Litsy

#5JoysFriday
@debinhawaii (thanks for the tag; you, too @BooksandCoffee4Me! 🤩)

1. Pip and Kate have been doing very well with their “sit“ and “stay“ for treats. 🖤🐾🐾🖤
2. Weather under 60º F this week. And after 158 days, we finally got some rain. ☔️
3. Only 1448 days to go. IYKYK 😮‍💨
4. Litsy and all of you = a haven. ☮️
5. Matt, Pip, & Kate ... always. ❣️
Any joys, @TheLudicReader @ShelleyBooksie @mcctrish? 🤩

Aims42 Love all your joys!! 🩷🧡💛 5d

dabbe @Aims42 🩶🩵🩶 5d

kspenmoll Love this, especially your countdown & yes, this place is a haven. 🩷 5d

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dabbe @kspenmoll 🩶🩵🩶 5d

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝💝💝🌬️🌧️💫💖. 5d

DogMomIrene Your countdown is perfect! 5d

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩵🩶🩵 5d

dabbe @DogMomIrene TY! 🩵🩶🩵 5d

peaKnit Only 1448 days! Almost 1447… I‘ll take every minute we can off the total! 4d

TheBookHippie Gadzooks 😵‍💫 1447.. 4d

dabbe @kspenmoll @DogMomIrene @peaKnit @TheBookHippie Oh, then we all need something like this: https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4 4d

dabbe @peaKnit #hearhear m'dear! 🤩 4d

DogMomIrene @dabbe We definitely need this… on a Jumbotron! 4d

dabbe @DogMomIrene #amensista! 🤩😂🤗 3d

peaKnit @DogMomIrene Please! A Jumbotron!! Love that!! 3d

kspenmoll Your posts uplift me! 💖 3d

kspenmoll @DogMomIrene A jumbotron! Love it! 3d

dabbe @kspenmoll Yours, too! 🩶🩷🩶 3d

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TheBookgeekFrau

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Thanks for the tag @dabbe 💞

I scored better on this one 32/100 32%

3 Faves:
The House of Spirits
The Hundred Secret Senses
Ethan Frome

#ThreeListThursday #TLT

dabbe You beat my sorry butt! Plus, you gave me two more to add to my TBR! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩵🩶 6d

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe Did I? 😮 I'm impressed with myself 😂 But I'm more happy that I added to your TBR--nothing's better than sharing good books 💕💕 5d

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau #amensista! 🩶🩵🩶 5d

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dabbe

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I. Can't. Even. 😫😭😫

AmyG Horrible. 😞 6d

Aims42 💔💔💔💔💔 6d

DaveGreen7777 😢 6d

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AnnCrystal 😢🙏. 6d

InkedBookworm13 😥💔 6d

Librarybelle So sad 6d

Susanita 😢 6d

EmberIvyRose Heartbreaking 6d

Meshell1313 Such a terrible tragedy. 💔 (edited) 6d

TheLudicReader So sad. How does a think like that even happen? 6d

MaureenMc 😞💔 6d

Deblovestoread Oh no! I hadn‘t seen this. Beyond heartbreaking especially with #ldf‘s response. 6d

dabbe @AmyG @Aims42 @DaveGreen7777 @AnnCrystal @InkedBookworm13 @Librarybelle Susanita @EmberIvyRose @Meshell1313 @TheLudicReader @MaureenMc @Devlovestoread
Unbelievably sad and to have the #ldf (lame-duck felon) blame Biden and his “diversity in hiring“ policy is beyond horrific. 😔🥺🤬 6d

InkedBookworm13 @dabbe of course he will. He can't admit it's because he fired the heads of the TSA, the coast guard and the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee last week. 6d

Aims42 @dabbe Pete Buttigieg‘s response was perfect: @pete.buttigieg/post/DFdUI9_R7EB?xmt=AQGzAV-_GKXyocYCbf5gIgGVsa8XyJQpLtFPG32kpLA2-A" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://www.threads.net/@pete.buttigieg/post/DFdUI9_R7EB?xmt=AQGzAV-_GKXyocYCbf5... 6d

dabbe @Aims42 @InkedBookworm13 How oh how are we going to be able to withstand 4 years of this? It's only week 2! 😫 6d

Aims42 @dabbe That‘s the big question 🫣🫠 I think my forehead is going to have a permanent dent in it from all the facepalming I‘ve done 🤦‍♀️ 6d

dabbe @Aims42 And the big crease I have on my forehead above my nose is going to become an abyss by all the eye-scrunching-in-disbelief I have done and will be doing. 😝 6d

Aims42 @dabbe Haha! Same 🤣 I don‘t know if it‘s worth investing in anti-wrinkle cream, I don‘t think there‘s enough in the world for how much we‘ll need 🤨😆 6d

marleed It‘s all so tragic. I‘ve thought of little else today. 6d

ncsufoxes Our school district (Frederick, MD) just said one of the victims was a student (she was an ice skater). 6d

ncsufoxes It‘s also disgusting to blame it on DEI as well as mental health & disabled individuals 6d

dabbe @Aims42 #amensista! 🤩😂😘 6d

dabbe @marleed It's beyond difficult to comprehend. I flew out of D.C. once, and it was terrifying going over the Potomac bridge. I can't even imagine what they went through. 😫 6d

dabbe @ncsufoxes I heard that two of them were teenagers. Beyond horrific. 😔 6d

dabbe @ncsufoxes RE: @Aims42 posted link above, Pete Buttigieg described Trump's words as “despicable.“ Agree 💯 with his word and yours. ❣️ 6d

AmyG He will blame anyone and anything. He takes responsibility for the successes only. He does not care. 5d

TheBookHippie These poor people. Their poor loved ones can‘t even grieve. Such an unnecessary loss. Cheeto satan is awful. FYI Mr BookHippie lands here often 😵‍💫 that helps the anxiety. 5d

CBee @dabbe see, I haven‘t watched the news at all - of course I knew about the crash but wasn‘t aware of what #ldf said about it. I‘m so glad I have you all here on Litsy - I think we‘ll make it through the next four years if we stick together ♥️ 5d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Next to San Diego's airport, it is one of the scariest airports to fly into our out of. Stay safe, Mr. BookHippie! 🩶🩵🩶 5d

dabbe @AmyG Well, maybe when he makes completely boneheaded moves, and the majority of us fight back, he'll back-peddle because all he wants is to be ADORED. The biggest narcissist in the universe. 5d

dabbe @CBee Agree 💯, m'dear. I need to stop reading the news and just wait to hear bits and pieces. I just can't tolerate much more than that. 🩶🩵🩶 5d

TheBookHippie @dabbe OMG SAN DIEGO no I loathe it AND THE CORONADO BRIDGE just NO !!!! 5d

dabbe @TheBookHippie To fly over or drive over? I felt trippy driving over the Mackinac Bridge, too! 😱 5d

TheBookHippie @dabbe DRIVE!! 😵‍💫 and I agree about Mackinac I‘ve done it in winter !! 5d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Holy guacamole, Batman! 😱 5d

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CrowCAH

Hot Mess Kitchen: Recipes for Your Delicious Disastrous Life | Gabi Moskowitz, Miranda Berman

#WinterGames2024 #xmaschacha #ChristmasChapterChasers

This is what the kitchen looks like. Gifts received, decorations thrown on the table, half done trees, gifts to be wrapped.

StayCurious

dabbe In other words, LIFE. 💚🎄💚 2mo

AnnCrystal “Life is messy, embrace the chaos and find beauty in the imperfections.“ -unknown

😉👍💝. 2mo

CrowCAH @dabbe totally 💯%! In the end, everything will get done and on time for whatever event it‘s needed for. 2mo

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CrowCAH @AnnCrystal you got it! I‘m okay with living with clutter. Soon enough all will be clean and items in their rightful place. 2mo

dabbe @CrowCAH #amensista 💙❄️💙 2mo

AnnCrystal @CrowCAH true 🥳🪄🎄💝. 2mo

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Sace

The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum | Kirsten Weiss

“I‘m happiest when I don‘t indulge in outrage.”

dabbe So hard to do during this political season. 🖤🧡🖤 4mo

Sace @dabbe or when working in a public high school 😂 4mo

dabbe @Sace #amensista! 🧡🖤🧡 4mo

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CoffeeNBooks

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#TLT #ThreeListThursday

As an English and AP Literature teacher, some of these banned books have been part of our curriculum. I love my i read banned books shirt!

I've read all three of these books several times over the years:
📚 The Awakening- this is one of my all-time favorite books!
📚 Of Mice and Men
📚 The Handmaid's Tale

And honorable mentions go to:
📚 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
📚 all of Stephen King's books

@Dabbe

dabbe #amensista! I have a shirt that says \“I teach banned books\“, and I\'d proudly wear it on the first day I\'d introduce a book like HUCK FINN or OF MICE AND MEN. We\'ve got to keep fighting the good fight, right? P.S. Your pic is adorable. Thanks for playing and sharing! 🧡🍁🧡 4mo

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Resident Patient: Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin
#TheResidentPatient

Thoughts, Sherlockians?

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

IndoorDame The 5am thing was especially bizarre 🙄🤔 6mo

dabbe @IndoorDame I know this is fiction, but I thought the same thing! And I wanted to ask him, “Where did you get that so-called fact?“ If only we could talk to the characters! 😂 6mo

IndoorDame @dabbe I know!!! I would be yelling my head off at all my books if the characters could could actually hear me 😂😂😂 6mo

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dabbe @IndoorDame #amensista! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo

Read4life The 5am thing was mine. I actually stopped reading and sat there for a few minutes. Really? 6mo

dabbe @Read4life I did, too! 🤩😂🤗 6mo

Bookwomble You'd be surprised at the things some British police officers are prepared to overlook in the cause of improving case completion rates 🫠 6mo

Librarybelle The 5am thing for sure! 6mo

CogsOfEncouragement Honestly, I figured they had friends in low places who would have kept tabs on him

I don't watch hardly any real crime shows - but my husband and I just watched three. Two recent cases, one in the 1980s and yeah, I believe an investigator would absolutely act like Lanner. Sad but true. 6mo

Cuilin @Librarybelle @IndoorDame @read4life so the 5 AM thing led me down dark rabbit hole. I always thought more suicides would occur during the dark winter/holidays but I was wrong and more occur during the spring on Mondays and Tuesdays. I doubt they kept records of this during Victorian times. (edited) 6mo

Librarybelle @Cuilin That‘s sad but interesting. I would have thought the dark winter and holidays as well. 6mo

Aimeesue I usually just blaze right on by the odd things Victorian police officers think/say, tbh. Criminal investigation as a science was new and pretty iffy at that point. 6mo

dabbe @Bookwomble Possible coercion within a police force? And only British? Shocking! 😱😂😊 6mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement It seems to be only our head detective/main character/hero is the one who truly gets to the bottom of things in any of these stories. 6mo

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dabbe

The Iliad | Robert Fagles

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1. Translations make all the difference. Robert Fagles' translation of THE ILIAD made me appreciate what I hated in high school.
2. THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: by far my favorite Arthurian story.
3. SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson: to remind me that EVERY story is essentially a hero's journey, and it doesn't have to be “super“ or “epic“. It just has to feel real.
All are welcome to play and tagging as many as I can! 😍

mcctrish, BarkingMadRead, iread2much, AmyG, TheBookHippie, Texreader, Aimeesue, TheLudicReader, julesG, Eggs, Bookwormjillk, Read4life, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks, TheBookgeekFrau, Ruthiella, TheSpineView, CBee, IndoorDame, Enchanted_Bibliophile, bthegood, lil1inblue, KateReadsYA, julieclair, AnnCrystal, WildAlaskaBibliophile

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag!😘💜🏷 11mo

Enchanted_Bibliophile Thanks for the tag 😄 11mo

CBee #3 - I agree wholeheartedly! I‘d have to mention the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and of course the Hobbit - heroes come in all sizes ♥️ 11mo

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dabbe @TheSpineView 😘 11mo

dabbe @Enchanted_Bibliophile 😘 11mo

dabbe @CBee Thank goodness! I had a hard choice between RINGS and OAFK. 💚💙💚 11mo

AnnCrystal Thank you for the tag @dabbe ☺️👍. 11mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal 😘 11mo

julieclair Thanks for the tag! I need to step up my hero quest reading game, because the only one I can think of is Harry Potter. But I do have a 3-list Hero Quest TBR: 1. Percy Jackson 2. A Court of Thorns and Roses 3. The Hobbit (hard to believe I have never read this). 11mo

iread2much Thanks for the tag 1. The Redemption of Althalus, 2. Silver on the Road, 3. Tailchaser‘s Song. 😊 11mo

dabbe @julieclair That's kinda why I ask these questions! I'm always looking for new books--even though I have too many on the TBR as it is. I guess you could call it my book quest! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 11mo

dabbe @iread2much I need to read more fantasy! All on the TBR now. Thanks for sharing. The Redemption of Althalus, 11mo

julieclair @dabbe I‘m right there on the book quest with you. There is no such thing as too many books on the TBR! 😉📚📚📚📚📚💙 11mo

dabbe @julieclair #amensista! 🤩😍😃 11mo

iread2much @dabbe my husband and I both love that book, it was one of the books that was featured in our wedding cake 🎂 (it was a stack of books) 11mo

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CatLass007

The Rachel Incident: A novel | Caroline O'Donoghue

bailed

#LitsyToB24 I listened to the audio version and the narrator had a lovely Irish lilt. I think that‘s why I listened for as long as I did. But I felt like I‘d already spent more time than I ought on a book that just didn‘t interest me. I hope other people are getting more from reading this than I could.

Megabooks, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB

AmyG I am reading now and waiting for the damn incident. I almost bailed a few times. 12mo

CatLass007 @AmyG I actually listened to about 75% of the book and I just couldn‘t listen anymore. I can‘t figure out if it‘s because I didn‘t like the story or maybe I‘m just too damn old. 12mo

AmyG I have been feeling a bit too old for this story, too. But I am sticking with it. 12mo

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CatLass007 @AmyG I enjoy reminiscing with friends about college or moving to New York. But I‘m not getting the feeling that she‘s reminiscing so much as dwelling on and regretting. 12mo

dabbe #hailthebail! 🖤🩶🖤 12mo

CatLass007 @dabbe I think the first book on which I ever bailed was 11-22-63 when it was first released in 2011. It felt like such a sacrilege. But when I joined Litsy (I think it was in 2017) it was the first time I felt that I‘d been given permission to bail. I realized I was giving myself the gift of time. 12mo

squirrelbrain It‘s great how we all like / dislike different books - I loved this one! 😃 12mo

BarbaraBB I loved this one, but I always encourage bailing when you don‘t 😉 12mo

dabbe @CatLass007 #amensista! 🤩🤗😍 12mo

Megabooks Sorry this didn‘t work for you! 12mo

CatLass007 @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain Y‘all do such a great job!! I‘ve tried a lot of new authors because of #LitsyToB24. Some books I‘ve loved, some books I didn‘t. There are authors I know I will add to my favorites list and others I might give a second chance. The great thing about using my Audible credits is that I can return a book within 365 days of purchase and get my credit back. It‘s a win/win. 12mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - huh, I have not had any luck getting Audible to accept a return lately. Wonder what I am doing wrong. Sad this one didn‘t work but it‘s great if you could return for another that does work for you. 😊 12mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare How are you trying to return it? I always have to call customer service. 12mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - oh. Haven‘t tried that option. 😂 It used to be a button right next to the title! The last one I tried to send back, I was told the option was no longer available 🤷🏻‍♀️ 12mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare They must accept returns within 365 days of purchase. That‘s per the lawsuit they lost. I don‘t think that button has been available for quite a while. You definitely should call customer service directly. I don‘t have the number on speed dial but I call it frequently enough to have it saved in my contacts. 888-283-5051. At first they had to accept all returns, both those purchased with “cash” and credits. (cont)⬇️ 12mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare Now they only have to accept the returns purchased with credits. 12mo

BkClubCare @CatLass007 - great, thank you! 12mo

CatLass007 @BkClubCare You‘re welcome. I hope you get the return made easily. 12mo

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