Welcome to Litsy!

This is my adult Autistic son.He knows R.F. Kennedy Jr.‘s appalling,abhorrent views on Autistic people. My husband‘s shared this beautiful letter
from the mother of an Autistic daughter.She says what i cannot put into words-my son is a gift, one that has set my life path on an unexpected trajectory, & I am all the ricer for it.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-th...

Hans Fallada survived Nazi Germany, wrote a novel based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel in 24 days, and then died before its publication. If that wasn‘t tragic enough, his depiction of the grinding away of morality, loyalty, and self-respect to leave a society immersed in fear and loathing is exceptional.

I‘ve had fun traveling around to see the Friends & Fiction authors! Windsor, CO to see Kristin Harmel, Wheaton College in Illinois to see Patti Callahan Henry, and St Louis to see all 4- including KristyWoodson Harvey and Mary Kate Andrews, along with managing director Meghan Walker and librarian Ron Block! 🩵🩵🩵

“These Olive Trees is far more than a picturebook about a refugee experience. It provides a distinct look into the resilience and culture of the Palestinian people.“ See the full review of this picturebook here: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-1/8/

This book tells the true story of 5 Munich university students, who set up an underground resistance movement against the Nazis, & their tragic fate.

This was all new to me as although I've read quite a bit about WWII, I'd never heard of the 'White Rose'. The story of their tragically short-lived efforts to establish a resistance movement against the Nazis is an important one, but I felt a bit short-changed with regards to the people themselves.

You are invited to watch me talk about 10 books in my latest booktube episode. They include picture books, audiobooks, fantasy, essays, historical fiction, contemporary literary fiction & the science of wellbeing

https://youtu.be/PQoEGcUxB3M

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

Last night on IG Tad Stoermer was discussing the recent book ban by the Naval Academy. He talked about how we have the power to continue to push back on the narrative. Use our power on social media to disrupt the algorithms. Keep reading & posting books that are banned. He said “No permission required. They erase. We restore.” #publichistory #resistancehistory #honesthistory #resistance #howrevolutionary

I love historical fiction and am glad to find such a great read in the YA section! Reading through this novel I was hanging on every word wondering about this girl in the blue coat and how she disappeared. I‘d like to think that by reading these types of historical fiction, I will have an idea of what to do if I were in a similar situation. But, one can never know for sure what they would do in such rough and dangerous times.