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TheAromaofBooks
Slowness: A Novel | Milan Kundera

Is anyone else having issues with Litsy's website? I have tried multiple browsers and posts don't want to load; I get "Bad Gateway" messages while waiting for the comment area to load. If I do get the comment area to come up, it takes forever to post my comment or doesn't post it at all. The app seems to be okay. Any thoughts/is anyone else having these problems?

Bookwormjillk I‘ve been having issues with both versions off and on. It just seems sluggish. 2w
Librarybelle I had some slow issues posting #NancyDrewBR posts a couple of days ago—I use the website to post the buddy read questions. Not the Bad Gateway issue, but things were very slow. 2w
Jari-chan Same here. But the app works fine. 2w
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PuddleJumper Yeah, I've had a lot of problems when loading comments or tagging people. It usually sorts itself out but it's frustrating 2w
lil1inblue I had to send in my phone for repairs, so I've been attempting to use the website. I can like posts, and it's hit or miss if I can comment. I cannot create my own posts - I get the bad gateway message. It's a little frustrating because this is really my only social media right now. 2w
lil1inblue I had to send in my phone for repairs, so I've been attempting to use the website. I can like posts, and it's hit or miss if I can comment. I cannot create my own posts - I get the bad gateway message. It's a little frustrating because this is really my only social media right now. 2w
dabbe YES! Are you using the website instead of the app? I am, and it‘s driving me crazy! I‘ve emailed litsy@librarything.com with the issue and took a snapshot of the “bad gateway” message. I got a reply this morning saying they were working on it. Maybe if you sent an email, too, they‘d know it was a bigger issue. 2w
dabbe @Bookwormjillk @Librarybelle @Jari-chan @PuddleJumper @lil1inblue Please send an email with the issues to litsy@librarything.com so they know that the website is having some serious problems. They did email me this morning and said someone was working on it, but maybe if they see it‘s quite a few of us, they‘ll work even faster. 🤩 2w
Bookwormjillk @dabbe will do thanks 2w
Bookwormjillk @dabbe will do thanks 2w
lil1inblue @dabbe Thanks for the email address! I'll send one, as well. 👍 2w
Jari-chan @dabbe Thank you. On it. 2w
TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk @Librarybelle @PuddleJumper @lil1inblue @dabbe - I think we're back!! I almost exclusively use the website vs the app because it's so much easier to track notifications, so I've been quite aggravated 😂 Denise, thank you for sharing the email address!! 2w
Librarybelle Yay!! 2w
Bookwormjillk Came online to test. Yay!! 2w
dabbe @TheAromaofBooks YW! 🤗 I basically use just the web site, too, and I've been FLIPPED OUT this whole week! I think it's back, too. 🤞🏻 2w
AnnCrystal Glad Litsy has returned 👏🥳📚💝. 1w
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AnishaInkspill
Contemplation | Franz Kafka
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Pickpick

#classicschallenge 2025 @Lunakay #2025reads #poetry

18 pieces of prose poetry of varying length scattered with wonderful imagery.

I read “A Hunger Artist: Four Stories“ by Franz Kafka last year, it was beautiful though not a happy read but since then I've become more interested in Kafka‘s work.

Lunakay Great choice!✒️📜🤗 3mo
AnishaInkspill @Lunakay finding poetry here was a surprise, I wouldn't have made the connect without reading it 3mo
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Cuilin
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A day late, organizing some books, and I found this for #coverlove #hat

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 🎩 8mo
Eggs Exquisite 🖤🎩❤️ 8mo
kspenmoll Perfect! 8mo
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IuliaC
Ignorance: A Novel | Milan Kundera
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This is a very touching depiction of how it feels to be an immigrant returning to your home country 20 or 30 years later. After the fall of communism in 1989 in Europe, Irena returns from Paris to Prague. She and others like her return led by nostalgia, but the ignorance, under all its forms, displayed by their relatives and former friends shows how absence can create a huge chasm between people, with no hope to reconnect with the past.

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AvidReader25
The Gardener's Year | Karel ?apek
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Our Icelandic tradition continues! We‘re cozied up by the fire with chocolates and our new books! I‘ve been dying to read this play, so I‘m thrilled. 😊

Tamra What? Capek wrote a gardening book??? I associate him with R.U.R., which is a fabulous short play so reflective of the era and relevant today with AI. 1y
AvidReader25 @Tamra That‘s sounds amazing! I‘m looking it up now. My husband is the gardener in our house and I got him this little gem. 1y
Tamra @AvidReader25 so thoughtful! 💚 RUR is in the public domain, so you should be able to find it for free online. It‘s super short. 1y
AvidReader25 @Tamra Oh thank you! 1y
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jack777
Pickpick

Interesting intersection of philosophy and psychology and historical fiction. Also interestingly found out it's Ari's favorite book. Enjoyed the insights into each character's mind and worldview.

First book of quarantine.

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BookNAround
The Gardener's Year | Karel ?apek
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This is a slender little book that I keep picking up when I walk by the piles of books on my table whenever I go to let the dog out. This last time I decided the universe was telling me to pick it up. Maybe I‘ll learn something because as of right now, I‘m a crap gardener.

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Bookwomble
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"Human beings are dangerously capricious apes whom only their own shameless arrogance has tried to make out the lords of creation."
- In the Footsteps of the Abominable Snowman, by Josef Nesvadba

BarbaraBB Interesting you are reading this. I am related to him and have never heard of anyone reading him! My mother‘s maiden name is Nesvadba 1y
Bookwomble @BarbaraBB 🤯 How fantastic, Barbara! 😃 He has one story in the anthology collection I'm reading, and it's an interesting one. Only a few of his stories were translated into English, but there was a book of his short stories published in the '70s that I thought I might try to track down 😊 1y
Dilara That's gone into my wishlist on LT! I hadn't heard of him before, and SFF authors in languages other than English is a pet project of mine... 1y
Bookwomble @Dilara This is the only story by Nesvsdba I've read, and I liked it. CW for the instance of a racial slur that's not entirely unexpected for the time of writing and in keeping, actually, with the aristocratic character which uses it, but still jarring to see on the page. 1y
Dilara @Bookwomble Thank you for the warning! 1y
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