Welcome to Litsy!

'Stand By Me' is the only song with its own fan club. It's true. There's a whole group of people who scour the world for different versions of the song and have meetings where they play newly discovered versions, discuss the lyrics and drink a toast to Ben E. King.

A joke:

How do you know when there's a bodhran player at your front door?

The knocking gets faster and faster.

And there's a woman climbing over chairs, taking pictures of every conceivable object at every conceivable angle...so she's obviously American.

He's upset a few along the way too, as does anyone willing to put their head above the fray.

Damning account of how the English government suppressed Ireland's economy for centuries, then victim blamed them when the famine happened and mostly refused to help. Lots of quotes from respected English officials expressing anti-Irish and anti-Catholic bigotry and occasionally coming right out and publicly stating the famine was a fortuitous way to bring down the unsustainable population. Good but long and repetitive.

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor

2010 review: ★★★★★

#CampLitsy25

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My nominations for camp Litsy. There were so many to choose from!!

I liked 98% of this book. Didn‘t like Rainey‘s “romance” cause it felt Hallmark-y and unnecessary and her open ended ending. I hated how there was so much left open in the modern timeline. I loved how the dual timelines were handled, the friendships and love. There are parts of this where I wish some things were fleshed out at the end. But generally liked it

Being in a reading slump means I'm still "in Ireland" for #foodandlit but since my guy is playing pickleball, the pup is content to lounge with me, and today's scrolling doesn't feel so doom-y, I'm going to finish my Ireland Overview with some Irish Pub ambiance on the screen.