Welcome to Litsy!

“It's a function of age. When people reach my age, their past takes on a different colour. Even the bad days seem nice. When we are young, we think about the future, about what will happen next year, we wonder where we will be in five years, and we want the days to pass quickly. But when we reach my age, we see no future ahead of us, we have in fact reached the peak, and we turn and look to the past.“

"I have yet to allow myself to write your name on paper, although I shout it in my heart a thousand times a day. No name has ever been so becoming and befitting a face. [...]

My heart
Is a mirror hazy with sorrow
Cleanse the dust off this mirror
With your smile."

And a DNF and donate on this one. The writing style just is NOT working for me after 70 pages. The dialogue feels stilted and lacks any feeling of a real conversation. I wanted to like it, but I just can‘t make it. Farewell Shakespeare and Company copy. We weren‘t meant to be. #superseptember

Lovely books 💜

Kitty loves this blanket and selectively sleeps on it. I happen to be under it, so I get some snuggles while I read. 😻
This book started off amazing...it's lost a little steam through the middle. I'm hoping for a strong ending!

The hubs thinks I'm a feminist; I don't label myself that way. But I do get mighty upset when I read what Massoumeh's dowry represents: "Each piece revealed to me that the only thing expected of me was to work in the kitchen and to serve in the bedroom"

There is so much that makes me mad when I read this book. Although not based on a true story, I can feel it's based on facts of Iranian history. Facts that girls are discouraged to pursue education, girls are beaten when the family feels dishonoured, girls are less worthy than their drunken brothers. It infuriates me. And so I read on.

Starting a new book...opened to the first page..:flipped page....Two and a half pages of character names....What?? How am I going to keep them all straight?

This randomly arrived in my doorstep today. Don't have a clue who sent it, but I'm not complaining! Now to solve the mystery....