Welcome to Litsy!

Started this one for #FoodAndLit #Greenland this morning (after much deliberation about what to read).

These are my two reading buddies. Ash is 6 now, and Pippin is nearly 11 weeks. This is as close as they have gotten so far and it lasted about 30 seconds!
Ash is so fed up in fact that some mornings he sits on the stairs so she can‘t go near him 🤣
I am sure they will be friends in no time!

Maybe then I can get some SOLID reading done 🤭

#foodandlit I‘m a week behind! I finished this book last weekend and went to a Bangladeshi restaurant for lunch today. I ordered lamb Biryani and it was delish. This book is an LGBTQ+ young adult book. It really dives into the Bangladeshi culture as Rukhsana felt torn between her cultures as an American born teen.

Researching food has been rather frustrating so far: I found info about ingredients, cheffy Greenland-inspired recipes, and world food bloggers' identikit recipes for suaasat, a traditional soup originally made with seal meat, which they typically sub with another read meat. In the meantime, I made myself some tea with juniper berries, which I know are used in #Greenland, but no info on how they are used there.
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Found at the library: the life story of an East Greenlander shaman at the end of the 19th century & 1st half of the 20th - hence the use of a now-deprecated word - as told to a local Danish cleric in the 60s.
It starts with violence & descriptions of v. harsh conditions, but things get better for Georg later in life, thankfully.
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Pic Helheim Fjord eastern Greenland by NASA/Jim Yungel, PD, Wikimedia C

Oh no! So much for the gorgeous fireworks in the ice (see previous quote I posted)!

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Fireworks in the ice! Sounds beautiful!!

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I needed the extra day to refer to my #192025 plans to set my list for June. I've decided to try playing catch up on #foodandlit later, so I'm hoping to jump into Greenland with two books. Let's see what I should prioritize this month!

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And this tropical vegetation is exactly what the characters are facing in my #authoramonth book The Kaiju Preservation Society in #Greenland! So weird having these two books in the same country. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks @Soubhiville

Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was Bengali, with roots in what are now #India and #Bangladesh. Gitanjali is a collection of spiritual poems written in Bengali, and translated by the author himself into a style of English that takes some getting used to, but it is worth it.
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