Welcome to Litsy!

I have read so many better written stories/books by him. This collection just didn't cut it. Not at all a 'must' read.

3/5🌟

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii, my favorite day!
1. Sold the Christmas painting at the Christmas in July market.
2. My gladiolus is blooming
3. My husband found a sunflower 🌻 growing by the side of the road to replace the one he cut with the wipper snipper
4. Begonias and Star flower
5. Another painting I did this week. A chickadee
6. A Green Darning Dragonfly in my garden

Soft pick. Montale was a poet who also wrote short prose pieces for various newspapers just before and after WWII, most of them lightly fictionalized anecdotes from his own life. This book is a compendium of those newspaper columns, which collectively form a memoir of sorts. I liked the non-linear, piecemeal structure of this, as it seems to mimic what it's like getting to know another person in real life, a series of tiny glimpses that 👇

4⭐️/5⭐️

Algernon Blackwood never disappoints: TheTarn of Sacrifice is a story of reincarnation set in the Lake District just after WWI. Veteran, John Holt, seeks the balm of nature to soothe the horrors of war, Blackwood making trenchant comments about the political hypocrisy of that conflict. Hearing the legend of Blood Tarn, Holt discovers his immemorial connection to both the myth & the strange man & his bewitching daughter who live at the tarn's side.

In all honesty I know I read this but I cannot remember a thing about it. I had to go back and look at the book. The art work is not my style, and I forgot what the stories were about.

1) It was the name of a character that's spoken only once across 9? novels in a web-published series from the early 2000s. I'd been using it for a while as my preferred name as well, but I've got a new one of those that fits better.

2) Puzzles, laundry, minor repair work (eg fixing christmas light strings), rote data entry (like finding word counts for books on my for-stream list)

3) Tagged! Thanks Librivox!

@Eggs #WondrousWednesday

The introduction to H. R. Wakefield's 1940 story, "The First Sheaf" says it's an early example of the folk horror genre, and there are definite vibes of the films The Wicker Man and Hot Fuzz (without the humour), set in an isolated farming community in darkest Essex.
Told as a reminiscence of a childhood incident, the feeling of oppressive threat is well handled.

I was excited to come across this title by my favorite Japanese author, Banana Yoshimoto, in a local bookstore in Seward, Alaska.

Catching upon Sherlock while making the Insta-famous lemony ricotta and summer squash tart thing. It was delicious, but too much work for a summer meal imo. I may hack the recipe to make it simpler (tiny ones with crescent rolls for crust?) and nix the lemon in favor of basil. Lemon ricotta tastes like dessert to me.
#Audiobaking
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes