Welcome to Litsy!

so so so true…love getting books & bookish gifts as presents and this year i got a kindle case and the kindle remote page turner so my arms stay inside the blanket when reading…it was my favorite gift this xmas… #readinglife #readinggoal #iwasonthenicelist

Not a lucky pick for #foodandlit
What a drag...nothing happens, there is no coherent story or theme, the number of names and characters is completely insane and all of this is normal for someone's diary, but why would anyone publish this and expect anyone else to be able to follow.
Not everything a poet writes is poetry. It really feels like a grab for money and saving on editing if any was done at all.
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Mr. Friss has written a love story to the radical and revolutionary ties bookshops have to the communities which host them. He imparts American history as much as he details the trajectory of bookselling. This is a definite recommendation.

A cold rain, a new puppy, and a book on the couch. What could be better? Meet Harper, my new reading buddy/early Christmas present.

While this uplifting,gem of a novel is about the effect of books on people,mostly it is about the friendship that blossoms between Carl, an elderly book walker book walker a Schascha, a precocious 10-year-old girl. Together, they walk the streets at night to deliver books curated by Carl to shut-ins.Themes include the magic of reading,the power books to unite people & form friendships, & the power of books to create community.#10BeforetheEnd

My #bookspinbingo picks @TheAromaofBooks

Anyone relate to this quote?!!!! 📚📚📚📚

I love books about books - this is a fascinating, anecdotal wander through histories of collectors, libraries and ideas.

As early as 1806 the traveller John Lambert noticed... [NYC] bookshops were 'numerous' and that a lot of people seemed to be reading in coffee shops. Two early characters were Emanuel Conegliano, one of Mozart's librettists, who ran a specialist Italian bookstore so compendious that Columbia University bought [it and] ...William Gowans, parts of whose shop, with its piles of books up to ten feet high, had to be navigated with sperm-oil lamps.

Martha Nussbaum argued... Western concern with cleanliness is ' a refusal to... be contaminated by a potent reminder of one's own mortality and animality'.

.....The Finnish philosopher Olli Lagerspetz takes comfort from the idea that hygiene can be suspect:

As a sometimes negligent householder... I am naturally soothed by the idea that exaggerated cleanliness is not next to godliness but to fascism and xenophobia.