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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day | Ken Mogi

OK, today's #CYOReadathon QOTD is not really readathon specific. Please feel free to repost and share. @MittenGirlPeach mentioned her love for Litsy in her #BigBookSummerReading post and it got me thinking...

#ILoveLitsy because of the real connections and conversations I have here. I also love Litsy because I discover books like the one tagged (thanks @ByChallaF !)

Megabooks Yes, yes!!! 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I came for the books and stay for the people (and the books!) It's nice to discuss books with like-minded people without the drama of the other social media sites. 5y

MsMelissa I don‘t have a lot of people IRL to talk books with, and being with others who share my passion is the reason I love Litsy. That said, I‘m a long time user who left Litsy last fall. I no longer found it fun, and was constantly muting hashtags for things that had absolutely nothing to do with books or reading. I‘ve only recently come back - I missed the people too much to stay away permanently (I still mute a ton of hashtags though 😂). 5y

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Sace @Book_Fiend_Melissa here *pats sofa* sit next to me. 😂 I've taken a hiatus or two (and possibly participated in non bookish things) but I always come back to Litsy mainly because I do find it easier to stick to the topic but also love knowing that if I need a hug, people will be there to listen. 5y

Sace @Book_Fiend_Melissa PS- I am a hashtag muting fiend! 5y

Sace @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick And it feels so much more like a book talk place. I can't seem to get into bookstagram though there are Littens who do both. 5y

Sace @Megabooks I think your recent posts are a perfect example of how awesome this place is. 5y

MsMelissa Honestly, if it wasn‘t for the muting hashtags feature I wouldn‘t have come back! I certainly don‘t mind the odd non-bookish post, and I‘m quite sure I also posted them from time to time, too, but I‘ve had to mute many of the daily questions/survey ones because I get tired of scrolling through my feed and seeing the same graphic over and over and over again. But I do love the people I interact with here 😊 5y

Sace @Book_Fiend_Melissa I was so happy when I learned I could mute hashtags. I'm OK with the Qs and Surveys and I do one or two a week but I do try to NOT tag a book (sometimes I still do) because it is frustrating to go looking for reviews and to find nothing but tag games and Qs. 5y

Sace @Book_Fiend_Melissa and I find the hashtaggimg much more palatable here. In Instagram it's like there are 50 for one post. 5y

MsMelissa OMG yes! The hashtags on IG are crazy 😂 And I‘m good with some of the weekly/daily Qs. I‘m quite enjoying the one currently circulating listing favourite books. It‘s fun to see what people pick. (edited) 5y

Sace @Book_Fiend_Melissa I am always down for a "favorite book" Q! Mine change daily, but yes... I love seeing what people love. Anything that elicits a bookish/reading answer is fun for me. I'm kind of a reading life voyeur. 5y

MittenGirlPeach I couldn‘t love this post more if I tried! I‘m so happy I found Litsy. It really fills my bookish soul. The readathons and challenges are so much fun, the community is terrific, and the book ideas are never-ending. Looking forward to a summer of reading! 5y

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ulyssesartmiller

Fracture | Andr�s Neuman

Happily planning to spend my “Friday” reading this book. Roughly 150 pages left. goal is to finish it and then take a stab at using @Andrew65 ‘s #24b4Monday challenge to (hopefully) wrap up The Federalist Papers to clear the way for reading #BTBA2020 in June and starting #BigBookSummerReading for...some TBA chunkster. 😅 What do you all have planned?

Andrew65 Good luck, great to have you with us. 😊👍 I‘m still trying to decide what I will be reading. 5y

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Sace

The Bestseller | Olivia Goldsmith

I think I'm joining the #BigBookSummerReading challenge. I'm not sure if it has a presence here on Litsy. I can't decide what to read though.

Blog post--
https://iamshelfconscious.blogspot.com/2020/05/big-book-summer-reading-challenge...

Deblovestoread Loved Far Pavilions and The Ladies... 5y

ulyssesartmiller I'd be totally up for contributing to said presence, if we wanted to make a thing out of it 😀 5y

Sace @Kdgordon88 Far Pavilions would be a reread for me. I read it 31 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter 5y

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Sace @ulyssesartmiller I'm cool with that! 5y

Deblovestoread I read it many moons ago as well...I know I loved it but couldn‘t tell you a thing about it....60 year old brain. I am impressed you remember when you read it! 5y

Sace @Kdgordon88 ditto! I only remember it because of the I was pregnant part 😂 5y

JamieArc I‘m always up for a Big Book (I call them chunksters). Currently reading A Little Life and I‘m starting A Suitable Boy soon. 5y

rubyslippersreads I‘d forgotten I‘d read the tagged book. The main takeaway for me was learning the phrase, “Aga saga.” 😊 5y

Sace @JamieArc there was a time when I read almost exclusively read chunksters. I don't know what's changed 🙄 5y

Eggbeater ...And Ladies of the Club has a special place is my heart 5y

Sace @rubyslippersreads 🤔 Well that has piqued my interest. 5y

Sace @Eggbeater I *will* read that book before I die! 5y

rubyslippersreads @Eggbeater I bought it as an ebook, because I‘d like to reread it without the chonk factor. 😊 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've seen at least one other post about this recently. I'll have to see if I took a screen shot. I keep reading smaller books, so I might try to read 1 longer book a month. 5y

claffy_reads I remember every mom having ...AtLotC on their shelves when I was growing up. That image doesn't truly show how chunky that book is- the paper is so thin! 5y

Sace @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I sort of blame the goodreads challenge on my short attention span reading over the last 10 years. I used to read one chunkster at a time, then for some reason I started doing the GR challenge and found myself wanting to outdo myself every year so I would read a squillion small books all at the same time. 5y

Sace @callielafleur Ha! It was on my mother's shelf too! So I've been obsessed with it since I was a kid. I had never seen a book so massive. 5y

esanderson @Eggbeater Same!! 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I have more time to read now so I'm very close to my goal of 48 for the year and the year isn't halfway through. I think I won't take part in the other challenges, but then I start seeing more posts and think, maybe I can squeeze that one in, too, and end up avoiding the big ones for another month. 🤣 5y

JamieArc @Sace I started making myself read a few chunksters a year a couple of years ago because it forced me to slow down and not worry so much about the number of books I read, kind of like what you were saying. 5y

Sace @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm a lazy lemming suffering from FOMO which means I sign up for stuff and then lurk (and somehow I also fail to actually read 🙄) 5y

Sace @JamieArc I really want to get back to savoring books and not gobbling them down like I'm at a hot dog eating contest. I was set on working toward that this year and then, well, we know what happened. My attention span is not up to the task right now. 5y

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