Welcome to Litsy!

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

Happy Sunday! Another gem from the #HOTAGoldCoast Writers Revealed exhibition - Beatrix Potter

And now, some sticky toffee apple cake with my daily short story. ANCESTOR APPROVED is a great anthology so far. It‘s full of emotional truths and I love all the little connections between the stories as these kids (& one dog) converge on the powwow.

The cake recipe is available on the Food Network‘s website. They bill it as the best ever, and they ain‘t wrong. I ate it off my hummingbird plate designed by Coast Salish artist Maynard Johnny Jr.

Excited about this cute romance! #wintergames #GhostsofXmas

A bookstore opened in my town! Best day of 2023 hands down! A really good selection of books, diverse authors, solid sci-fi/fantasy, poetry and a lot of good romance authors mixed in with the fiction section. #shoplocal

This is for the short story, “The Red Convertible,” but I can guarantee the entire collection is worth reading. This story is part of Love Medicine. Erdrich is so clever in her connections. A fabulous storyteller.

Eudora Welty was born on this day in 1909.

"Edna Earle...never did get to be what you'd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the 'C' got through the 'L' in a Coca-Cola sign."

I‘d argue this US and Eurocentric collection is hardly the “world‘s” best. It isn‘t diverse in any way (only 3 of the 20 stories are written by women and there are few authors of color). The stories are definitely canonical and anyone with a large number of English classes in their background will have already read most of these. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/10/review-worlds-greatest-short-stories.htm...

My plans for New Year‘s Eve involve a roaring fire and a good book. Sorry not sorry!

Ozzie has mostly let Gatsby be my reading companion but he‘s in it for these short stories.