Welcome to Litsy!

A book that‘s been on my list to read for years. Not at all what I expected. I now know more about orchids and weird people in Florida than I ever wanted to. I wanted more of Laroche‘s story than I got here - I guess I need to read her New Yorker piece for that. I‘m glad I have time to read another book before the end of the year. 😆

As seen at #TomboloBooks #StPete #Florida

This is a fascinating history of Florida in the 1920s with its real estate boom and bust that the author posits was the main cause of the Great Depression. I was wholly absorbed by this narrative nonfiction. #ReadYourEbooks

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🎄What‘s your current favorite bookstore? Why do you love it?

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Pond lights at the Botanic Garden's Lightscape exhibit. I could make a dozen posts just with photos of this outing, but I am exercising self control. #beautybreak

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Finished in September. Haunted town in Florida with 2 competing haunted guided tours. This is a romance.

I read this book years ago and could never remember the name of it but it came up on Goodreads the other day and I was like “that‘s it”!!! If you like history this book was a wonderful glimpse into early Florida with an epic tale of a family and all they endure through the years. It‘s stuck with me through the years and I wanted to just recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Florida or historical fiction.

The premise of this story sounded promising and the writing was beautiful from the start but the story? Weird, boring, and did not keep my interest at all. I skimmed from the middle to end. I don‘t even know why I finished because the ending was just as terrible.