Welcome to Litsy!

Looking forward to both of these books! #bookspin #doublespin #bookspinbingo

Another so-so book for me.

“Happiness is not a zero-sum game. It‘s the only case in which the resources are limitless, and in which the rich can get richer at no expense to anyone else.”

I had already decided this book was pretty mediocre. Then I misplaced it. I had decided NOT to take it back to the library but to finish it in order to learn what became of one particular character. I looked for it all over my house for 20 minutes. Then I found it in my bag of library returns. Being a woman in your early 50s is nonstop fun. 🙄

1.(apart from working) 1-2
2. 11 from 2 libraries
3. 6 nonfiction, 1 tv show, 2 chick lit, 1 literary fiction, 1 YA
4. Nope I have anxiety about that (even though my job gives me fine free privileges)
5. None trying to tackle my books I own and using Hoopla with no wait time
6. One I‘m hoping will just magically be available is Angie Thomas‘s On the Come Up

Current read is tagged :)

#librarylove @monalyisha

Enjoying Small Admissions thus far! #fiction #Kobo #Saturdayreading

When I first started this book, I wasn't sure where it was going. It had too many shifting parts. But, it all came together effortlessly. I liked how most of the men were supportive and good partners. I also liked how it showed how friends in college can easily drift and not be friends anymore. I do wish there was better development as to why the they were friends to begin with but overall, I liked this book more then I thought I would.

I saw some great reviews of this book before I read it but I found it mostly disappointing. #boutofbooks

Next up from my library stack!

This book was the perfect palate cleanser for me (I'm still stuck on Wolf Hall). It was a quick read, but also funny and surprisingly heartfelt. Plus, I related to a lot of the student/parent humor.

This is on the lower end of the pick scale. I liked the main character but hated some of her friends. Other characters were so thinly drawn that I couldn't tell them apart. The ending was satisfying though.

Getting my holiday weekend read on... Check out those greeeeeeeeeeeeeeen books.

I loved it. Super fun beach read.

Messy photo but this is SO ME. I wonder if this would work - I get so sick of looking on the dark side and being in defense mode! Maybe it's a mom thing. Or just personality? But it's annoying!

Waiting at CVS because 1)I'm getting (a more painful version of) LASIK tomorrow and 2)someone rear-ended my poor husband and he's needing some pain meds. It's going to be a rough weekend at my house, wish us luck!

Sometimes people ask me how I find time to read. Well, there are lots of slow parts in softball games, so there's one example!

I have a soft spot for any book about a school. I blame it on Harry Potter. Just starting this one!

This book is great. It's light reading but deeply interesting as you follow the lives of three friends. The book is about friends, parenting, school and every thing in between. #catsoflitsy

I have a problem...I just keep acquiring books. #blamelitsy

LOVED this book--I have trouble describing the plot without making it sound trite, but seriously, read this book. It's fresh, smart, funny, and quirky without ever feeling like it's trying too hard. I read this right after My Not So Perfect Life, and I think there needs to be a genre of books about 20-somethings who are making their way as adults--Bildungsroman for the new adult set.

This a nice light read. Taught lesson of things are not always what you want them to be, sometimes people just need to figure shit out for themselves and you can't fix or change others.

Happiness is not a zero-sum game. It's the only case in which the resources are limitless, and in which the rich can get richer at no expense to anyone else.

Keeping warm in Sweatpants, my #Bookriot Hoodie while reading Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel for my #LitsyPartyOfOne. @bookriot

Current read. Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel

Once I skipped past all the relationship stuff, I enjoyed it enough to give it a pick. I loved the school side of the stories, and would have rather seen more of that than get bogged down in the side story. Initially I hated all the characters; as a Seven Sisters alum, I felt mildly insulted at all the ways Kate and her friends seemed like shallow idiots, but then the school year started and Kate came into her own, and I devoured the rest.

#riotgrams #WhereIRead

I do a lot of my best reading in my blue chair in the living room.

Small Admissions is a story of the cutthroat world of private school admissions in NYC but the true heart of this tale are the 4 women who are connected by blood, friendship and one bad boy (ex) boyfriend. Amy Poeppel has an incredible wit and she brings each character to life in a picture-perfect way. I found myself chuckling and cheering all the way through the book. Small Admissions is a fun and funny read which I greatly enjoyed.

Today I'm halfway through Amy Poeppel's Small Admissions and Amy Schumer's The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo. Both are terrific, funny and honest and set in NYC.

Starting this since I forgot Finding Fraser at home after cleaning out my work bag. I've read mixed reviews, but since I used to read these kinds of books like candy, I figured I'd give it a try.

This book was the perfect antidote to my end of vacation blues. Funny and entertaining without being afraid of dealing with serious topics such as our real life callings or accepting our loved one's differences (without being corny or cutesy). Fun ride!

"His teacher wrote in the report you will receive that she also heard expletives and insults, but it is hard for me to believe any young boy would use phrases like "vicious thug", "two-bit whore", and "dim-witted troglodyte." ??

Not my usual read but I'm having so much fun with this one. There's a couples counseling scene that's just hilarious. And the portrayals of swanky Manhattanites! Fun fun fun.

"For one whole year, we worried about Kate. We worried to her face and worried behind her back, credited her with being tough, while judging her for being pathetic..." #firstlines

I enjoyed this book in the way I enjoy a good beach read. Overly descriptive prose replaces true character development, the book has a couple of twists, nothing too surprising and everything is wrapped up with a nice bow at the end. The italics used to represent Chloe's storytelling are distracting and makes me think Amy Poeppel has watched too much chick lit. Worth a Kindle download but not space on your actual bookshelf.

As an English teacher, I love books that use the inner workings of schools as a backdrop. Our heroine, Kate, takes an admissions job at a swanky NYC prep school while she recovers from heartbreak. This is the book Sophie Kinsella would have written if her American boyfriend had dumped her at LaGuardia and she had gone home to work at Eton. If you're on Netgalley, go request it now!