Welcome to Litsy!

It‘s nice to start a weekend trip with a new book!

This the background for the HF novel The Dollhouse (nickname for the Barbizon Hotel) by Fiona Davis - the temporary home for the likes of Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Grace Kelly, Betsey Johnson, Eileen Ford models, and many more in the 1950s/60s.

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1️⃣ reading, errands, still decluttering/organizing, walking/exercising, and The Littles❤️
2️⃣ My grands‘ big furry cat Waffles (crammed into a small basket just to entertain us)
3️⃣ Flying bird -freedom
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Very well written history of 4 women who ruled England before Elizabeth. The section on Matilda is excellent. Very informative. The section on Eleanor of Aquitaine was absolutely fascinating. The latter two are not of the same level of interest but are still good.

This book.
My morning reading. #coffeeandbooks

How many times in history did this happen? According to to the author, beginning with Reformation, libraries were decimated by varying religious groups, with the intention of burning “controversial texts.” There are lists of these books.available today.“ Femina” was the category that destroyed female texts were cataloged under. I am reading the into- so much to digest on every page!

1) hope to see the eclipse, but looks like it might be cloudy. on vacation the rest of the week I have no plans which is glorious.

2)coffee in the morning, water later in day.

3) I have tons of book marks which i do use, but often it‘s a found thing near me- tissue, mail, ribbon,etc.

4) current read is tagged.

@readingjedi @Birdsong28 have you started this monster yet ? The podcast is excellent 👌 I received this for Christmas but haven‘t started it yet 🙂

Roman history told through a focus on the wives of the emperors from Livia to Gallia Placida (and I will never tire of saying somebody needs to make a biopic or series about Gallia Placida). Interesting and enjoyable, but it's 14 years old and already some of the “contemporary“ resonances and parallels are starting to age and I have to think for a bit to remember what they are about.