Festival

This prompt was harder than expected, but I always imagined that Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne, who caused so much trouble for Florence lived in a #castleonthehill

#wanderingjune @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

Next up, I've started this book. Not sure what to make of it so far. Very different writing style, definitely one I'm not used to, so we will see. I like reading books about bookshops so I'll muddle along...

We drove to Kansas City today and our friends took us to the coolest bookstore and bar after dinner, Our Daily Nada.

They opened a new bookshop in the town I went to college and where my brother ended up living. I got to visit it today and it‘s gorgeous. I exercised self-control and did buy anything.

This is a forgettable little book of manners about a middle aged lady who wants to run a bookshop in a frankly unsuitable location. I was trying to come up with a witty one liner about damp squibs and damp bookshops, but couldn't. For a lover of bookshops this novel was a disappointment.

So traveling from the Buffalo, NY airport to the Minneapolis International Airport,(getting to our hiking in the Badlands) I noticed a quaint bookstore nestled next to a bunch of coffee joints! It was priced pretty fairly for an airport ($9.99) for almost everything, but they were all basically mass market paperbacks (perfect for traveling) too bad I already brought 5 books with me😅✈️📚 #travel #vacation #bookstore

It looks like such a beautiful bookshop too! @squirrelbrain do you know of this one? It's in Harrogate!
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/independent-bookshop-owner-becomes-inundated-w...

💚✈️📚 We didn‘t buy anything because we brought books and our kindles, but we had to check it out. Very well-curated!

#ParnassusBooks at #BNA

Bookshop life. #bestjobever

My view from dinner this evening. #bookstore #bookshoppingisthebestshopping

As I am about to go to London, I wanted to ask if anyone of you can recommend good English books to me? Which are also written in slightly simpler English. 😬 prefers thriller, but I'm open for everything. ☺️

Da ich demnächst nach London fahren werde und vorhabe, dort den größten Buchladen der Welt zu besuchen; wollte ich fragen, ob mir jemand von euch gute englische Bücher empfehlen kann? Die nach auch in etwas einfacherem Englisch geschrieben sind. ? Bevorzugt Thriller/Krimi, bin aber auch für alles offen. ☺️