Litsy

The Almost Sisters: A Novel | Joshilyn Jackson

"I saw there was a second South. My whole life I‘d only seen one. I loved my South, though I could see how it was broken, plagued still with the legacies of slavery and war and segregation. History and a thousand unseen walls divided up the territory . . ." Pic of the real Monroeville (Harper Lee's Maycomb). I suspect there are many similarities with Jackson's Birchville. #truth #SisterLove
#FeelintheLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Well done 👍🏼 1d

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xicanti

Sister Snake: A Novel | Amanda Lee Koe

1. Casey got an adorable haircut. He‘s no longer at risk of heat stroke in the middle of winter from the shear wealth of hair on his body!

2. I started SISTER SNAKE tonight and I immediately feel all OMG about it. Is this the book I‘ve been waiting for? I sure hope so.

TheBookHippie Such a cutie! Enjoy your read. 3d

Texreader He‘s so adorable! Nice haircut!! 3d

dabbe #cutehaircutcasey! 🖤🐾🖤 3d

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xicanti @TheBookHippie @Texreader @dabbe he‘s so much happier when he‘s not a giant fluffball. 3d

dabbe @xicanti My buff cocker Caramel felt the same way. She LOVED when the hair between her toe pads was trimmed! 🤩 3d

xicanti @dabbe toes trims are the best! Casey‘s feet become little mops when they‘re fuzzy. It makes life awkward for him. (edited) 2d

dabbe @xicanti #truth! Their fur is so beautiful and silky, but man, can it grow! 🤩 2d

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Deblovestoread

My Life So Far | Jane Fonda

#MondayMood #RantTime

“Woke means you care about other people”

Feel free to join me and post your mood today. Or feel free to unfollow I believe in a world where the choice should be ours, yours as well as mine. 🩷

TheBookHippie ♥️ 4d

Leftcoastzen So feeling this today ! Thanks for posting! 4d

JenReadsAlot ❤️ 4d

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MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 4d

kspenmoll ❤️ 4d

AmyG I just posted that quote. #truth 4d

dabbe 🎯🎯🎯👊🏻❣️👊🏻 4d

AnnCrystal ✊🏼😉👍🏼💝. 3d

Julsmarshall Amen! 3d

Bookwomble ❤️ 2h

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JenniferEgnor

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America | Amanda Jones

The author mentioned this website as a resource to show librarians some love.

Link: https://wethelibrarians.org/

dabbe #truth 💚🩶💚 6d

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dabbe

The Valley of Fear | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

Daisey, erzascarletbookgasm, CogsOfEncouragement, AnneCecilie, Born.A.Reader, Aimeesue, Larkken, Librarybelle, mom2bugnbee, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, StayCurious, Sace, CatLass007, Mollyanna, curiouserandcurioser, eeclayton, dabbe, IndoorDame, kelli7990, TheAromaofBooks, 5feet.of.fury, Tineke, Fr3NcHtOaSt, Blackink_WhitePaper, RayHallucinogen, Pageturner1, PageShifter, AllDebooks, AnnR, kimrenee, aroyse, CrystalE02

Librarybelle I could see part two as a standalone, not necessarily associated with Holmes. If someone handed me part two and gave me no other info, I‘d think it was a good mystery—a little long winded in the middle, but again the twist made it a surprise at the end. 6d

eeclayton @Librarybelle I agree. Here, I would've been much happier with a shorter backstory, especially since the mystery in part 1 was completely solved. 6d

dabbe @Librarybelle @eeclayton 🎯! If given Part 2 separately, I would have enjoyed it without knowing any reference to Holmes or Watson. I would not have considered it “one of the finest“ detective stories ever written, but I would have liked it. Pair it next to SH in Part 1, though, and it's a whole different story! 6d

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AnneCecilie Part 2 can stand in it‘s own, but can part 1? I don‘t remember being told the why in part 1 and in a mystery novel, I feel like that is important. In modern crime stories, the resolution comes at the end after learning the why you learn the who. I feel that Doyle shifts the focus and says that the why is more important 5d

dabbe @AnneCecilie Excellent point. And yes, the “why“ is usually in the resolution part. So, I guess you could say that ALL of Part 2 is the “why“ part, but it's so detailed, it could stand on its own--except for the last part where Sherlock comes back on the scene. 5d

AnneCecilie Backstory is important. At least I didn‘t spent half of part 2 wondering where I was and if there was something wrong with my copy like I did with A Study in Scarlet 5d

dabbe @AnneCecilie #truth 🤣 5d

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BarkingMadRead

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

Ch 2: our girl was third wheeling it! #untilshewasnt #ilegitthoughtdoreenwasbeingattacked #ourgirlbails #becausewalkingfortynycblocksissosafe #girl #bathtime #ifeelthisinmysoul #sadnessneedsbathtime #doreenisback 🤮 #ourgirlplanstohangwiththecalmergirls #letsseehowthatgoes #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk @graciouswarriorprincess
3w

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 3w

Cuilin Is this a first time read for anyone? The bath bit was so real. (edited) 3w

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BarkingMadRead @Cuilin this is a first time read for me 3w

mcctrish 43 by 5 blocks is a lot to walk. I love that she was no worse for the wear shoe wise afterwards and that she knows a bath cures everything. I feel like letting Doreen in would have been a bad idea but leaving her outside the door in a puddle of her own vomit is a level of No fucks to give I need to aspire to 😳 3w

mcctrish First time for me 3w

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣 3w

Cuilin @mcctrish @BarkingMadRead oh good, I had heard of it, of course, but I didn‘t really know much about it and it‘s turning out to be completely different than what I thought. I‘m intrigued. But also worried. 😟 3w

Cuilin @mcctrish I don‘t know I could‘ve left a friend with a Lenny!! 3w

mcctrish @Cuilin I love it so much - after udolpho and the bros and Lark Rise it just feels like the words are precise and measured and specific and the story just zips right out and grabs me ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 3w

mcctrish @Cuilin Doreen has a bit of Mike Tyson in her, I think she‘s going to be fine 🤣🤣 (edited) 3w

willaful @mcctrish Not so much in New York. Long walks are easy there.

This chapter was disturbing and I kind of wished I was back in Candleford. Doreen could easily have died. 3w

Cuilin @mcctrish The writing style is so much more accessible, it‘s fabulous because we can focus on the plot, oh and it has a plot. Looking at you Lark Rise. 👀 3w

mcctrish @Cuilin 🤣🤣🤣 3w

BarkingMadRead @Cuilin @willaful I 💯 agree, I don‘t think I could have left her there. She was obviously not in a position to make any kind of decision or to fight back! 3w

mcctrish @willaful sensible shoes for the win 3w

Cuilin @BarkingMadRead @willaful She also asked her not to leave her alone with him!!! (edited) 3w

Librarybelle My first time reading this too, @Cuilin , and it‘s different than what I anticipated. I‘m not sure what I thought this would be, but it‘s just different. However, I‘m liking it so far! 3w

Cuilin @mcctrish I hope so 🤛 3w

Cuilin @Librarybelle I had images of a domestic setting for some reason 🤷‍♀️ 3w

Bookwormjillk I wouldn‘t have left Doreen there, but also I probably wouldn‘t have left the hotel in the first place and just skipped right to the bath. Lenny- what a goof ball. (edited) 3w

Bookwormjillk Also I read this as a teen, so my memory is only foggy and I might be getting details confused with a Christopher Pike book. 3w

DieAReader 🙋🏻‍♀️First time for me. 😱😳Never would‘ve left Doreen like that. I also think leaving her in the hallway like that was both dangerous & irresponsible. The whole situation kinda pissed me off tbh🤬🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w

dabbe This is my first read, but I know a bit about it. Plath died just one month after its publication in the UK. 😟 And it's semi-autobiographical. I'm already noticing so many allusions to death and dying just in the first two chapters. And I'm worried, too, @Cuilin. 😱 3w

tpixie @dabbe @cullin it‘s my first read also. This book is bringing on a lot of feels!! 😅🥺😳 3w

TheAromaofBooks Could you add me to the tag list, please? My copy came from the library - I've never read this one so I have no idea where it's going! 3w

BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks gotcha! 3w

Clare-Dragonfly This is a first-time read for me, too. Our girl is making a lot of bad decisions but she is very young! 3w

ElizaMarie @Cuilin First time read for me --- and The bath bit -- yes! #Truth! 3w

ElizaMarie I mean, I get that Doreen asked her not to leave her - but... also, Doreen is not a good friend either. I mean, leaving your friend and putting your friend in that position to leave you --- it just is all messy! 3w

CogsOfEncouragement My first read. What was in those drinks? I‘m not necessarily holding it against her that she left, because it seems something else was at play. When she was seeing her drink was below the design on the glass, then above it. What was real? Did Doreen really bite his ear? She is super groggy when she leaves Doreen in the hallway, just hungover? or something more? Anticipating not getting answers to any of these questions though. 3w

BarkingMadRead @CogsOfEncouragement so many unanswered questions! We are scarred from previous books 🤣 #zerotrust 3w

tpixie @CogsOfEncouragement that drink level made me think Lenny was over pouring her… 2w

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BarkingMadRead

The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath

Ch 1: #ourgirlisobsessedwiththerosenbergs #inNYConscholarship #doreensoundslikeapill #everythingourgirlwantstobe #shetriessohard #neverquitehitsthemark #alwaysontheoutsidelookingin #offtoaparty #idonttrustthesecowboys #doreeniscalmcoolcollected #afewdrinksandmovingon #whatcouldgowrong #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish @librarybelle @ruthiella @matchlessmarie @jacqmac @cogsofencouragement @sace @clare-dragonfly @cuilin @dieareader @bookwormjillk 3w

BarkingMadRead @peanutnine @dabbe @deblovestoread @andrea313 @larkken @willaful @morr_books @kwmg40 @thearomafbooks @anishainkspill @elizamarie @tpixie @julieclair @jenlovesjt47 3w

Bookwormjillk I‘m worried for our girl. Hard to stop at one today! (edited) 3w

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mcctrish It sure was a fast start 😬 3w

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish more happened in this chapter than the whole last book 🤣 It was hard to stop reading! 3w

TheKidUpstairs One of my all time favourite books, with one of my all time favourite first lines ❤ 3w

BarkingMadRead @TheKidUpstairs it is truly an epic first line! 3w

Clare-Dragonfly What @Bookwormjillk said! 😱 No, no, getting out of the cab to hang out with some guys in a bar is always a bad idea, and going with them to a second location is a worse one! 3w

CogsOfEncouragement This is my first read, and that first line had me googling the Rosenbergs before I moved on to the next. @TheKidUpstairs Such a great opening. I agree @Clare-Dragonfly @Bookwormjillk theater traffic is a much better choice. eek 3w

willaful Very nervous.

Anyone else finding the sense of time off? Not quite sure how to describe it but she's apparently in the present at some points and in the past at others and I seem to have missed the transitions. Might be careless reading on my part.

There was some recent news about Ethel Rosenberg's son trying to prove her innocence.... 3w

dabbe @BarkingMadRead #truth 😂😂😂 3w

Cuilin @dabbe @mcctrish something tells me we‘re not in Lark Rise no more!!! (edited) 3w

mcctrish @Cuilin 😂😂 3w

tpixie @willaful interesting about the son. I was just wondering if they were scapegoats or really guilty…. @BarkingMadRead thanks for the article. (edited) 3w

willaful @tpixie Here's a piece on it: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ethel-rosenbergs-family-pushes-biden-to-exoner... 3w

tpixie @willaful thanks! 3w

dabbe @Cuilin Hell no! 😱 3w

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Untitled | Untitled

This 💕

Ruthiella 👍👍👍 3w

Cuilin Yep!!! Depends who‘s around me. 3w

Aims42 💯💯💯💯 3w

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kspenmoll Perfect!!!! 3w

Deblovestoread This! 3w

Leftcoastzen Great point ! 3w

dabbe 🩶🩷🩶 #truth 3w

Read4life 💙🩷💙 Yes!! 3w

willaful YES. 3w

LiseWorks Yes, that's me 3w

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Amiable

Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten | Kate Brown

I literally can‘t anymore. 😖

JenReadsAlot Same. 3w

Bookwormjillk Yeah it‘s a lot 3w

TheBookHippie Yup 3w

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AmyG Yep 3w

Aims42 “Shit show” is now a regular term used in my daily life. Didn‘t used to be, but here we are 😒😖 3w

Susanita My friend who‘s a preschool director is preparing an ICE policy for her preschool. Her PRESCHOOL! 3w

AnnCrystal 🫂💝. 3w

Deblovestoread Ditto 3w

Amiable @JenReadsAlot @Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie @AmyG @Aims42 @Susanita @AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread Knowing that you guys are all out there helps to keep me from tearing my hair out. 3w

melissajayne It‘s been like 2 weeks and I‘m bloody exhausted 3w

TheBookHippie @Susanita we have one here. We‘re all trained. 😵‍💫 3w

TheBookHippie @Amiable he is doing exactly what he said he would do, plus project 2025 -item by item. None of it shocks me -but all of it makes me so incredibly sad that people voted for this, knowing it all. 3w

Amiable @Susanita I work at a health system and have spent the past 2 weeks helping put together the guidelines and procedures for ICE action in any of our hospitals. Being in a blue state with sanctuary cities has put a bullseye on our backs. (edited) 3w

Amiable @TheBookHippie Yep. Not a surprise. But it's still terrifying to have to live through it. 3w

dabbe Shit indeed. He's throwing it everywhere as fast as he can so that we can't even clean up one mess before another is thrown. He. Is. Evil. Period. 🥺🔥🥺 3w

TheBookHippie @Amiable Yup. Not a fan. 3w

TheBookHippie @dabbe it‘s on purpose chaos- so watch what isn‘t being reported. 3w

lil1inblue It's only February. I'm so tired. 3w

dabbe @TheBookHippie #truth 👊🏻 3w

Magpiegem @TheBookHippie agreed! @Amiable sending love & strength from your friends in the UK 3w

Suet624 It‘s unreal the amount of damage done… 3w

AnnCrystal I too am grateful everyday that I have found Litsy 📚💝💝💝. 3w

AnnCrystal Right now, the world is all too unreal to rationalize🥺...we're all seem trapped in a horrible story (book/movie). (edited) 3w

Chelsea.Poole Same. @thebookhippie — you‘re right. It‘s part of the plan. Throw so much out there and see what sticks. Keep the media wheels spinning and people exhausted so we get tired and worn down and can‘t pay attention to what‘s happening behind the scenes. It‘s a mess and a shame. 3w

TheBookHippie @Chelsea.Poole Yup. 3w

CoverToCoverGirl Literally the most despised person(s) in the world… and untold damage done. My heart hurts.😢 They will all be on the wrong side of history. 3w

CarolynM It‘s horrible to watch from this distance. I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you. Sending love & hugs. 3w

Anna40 Same here in the schools. Getting ready for ICE. I‘m an EL teacher and one of my Ukrainian kids said yesterday he hopes he doesn‘t get arrested. He‘s 9. 3w

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