Welcome to Litsy!

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

I casually collect interesting Penguin Classics and you're looking at a handful of the first PCs, the 'L series'. Some are American editions with price in $ and some are British with price in £. They sit on my desk at the standalone mid-size public library where I have worked for 17 years and where I am the librarian over adult nonfiction, local history, and reference.

#augustine #penguinclassics

"Now no one is secure in enjoying goods that can be lost against his will. But no one can lose truth and wisdom against his will, for no one can be separated from the place where they are."
-St. Augustine, "On Free Choice of the Will"

#coffeeandabook

A surprising number of strong contenders for #LetterV in the #alphabetgame but in the end I chose this (fictional) short reply to St Augustine's Confessions by his unnamed girlfriend.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ThisLife #MartinHagglund #Philosophy #AdventuresinPhilosophy #DeadPhilosophersSociety #StAugustine #secularfaith #Tendere #ToSretchandToStrive #Distentio #BothHoldsTogetherandPullsApart #Saecularis #BoundedbyTime

A fictional novella-length letter giving the reactions of Floria, St. Augustine of Hippo's concubine who he abandoned, to his Confessions.

I enjoyed the debunking of the Confessions, and her insistence that God's creation is to be enjoyed, not despised.

Ahhh...beach reading! I‘m using this for the “book set on an island” prompt in the Book Girls Guide Reading Around The World Challenge. #staugustine #bookvoyage #bookspinbingo

One of the best days of every month - my personalised ‘surprise‘ book subscription arriving. Can‘t wait to see what the amazing Amy at Mr B‘s has selected for me this month 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Why is that I always seem to read my #doublespin first each month?
This just wasn‘t for me. Maybe I had a bad translation, but I had a hard time tracking the thought process through the book as a whole and at the sentence-level. There is some good stuff in here, but I ended up doing a lot of skimming.

Luesse‘s writing, as the above example shows, paints beautiful scenes with her words. Side characters are portrayed so richly that they surely deserve their own stories. I followed Peyton‘s physical journey on a map and wished I could meet these people.
Full Review of a 5* read: https://mccombsonmain.com/2020/06/24/review-the-key-to-everything-by-valerie-fra...

#southernfiction #historicalfiction #revellreads #staugustine #savannah