Welcome to Litsy!

The Anthropology class I took was a disaster, but this book was its saving grace. I actually enjoyed the readings and learned far more than I had expected. I encourage anyone to take an anthropology or sociology class if they can. I mentioned earlier that is it just so fascinating to know that you aren‘t all that different from someone from far away, yet you can learn new ways of existing as well. As we say with our boys, “Different, not less.”

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell
📖 Dramas of Testimony: The Dance of Death I & II / Advent / Easter / There are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
📖 English Hours by Henry James

#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead

The title here is Pilgrims by M.R. Leonard, his literary debut. I‘d call it speculative scifi & when i describe it it sounds ludicrous.

Earth is under oppressive martial law awaiting a coming alien invasion. 🛸👽

The aliens land. The aliens are devout Catholics.🧐

Sounds like satire. It is not.

Our main character is a Latin teacher that discovers studying Classics in college was a crackerjack major after all. 🤯

Illuminating.

https://youtu.be/GugsCdLHm-Q?si=A6PGkcH1TgXpWYs2

#schoolspirit #bicycle

I‘m a leftist. The policies I want to see enacted are basic, and just common sense. I started paying attention to politics late in the game, and I‘ve learned a lot since then. One thing I‘ve learned, is that it‘s ugly. It‘s dirty. There is constant infighting, especially on the left. Things work, when we work as a team. I get really irritated sometimes when the fighting is petty; I‘ll give some examples. At clinic, we suddenly had an⬇️

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Last year, Universal Studios in Osaka Japan!

2. No. There's barely time to get to all the stuff we want to see/do/ride, let alone read.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @CBee @Yuki_Onna @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @dabbe @Ruthiella @IndoorDame

#CoverLove #Gray

#SummerSouls Day 19: In the Author‘s Note, Eva Chen spoke about the “meteoric rise in anti-Asian sentiment” during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, inspiring her to write this story, paradoxically at a time when she was advising her own parents to wear #sunglasses – and essentially remain invisible so as to not let people realize they are Asians. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-oeu

@dabbe I went through the list rather quickly, but work got in the way of me sharing.

I've seen 68 of the 100 movies, and these are my Top 5:

Porky's (watched way too young and still going)
Look Who's Talking
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Twins
The Goonies

They're all so quotable. I was born in 1979, so I leaned more to the comedies than those with a more serious tone.
#TLT #threelistthursday