Welcome to Litsy!

You've got to applaud the Scandinavians for their ingenious ideas. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-nov...

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It‘s been a busy week, I‘m working all weekend but then 8 days holiday. Can‘t wait. Hope you all have a lovely weekend x

#5JoysFriday
Thank you for the tag @DebinHawaii @Eggs @TheSpineView

Hey, fellow members of @PuddleJumper's Queer Book Club!

A reminder that we'll be discussing the work of Neon Yang at the end of the month. I'll be posting some general discussion questions around the 30th; feel free to participate and/or post a review of what you read. Please let me know if you'd like to be tagged, or removed from my tag list. (For this month only -- for permanent tags, contact @Puddlejumper)

#QueerBC

#5JoysFriday
@Debinhawaii (thanks for the tag! 🥰) and for reminding us to focus on our joys in this unbelievably chaotic world.

Good grief, you are all way too polite. Nobody told me I was doing this a week early. 🤣

1. The Burlington Waterfront Park, all purply
2. My son snoozing with his daughter
3. The image on a building on a side street in Montpelier, VT
4. Flowers to plant if… (5)
5. … If it ever stops raining. At least it‘s making the fields a deep, deep green.

#5JoysFriday
@DebinHawaii

#bibliophile
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Name that movie! 🍿

#poetrymatters
@TheSpineView

#werewolf

#Bibliophile #AllTheRomance

1 & 2: Granddaughter feelin‘ free
3: Older granddaughter (choreographer for dance company), my eldest daughter and me at dance recital
4: Oldest grandson turns 20 today
5: Youngest grandson enjoying his watermelon 🍉

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Play? @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cupcake12 @julieclair

#TLT #ThreeListThursday should say 1900s actually.
I‘m surprised I am not a bit higher. Really read many around the WWI era.
Room with a View , Howards End EM Forster fantastic. I love James Joyce, you don‘t need to read Ulysses, read Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man, The Jungle , Great Gatsby of course. E E Cummings Enormous Room is an impressive book about the WWI era.

#ArtIsSubjective

#haikuaday #haikuhive 💛🐝🖤

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair
@BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @lil1inblue

Book not in the database

Freedom for everyone apparently means different things for different people. For most of us it means freedom for everyone, but for some, mostly white, mostly American, it means freedom to oppress other people. And this book looks at how this ideology has shaped the USA since the Civil War and how that ideology always has led to a backlash when African Americans have gained more rights.
Looking more closely at the work

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. A sailboat on the lake two nights ago.
2. Coffee
3. Long weekends!
4. Older sister who puts up with younger brother.
5. Puppy antics

Play? @cupcake12 @PageShifter @Kshakal @peaKnit @Susanita @julesG @ShananigansReads

9 !!!!! #tlt @dabbe

If you haven‘t played, now is your chance! On to 1900s✨

I chose 4 of my recent romance novels for:

#AllTheRomance

#Bibliophile

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I chose 4 of my recent romance novels for:

#AllTheRomance

#Bibliophile

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I appreciate the encouragement to focus on the joys every week instead of what‘s happening in the world. #5joysFriday. @DebinHawaii

1) chocolate from Aldi
2) end of year stuff with the kids- this week we had last conference field hockey game and prom
3) reading with candlelight and tea on the porch
4) my pumpkin plants are doing well
5) volunteering at an e-cycle event

Hang in there everyone!

Hi Friends, it‘s a crazy workweek again for me & tomorrow I‘m headed to Hilo at the crack of dawn & not back until after 10 PM. I‘m getting the joy party started now. 💛💛💛

Time to post those 5 things big or small that brought you joy this week & tag your post with #5JoysFriday. Tag me & anyone else you‘d like to spread the joy. 🤗

All are welcome & I‘m tagging a few regulars to get things rolling. Hope you join in the Joy! 🥳💛

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Werewolf

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June #roll100 picks !! Looking forward to both of these books.

Early night, a good book and cuddles with Belle.
🐶🐾❤️

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

7/100. Better than I thought I would get considering my history with these lists. 🤣

I don‘t know that any of them will make my TBR stack. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was looking at this chart and I am mad that Gaiman is my second most read author. Well annoyed at myself I guess. I do not want a creep that high up!!

Problem is I like to be wide read and I love lit, those authors don't tend to write dozens of books.

I am going to push myself to read more diverse authors who have more than 12 books. For the rest of this year I am working on getting my Patricia Highsmith number up (currently at 3) 👇

#Wept

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#ThreeListThursday @dabbe #TLT

Dismal is the word I would use to describe my results. The only reason my score was a ten instead of a 2 or 3 is I was forced to read some of these books on the list in school.

My favorites are: A Passage to India and The Great Gatsby.

If you scored more than 15 color me impressed.

This week‘s midweek newsletter had to posted. It is about the necessity of solitude & its link to the soul & creativity.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/16/solitude/?mc_cid=01091f75c3

#HaikuaDay @dabbe #Day22

@CBee @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @TheBookHippie @Eggs @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @bellabella @DebinHawaii @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @jdiehr @vivastory @Reggie

Hope you all have a great day 💕

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
We're on to list 3, all from the 1900s.
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die-1900s
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in reading, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag if you want.
I'm tagging no one this time. ALL are welcome.

#Bibliophile
Day 13. Newbery Winner
#NewberyWinner

#haikuaday
#haikuhive

A whiz Wordle is
when one can solve within three––
Otherwise, it whiffs.

#weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
@CBee

#allusions
#gordianknot

#bibliophile
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#authorwpseudonym
#altarego
#musicianwpseudonym
#ziggystardust

Happy Wednesday 🦜

1-Looking back on past personal successes; true stories of survival and transformation; time with Mother Nature 🌺

2-In a Special Light-Elroy Bode, The Four Agreements-Don Miguel Ruiz, Our Town-Thornton Wilder

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Trinkets, coins, treasures
Memories of life well lived
Charming artifacts

#haikuhive 💛 🐝 🖤 #haikuaday

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47
@DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair
@BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee @dabbe @lil1inblue

#HaikuaDay @dabbe ##Day21

@CBee @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @TheBookHippie @Eggs @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @bellabella @DebinHawaii @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @jdiehr @vivastory @Reggie

This was his Daddy's outfit as a baby

Going to be 6 monthes tomarrow

He loved animal adventure on mother's day. This was him meeting the giraffe. Also his hair has been changing to reddish blonde slowly

Came through mother's day weekend

#Haikuhive #haikuaday #haiku
@dabbe @bellabella @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @DebinHawaii @bellabella @julieclair @BooksandCoffee4Me @AnnCrystal @Reggie @Eggs @vivastory @jdiehr @CBee

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Welt

Did y'all see this??

AI ruining everything. The Chicago Sun-Times released an article today featuring "new summer books" and almost all of them are fake. Only 5 of 15 are real!!

Article from 404 Media here:
https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-lis...

I think this is so important as we start talking more and more about how AI is not only failing the environment but all of us.