Welcome to Litsy!

This book title lured me in 8 years ago when it first came out & I finally read it.😅 It‘s slow in parts, but filled with many laughs about our most beloved (and also meh) books. And who doesn‘t love a Gen X librarian with a wicked sense of humor. Extra bonus: much fodder on celebrity memoirs and of course Ray Bradbury‘s dystopian classic.🔥
Trivia Question: How do you pronounce the title: Four-Five-One or Four-Fifty-One? See below👇🏻

Don‘t know if folks know Jesse Welles but I‘ve appreciated every song he‘s written. He‘s my kind of guy. He just wrote this one about books. Check out some of his other songs!

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For those of you interested in knitting a #booksnake, the instagrammer who inspired mine has released a pattern for one!
https://ravel.me/the-book-snake
She is bookaroundfindout on IG

https://www.instagram.com/bookaroundfindout?igsh=aW96ZHdrZzg2Z3Ey

Last year, for my birthday, I got my 4th round of chemo 😔. Needless to say, my birthday was a bust. This year, to make up for it, my husband took me on a bookstore tour in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area. We hit 5 bookstores, including this gem: Story Line Books, housed in St. Paul's Union Depot. With a subtle train theme, the charm of the historic train station, and a wonderfully curated selection, this was a great stop! #supportindiebookstores

Update on reading own books:

Took two books to the charity shop. Success!
Bought two books.
Net result 0. 🙃

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.5/5)

“The Book Swap” isn‘t a bad book. I enjoyed the premise of the book, and both protagonists are flawed in their own ways. The book is heavy on the miscommunication trope, and as someone who isn‘t a fan of that trope, it lessened my enjoyment of the story as there is a lot of it throughout.

My January book box has arrived + 2 scored from a BOTM sales/swap Facebook group!

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The tagged book was my first read of the year, not the best book on books & reading I‘ve ever read , I did enjoy it . Her specialty is the history OF the book so she went deep on some elements of that I didn‘t get into. Short book & she did have lots of info in the appendix if you wanted to dig deeper, always appreciate that . #SundayFunday

Immensely detailed and comprehensive. If you‘re interested in the topic then you will enjoy this book. It can be quite dry and suffers from a disinterest in pacing. It‘s clear that the authors did an enormous amount of research and want to share it all