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Honestly, so excited to be done with this
I have read Alan Watts before many years ago and really enjoyed it but this wow ... it took so much out of me
The last chapter was nice and maybe a total of 10 pages were actually worth reading, one change that has come from this is that I feel I could go to church and just allow what happens to happen and I feel like I have more awareness/mindfulness in sound and moving at ease
I feel free yippee

Off to bed to enjoy #hyggehour with everyone! #hyggehourreadathon
Em & Poe get all toasty on the bedroom radiator.

I found this story/writing quite interesting. Written 80 years ago, it‘s the story of a guy who shows no emotion towards anything; his mother‘s death, his girlfriend, a murder. He just wakes up each day and goes through the motions of life. Today, he may be considered neurodivergent. Eighty years ago was a very different time. I paired #FoodandLit with Chorba Bayda, an Algerian chicken soup. Delicious!

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern

Philosophy, poetry, plays, essays, nonfiction that isn't history-based - which is why I've requested this on my #auldlangspine2026 form. I realise @monalyisha that this may be hard to match for so if some of the fiction genres I've listed/ticked have to be included, that's fine by me! 🤣🤣🤣

Hello friends from the #LitsySnailMailClub, we wanted to let you know that we‘ve gotten some new members so please check out our address document, which is growing everyday! If you need the link again or want to update or add to your info, please let us know. For those who have written to me via snail mail, I was having issues getting my mail and all of a sudden, a bunch came at once! I promise to reply soon💕

Recently back from Portugal, and rereading Night Train to Lisbon hits a little different.
What a beautiful (and bookish!) country! I can‘t wait to return! 🇵🇹📖

Could you answer the soldier?

While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, you are taken one day from your work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by his participation in the mass murder of 300 Russian Jews, the soldier confesses his guilt and begs you for forgiveness. He says, "I know that what I am asking is almost too much for you but without your answer, I cannot die in peace." What do you tell him?

#5JoysFriday

1) watching Macy‘s parade with Family. Love the new Mario float.
2) holiday signage in Tariffville celebrating Autumn and the coming Christmas season
3) Thanksgiving dinner.
4) My husband enjoying his Thanksgiving. His cranberry sauce was yum!
5) Poe & Em snuggled together. We do not know how long we will have Poe, so every day is precious.💛

Special 6th joy: Litsy & Littens! 💛💛💛

The importance of this work is extolled in The Bookshop by Evan Friss. It is interesting but it is hard from this time to understand how someone feeling it ridiculous to be governed by a king far away could not acknowledge how the Native Americans might feel being under the power of people who were new to the land. The author yells for freedom while many colonists were enslaving people. Also, the usual antisemitism.

The Dog Who Followed the Moon, by James Norbury (2024)
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Premise: A kids‘ picture book about a lost puppy who is accompanied by an aging wolf as he tries to find his family

Review: I don‘t read a lot of picture books these days, but this felt special. It conveys profound truths about creativity, resilience, the journey of life, and equanimity, in memorable and age-appropriate ways. It‘s also accompanied by stunning illustrations.