Welcome to Litsy!

Thank you so much @Smarkies for this beautiful #jolabokaflodswap package 😘 Everything is perfect and I'm so glad to get a book that's been on my TBR for so long! The book sleeve is gorgeous 💜

Merry Christmas and I hope you have a fabulous holiday.

And thank you @MaleficentBookDragon once again for organising. Merry Christmas! 🎄

I‘ll read anything Olivia Laing writes. This strange, lovely novel was deliciously, bewitchingly eccentric and touching. I read it over the course of one very rainy Saturday. I will read it again.

#BookReport 16/20

I actually had a good reading week. Maybe I am getting used a bit to the current situation. I am definitely less anxious than before. And the sun shines, which makes this more bearable too.

So I read the 4 books I planned to read. My Dark Vanessa and Late in the Day were this week‘s favorites.

I‘m not sure about this book. Sure, I read some great sentences and references to the 80s, the 90s, and current times with Trump and Brexit. But what was the point? I am not sure what Laing wanted with this book. And why Kathy Acker? I read her Blood and Guts in High School and maybe that should have warned me. Not for me.

#7covers7days #coverlove - Day 7 Thanks for the tag @merelybookish ! This was fun!

Some peaceful evening reading from my front stoop, enjoying the last bit of sun before it goes completely down. This book meditates brilliantly on a lot of current worldly anxieties so I'm in a contemplative mood.

"She missed Obama. Everyone missed Obama. She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id." -from "Crudo"

This book is a picture of life in the midst of, in the face of, our current reality. I think it might also be about realizing that we can refuse to let the things that are happening own us. But it acknowledges the ludicrousness of it all.
@readordierachel I agree that it was cathartic to read this book in many ways.

This book is intriguing so far. Including the way it casually weaves recent events into the story. “It was the week Obamacare was rolled back, everyone was talking about preexisting conditions. David was wearing a ski jacket zipped to the neck.”