Welcome to Litsy!

This little hourly history book isn‘t in the system so I‘m only writing a blurb. I‘m trying to get my history fix in with these quick reads once a week. This week I chose Janis & decided to take inspiration from @jdiehr & do my review haiku style.

Rocker, trailblazer —
she took a piece of our
hearts, left us too soon.

These little bios are great for a quick overview of the pertinent facts. 4⭐️

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #haikubookreview

...what we ordinarily call friends & friendships are nothing but acquaintanceships...in the friendship I speak of, our souls mingle and blend with each other so completely that they efface the seam that joined them...If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.

(from "Of friendship", Book I, Essay 28)

#coffeeandabook #montaigne #essays #classics

Library Challenge ends tomorrow. Read 2,264 minutes so far. 2025 MPRL Adult: Color Our World.

I wear my heart on
my sleeve, determined to show
love — alas, rebuffed. 🥀

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Life can be painful, confusing. Finding your own way & your own place in this life, with a million distractions promising enlightenment, and a million more promising escape. I think The Essays are slowly becoming a refuge for me - not to blindly accept what he says, but as a conversation. His essays are steeped in study & experience. Reading Montaigne, although it takes work, I'm finding that I can - and should - be my own captain in rough waters.

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
- John Keats to Fanny Brawne

While reading some of Keats' poetry this morning, I was visited by these four butterflies: Speckled Wood (top left); two mating Gatekeepers (top right: I think they were more focused on each other!); and a Large White. And some water lilies ???

#bookspin is here (late) again! Last month was pretty terrible with reading due to work (as always) but I did go to a fun book-related conference! And brought home too many books. :/

#doublespin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

...it takes a lot of self-love and presumption to have such esteem for one's own opinions that to establish them one must overthrow the public peace and introduce so many inevitable evils, and such a horrible corruption of morals...and introduce them into one's own country.