Welcome to Litsy!

Sparkling, darkly elegant, and deliberately crude. A fictionalised account of the courtly intrigue and censorship under Louis XIV when French folktales were given the name "fairytales" and standardised in the female-dominated literary salons. Some wild historical info, and a lot of dark tales and fates.

Reading and drinking my coffee before my 7.5 hour road trip to Windsor, Colorado to see Kristin Harmel at the #ClearviewReads2025 Library Community Reads Event on Saturday evening. Hoping to do a little bookstore browsing in Ft Collins during the day tomorrow for #IndieBookstoreDay

The Book of Lost Names is a beautifully written tribute to quiet heroism. It is a story about the courage to defy, the strength to remember, and the quiet rebellion of a woman with a pen. Eva found a way to remember as well as save displaced children
#FrenchResistence
#ResistenceForgers

All about the turbulent Merovingian dynasty

Did she really, though? First of all, it's "hear, hear", not "here, here", and secondly, this takes place in France so she would be a lot more likely to say "well said" (Bien dit!)

And the book was doing so well up until now.

slowly trucking along with the last two books for the #orilium April challenge. Oddly enough, the book about the history of Porcelain in Europe(The Arcanum) is the more interesting of the two.
#history #porcelain #paris

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My sister sent me her copy of this WW II novel about French women in the resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. And wow. So good.

Some things felt a little clichéd but I don‘t care, I was moved by the story of Isabelle and Vianne, and still want to give this five stars.

It was scary to be reading about this and how it mirrors some of what is happening in the US right now. Not the same of course, but there‘s some parallels.

#DynamicDs

Three favorite book covers with a #Dish or dishes on them.

Thrifted today ! Escoffier is from 1941 no extra charge for the sauce splatters, Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book 1928.

I do love a good memoir, and this is a classic for a reason. Recounting how Julia Child wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking with co-authors and its successive volumes while in France due to her husband‘s political position. I became enamored with the vitality with which she describes not only food but everyday encounters with people and life in France. Love it.